Second Chances - Resurrection

Chapter 4

I heard the door open behind me. "Prisoner 319, face the wall." The guard said walking into my cell. "What is this?" I ask, getting up and facing the wall. "Quiet. Hold out your right arm." "No. No. It's not my time. I don't turn 18 for another month." I said turning towards the guard. "Hold out your arm." "What is that?" I ask. I'm afraid. I changed things when I saved my father. What if this isn't about us going to the ground? What if they are just reducing the population or inducing comas to conserve oxygen. The wrist bands look the same but that doesn't mean they are. I can hear the other guard igniting his shock stick. "Give me your arm." The guard said reaching for me. I avoid him and push the other guard into the wall and run out the door. I can see the rest of sky box. The 100 being rounded up. We are going to the ground.

"Clarke stop. Wait here." My mom says to the guard as she walks towards me. "Mom. Mom what's going on?" I ask her as she hugs me. "It's going to be ok sweetheart. Clarke, you're not being executed. You're being sent to the ground. Now listen to me. Your instincts will tell you to take care of everybody else first, but please be careful. We can't lose you. Your father and I love you so much." I felt the dart hit me in the back as she pulls me in for another hug and everything goes black.

I wake in the dropship just before reentry. My wrist hurts from the band they put on me. I look next to me and see Wells sitting there just like before. "Welcome back." He says. I just stare at him. "What the hell are you doing here Wells?" "When I found out what they were doing, I got myself arrested so I could go too. I didn't want you to be alone." I dropship started shaking and a girl screamed. "That was the atmosphere." Wells said answering my unasked question. A monitor lights up and Jaha starts speaking. I don't pay attention, I don't need to. There is nothing he could say that would make me trust him. He is all ego, power, and privilege. Besides, I know what he is saying. He wants us to go to Mt. Weather. I got news for everyone on this drop ship. We are not going there or anywhere near there until we absolutely have to.

Finn floats out of his seat. "Check it out. Your dad floated me after all." He says to Wells. "You should strap in before the parachutes deploy." Wells says back. "Hey, you two, stay in your seats or you'll die." I said to the two boys trying to fallow Finn like morons. "You're the traitor who has been in solitary for a year." "You're the moron who wasted a month of oxygen on an illegal spacewalk." "but it was fun. I'm Finn." "Yeah, I know. You dating Raven Reyes. Now get back in your seat before the parachutes deploy and throw you all over the place." It was too late the other two boys were just getting out of their seats when the parachutes deployed throwing Finn into the wall. The other two boys were thrown into the railing and bounced back onto the floor in front of us. "Finn are you ok?"

"The rockets should have fired by now." Wells says to me.

"It's ok. Everything on this ship is 100 years old. Just give it a second, they will fire." I said with a confidence I didn't feel.

The rockets fired and we slowed down but the ship was still shaking causing sparks to fly around us and then we hit the ground and the machines stopped. "Listen. No machine hum." Monty says. The buckles release and I jump out of my seat. "Finn is he breathing?" I ask going to the other boy. I check for a pulse. It's there. "Finn?" "No, he isn't breathing." I check for a pulse and feel nothing. At least one survived this time. "The outer door is on the lower level. Let's go." I hear someone yell.

"Hey, Just back it up, guys." Bellamy says to everyone trying to get out. "Stop, the air may be toxic." Wells says. "If the air is toxic, we're dead already." Bellamy says back. "Bellamy?" I hear Octavia's hesitant voice from behind me. "My God, look how big you are." He says to Octavia as she walks up to him giving him a hug. "What the hell are you wearing. A guard's uniform." She says. "I had to borrow it to get on the drop ship." "Where is your wrist band?" Wells asks. "Do you mind, I haven't seen my brother in a year." "No one has a brother." Someone yells from behind me. "That's Octavia Blake. The girl they found hidden in the floor." A girl yell's from farther back. Octavia looks pissed. I can't blame her. "Octavia let's give them something else to remember you by." Bellamy says. "Yeah? like what?" "How about being the first person to touch the ground in 100 years." He says with the grin and opens the door.

It's so bright. I don't think I could ever be ready for how bright it is on the ground. It's shockingly bright. Octavia takes a few steps and jumps off the door throwing her arms in the air and screams "We're back, bitches!" I laugh. Everyone else starts cheering and running out of the drop ship. I grab my map and just smile. I'm back on the ground. Now the work really starts.