"Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it."

3.

"You're not coming." Clarke tells Wells as me and her gathered supplies for our trip to find Jasper.

"My ankles fine, Clarke." He said to her and she shook her head.

"It's not your ankle, it's you."

"I'm going to help." He tells her and I groan, we're wasting time.

"Look we need all the help we can get, who cares who it is. We just need to find Jasper." I say and Clarke takes a second before finally nodding.

"Okay but, Monty, I'm sorry but you're not going." Goddamn it Clarke. Does anyone listen to what I say around here?

"Like hell I'm not. Jasper's my best friend."

"You're too important. You were raised on Farm Station and recruited by engineering." She explained to him.

"So?"

"So food and communication. What's up here,"
She points to his head, "It's gonna save us all. You figure out how to talk to the Ark and I'll bring Jasper back." She had a good point this time. But I just wanted to leave and find Jasper already.

"I'll bring him back, Monty." I nod and he does as well.
Clarke tells me to walk with her over to where Bellamy was talking with Octavia.

"You could have been killed." Bellamy tells her with worry in his eyes.

"She would have been if Jasper didn't jump in to pull her out." Clarke tells him and Bellamy looks up at her.

"You guys leaving? I'm coming too." Octavia tries to stand up but Bellamy pushes her gently back down.

"No, no. No way. Not again." He tells her and she rolls her eyes.

"He's right. Your legs just gonna slow us down. I'm here for you." She turns to Bellamy. I'm confused as to why we're here for Bellamy but I just wait. I see that he has a little bruise underneath his eye from when I punched him. Serves him right.

"I hear you have a gun." Clarke says to him and he lifts up his shirt. I've seen him shirtless before but I still take a glance at his stomach. I look at what we really came here for, the gun tucked into his jeans.

"Good. Follow me."

"And why would I do that?" He questions her.

"Because you want them to follow you, and right now, they're thinking only one of us is scared." Clarke replied. Well done, Clarke.

"Murphy, come with me. Atom, my sister does not leave this camp. Is that clear?" Bellamy tells them and Atom nods his head.

"I don't need a babysitter." Octavia rolls her eyes angry.

"Anybody touches her, they answer to me." He tells atom.

"Let's go." Clarke tells us, finally something I want to hear. As we walk away I turn to Octavia.

"Give 'em hell." I tell her and she smirks and nods.

It's been a good fifteen minutes and so far it's been completely silent. No one seemed to be in the talking mood apparently.

"You call this a rescue party? Got to split up, cover more ground. Clarke, come with me." Finn comes out of nowhere surprising us all. He didn't want to come in the first place because he was scared but I see he has come to his senses.

"Wells is with me." I say and Wells nods. I couldn't stand being around Murphy and Bellamy. We all split up and I thank god, it was getting a little awkward.

"So how long have you been in love with Clarke?" I ask Wells and he stops walking and faces me.

"What are you talking about?" He asks and I laugh lightly.

"Oh come on Wells. It's so obvious. I'm not going to go telling anybody." He looks at me and continues walking so I walk beside him.

"Since we were 14." He tells me and I'm surprised he actually told me.

"Why does she dislike you so much though?"

"It doesn't matter-" he gets cut off by splashes and yelling. We both look at each other and follow the noise. We get to a little opening and see that Finn and Clarke are in the water. Clarke looks to actually be letting loose.

"We don't have time for this. We have to find Jasper." I tell them, they are playing around when Jasper could be in pain somewhere.

"Come on, princess, have a little fun." Bellamy says from behind me and I roll my eyes.

"Call me that one more time and I will punch you again." I huff and he laughs.

"Sorry, princess." He says. I go to punch him but he grabs me and leads me towards the water. All of a sudden he jumps and we both are submerged. I come up from under the surface and whack him in the head.

"Asshole." I groan and he smirks and he pulls me close to lift me up and throw me again. I come up for air and I place my hands on his head and dunk him underwater. He comes back up and laughs at me and I can't help but stare into his beautiful brown eyes. His hair is all messy from the water and his freckles are showing now more than ever. Sure he's an asshole but he's a good looking asshole.

"Hey we found something!" I hear Finn yell. I snap out of my trance and just now realize that Finn and Clarke had gotten out of the water already. Me and Bellamy walk to out of the stream. We see that they had found blood on a rock so Finn starts to lead us.

"Hey, how do you know we're going the right way?" Murphy asked.

"We don't. Space walker thinks he's a tracker." Bellamy jokes and I roll my eyes. 

"It's called four year earth skills, he's good."
Wells said.
After a couple minutes we heard groaning.

"What the hell was that?" Finn questioned. We heard it again and I realized that it's probably Jasper.

"Jasper!" I run ahead of the group while they try and tell me to slow down but I know it's him. I run a little more and I see an opening where Jasper is tied up on a post.

"Oh my god! Jasper!" I run faster to get to him, when I'm almost there though the ground gives out underneath my feet and I'm falling for a second until I feel a hand grab mine. I had almost fallen into a trap with spikes in it and I look up and see Bellamy holding me up. He just looks at me, almost as if he's debating whether to pull me up or let go. Before he can decide, if that's what he was really doing, I hear Finn and Clarke yelling at him to pull me up. He yanks me up and we both tumble back on the ground.

"Thank you." I tell him and he nods and looks away.

"We need to cut him down." Wells says.

"Murphy, help him." Finn tells Murphy. Murphy and Wells climb up and start cutting the ropes.

"There's a poultice on his wound." Clarke explains as we all look up at him.

"Medicine? Why would they save his life just to string him up as live bait?" Finn thinks out loud.

"Maybe what they are trying to catch likes its dinner breathing." Bellamy puts in.

