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BELLAMY, FINN, MURPHY AND a few others are walking through the forest watching their surroundings.

"Everyone. Eyes peeled. We're in grounder territory." Bellamy states firmly holding onto his weapon.

"Everything is grounder territory. All right? I can't keep running. All right? We don't even know if the guy Finn killed was telling the truth." Murphy voices receiving a glare from Finn.

"Keep moving." Finn demands sharply, "We can give him a minute." Bellamy mutters.

"No. We can't. You heard what that grounder said, 'they'll outlive their usefulness'." Finn snaps.

"I heard what he said when you had a gun to his head." Bellamy snarls.

"Look. You think I wanted to do that? He would have told his people we're coming. And by the time we got there. Our people would be dead. Maybe that's something you can live with. But I can't!" Finn states firmly going to walk once again.

"Hey. You did what you think you had to do. But you are not yourself right now. And I can't be out here with another loose cannon." Bellamy mutters pushing Finn backwards.

"Guys." Monroe voices noticing bodies ahead of them, "Fall in." Bellamy states leading the others closer to the said bodies.

"Where the hell did they come from?" Murphy questions, "From the Ark." Bellamy explains walking more towards the bodies seeing some of the ship ahead of them broken in pieces.

"It's a rough landing." Murphy voices looking at the damage and the dead bodies surrounding them.

"There's nothing we can do for these people. We got to go." Bellamy states before what sounds like a scream coming from somewhere below the cliff.

"Did you hear that?" Murphy asks rushing towards the edge beside Monroe and Sterling noticing someone hanging onto a branch below them.

"Hey. Hey. Someone's down there." Monroe voices pointing at the woman hearing her cries, "Please!" a woman begs, "Up here!" Bellamy exclaims.

"Please. Help me!" the woman whimpers, "Mel?" Sterling frowns recognising the woman, "Help me!" Mel begs looking up at the group.

"You know her?" Murphy questions shocked, "Shut up Murphy. She's my friend. We have to do something." Sterling states.

Not noticing Finn and Bellamy stepping to the side to talk to each other, "Help me! Sterling, please!" Mel pleads.

Finn looks at Bellamy, "We can't stop." Finn mumbles, "This isn't a grounder, Finn. We have a rope." Bellamy responds.

"You saw her. She'd never be able to hold on to it. We'd have to lower somebody down. It'll take time that we don't have. I hate this as much as you..." Finn explains with sympathy laced in his tone.

"I know. I...I know. Okay, I know." Bellamy voices, "We'll come back for her. Okay?" Finn suggests seeing Bellamy nod agreeing with him before facing the others and hearing Mel's desperate pleas.

"We're movin' out." Bellamy orders noticing Sterling has started climbing down to save Mel on a rope, "Wait! Sterling! Hey!" Finn voices panicked.

"I can't hang on!" Mel exclaims looking up at Sterling come down with a rope.

"Well... it looks like we're taking that break after all. Huh?" Murphy mumbles looking at Bellamy and walking towards the nearby tree stump.

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CARSON WINCES WHILE RUBBING some of the cream Lydia gifted her into her wound before placing bandage back over it for protection smiling at Raven sitting beside her handing her the supplies.

Raven grunts while doing some of her exercises for her leg seeing Carson standing up and holding onto her torso with a grimace.

"Reyes. Daniels. There you girls are." Sinclair voices coming into the tent the two cousins are seated together.

"Hi Sinclair." Carson smiles getting a smile back from the male.

"Yes, sir." Raven speaks looking at the man, "Dr Griffin cleared you for work. How's your leg? And you Daniels are still on a bed rest." Sinclair states seeing Carson roll her eyes annoyed before nodding and slumping back into the makeshift bed.

"It's not a factor. What's the job?" Raven questions looking at her mentor.

"Need you to build a radio beacon. If the other Ark stations have survivors. We need to know it." Sinclair explains seeing Carson sit up interested in helping her cousin.

"I can't stop you from helping Reyes. But be careful." Sinclair suggests seeing Carson nod and smirk facing Raven, "I'm on it. I got it." Raven confirms.

"Okay. Report to engineering and we'll get you started." Sinclair responds noticing Raven struggling with her crutches and helps her, "I got it. Thank you sir." Raven states.

