Heartbreak Weather | the 100

chapter five

"You don't think he's actually going to leave, do you?" Maya questions fidgeting with her hands. Her eyes looking down as she finds her hands the most interesting thing as of right now.

"Maya, just ask him." I answer her and keep in my eye roll. She's been constantly talking about Jasper since she has been hearing that there is a slight chance he will leave Mount Weather to search for Clarke.

I love Maya and Jasper but right now, I want to pull my hair out of my head and bang my head against the wall.

Intense? Absolutely.

I open the door with my card to the room where the 48 space people live, well now that Clarke is gone, 47. I pack my card away and hold the door open for Maya. She slowly walks into the room filled with bunk beds. I close the door and stand beside her. The room so empty—lucky us— except for Monty and Jasper, who look like they are arguing from where we stand.

"Where are you going?" Jasper asks Monty, who gets his luggage bag out from underneath his bed. I don't think they've noticed us in the room with them.

"The dropship, for starters." Monty answers as he neatly places in a folded t-shirt.

"I just heard, you're leaving?" Maya asks and her voice is so low that my heart almost breaks, but it's loud enough for both boys to stop speaking and turn their faces to us.

"Yes, we are." Monty answers with a stern face as he continues to fix his bag that lies on the top bunk bed.

"No, we're not." Jasper turns his head to face Monty. Maya walks over to Jasper who stands on the other side of the bunk bed, whereas I stand beside Monty

"What would Clarke do?" Monty asks Jasper who sighs and looks away from Monty. When Monty places something inside his bag, I take it out. He stuffs a shirt in and I take the shirt out. This becomes an ongoing thing for another minute.

"Don't leave, Monty." I say holding a pair of pants in my hand, before he is able to say something Jasper's reaction to something causes us to turn to him.

"Whoa, what..." I hear Jasper gasp. The speakers blare out the sound of the alarm. I look over to Maya and red spots start growing on her face.

"Radiation." I gulp.

"There's a containment breach." Maya raises her hand to touch her pigmented skin that continues beginning to form burns on her once beautiful skin.

"H...How?" Jasper questions and his voice cracks due to the terror he feels in him.

"I don't know." Maya runs to the door and swipes her card on the access pad. It fails to work for some odd reason. I run to her and swipe my card on the pad but it fails.

"Why are you fine?" Monty asks, pointing out that I am not reacting like Maya. How I don't have burns crawling on my skin unlike Maya, how she's struggling to breathe but I'm fine.

"I...I don't know..." I gulp afraid that something is terribly wrong with me. "We don't have time to worry about me." I shake my head when I re-realise my friend is about to die.

"Help! Help! Help!" The two boys begin shouting and repeating the words as they smash the door trying to find someone who can help us open up the doors. I continue trying to swipe my card against the pad but still nothing.

Maya continues shouting in pain and crying. My best friend is not dying like this! I begin hitting the door, pounding at the useless, stupid door.

I swipe my card once again and I'm expecting the pad to turn red but this time doesn't. It let's out the sound of a beep. A beep that I once hated because of how annoying it is... this sound is officially my favourite.

The door opens. The boys continue to shout for help as they wrap an arm under Maya's shoulders. I lead the way to medical.

I wipe my cheeks when I feel something fall down. I look down at my hands to find it wet. Those minutes felt like hours. I thought we were never getting out of there but, oh my goodness, that's the scariest thing that occurred in my 19 years of living.

When we arrive at Medical, the doctors take Maya out of Jasper and Monty's hands. They place her down onto a bed and force us to leave the room. We try to argue to stay but they push us out and then shut the door on us.

"Oh my goodness." I let out a heavy sigh. I hold in my breath and release it when I bend over. My hand touch my knees and my butt lies against the cream wall. I can't believe this just happened. A hand touches my shoulder. I turn my head to look up to find Monty with a sympathetic smile on his face.

Jasper slides down against the recently painted wall with a heavy sigh releasing from his mouth.

"She'll be okay." I say not sure who I am trying to reassure, Jasper or myself...

Why did nothing happen to me? Maya and I have been breathing the same air since forever... So how was she contaminated to the air, but I wasn't? We spent the day together so she didn't do anything differently than I did.

This is hurting my brain!

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"Temperature's 104 and rising. Blood pressure, 180 over 120. Blister coverage, now 75%. Standard treatment isn't working." Dr. Tsing informs the other doctor in a blue hazmat suit of Maya's wellbeing.

I never told the doctors that I was in the room with Maya, mainly because I didn't want them to worry about me.

"Wait. What does that mean?" Jasper questions Dr. Tsing with a confused tone and expression. "Is there a nonstandard treatment?"

I also don't even know what the standard treatment is. I have never heard of it before.

"Well, there is one thing we could try." Dr. Tsing looks up from her clipboard and straight at Jasper.

"What are you waiting for?" Jasper questions as he runs his hand through his dark curly hair. Dr. Tsing puts her clipboard down and walks over to us.

"It's unorthodox. Because you were raised in space your circulatory system developed the ability to filter radiation out of your blood. Now it's just a theory... but if we were to circulate Maya's blood through your system—"

Jasper finishes the sentence off for her. "I can make her better."

"What happens to him?" Monty asks Dr. Tsing as he points to Jasper.

"I'm not sure." She shakes her head.

"I know that look. Don't even think about it. It's too dangerous." Monty says as Jasper stares at his crush lying in the medical bed.

"I'm on Monty's side. I love Maya and she's my best friend but Jasper, it's not worth you possibly dying. She'll get better eventually..." I say to Jasper hoping to change his mind. I know Maya, and if Jasper dies, and I could've somehow prevented it but I didn't, Maya would probably hate me forever.

Jasper looks at Monty and I. He turns to Dr. Tsing before nodding. "I'm in."