From the Ashes

9

"'She wasn't looking for a
Knight,
She was looking for a
Sword.'"

- Atticus

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Bear stood out in the pouring rain, thunder clapped in the skies above her as the lightning flooded her eyesight like a soaring lighthouse.

She, like a couple of others, were trying to keep the rain from smothering the inside of the drop ship. Inside, she could hear Raven trying to get the radio working, as Clarke desperately thought of what her mother would say when she'd ask: how could she save Finn, how could she save the boy she loved.
Bellamy and a couple of others had left the ship, he wouldn't tell Bear why, all he did was give her a scowl.

She thought that they'd begun to mend their friendship.

But, even as Harvey, even as a new person - Bellamy doesn't seem to care at all for the girl who so desperately tried to reach out a hand to him. The only girls he had eyes for were Octavia, and Clarke. Deny it all he wanted, Bear knew when Bellamy cared for somebody more than just another soldier to protect him and his people from the grounders.

Once upon a time, she'd been one of the rare few who Bellamy swore to protect, to always stand by, even in desperate times.
Now, she stood alone, a stranger in the eyes of her enemy who was once her best friend.

The rain against the jagged drop ship metal sounded like someone was going against it with a sledge hammer. From the wind muttered voices of the dead, at least that's what Bear believed, as every time a howl screeched throughout the blackened woods, the hairs on the back of her neck would stand up straight.

Carnage ensued, as Bear gripped the edge of the torn parachute, as a gust of wind swept beneath and moved the whole ship slightly.

Bear whistled, gaining the attention of two boys beside her,"oi, you two!"

"What?" One of them yelled over the loud, bristling thunderstorm.

"Go around the ship and put whatever metal you can find under, up against the ship!" Bear yelled, reaching forward and holding there part of the parachute,"after that, you can go inside!"

They both nodded to her, as they moved in different directions to encircle the ship and, hopefully, heed Bears commands.
She knows what metal they had is quite useless, but anything to keep the ship from slipping sideways, or sinking will help.

Picking up her spear, she hooked it onto one of the ropes and pulled, leaning backwards and avoiding slipping in the mud, she'd hope that helped no rain enter the ship.

Inside, she could hear steady motion. Raven must've gotten through to the ark.
Smiling to herself, she'd wonder what her uncle and sister would say, seeing her do this.

The boys slipped inside, one of them, the youngest of the two, turned and gave a soft salute.

Bear was practically praying on, with her legs knee deep in mud it felt, that Bellamy and his goons would come back soon - or else she's ordering this door closed, because nobody else is going to do this job if she doesn't.

"Harvey, come inside, now!" Clarke called, to which made Bear slip into the mud out of excitement.

She entered looking as if she'd had a mud bath, but the green plastered on her face helped identify her as a human being,"what's up!"