"Clarke! Clarke, where the hell are you?" I scream as Bellamy carries Finn with help from Monroe. Clarke hears my cries and arrives to the gate in rapid timing, seeing Finn and instantly feeling a sense of fear. His face is pale and he is drenched in his own swear.
"Finn, oh my god." She cries and Raven comes from behind her, glued in place as she notices the love of her life is in Jaspers arms.
"He's alive. Can you help him?" I ask, curiously.
"Ariel and Bellamy wouldn't let me take the knife out." Jasper informs Clarke and she nods, expecting his body carefully.
"That was a good call. But I need my mother, I need to talk to her." Clarke says turning to Raven, the engineer, who was supposed to be fixing the radio whilst we were gone.
"There's still no radio." Raven puts, her head falling.
"Raven, you have to fix it. Go!" Clarke orders and Raven runs towards her tent, as Jasper carries Finn to the drop ship, Clarke following after him. I turn around and see Bellamy and Octavia stood by the gate. I understand they need to be alone at the moment and run off. I then hear a bolt of lightning and look up at the sky. The blue has disappeared and has been overrun by an army of grey clouds. Seems familiar.
"Storm." I whisper to myself, knowing things aren't going to go down well.
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Everyone huddled around Raven as she tried to contact the Ark, all of us praying it would work so we could save Finn. Bellamy, Jasper and Monty still hadn't come back yet and we were also quite worried about them, due to the monstrous storm outside. "This is a restricted station, who is this? Please identify yourself." A voice said over the radio and my eyes immediately meet Clarke's, joy in both of our eyes.
"This is Raven Reyes, I'm from Mecha Station. I'm transmitting from the ground. The hundred are alive- please, please you need to get Doctor Abby Griffin. Doctor Abby Griffin - now!"
"Hang on Raven, we're trying to boost your signal." The man responded and we stood in complete silence, waiting.
"Raven? Are you there?" A new voice came over the radio and I instantly recognised it to be Abby - Clarke's mom. I look back up at my friend who's tears begin to brew tears, hearing her mothers voice. I put my hand on her back, comforting her.
"Mom? Mom, it's me." Clarke says, taking the radio from Raven's hands.
"Clarke?" Her mother said, and I realised it was hard for her to get words out, being able to hear her daughters voice again.
"Mom, I need your help. One of our people was stabbed by a grounder." Clarke tells her, referring to Finn.
"Clarke, this is the chancellor. Are you saying there are survivors on the ground?" Jaha asked.
"Yes. The earth is survivable. We're not alone." Clarke informs them, nodding her head. She then looked over at Finn who was still unconscious, appearing even more lifeless to the time we brought him in. "Mom he's dying. The knife is still in his chest." Clarke said, ushering her mother to help them, panic in her voice as we waited for a response.
"Clarke. Is my son with you?" Jaha said over the line and Clarke and I look at each other the memory sinking back in. I nod at her before she breathed in before pressing the button. "I'm so sorry. Wells is - Wells is dead."
"Clarke, this is Councillor Kane speaking. Is Ariel with you? Is she alive?" I hear over the line and the sadness I had just been feeling left my body and a smile crept in as I walked over to Clarke, grabbing the radio.
"Yeah, yeah. Hi, I'm here. I'm ok." I chuckle to myself, happy to hear his voice again.
"That's good to hear." He says, after a short moments pause. I then pass the radio back to Clarke, who needs it more than I do.
"Hey! They're back!" Someone calls from inside the drop ship, and we all turn to the doors, watching as Bellamy walks in, close behind him follow his men, who are carrying a large unconscious man, who they then drop onto the ground. I recognise the grounder as the one who took Octavia hostage, stabbed Finn and almost stabbed me too.
"You've gotta be kidding me." I mumble under my breath to Clarke.
I furrow my eyebrows walking up to him.
"What are you doing?" I ask him and he glares at me, immediately knowing I'm going to argue with him
"Getting answers." He deadpans.
"Are you insane? You're just trying to get revenge for your sister and being an idiot. Like always." I shouting at him as Bellamy rolls his eyes at me.
"No, I'm trying to get intel. Which is smart." He then turns to his buddies. "Get him upstairs." He orders and they do as he says, struggling to get the large man up the ladder.
"You seriously went back into the woods to go and get him. What the hell do you think is going to happen now? The rest of the grounders will come looking for him, and when they find him here, they'll kill us all." I tell him, and before he can argue back, the radio static fills the air.
"Clarke, okay we are ready. Can you hear me?" I hear from the radio. It's Abby. She's back.
"We can worry about that later. I'm doing this Matthews, whether you like it or not." Bellamy tells me, pushing past me and making his way over to the ladder, climbing up but I follow after him, intent to stop him from doing something he'll regret.
"Bellamy wait." I call out after him before we both get to level 3 and I notice Bellamy's followers are tying the grounder up. "Bellamy, think about this for one moment." I insist but Bellamy steps closer to me.
"I have thought about it. You've said it yourself, Ariel, we're no match to the grounders. But if we find out their strategies, the kind of weapons they have, the numbers - we could actually stand a chance."He puts, sternly, calling me by my actual name which always means he's being genuine, which means he wants me to listen to him. And in a way, he is right. The only possible way we'd stand a chance is getting this information, but is it worth destroying our moral compasses?
"You're right." I tell him, honestly. I can see that he looks relieved. "But you can't use him, Bellamy, he saved your sister."
"And he stabbed Finn." He reminds me.
