Hope - Clarke & Madi || The 100

III

A/N: I wanted to update yesterday, but I had a friend over and we kind of lost track of time. Here's the chapter anyway, just a day later than I expected :)

Clarke picked up her work again. She made the string and glue, then attached the stones to the tops of the sticks with the glue. After that, she cut a small notch at the end of the sticks and attached the feathers with glue and string. Every now and then, she checked on Madi.

"The pain is already fading. It isn't bad," Madi told her when Clarke had finished the arrows and climbed into the rover. "I'm just a little bored."

Clarke could understand that. She had sprained her ankle once too. She'd hated not being able to move around too much, but she knew how important it was to let it rest. "You didn't sleep well last night. Are you tired?" she asked. "You could take a nap."

"I already tried. I'm not in the mood for sleeping," Madi answered.

Clarke let out a chuckle. "How can someone not be in the mood for sleeping?"

The green-eyed girl shrugged. "Then I'm just not tired."

Neither of them said anything for a while, but it wasn't silent. They could hear the birds chirping outside. It was pretty windy today, which caused the leaves to rustle. Somewhere, a twig broke.

All those sounds were familiar to Clarke. She'd heard them countless times. Just like the voice who broke the semi-silence. "Clarke?" the voice asked.

She responded with an "hmm?"

"Can you teach me how to draw?"

Clarke snapped her head up in surprise. When Madi was younger, she had asked her a few times if she wanted to draw. She knew next to nothing about raising a child. Let alone under their circumstances. But when Clarke was younger, her mother had always given her paper and a pencil to keep her satisfied, so she decided to try that with Madi too. She had declined every time. "Why now all of the sudden? I mean, I would love to. I'm just curious."

Madi didn't answer right away as if she had to think really hard of an answer to give her. "I don't know actually. But I like watching you draw. I want to be able to do that too."

"I have no idea how to teach someone how to draw, but I can try." Clarke had taught Madi a lot of things that she needed to know in order to survive. Mostly, those were boring things. She didn't like to teach them, but she had too. Of course, she had also taught her things she enjoyed teaching. Medicine for example. And reading and writing. Drawing was a thing she'd always wanted to teach her, to what extent that was possible, but Madi never seemed interested. Clarke loved the fact that she now was.

"My sketchbook is still outside. I'll get it." With that, she jumped out of the Rover and walked around it. Her sketchbook was still laying on the rover hood, where she had fallen asleep yesterday. She picked it up, but she couldn't find the pencil she had made out of graphite. She searched the ground around the rover hood for it and eventually found it laying in the grass. She picked it up and went back to Madi.

"Okay," she said when she was sitting again. She opened her sketchbook on an empty side and handed it to Madi together with the pencil.

Madi took it carefully like it was something made out of glass and could break at any moment. She looked at Clarke expectantly. "So... What do I do?"

"I don't know. I think you just need to draw something."

Madi played around with the pencil. "Like what?"