"I'll take care of her." Carson announces following her cousin and smiling at the worried man watching the two girls leave the medical tent.

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BELLAMY AND THE OTHERS watch as Sterling climbs down the cliff to save Mel, "I'm almost there! Once I have her. Pull us up!" Sterling yells.

"Well. I'd say he's heard one too many of your motivational speeches." Murphy taunts.

"Shut up, Murphy." Bellamy tiredly snaps watching Sterling from the cliffs ledge seeing that his reached Mel not aware of the rope snapping behind them.

Bellamy, Finn, Murphy and Monroe all stare over the cliffs edge when Mel screams out of fright as the ledge breaks under her feet.

Sterling's rope breaks and Monroe tries to grab onto the rope hearing Sterling screaming while he falls to his death leaving Mel still clinging onto the tree branch on the side of the cliff.

Bellamy stands up slowly seeing Sterling's body laid on the ground on the bottom of the cliff before snapping out of his sad state.

"Mel! Mel. Hold on. Focus on me! You can do this." Bellamy voices looking at the weak brunette clinging to the tree branch below.

"Oh. No!" Mel sobs slowly growing weaker due to holding onto the said branch for multiple hours.

"Yes... you can. You're strong." Bellamy states, "I'm not strong! Stubborn. Maybe." Mel responds.

"So be stubborn a little longer. I'm not gonna let you die. You hear me? Okay." Bellamy orders hearing a weak response from the brunette.

Bellamy stands up looking around slightly panicked, "We're out of rope." Finn states, "So we make a new one." Bellamy mutters.

"If anything happens to our friends when we could..." Finn mumbles before being interrupted by Bellamy.

"We don't know if we could save our friends. For all we know... they may be dead already. We've all thought it. But what we do know is we could save this one girl." Bellamy mutters looking at the Collins male.

"Sterling was one of us. She was his friend. I'm in and I know if Carson were here. She wouldn't let someone innocent die. Clarke too." Monroe states.

Murphy sucks in a breath hearing Carson's name before looking at Bellamy, "How do we do it?" Murphy wonders.

"We make new rope from the wreckage. Go find wires, seatbelts, anything." Bellamy demands seeing Monroe and Murphy rushing around finding materials.

"I hope you're right about this." Finn voices, "So do I." Bellamy huffs not really wanting to die today.

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WALKING ALONGSIDE RAVEN, Carson holds onto her wound feeling a stabbing like sensation before finally walking into the engineering part of the broken part of the Ark.

Wick smiles seeing his ex girlfriend and Raven walking through the entrance.

"What the hell are you doing in here, wrench monkey? Daisy-do?" Wick voices using helium smirking seeing the eye roll he receives of Carson.

"Daisy-do really?" Carson groans looking at Raven beside her, "You love that nickname, or would you prefer angel?" Wick smirks.

"Neither. Actually." Carson responds with a huff, "Helium, Wick? Really? Ark welders aren't toys." Raven voices.

"Come on, Reyes. You got to enjoy life. Just like Daniels here." Wick states winking at his ex girlfriend.

"You enjoy enough for everybody. So, still dreaming up designs the rest of us will have to fix?" Raven wonders with a smirk, "Hey. My designs are elegant." Wick defends.

"If only they were realistic. Well... it's been real. But I have a beacon to work on." Raven mumbles looking at Carson.

"In that case... welcome to my party. Schematics are over here on the bench." Wick announces gesturing to said bench and grabbing the item.

"You already designed it?" Raven questions, "Yep. We're using parts we salvaged from the station's debris field." Wick explains.

"Obviously." Raven comments looking at the item beeping in her hands.

Carson stands behind them letting them do their own thing, "Oh also. I have a little something for you." Wick mumbles showing her a brace he made.

"What a piece of crap." Raven scoffs, "Impressive." Carson shrugs receiving a glare from her cousin.

Carson holds her hands up in surrender, "You're welcome? And thank you Carson." Wick states sending a smile towards said girl.

"I can get around just fine. What you need to worry about is countering the mountain effect." Raven responds.

"That's your job." Wick firmly states hearing Carson chuckle beside him and Raven sighs in annoyance, "Damn engineers." Raven mutters under her breath.

