Surviving the Sky

Chapter Six

I would give almost everything I owned- not that I own anything more than the clothes I'm wearing and my weapons- just to stop having nightmares.

At least to stop wake up screaming.

"You good?" Clarke asked.

I shook my head, "No."

"Nightmares?" She asked again. I nodded.

"So what's been going on?" I asked, changing the subject.

She thought, "Well, Monty's trying to turn the wristbands into coms so we can talk to the Ark, although it doesn't help that Bellamy has convinced most people to remove them, making the Ark think we're dead."

"That's not all," I said, "I know that look."

"It turns out it wasn't Wells that told Chancellor Jaha about my dad breaking the law," Clarke said, "My mom. She got my dad floated. Wells let me hate him for it so I wouldn't hate her. Before I could properly forgive him, Charlotte- just please don't ask if I'm okay."

I shook my head, "When something like that happens, it's impossible to be okay. When the mountain men- I just wished I had someone to talk to about it. So I'm here."

"Thanks," Clarke said, "Monty fried all the wristbands while trying to get the coms to work, so now we're all dead to the Ark. That happened when you were asleep. I was just so angry at my mom I thought it was worth a shot, and it failed."

"Anything else?" I asked impatiently.

Clarke shrugged, "Nope."

"You and Finn?" It wasn't a question.

"Don't tell anyone-"

I smiled, "I have a limited range of people who I actually enjoy talking to."

"Thanks," Clarke said again.

"Wait, is it night already?" I asked.

Clarke nodded, "The kids who were traveling with Murphy also slept through the day. Finn and I fell asleep in the bunker, which is how Charlotte snuck out."

"Oh," I had been asleep all day. Great.

I climbed down from the roof of the dropship into the maze of tents.

"Also, a bright light fell down from the sky, another dropship, we think. Bellamy thinks its safer to wait until morning to check it out, but I don't care," Clarke finished.

"So we just wait?"

Clarke nodded.

"I'm too impatient to wait," I said. It was past night, actually closer to dawn. Time travels fast, though I was running for hours that night.

"Good," Octavia said, "Because Bellamy left without us."

I sighed, "Of course. Let's go."

We split up, combing through the woods. Clarke shouted, "Over here!"

I turned to see a tall girl, maybe nineteen or twenty, pulling off a weirdly bulky suit. I choked on a scream.

"What?" Clarke asked. The girl took off her helmet and stared at me.

"Sorry," I said, "I just- the suits from Samu, my village- the mountain men- never mind."

The girl, who's name I learned was Raven, threw her arms into the air, shouting in delight. I would personally love to live in space, but if the Ark is as bad a tin can as the 100 claim, I suppose this would all be new and exciting.

"Raven?" Finn asked.

Clarke and I just stared as Raven ran over to Finn and kissed him, "Those two- you two-"