Half a Moon: 14 Days of Celebrating Women

Space (The 100, Octavia)

Monty had said to her once that he missed space, that it had been where he’d been happiest. Octavia could understand how that might have been for him; the Ark had been where his mother was still alive, where he hadn’t had to kill her while she was under the influence of A.L.I.E to save Octavia, where he’d still had Jasper, his best friend.

For Octavia, however, it was the opposite; space had held no happy memories for her, just many years of hearing Bellamy talking about life on the Ark and knowing that being an illegal second child she could never be a part of it, reading about these seasons called spring and summer and wishing she could experience them. On the ground, she was free to live a life where she wouldn’t be punished for her mere existence, where Bellamy was also free to have friends without having to worry that she would be discovered if he ever asked anyone back. And even if Lincoln had been taken from her, the ground was where Octavia had experienced love.

So while it made sense for Monty to feel that he missed space, Octavia had no desire to ever see it again.


Healing (Lost, Juliet)

When Juliet had started out in her career as a fertility specialist, her work had brought hope, to her as well as so many of her patients.

At the time she’d first come to the island, she’d genuinely believed that she’d be able to help the women there, even as nothing she saw and heard made sense; then time had gone by, mother after mother had died during their second trimester, and Ben refused to let her leave the island with a patient to see if she could achieve anything on the mainland, and Juliet had begun to lose faith, to lose heart in her profession.

In 1974, with the opportunity to start all over again in the DHARMA Initiative, it had been a relief to Juliet to turn her back on the profession, to become someone else, until Ben Linus was shot by Sayid Jarrah. Forced to assist with his treatment, finding Ben’s life in her hands once more, Juliet realised she could never really escape.