"I was an angel, living in the garden of the devil."

Chapter 12:
Scarlet

Flashback

SCARLET POV:

I am running, I've been running for several hours now. If they catch me - I'm dead. Our commander, Anya and her second Lexa are planning on destroying all of the sky people. And why am I involved in this? Because I disagreed with their matters. They wanted to wipe them out and still do, all of the 100 innocent kids who flew from the sky. They are all around my age, 17. There is maybe a year or two difference between us, but we are all the same. Human, flesh and blood. 

They came from the sky while we were born on the ground.

I don't think they are ready for what will follow, here - fear is death, weakness is death and love? Love is the biggest weakness of them all. I've been imprisoned for treason, here with my clan - trikru, speaking an opiniom about our enemies that is not in the favour of the clan earns you a death sentence. The reason why they didn't kill me was because Lexa was my best friend, practically a sister.I succeeded to escape, which means if I don't get away from the area of our village, Ton DC in time, the death will follow me and everyone I touch.
I am now, what people before called a fugitive, a traitor. 

2 years ago, my family was slaughtered by the Azgeda, the Ice Nation. Since then I swore upon myself and the people I have once loved that I was never to kill again. 

''No blood will be spilled by my sword and no bones will be broken by my hands.'' was the motto I went by.

Tears filled my eyes, causing my eyesight to obscure, I wiped them with the palms of my hands. Looking down I saw blood. I was shocked. 'What is happening to me?'

I saw an enormous gate, it was roughly 10 minutes away, my survival depended on the sky people, who might I add - Hated my kind.

Not 2 minutes later, an arrow struck my leg causing me to fall. We were trained for this, pain like this was nothing to us. I broke the broadhead and the fletching but it's shaft was still stuck inside my leg. I ran towards the gates, limping. My face was now covered not just in my black paint but in red too, I'd occasionally cough blood so I'd have it all around my mouth. I finally got to the gates who laid in front of me. A girl I noticed in the trees screamed out to the guards to check the outside of their camp for me. The next thing I know I was being carried by two boys when my eyes shut. 

I opened my eyes only to see an unusual blonde haired girl and a tall attractive guy with black curly hair and freckles. I was still being carried by 2 boys. Someone from the crowd screamed for them to hang me, but luckily the blonde interfered and she told them to back off. 

I blacked out, the last thing I felt was being carried - bridal style - to their metal box, which they called a droship? a dropish? dropship? 

Present

CLARKE POV: 

''My name is Scarlet'' 

''Hey Scarlet, nice to meet you. I'm Clarke and I'll treat you if that's okay.'' I smiled at her. 

She nodded, letting me continue. 
''Okay so first I have to remove the arrow shaft from your leg, this is gonna hurt, so you might wanna hold on to something and bite on the cloth?'' I asked her, handing her a piece of clean, white cloth. 

She took it in her hands and then placed it in her mouth. She bit tightly. 
I took some of Monty's moonshine that Octavia brought in earlier and spilled it over the cloth in my hands. I then placed the cloth on top of her wound and traced it across to wipe the blood and disinfect the wound of any bacteria. She screamed out, because of the moonshine, she felt as if her skin was on fire. Overall she was doing good, she was strong. Out of nowhere her eyes started tearing up blood. I yelled out to Octavia. 

''O! Get Bellamy now!!!!'' She nodded, immediately running towards him. A couple of minutes later, he came. 

''What's wrong?'' He asked in confusion.

''She's crying blood..'' My face expression shocked since I cannot explain it. 

''Wha-'' He was cut off by a loud cough. 

We turned around and saw a boy who carried her, now down on his knees vomiting blood. I quickly made a connection. 

''Bellamy, get away from me!'' I screamed at him.

''What are you talking about?'' His eyes indicated 
hurt, he reached out his hand and just before it made contact with me I yelled again.

''Don't touch me!'' At the sound of my screams he froze, not knowing what to do. 

