three ♔red robin grazes the soil of the perished
"One hundred." Juniper finished before she sat up after one hundred push-ups. It had been a year, one month and three days since Juniper was imprisoned in the Sky Box. Having hardly to any contact with people, spending all of her time in a cell, she was bored, so she started to exercise. Her lumpy, curvy body became toned, she embraced the way that she looked and grown out her hair. Sleek lob no longer, it was a bushy, curly mane of hair that she frequently tied up in a half-up, half-down fashion.
Just as she stood up, a buzzing sound happened and two guards stormed her cell. Juniper's heart was pounding out of her chest, her birthday was tomorrow, not today, they should be coming tomorrow.
"I think you have got the date wrong guys, you are meant to storm my cell dramatically tomorrow." Juniper laughed but then her father walked in behind them. Juniper crossed her arms over as she watched him.
"Prisoner 413, face the wall." The guard demanded and Juniper shook her head.
"I-I-I get a day to say goodbye to people, today was meant to be my day. You don't get to do this. It's unlawful." Juniper stuttered as she crawled to the back of the cell, the idea of death scared her, the idea of her death terrified her like you wouldn't believed.
"We don't need that, she will put the bracelet on willingly." Councilman Green said to the guards as he walked up to his daughter and knelt in front of her. Juniper's hands were wrapped around the necklace that Bellamy gave her, she never took it off.
"Dad, what is happening?" Juniper asked as a tear cascaded down her face like something delicately falling from the sky.
"We need you to put this on, you are not going to be floated today, Juni, I promise." Her father promised and Juniper could tell he was not lying because he never pushed his sliver fox curtains behind his ear, like he usually did with his luscious locks.
"Okay." Juniper stated as she held out her wrist, and the bracelet clamped down. Juniper winced as electricity ran through her body. "What is this, Dad? What's happening here?" Juniper asked frantically as he helped her up.
"I love you, my precious Robin." He whispered in her ear as he took her in for a hug. Before Juniper could break away, she felt a sharp pain in her back. Like an injection.
"What the-?" She stuttered as she broke away from her dad and remembered falling to the floor before she completely conked out.
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Juniper's eyes opened like shutters, open and close, open and close, she was finding it hard to keep them open so she groaned aloud.
"She's awake." Juniper heard an all too familiar voice, Wells's voice. "We said we would meet again." Wells smirked as Juniper opened up her eyes.
"What is this?" She asked as she examined the place. She was in a room with a bunch of other people. In front of her was Bellamy, he was staring right at her, like his eyes had never left her. "What's going on?" Juniper groaned as she looked at her bracelet just as the TV switched on. It was Chancellor Jaha.
"Prisoners of The Ark, hear me now. You've been given a second chance, and as your Chancellor, it is my hope that you see this as not just a chance for you, but a chance for all of us, indeed for mankind itself. We have no idea what is waiting for you down there. If the odds of survival were better, we would've sent others. Frankly, we're sending you because your crimes have made you expendable." Jaha explained and as people were shouting at Wells, Juniper looked over at him.
"What crime did you commit, bad boy?" Juniper smirked at Wells who just escaped a small blush and a coy smile. Juniper looked in front and saw that Bellamy was wearing a guards jumpsuit, he was not a prisoner.
"If, however, you do survive, those crimes will be forgiven, your records wiped clean." Jaha continued from the TV screen, Juniper scoffed as she knew that was not going to happen, she knew how The Ark operated. "The drop site has been chosen carefully. Before the last war, Mount Weather was a military base built within a mountain. It was to be stocked with enough non-perishables to sustain 300 people for up to two years. No one ever made it there. Because we spare you no food, or water, or medicine, I cannot stress strongly enough, that Mount Weather is life." Jaha continued just as a boy spacewalked over to Juniper, who had thrown her head back in disgust at the situation, as people cheered.
"Check it out. Your dad floated me after all." He said monotonously to Wells as he lay on his back, drifting in the air.
"You should strap in before the parachutes deploy." Wells warned the boy as other people began to try it too. Clarke warned them as the dropship began to get more shaky.
