Jordan stood on top of a hill alone, watching to see if there were any grounders out for them. She hadn't been alone a couple of minutes ago, but Clarke had left to go oversee stuff back in the camp thinking they didn't need two out there. "First watch is over," she heard Bellamy say, but she didn't turn around. "Go relieve Monroe on the south wall. Keep your eyes open." She licked her lips as she felt Bellamy walking closer. Octavia's comments kept coming back to her every time he came near. "Anything?"
"It's been two days. Maybe the bomb at the bridge scared them off for good."
"You believe that?"
Jordan snorted. "Of course not. They're coming."
"Jasper thinks he can cook up some more gunpowder if he gets some sulfur," Bellamy said walking away, wanting Jordan to follow him, "and Raven says she can turn that into landmines. So be careful where you step."
Jordan chuckled. "Funny."
"What I really need is a thousand more of her tin can bombs I can roll into their village and blow those Grounders to hell." Jordan and Bellamy stopped walking, the girl turning to him with a disapproving look on her face. She opened her mouth to reprimand him, but he beat her to it. "That's what they want to do to us."
"We survived a hundred years just so we could slaughter each other," she mumbled in distaste. "There has to be another way." Bellamy rolled his eyes, she always wanted another way.
"Any word from Jaha?" He decided to change the subject, this couldn't be horrible.
"Radio silence."
"Probably ran out of-"
"Air, I know," Jordan cut in. "I feel like I should be sad, but I've only known he was my father for a week."
"At least is was quick, on the Exodus Ship," Bellamy said, putting his hand on her shoulder, but she flinched away.
"No one is coming to save us."
"You've thought that for a while."
Jordan scoffed, finally turning to look at Bellamy. "That woman, Diana, she's messed up, wanted something…" She trailed off, not knowing what to say. "There are some bad people up there, at least there were. We're alone."
Bellamy nodded, his eyes roaming her body. "How are you?"
"Nothing I can't live through," she answered with a roll of her eyes.
"You always do." Jordan gave him a small smile, both of them turning to walk back into camp.
They were about to separate at the gate when someone shouted fire. The two ran in the direction of the yells, catching sight of the meat house on fire with all of their food in it. Bellamy ran ahead of Jordan and grabbed Octavia, leading her away from the flames. "You okay?" he asked her.
She coughed and nodded, looking at both Jordan and Bellamy. "This is all your fault!" Murphy said pushing himself up and running at the kid in front of the house, Del. "We told you it was too much wood."
"Get the hell away from me," Del said, but Murphy punched him in the face. The fight was leaning towards the fire, but Jordan couldn't break up that fight.
"Bell, that's you." He rolled his eyes, getting up and pushing the two apart.
"Hey, stop!" He yelled when he finally got the two boys away from each other. "Save it for the Grounders." Jordan watched the two boys, seeing their resistance towards Bellamy physically.
"Bell, now what the hell are we gonna do?" Octavia asked, standing up next to Jordan.
"That was all the food," Jordan said angrily, looking at Del. She wasn't going to punch him in the face, but she was quite upset with him. Bellamy looked at Clarke who shook her head, they might have walked into grounder camp.
-:-
Jordan stood across from Bellamy, nudging the charred food with her foot. There was nothing left, and she wasn't an expert in arson so she wasn't sure of how it happened. "Any idea what happened?" Clarke asked as she approached.
"Apparently Del kept feeding the fire, mostly because Octavia and Murphy told him it was a bad idea," Bellamy responded. "He was talking about how they were lucky to be allowed back."
"And we believe Murphy?" Clarke asked as Bellamy stood up.
"Del was always an ass," Jordan shrugged. Clarke and Bellamy both sent Jordan a disapproving look. "Oh come on, he's been trying to get in my pants for the last week."
"He has?" Bellamy questioned, raising an eyebrow while clenching his jaw. A subtle change Jordan only noticed from seeing his jealousy flare up before.
Jordan smirked and Bellamy rolled his eyes. "Look, I'm not lying." She put her hands up as a way of claiming her innocence. "He has, but I believe Murphy." Bellamy sighed, both of them turning to Clarke. "What do we have on the ship?"
"We have some wild onions and nuts in the dropship. It's only enough to last us maybe one or two weeks. What's left here?"
"Nothing," Bellamy answered. "It all burned."
"Then we have to hunt. Anyone we can spare goes out," Clarke looked at Jordan for confirmation and she nodded. There was no way they would survive without meat.
"With a whole Grounder army out there?" Bellamy asked the two, crossing his arms over his chest.
"There's no way we'll be able to defend ourselves starving. Clarke is right, we need to hunt."
-:-
Jordan ducked her head into Raven's tent, thankfully seeing the girl there. "Hey, Raven, we need more ammo." Raven sighed, sending her hand back. Jordan looked down at it quizzically, but stuck hers out anyway, letting Raven's open up. There were three bullets.