"Maybe what they're trying to catch is us." Clarke suggests.

"Way to be hopeful." I mutter.

"Just trying to be realistic, Queen." Finn tells me.

"Yeah well-" I get cut off by a growling in the distance.

"What the hell was that?" Wells stops cutting to ask.

"God dammit, keep cutting!" I yell to him while us four on the ground look around us.
Out of nowhere a panther comes out of the bushes and is headed straight towards me and Bellamy. Bellamy pushes me behind him and goes to get out his gun.

"Bellamy, gun!" Clarke yells but Bellamy doesn't have it. He turns around and throws his arm around me, crouching down and blocks me from the panther. All of a sudden there's a gunshot and we see Wells holding up the gun.

"It's getting up!" Clarke shouts and Wells raises the gun again and shoots it in the head. Bellamy slowly let's go of me and clears his throat.

"Get the parachute, we need to take this back to camp." I tell them. I'm still completely shocked that Bellamy was trying to protect me but I let it go figuring that anyone would help someone in that situation. He's been nothing but a jerk to me and everyone else. Now all of a sudden he's trying to save me?

After a long walk and rotating carrying Jasper and the panther we finally make it back to camp. Clarke immediately has Jasper taken to the drop ship while Murphy and Bellamy drop the panther.

"Who's hungry?" Bellamy yells and everyone cheers. I follow Clarke into the dropship while we check on Jasper. We check his body and temperature along with his heartbeat.

"He's stable for now but without medicine.." Clarke starts and I know she's right. We walk out the dropship and see that people are taking their wristbands off for food. And of course Bellamy was in charge. He has such different personalities. One minute he's saving me, twice, and the next he's a totally different person. I roll my eyes and walk to my tent to get the cup of berries and nuts I had but I get stopped halfway there. It's pretty dark from where we are cause my tent is set up away from everyone but I can still tell that it's Bellamy and he's holding something in his hand.

"Here, I know you're hungry." He holds the stick with meat out to me but I shake my head.

"I'm not taking off my wristband." I tell him.

"That's fine. Just take it." This is the Bellamy that I can deal with. He was being kind to me for the first time. I wait a second before grabbing the meat.

"Thanks."
he nods his head.

"Oh and thanks for the incident with the panther." I tell him and he scratches the back of his neck.

"I didn't do anything."

"Yeah you did. So thanks." I smile at him and he actually gives me a small smile back. His smile is cute and it's such a difference from his regular demeanor. His smile is warm and inviting. But I can't have these thoughts about him, half the time he's a jackass and just because he acts nice once and flashes me a smile does not mean he's a good person. What am I thinking?

"You're welcome. I'll see you tomorrow." He nods his head to me and walks back to everyone while I walk on to my tent ready for a nice sleep. I would've stayed with Jasper but there's nothing I can do right now plus Monty is there with him, I'll be with him more tomorrow.

"Hey, Taylor. Wake up. Clarke needs you." I hear someone say and feel a shove to my shoulder. I groan and swat them away.

"It's Jasper." He says and I'm automatically up. I see Miller crouching over me.

"What happened?" I get up and start to put on my boots and jacket.
"He's been in pain." We both walk out of my tent and it's still dark out.

"How long was I out for?" I asked him as we walked to the drop ship.

"Around an hour, after everyone got some food they all went to sleep until Jasper started up with the noise." He explains to me as we walk in the drop ship.

"What noise?" As on queue I hear groans coming from the second floor of the dropship. I climb the ladder and open the hatchet. Monty, Clarke, and Octavia are here, Clarke is tending to his wound while Octavia and Monty watch.

"Good you're here. I need your help. His pulse is three eighty." She tells me, my eyes widen, oh Jasper. I go over to his side putting my hand on his head feeling the heat.

"I'll go get him some water." I say, he keeps groaning in pain and I hear someone from down below yell,

"Can he just die already?"
I climb down the dropship and look around.

"Who said it?" I demand. Everyone looks clueless and some of them shrug.

"If I hear another complaint, you have me to deal with." I tell them and walk out the dropship and towards the tent with the water. As I'm walking I hear screams behind the tent and I run around to see a girl on the floor screaming and crying.

"No! No! No!" She yells. I get down and try to wake her up by shaking her shoulder gently.

"Hey, wake up. It's okay. It's okay. It's just a dream." She opens her eyes and looks around and looks at me.

"You're Charlotte, right? I'm Taylor. It's okay to be scared. Do you want to talk about it?" I rub her shoulder letting her know it's okay. I can't believe the ark sent her down, she's just a little girl. But actually I can believe it, the Ark doesn't care about us or what happens to us. That's why they sent us down here in the first place. If we die they can't come down, if we don't then they can. We're their damn guinea pigs.

"It's... my parents. They were floated and they... and I see it in my dreams and I just..." she tries to continue but she breaks down into tears again.

"Hey, I understand. My mom was floated. So, how did you end up here?"

"Well... we were taking my parents things to the redistribution center and... I kind of lost it. They said I assaulted a guard." She wipes away her tears and clears her throat.

"Been there before. I killed two of them..." I don't know I was talking about it but the little girl had no one. If I tell her some things maybe she will be comfortable with me.

"Yeah I know." Of course she did. Everyone knew what I did.

"Look, my point is, what happened up there is history. We can move past it, maybe being on the ground is our second chance." I say trying to convince myself as well. Up there I'm known as Taylor Queen the criminal, the girl who killed two guards. Down here people still know who I am and what I did, but maybe I can make something better of myself. There is hope down here.

"Do you really believe that?" She looks up at me snapping me out of my thoughts.

"I have to."