"You must locate those supplies immediately." But nobody was listening to him, everybody was concentrating on the spacewalker. Juniper looked in front to see Bellamy get tense at the spacewalker inspecting Juniper before he moved onto Clarke.
"Hey, you're the traitor who's been in solitary for a year." He stated as he pointed at Clarke before he turned to Juniper. "And, you are Red Robin." He said in a 'wow' voice as people began to laugh a little.
"You're the idiot who wasted a month of oxygen on an illegal spacewalk." Clarke fired back sticking up for Juniper, who was clearly embarrassed with people looking her way.
"But it was fun. I'm Finn." Finn introduced as he spoke over Jaha. Clarke just gave him a look of disgust as she stared right into his eyes. People began taking off their seat belts and Juniper shook her head at them.
"Stay in your seats." Clarke shouted and Juniper gripped onto her seat belt tighter. Suddenly, there was a shudder that went through the dropship as parachutes were distributed. Soon enough, electricity was flying everywhere and bodies were crashing against the wall.
"Bellamy!" Juniper shouted, she wanted to make peace in case she was going to die in the piece of metal hurling itself down to earth. Bellamy looked at her with beauty and love in his eyes, something he had not done in over a year. "I forgive you." Juniper shouted over the sound of Wells shouting at Clarke. But before Bellamy could reply, they landed on the ground and the buzzing stopped.
Juniper sighed as she rested her head in her hands, they had down it, they had touched down on earth. Bellamy stood up and quickly unbuckled his seat belt before he took a step towards Juniper and knelt down beside her.
"Did you mean what you said?" Bellamy asked hopefully as he held onto her hands. Juniper needed to make herself hate Bellamy, because if she didn't then she would love him, and she was not ready for that.
"I lied. I just wanted a clear conscious if I saw the guy up there." Juniper stated monotonously. "If you even want me to look in your lousy direction then you will need to do better than that." Juniper sneered as she unbuckled her seat belt and stood up, letting Bellamy fall back a little. Bellamy angrily stood up before he rushed down the ladder to the door. Juniper turned to Clarke. "Is that Finn okay, the impact would have hurt like a bitch?" Juniper asked worried.
"It hurt a lot worse for him." Finn muttered as he pointed down to the dead body. Juniper sighed before she through back her long hair.
"Clarke, what's wrong?" Juniper shouted as Clarke rushed past her to the ladder. Clarke sighed as she came down the ladder.
"They are opening the doors!" Clarke warned. "Stop. The air could be toxic." Clarke shouted as the two girls reached the bottom. Juniper saw that it was Bellamy who was at the doors. Nobody knew what was behind there, they could die if that door opens.
"If the air is toxic, we're all dead, anyway." Bellamy replied and Juniper noticed a new confidence around Bellamy. A lot can change over a year, maybe he had moved on, maybe he was no longer the boy she fell for, or maybe she was no the girl he fell for.
"Bellamy?" A familiar voice came from behind and Juniper smiled at the sultry voice, the sultry voice of Octavia. Bellamy's illegal half-sister. That was why he came down, for her. As everybody watched them rejoice, Juniper leaned into Clarke.
"Hey, sorry about your Dad. Sorry I wasn't there." Juniper said sympathetically as she clutched her hand. Clarke smiled before she rest her head on Juniper's shoulder.
"Sorry about your Mom." Clarke replied in the same fashion and Juniper held back the tears. Juniper's Mom was one of the five who were floated for trying to be the Red Robin. Eden Ophelia Green lost her life fighting for her daughter's cause and Juniper loved her for that. Wells came up behind them and held onto Juniper's hand as the doors open.
Octavia grinned as she was the first person to touch Earth from The Ark in over ninety seven years.
"We're back, bitches!" Octavia screamed as she jumped onto Earth's soil. Juniper laughed as she threw her head back, they did it. They reached Earth and were able to stand on it, as people came rushing out of the dropship. They all stood on earth and took it all in, the natural light, proper air and luscious plants. It was everything they had dreamed and more.
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