My eyes fluttered open and I looked around in confusion. I leaned up a bit and winced in pain. I saw Bellamy's back was to me, I heard scraping. I frowned a bit in confusion because I saw him with his knife, making what I think are arrows.
"Bell?" I call, his head snaps up at my voice and he darts over to me.
"Bree." Is all he says as he sits next to me. He holds my hand carefully and he smiles at me. "How are you feeling?"
"Like I got shot by an arrow." I say sarcastically, he gives me a look and I sigh. "Better than I thought I'd feel. It hurts but I can manage." I tell him truthfully and he nods a bit. "How many days was I out?"
"Two days." He tells me simply and I see Bellamy's eyes dart around a little, he looked anxious. I squint my eyes at him. He looks at me again and notices my suspicion. He sighs a bit and looks down.
"Bell, what is it?" I ask him he just looks away before sighing again. "Bellamy what aren't you telling-"
"There are two things." Bellamy starts nervously. "I don't really know which one to tell you first."
"Really? I'm a big girl, Bellamy I can handle it." I say rolling my eyes a bit at him.
"No Bree, I'm not sure how you'll react." He explains worriedly and I scoff.
"Just tell me! Please-" I start but he interrupts me again.
"Bree, you're healing faster than anyone else would. Clarke wanted to check your wound when you were out, and there's just a scar there. The cut itself is healed." He tells me and I stare at him with confusion and shock.
"What the hell are you talking about?" I ask him and he just shakes his head with a sigh.
"I don't know, here look." Bellamy says and he pulls up my shirt a little. I gasp a bit when I solely see the scar there. I run my hand over it and my breath hitches. "Does it hurt?"
"Not really..." I trail off, feeling completely lost. "Bell, how did this happen?"
"I don't know, maybe it was something in the arrow that made you heal faster." He suggests and I just shrug.
"Maybe it also has to do with what happened on The Ark, with all the years of uh... Everything... My body adapted to healing faster." I say trying not go into details. Before he can ask me anything else I continue.
"Wait, what was the other thing?" I ask him, putting down my shirt. He stares at me with sadness in his eyes. He takes my hand in his and looks me in the eyes.
"I'm so sorry, Bree." He whispers sorrowfully and I look at him worriedly.
"Bellamy, what's going on?"
"Bree... The exodus ship crashed. It went up in flames, there were no survivors." Bellamy tells me softly, it takes me a second before I process it.
"Declan?" I whisper fearfully.
"He was being sent down here, it's likely he was on the ship." Bellamy tells me and I shake my head frantically with tears building in my eyes.
"No, no, no Bellamy, that can't happen. He can't leave me." I say with my voice cracking. I sniffle harshly and he just stares at me with a sad look.
"I'm sorry." He says and I break down. I try to stop myself from crying but I fail miserably. Tears stream down my face as he brings me into his arms. He holds me comfortingly as I cry.
"No, no, why does everyone leave me? This isn't fair." I sob and he rubs circles on my back.
"Not everyone, Bree. I'm not going anywhere, I promise." Bellamy tells me sternly and I just nod a bit into his chest.
"I'm so sick of crying!" I say as I begin to pull away from him. "I feel so damn weak!"
"Bree," Bellamy says as he pulls me back. He cups my face with his hands. "Crying doesn't make you weak. It makes you human. You've been strong your entire life, you're allowed to break sometimes." He tells me softly. I want to argue but I decide not to. He kisses my head before we pull apart.
"We're going to see the crash sight, I want you to stay here and get some rest." Bellamy tells me.
"No I need to be there-" I say as I start to argue but he interrupts me.
"Bree please, just stay here and get some rest." He says tiredly. I don't say anything for a few moments before I nod a bit. He smiles a little and pecks me on the lips before walking outside.
"No! Hey let me go! You can't just lock me in here, dumbass! This wasn't my fault!" I cry out angrily as the guards shove me in a cell.
"You call murdering your father not your fault?" One of them asks me with a quicker eyebrow.
"He abused my all my life! He was going to kill me, what was I supposed to do?" I ask him shaking my head.
"Not commit murder." He says as he slams the door shut. I run a hand through my hair angrily.
"Is this a freaking joke?" I whisper indecorously to myself. I turn around and see two beds, one of them is empty but it was clearly slept in recently. I frown a bit in confusion before the door opens, this time a different guard.
He closes the door behind him gently. I gulp a bit as I stand tall, determined not to show my fear. He hesitantly walks towards me, I take a step back and he immediately puts his hands in the air, gesturing that he means no harm. I stop backing up and he takes a few more steps towards me. He comes face to face with me and my breath hitches. He pushes the hair out of my face and his finger traces a bruise by my eye.
"Your father did this to you." He says knowingly. I nodded and shifted uncomfortably. "I'm sorry you're in here. It was self-defense, you shouldn't be locked up for it."
"Finally! A smart guard, now since you know I had no other choice can you get me out of here?" I beg him desperately.
"I'm sorry, it doesn't work that way." He tells me with a sigh. I nod a bit in understanding as I begin to turn around. He puts his arm in front of me, not touching me at all, stopping me. I raise my eyebrows at him as he sticks his hand out.
"I'm Declan." He introduces himself. I feel a small smile on my face as I shake his hand a little.
"Bree." I inform him. I pull my hand back and turn to the second bed. "So why is there a second bed in here?"