"Damn mechanics." Wick also mutters under his breath walking away smiling at Carson who smirks realising something.

"Damn sexual tension." Carson speaks up capturing both of their attention and wide eyed looks.

"Huh? Just like you and Bellamy hey?" Raven smirks seeing Carson choke on her spit in surprise and avoid looking at her ex boyfriend at the mention of her having sexual tension with another male.

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AFTER SUCCESSFULLY MAKING A rope out of seatbelts and other materials Bellamy steps off the side of the cliff while Finn, Murphy and Monroe ease him down.

"All right. Ease it out slowly." Murphy voices while easing out the makeshift rope while Bellamy descends down the cliffside.

"Just hang on. I'm almost there. It's okay... I got you. I got you. Just put your arms around me." Bellamy suggests finally reaching Mel and standing beside her while the others hold onto the rope tightly not wanting to lose the male.

"I can't." Mel whimpers weakly, "Yes. You can. It's okay. This will hold. I'll get you up... I promise." Bellamy states wrapping his arms around Mel's waist.

"Okay." Mel nods, "Okay." Bellamy confirms while Mel wraps her arms around Bellamy's neck holding on to him tightly, "I got her! Pull us up!" Bellamy yells for those up on the cliffs edge.

"Don't you worry, Bellamy. I won't drop you." Murphy groans while Finn grunts behind him, "Just pull, Murphy!" Finn demands grunting while pulling the weight of two humans on the makeshift rope.

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Carson sits beside Raven while said girl and Wick work on the beacon, "Hey. I'm changing the tone frequency to 400 hertz. It'll increase the radiated modulation depth." Raven voices.

"Atmospheric noise will screw us." Wick responds, "So the signal's fainter. At least they'll know we're out here." Raven mutters.

Wick sighs looking at Carson now sitting at his desk going through some of his notes in the notebook he has, "What's wrong?" Raven wonders.

"The current is not getting high enough. We might as well be shouting into the wind." Wick explains while handing Carson another notebook of his notes for some of his work so the brunette can go through it and not be bored.

"We put an insulator between the mast and capacity top hat." Raven responds, "Already tried that. Not working." Wick shrugs.

"Then you're doing it wrong." Raven says standing up using her crutches to walk around the desk.

"Raven." Wick exclaims, "Don't worry... I'll fix it. I always do." Raven mumbles walking out of the room.

"Try my damn brace!" Wick calls out holding up the brace, "Your damn brace sucks!" Raven calls back leaving the room.

Carson huffs walking beside Wick holding on to her torso, "How is your wound?" Wick wonders noticing the grimaces Carson is letting out.

"It's fine. Just walking hurts a little bit." Carson shrugs, "What even happened?" Wick asks while they walk together following Raven towards the tower.

"I was stabbed with a katana while we were fighting for our lives. Plus Bellamy was in danger." Carson answers biting her lip.

"Bellamy Blake?" Wick asks seeing Carson nod and sigh, "Sorry if that is weird for you." Carson voices seeing Wick frown.

"Carsy, we're friends. Yes we dated for a few years but that is over now. You're allowed to date whoever you want." Wick explains smiling at said woman.

"Thanks Ky. I meant what I said before by the way with the sexual tension with you and my cousin." Carson smirks, "Wouldn't that be weird though?" Wick asks.

"Why? No. Not at all. It I'm allowed to move on... so are you and I don't mind with who. So if you're interested in Raven then to for it.
Good luck though." Carson giggles.

"Yeah. She's stubborn. Definitely not as stubborn as you are though." Wick chuckles before looking ahead seeing Raven dragging her leg behind her.

"Come on, Raven. Elbow grease ain't gonna fix this!" Wick calls out towards the Reyes brunette.

"What would you know about elbow grease?" Raven smirks before trying to climb the tower but is unable to with her injured leg.

Carson huffs with sympathy looking at Wick standing beside her, "Hey... come on. Let's go back to the work room. We'll think it through." Wick suggests.

Although Carson gently grabs ahold of his wrist trying to stop him from getting snapped at which she fails at doing so.

"Leave me alone, Wick!" Raven snarls limping away from the male and pleading that Carson follows her needing her comfort right now.