"He stabbed Finn because you refused to leave when I told you to." I argue and he raises his brows.
"So it's my fault he's down there dying right now? Is that what you're saying?"
I scoff. "No, of course not. What I'm saying is your actions have consequences. You told me I need to learn to control my temper, maybe you need to take your own advice."
He looks annoyed at me, clearly not liking what I just said, which means in some way it got through to him.
"Violence doesn't need to be the answer." I protest, softly, as he looks from the grounder to me, and he sighs looking down.
"I'm sorry, Ariel. But we don't have time for that. For all we know, the grounders are lining up to attack tomorrow. This is how it has to be." He unfortunately responds and I shake my head as he turns around, taking a step toward him.
"Bellamy don'-"
"Take her down." He instructs, cutting me off and Miller moves towards me, along with a couple others.
As his men come nearer to me I scoff, shaking my head before walking to the ladder myself and climbing down.
Octavia spots me and walks towards me, noticing my pissed off expression. "What's wrong?" She questions.
"Your brother. He's just a pain in the ass." I tell her, sitting down on the metal ground. I wish we didn't have to stay in the drop ship due to the storm. It would be nice to get away from those assholes. Octavia sits besides me, putting a hand on my back to comfort me.
"What happened?" She asks, curiously.
"He's going to kill the grounder." I tell her, without even thinking until the words have left my lips that I shouldn't have told her.
"What?" Octavia exclaims and immediately gets to her feet, going over to the ladder.
"Octavia!" I call after her but she ignores me and I sigh letting her go.
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"Clarke? What's wrong? Is Finn okay?" I ask the blonde as she climbs the ladder to the second floor, where everyone else is staying, riding out the storm.
She doesn't respond to me, beginning to climb the ladder to the third floor of the drop ship. "They locked it, Clarke." I tell her, Octavia rising from besides me.
Clarke then begins to shout at them to open it, banging on the door and after a while they finally do. Clarke climbs up and Octavia and I exchange a glance before following after her.
Clarke holds the knife in front of the grounders face. "Whats on this?" She questions, threateningly.
"What are you talking about?" Bellamy asks what we are all thinking.
"He poisoned the blade." My eyes widen in surprise. "All this time he knew Finn was gonna die no matter what we did. What is it?" She shouts becoming more agitated. "Is there an antidote?"
"Clarke, he doesn't understand you." Octavia informs her, as we watch the blonde grow teary eyed from desperation and I try to think of anything we can do to get him to tell us.
"The vials." Bellamy remembers walking over to a case with glass bottles inside, Clarke following after him "It's gotta be here."
"He'd have to be stupid to have a poison around this long without an antidote." She then opens the vials out and looks to the grounder."Which one?" Clarke orders yet he remains silent.
"Answer the question." Bellamy also adds.
"Show us, please." Octavia pleads, knowing if he doesn't what will happen next.
"Just tell us which one, please." I join in, wanting to save Finns life.
We all watch him desperately as he remains speechless, and Bellamy begins to move towards him. "I'll get him to talk."
"Bellamy no!" His sister grabs his arm.
"He wants Finn to die why can't you see that?" He then looks over to Clarke. "Do you want him to live or not?"
"Clarke you even said it yourself, this is not who we are." Octavia pleads and then looks at me hoping I'll help convince Clarke. Her eyes also meet mine.
"Torturing him for nothing was wrong, but this?" I pause. "We need Finn."
"What? Ariel, no." Octavia gasps and I look at her apologetically.
Clarke then looks from me to Bellamy. "Do it."
Octavia moves forwards to the grounder but Miller and Miles pull her back stopping her as she pleads her brother to stop and the grounder to give up the answers yet neither comply.
Bellamy looks to Clarke for an answer and unsurprisingly she nods, looking up at Bellamy. "Do it."
Bellamy then proceeded to rip off a buckle from one of the seats, and just as he began to walk towards the man, cutting off his shirt. "Your gonna show us the antidote or you're gonna wish you had."
Bellamy then walks away from the bare chested man, and then looks over at me as if asking me silently if he should do it, still. Like a part of him is against it or sees that it is wrong. It makes sense. It reminds me of the woods, with Atom. How he hesitated. I give him a small nod and he then hesitates a little before proceeding to hit him with the belt, most of us flinching as he does so.
He then hits him abruptly once more, and Clarke immediately gets onto her knees, laying the vials out.
"Please," she breathes out desperately looking up at him. "Which one's the antidote?"
"Just tell them." Octavia adds on.
He just stares down at her, wordless and we all know he's not going to respond. Bellamy puts a hand on Clarke's shoulder and she shuts her eyes before rising to her feet as Bellamy proceeds to hit him continously.
"Clarke! He's getting worse!" Raven shouts from below us.
"We're running out of time," Clarke goes onto her knees in front of the grounder once more. "Which one? Which one is it? If you tell us they'll stop. Please, tell us which one is the antidote and they'll stop this." We all look at the man, praying he'll answer yet he still reminds silent, as Clarke sighs hopelessly, and Bellamy chucks the belt away.
"If that doesn't work, maybe this will." He begins, holding up a knife and I look at it for a moment realising how serious this is about to get. "Clarke, Ariel - you don't have to be here for this." But neither of us budge.
"I'm going to give you one more chance. Tell us which vial will save Finn's life and I won't have to do this." Bellamy asked him, but the grounder said nothing. I looked away as Bellamy plunged the dagger into the grounders hand.
/au i will write the rest of this part but rn i cba