hesykhia • bellamy blake

xx. inclement weather and reapercussions

"Sᴋʏᴇ," sᴏᴍᴇᴏɴᴇ ᴡʜɪsᴘᴇʀs harshly, shoving her arm.  "Skye, wake up."

Skye jumps awake to see Clarke standing over her in a yellow gown.  Skye glances down at herself to see if she's wearing the same thing, but finds she's still in her clothes.  She runs her hand over her face to try to wake herself up and remember what happened.  The last thing she remembered was seeing Clarke rip her stitches open.  Did she pass out?

"Come on.  Dr. Tsing just left.  We need to figure out how Langston is getting better so quick."

Clarke didn't wait for Skye to get out of bed before she walks over to Langston's bedside.  She did the same thing to the Mountain Man as she had done to Skye.  She shakes him and says his name, but the man doesn't even budge.

As Skye approaches the other side of Langston's bed, Clarke lifts his damaged arm and asks under her breath, "What are they doing to you?"

She pulls down the gown to show Skye the metal contraption on his chest before following the tubes up into a pipe.  Then, the girls walk down the middle of room to where the pipe leads to somewhere neither of them could see.  Clarke walks up to try the big metal door that they didn't use to come in here.  Skye looks around the door since there would be no way either of them could get that door open.  She spots a vent at the right closer to the ceiling than to the ground.

"Clarke, there's a vent up there that could lead us to the other side of that door," Skye tells her and points up to the vent.  Clarke's eyes follow where she's pointing, and then double checks Skye.

"You can talk?  Since when?"  Her voice is one of shock as she stares at Skye.

Skye stares straight at the blonde girl as she's reminded of why she can talk in the first place and states, "Since the night we left Bellamy on the other side of the dropship."

Clarke's face reveals how much Skye's comment hurt, but just nods before asking, "Can you give me a lift?"

She maneuvers the vent off the wall so it's just a hole.  Skye steps over to where Clarke is standing under the vent and steadies herself to lift Clarke up.  She clasps her hands together, and Clarke uses them as step to launch herself up into the hole.  With Skye being a little shorter than Clarke, she needs Clarke's help to pull her into the vent.

Once the two of them come out of another vent into the place they were trying to get to, the first thing they hear is beeping from medical equipment.  Then, as they get to their feet, they see two people hanging upside down.  Judging by the tattoos on the people's bodies, Skye takes a guess they're Grounders.  She notices the tubes attached to their bodies and a dark substance traveling through.  Blood.  The tube disappears into the wall behind the two, and Skye believes that's the answer to their questions about Langston.

Skye turns around before Clarke does and what she sees chills her to the bone.  More Grounders, but these ones are locked in cages.  There were some stacked close to them, but in the back Skye could see hundreds more were caged up.  The Grounders in the closest cages start moaning as they see someone different than the normal doctor or guards, someone who maybe could help them.