What was I doing? I'm making out with a guy I've met one other time. I have no idea who this Roan is. I break our kiss and forcibly remove myself away from him.
"Hey, what's wrong?"
"I don't even know you."
Roan smiles, "We were just getting to know each other were we not?"
"For all I know you could be an axe murder!"
He laughed. "If I was going to kill you, I would have already sky girl."
"Whatever I'm leaving. I have to get back to my people." I get out of the lake and hurriedly put my clothes back on. I'm tying my boot strings when Roan grabs my arm.
"Look, I don't why you're upset, but would you at least meet me again?"
"No."
He angrily sighs. "We both know you're lying to yourself, so why don't you meet me here in two days, same time."
"Bye." I run away. I hear him yell, "I'll see you soon!"
I make my legs run faster until I see the camp. I'm almost to the entrance when Monty comes running out the dropship, up to me. "Hey where've you been all day?"
"Uh taking a hike, enjoying the sights."
He frowns.
"Monty what's wrong?"
"Some people from the hunting parting were attacked."
"What?!" We run into the dropship to find Jasper.
We climb up to the second floor. Jasper's on a table, pale and bloody. Atom, Roma, Drew, Mike, and Diggs were all in cots with stabs wounds and arrows in their bodies.
"Oh my god."
"Yeah. Two groups came back with food, and then a few two or three hours later they come back screaming for help, saying that they were attacked. Clarke, Octavia, Harper, and I have helping the wounded. Bellamy took a group to go look for you and three others who haven't returned. "
"Shit." I look at Jasper again. There's a bloody gaping hole in his abdomen. I stand beside Clarke. "Is he going to make it?"
"I don't know. He was hit with a huge spear. There's a lot of bleeding, but I'm doing everything I can. He seems to be doing okay for now."
I smile, relieved. I grab Jasper's hand. With a determined voice, "Jasper, Hey. If you can hear me, you better not die on us! We need you. Who else is going to make us laugh the way do you?" Those around him smile or laugh. I look around at the others. "What about the rest of them?"
"They're okay. But, Drew's septic and Diggs bleeding out too fast. They're probably going to die."
I sulk in disbelief and anger. I just can't believe this happened. One minute we were conquering the world, free of the confined and controlled space above. The next, we're dying, being picked off one at a time. We already lost two people who idiotically got out of their seats during landing and died. So now there's only 98 of us; 96 once Drew and Diggs succumb to their wounds. Bellamy, Finn, Murphy, Miller, and John Mbege came up through the floor. Octavia runs to her brothers and hugs him. "Thank god you're alive."
"Stephen, Ray and Natalie aren't. We found them with knives and arrows in their bodies."
We gather round. He sees. "Good to know you're still breathing."
I just nodded.
Murphy speaks, "So it looks like we're not alone."
Miller says, "No…we aren't."
Bellamy talks, "We need to find whoever did this."
Silence.
Bell continues "Our people we attacked. They need justice."
Murphy, "I agree." John nodded too.
Clarke speaks, "And how do you suppose we get justice. We have no idea who those people were. We don't even know how many of them there are."
Bellamy responds, "All I know is, somebody needs to answer for what's happened.
Octavia speaks up, "So what you're just going to go out and hunt them down. We just got here Bell, we have every disadvantage. And what if they attack again?"
Murphy proposes, "Then we'll be prepared. We should start training and build a wall around the camp."
Finn sighs and looks at me. "Guess I should have listened to when you said you saw someone.
Everyone paused and looked at me. Bellamy raised his eyebrows. "What's he talking about?"
I get nervous. "Nothing. I just saw someone the first day we got here. "
"Well why didn't you say anything?!"
I got angry, "Because spacewalker told me I was imagining things, so I kept my mouth shut! I figured if I was right, then we'll find out for sure eventually."
Miller, "We found out all right. Our people we attacked."
I get more angry and defensive. "How the hell was I supposed to know that was going to happen?!"
Bellamy, angry, "You should have said something! Our people are hurt. Five of them died today! It could have been whoever you saw!"
"It wasn't!"
"How would you know that?"
"Because I've been with him all day!"
There was a deafening silence. Bellamy and Murphy were angry at me. I at them. Mbege, Finn, Clarke, O, and Monty were shocked.
Bellamy, "Explain just what the hell that's supposed to mean."
"The first day we got here, I met him when I was at the river. We only spoke for like not even two minutes before Finn came, and he disappeared. I told Finn what happened, he said it was impossible because of the nuclear bombs. So, I left it alone. And then today, I was walking alone and saw him again. We talked for a few hours. Then I came back. They were attacked before I left him."
"But for all you know he could have known it was going to happen. He could have orchestrated it and distracted you so that his friends could attack us!"
I stay silent. I don't want to believe anything that comes out of Bellamy Blake's mouth. However, I couldn't help think that he may be right. I didn't know Roan. Was he using me? I mean the first day he asked me how many there were of us. Today he initiated our make our kiss, and got upset when I left which I assumed was because he wanted to continued our make out session. What if he was just distracting me so I wouldn't find out what happened until it was too late? Or what if he does have genuine feelings for me and kept me away from the attack because he knew it going down? But neither of these possibilities accounts for the fact that he was at the lake first. Anyone for 200 miles would've seen the dropship come down and knows the vicinity of the area we're in. But Roan couldn't have known that I was going to the lake; he was surprised to see me. Still, he could've known or planned the attack. One thing is for sure though: I can't trust him.
