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"Thank you! Thank you thank you!" Octavia cries after the machine hum dies down and she sees me gripped in the arms of Jasper and Monty who were situated on the wall my body was nearly thrown passed. The two had managed to catch me just before I flew past them into solid metal where two others had flown into, their broken bodies lying on the floor. Monty and Jasper lowered me down to the floor as Octavia unbuckled and rushed to me to make sure I didn't hit the floor too hard as the two were clearly struggling to keep me up, their arms like bruised and sore from saving me.

"Thanks." I tell them after catching my breath as The two teens stunned after Octavia presses kisses to their cheeks. She'd always been rather affectionate though if that was just her personality or a byproduct of our life I wasn't exactly sure. I hold back a laugh as I give them each a peck to the cheek as well. "My heroes." I say before leading Octavia to the ladders and having her head down first.

"Bellamy." Octavia's voice calls when she nearly reaches the bottom and I begin my descent quickly following behind. Octavia watches my descent still shaken by what happened before we make our way to our brother as whispers break out.

"My God, look how big you two are." Bellamy says smiling, his voice raspy as though trying to hold back tears that were already rolling down our cheeks from our earlier scare. We both latch onto him and each other in a three way hug. It had been over a year since Bellamy could last visit us, just a single month after my own arrival where I had 'officially' met Raven while Octavia and I waited for him to be let into the visitors section of the Skybox. Pulling back Octavia asks about his clothing as he was wearing a guard's uniform. "I borrowed it to get on the drop ship. Someone has to keep an eye of you." He chuckles as Clarke interrupts our reunion.

"Where's your wristband?"

"Do you mind? We haven't seen our brother in a year." Octavia tells Clarke as I give the blonde a glare already knowing all the issues that come with her and her mother, only for a guy in the back of the room to remind us of the One Child Policy.

"That's Octavia and Cleopatra Blake, the girls they found hidden in the floor." A girls shouts out and I grip onto Octavia, pulling her behind me despite being at least physically older then me even if she was shorter by several inches. Bellamy quickly calms Octavia by having her be the first person on the ground. Grabbing the airlock he pulls it down and we find ourselves nearly blinded by the bright light of sunlight shining down through the trees. Octavia takes a step forward before taking in a deep breath, her hand reaches back towards me and as I slide my hand in hers she pulls me forward.

"Together." She smiles and pulls me along the ramp.

"Always." I say before she hit the edge of the ramp and give our arm a swing once, twice, and then we jump landing on the ground together so no one knows who touched the ground first.

"We're back bitches!" She screams throwing her hands up and I laugh.

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I'm several yards away helping out with a few people that had been injured during the landing, fortunately it was mostly bruises and in one case a minor sprained in the case of a twelve year old Charlotte who was just a couple weeks from thirteen, when I heard the back and forth start between Bellamy and Octavia with Clarke Griffin and Wells Jaha. Sighing, I quickly finish and have Harper who I had help me come over to watch her.

"Let the privileged do the hard work for a change." Bellamy says and agreement comes from the others.

"You're not listening. We a-"

"Enough!" I say raising my voice over Wells before he can try saying anything that sound like a demand, which would only worsen things.

"Cleo, what are you-"

"Why would they hike 20 miles to find food and come back with a damn thing for us, Bell? I wouldn't do it for them, would you? Would any of you?" I ask raising my voice again at the end. "Even if they came back they can't carry enough for all of us. Bellamy we don't have any rations, we don't have water, and we don't have shelter." We're exposed to the elements and have no idea what the weather could be like or if it is even the same as it was a hundred years ago. We're not on the Ark any more. There is no room for anyone to be privileged just like there's no room for anyone to be lazy. We need to work together or we'll die apart. I don't think any of you have noticed but we're in the middle of the fucking woods and if those birds flying around Harper and I saw earlier are anything to go by there are likely animals on the ground as well meaning right now we could all be sitting ducks for something wanting to make us its next meal."

"You saw birds?" Clarke asks amazed at the fact there were animals.

