Special Case of Kane

01

"Hey, Clarke." I greet as I approach the girl. "Oh, damn it." I curse when I realize the reasoning behind her seriousness.

"Why so serious, princess?" Finn Collins asks Clarke, I remember hearing stories about him. "It's not like we died I a fiery explosion."

"Try telling that to thw two guys who tried to follow you out of their seats." Clarke shoots back.

"Do you see that peak over there?" I ask him, stopping an argument before it even begins.

"Yeah." Finn replies, doing a double take of me.

"Mount Weather." I inform him.

"There's a radiation-soaked forest between us and our next meal." Clarke adds.

"They dropped us on the wrong damn mountain." I say in anger as I kick the ramp.
***

Jasper kisses my forehead when I walk away from Clarke and Finn. We have been dating since we were fourteen, we got together a whole year before I was locked up and been together since.

"Ah, cool, a map!" Jasper enthuses when we see the map Clarke has. "They got a bar in this town? I can buy us all a beer."

Wells Jaha gets in Jasper's face. "You mind?"

"Whoa!" Jasper claims and backs awsy.

"Hey, hey, hey, hands off him." A guy with a funny looking face says as he comes over. "He's with us."

"Relax." Wells says with a sigh. "We are just trying yo figure out where we are."

"We're on the ground." Bellamy reminds him in a powerful voice than makes me roll my eyes. "That not good enough for you?"

"We need to get to Mount Weather." Wells informs him. "You heard my father's message. That has to be our first priority."

"Screw your father." Octavia says as she walks over. "What, you think you're in charge here, you and your little princess?"

"Do you think we care who's in charge?" Clarke says strongly, and I smirk in approval --- I like this girl. "We need to get to Mount Weather not because the Chancellor said so, but because the longer we wait, the hungrier we'll get and the harder this'll be. How long do you think we'll last without those supplies? We're looking at a twenty mile trek, okay? So if we want to get there before dark, we need to leave now."

"I got a better idea." Bellamy replies smoothly as Monty joins Jasper and myself. "You to go, find it for us. Let the privileged do the hard work for a chance."

"Don't, Skyla." Jasper says, knowing I wanted to argue back. "Don't."

"You're not listening." Wells says. "We all need to go!"

"Look at this everybody.... Chancellor of earth." John Murphey, I just learned his name, claims in amusement.

****

Finn grabs Monty and Jasper and turns back to Clarke. "Four of us. Can we go now."

"Sounds like a party." Octavia says as she joins the four. "Make it five."

"Skyla, stay here." Jasper says to me as Bellamy talks to Octavia. "They need your dangerous mind and possible combat skills."

***

I hear whooping and hollering, and I nosily join the commotion. I see people removing their wristbands.

"Who's next?" Bellamy bellows.

"Hell, I'll be next." I smirk as I walk over, Bellamy smirks at me.

"What the hell are you doing?" Wells asks as soon as my wristband is off.

"We're liberating ourselves." Bellamy replies. "What does it look like?"

"It looks like you're trying to get us all killed." Wells replies. "The communication system is dead. These wristbands are all we got. Take them off, and the Ark will think we're dying, that it's not safe for them to follow."

"That's the point, Chancellor." Bellamy says and I just walk away, no longer interested.

***

I am sitting in a tree when I hear a clap of thunder, then rain begins falling at a good, steady pace. A smile forms on my face before I jump down, landing between Murphy and Bellamy, then I bolt for the drop ship.

I grab a canteen and I get back in the rain, and collect some water. My eyes are watering in happiness at the cold rain hitting my skin and rolling down my cheeks, and soaking my hair.

"Hey." Bellamy greets me after they forcibly removed Wells' wristband. "You're alone."

"People don't necessarily like me." I respond as I close my canteen. "Mainly for who my father is and my crimes."

"Who's your dad?" Bellamy asks.

"Marcus Kane." I state before walking away, and I climb into a tree.