Flaw ↠ John Murphy [1] O.H.

1. 02; uneasy allies

02; UNEASY ALLIES

The group have been walking for a while with Clarke leading, charging like she wasn't planning on stopping anytime soon. Alex lags behind with Octavia and the other two boys she still doesn't know the names of, enjoying the scenery. She watches as Finn pulls a purple flower from one of the bushes and places it behind Octavia's ear, being his usual charming self.

"Now that, my friend, is game." The lanky boy with the goggles says, before his voice gets lower. "Maybe I should do that."

"Or maybe you shouldn't because that's poison sumac." The other boy replies, making Octavia gasp and shake the flower out of her hair. Alex laughs and the other girl slaps her arm in return. "The flowers aren't poisonous, they're medicinal. Calming actually."

"His family grows all the pharmaceuticals on the Ark." The tall boy explains.

Clarke turns around to face them, the exasperation clear on her face. "Hey guys, would you try to keep up?" She snaps.

"Someone has a stick up their ass." Alex mumbles, low enough for Octavia to hear and snort at.

"Come on Clarke!" Finn exclaims. "How do you block all this out?"

"Well, it's simple." Clarke says like it's obvious. "I wonder why we haven't seen any animals. Maybe it's because there are none. Maybe it's because we've been exposed to enough radiation to kill us." And Finn called her the killjoy. "Sure is pretty though."

"I was wrong about the stick." Alex mutters as Clarke turns away. "It's a pole." Apparently, it wasn't quiet enough as Clarke glances back at her and glares.

"Yeah." Octavia agrees. "Someone should slip her some poison sumac." The rest of the group sniggers and follows behind Clarke.

The group continues walking, soon reaching higher ground. Alex stumbles over a rock and nearly hits the ground, before her arm is grabbed and she gets pulled back to her feet. She looks up to see the lanky boy helping her up and giving her a wide smile. "Thanks." She tells him, pulling her arm back.

He shrugs awkwardly. "No problem at all, saving damsels is what I do." The other boy snorts and Alex raises an eyebrow, trying her hardest to not laugh, even though the boy looks like he wants to cringe at his line.

"Is it now?" She asks.

"Yeah!" He replies. "But you know, if you did what to thank me, you could tell me your name because I don't seem to know it yet." His rambling makes Alex smile slightly.

"Alex." She replies.

"I'm Jasper." He replies, before pointing over at the other boy. "That's Monty." Monty gives her a wave.

Finn pipes up from further ahead of the group. "I got to know what got you two busted!"

"Sumac's not the only herb in the garden if you know what I mean." Monty tells the group, smirking slightly. Alex connects the dots pretty quickly.

"Wait so you two were the ones who supplied the weed to Jackson?" Alex asks, raising an eyebrow as she named one of the boys she knew, who supplied 'recreational' drugs to the section of The Ark she lived in. He told he got it from someone a little higher up than he was. She certainly didn't expect these two to be the suppliers of illegal drugs to the people of the Ark.

Jasper turns to her, an intrigued look on his face. "Am I talking to a client?" He asks.

She just smiles at him in return. Some nights when Alex wasn't worried about surprise inspections, she and Raven, and at times Finn would...relax for a while with the help of the weed they had gotten off of Jackson. Though, this was mostly before Alex's father died and Raven stared studying for the Zero-g exam.