"That's for your roommate." Declan tells me and I nod a little as I cross my arms over my chest.
"Can I ask you a question?" I ask looking back towards him.
"You just did." He says coyly. I roll my eyes.
"Don't be a smartass. Now, why are you being so nice to me? Can't you get in trouble?" I ask him tilting my head a bit.
"I'm being nice to you because you don't deserve this, and you should have someone you can trust. And no, I won't get in trouble." He informs me and I nod again.
"So, who's my lucky roommate?" I ask him changing the subject. He opens his mouth to answer my question but the cell door opens. A guard walks in with a girl. She's about my height, long brown hair with bangs, and has hazel eyes.
"Her." He says simply, pointing to the brunette. The guard roughly shoves her in the room and she stumbles a bit. He shuts the door and she brushes herself off a bit. She smiles nervously as she walks towards the two of us.
"Um, I'm Octavia." She informs me hesitantly and I give her a small smile.
"I'm Bree." I say and she gives me a genuine smile.
"I'll leave you two to get to know each other." Declan says and I nod a little as he walks out of the cell.
And that is how I met one of the very few people I truly consider family.
I sigh and lay back down on the bed. I put an arm behind my head. I stare at the ceiling blankly for a few minutes. I look around and see the journal in my pack. Reaching over the table, I grab the book and lay on my bed. I flutter the page through my thumb before stopping on a page. Once again, it was a few years after the bombs went off. I begin reading.
They don't get it.
They don't understand!
I don't want to be with them, I want to be with the man I love. There is nothing special about me. They tell me I'm the "Commander of Healing", or whatever the hell that means. I don't heal people, I don't heal myself. They're crazy. But the strange thing is, they respect and listen to me. I don't understand these people. They're making a civilization again. Making villages, getting a leader... Anyways, tonight I'm leaving. I'm going to see Bentley. I have to see him one more time before they
It stopped there. I frowned. Before they what? Who's they? I search different pages frantically trying to find out some answers. It was the last entry.
"Are you kidding me?" I ask in annoyance. I wanted to know what happened next. I frowned a little as I closed the book. I say up and walked outside. I looked around and saw it was quite dark out, I saw Octavia and walked over to her.
"Bree!" She exclaimed with a smile on her face. She threw her arms around my neck and hugged me close. I smiled as we pulled apart.
"Hey." I greet her, I see Monty and say hi to him before they turn their heads. I follow their line of vision and see Jasper talking to some people.
"Jasper, tell us again, how'd you stay so calm? I would've been terrified." A delinquent, Harper, asked him. I furrowed my eyebrows bit before I realized they were talking about the bridge.
"Fear is only a problem if you let it stop you, right?" Jasper tells her smugly and I tilt my head in amusement.
"So now he's taking Finn's lines?" I ask rhetorically.
"I saw the grounders in the trees," Jasper starts, telling the story of what happened. "It was like nothing I ever felt. Pure animal instinct took over. One pull of the trigger, two grounders dead."
"'Pure animal instinct'? More like pure pants-wetting panic." Octavia muses and I laugh a little, agreeing with her.
"You don't really know what you're made of until a moment like that you know when it's kill or be killed and there's just nothing between you and the tip of the spear." Jasper says confidently and I roll my eyes.
"God I hate when people pretend to be something they're not." I scoff, crossing my arms over my chest.
"Okay, this has to stop." Octavia said as she went to walk towards Jasper but Monty stopped her.
"Come on," Monty started to say. "Let us have this."
"'Us'"? Octavia and I asked in unison.
"Look at him, my boy is a folk hero." Monty said proudly as he looked at Jasper. I sighed a little. "They even gave us a bigger tent."
Before I could argue I heard a cluttering sound from the woods. All of our heads snapped towards the sound. My eyes widened in alarm as it continued.
"Somebody hit the trip wire!" Connor shouted frantically.
"Which wire? Was it a grounder?" Somebody called out worriedly. The two on watch just alarmingly stared at the dark woods.
"I don't see anything. Are you sure it was the trip wire?"
"I got nothing." Derek, one of the two people on watch, said in confusion. "Connor?"
"Nothing." Connor says before we hear more from the woods.
"Something moved! There, there, there!" Suddenly, gunshots rang through the air and my eyes widened.
"Hey dumbass! Did it ever occur to you that whoever you just shot could be our people who went to see the exodus crash? Huh?" I shouted at Derek who just ignored me.
"Think I got him." Derek said, clearly startled.
"God, you better hope it wasn't Bellamy or anyone or I will murder you myself!" I say warningly as I run towards the gate.
"Let's go!" I shout at the people waiting around. I see Octavia run up next to me worriedly.
"Lincoln." She whispered absently. I gulped nervously as I approached the figure.
"Hey, slow down. Bree, Octavia, be careful." Connor advised us worriedly, I don't blame him. It was clear Bellamy cared most about Octavia and I, and he was the leader of the camp, if anything happened to us on his watch he'd be dead.
I move closer to the person. I take a deep breath for I slowly stick my hand out, gently touching their shoulder. The person jerks up and quickly skids away. I jump back and gasp a little at the sudden movement. The person continues to back up and suddenly, they appear in some light. The person has cuts and bruises all over their body. They raise their hand up pleadingly. My eyes widen in shock. It's Murphy.