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MUPRHY, FINN AND MONROE continue pulling up Bellamy and Mel, "Pull, Murphy!" Finn demands grunting alongside Murphy who screams out using his strength.

A snapping sound is heard from the seatbelts which Murphy immediately lunges for and grabs both ends holding them together so Bellamy and Mel don't meet the same demise as Sterling.

"Come on! A little help!" Murphy orders groaning from holding the seatbelts together.

Finn and Monroe immediately help by holding the seatbelts together, "What the hell is happening up there?" Bellamy yells still holding Mel in his arms.

Arrows begin flying towards them from the trees, "Grounders!" Monroe shouts, "Cover!" Finn states handing Monroe a gun so she can start covering them with gunfire.

"How many are there?" Bellamy questions, "We can't see 'em!" Finn exclaims watching where the arrows are coming from.

"In the trees! In the trees! Aim for the trees!" Finn suggests in which Monroe starts firing the gun towards the trees while a spear comes towards them leaving Murphy holding onto the seatbelt rope once again.

Finn immediately grabs onto the seatbelt rope again grunting along with Murphy using all of their strength in holding the two humans together and to stop them from falling to their deaths.

Monroe yells out in pain when an arrow hits her in the leg, Murphy and Finn shout at Bellamy to cut Mel loose in which Bellamy immediately declines.

A foghorn is heard coming from all around them in the sky, "Acid fog." Bellamy gasps recognising the horn, "Monroe. Get back on the rope!" Finn demands to the injured girl.

She immediately listens and begins pulling on the rope with Finn and Murphy doing the same thing, "Come on!" Murphy exclaims seeing Bellamy and Mel climb onto the cliffs edge successfully.

"Thank you. Thank you." Mel tiredly says leaning against Finn due to falling on him.

Bellamy looks at the seatbelts wrapped around Murphy's wrists and nods at him thankful for not allowing him to fall, "We have to take cover from the fog." Finn states snapping all of them into some panic.

"Bellamy..." an all too familiar calls out capturing Bellamy's attention, the male looks up seeing Octavia staring at the group happily and breathless.

"No. We don't." Bellamy mumbles, "She blew the horn." Murphy realises seeing the siblings reunite with each other.

"Octavia." Bellamy voices in shock immediately bringing his younger sister into a tight embrace before looking at each other thankful for both of them being alive.

"Where's Carson?" Octavia frowns noticing the lack of Carson's figure, Bellamy gulps and shakes his head not giving a final answer.

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AFTER CARSON COMFORTS RAVEN for fifteen minutes Wick finds them and asks for them to come back to engineering in which the two do.

Raven is staring out the window holding Carson's hand, "Bring me down, Reyes." Wick voices noticing the girl seems distracted, "Hey.
You know why you're working on the beacon?" Wick wonders.

"I'm not. Find someone else." Raven suggests, "Because I asked for you. You're the best mechanic we got." Wick shrugs seeing Carson smile at the thought.

"Go me. Exactly 3 mechanics made it to the ground." Raven mutters, "You were top-3 on the Ark, too. I say this even though you refuse to acknowledge the ingenuity of my designs." Wick voices following behind Raven.

"Or insanity." Raven scoffs, "Listen... you have a first-rate mind. You do. Use it. Your leg's messed up and that blows. Figure out a way to work around it." Wick suggests.

"How do I do that?" Raven questions quietly seeing Carson coming to a stop standing beside Wick, "You could let your friends help. For one," Carson states motioning to herself and Wick beside her.

"The rest. It's up to you." Carson finishes with a small smile wincing as she pulls her wound a little too harshly.

Carson smiles at Wick motioning for the brace, Wick chuckles and then offers Raven his brace again and this time she takes it and tries it on her leg and attempts walking.

"What do you know? It holds." Wick comments with a smile, "Barely." Raven responds.

"Oh. Whatever! My design worked! You can admit it!" Wick exclaims.

"Whatever. This thing's an offense to mechanics everywhere." Raven responds looking at the brace while Carson smirks seeing Wick inhale some helium.

"You're welcome." Wick states in a high pitched voice due to the effects of the gas.