"Is that seriously all you got from what I said?"

"No but if there are animals that means we can survive."

"We already know that. We've been here for over an hour and no one has gotten sick or shown any signs of behavioral changes that come with radiation poisoning and believe me considering how everyone was running around by now there would be. There may still be some radiation but it's well within the levels we can survive especially considering we've all grown up around the radiation present in space."

"How?" Clarke looks at me confused as to how I could possibly know that.

"I have a damn good big brother. A brother that made sure that Octavia and I would have options if we weren't floated for being born despite him nearly starving to do it. And Bellamy we will be talking about that, very soon." I say before turning to him and I see Octavia hit him when she finally truly notices and sees how thin he is, far more than he used to be even when we were sharing rations. Turning back to answer Clarke's question I say. "I doubt you're aware of it with you having been in solitary for a year but I've finished the medical exams, surgical simulations, and apprenticed under every doctor that was sent into the skybox to handle physicals and any treatments needed."

"What do you suggest then?" Wells asks as he looks at me, his eyes showing confusion and skepticism, whether that doubt was at my words or that I actually had more experience as a doctor then Clarke I wasn't sure. I think before answering him.

"A group of volunteers should go to gather rations and another group to find drinkable water hopefully within walking distance seeing as the human body can last a hell of a lot longer without food then it can water. Anyone else should remain here and begin building walls and shelter unless we're all planning to sleep on the ground where a predator can pick us off or the drop ship where we'll basically be so crowded we're bound to start fighting."

"Who made you Queen?" A familiar voice calls out and I turn to see John Mbege.

"Mbege do everyone a favor and shut up unless you want to cost everyone here a doctor. Let me make something clear to all of you right now, I have absolutely no problems splitting away from a group that will get themselves and possibly even my family killed. Now choose."

Wells looks at her in appreciation while Clarke is stunned at how quickly I took the reigns but considering how I've been the one they've all had repeated exposure to as someone who's been taking care of them while still being one of them it's hardly surprising. It had actually been one of the reasons I had constantly made sure I was there every time one of the Ark's doctors was there. I knew if they were going to look to someone else this time around it would have to be the someone they actually knew, not another stranger. Bellamy looked at me with a mixture of pride and worry while Octavia smiled like a loon. The majority of the others seemed to either agree, a few didn't care, and the remaining were either trying to come up with arguments or weren't paying attention.

"Well then if no one has anything else to say, let's get started."

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Two groups were formed to see out food and water. Oddly enough the one heading in the direction of Mt. Weather was the same as far as I could remember though with the addition of myself. Harper had originally wanted to come along also but I managed to convince her to stay behind just in case something happened and they needed first aid which she knew from not only helping me earlier but from us talking while in the Skybox. Bellamy had tried to convince me and O to stay but Octavia wanted freedom and I wanted to see if I could change things.

It took some convincing mostly that we'd stay with each other and come back immediately if anything went wrong but he agreed to let us go especially when I pointed out we could always stay and get to know some of the other guys around camp. Honestly, why was dealing with big brothers so easy? Regardless, Bellamy along with Nathan Miller, Wells Jaha, and John Murphy were going to oversee the camp. Wells wasn't exactly thrilled but after mentioning to both him and Bell that they each had knowledge the other didn't and that if anyone was going to survive we'd need both they came to a temporary and extremely reluctant truce, for now. Bell and Murphy were going to oversee the building of the wall while Wells and Nathan would see what could be repurposed to create shelters and tools to help us survive, especially once I pointed out that if we didn't find water nearby we would need some sort of rain collection system. Best yet Clarke didn't open her mouth about the wristbands until after we had left and were well out of earshot of Bell which meant he never got the idea to have people start taking them off.

Several yards away as we left Octavia gave me a look before telling a nearby Clarke "Before you get any ideas, Finn is mine."

"Before you get any ideas, I don't care." Clarke responded and I decided to put my two cents in and hopefully prevent the stupidity that occurred from Clarke sleeping with Finn.