"Oh my god." I mutter in shock. "Murphy?"
"No way." Derek says shaking his head with disbelief in his tone.
We moved him in the drop ship with the help of Derek and Connor. They set him down and I follow them with a rag and a bucket of water in my hands. They set him down and he immediately curls his legs to his chest. A few other delinquents followed us into the ship. I take a deep breath before kneeling in front of him. He looks at me with a blank expression. I stay silent as I dip the rag in the water a little, dampening it. I take it out and gently dab it on his wounds. He hisses out immediately as I touch his cut.
"Sorry." I say apologetically and he stares at me quizzically.
"Why are you helping me?" He asks me hoarsely. I remember saying those words to Declan. I bite back a few tears.
"Because I remember when no one did this for me. It sucked, if I can help people, I'm going to." I tell him simply. He doesn't say anything else as I continue to clean his wounds.
"Where is he?" I hear my boyfriend shout demandingly as he quickly comes into the room. Everyone makes way for him as he walks towards us. I turn around and see Bellamy, Clarke, and Finn. They stare at Murphy with shock.
"Everyone but Connor and Derek out. Now!" Bellamy shouts at everyone. Everyone leaves as I get up from the ground.
"He claims he was with the grounders." Connor explained to Bellamy. "We caught him trying to sneak back into camp."
"I wasn't sneaking. I was running from the grounders." Murphy says with pain evident in his voice.
"Anyone see grounders?" Bellamy asks the three of us. I sigh a little, shaking my head. The two others shake their heads as well.
"Well, in that case..." Bellamy says before he cocks his gun and aims it at Murphy who tenses up. Finn doesn't waste time as he pushes the gun away from Murphy's head.
"Hey, what the hell is wrong with you?" Finn asks him indecorously. Bellamy just ignores him.
"We were clear what would happen if he came back." Bellamy reminds him aiming the gun back up.
"No. If he was with the grounders, then he knows things that can help us." Finn says to him pointedly.
"Help us? We hanged him. We banished him, and now we're gonna kill him." Bellamy says angrily not taking his eyes off Murphy. "Get the hell out of my way."
"No, Finn is right." Clarke says as she brushes past us and walks to Murphy.
"Like hell he is!" Bellamy shouts at Clarke. I sigh and walk next to her, reexamining his wounds with her.
"Bree, think about Charlotte!" He shouts at me and I tense a little. I see Clarke freeze as well.
"I think about her every day, Bell. But he's not the only one here to blame for her death." I tell him pointedly, he just gives me a look in return.
"He's not lying. His fingernails were torn off." Clarke says, gently holding his hand in front of her. I cringed a bit at the thought. She looked back up at him sorrowfully. "They tortured him."
"You and the grounders should compare notes." Finn says sarcastically to Bellamy and a part of me wants to hit him in the head, the other part of me wants to laugh.
"The grounders know we're at war. What did you tell them about us?" Bellamy asks Murphy toughly.
"Everything." Murphy breathes out after a few moments. He turns to me.
"They were particularly interested in you." Murphy tells me and my eyes widen a bit in surprise. I stand back up again and walk next to Bellamy. Clarke stands up too and begins to leave.
"Once he's better, we find out what he knows, and then he's out of here, okay?" She says to Bellamy as she brushes past him.
"What if he refuses to leave? What do we do with him then?" My boyfriend asks the two of us. Clarke and I share a look before I turn back to him.
"Then we kill him." I say emotionlessly before I follow Clarke in leaving. I see Clarke walk into a tent and a hand grabs my arm. I turn around and see Bellamy.
"Can we talk?" He asks me softly and I nod a little. He takes my hand in his and guides me behind the drop ship.
"What's up?" I ask him. He stares at me for a few moments in silence.
"I'm worried, about you." Bellamy tells me honestly and I furrow my eyebrows in confusion.
"What? Why?" I ask in confusion.
"The Grounders, they already hit you with an arrow, and now they're 'interested in you', whatever that means." Bellamy lists off. I haven't told him about the picture or journal yet.
"Bell, nothing is gonna happen to me. You don't need to worry." I tell him, trying to mean every word.
"You can't guarantee that." He says shaking his head a bit. I cup his face in my hands and I press a passionate kiss on his lips. He kisses back after a moment. We stay like this for about ten seconds before pulling apart.
"I don't want you worrying about me, okay?" I say and he nods a bit. I smile a little before frowning.
"What's wrong?" Bellamy asks me alarmingly and I shake my head.
"No, it's nothing to be concerned about." I say shaking my hand a bit, trying to throw aside this conversation.
"Bree." Bellamy says with a look on his face. I stare at his face for a few moments before looking down at the ground.
"At the bunker, there was this journal next to the man on the stairs, I took it back with us and when I was reading it-" I begin to tell him but I'm of course interrupted. I wasn't sure whether to be sad or to be happy about that.
"Bree!" I hear someone shout my name and I immediately know it's Raven. I run towards her voice and I see Clarke with blood running from her eyes.
"Clarke! Oh my god, your eyes..." I say trailing off a bit as I run to her. I immediately grip her face stare at the source of the bleeding, it's from the center bottom of her eyes. I shook my head in confusion as another voice appeared in panic.
