Chapter 3
"There, the school" Clarke points out, turning back to her people.
"It's better than nothing" Octavia shrugs. Bellamy nods. A year ago, he would had huffed, rolled his eyes. But he and the others had gone through a lot. He and Clarke, had gone through a lot. He trusted her judgment.
"I'll open the doors. Octavia and Bellamy, you two ok with going in first?" Clarke asks, looking at the two for confirmation. she wasn't going to make them do it if they didn't want to or weren't up to it. But they nod. So, Clarke nods back, and moves to the door. She counts to three in her head before opening the door quickly, allowing Octavia and Bellamy to rush in. There's a biter down the hall that Octavia takes care of easily. Clarke signals for the others to move, not even looking back at them. They walk inside without complaint, checking every room. They all kill a few, and it's over in minutes. That part of the school at least.
"Check for supplies. Anything that could be useful. After that we'll clear out the rest of the school" Clarke states. The others nod before walking back into the rooms that they had just cleared. They don't find much. Clarke finds a basic first aid kit in the school nurses office that is located next to the head office. Monty finds a couple of small art blades in the art room. But that's it.
"Ok, time to check out the rest of this place" Clarke states. The others quietly nod and follow her. They check every room, every hall way. For biters, survivors, supplies. They don't find any survivors, and no supplies. They find plenty of biters of course.
"Through there's the gym I think" Octavia speaks, pointing out two large doors.
"Good. There might be bats or something in a supply closet" Clarke states as she moves towards the doors. She holds a hand up, silently telling her people to wait before she opens the doors, Bellamy and Octavia rushing inside immediately.
"Crap!" Octavia swears. There were biters everywhere, who were now walking their way because of Octavia's swearing.
"Clarke, behind us" Murphy hisses. Clarke turns at his warning, frowning at the sight of a dozen biters coming their way. Damn it. They should have checked outside first.
"Come on, into the gym, we have to fight our way through this" Clarke states before moving to stab a biter in the head. The others follow suit, using their various weapons to take out the biters.
Jasper had been speared. Jasper had been fucking speared.
They had found a sturdy vine near a river on their second day of their run, and decided to use the vine to cross said river. They figured it couldn’t hurt. Who knows what they would find?
So, Finn goes first. He holds onto the vine, pulling it slightly. He smiles in amusement when they call him a chicken, and tells him to quit stalling. So, he goes to swing finally, but stops when he feels a hand on his arm. It’s jasper. Finn smiles knowingly and hands over the vine to Jasper, who gives him a small smile before tugging on the vine himself.
“Here we go” he mutters before pulling himself onto the vine, using one leg to kick himself away from the rock he had been standing on.
He lands roughly, and the others were worried. But then he gets up, smiling.
“We are Apogee!”. The others cheer.
Their moment of happiness falls short when Jasper is speared. They run. They didn’t want to leave Jasper behind, but they assumed the worst, and they were scared. So, they ran, only stopping when they hear Jaspers scream.
“He’s alive!” Clarke gasps before turning back and running, Octavia and Monty happily following her.
“Clarke! Clarke wait!”. Finn sighs before running after the group.
They make it back to the river, but Jasper is gone.
Clarke grunts quietly as she takes out biter after biter, but she’s getting nowhere. They’re not even close to making a dent. She was frustrated, she led her people into this. It was her own fault. And if anyone dies, it was on her.
They go looking for Jasper. Clarke, Finn, Wells. Bellamy and Murphy. And they find him. He’s strung up, tied to a tree. Something was on his wound. Clarke had moved forward instantly, which was a mistake on her part. She just wanted to get the poor boy down, but ends up falling into a trap. She’s saved by Bellamy. He hesitates in pulling her up. She knows that he hesitates, she sees it. But then he pulls her up. And she’s safe.
“Damn it!” Clarke shouts as she takes out another biter.
“Everyone, go! Do whatever you can, get out of here. Save yourselves!” Clarke shouts. Her people stare at her in surprise.
“We’re not leaving you princess” Bellamy states gruffly.
“Us cockroaches have to stick together” Murphy states. It makes Clarke grin.
Jasper ends up living. Atom ends up dying. He ventured too far with Octavia who wanted to explore. They came across a walker. Octavia kills the walker. Clarke kills Atom.
“WE. WILL. MAKE IT!” Clarke suddenly shouts with a new found determination. Everyone cheers loudly, and it’s like they have this new found strength. More and more biters are going down. They’re making a dent.
Wells is dead. They think it’s Murphy. Of course, they do. He’s hated Wells since the start, because of his dad. It doesn’t help that his knife was found near the boys’ fingers. So, they blame him, and hang him. But then Charlotte reveals that she killed Wells. And everyone is shocked. Murphy is angry. Finn and Clarke try to save her, they do. But they can’t. She had thrown herself to a heard of walkers. She’s gone. Murphy is banished, even though he didn’t do anything.
Clarke kills a biter Bellamy hadn’t seen advancing on him. He blinks in surprise before nodding at the blonde, who nods back.
They end up kidnapping someone. Ok, Bellamy kidnaps the guy because he thinks the guy kidnapped Octavia. Which he kind of did. Octavia helps him escape.
“Gonplei!” Clarke shouts, barley escaping a biters grip.
Things aren’t too bad. Jasper makes moonshine. Because of course he does.
“Gonplei!” the others shout in unison.
His name is Lincoln. The person Bellamy had kidnapped. His name is Lincoln. He was apart of a massive camp. The people of the camp went by two names. Trikru, and grounders. Lincoln had explained that the one hundred were in the grounder’s territory, which wasn’t even the main problem. The main problem was that they had crossed the river to the mountain men territory. That’s why Jasper had been speared.
Clarke gets Lincoln to set up a meeting with Anya, the leader of a unit in the Woods clan. The meeting didn’t go well. Anya didn’t like Clarke. It was clear. And a nervous Jasper had decided to shoot at the grounders in the trees. Anya didn’t like Clarke, but now, she wouldn’t definitely hate her.
“Clarke!” someone shouts. She’s knocked out before she can turn around.