"Helium." Raven gasps in realisation seeing Carson look at her in realisation as well.

"Argon!" Wick exclaims seeing the confused faces on both Carson and Raven's faces, "What? Are we not just tossing out noble gasses?" Wick questions.

"No. You idiot!" Carson laughs motioning for Raven to explain, "I know what we have to do to raise the beacon." Raven states shocking Wick who looks at Carson who smiles and nods.

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OCTAVIA HELPS WITH MONROE'S wound while Bellamy ties a sling onto Mel's arm, "Thank god you came when you did." Monroe voices wincing.

"I was going back to camp when I heard shots." Octavia explains, "Nice foghorn. What happened to your boyfriend?" Murphy questions.

"He's gone." Octavia snaps placing the fog back into her bag and out of Murphy's reach.

"All right." Murphy mumbles walking towards Bellamy and Mel.

Bellamy walks towards his sister squatting beside her, "Hey. I'm sorry, O." Bellamy states.

"The grounders will be back. So we need to go... now." Octavia suggests.

"Yes. We do." Finn nods while Octavia and Bellamy walk towards him.

"Octavia says the arrow might be poisoned. I have to take them home." Bellamy explains, "I know." Finn nods handing Bellamy a map.

"I'll meet you as soon as I can." Bellamy responds, "I know." Finn confirms rushing off into another direction.

"Parting... such sweet sorrow. Right?" Murphy says following after Finn.

"Where the hell do you think you're going?" Bellamy asks, "Come on, Bellamy. You know if I go with you... they'll just lock me up again." Murphy shrugs looking at the male.

Bellamy picks up the gun and throws it at Murphy who looks at the weapon shocked, "Really?" Octavia questions stunned.

"Watch his back." Bellamy demands looking at Murphy who nods and rushes after Finn.

Bellamy turns to Octavia who's looking at him with a pissed off look, "I can't get them home without you." Bellamy comments.

"Of course... you can't. Let's go." Octavia smirks leading the others to the camp.

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CARSON, WICK AND RAVEN look up at the beacon, "So the balloon beacon wasn't a bad idea." Wick states, "I think the word you're searching for is 'genius'." Raven smugly responds.

"You should have been an engineer. You already have the arrogance." Wick utters with a smirk.

"Hey no! No trying to make my cousin into an engineer. She's a badass as she is." Carson announces.

"Oh. That's what they teach you... I wondered." Raven smirks high-fiving her cousin at her comment.

"Damn. You two are definitely related." Wick chuckles, "Well. That's one way to do it." Sinclair voices walking behind the three of them looking up at the beacon floating in the sky.

"What the hell are you doing?" Byrne shouts running towards them, "Oh. It's a radio beacon." Sinclair explains.

"Wrong. It's a target." Byrne snaps aiming her gun towards the beacon.

"Hey. Wait a second!" Raven snaps while Major Byrne shoots down the beacon.

"We fell from space in a football stadium. I think they already know we're here." Wick mutters.

"Amen to that." Carson snarls under her breath already having issues with the blonde woman.

"Chancellor Kane's out risking his life to negotiate with the grounders. You better hope he's successful. Because if he isn't... every grounder within 50 miles of here now knows exactly where we are. I expected better, chief." Byrne exclaims.

"Blah-blah-blah... fucking blah," Carson mutters under her breath seeing Wick smirking at her.

"Sorry. All she cares about is herself and being a stupid guard." Carson snarls stomping off away from the woman.

"All guards to the wall, now! You see a grounder. You're authorized to shoot on sight. Let's go. Cover the perimeter, move!" Byrne orders snapping the guards into motion.

"Yes, ma'am. Unit two with me. Unit one... south wall." a member of the guard orders.

Raven watches as Carson stomps away holding onto her torso while doing so before looking at Wick sharing the same thoughts before moving their gaze to where the beacon was once floating.

Sitting in the medical tent after cleaning her wound once again due to it bleeding.

Carson shoots up hearing gunfire outside and meeting the others outside the tent.

Realising that the person that they just fired at was someone she survived with for a few months.

"Stop! That's Clarke Griffin!" Carson exclaims alerting everyone into shouting for Abby due to her daughter being brought it unconscious and injured.

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