Like Sisters

[Faye Bates]

She could feel the anxiety radiating through her body. Everyone was gone. Well, not everyone. Finn Collins and Bellamy Blake were alive along with a few others that had managed to escape the blast. Faye had paid close attention when Finn and Bellamy had recounted what had happened with the so-called grounders. Clarke had to be alive. There was no way her best friend could be dead. Faye was all alone on Earth and Clarke was her last connection. People around her tended to die and if Clarke died, then she knew it was true. The delinquents wanted to find the others but the adults were making it very difficult to leave camp. It wasn’t like Faye to sneak behind their backs, but in this case she was willing to make an exception.

It was late at night and Faye planned to try to get some sort of strategy going for the following morning. But the sounds of shouts caught her attention and she quickly removed herself from her tent. Someone was being carried into camp and she could have sworn she heard Clarke’s name. But there were too many people and she couldn’t push her way through the crowd. She would have to wait and Faye wasn’t exactly the most patient person in the world. She wasn’t sure how long it was until someone found her, saying that it was Clarke they had found. She was found in rough shape but they were predicting her to make a full recovery.

Faye quickly made her way down to where they made the make-shift medical bay. It didn’t take her long to pull up a seat next to Clarke’s bed. She was asleep but Faye didn’t care. She just liked seeing her friend, even if she looked bad. It had been months since the two had seen one another, maybe even a year if she was thinking about the time correctly. Faye rubbed her eyes, feeling like she was going to cry. No. She wasn’t going to do that. She wasn’t going to be that person. She would wait by Clarke’s side until she woke up and there was nothing anyone could do to get her to leave.

Clarke Griffin

[Clarke Griffin]

It was still dark when Clarke slowly opened her eyes. She was passed out while they cleaned her up, but slowly the pain seemed to rouse her from her sleep, especially the pain in her arm, that she had cut open again. It was throbbing, somehow she had the feeling that she was fighting infection right there and right then. But she would win this fight. Knowing her friends were alive, she needed to get started on getting the others out. 

Groaning Clarke looked around. There was someone with her. Only slowly could she focus on who it was. She knew her. Faye. It was Faye, her friend. God, how long has it been? Over a year. She had been a year in solitary already. And now the ground. It had been so long. "Faye." The girl croaked. She still felt weak, but seeing her, it made her feel even safer. Her mother was here, her best friend, the friends she made on the ground, whom she had worried for, were apparently alive. It all seemed to be a lot better than mere hours before.

Faye Bates

[Faye Bates]

She had no idea how much time had passed since she had first arrived by Clarke's side. Faye knew she had nodded off a few times, but only for a few minutes each time. Some of the nurses had tried to get her to leave to get some rest, but she had ignored them. Had it not been Clarke, she was almost positive Abby would have tried to shoo her herself. But it was Clarke and a lot of people knew how close the two were. Faye wouldn't move from this spot until the blonde woke up. Again, she didn't know how much time had passed since Clarke had been brought inside camp, but she hoped the girl would wake up soon.

Faye could have sworn she saw Clarke twitch, a sign that she was starting to wake up. Or, a sign that Faye was getting sleep deprived. Slowly, she saw Clarke's eyes start to open and Faye sat up in her chair. She leaned forward and took ahold of Clarke's hand, being careful of any injuries near her. Faye couldn't help the relieved smile on her face as Clarke came back to the land of the living. Hearing Clarke say her name brought her happiness she didn't know she could feel. This girl was her family; her sister. Faye reached over to the table next to Clarke's bed and handed her the canteen of water that had been placed there for her. "Here," Faye offered, urging the girl to drink. "How are you feeling? Do you want me to get your mom?" There were a million more questions she could ask, but she didn't want to overwhelm Clarke.

Tag: Clarke Griffin

[Clarke Griffin]

Clarke held the water with shaking hands. She was grateful for her friend being there. After everything seeing her, alive, in one piece, it was like heaven. It was more than she thought would happen to her at that moment. Clarke waited for Faye to speak, before she threw her arms around her friend and just clung to her in a desperate hug, the water falling out of her hand, to lay forgotten on the floor. Tears fell from Clarkes eyes, in relief, part in pain because of the wound pressing against her friend. But ultimately this was what she needed. Wounds would heal. But she had spent a lot of time thinking she’d not see her mom or her best friend again. She needed this. She needed them.

“I thought you were dead.” She sobbed against her friend. “I thought… they said everyone died. In the mountain. They said there was no survivor. I thought you died.” But she was alive. She was here and Clarke could touch her again. “I’m fine. Or I will be. Wounds heal. They healed before. But the others, they’re still in the mountain. I don’t trust those people.” She never had and she never would and never wanted to.

