Keep Trying // j.m

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"Get up," a quite violent voice woke me up. "Get up," he repeated more aggressively. I hurried up on my feet and gave the man a confused look. He grabbed my upper arm and tightened his grip.

"Damn," I said and ripped my arm out of his tight grip. The man just grabbed a hold of my arm again, even tighter than before. "Excuse me, what's going on?" I asked him as he kept pulling me after him but he didn't answer. Terrible noise, as I've never heard before, came to life once we exited my cell. Beyond the railings, I saw tons of other prisoners were being led away.

I wiggled out of his grip once again and stopped in my steps. The man turned towards me and looked furious.

"Can someone tell me what's going on?!" I asked and walked back towards the man. "Hey, can you hear me?" I asked rudely, throwing a rather weak punch at his chest. "Am I being floated?" I asked in panic and threw another punch at him, this time with a bit more power. "I'm being floater, right?! But I'm not 18 for another two weeks," I pleaded. I felt I sting in my upper arm all of a sudden. "Please... tell me what's-" My eyes started to feel tired.

**

The screen shut off and Jaha's face disappeared. A second chance? We were given a second chance? So many thoughts were running through my mind. I couldn't get a grasp on what was going on. I tried to sum it all up.

Hundred of us was chosen to be sent down to earth to see if we could live there. That's why we were given all those classes on earth skills. They were planning on sending us all to earth. And they chose us because it wouldn't matter if we died.

I put my head back and closed my eyes waiting for the ship to start shaking. My mind tried preparing me for death. Once we hit earth and open the doors to this ship, we'll die.

"Eden," I heard someone say. I opened my eyes and searched for the source of the voice. My eyes fell on a Jasper, sitting some seats away from me. "Nice to see you again," he said with a crooked smile.

"Don't smile at me like that!" I told him and leaned back again, closing my eyes.

"Hey, Eden," he spoke again but I refused to look at him. "Please look at me, I need to tell you something!"

"Listen up," I said and turned towards him. "You and Monty got me in trouble, you and Monty got me arrested, and because of you two I'm being sent to earth most likely to die!" I said through gritted teeth.

"You chose to not walk away!" He argued.

"I never wanted to help you two with drugs, and I told you so! I stayed because I thought you were my friends," I finished and leaned back for the third and last time.

"Eden, we never wanted you to get caught. If you don't remember we did try to get you out of there." I continued not to look at him. "You need someone on the ground. And I know for a fact you don't know anyone else there than Monty and I."

"Okay," I sighed and looked at him. "But we're only cool if we don't die the second we take a step outside this ship!" A smile grew on his face as I finished my sentence. I didn't want to admit it, but I had kind of miss him. We had both been locked up for a while and we did use to be friends.

Finally the ship started to shake, but not nearly as much as I had imagined. My eyes were shut the whole time. I didn't want to face the facts. I didn't want to go to earth. To be honest, I just wanted to go back to my mom and dad.

Time seemed to fly by and an alarm went off. On the other side of the room, I heard some people yell with all their power. Anything could be going on there, but I had no idea what with my back faced towards them. The ship started shaking more violently and I slammed my head into the seat.

**

"You okay?" I heard a voice say as two hands shook my shoulders lightly. My eyes fluttered open to see another known face.

"Monty?" I was able to ask him. He unfastened my belt and helped me get on my feet. I grabbed a hold of his arms not to fall over. "Have we landed?"

"Yes," he chuckled slightly. I straightened up and could stand properly. "Everyone's downstairs ready to take the first step outside!" He didn't have to tell me twice before I hurried down to see it all go down. The radioactivity was going to kill us all once that lever was pulled down.

I tried pushing my way through the crowd. When I was pretty much centered in the crowd I heard a girl say "The air could be toxic," to the guy with his hand on a lever. I believed he said something too, but I couldn't hear it. He was speaking too quietly and he was standing too far away. The blonde girl was probably about to open her mouth again but was cut off by a female voice coming from behind me.

"Bellamy?" She asked. Everyone turned towards her. She made her way through the crowd and the whispers started. "She's the girl who hid under the floor." Octavia?

I had no interest in the scene that was taking place in the front, and I would bet all my money no one else in the crowd did either. But suddenly the door creaked open and the light hit us. My body was waiting for the sensation called death. But it didn't arrive. No one was collapsing, falling dead on the floor. We just watched the door open more and more for each second. My body used all its power to push itself towards the exit. I could barely observe Octavia take the first step into nature. It looked like she took a deep breath. She raised both her arms in the air.

"We're back bitches!"

**

A/N

Hey, so I was at work today and just started thinking of a plot for a fan fiction so once I got home I decided why not! So here I am! With my first chapter. It's not too long, and not too short which is how I want to keep it. Maybe a bit longer.

This chapter isn't the best but it's just an introduction. I have great plans for this! Next chapter I won't do as many time skips, I just did them now to get the story going.

Hope you will enjoy this story xx

- FH