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❝Humans only know how to crumble.❞
After murdering the man who killed her father, aged 15 Ariel Matthews is arrested and her mother floated for not doing anything about it.
2 years later, she has...
(this chapter has flashbacks of the past of Ariel with Octavia as in the episode 'My sisters keeper' 1x06, there are flashbacks of Octavias past)
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11: "Bell." I say as I look down a steep hill and see a flashlight in a tree. We are deep in the woods, currently by a hill, still looking for Octavia and I seriously regret saying I wanted her to be in a near death experience - that was a joke. Maybe this is karma. I hope not.
Bellamy walks up to me and looks into the distance at the torch. He then looks down at the steep hill - too hard to walk down and then back up.
Bellamy picks something up and I turn to look at him. "Rope." He says , holding it. He then throws it and it goes down the cliff. He wants to go down to get the flashlight to see if it's Octavia's. "We need the rope to get back up." Bellamy says and then ties holds onto the rope, going down to where the flashlight is. "Flashlight. It's hers." Bellamy announces, holding the object. I look down. Which means Octavias down there and for all we know, she might be gone. Forever.
Bellamy begins to head down the cliff and once he's reached the bottom, I walk over to the rope and grab it, going down the the bottom, it gets darker every step that I take. I'm just glad I tied the sword to my back like the warriors do in stories.
I spot Bellamy knelt over a rock and go over to him. As I look closely I see the rock has blood splattered over it. Bellamy and I fearfully look at eachother. Then Jasper and Finn come towards us, Finn holding a lit torch. It has to be Octavia's blood. I hope it's not.
"Someone's been here." Bellamy says, putting two fingers in the blood.
Finn points at footprints deep in the soil infront of us, and shines his lit torch over it."Print's are deeper that way." He announces.
"He was carrying her." I say softly. If she was dead, why waste time taking her body away? Which means - "If they took her, she must be alive." Jasper says happily. "Like when they took me."
"We need to find her. Quickly." I tell them and they all nod, as we rise to our feet and continue to walk through the forest, determination on my pale face.
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flashback
Ariels head jerked up and eyes sparkled as she heard a girl screaming with delight, her voice sounding no younger than her. She had never had a friend before, partly because being engrossed in picture books was considered 'uncool' by many. Also, the way she chose to dress. The girls curled hair fell down her shoulders where she wore a beige dress and below were white socks and black shined shoes - specially by her mother. Ariel, who was currently reading a story about King Arthur - the glorious hero and defender of all, rose to her feet and walked over to where she was hearing the noise.
She came face to face with the door of hopefully a new friend. This wasn't the first time she had done this. Over and over again, she had married her fist to the door and been sent away repeatedly. Because of her fathers ideas, she was hated by adults and they would rather die than see their child become friends with the daughter of Ariel's father. Her father too only had one friend. His name was Marcus Kane and was kind to Ariel and her family and so the little girl respected him deeply.
