"If they dropped us on the wrong mountain, how are we gonna survive out here?" Luka questioned. Auriella knew she was going to worry, but she needed to tell her. She hated to ruin the five seconds of fun they got before they realized they weren't going to survive for five minutes if they didn't get those supplies from mount weather.

"Yeah, I don't know that one." Auriella stifled a laugh. "Guess we're gonna have to figure it out on our own since Wells said the communication system is down." Auriella continued.

Luka sighed as she walked around the ship, seeing Bellamy standing there. "Bellamy? What do you want?" Auriella asked as she came and stood behind Luka, putting her hands across her shoulders.

"I need you to go with Clarke to Mount Weather." Bellamy answered. "They're going now. What about Wells, I thought Clarke was helping him." Auriella questioned.

"She already did, he's fine. Just go over to the group forming around him and say you want in." Bellamy explained. Auriella knew he needed her to do something, she just didn't know what.

"Well, if I have to go, then I need you to watch over Luka." Auriella spoke. "Done, I'll protect her with my life." Bellamy chuckled as he smiled at the both of them.

"No, Ella, I'm going with you." Luka protested but Auriella wasn't going to let Luka go. She couldn't risk her getting hurt, she knew she would be safe with Bellamy.

"No, you're not. You're staying here with Bellamy, got it?" Auriella raised her eyebrows, making sure she understood. Luka rolled her eyes and nodded as she walked over and stood beside Bellamy, muttering under her breath. "I couldn't imagine what y'all would be like if you two were actually sisters." Bellamy chuckled as he took Luka by the shoulders and started walking her away.

Auriella started to walk towards the group when she noticed a familiar figure standing within it, Octavia. Of course he needed someone to watch over her, why else would she need to go.

"Well, I guess if he's watching Luka I have to watch over his sister too." Auriella mumbled to herself as she walked over and joined the group. "Heard we're going to Mount Weather. I'm in." Auriella looked around the group, smirking. "One more, great. Now, let's go." Clarke stated as her and the others started walking.

"Before you get any ideas, Finn's mine." Octavia spoke to Clarke. "Before you get any ideas, I don't care." Clarke spoke back, making it clear that's not what she was going to be doing down here.

"Already starting with boys Octavia?" Ella said from behind the two girls with a light-hearted smirk on her lips. "Let me guess, Bellamy sent you?" Octavia raised her brows while pointing at Auriella.

Auriella hummed in response, earning an eye roll from Octavia as she went to talk to the other half of the group. "Are you going to have any fun down here?" Auriella questioned the blonde girl, who she had now started to walk beside.

The brunette heard a scoff come from the blonde girl. She had learned quickly that Clarke was the type of person to care for everybody, but she wanted to know if she could have fun too. If you couldn't have fun what was the point in coming to the ground? Of course, she understood they needed to know if the ground was livable again but that couldn't be it.

"We need to focus on surviving and getting to mount weather." Clarke answered. Auriella hummed and shook her head. "I see what type of person you are." Auriella said, her gaze straight ahead on the group of four in front of them.

"Yeah? What type of person am I?" Clarke questioned, looking up at the slightly taller girl to her right. "You make sure everyone survives before you feel you can have fun." Auriella said matter-of-factly.

"Well, somebody has to keep us alive." The blonde shrugged. "Sometimes you can have fun in the midst of keeping everyone alive, let loose a little." Auriella stifled a laugh as she nudged the girl to the left of her, earning a slight chuckle.

"I'll let loose once I know everybody is surviving." Clarke mimicked her saying. Auriella rolled her eyes as she looked down at the blonde girl, "Take it from me, someone who's been in a cell basically their whole life, Life should be about more than just surviving." Auriella raised her eyebrows at Clarke, a smile tugging at her lips.

The brunette saw the way Clarke just looked at her, almost as if she was studying her. She noticed the way her eyebrows scrunched, how her lips parted every now and then, and how her blue eyes searched all around her face. Auriella somehow didn't feel uncomfortable by this, she felt like if she could, she would let Clarke stare at her all day if that's what she wanted.

Auriella broke the eye contact by looking to the ground, seeing the purple flowers that littered it. She smiled as she bent down and picked one up, looking over her shoulder at Finn and Octavia. She watched as Finn moved her hair aside and put a flower in Octavia's hair.

"That my friend is game." Jasper spoke to Monty. "That my friend is poison sumac." Monty retorted as he plucked a flower from the ground. "What, it is?" Octavia questioned as she frantically tried to remove the flower from her hair. "The flowers aren't poisonous. They're medicinal, calming, actually." Monty answered as the four came walking towards Clarke and Auriella.

"Well in that case-" Auriella smiled as she placed a flower in Clarke's hair and gave her a small smile. "Really compliments your eyes." The brunette shrugged as she backed away slightly. "Will you stop flirting with me?" Clarke spoke as she looked up at Auriella, who's smirk didn't falter. The blonde grabbed the flower from her hair and handed it back to Auriella with an eye roll.

"Feisty, I like you captain." Auriella bit the inside of her cheek, still having the same smirk on her face. "But if I was flirting you would know." The brunette chuckled as she backed away. She still kept her eyes on the blonde girl, who furrowed her eyebrows. She saw as Clarke shrugged her off and turned to the rest of the group.

To Auriella this wasn't flirting by her standards, she really did think the purple flowers complimented her blue eyes. If she was going to flirt with someone, she was going to make sure they knew it was flirting. She wasn't the type of person to hide her feelings, she was the type of person to show someone her feelings and wait to see if they did something about it.

"Hey, would you guys try and keep up." Clarke switched her focus to the four people behind them. "Come on, Clarke. How do you block all this out?" Finn questioned. "Well, it's simple. 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. Sure, is pretty though, come on." Clarke finished as she turned around and continued walking.

"Somebody should slip her some poison sumac." Octavia commented, earning an eye roll from Auriella. "Really?" The brunette crossed her arms and looked disapprovingly at Octavia. "Yeah, really." Octavia stifled a laugh as she walked past Auriella, the others following and leaving there brunette alone.

Auriella rolled her eyes once more as she jogged to the front of the group, meeting Clarke who was bent down. She put her finger up to her mouth, making sure Ella was quiet and pointed out into the open field.

Auriella's line of sight went to where her finger was pointing, seeing a deer grazing. A bright smile spread across her face as her gaze turned back to Clarke, still keeping the smile. "I wasn't wrong about this complimenting your eyes." Auriella whispered as she placed the flower back in Clarke's hair.

Clarke pursed her lips, fighting the smile that was forcing itself onto her lips. Their moment was cut short when Octavia and the others came from behind, Clarke doing the same with them as she did with Auriella. "No animals, huh?" Finn mocked, Clarke turning her head and smiling.

Auriella watched as Finn stepped forward for a closer look. She couldn't help the smile on her face knowing that there was other life out there. Her moment was cut short when a branch cracked under Finn's steps causing the deer to turn its head.

Auriella's eyes widened as she fell back, landing on the grass. She stared at the deer, that she now saw had two heads. What did they just walk into? She let out a gasp as she tried to process what she just saw as the deer sprinted away. "What the hell was that." Auriella whispered.

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authors note-

I don't know why but I really love this chapter, we're getting some of Octavia/Bellamy and Ella but also quite a lot of Clarke and Ella. I wish I had a ship name for them but everyone I come up with is terrible.

If yall have any pls comment bc I would love to hear them and also y'all's thoughts.

Also thank yall for almost 900 reads already!!

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