Anastasia took a spot amongst the others in the dining hall, Jasper was still in the recovery and nobody has heard anything about him. Monty took a seat with a clang of his tray next to Anastasia.

"I saw him" Monty uttered getting all the attention, "Tsing let me in, he's being released later today" he said.

"That's good" Miller remarked taking a bite of his apple.

"As soon as Jasper is cleared, we need to find a way out of here" Anastasia remarked almost in a whisper.

"You think that's still an option?" Monty questioned.

"It doesn't matter if it is option, something's happening here that they aren't telling us, and now that our blood cured one of them from the brink of death, it's only going to get worst for us" Anastasia explained.

"Then it's settled we get Jasper and then go" Miller said and everyone nodded.

"And keep it quiet, we can't have them stopping us" Anastasia added standing up taking her tray with her a disposing it.

The entire 48 of them were in the dorm room, when Jasper arrived with a box of heartfelt thank you's from members of the mountain for saving Maya.

"Jasper!" Monty said hugging him.

"Jasper, hurry up we don't have much time" Anastasia urged placing her clothes into a pack.

"What's going on?" Jasper asked looking at all of them packing.

"We're leaving" Miller replied.

"What? Why?" Jasper questioned frantic.

"Clarke is still out there, we must find her" Anastasia stated walking towards Jasper.

"We can't leave! They need us" Jasper contracted.

"They need out blood, they don't need us" Anastasia retorted.

"Guys, think about everything they've done for us" Jasper began, "I mean they gave us shelter, clean clothes, they kept us save from the grounders" Already people were beginning to leave Jasper's speech, "Miller, they saved your life" he tried to debate.

"Dude you puked for three days" Miller countered.

"That's different" Jasper tried to explain, "the normal treatments wouldn't be as bad"

"So they say" Monty bit back.

"So, what, then?" Miller began, "Only puking for one day, nah, I'm out" Miller decided walking off.

"Sorry, Jasper, I'm out too" Harper replied, a chorus of rejections to the idea began as everyone began leaving.

"Come on!" Jasper protested, "They gave us cake" he tried in his last bet, "I have a sign up sheet" he said giving up.

"Dude, what are you doing?" Monty questioned.

"What?" Jasper questioned.

"When did you start working for them?" Anastasia protested, "You know what, never mind, now that you're better we're going after Clarke" she began walking back towards her pack.

"Of course" Monty cursed seeing Maya walk into the room, "Right on time"

"Hey guys" Maya said as the trio stood around her, "Jasper I'm so glad you're feeling better" she said with a smile as she flipped open a notebook to a page that read 𝚊𝚌𝚝 𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚕,,, 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢'𝚛𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐.

"Thanks, I am" Jasper slowly said, as Maya flipped the page again, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝚠𝚊𝚜𝚗'𝚝 𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚌𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚝, 𝙵𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝙼𝚎. "You look uh, rested" Jasper stated continuing the fake conversation.

"Hey, it's pizza day" she uttered with a laugh, "Who's hungry?" She questioned as she began out the door as the trio followed her down the hallway into an unmarked room. Monty closed the door behind them as Maya began, "We don't have much time but we can talk freely here" she said sounding scared.

"What the hell is going on?" Jasper questioned, as tears welted in her eyes, "Maya" he stated softened.

"I'm sorry" Maya replied.

"About what?" Jasper asked, "What do you mean it wasn't an accident?"

"They exposed her to radiation on purpose" Anastasia stated.

"I bet it was to get you to agree to be her blood brother" Monty bit at him, Maya nodded quietly, "I knew it, Clarke was right" he stated with a egocentric demeanor.

"Monty be quiet" Jasper snapped, " Did you know about this?"

"No" Maya shook her head, the tears still in her eyes.

"And why would they do that to you?" Jasper asked.

"Because the standard treatment sucks compared to you" Maya replied.

"That's what Dante said" Jasper said.

"What's the standard treatment?" Anastasia questioned.

"Through there" Maya pointed as they turned the corner into a room near a vent. Anastasia walked forward opening on the flaps to see a giant jail with grounders hurting in tiny cages as far as the eye can see.

"Oh god" Jasper gasped, "are those all grounders?" He asked.

"Wait a second, why are you showing us this?" Monty turned back towards her.

"Because I'm afraid" Maya replied.

"Of what?" Jasper quivered.

"That you're next" Maya replied with a wet breath.

