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Five Years Later
A lot has changed for the family in the years since Murphy and Emori brought Clarke back home from the Sanctum 1 medical center. Two weeks after the initial checkup, Clarke healed enough from the Red Sun Toxin that she started speech therapy and physical therapy in the few weeks following.
She did well, she can now walk long distances around the house, not needing to scoot or crawl anymore. Sometimes John carried her when she was sick but other than that, she was independently mobile. They didn’t even use the wheelchair much anymore, though they did keep it just in case, and used it when Clarke would be outside for long stretches of time, going around the compound.
As great as the physical therapy was for Clarke, the speech therapy didn’t hold the same effect. Gabriel was right in the sense that it stimulated her, and she seemed more alert and aware, more interested in conversations in general, but her specific speech patterns basically stayed the same. It wasn’t that big of a deal though, especially now that Gabriel had gifted her the tablet.
The presence of the tablet strengthened the relationships Clarke not only had with Emori and Murphy, but with all of her other friends in the compound, since she could know hold conversations with others easily.
Shortly after Clarke was given the all clear from Gabriel, Echo, Indra, and Bellamy went forward with prosecuting Jackson and Natalie for their wrong doings. There were three other staff members of the medical center that were also convicted, because even if they didn’t partake in the illegal experiments, they still knew of them while they were happening and didn’t do anything to stop it or protect Clarke. Their negligence cost them their jobs and they, along with Jackson and Natalie, were spending time in the jail that was constructed in the compound. Those three had five more years to serve, Natalie had ten more years and Jackson twenty more years before being released and once let out, they were not allowed to practice medicine in any form ever again.
The biggest change however, was the size of the Murphy family. Two years after the Red Sun Incident, Emori gave birth to a little girl whom she and Murphy named Aspen Olivia. Aspen was three now, and a proud big sister as well. When she was one and a half, Emori had another little girl, Amaya Grace, and most recently, she and Murphy had twin boys, three-month-old Isaac Thomas and Isaiah William.
Clarke was even able to patch things up with her own daughter. Even though Madi still lived with Gaia, the almost twenty-year-old sat down with Clarke a few years prior and the two had a long talk, to explain and apologize, and now they had more of a sisterly relationship with time.
Clarke still wasn’t really able to do much to help the community around the compound, but she still provided assistance in her own way, helping Murphy and Emori take care of their children when the two had to work.
Even if the circumstances weren’t planned and Clarke’s life wasn’t going how she thought it’d go, she was grateful to have good friends and family to stand by her side and help her through whatever this new adventure brought for her next.