Another Earth For Us

ANOTHER EARTH FOR US

Another World

Another You

In the grand history of the cosmos, more than thirteen thousand million years old our Earth is replicated elsewhere. But maybe there is another way of seeing this world. If any small variation arises, they look this way, you look that way.

Suddenly maybe everything changes.
And now you begin to wonder. What else is different?

Well, one might say that you have an exact mirror image that is suddenly shattered and there’s a new reality.

And therein lies the opportunity and the mystery.

What else?
What new?
What now?

Another chance

Earth / 2152 / spring / Polis

“That’s all, thanks for your time” Luna nodded slightly while everyone else in the room turned to leave, Luna look at Clarke who was standing right next to the door waiting for everyone to leave. “I thought we speak about this”

“So do I” she sigh walking towards her.

“We can’t have two commanders”

“We are not commanders” Clarke said standing across the table. “You are, I’m just…”

“Acting like the commander, while you pretend you’re just an ambassador” she smirk “Seriously Clarke you should have taken the responsibility and not have gone by me. It is clear that you were born for this. Sometimes I don’t tolerate your looks when we take a decision that doesn’t seems to you”

“Can you not….” She looks away and Luna searches her gaze.

“What? Did that offend you or has something to do with Lexa?”

“We have better things to do” Clarke said.

“Yeah and you were the one who wants me here, so lest move on and stop looking at me that way, your words and looks doesn’t work with me”

“Can you stop? Listen, the only reason you are here is because we needed each other to survive, again”

“Yeah that and because 70% of our people didn’t want to follow you” She crosses her arms and Clarke sighs “Even when they should… I know you just want to help us, and they see that now, I promise” Clarke looks at her and just nodded slowly “As I said… you born for this”

Clarke just looks away when someone knocks at the door and they heard some kind of fight. Luna raises her voice given the entrance, the doors open and Raven was standing there given the guards a murderous look.

“Let her in” Clarke orders.

“You two better learn who I am” Raven threatened. “I saved your little life”

And yes, she did, a year and a haft ago, she, Monty and Jasper along one of the leader of the Blue cliff clan. The clan got closer as soon they heard about the new leader Clarke and all that she has done, they were the big key for keep everybody safe and it got better once Clarke was availed to talk to Luna again.

“They know Raven” Clarke interrupted “They have orders because of the meeting”

“Yeah right…. So. Was the plan now?” She ask while closing the doors. “Are we going to keep ignoring that suddenly we can see another’s planets from here?”

“That’s why I call you” Clarke said “Have you heard anything else?”

“Only interference, nothing clear, yet, you call Joan, right? I need her again for this”

“Yeah, she is coming tomorrow” Clarke sigh.

“She is?” Luna raises her voice surprised “And when did we talk about this?”

“As you say” Clarke looks her “I’m very capable for take decisions by myself, and Joan and raven work really good together, they might have information or tools that we don’t have”

“I’m always telling you what I’m thinking for plans; you could have tell me that before the meeting” Luna cross her arms.

“You know that’s the right thing”

“Maybe I don’t” Clarke frown. “We are good now” she look between Raven and Clarke “It take us so much effort, Why we bother to see a planet that may not have anything interesting”

“That looks exactly like the earth” Clarke insist “I know you don’t understand this but that’s not normal”

“So what if looks exactly like the earth? For what you what it? We don’t have what it takes for go there”

“Yet” Raven said and Luna looks her with discomfort. “I’m just saying that we are safe for now, we don’t know what else might happen next, at this moment nothing can surprised me, so whatever”

Luna looks at Clarke and she didn’t say anything, she didn’t need to, Clarke can already tell by the way she is looking at her, is a difficult time, but somehow they work good together, even when they don’t agree with something, it takes so much time for them but Clarke needed her and Luna somehow agree to help her, maybe she saw the opportunity for peace, same as Clarke.

“Why are you doing this?” Luna asks again, because she could see something else. “We are good Clarke”

“I’m just being cautious, it’s a feeling….” Clarke said with her gaze down.

“A feeling of what? Danger? ”

“Let’s just, try to know a little more, we would know once Joan arrive” Luna walk to the little table next the wall and got her hands into the bowl with water that she always asked to had in the room. Clarke look the way she move her hands on the water and in her memories she still could see back the day Luna washed the blood off her hands, and she do that everything she need clarity. “Don’t worry is just a normal investigation”

“Yeah, whatever” Luna said with the same sarcastic tone that Raven.

“I will see you this afternoon” Clarke said walking towards the door.

“Wait” Raven said “When will you see O?” She asked to Luna.

“Octavia? She is okay if you wanted to heard that. She will back whenever she want” She adds while Raven put the eyes in white. “She is better now”

Clarke look over her shoulders the way Luna said that last words and all she could thing is that look in Octavia eyes when she found her by accident with the Boat people and still she hasn’t returned, and she will not force her, not even Bellamy try.
She waits for Raven and walk in silent for a moment.

“Maybe she is right” Said Clarke.

