Black, the only thing I dreamed about. The darkness that took over my life and became me. That's the one thing I liked. I never had dreams, and if I did I couldn't see them. The darkness acting as a safety blanket.
A loud clang sounded, waking me from my sleep. Followed by a low moan. I slowly opened my eyes and was surprised to see Atom looking down at me.
"Good morning." He laughed as I groaned and slowly began to unravel myself from the blanket around me.
"Glad to see you're feeling better." I wrapped the blanket under my arm and began to walk back to camp, Atom followed close behind me. I thunk was heard as we got closer to camp. Another kid who I surprisingly hadn't noticed before was walking behind us.
"That's how it's done." Great. I rolled my eyes as Atom continued to walk in Fake's direction.
"We searched a half-mile, all directions. No sign of Trina or Pascal." I snorted at the second name. Sounds like a reptile. I let Atom and the other kid walk towards Murphy and Bellamy as I continued on my way to camp.
"Visit your special tree when you were out there?" I would have laughed at the burn had Jasper not moaned this time more in pain.
"Atom took his punishment, let him go." Oh, if Jasper hadn't been in pain right now and my curiosity hadn't been spiking, I would have loved to lay one on him. Blake the Fake, I think he's got a new nickname.
I took off in a jog away from the small group and towards the drop ship. I kept the blanket tucked in my arms as I went, even draped it like a cape when I began to climb up the ladder.
"The grounders cauterized the wound. Saved his life."
"Saved his life so they could string him up for live bait." Finn spoke walking closer to Clarke and Jasper as I climbed up the ladder.
"Garden of Eden this ain't."
"You can say that again." Clarke and Finn turned towards me. Clarke had a small smile on her face as Finn smirked.
"Had enough beauty rest?" Finn taunted.
"As if I need beauty rest." I walked up to stand beside Clarke giving her a small hip check.
"How's he doing?" After I asked she turned back to the large wound on Jasper's chest.
"This is infected. He could be septic." I shared a worried glance with Finn before turning back to Clarke who quickly changed the subject.
"Any progress in using the wristbands to contact the Ark?" I followed Clarke's gaze to Monty who sat in front of a lantern.
"Monty?" I looked at Clarke surprised when she basically yelled his name. This was really eating her alive.
"Hey, Wells." I quietly greeted the teen who had just climbed up the ladder onto our level. He gave me a slight nod and continued to walk over to us.
"That would be a firm no." I let out a sigh at Monty's answer. So what if I didn't like the Ark, there are innocent people up there. I was willing to give them a second chance to show me that not everyone up there was a monster who enjoyed blood sport.
"How's he doing? I felt the tension when he stepped in behind me trying to wedge his way next to Clarke.
"How does he look like he's doing Wells?" Clarke snapped. I looked at Finn and we shared a small look as we both simultaneously stepped away from Jasper and the other two. I walked around to where Finn was in order to not be around the hostile Clarke.
"Hey, I'm just trying to help." Wells softened his voice, trying to calm the blonde. I knew Clarke was panicking with not being able to help Jasper, nor have working communications with the Ark, and Wells was really not helping at this moment.
"Right. You wanna help? Hold him down." Wells grabbed onto his both of Jasper's legs as Finn stabilized Jasper's torso and right arm. I moved around to his head and place both my hands on his shoulders and lightly pushed down, waiting until he began to fight me back to force him to the table.
Clarke put the knife in a small bowl of fire and coals as we all got into position, heating the knife up so she could make a precise cut through Jasper's flesh.
"I'm not going to like this, am I?" I looked up to Monty and sent him a small smile, trying to comfort him as he watched his brother laying on a table and dying.
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Jasper let out a large yell, his shoulders lifting as I forced them back onto the metal.
"Hold him still!" Clarke shouted, directing her words to the three boys as I was doing my job perfectly.
"Y'all are really bad at this!" I shouted over another of his yells. I was met with two death glares from Wells and Finn and a small grimace from Monty.
"I need to cut away the infected flesh." Clarke was going into her own little monologue again as she stared at Jasper.
"Hey," she looked up at me, worry set in her eyes. "You can do this, baby Dr. Griffin." She gave me a nod as I smiled encouragingly at her.
She started to cut away the flesh when Jasper passed out. His eyes rolled to the back of his head which lolled to the side.
"Stop it! You're killing him!" Octavia ran over joining us near Jasper's head.
"She's trying to save his life." Finn explained.
"She can't." Great, just the person I was most looking forward to see. Especially when trying to save a life!
"Back off." Wells turned to face Bellamy as I motioned Octavia to take my spot so I could go walk over towards the two boys.
"We didn't drag him through miles of woods just to let him die." I made my way over to stand in front of Bellamy, blocking Jasper's body from his path.
"Kid's a goner. If you can't see that, you're deluded." He stared at me as I glared directly at him, waiting for him to say just the slightest thing to give him a shiner. "He's making people crazy."
"Sorry if Jasper's an inconvenience to you," Clarke spoke before I could, "but this isn't the Ark. Down here, every life matters." I kept my hands down at my sides, fist clenched and ready as Bellamy opened his maw again.
"Take a look at him." His voiced dropped as he directed his words to Clarke. "He's a lost cause." I moved, fully intent on punching him when Wells grabbed my arm to stop me. I shrugged him off me and continued to glare at Bellamy who's attention I now had.
"Octavia, I've spent my whole life watching my mother heal people. If I say there's hope, there's hope." Clarke directed to Octavia from behind me. There's that word, again. It seems as if we are living off of the philosophy.
"This isn't about hope, it's about guts. You don't have the guts to make the hard choices. I do." I scoffed as I never let my gaze falter from the brown eyes in front of me.
"He's been like this for three days. If he's not better by tomorrow," he paused his eyes flicking from Jasper and a Clarke then back to me, "I'll kill him myself." This time Wells couldn't stop me as I decked Bellamy with my left hook. The aim was his temple but I miss calculated the height and got him in the cheek.
"Over my dead body." I hissed as Bellamy took a step back holding the side of his face. He dropped his hand and took a step closer to me.
"That could be arranged." He took of to the ladder, cowardly running away from the fight I was begging to have. "Octavia, lets go." He commanded, looking back at his sister.
"I'm staying here." I turned my head and shot her a smile which she returned. When I faced Bellamy again I sent him a smirk.
He didn't say anything as he clenched his jaw and climbed back down the ladder, leaving us in silence once again.
"Power-hungry, self-serving jackass. Doesn't care about anyone but himself, no offense." Monty added looking at Octavia.
"You can say that again." I hissed turning back to the group.
"Yeah. Bellamy is all that." I looked at Finn my eyes narrowing, "but he also happens to be right."
"I swear, don't ever say that again." I groaned before looking at Clarke. "I'm going to go keep an eye on him. what did he call me. Right. A shadow. I'm just going to go live up to my nickname and hope he doesn't piss me off." I started back towards the ladder.
"I've always liked to play with fire
I've always liked to play with fire
I've always liked to play with."
I sang giving the group a salute and climbing down the ladder. Purposely ignoring the smirk from Finn and the shocked expressions on Octavia and Monty's face.