The kids heading towards Mount Weather had been walking for a while, there was still so much forest around them, Clarke ahead of the group leading them as she somewhat knew the way. Finn paused for a moment, picking at the dark and light purple flowers around them. He grinned having picked one and slowly turned around to Octavia, he lifted the flower up for a moment, a look of confusion on Octavia's face as she didn't know what he wanted. Finn lifted his hand up and he brushed aside some of Octavia's long brown hair tucking the flower behind her ear, Octavia's eyes met his and she smiled, completely fine with what he was doing.
Jasper smirked as he watched from behind them. "Now, that, my friend, is game." He said to Monty with a smirk. Monty pointed his hand briefly to the two before he looked down and picked one of the flowers. "That, my friend, is poison sumac." He said with a jokingly smug smile. "What?" Octavia said and immediately brushed the flower out of her hair, tilting her head to the side. "It is?" She asked, slight panic in her voice. She wiped her hands up and down on her trousers, not wanting to have anything on her hands.
"The flowers aren't poisonous. They're medicinal, calming, actually." Monty continued, Octavia now looking fed up and jasper and Finn sharing an amused smirk to each other. Finn held back his laugh, jasper being the only one to notice that Clarke had turned around to stop and look at them. "His family grows all the pharmaceuticals on the Ark." Finn explained. "Hey, guys, would you try to keep up?" Clarke lightly scolded. Finn threw his hands out to the side slightly. "Come on, Clarke, how do you block all this out?" He asked as they caught up to her. "Well...it's simple." She said. "I wonder, why haven't we seen any animals? Maybe it's because there are none. Maybe we've already been exposed to enough radiation to kill us." She said, listing off her problems with a slight shake in her voice before sighing. "Sure is pretty though, come on." She agreed before she turned back around.
Octavia looked up at Clarke as she watched her walking off again. "Someone should slip her some poison sumac." She muttered quietly, the other three boys smirking at that. "I got to know what you two did to get busted." Finn said as he began to walk after Clarke, briefly looking behind him to Monty and jasper who he'd asked the question to, after all they were all still criminals. "Sumac is not the only herb in the garden, if you know what I mean." Monty said with a smile. Octavia and Finn turned back around to watch where they were walking, though did so with a huge smile on their face at what Monty said, they did know what he meant. "Someone forgot to replace what we took." Jasper said shooting a quick look to his best friend. "Someone has apologised, like, 1000 times." Monty shot back.
"How about you, Octavia? What'd they get you for?" Jasper asked, his eyes scanning up and down her quickly though Octavia didn't look at him. Octavia's jaw clenched for a moment at the question. "Being born." She muttered out unhappily before she skipped ahead away from the boys and closer to Clarke seeing how Clarke was knelt on the floor and motioned the group towards her. "That is so not game." Monty said to jasper, Finn looking towards the girls with a slight frown. Monty hit jasper, jasper playfully hit him back, Monty did it again before they stopped seeing Finn walking off and the two soon followed him as well.
Clarke was smiling, actually smiling.
She motioned for Finn to be quiet with a finger over her mouth before she pointed out towards a clearing. Octavia was squatted down beside her, her hand on the base of a tree to keep her steady. Finn knelt down between them both, slightly behind Clarke, his head almost on his shoulder and his long shoulder length brown hair slightly covering his face as he looked to where the blonde was pointing. Jasper and Monty followed suit, slowly creeping behind them before lowering themselves closer to the ground.
Out in the distance there was a deer, it's fur well kept, it's small fluffy tail swishing behind it, it's head bowed to the ground as it ate the grass on the floor. "No animals, huh?" Finn grinned to Clarke, their eyes meeting for a split second before Finn slowly crept forward towards the deer. He took a slow step forward and his foot stepped on a branch, it snapped loudly causing the deer to look up and face them.
What the group saw caused all five of them to slightly recoil and their smiles drop immediately from their faces. The deer had two heads, one merged slightly into the other. The mutated head was red, raw flesh showing as it stared at the group. After a moment the deer took off, running away from the group. The kids slowly turned to look at each other, the shock evident on each other's faces as they wasn't sure what had just happened or why the deer looked like that.
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"The Chancellor has lost a lot of blood." Abby said to Jackson who was across from her, they both wore light blue scrubs and a cap, their hands inside the plastic container where the Chancellor lay. "If only they found him sooner, damn it." She said quickly as the Chancellor's vitals sped up, his body jerking slightly. "Abby, he's waking up!" Jackson said quickly seeing his eyes open. Abby took a quick breath in before looking to the nurse. "Increase the Anesthesia." She said quickly. Jackson hesitated a moment, his head turning to the nurse who hadn't moved from her spot. "We used wat too much blood and anesthesia. we're way over the line." Jackson said to her quickly, they were mid surgery on the Chancellor but they couldn't use any more without consequences.
Abby did the maths in her head quickly, weighing out the options. "Your Chancellor is going into shock." She said seeing him struggling on the table. "You're asking me to break the law." Jackson said softer, he knew Abby was trying to do the right thing but knew Kane was stubborn as he was cruel. Abby took her hands out of the chamber. "Fine. I'll do it myself." She said bluntly and walked towards the table. It was an easy choice, if she could save a life, then she would.
"Let them come after me."