"Clarke! Where's Clarke?" I hear Connor say with a bad cough at the end. I look at him with wide eyes as I see blood coming from his mouth. "It won't stop."
"Clarke!" Raven says running towards us with a towel, she hands it to the blonde as Connor continues to cough up blood. "What's happening?"
I hear more coughing and I turn around to see Derek coughing. People ask if he's okay but once they see the blood they back away quickly. My eyes widen when I realize what's happening.
"Raven, get away from us." Clarke tells her, catching on as well.
"What?" She asks in confusion squinting her eyes.
"They're the ones who brought Murphy in." Clarke says with a dreadful look across her features. We both quickly run into the drop ship and we see Murphy throwing up blood while coughing. I gag a little before continuing forward.
"Murphy, hey, look at me." Clarke says in a shaky voice as she kneels next to him. "I need you to tell me exactly how you escaped from the grounders. What happened?"
"I don't know. I woke up, and they forgot to lock my cage. There we no one there, so I took off." Murphy explains and I almost feel a pang at my heart when I hear the word cage. I take in what he said and my eyes widen.
"They let you go." I say shaking my head. Clarke looks at me and we both nod, this wasn't an accident.
I see Bellamy burst through the drop ship doors and he walks towards us but I put my hand up. "Bellamy, stay back." I order him and he stops with wide eyes.
"Did he do something to you?" Bellamy nearly growls out and I look up at him shaking my head. Clarke turns her head and he sees the blood. "What the hell is this?"
"Biological warfare." Clarke and I say in unison dreadfully.
"You were waiting for the grounders to retaliate for the bridge? This is it. Murphy is the weapon." Clarke says weakly.
"Is this your revenge, helping the grounders kill us?" Bellamy shouts at him as Clarke and I try to clean the blood off of the boy.
"I didn't know about this, okay, I swear." Murphy says defending himself.
"Stop lying." Bellamy booms in a loud and demanding voice. Damn that was hot, wait so not that time for this. I shake off my thoughts. "When are they coming?"
"Murphy, think, all right? Did you hear them say anything?" I ask him hopefully and he turns to me.
"They are vicious, cruel." Murphy says vaguely.
"You want to see vicious?" Bellamy asks him angrily and I step in front of him, I'm careful not to touch him.
"Hey, don't." I say calmly. "I'm pretty sure this thing spreads through contact."
"Then how aren't you sick?" Bellamy asks me in confusion and before I can answer I'm interrupted.
"Clarke?" I hear a voice shout as someone enters the drop ship. I turn and see Finn walking towards us. "Bree? What are you doing in here?"
"Finn, you shouldn't be here." I say worriedly before looking up at Bellamy. "No one should."
"I heard you were sick." Finn breathes out looking at Clarke who had looks away. Finn looks around the room and sees everyone who's sick. "Clarke, what is this?"
"I don't know, some kind of hemorrhagic fever." Clarke explains to him, clearly getting weaker by the second.
"We just need to contain it before-" I begin to say before I'm once again interrupted by Derek coughing from the ground. Clarke begins to get up but I stop her and quickly run over to the boy. Finn grabs my arm to stop me but I shake him off.
"Hey, don't touch me. I'm not sick yet but that doesn't mean things can't change, we don't want this thing to spread so go wash your hands now." I say quickly to Finn as I kneel next to Derek. I stay there not knowing what to do. He begins to throw up blood.
"What the hell is happening to him?" Finn asks with fear in his tone.
"I don't know." I mutter as I try to rub his back soothingly, I knew this wasn't helping but I'm not sure what else I could do. Suddenly, the coughing stops and his body goes limp. My eyes widen and we all stand still for a moment. I push his hair out of the way and feel for a pulse.
"Is he-" Bellamy begin to ask me but I shake my head.
"He's dead." I say when I don't find his pulse. I stand frozen in my place but I hear feet moving behind me.
"Here, alcohol. Hold out your hand." Clarke says with a bottle. Finn holds out his hands and she quickly pours the liquid onto him. He flicks off some of the alcohol and we all stare at Clarke.
"What do we do?" Finn asks her and she pauses for a moment, thinking.
"Quarantine." Clarke decides with a nod. "Round up everyone who had contact with Murphy. Bring them here."
"And everyone they had contact with?" Bellamy asks her as Finn leaves the room.
"We have to start somewhere, Bell." I remind him pointedly.
"Clarke, can you check Bree for symptoms?" Bellamy asks her ignoring me. I roll my eyes and turn to her.
"I don't even know what symptoms for this would be." Clarke tells him and he gives her a look. She sighs before walking towards me.
"I'll just check for anything abnormal, okay?" She says and I nod. She checks my ears and she touches the sides of my throat, probably examining for swelling of the glands. "Open your mouth." She says and I obey, she shines a flashlight and nods a bit.
"You don't show symptoms." Clarke informs me and I let out a sigh of relief.
"She should probably stay in here, though." Clarke says to my boyfriend who scoffs at her.
"Stay in here? She'll be sick by just being in this room." Bellamy argues.
"The people who have been infected have gotten sick within about a half hour after contact, if she doesn't show symptoms now she probably is immune or something." Clarke explains to Bellamy before turning back to me. "Bree, who else was there when you carried him in?"
"The first two people there were me and Octavia." I tell her and I see Bellamy's eyes widen before he runs out of the drop ship, more than likely to her tent.