"Who else knows about this?" Jasper asked

"Everyone, but nobody talks about it, we learn not to ask questions" Maya said rubbing her elbows, "Look if we don't get the treatments we die" she tried to explain it, "What are we supposed to do?" She questioned.

"Die" Monty bluntly remarked.

"We have to get out of here" Monty said, "Dante said we could leave, right?" Monty replied.

"He was lying" Jasper exasperated, "He knew I'd be too scared to leave, just like he knew I'd do what had to be done to save Maya" he lamented looking towards Maya.

"So we don't ask" Monty retorted blandly, "If Clarke got out, we can, too"

"You'll never make it" Maya replied, "Ever since Clarke disappeared, security all around the mountain has been increased" she explained.

"We have to try" Monty opposed.

"We not leaving" Anastasia spoke up changing her mind, "I won't leave the others behind, if that means they end up in there" She continued.

"What choice do we have?" Monty questioned.

"We volunteer" Jasper replied.

Monty and Anastasia were laid on the medical bed as they were stuck with a needle.

"The general anesthetic will take effect immediately" Tsing uttered, "You won't feel a thing" she said before walking away.

"How high are you guys right now?" Jasper asked with a laugh.

"Oh, I almost don't care that there's a 6-inch spike in my neck" Monty replied with a laugh.

"Ana?" Jasper questioned.

"So this is what smoking weed feels like, I missed out on so much" Anastasia replied earning laughs from Jasper and Monty before Jasper was issued off by President Dante.

Anastasia and Monty were out of the medical room and were recovering in their dorm, they were feeling sick and a sense of fatigue.

"I love this song" Jasper said walking over to the speaker increasing the volume before walking over and sitting down on the empty spot on the bottom bunk next to Miller, as Monty, Harper, were on the other as Anastasia was almost passed out on the top bunk but she was still hanging off of it listening to them, "Okay, it's safe to talk" he said as Miller swung himself to a sitting position, "we bought ourselves some time, but we're going to need to recruit some of the others, only people we trust" he said.

"How much more time are we talking about buying here?" Miller questioned shrugging his shoulders.

"Long enough for Clarke to break us out" Monty replied.

"We don't even know if Clarke is still alive" Harper stated.

"She has to be" Anastasia spoke from the top.

"Well then she better hurry the hell up" Miller said rubbing his hands together.

It's been about a few days sense they had decided to volunteer up their blood, within that time they had only recruited two other people. They haven't slowed down on retrieving their blood, it more felt like they were speeding up. They were in a permanent state of aches ever since it started.

"I'm tried of puking" Harper complained.

"I'm tried of being a human pincushion" Miller stated leaning back against the board of the bed.

"Look, I know this sucks, but as long as it seems like we're cooperating, we're buying ourselves time" Jasper said as Anastasia nodded.

"Time for what?" Miller complained, "I say if we're going to die in here, we might as well die trying to escape" he debated.

"We've been over this" Jasper stated, "After Clarke, there is no escape"

"We just have to hold on long enough for her to find a way to get us out" Anastasia backed Jasper up.

"What if she doesn't find a way?" Monty snapped back, "What if she didn't make it out?, What if it's just the story they're telling us to hide the fact they killed her?" He said tensing everyone up, "Then no ones coming for us and we're doing exactly what they want us to, Jasper, Ana, you know you've thought it too"

"All right then, we escape" Harper stated.

"No" Jasper chimed in, "We find the truth"

"How do we do that?" Monty questioned.

"We're criminals right?, well most of us" Jasper added looking towards Anastasia, "So let's be criminals"

The plan was simple, Anastasia would distract the president while Jasper, Monty, Miller, and Harper broke into his office, and would be Maya decontaminated the surveillance room.

"President!" Anastasia called out as he was about to leave the dining hall after dinner.

"Ana, I was just about to come talk to you about the immense success you and all your friends has started" Dante stated with enthusiasm.

"We are happy to help" she lied through her teeth. Pulling out a smile as she could still feel the needle that was injected in her yesterday.

Great, good, wonderful" he uttered nodding his head, "So why did you call for me?" He questioned.

"I was wondering if we could talk" Anastasia stumbled out, all Jasper told her was keep him busy until she was signaled that they were out.

"About what?" President jokingly questioned "How are you situating now that Clarke is gone?" He quickly responded.

