Survivor

chapter three

The next day I woke up to loud coughing. I shot up in a sitting position only to see the girl beside me coughing up a storm. She was around my age, I couldn't tell exactly but she was somewhere between eleven and thirteen.

The girl kept coughing, every cough louder than the next. I felt suddenly pretty grateful, if Octavia didn't save me I could be having a lot of lung issues as well as issues on my leg. Heck I probably would have bled out to death.

I was shocked to hear the coughing stopped and glanced at her anxiously. Was she dead? I felt better now that I could tell she was breathing but her breaths were pretty raspy.

"You ok?" I asked in a slightly raspy voice, but it was nothing compared to hers.

The girl didn't respond at first, then said "they found me..after the fire had gone out..but..I-I think I took in too much smoke by then."

I hid the fear in my eyes as she spoke. If she was in the fire until it went out she was more than lucky to still be alive. I felt terrible for this girl, wasn't there anything she could do to help?

The tent door slowly unziped to reveal Octavia and the blonde. It odd to see them working harmoniously after yesterday. Octavia quietly gestured for me to leave the tent. I crept out ever so silently, being extra careful with my leg.

The blonde girl quietly said, "was the other girl coughing?"

I shakily nodded "I-is she going to be ok?" I asked in fear for the girl.

"I can't say..we need resources before we can even think of treating all the wounded." She replied.

"But..what if we explored for resources?" I asked, trying to help.

"Thats what I said, but-" the blondie cut Octavia off.

"We've already lost seven people as of yesterday, and thats out of all the people we could find in the dropship. I don't think we have enough people that are ok to go looking." The blonde girl said.

I had a serious tone now, "listen blondie, I'm ok, Octavia's ok, your ok, Finn's ok, Octavia's brother is ok. That's enough for a search party, and there's probably more that are ok so someone can stay behind and watch the injured." I argued, we had to save as many people as possible.

The blondie sighed "Its Clarke, but you have a point." She told me before turning to Octavia "I can stay here with Finn and your brother, you go with Wells and a few others."

Octavia nodded in response as Clarke explained what herbs we needed, but I was annoyed, I wanted to go as well. She seemed to want me to sit around camp, how was that any fun? I simply wanted to help like everyone else, besides I was in better shape than most. But as usual it came down to one thing. I was a kid. Kid's sit at home and play, but not this kid. This kid was willing to help at many costs.

"Im going too," I told them both before getting up "we need to find others to go with us, come on."

They had no time to argue as I grabbed Octavia's arm leading her away from Clarke. It took us only ten minutes to find the one who went by Wells. He was in a fist fight with the guy known as Murphy. You could tell he was trouble with one look at him, but it was the kind of troubles kids like me would enjoy.

"Wells, your with us" Octavia said before beginning to explain what we were doing.

I didn't stick along to listen as I snuck over to Murphy "Murphy, how would you like to come with us?"

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It didn't take much to convince Murphy to join us. It ended up with me, Octavia, Murphy and Wells. Murphy was a bit different than I expected, you could see he wanted to be a hero, to help. But he was still as mischievous as excepted, he tripped Wells only two minutes into the walk.

I couldn't help but giggle as Wells face planted into the dirt. He caught himself with his elbow but still ate it hard. He had dirt sprinkled on his face when he got up. He glared at Murphy and for a second I thought they were going to fight again, but to my relief they didn't.

"We shouldn't be fighting amongst ourselves." He said before we continued down the trail.

I stayed by Octavia only because I didn't want to get caught in the guys fight, I started a conversation from boredom "so what are we looking for exactly?"

"Clarke told us to look for chamomile." She replied a she glanced around at the bushes we were passing.

"Like the tea?" I asked, the only chamomile I remember was the tea.

"Yea, we just need the leafs off the chamomile plant and we can make tea." She told me.

"So, what does it look like?" I should know this already but I didn't, and in order to find it I needed to.

"Like daisy's but the leafs look long and spiky. Or at least that's what Clarke told me."

I nodded I response before hearing the ruffle of clothes, glancing beside me I saw Murphy and Wells shoving eachother back and forth. Glancing at Octavia I could tell she was holding back laughing as they fought like two year olds. Seeing she wasn't going to stop it I grabbed a rock and chucked it at Murphy.

The shady looking guy turned to face me with narrowed eyes as the rock bounced of his cheek "what the hell kid!"

"You guys are acting like two year olds and I shouldn't have to tell you that! Now shut up and lets get moving, we have herbs to find." I commanded the two, which gave me a small sense of maturity.

Wells nodded to my statement, it seemed natural he knew what was best. But Murphy stood there for a second giving me a cold glare. I was getting a bit worried he would tackle me or throw a fist but in a few long moments he gave me a very small nod before turning back to face the trail. We continued down the trail but I couldn't stop thinking about the anger in Murphy's eyes. Even if he dropped it now, I highly doubted he would forget it.

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A/N: as you can tell my story is unique and nothing like the original 100, its similar but is going to be its own unique story! Also I've decided to give you another early episode, possibly will have a week streak of episodes released till tuesday before going back to the usual schedule, we'll have to see! I hope your enjoying it so far <3

~xox wizzywarrior