In small groups, people come in the drop ship getting paler by the second. They all basically fall to the ground as they walk into the ship. I grab two cloths and I give one to Clarke, we both press the cloth against our mouths. A few minutes later, Bellamy comes back with Octavia by his side. Clarke immediately gets to checking her, doing the same check she did for me.
"We're done." Clarke says switching the flashlight off. "No visible signs of swelling or bleeding."
"So you're saying she doesn't have it?" Bellamy asks for clarification, he also has a rag up to his face.
"I'm saying she doesn't have symptoms, but that could change. We need to keep her here just in case." Clarke suggested.
"No way, look at this place. She and Bree will get sick just being here." Bellamy argues.
"Do you want to stop the spread, or not?" Clarke asks him rhetorically. "Look, I'll keep her on the third level with the people who aren't symptomatic yet. Think of it as a way to stop her from sneaking out again."
"Screw you, Clarke." Octavia shoots at her and I pull my in a bit to keep from laughing.
"I'll let you know if her condition changes." Clarke tells Bellamy, ignoring Octavia's comment.
"And what about Bree?" He asks her.
"She's staying here too, but she's gonna help me with people in here." Clarke explains to Bellamy, he opens his mouth to argue but she interrupts him.
"You know what? Fine, she can stay upstairs. Okay?" Clarke negotiated and Bellamy nods a bit as he walks out the drop ship. Octavia begins climbing up the ladder when Clarke turns to her.
"Octavia, wait." She says making the brunette stop and turn to her.
"I need you to sneak out again." Clarke breathes out and Octavia gives her an amused stare. I roll my eyes as she gets off the ladder.
A few hours later I was standing at the doors of the drop ship with Clarke. We watched as someone's dead body was taken and placed with the other corpses. I pulled my lips in nervously. Everyone was and watching. I was standing behind the tarp, but I could still see.
I was exhausted, I've been helping people for hours. Clarke lied to Bellamy when she told him I would be upstairs, I've been on the bottom level helping people.
"All right." Bellamy shouts to everyone that has crowded around. "Show is over. Get back to your posts." Immediately everyone dispersed. He walked over to Clarke, I'm out of his view.
"You got enough food in there, water?" He asks us and I decide to make my presence known. I walk out so he can see me.
"Yeah, but I mean, I think some people could use medicine right now." I say pursing my lips a little.
"I'll see what I can do." Bellamy says with a smirk on his face. He smiles for a few moments before he frowns.
"Clarke you told me she was staying upstairs." Bellamy says to her and she opens her mouth to talk but no words come out.
"I told you to keep her away from the bottom level she could get sick! Where's Octavia?" He asks in annoyance. Clarke looks away and stays silent. He begins to walk forward to get her but Clarke stops him.
"Bellamy, wait, she's not here. I sent her to see Lincoln." Clarke admits and Bellamy gives her a pissed off look. "Look, if there's a cure, he has it. I didn't tell you because I knew you wouldn't let her go."
"If anything happens to her or Bree, you and me are gonna have problems." Bellamy growls at has as he walks away.
"Bell, Bellamy!" I shout, trying to get him to turn back around. Bellamy walks away and in his path he's blocked by one of the delinquents.
"Out of my way." Bellamy growls at the man angrily. He turns around has blood seeping from his eyes.
"Dude, your eyes. Nobody touch him!" Somebody shouts.
"Get to the dropship now." Bellamy orders him, stepping aside and pointing at the drop ship. He walks away and we suddenly hear more coughing.
"Hey, are you okay?" Someone asks and the girl faints. Two people catch her before she spurts up blood. It gets all over their faces and I make a disgusted expression.
Total chaos erupted. The people at the post raised their guns at the people who were sick. Blood was coming out from people's eyes, noses, ears, and mouths. It was everywhere. People raised guns at each other.
"Put that gun down. Put it down!" Finn shouts at someone and I stand there unsure of what to do before I get an idea. I walk into the drop ship and grab a gun. I walk outside as I cock it and I point at the sky towards the woods. I shoot the gun three times with one hand, getting people's attention.
"You idiots, this is what the Grounder's want us to do." I say walking towards everyone.
"They don't have to kill us if we kill each other first." Clarke adds weakly and I walk in front of her towards the crowd.
"They won't have to kill us if we all catch the virus." Some guy shouts at me pouting the gun right at my face, causing my eyes to widen slightly. "Get back in the damn drop ship!"
Bellamy immediately goes into over-protective boyfriend mode. He grabs the gun and slams the butt of it against the guys face. He turns to him and throws the gun at his stomach.
"Don't you ever point a gun at her ever again." Bellamy growls quietly at the guy before turning to Clarke. "Not to state the obvious, but your quarantine isn't working."
Right after he said that, I could see that Clarke was slowly getting more faint. She suddenly began to fall but Finn must've noticed before hand too because he dove forward to catch her.
"Finn, don't touch her!" Raven shouted in fear of him coming in contact with her and getting sick. He ignored her and caught her. He picked her up and held her bridal style. I looked at Raven and she had a slightly disappointed expression on her face.
"Hey, let me go. I'm okay." Clarke mutters with clearly no energy left.
"No, you're not." Finn argues still holding her in his arms.
"Octavia will come back with a cure." Clarke reminds him with her eyes fighting to stay open.
