Madi

I see a forest with a small village in the middle. "It's like the radiation skipped over this." I say to Lexa. I see a bird, and I shoot it. "Diner." I say. We walk to the village, and make a fire. We cook the bird and eat. We get water from a small pond in the village. After we eat, we go into one of the bigger huts in the village. "We can stay in here. Hopefully we will be able to get through the winter." Lexa says.

We get through about 5 months before winter hits. I radio Raven everyday, even though I know the signal went out before. Lexa doesn't question it, she always just sits with me while I talk through our day into the radio. I think it's the only thing keeping us sane. Snow starts to fall, and Lexa and I set up a fire. We made warmer clothes with fur from animals that we killed. At night, we cuddle in our bed and we stay warm. I know we will survive this.

After about a year of hunting, drinking water from the pond, eating berries we find, looking around for supplies, and talking to the radio everyday, we hear a noise in the woods. It doesn't sound like an animal. It sounds like a human. I take out my gun, and Lexa takes out her sword that she made. As I walk into the woods with her, the noise gets louder. I see a girl. How is she alive? She runs away from me. "We won't hurt you!" I yell to her. She runs toward the lake. I yell to her that we wont hurt her in trideslang, in case she can't understand me. She keeps running. "You go that way. I'll go this way." I tell Lexa. She nods and runs off. The child stops running. "Are you a natblida?" I ask her. She keeps backing up slowly. "We won't hurt you." I step on something, and I feel something pierce through the skin in my leg. I realize it's a bear trap. "Aghhh!" I yell in pain. "Die fleimkeepa!" The child yells. She runs at me while I'm stuck in the trap. She tries to stab my head with a knife, but I move and she hits my shoulder. I scream in pain, as my blood pours out. "Natblida." She says, before she runs off. Lexa finds me. "Clarke!" She yells. She helps me get the bear trap off, and I wince when it lets go. "Let's get you back to the village." She says. She helps me walk back. On the way I tell her what happened.

Once we get back I stitch myself up, since Lexa doesn't really know how to. Lexa puts and arm around my shoulder lightly kisses me all over my body as I wince from every stitch. Her kisses help, even her just being here is comforting. "We should find that kid. She could be with more people. She could have supplies. We can help each other." I tell Lexa.

When I'm able to walk better in the morning, I go to the lake with Lexa. I see the girl there, with a fish on a spear. "Hey!" I yell to her. She immediately runs to the woods. I sit down on the rocks and draw a picture of the child. I can hear her watching Lexa and me from the woods, but I don't let her know that I know she's watching. Lexa watches me as I draw. I set the finished drawing down on the rocks, and I go back to camp. The kid will hopefully go over to it and she'll know that we're not a threat. When me and Lexa get back to camp, I hear the girl near us. She approaches us slowly, and speaks in trideslang. "Who are you?" She asks us. We tell her. "How are you alive?" I ask. "I watched you and got fish from the lake when you weren't there." She says in trideslang. She holds up my drawing of her. "Is this me?" She asks. "Yes." I reply. "What's your name?" Lexa asks her. "Madi." "Are you alone?" I ask. "Yes. I don't know where my family is."

Over the next few months, Madi stays with us. We help her get more food and we teach her English. We even manage to get the rover from Arkadia, because some of Arkadia wasn't destroyed. Madi learns to trust us, and we learn to trust her.

We sit on logs that we put near the fire. Lexa and Madi both sit next to me. Lexa gives me a peck on the lips, and I smile. I show Madi my drawings that I recently finished. She takes my drawing book to look through them. She flips to a drawing of Octavia. She asks what she was like. I tell her all about her, and about everyone else. "Octavia's definitely my favorite, besides you guys of course." Madi says in trideslang. "English Madi." I tell her softly. "Sorry." She flips to a drawing of the rocket that took of befire the radiation hit. "I'm sorry that they left without you." She says. "I'm not. If I was with them, then I never would've met you." I tell her. She smiles. Even though she's not biologically related to me and Lexa, I see Lexa's smile when Madi smiles. She sees a drawing of Lexa. "How did you two meet?" Madi asks. Lexa laughs, remembering how we were enemies when we first met, and how so much has changed since then. I start from the beginning, and it takes all day to tell Madi our story, and there is still more I could tell her.

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