Chapter 10

Monty and Raven were sitting in the dropship and were still putting touchups on the radio. It was still quite dark out yet dawn appeared to be fast approaching.

"Do you think this'll work when we're done here?"asked Monty as he paused and stretched.

Raven scoffed and said,"I know it's gonna work. Besides you're the guy that fucked up and fried everyone's wristbands last night..."

Monty groaned at the reminder of his error. He had been tired and even though he'd made some caffeine laced cherries to keep him focused and they worked amazingly well at first. It was only later on when everyone had run to their tents and the dropship after Jasper's signal that he'd begun to tire.

The all clear had been given later on after give or take an hour and half until a rather tMonty had made a few incorrect connections and the wristbands of everyone had fallen off and Monty had to placate a tired and exhausted Raven who had been napping after her eventful day.

The genius Zero-G mechanic had taken over the salvaging of the parts of the 'radio' that Monty had made using the wristbands and merged them with the radio that Raven had brought down with her while Monty was given some much needed downtime.

Raven, Jasper, Roma and Miller were going to be acting as the unofficial guards of the camp while Bellamy, Clarke and Finn were on Octavia's trail. According to Raven, Bellamy had nearly charged after his sister in the dark of night once he'd heard from Finn and Jasper that they had been unable to pick up her trail at night.

It was only thanks to the words of Clarke who'd managed to make Bellamy see reason and she also promised that they'd pull as much manpower as possible to help find Octavia. Bellamy had still been reluctant, but had finally backed down when Clarke had threatened to force him to stay which had apparently been enough to convince Bellamy to stand down.

Monty couldn't blame Bellamy in all honesty.

Telekinesis or no telekinesis, but fighting Clarke was something that would probably end with being more than just a little sore and considering Clarke was also the medic of the camp then she could probably also prolong your pain as long as she wanted. That wasn't Clarke's style it was more of a Raven thing from the little Monty had been able to gather of Raven's personality.

"Man Monty, I swear if Abby hadn't sent me down here I don't know how you guys thought you'd manage to contact the Ark. That radio you built was a disgrace. That's putting it lightly too."

Case in point.

"Yeah, yeah whatever, "groused Monty as he resisted the urge to drug Raven with a cherry with extreme laxative effects,"Anyways, do you think the Ark saw your flares?"

Raven smiled at the annoyance in Monty's voice before she said,"Well, I hope so. Abby said that Diana lady was going to try something so they might be busy, but there's usually a few people Earth watching no matter what's the time so I think they know we're alive at the very least and hopefully we stopped the culling."

"I'm sure we have nothing to worry about. Your flares must have definitely gotten their attention. If you'll excuse me, I'm just going to stretch my legs out for a bit,"said Monty as he stood up and moved to the small window after Raven's affirmative grunt.

Monty looked outside the window at the shining light in the sky he knew to be the Ark and he watched for a few minutes as it moved in a figure eight pattern.

It was a soothing sight that was only disturbed once white streaks began to shoot across the sky in a dazzling light show.

Monty raised an eyebrow at the sight and looked to Raven and said,"I think you're gonna want to see this. I can't tell what it is."

Raven rose at the insistent tone in Monty's voice and she peered up at the sky to see what the big fuss was. Upon seeing the white streaks Raven swore loudly and kicked the wall of the dropship. A dent formed on the sight of impa6and Monty flinched from the loud noise that had been made.

"What's wrong? Do you know what that is?"asked Monty slowly as he took in the angry form of Raven.

"I know what it is alright, "said Raven as she tried to rein in her anger.

Monty watched as the anger slowly subsided from Raven and felt a cold pit form in his stomach from the words Raven practically spat out.

"It's a funeral. We were too late."

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Abby sat at her table as she contemplated the events that had happened and were to come on the Ark.

The emergency meeting had gone on and the council had decided to not inform the citizens of the Ark about the 100 just yet. Thelonious and Kane had both listened to what she had had to say and although Thelonious had been frustrated and angered that Abby hadn't informed him immediately about Diana's treachery, he had eventually conceded Abby had been right to try to find out more.