"Fine, I'm good" she nodded distinctly. He instigated that she should sit down as he pulled out a chair from the dining set up. Anastasia took the seat, as the president took one next to her.

"I completely understand if you are beginning to feel a little lost, first Bellamy, and now Clarke" He said.

"I'm not lost" she dismissed him, as he nodded understandingly, "but I would like to ask you about Clarke's escape"

"Of course" he nodded indicating for her to continue.

"Clarke wasn't planning on escaping, I knew that, I found her after she cut herself, she did it to find the truth, so whatever she found was bad enough to make her run" she stated like she was telling a story, "So what did she find?" She questioned him already knowing the answer.

"I couldn't tell you" The president blurted out, "Maybe Clarke just found a way out and took it" he questioned.

"Is that what you think?" she asked him with a hint of resentment.

"Yes, Clarke in my mind was always going to run" He responded calmly.

"That's because you don't know her" Anastasia replied rudely.

"I don't, but Clarke did escape, there is nothing else to hide from you" He admitted almost in a judging tone, "Here" He changed the subject pulling out of book from the side sliding it to her, "You left it" He pushed it towards her, as the cover became more clear Romeo and Juliet. The same old book he had given to her before she left it to find Clarke.

"I've already read it" Anastasia replied not taking it.

"Of course, but it never hurts to reread" he added picking up the book and placing it in her hands.

"Don't really have time now" She replied placing the book back on the table in front of her, pushing her hair behind her ears.

"Ana?" The duo turned around as Miller stood in the hallway beckoning her to come with him, "Jasper and Monty wants to talk to you" he added nodding over to her as she returned standing up. The president stopped her from leaving. Miller and Anastasia's heartbeat rose as the president pulled her back.

"Don't want to forget again" he joked handing her the book. Anastasia just nodded quickly grabbing the book as she quickly escaped the room. Meeting up the Miller at the entrance, as they walked towards the dorms.

"So what did you guys find?" Anastasia questioned stopping him in the hallway.

"We should probably wait till we're back into the dorm" Miller said as Anastasia nodded, continuing down the hallway as they walked into the room where Monty and Jasper were sitting on the beds. Monty was looking at a thick stack of paper when they walked in. Jasper spotted them walking to turn up the music, as Anastasia and Miller took a seat on the bottom bunks.

"So" Anastasia egged them on as Jasper joined them.

"We found the engineering schematics" Monty said holding up his piece of paper that look folded over many times.

"That's it?" Anastasia questioned, as Jasper, Miller, and Monty shared a look, "Guys, what is it?" She questioned them.

"Monty was able to hack into their computer, and we found photos of our people, alive on the ground" Jasper uttered clearing his throat.

"Bellamy?" Anastasia questioned hopeful.

"No, it was the ark, Alpha Station, survivors from the crash" Monty replied, bringing her mood down.

"But if they were lying about them to us, then maybe they are all alive and they lied about them too" Miller added trying to comfort her.

"Yeah, we can talk about this tomorrow, it's getting late" Jasper added as the others nodded. Monty stuffed the papers under his pillow as Anastasia and Jasper walked up to the top bunks and Miller took the bottom on next to Monty. They both found it weird that Harper hadn't come back yet but they thought nothing of it, hoping that she would be back soon.

The next morning, Harper still hadn't come back, but they all went to breakfast and acted like everything was normal. Miller, Monty, and Anastasia left early while Jasper stayed behind to talk to Maya. Monty removed the papers from the pillow, Miller sat next to him while Anastasia found a spot across, making sure that the music was loud enough to block out the sounds of their conversation.

"If Alpha's on the ground, maybe other stations are too" Miller stated.

"You're both from Alpha? Right" Monty said looking over to Anastasia and Miller, as the both nodded.

"My dad was chief guard" Miller replied, "He sure loved having a thief for a kid" he remarked sarcastically with a tight lip.

"You're a great thief" Anastasia replied jokingly, causing Miller to smile.

"These are engineering schematics for this whole place" Monty said, "If there's a way out, we're going to find it" he optimistically uttered. Jasper strutted into the dorm with worry as he walked up to the three.

"Guys, Harper didn't show up for breakfast" Jasper urged, "You guys seen her?" He asked as they stood up.

"Not since Dante's office" Miller replied.

"So where the hell is she?" Monty questioned, as their lucky feeling began to decrease.