"There is no cure." I hear Octavia shout. She comes in from the gate and walks towards us. "But the grounders don't use the sickness to kill."
"Really? Tell that to them." Bellamy argues pointing to the dead bodies. "I warned you about seeing that grounder again."
"Yeah? Well, I have a warning for you, too." Octavia shoots back before turning to everyone. "The grounders are coming, and they're attacking at first light." Everyone began murmuring and I felt shock and fear run over my body. I see shock across everyone's features as Octavia walks over to Finn.
"Come on. I'll help you get Clarke into the drop ship." Octavia says and that seemed to have snapped me out of whatever state of shock I was in because I ran to the drop ship with the others.
"What do I have to do to stop you from coming in here?" Clarke asks weakly to the three of us.
"Clarke, there is absolutely nothing you can do to keep me from being in here." I tell her and I sent her a comforting smile.
"If neither of them are not sick by now, then they're probably immune like me." Octavia explains to Clarke who just nods. I look around and try to find a place for her to to lay down.
"Here." Murphy says as he gets out of his bed. "Come on, she can take mine."
"What else did Lincoln tell you?" Finn asks as he lays Clarke down on the hammock.
"The virus doesn't last long." Octavia tells us and I nod a bit.
"It's true. I feel better." Murphy says leaning his head against a wall.
"They need to stay hydrated." Clarke says as she tries to get up but I gently push her down to relax.
"You need to stay hydrated." I reciprocate and she rolls her eyes at me as she lays down.
"Them, too. Please?" She begs me and I nod.
"I got it. Just rest." I tell her and I take Octavia's hand, pulling her to help me.
"I'll help you." Murphy says and he gets up to help. I grab a rag and wet it. I take the closest person to me and I dab the wet cloth on their face.
"Look, at this rate, when the grounders get here, there won't be anyone left to fight back." Murphy says to Finn who is standing next to a now sleeping Clarke.
"That's the point." Octavia says from next to me.
"Then we slow them down." Finn says and I frown a bit at him in confusion.
"Bree, come with me." Finn says before taking my hand and dragging me outside.
"Finn where are we going now?" I ask him impatiently. He doesn't answer me as he takes me into a tent.
"Hey, guys, stay focused. We're doing good. We need as many rounds done by dawn as we can." I hear Raven say as we both enter the tent.
"It won't matter if there's no one left who can shoot." Finn says and I look around see people are making bullets. "What do we need to build a bomb?" Finn asks Raven and my eyes widen a bit.
"Depends on what you're trying to blow up." Raven says pausing from her work.
"How about a bridge?" Finn asks everyone and I realize what he's talking about.
"You want to blow up the bridge to slow them down. They can't get here without the bridge." I say absently, putting the pieces together and he nods at me.
"What are you two talking about?" Bellamy asks us.
"Murphy says he crossed a bridge on his way back here from the grounders' camp. Sound familiar?" Finn asks us with raised eyebrows.
"Yeah. So what?" Bellamy asks him after nodding.
"Bell the virus works fast. Murphy is already on his feet, he's better. Although blowing the bridge may not stop the attack permanently, it might help push it back until we have more people who can fight." I say explain shrugging a little.
"Even if Murphy is telling the truth and that's a big if. That bridge has survived a nuclear war and 97 years of weather." Bellamy argues and I turn my head, smirking knowingly at Raven. If anyone can blow that damn bridge up, it's her.
"It won't survive me." Raven says confidently and I smile a little.
"Yes! That is the Raven Reyes I know. Now, let me into your head and tell me your plan here." I say happily and she rolls her eyes while still smirking.
After about an hour of helping people in the drop ship, I see Bellamy and the others come back. They left camp to get hydrazine from the exodus ship. I run over to them and I stop in front of them.
"Hey, what are we waiting out here for?" I ask impatiently with my hands on my hips.
"Okay. You can come in now." I hear Raven shout from inside the tent.
"That." Is all Bellamy says before we enter the tent. I see a pink liquid in a mason jar, must be the hydrazine. We walk in further.
"Boom!" Raven shouts from behind me and I let out a gasp as I nearly jump out of my skin. I see her laughing behind me and I roll my eyes.
"Hilarious." I say crossing my arms over my chest.
"Relax." Raven says chuckling a little at me. She walks around to the other side of the table. "It needs an accelerant. Gunpowder."
"Container of hydrazine." Raven starts, grabbing a metal container and putting the hydrazine in it. "Put the gunpowder around the hydrazine." She says demonstrating with the can of gun powder and then draws and X with chalk. "Hit the bull's-eye. Win a prize."
"It's the rest of our gunpowder. Won't be able to make any more bullets." Bellamy reminds us worriedly.
"Tonight we need a bomb. We can worry about bullets tomorrow." Finn says and I nod, still staring at our bomb.
"If we do this and it doesn't work, we'll all be dead tomorrow." Bellamy says, clearly doubtful of this plan.
"It's going to work. Now, no more negativity. It's not good for any of us." I say trying not to sound fearful.
"To be safe, you need to be at least 200 feet away to make the shot." Raven tells Bellamy with her hands on her hips.
"No problem. Which one of you plants the bomb?" Bellamy says looking at Finn and Raven, causing my to drown in confusion.
"I can do it." I volunteer raising my hand up slightly.
"No." All three of them say in unison while turning to me.