The Chancellor had been surprised that Diana had organised the theft of the nanobots and had also been responsible for them believing the 100 to be dead. The worst thing was that since Shumway was clearly in league with Diana then it was near impossible for Kane to mobilise the Guard against her as she already had the loyalty of Kane's second in command so it was likely that a good portion of the Ark were also loyal to her.

The thing that put Abby most on edge was the fact that Diana still saw her as necessary and also the fact that she hadn't tried to silence or discredit her in any shape or form. The fact that Diana clearly wanted her for something put her on edge and she was sure she wasn't going to like the answer to that conundrum.

Five taps on her door drew her attention and Abby said, "Come in."

The door swung open to reveal Marcus who had a solemn and defeated expression as he mumbled a greeting and sat down on her couch. Kane hadn't been the same since the sighting of the flares and Abby could tell that the weight of condemning the entirety of Sector 17 to a meaningless death weighed heavily on Kane's shoulders.

"If you'd like Marcus,"began Abby as she looked at the shell of a man,"You could rest on my bed. I haven't been able to sleep and I can tell you're also exhausted. "

Kane shook his head and said," Abby, you need to get rest. You need to be well rested for any patients you might have and you already know I can't sleep. So long as we don't knowwhat Diana's motives are and who's she's working with I have to be the one to look after you."

Abby was touched at the concern Kane was showing her, but she brushed it aside and said,"I know that Marcus, but you need rest too. We both know if Diana is going to make a move it'll be today. The funeral had gone on for a few hours so into the night and you went to that and you've been walking rounds for the past few hours now. It's practically already time for me to go to Medical. I'll be safe there too I'm sure. You need rest too."

Marcus sighed and stood up and said,"I'm sorry Abby, but I can't do that. I was the one who advocated the culling. It was my idea and I'm in charge of security yet I let a rebel group form right under my nose. I don't deserve to rest. All those people dead because I simply wasn't as wise as you were to vote against the culling. This situation is one of my making and I'll be damned if I let anyone else get hurt on my watch. "

Abby had moved closer to Kane throughout his speech and once he was done she stood in front of him. She pulled him into a hug and said, "I know you feel like this is all your fault, but you did the best with the knowledge available to you. There was no possible way of knowing of discovering Diana's scheming and remember she was the one who made the screen broadcast that the 100 had all died. I only voted against the culling in the vain hope that Clarke was still alive down there. I didn't know for certain whether or not they had died and if the vote had gone my way it was still entirely possible that I had doomed the Ark in my selfishness. We can't do much about the sins of the past, Marcus. We've both done terrible, despicable things, but the only thing that matters is if we're able to learn from these and strive to be better people. It's the least we could do."

Tears had formed in Kane's eyes as he heard the words of support coming from Abby. The powerful words resonated deeply within him before he wiped his eyes and said,"Thank you Abby. It means a lot."

The two stayed just as they were letting silent tears fall as the two basked in the emotional and physical support of another human being before an alarm went off and she separated from the hug to go and turn it off.

The clock read 9AM and Abby hurriedly turned it off before she began to freshen up and swapped out her jacket for another as she began to prepare for work.

She was done in a few minutes and found Kane standing as he waited for her.

"You aren't late?"inquired Kane as he noticed the late time.

"No, that was Clarke's alarm. I've barely spent any time in here since she got locked up and I'm usually out the house when her alarm goes off so I haven't turned it off. Jackson's in charge of the night and morning shifts so I don't usually need to be at Medical until around 10, but this is the first time I've really used that perk,"said Abby as she closed a few buttons on her coat.

She made for the door, but stopped in front of Kane and said,"You can sleep here. Remember the announcement is at 3. Don't worry Marcus. The guilt will go away. "

Abby schooled her features and made to leave, but the parting words from Kane as he lied down on her couch nearly made her stumble.

"That's what I'm scared of Abby."

Abby looked back, but she was surprised to see that Kane had already fallen asleep showing just how tired he was.

"Sleep well, Marcus."