Where The Wild Things Are

[Clarke Griffin]

Mount Weather. She was seated in the passenger seat. In that moment she wanted something to cling to and at the same time she knew she wouldn’t even need that in this moment. Mount Weather was the past. She had lived so long without even thinking of it, hunted like an animal and now she would go back. One day she would have to face it. But for now this was so much. She was, however glad, that this was happening under those circumstances. With others it would be much harder, like with her mother. But things looked different with Jackson. It was a situation she could handle. And at the very least there was always the possibility to wait outside, she figured. But for now…

“I can handle it, Jackson. I think.” She hoped. But if she couldn’t, what then? If they needed the supplies, they needed them. What did her feelings matter? What if the supplies were important to someones survival? She just couldn’t block that mission then just because of feelings. Feelings were secondary in the wild. Feelings didn’t protect people. “I survived out there. I will survive going into Mount Weather.”

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Jackson nodded as Clarke said she could handle it, and in the back of his head, he hoped it was true. He knew Kane didn't want Bellamy and Monty brought back to the Mountain, but maybe Clarke would handle it better. Maybe because she'd been out here surviving on her own for a while, she was better equipped to handle it. Then again, maybe she wasn't. Jackson hoped he was making the right call as he guided the rover in the direction of Mount Weather again.

"You don't need to just survive anymore, Clarke," he told her, switching back to her name, since his use of 'kiddo' had not earned any reaction whatsoever. She'd not responded to any of his attempts to be affectionate, actually. Maybe he couldn't help her after all. "You can live." In Arkadia. The people there would protect her, and if this peace held, they could all live, breathe freely.

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[Clarke Griffin]

She could live? That was something she didn’t even think was possible. But maybe he was right. He knew more about humans than she did, about their psychology. But she doubted he had to deal with something like she was experiencing before. The Ark didn’t exactly allow for that. Maybe he could handle it. But then again she didn’t know why he was nice to her. After everything Clarke would not be nice to her if she was in his position. But he was. She knew she had no way of knowing how he felt or why he felt that way. 

“I would like to. But I don’t know how, Jackson. I mean back on the Ark, I knew it. It was easy. I had Mom, Dad, Wells and you. I knew you always had my back. Now Dad and Wells are dead. Mom probably hates me and you … I don’t know why you’re nice to me after what I did.” And not just killing everyone. Leaving, too. Yes, she did that because she felt like she had to. But it was selfish, too. And maybe it was just because he was a generally nice person. “Do… do you really think this can be fixed?” That she could live? She guessed Mount Weather would show it. She could do that. “How long does it take until we arrive?”

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