"And why the hell not?" I ask gaping at them slightly.
"Bree, I don't want you anywhere near this. I don't want you getting hurt." Bellamy says and before I can argue further I'm interrupted.
"I will." Finn says.
"You won't pick up a gun, but blowing people up, that you're okay with?" Bellamy muses, pointing to the bomb.
"We're blowing up a bridge. There's not gonna be any people on it." Finn reminds him and I sigh knowing what Bellamy was thinking.
"Finn, we have one bomb. We need to use it to kill as many of those bastards as possible." Bellamy argues.
"But they don't know we only have one bomb. If we did, why would we waste it on the bridge?" Finn asks rhetorically and I frown in confusion
"That's actually a good point, why are we wasting our one bomb on a bridge? We should use it to fight." I say and Bellamy nods at me, agreeing.
"I'm talking about deterrents, peace through strength." Finn explains.
"The appearance of strength." I correct him and he shrugs.
"Yeah." Finn mutters out after a few moments of silence.
"Men who built the a-bomb thought they were peacemakers, too. How'd that work out for them?" Bellamy argues as I turn to him and I gasp.
"Oh damnit!" I exclaim and it takes him a few moments before he feelings the blood trickling from his nose. I grab a rag from my pocket and quickly start dabbing it away.
"Don't touch anything." Raven says sternly, backing up a bit.
"Who else can take a shot?" Finn asks from behind me.
"Appreciate the concern." Bellamy mutters and I roll my eyes at him. "Make sure the bomb is packed and ready to go in ten minutes."
With that I take his hand and I walk him out of the tent. It's almost pitch black outside. I intended on taking him to the drop ship but he stops in is tracks. He turns to the fire where some other people are. I see him swaying slightly and I quickly put his arm around my shoulder.
"Hey, I got you." I tell him comfortingly.
"We need to get Jasper to take the shot." He tells me weakly and I nod. We walk to the fire.
"Jasper, come here." Bellamy calls out and Jasper immediately walks over.
"Hi, you need me to go with you to the bridge again?" Jasper asks as he walks over and I put my hand up.
"Hey, stay back." I tell him warningly as Bellamy lifts his head, showing the blood on his face.
"I need you to take the shot." Bellamy tells him. Jasper glances over to his new 'friends' and then back at us.
"Yeah. I can do that." Jasper says quietly and I see the people at the fire just sitting around.
"Hey, instead of just sitting on your asses how about you do something productive!" I shout at them, shifting a bit to get Bellamy better rested on my shoulder.
"If you miss, if that bridge doesn't blow, we're all dead. You got that?" Bellamy says and Jasper nods a little.
"Hey, why me? I mean, you've got twenty shooters." Jasper reminds him shaking his head. Realization seemed to have across his features. "I'm the only one not sick, right?"
"Right." Bellamy says after a few moments. "Don't miss." Bellamy tells him and Jasper begins to walk away. I take a deep breath before I begin to walk forward. Bellamy's knees suddenly cave beneath him and he falls into one of the tents.
"Shit!" I exclaim as I drop down next to him trying to help him up. Jasper shouts his name and begins to walk over to us.
"No, stay back." Bellamy tells Jasper, not wanting him to get sick. "Make the shot. Find Finn."
"Go!" Bellamy shouts at him as his face scrunches up in pain. I try to get him to stand but it's no use.
"Hey, don't get stand there, get him into the drop ship!" Jasper shouts at two people standing around. They come towards the two of us and they each take one of Bellamy's arms.
They pick him up and begin taking him to the ship. I run ahead and see that it's gotten worse. The amount of people sick has only increased.
"Make room!" I shout and some people getting better moved aside.
"Bree, who's sick?" Octavia asks me and I shake my head slightly as they bring a coughing Bellamy in.
"Bell?" Octavia whispers out once she saw him. She immediately ran over to us.
"Lay him down." I order the two of them and they gently lie him down as his coughing gets worse. Suddenly another person begins throwing up and Octavia gives me a look.
"Go! I promise I'll take care of him, okay?" I promise her and she gives me a reluctant look before running off to help someone.
Bellamy's coughing gets worse and my eyes widen a bit. I see him gagging a little and I immediately turn him on his side. He begins throwing up blood and I pat his back trying to help somehow. He stops throwing up and I roll him back so he's facing the ceiling.
"Bell." I say and I see tears building up in his eyes.
"I'm scared." He says shakily as a tear escapes from his eyes. I pull my lips in and soothe down his hair.
"I'll be damned if I let anything happen to you." I tell him truthfully. "I promise."
"Can you sing to me again? The song you sang to Atom?" Bellamy asks me and I stare at him a little surprised he remembered.
"Of course." I say nodding. I think for a moment, trying to think of which part I should sing.
"It's alright to shake... Even my hand does sometimes. So inside we rage... Against the dying of the light,"
I sing, I comfortingly play with his hair, he stares me in the eyes as I sing, letting out shaky breaths.
"It's alright to say that deaths the only thing you haven't tried. But just for today... Hold on,"
I grab his hand and I hold it tightly. I try to force a smile on my face in attempt to make him feel calmer.
"So live life like you're giving up, cause you act like you are. Go ahead and just live it up. Go on and tear me apart... Hold on."
I finish and I lean down, pressing a lingering kiss to his head. I sit back up and take his hand again. He lets out a shaky breath.
