THE DROPSHIP FINALLY LANDED WITH A THUD AND EVERYTHING WENT SILENT,

Dead silent. Even in a dreamless sleep Avery had never been completely surrounded by silence. On the Ark, everything hummed to no end.

Avery turned to the man with a growing smile, "Do you hear that?"

He waited for a moment, "No..." He trailed off, not quite understanding what she was getting at,

"Exactly." Avery went to undo her seatbelt and everyone else started to do the same. She was placed on the bottom floor so she had easy access to the door of the dropship. The other delinquents started to gather around and the man who sat next to her stood by the lever to open the door,

"Hey, just back it up, guys." Everyone seemed to listen to him and Avery didn't know if it was because of the guard uniform or because he just radiated 'leader'.

"Stop." Everyone turned to see a blonde climb down the ladder and made her way to the front of the group, "The air could be toxic."

"If the air is toxic, we're all dead, anyway." He responded to her,

"Bellamy?" Avery turned to see a pretty brunette climbing down from the upper floor. She pushed her way towards the 'guard' while others whispered,

"That's the girl they hid under the floor."

"My God, look how big you are." He smiled at her before the two hugged.

 "What the hell are you wearing, a guard's uniform?" The girl asked after separating from Bellamy,

"I borrowed it to get on the dropship. Someone has got to keep an eye on you." He told her before they hugged again,

"Where's your wristband?" The blonde asked Bellamy,

The brunette turned to face the other girl, "Do you mind? I haven't seen my brother in a year." 

"No one has a brother." Someone called out,

"That's Octavia Blake, the girl they found hidden in the floor." A random girl informed everyone.

Avery's heard whispers about the Blake girl. She's spent her whole life living under the floor because she was a second child. Once they found her, they sent her to the Skybox while her mother was floated. She never found out what happened to the older sibling.

Octavia growled and approached the crowd, ready to fight anyone who had something to say before Bellamy pulled her back, "Octavia, Octavia, no. Let's give them something else to remember you by."

Octavia stopped and turned back towards him, "Yeah? Like what?" She questioned,

He smirked, "Like being the first person on the ground in a hundred years." Bellamy turned to pull the lever and the door opened. Avery was hit with a wave of fresh air, blowing her hair behind her shoulders.

Avery stared in awe at all the green. Octavia took a few hesitant steps forward before jumping off the dropship and her feet hit the dirt. They were waiting for something. For Octavia to drop dead due to radiation, or something else.

Suddenly, she raised her arms in the air, "We're back, bitches!"

All the delinquents rushed forward to discover what the ground felt like. Avery smiled as her boots hit the dirt. She took a deep breath of the fresh air. It was a nice change to the limited, recycled air on the Ark.

She walked around, her fingers brushing the plants around her. She traced over the bark from the trees before picking up a delicate purple flower and feeling its soft petals.

After 97 years, mankind has finally returned to the ground.

Avery looked over at Bellamy, who was watching her, "Beautiful, isn't it?" She smiled, "Usually, we only see Earth in pictures in books. And now we're actually getting experiencing it."

"Yeah, it is." He replied, moving over and taking the flower from her fingers. He stared at it for a moment before placing it behind her ear,

Red filled her cheeks as she stared up at him, "You don't waste time, do you?"

An argument caught their attention, "Hey, hey, hey, hands off of him." The two turned to see some of the delinquents getting into an altercation with the Chancellor's son, "He's with us."

"Relax. We're just trying to figure out where we are." Wells replied,

"We're on the ground." Bellamy stated as the two walked over, "That not good enough for you?"

"We need to find Mount Weather. You heard my father's message. That has to be our first priority." Wells tried to convince them,

 "Screw your father." Octavia said to him as she strolled over and stood next to her brother, "What, you think you're in charge here, you and your little princess?"

"Do you think we care who's in charge?" The blonde girl asked angrily, "We need to get to Mount Weather not because the Chancellor said so, but because the longer we wait, the hungrier we'll get and the harder this'll be." She informed them, "How long do you think we'll last without those supplies? We're looking at a twenty-mile trek, okay? So if we want to get there before dark, we need to leave now."

 Bellamy stepped forward, "I got a better idea. You two go, find it for us. Let the privileged do the hard work for a change."

At this point, all the other delinquents had gathered around to listen in, "Yeah." They all agreed.

Avery understood what they were getting at. She was from the Factory Station herself and knew what if felt like to get scraps, but she wasn't sure this was the way to handle it. How was just the two of them expected to get supplies for a hundred people?

"You're not listening." Wells urged, "We all need to go."

"Look at this, everybody..." The other boy smirked, pushing Wells, "The Chancellor of Earth."

"Think that's funny?" Wells asked

The boy knocked him over and Avery winced at the physical altercation, "No, but that was." The boy laughed,

Wells stood, putting all his weight on one leg since the other was injured from the boy pushing him over. The two stood, fists up, ready to fight when someone jumped in,

"Kid's got one leg. How about you wait until it's a fair fight?" He suggested,

The fight broke away and everyone walked off. Octavia walked over to the boy who broke the fight up, "Hey, spacewalker, rescue me next." She flirted and Bellamy gave her a look, "What? He's cute."

"He's a criminal." Bellamy responded,

"They're all criminals." Avery whispered to them before walking away, and Bellamy watched her go.

"Who's that?" Octavia asked,

"I have no idea." Bellamy smirked,