''Clarke-'' 

''Bellamy this is a virus, everyone who had a brief contact with the guys who carried her, her or me need to come here asap! This is a quarantine! '' 

''I'll tell the others.'' I nodded and quickly spoke again. 

''And Bellamy,'' He met my gaze. ''Be careful.'' I told him, slightly smiling. 

''I always am, Princess.'' He smirked and then left. 

SCARLET POV: 

I woke up accompanied with an awful headache, I felt cold but I wasn't in any physical pain like I was just before. I looked down to my leg and it was fully bandaged, I moved the wet cloth from my forehead and got up. I slightly limped towards the dropship's exit. I covered my sight with a hand out of too much light at once. Most of my black paint from my face was gone causing me to feel uncomfortable in the environment of the sky people. I exited the dropship completely but a tall attractive guy I recognized from before yelled at me.

''It's not safe, go inside.'' He said. I looked at him, he was carrying a gun. I lowered my head and went back inside where I noticed about 15 people coughing blood. The blonde I recognized as Clarke was treating them all along side Octavia, I believed they called her. 

Did I do this? 

OCTAVIA POV: 

I noticed the grounder girl wondering around. I came up to her asking. 

''Hey, you okay? You were in pain the last time I saw you.'' I put on an 'understanding what you're going through' face. 

''Yeah, my leg is better thanks to you I guess. Thank you.'' She was kind.

''CLARKE! '' Someone screamed. Both Scarlet and I turned around and saw a guy laying on the floor, unconscious or dead. Clarke stormed off to his lifeless body and checked for a pulse, she then turned to us all and just shook her head in denial. 

We gathered around the guy, some of the people crying. I guess they were his friends. I didn't really know the guy but it was of course more than sad seeing one of ours like this. 
A girl I didn't recognize came up to Scarlet and started pushing her and yelling, 

''THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! IF YOU HADN'T CAME HERE, HE'D BE ALIVE AND ALL OF US WOULD STILL BE IN PERFECT HEALTH.'' She screamed. Clarke stormed in, breaking the fight and standing between them both. 

''Roma, back off!'' She demanded. No one dared to disobey Clarke, so the girl just moved away from Scarlet. 

''I'm sorry.'' Scarlet said and got the attention of approximately 20 people now. 

''What are you talking about?'' Clarke turned to her. 

''When I escaped from the lock-up, they must have injected me with a virus and let me go on purpose.'' She confessed 

''What do you mean escaped? What lock-up?'' I asked

She told us the whole story about the grounders and their plans, how she objected them and ended up in a lock-up and how they chased her away and shot at her. Everything.

''Is there a cure?'' Clarke asked but Scarlet just shook her head. 

''The virus isn't supposed to kill, it makes your body weak but surviving it is only up to your immune system and the care you receive.'' She told us. 

30 minutes later

More people came through the door and all I did was prayed it wasn't my brother and thank God, he wasn't among them.

CLARKE POV: 

I exited the dropship and walked towards Bellamy and his crew. He turned around,keeping a fair distance between us. It hadn't shown any sign of the virus present in my body. So, I guess I was good. 

"Clarke? What's up?" He asked.

"One of ours died not 5 minutes ago." I said, lowering my head in sadness.

"Who?" He asked frowning.

"I didn't know him, but Roma was close to him.. " I sighed "Our people are going to die and there is no cure Bellamy." As I finished a tear escaped my eyes. It rolled down my cheeks when Bellamy made a shocked and a worried expression.

"Clarke-" He started. I brushed my hand against my cheek so I'd wipe the tear away but when I looked down at my fingers, a trace of blood was left on them. 

"Bellamy, tell me I'm wrong!" I said as I showed him the blood on my fingers.

"Clarke I-" He was cut of by my sudden unconscious, my body froze in place and every muscle in my body was beginning to shut down. 

"CLARKE!" Bellamy yelled.

Just before I fell, he caught me. His strong arms wrapped around my waist, lifting me and then carrying me in to the dropship. My head lowered as if nothing held her in place. I was left breathless and soon my eyes shut closed.

Everything was black.