"I'm glad you're here." Bellamy breathes out and I smile a little.
"I'm glad I'm here too." I tell him tilting my head a little. "You should get some rest."
"Please don't leave." He begs me and I nod frantically.
"I am not going anywhere. I promise." I say and he nods a bit.
"I love you." He tells me and I feel a full smile come across my face.
"I love you too, Bell." I say truthfully and I see a small smile creep on his face as his eyes flutter shut and he falls asleep.
I sigh a little as I continue to play with his hair. I scooch around a little and I lay down next to him. I let out a breath I didn't realize I was holding as I begin to shut my eyes to finally get some sleep. I thought he was sleeping but he moved his arm slowly and pulled my close to him. I close my eyes and fall asleep.
When I wake up I feel myself in a different position. I open my eyes and I see I'm rested against Bellamy's side and he's now sitting up. I see Murphy next to him.
"Here." Murphy says trying to hand him water.
"Get the hell away from me." Bellamy growls out pushing the water away from him.
"Bellamy, you're sick, okay? I'm just trying to help." Murphy defends himself.
"When I get better, if you're still here..." Bellamy begins to say but I decide to make my presence known. I sit up and I look at Murphy.
"I got it, Murphy." I tell him. He nods a little at me and I sit up fully and I look around. I see a cup of water next to me and I take it. I hand it to Bellamy.
"Here," I say hanging the water him. He takes it and drinks some of it. "Are you feeling better yet?"
"A little bit." He tells me taking another sip of the water.
"Good." I say nodding a bit.
"Have you seen Octavia?" Bellamy asked me while looking around.
"Bell, I've been asleep." I remind him laughing a little.
"Oh yeah." He says remembering. I chuckle a little at the face he was making. I see Clarke walking around helping people.
"Clarke!" I call, getting her attention. She walks towards us. "Are you feeling better?"
"Yeah." She says nodding a little with her hands on her hips.
"Good, hey have you seen Octavia?" I ask her tilting my head to the side. She nods and comes over, taking a seat next to me.
"She was up all night helping people. Murphy gave her a break." Clarke explains.
"Don't tell me you trust him now." Bellamy says with a slight hint of annoyance in his voice.
"Trust? No." Clarke says with a slight scoff. "I do believe in second chances, though."
"It's almost dawn." Bellamy says ignoring her. "Better get everyone inside. If we lock the doors, maybe the grounders will think we're not home."
"Not everyone is sick." Clarke argues pointedly.
"Sick is better than dead." I mutter, placing my hands behind my and leaning back a little.
"You don't think Finn and Jasper are gonna pull it off." Clarke says, less like a question and more like a statement.
"Do you?" Bellamy shoots back at her with raised eyebrow, causing Clarke to pause.
"I'll get everyone inside." She says standing up with a sigh.
"I'll help you." I tell her. I get up and follow her outside. It's light out now, must've slept through the night. We see people working on the camp.
"Hey! Everyone get in the drop ship, now!" I shout at everyone. They turned towards me, a few obeyed but others stood confused.
"But we aren't sick." Someone argued.
"Would you rather be sick or dead?" I ask them crossing my arms over my chest. This made everyone immediately scurry into the drop ship. "That's more like it."
We're getting people into the drop ship, and I didn't notice Bellamy come out but he was helping as well. We hear a loud boom come the forest and all our heads snap towards the noise. My eyes widen a little when I see smoke coming miles away. It was like a mushroom shape.
"They did it." I mutter out in shock. I walk next to Bellamy, with Clarke soon joining us.
"I am become death, destroyer of worlds." Clarke quotes and Bellamy gives her an amused look. "It's Oppenheimer, the man who built the first-"
"I know who Oppenheimer is." Bellamy says coyly and I shove his shoulder as we get everyone who's not sick back outside.
A little while later, people are back working on the wall and the rest of the camp. We were waiting anxiously for the others to get back. I'm filling a bucket with water when I hear someone shout.
"There! It's them! Open the gate." Harper exclaims and they open the gates right away. In walks Monty and Jasper, looking fairly pleased with themselves. Everyone begins cheering and applauding. I share a look with Monty and I give him a thumbs up. He returns it with a smile and I let out a small laugh. I see Finn walk in with a very sick Raven. Clarke immediately runs over and I was going to follow when someone grabs my hand. I turn around and see Bellamy. I smile a little when I see he's no longer sick.
"Bell." I breathe out in relief. I throw my arms around him and he hugs me tightly. "Never scare me like that again." I mutter into his shoulder. I feel his chest rumble a bit with laughter.
"I'll do my best." He promises. I smile a little and take his hand. I lead into our tent and I close the doors behind us.
"I was a pretty damn good nurse today for you." I tell him with raised eyebrows, trying to fight the smirk on my face.
"You fell asleep." Bellamy reminds me and I roll my eyes, hitting his shoulder playfully.
"Well I did exactly what you asked, I didn't leave your side once." I point out and he smirks a bit looking away before turning back to me.
"Can you do one more thing for me?" He asks me with a smile.
"Possibly." I say teasingly, turning my face. He doesn't say anything for a few moments as he stares directly into my eyes.
"Kiss me." Bellamy says finally. I smile and cup his cheeks with my hands before I crash my lips against his. Fireworks.
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