AN: I am SOOOOOOOOOO sorry I haven't updated in awhile! Life has been crazy between training for work and trying to keep ideas for this fanfic in my mind and just life is hectic sometimes. Enjoy and review my loves!

Hayla woke the next morning before the sun, the faint colors of dawn appearing just below the peaks of the mountains in the distance. There was silence throughout the entire building, and outside the animals had not yet waken. Hayla felt an annoyance rise inside of her as she climbed out from under the animal furs, sweaty and shaken up from a nightmare. She had bit the inside of her lip when she woke up to stop herself from screaming, but the biting resulted in blood filling her mouth. She spat into the wash basin in her room, moving quickly to wash her body before dressing. Hayla glimpsed the sun starting to rise, the magnificent oranges and pinks staining the sky. It was a sight she was sure she'd never get used to.

Hayla moved silently through the halls, stopping only to take a roll from the Commander's kitchen before slipping down the flights of stairs it took to make it to the ground. The guards barely glanced at her as she passed them, now used to her strange morning ritual. Ever since Hayla had made it to the Commander's Tower, she had been getting up early and leaving the grounds to watch the sun rise.

When Lexa first found out, she had ordered the guards to follow Hayla, but once she decided that Hayla was trained enough to be safe on her own, Lexa told the guards to just let her be.

There was a sudden rustle behind Hayla as she walked into the woods behind the tower.

"Chon ste der?( Who is there?)" she demanded. Her hand hovered above the knife in her belt as she turned her head to see behind her. The rest of her body turned around as she recognized the boy behind her.

"Wow, didn't realize you spoke Grounder." he beamed at her. Hayla froze, suddenly confused by the boy's genuine interest in the language. "My name is Finn. You're Hayla right?"

"Yeah. I remember you now, Spacewalker right?" her dark curls bobbed up and down as she nodded her head.

"I mean I prefer Finn, but yeah. The Spacewalker." Finn's dark eyes rolled slightly and Hayla studied him for a moment.

"You prefer to not be called Spacewalker?" she raised an eyebrow at him, her face lit only from the light of the nearby torch.

"I don't really mind it, I guess." he trailed off, making Hayla even more curious.

"Why did you follow me out here?" she asked.

"Wanted to see where the Grounder Princess was running too. I'm a good tracker, I figured that if I lost you, I could test out my skills." he shrugged, a grin playing on his face. Hayla smiled at him after a moment before nodding towards the woods.

"Come on, I'll show you around, Finn of the Sky People." Hayla started to move then, away from the Tower and the city and into the solitary woods. Finn watched with awe and jealousy as Hayla moved with grace and no sound. It looked as if the nature surrounding her was moving to part for her, but as Finn watched closer he saw that her movements were purposely weaving around the trees and bushes.

"I learned one of my first mornings out here how alive everything is. The trees, the grass, the animals. Even the sunrises seem to change each day as if they had their own life energy inside of them. To move with honor in the woods is to move around nature, not to expect it to move for you." Finn smiled slightly at the words, but even more so when he heard a rush of water.

"Are we near a stream?" he asked.

"Even better, Spacewalker. When we get there, you can tell me why you don't like that nickname." Hayla's movement quickened and before they knew it, the trees were opening up to display a fast moving creek that opened up to a calm pond. Hayla took off her boots in an almost child-like manner, tossing them in a pile before she pulled up her pant legs and jogged over to one of the large rocks that was creating a gentle waterfall from the creek to the pond. She sat on a dry part of the rock before shifting her body to dangle her feet into the stream of water. Finn copied Hayla and sat next to her, leaning forward slightly to study the running water.

"Raven's going to love this." he smiled.

"Who's Raven?"

"She's my girlfriend. We were neighbors growing up."

"Did she come here with you?" Hayla's green orbs moved to study Finn's brown ones. The steady stare that Finn sent back to her made Hayla trust him more. He was stubborn, but smart.

"She wasn't one of the 100 criminals sent down, but she bargained with Abby, saying they'd need a good mechanic on earth, so they sent her down too. Figured it would help us."

"So you just wake up earlier than her?" Hayla was pushing, trying to find out why he was with her at sunrise and not in bed snuggling up to Raven.

"Today I did. Didn't want to wake her, she tends to be high strung when she's awake. It's good for her body to have some time to relax." Hayla looked at Finn. She couldn't picture him being with someone that would be described as "high strung". However, she had heard the saying "opposites attract".

"So, why do you dislike the Spacewalker nickname?" Finn looked at her, but it seemed as if his mind was far away. "We've still got time until first light, you might as well tell me."

"Fine, but you have to tell me anything I want to know in return."

"Fine." Hayla waved her hand as if the idea was an annoying bug.

"Raven was the one who went on the spacewalk, not me." he paused, waiting for a reaction.

"I know." Hayla responded. "So what? You don't like the nickname because you feel like a fraud? Feel like people think you're someone you're not? So what. Welcome to Earth, where you can be pretty much anyone you want without judgement." Hayla rolled her eyes.

"How'd you know?!" his eyes darted to hers.