"Ugh, before either of you get any ideas or go anywhere with this, he has a girlfriend. Her name is Raven Reyes and she's back on the Ark." I say giving O a look.

"Raven, like Raven who kept us secret Raven?" Octavia asks, remembering me telling her about the girl the past me had accidentally met after blundering and making noise while traveling through the ventilation shafts near her and her mother's living quarters, and I nod. Fortunately, Raven had kept my existence a secret especially when it meant I could sneak her rations I stole from the storage area near the vents, out of view of the cameras. How our mother and Bellamy never figured out how we weren't starving I'll never know. I was certainly tempted to think it was the influence of that ROB, or another one, along with that being the reason Raven was the only one that found out about my little adventures in the shafts.

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__Back on The Ark__

Kane watched as Abby Griffin runs to the O.R. After giving Jackson orders to get blood before informing them the Chancellor had been shot. Turning back to the monitoring station he looks towards prisoner number 167 and remembers a woman's shouts before she was floated. "The eyes, she has your father's eyes!" Stepping toward towards the monitors he sees the girl who certainly does not have his father's eyes but looks very much like her mother but with the green eyes of a man he was no longer friends with after learning about him sleeping with his girlfriend of the time, a man who was floated a decade ago for selling drugs.

"Marcus?" Callie Cartwig, the woman he was currently seeing called his name and he turns to look back at her. "What is it?" She asks looking at the screen before seeing the Blake twins.

"Aurora's girls." She sighs looking at the two on the screen. "They could have been yours, right? It's strange though, I always thought they were identical after being told they were twins but they look so different from each other, even the eyes are different colors." She says and Kane's eyes widen as he looks at the photo taken of the other girl for the first time. His breath catches as he sees his father's light blue eyes staring right back at him. "Marcus? Marcus what is it?"

"She has my father's eyes."

"What? No they did a DNA test remember, the twins aren't yours."

"Callie, listen to me, the test was wrong. That's my daughter." He says pointing to Prisoner 168, Cleopatra Blake. "I have a daughter." He says looking back at the girl's vitals before his heart nearly stops. "I sent my daughter to earth, I-."

"Marcus, no." Callie tells him pulling him away from the screen and towards one of their colleagues, hoping to snap him out of it. "Jacopo can you bring up the DNA results of Octavia and Cleopatra Blake?"

"Sure." He says having already heard Kane from where he stood, somewhat shocked at his insistence as the man had never doubted their colleagues before. Going through the files he pauses before looking at them.

"What/What does it say?" The two ask.

"Octavia Blake's testing conclusively proves you aren't her father."

"See?"

"Callie." Jacopo shakes his head. "The test also shows that neither Octavia, Cleopatra, or their oldest brother Bellamy share the same father."

"I thought they were twins?"

"They're fraternal twins that were conceived at different times and by two different men but still twins, however unlikely and extremely rare."

"And Cleopatra's DNA test?"

"There was never one one done. According to this a further testing wasn't requested for the younger girl after the one for Octavia so it wasn't deemed necessary. The only reason I know they don't share a father is because the computer data from the cheek swab automatically entered it that way. Whoever did the DNA test probably didn't bother to look."

"Oh my God." Callie whispers.

"Can you do it now?" Kane asks.

"We can take a sample from you and compare it to the data we have on file."

"Do it."

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A/N: What should I do for pairings? Currently having trouble making up my mind. Cleopatra is bisexual so that will come up before the final choice is made. Option below or feel free to make suggestions.

Lincoln x Cleo

Anya x Cleo

Raven x Cleo

Roan x Cleo

Optional mixture of the above with Cleo. If a multi pairing then Cleo's partners will only be interested in her but develop a friendship/truce with each other. No offense but I just don't see Raven and Anya getting along or Anya and Roan. Lincoln I could possibly see getting along with Roan under the right circumstances, if only because he himself was more of an outlier.

Lincoln x Cleo x Roan

Lincoln x Cleo x Anya

Raven x Cleo x Roan