“Don’t do this now Clarke, I’m still surprise that you two got along but you know that we need to know what is going on, that exactly like the earth, we grow up looking at it and now there it is again, and is not freaking Mars or Jupiter. And you know it so well”

“Yeah I know, is just…” she take a deep breath. She didn’t said it, but she was just tired, so tired, and the feeling inside was too much because it was recognizable.

Another Earth / June 2016 / California

“Nick, I swear to God I will hit you if you are not here. I clearly told you that my flight arrived at noon. Where are you?”

“Can you calm down? I can see you grumpy face and the way you are kicking your bag against the poor man in front of you”

Lexa look up and found him waiting with the rest of the people receiving the students. She smile and apologized with the man very ashamed and make her way downstairs to his brother that she hadn’t seen in months, she let her bags on the floor and hug him laughing while he smile.

“I miss you my little constellation” He said taking a steep back with a smile.

“Don’t get to excited but I miss you too” she smile “You look great” She said looking at him with detail.

“I’m feeling great. Come on, mom is waiting for you” He pick up the bag of the floor and cross her arm around her shoulders. “She is making your favorite cake”

“Is the stepfather there?”

“What do you think?” Lexa grumble and Nick smile “And wait for you to be there, some things have change a little…”

“What do you mean? Why you have that look in your face? I still have a room in my home right?”

“Well… yeah but, lest not talk about it, I want to hear everything about "the course diploma that is like college but is not" thing, every little dirty detail that you can't said in front of mom”

“You are so annoying sometimes” She sighs with a little smirk and passes her hand over her hair. “What do you think I would do in course of quantum physics and astronomy?”

“Something more fun that the name of it” Lexa laugh a little. “Are you for real? You applied for that scholarship so you could do what you always do at home?”

“Is not just any program Nick, this is special”

“I can believe you, college is for be a jerk and get drunk, but you not just go to college but also takes extra programs besides college”

“That’s what makes me happy” She smirk a little and wait for him to take off the car alarm.

“Well yeah, you better be, now that we know you are my only choice for the future” He smiles when he saw the look on Lexa face.

“You better have a job because there’s no way I’m taking care of you in the future”

“We both know that you will, even when I don’t ask you too do it. Because you are a little person who cares too much” Lexa refused with a smile.
“Just take me home”

Both of them get in the car and in the way home Lexa told him a little about interesting things that happen on the trip, once he turn to the next way, they both could see what everybody has been talking in the last week, it was inevitable to not see it, what seemed like a normal planet was not. Lexa take a deep breath feeling the lack of it like whenever she look at the planet or the stars.

“So…” Nick start.

“So…” She breathes slower this time and looks at her right the street and the people walking between the stores with bikinis and big hats.

“Did you know something about this? I mean is beautiful but, Does it looks like what I think?”

“I don’t know” She said still feeling the lack of air.

“You don’t know? The sky lover doesn’t know anything? Come, you must know something” He insists “Isn’t that what you are studying? People don’t talk about it on college or something?”

“Is just, is easy to see that is very similar of the earth, but that’s why they send us home early, please don’t say anything but, miss Joan told me that this Is not the first time, that it might happen before”

“How they know that?”

“That’s why I told you that I don’t know too much about it, I have never read something about it on books” she look up at the sky were you could see the planet like if it was the moon or the sun. It was heart breaking by itself, but for Lexa that was more. Maybe more that curiosity. She can really tell but it bothers her “Is just weird”

“I’m surprise of seeing you this odd about it, I thought you will be enchanted” Lexa look him for a moment before turning the radio on, because she just couldn’t explained either, she is usually enchanted about anything in the sky and in earth in general, but this time it was so confusing, so odd, so unique.

A couple of minutes later Lexa could already see home when she got a text from one of her friends in college.

Costia:Back at home and I’m already bored, they have so many questions, you were right :/ Please take care…

Lexa smirk feeling a little weird about her, especially after what happen in the last 6 months, even when they have been friends all their life.

“Who is that you are so nervous about a text?” Nick ask turning off the engine of the car.

“Costia…” She said.

“Oh… so, you two still friendly, interesting” He said taking the bag of the back seat.

“We have been friends since kindergarten we can’t just ignore that, and is not like we did something to hurt each others, I just wasn’t feeling myself in the past months and I need time for college and the program” she said getting a little angry.

“Hey… easy” Nick look her a little concerned “Is okay, you don’t have to give me any explanation, but if you want to talk about it” Lexa interrupted him.

“No, let’s just get inside” she said getting off the car, took her cell phone again and write back.

Lex: I just got home, but I know my mom won’t ask anything, you know her. Take care you too… talk you later?

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

“Here it is”

Lexa look at her mother with a big smile because she was smiling too, she love her mother smile because there was a time where she didn’t see it that much. Madison put the plate with lasagna in front of here and kisses her forehead one more time. Nick was already eating while she and her mother talk a little about the program and college.