Faye Bates

[Faye Bates]

It took her by surprise when Clarke threw her arms around her. It didn't take her long to adjust to the situation, quickly wrapping her arms around her friend in return. She held onto Clarke like she was never going to see her again. Because that's what she had thought. She had thought her best friend was dead and that she had seen the last of Clarke. But here she was, in her arms, and she was going to be okay. She pulled back slightly and looked at Clarke as her friend sobbed, saying that she thought she would never see her again. She didn't blame her because that's how she felt. "I know," she said softly. "I wasn't sure if we would survive the crash landing either." It had been so unlikely that they would survive, but they had. Faye tried not to think about it but sometimes she still woke up from a nightmare. It was the nightmare of crashing to Earth and everyone dying in a fiery explosion.

"You need to get some rest first," Faye pointed out. "I know you want to get your friends out of that mountain but you won't be of any use if you can't even move. Heal and then we'll go. Or . . . I'm not sure. It's been hard keeping Finn and Bellamy at bay. They actually left to try and find you and the others. I'm not sure if they'll be coming back." Hell, even Murphy had gone with them. "Everyone's going to want to hear the story of what happened after the grounder attack." They had already heard all about the actual battle but everything after that was a mystery.


Clarke Griffin

[Clarke Griffin]

Finn and Bellamy. First Faye knew about them, that was a surprised. Then she knew she would care enough to want to know where they were. And they were fine. They said there were no survivors outside. Seemed like they lied about that. What did they lie about in other cases? The Ark survived. Finn and Bellamy survived. It was no good track record. They lied. And they would continue to lie. There was no doubt about that. She would need rest, but there was no time for rest. Instead she clung to positive knowledge: Her family, her mother and sister were alive. Finn and Bellamy were alive. Her friends were alive. For now that was god damn positive. 

The thing was that she didn’t want to tell everybody. She could tell those she cared about. 

“There isn’t much to tell, Faye. After the fire, we went out, hoping to find Finn and Bellamy alive. Then there was pink smoke all of a sudden. We all passed out. I woke up in quarantaine. I think I was out the longest. We were locked up for a while. I was there the lonegst. They took Monty out before me. I was terrified. I thought they’d hurt him and there was nothing I could do. I broke out. Turns out they were there, eating, laughing, dancing. Mount Weather has chocolate cake. They said you all were dead. I just… I knew it wasn’t true. And what they have, what they promise is too good to be true. And they lied.”

Faye Bates

[Faye Bates]

Faye kept quiet as she listened to Clarke tell her story. She could only imagine what Clarke must have been feeling when she was worried for her friends and they were hanging out like everything was great; like they hadn't just fought a terrible war and lost some of their friends. But it was difficult to remember that they were still kids. They were kids that might have been forced to grow up early but that didn't mean they wouldn't jump at the opportunity to have a worry-free life again. Faye knew that Clarke would never be the same after being sent to Earth and it was probably a good thing. It was what kept her alive. She didn't like these people in Mount Weather and she was glad that Clarke had managed to escape. Confusion washed over her features when Clarke relayed that Mount Weather said they were all dead. They were very much alive.

"Well, we aren't dead," Faye pointed out with a soft smile. "I'm not sure what else they are lying about but it can't be good. I don't know how we'll get in there. It sounds like the grounders have known about them for a while and they've never been able to take them down. But we'll figure something out. We always do." Faye was not usually so optimistic but she had to be for Clarke. She couldn't stand to see her like this. But she was fairly confident that her and Clarke could figure something out together. They always seemed to come up with these wild ideas that usually worked whenever they were together.

Clarke Griffin

[Clarke Griffin]

She was sure that the grounders knew of them. Anya had said as much. It was so clear in the way she spoke. The thing was, it was obvious why the grounders stood no chance against them: Whatever caused their culture to evolve the way it did - retreating back into simpler times, with next to no science left and a language that has developed for reasons Clarke didn't know yet - it didn't affect the mountain men in the slightest. They didn't evolve. Their culture was stuck in time. It was still guns. It was still science. They were confined to this mountain and hazmat suits. It made them beatable. No mountain, no bunker would logically have as many suits. Like the Ark never had a lot of suits. And they had another thing that would make them better in the end: They did evolve. Their tech got updated. They might be able to beat them from that perspective. And maybe they might manage to unite with the grounders to beat a common enemy.

"We have better technology than they have. I could figure a lot of their technology out as I went, so it shouldn't be hard to do for our bright minds." If some of them survived. "Surely the door to te mountain has some form of failsafe." They just had to get to it and understand it ad activate it, if they had to. "Faye... how... how are you? Did you get down safely?"

Faye Bates