"Is this your one question?" she joked. "Fine. You didn't really think they only sent me down here and locked me up because I have weird blood did you?" Finn still wasn't comprehending and Hayla knew it. She huffed. "I was a hacker, I got into the database and the main frame. I know all of the crimes that occurred up until a few days before I was sent, including yours. But when I looked into the hidden security footage, I was able to zoom in enough and clarify the image and saw what really happened. Since you were there alone, they had no reason to check the cameras. And when I looked Raven up and saw that she was 18, I just kept it to myself."

"Wait, so they had you in medical and SkyBox isolation at the same time?" Hayla nodded.

"That's why Clarke and her mother were the only one's taking care of me. But once they decided to send me to the ground, they gave me back my computer equipment. You know, to be nice before they send me to my death." Hayla rolled her eyes.

"So why not say that when you came to the Dropship?" Hayla's face darkened.

"I assume now that you are all coming down, and the rest will be coming down soon, that it will soon be found out, but none of the Grounders know. It might be useful, getting the Grounders out of Mount Weather, but when I first came down here the last thing I wanted to appear as is a criminal." It all clicked in Finn's head then, why the security on the Ark had suddenly increased about 2 years before. The entire Ark main frame had been hacked into, the emergency alarm had gone off. Everyone had been told that the person responsible for the hack had been floated and that no damage to the system had been done. Maybe, Finn thought, the Council had hoped that a solo one-way ticket to Earth was worse than being floated. Maybe the Council was afraid of her.

"How are you going to make sure that when the rest come down, they don't turn on the Grounders?" Finn asked suddenly. Both Hayla and Finn had their eyes now trained on the sky as brilliant pinks and purples started to phase in as the sun prepared for the day.

"Hopefully I'll have the support of everyone they already sent down. Also, there is the fact that all of you as well as myself have been safely taken into the arms of the Commander, protected and fed and sheltered. And if that's not enough, I know some things about the Council members, about the Ark, about our whole government that could tear them down. Either way, they'll follow." The two were silent as they watched the sunrise. She knew Clarke's pale hands would be flexing, itching to be able to draw or paint the scene. The blonde had tried to teach Hayla to draw when she helped care for her, but Hayla hadn't been able to catch on and Clarke had given up.

"Time to go back." Hayla stood and stretched before moving to slide her boots back on. "Once the sun comes up, people start to wake up and breakfast is soon to be served. We've got a long day ahead of us." Finn followed her lead and pulled on his shoes before they made their way into the woods. They were silent for most of the way, until Hayla broke it.

"Do me a favor, don't tell anyone that I was a hacker. You, Clarke, and Bellamy are the only ones that know and I'd like for it to stay that way for awhile."

"I'll keep your secret if you keep mine." Hayla nodded, a small smile on her lips. "Do you come out here every morning?" he asked.

"Most of them. It's not something you ever get used to." she shrugged.

"Mind if I join again?"

"Any time you want, Spacewalker."

The first thing Hayla did when she got back to the Tower was run straight to Bellamy's room. She slipped off her boots in the alcove of his room. Bellamy had been given a special room, as had Octavia as an act of friendship on Hayla's part. They both had little closed off alcoves outside the actual room with a wooden bench and a wash basin. Hayla's boots went under the bench and her jacket and weapons belt went on top of it. She washed her hands and face in the basin before quietly opening the door to his room. She stopped momentarily to appreciate the gentle look on Bellamy's sleeping face, the freckles on his face made him seem younger. His breathing was deep and even; he had always been a deep sleeper. Hayla smiled as she slid out of her pants and then slid into the bed next to him. As a child, Bellamy and Hayla would have sleepovers at the Blake residence when Hayla's mom and Bellamy's mom had to work. They often took the same night shifts to make it easier on the kids. They would sleep at the Blake's because they had to watch out for Octavia, but Bellamy and Hayla would always cuddle up close to each other to keep warm. Sometimes they would just sleep in the same bed on a regular night if it was especially cold.

But now, as Hayla was in bed with Bellamy once more, it didn't feel like a cold night on the Ark as Bellamy snaked his arm around her waist and pulled her closer. It didn't feel like a sleepover as he murmured "Hayla" in her ear and nuzzled her cheek with his nose.

"You're awake?" she asked.

"Not really." Bellamy mumbled. Hayla laughed softly before wiggling so that she was closer to his shirtless frame. She turned her head towards his and pressed her full lips to his. He kissed back softly at first, and then harder, stirring excitement inside Hayla.

"Come on, we need to get to breakfast." she patted his back. Bellamy groaned, the sound sent vibrations through his lips to where they were pressed against her collarbone and she couldn't help but giggle at the feeling.

"What was that?" Bellamy's eyes were wide, faking shock.

"Oh shut up. Let's go." She stood and watched as his eyes followed the shape of her body. "I'm going to leave without you!" she called from the alcove. Bellamy was up and out of bed then, following Hayla's lead in getting dressed. Soon, the couple were making there way down the hall and to the dining room for their first breakfast together in over a year.