“I’m so happy to have you here my little girl” She said and Lexa put her eyes in white, she hate that name so much. “Your room is exactly as you left it the last time”

“Thanks mom, I’m happy to be here too” She smile but that wasn’t true at all. And the reason she wasn’t ask her a question.

“So, You are staying here the summer?” Her mother boyfriend asks and she didn’t even look at him.

“Not really, just a couple of weeks, I need to get back for the program”

“I didn’t know that” Her mother said sitting in front of her.

“Well because is the first time I’m telling you, we left the project unfinished and after that we start class again.”

She could see the disappointment on her mother, but she was happy of seen her doing what she likes, kind of the same look she had after high school graduation and she was accepted on MIT Massachusetts and Madison knew that she would have to life by herself away from home, but she was in one program that not many people could have an opportunity.

“Oh… well we would enjoy our time as a family as much as we can” Madison says and in the same moment Lexa saw that son of Tom, her mother boyfriend, running down the steps of the stairs and looking kind of tired.

“I’m sorry to be late” Michel said sitting next to Tom “I fall asleep”

“You are not saying hi? Lexa is here” Tom said and Lexa look at her mother without any expression on her face.

“Hey, good to see you” The teen boy said and start eating.

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

Lexa crossed her arms under her neck taking a deep breath without being able of take her eyes of the stars surrounding the planet in the sky. Lying on the roof of her house as usual since she was a kid. But this time was different, because the view change a lot, is not just the start and the dark night or the moon, is a planet right in front of them and is was mesmerizing for her eyes.

It felt like waiting, for a light or a voice, it was so odd, but she know that if her father was here he would help her, just like he tech her about the stars and discover the meaning and were to find them. Usually the stars remind her to someone, she never knew who exactly, she like the idea that is her father, but… it wasn’t enough.
Her cell phone got text it was short but questionable.

C:Can I call you?

“Little constellation!” Nick screams and she got up looking him standing next to the swings. “Let’s go to the movies!”

“Is the new brother coming?” She asks crossing her arms.

“You know they can hear you. Right?” Lexa just stares “Like you will care” He smile “No he is not coming, now get down here”

She turns off the phone and goes down by the tree. “I can believe that Tom is living here now”

“We both know it was a matter of time. They have been dating for 4 years now. And you don’t live here anymore, so what’s the problem?”

“It was dad house” she said and it was end of the conversation.

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

/Polis/

“Again!” Luna insists pushing Clarke with the sword. Clarke breathes taking a better position. They look in silent waiting for the first move, both alone in the middle of the woods. Clarke went for it but Luna was fast, she was good and Clarke was already tired and she couldn’t help but think that maybe Lexa will love to know that she can defend herself now. Just maybe… but she got distracted and Luna take off her sword leaving her unarmed. “Are you even here?” She asks while Clarke was sitting on the grass.

“I’m tired that’s all…”

“The whole week?” Luna doubt but sat next to her. In silent both looking at the sky “What’s going on?” Clarke was looking now the sword in front of her.

“You never told me why you are doing this” She look at Luna “I know that you never like all this, and we haven’t had many problems. So why you insist on teach me all of this?” Luna stay quiet for a while.

“I might be here now, but I don’t want to have all of this” she point to Polis “It was never mine and I didn’t want it”

“You are leaving?” She feel odd about Luna leaving too… Because somehow after all that happen, Luna was just herself with her, she didn’t look at her as a leader or her only option, she didn’t need her in that way, she didn’t had to worry about disappointing her o something.

“No... is just…. If we will keep doing this, you need to know us, think and act like them, that doesn’t mean that you have to change, not at all, I’m just trying to make you stronger. Not all of them think like Lexa did and you know that” Clarke nodded “And because she did the same with me” Luna sighs and feels the look of Clarke on her. “We trained together sometimes, she was good with the sword and I was skilled in fighting. You are thinking about her again right?”

“I never stop” Clarke looks up “But it has been stronger lately, is like she was still here” She looks down the chip has now become a necklace thanks to Raven, she took it in her hand and sighed before letting it go.

“Is because she is”

“Yeah but is different”

“You miss her, and that’s okay, I kind of feel the same with my brother” Clarke looks at here because is the first time she ever mentions her brother. “Want to try one last time?” She continue taking her sword again. She stand up and look at Clarke with patience.

“Just one more, tomorrow we are meeting with Joan”

“It will be the last one once you overcome me” She laughs a little and Clarke did too.

“Well, is on…”

“Come one princess, what are you waiting for?” Clarke looks her with surprise.

“Who told you that?!”

“Hey I like Raven, even when we fight almost all the time”

“I’m going to kill her…”

“Try it with me first. Come on!” she said with a challenging look and Clarke smirk.

This was so odd but at the same time it was relaxing, just trained and not really thing about the responsibility, and because things change a lot since the last time people were in danger, she can breathe a little more, she can take a moment for just stares at the sky if she want to, she could try to draw something, only something because she wasn’t able to draw a face, not anymore.

She took her sword of the grass and one last time took the chip in her hand before put it under her blouse, look at Luna and smile a little taking a deep breath before start.