"That's it till Jasper gets back," Raven said shoving more stuff into her bag. "Go fuck Bellamy or something."
"Why does everyone want me to have sex with Bellamy?" Jordan whispered looking away from Raven. She sighed, "Where you going?"
"The hell out of here."
"You can't leave."
"Really? And what makes you think you can tell me what to do? You're Bellamy's bitch."
With a grimace, Jordan stepped in front of Raven to stop her from leaving. "Where are you going?"
"Into these damn woods. Don't worry about it. I'll find someplace safe."
"You go alone and you're dead or worse." Jordan grabbed the stick from Raven's hand, shaking her head.
"So what's your plan, sit here until you run out of bullets? Talk to the grounders some more?"
"One that was Finn's, but I think you can come up with something better." Jordan sighed, letting go of Raven's arm. "Come on, Raven. You came down here in a pod you rebuilt yourself. You made a bomb out of a tin can. You've gotta have something else."
Jordan and Raven stared at each other for a second before Raven looked down. "Radios. We can't defend ourselves if we can't communicate. If we can build radios, walkie-talkies-" Jordan cut her off, seeing where she was going.
"Then we can fight as a team. We'd have a chance, at least." Jordan smiled, patting Raven's arm. "See? We need you. You may be a huge pain in the ass with your side comments, but you're smart." Jordan was about to leave when Raven called her back.
"You should really still have sex with Bellamy, Jordan. The sexual tension between you two, it hurts sometimes."
Jordan huffed, leaving the tent in search of something to take her mind off of Bellamy. Of having sex with Bellamy, which apparently everyone wanted them to do.
-:-
Jordan watched Bellamy walk into his tent, her heart racing. They were right, ever since they got the guns, or when she caught him with those two girls, things between them were awkward. They were disagreeing on things more so than before and if they were going to fight the grounders, it shouldn't be like that.
Jordan took a deep breath before walking to his tent. "Just come in Jordan," Bellamy said through the flap. Her eyes widened a little but she went in any way, seeing him not facing the entrance. "I take it people are also telling you that we need to have sex." Jordan grimaced, but she didn't look away from Bellamy. "If we're gonna-"
"We're not having sex," Jordan said sternly, Bellamy turning to face her with an amused expression. He was about to open his mouth when Jordan cut him off. "It won't solve anything, we both know that."
"So what do you want, to talk?" She shrugged and he rolled his eyes. "We can barely get two sentences out before we start arguing."
"Not true," she said ignoring his objection.
"My point exactly."
"Well, then we need to fix it." Before he could interrupt her she spoke again. "Look, there are things we need to get off our chest and apologize for." She paused, looking down at the ground away from him. "Clear things up, it might not make things better between us, but I want it to be an honest relationship."
He stared at he silently before sitting on his bed, patting the space next to him for her. "Thank you," he whispered once she was down. "Thank you for keeping perspective around here. I let myself go too much."
"You care, Bellamy," she whispered, "and sometimes you don't let yourself seeing anything besides the person in front of you. It's always been, Octavia, and she doesn't need it anymore." Jordan looked up at Bellamy. "She needs someone to guide her, but not make decisions for her anymore."
"I'm sorry for the things I said, they were out of line." Jordan snorted but didn't say anything to him. "I was wrong too, about you. You're the best thing that has ever happened to us, I wouldn't trade you for all the comfort in the world."
"You broke my heart," Jordan whispered, feeling a tear drip down her cheek before she whipped it away. She took a deep breath and sat up straight, "but you made me a better person, whether you know it or not." She stood, taking another breath. "I think that's enough sentimental shit for the week."
As she walked out Bellamy called her back. "You were right before, about admitting to your mistakes." She smiled at him, one he only saw in his apartment, before opening the flap and leaving his tent. He let a small smile out before pushing himself up.
-:-
She found Monty and Jasper by the nuts again, throwing the nuts at each other to catch in their mouths. "Hey!" Jasper laughed seeing Jordan approach them. "You and Bellamy finally work out your differences?"
"You could say that," she said with a roll of her eyes.
"Hey don't worry, Jor, you guys were actually pretty quiet considering we all thought you'd be a screamer." Jasper shrieked when Jordan and Monty punched him, the former's being much stronger. "It's not like the whole camp wasn't expecting it. It's been a long time coming." Jordan narrowed her eyes on Jasper. "Sorry, you know it's really none of my business." Jordan continued to stare him down. "None of my business at all, I'm… gonna shut up now."
"So you and Bell finally get it on?" Octavia asked cheerfully, wrapping an arm around Jordan's shoulder and standing next to her. Jordan huffed, about to correct her when she saw Bellamy exit his tent. He sent her a small smile before leaving to find something to do. "I'm gonna take that as a yes, and thank you, Octavia, for pushing me to do it."
Jordan shook off Octavia's arm. "Clarke and Finn come back yet?" she asked bringing the attention to the subject she wanted to talk about in the first place. She should have known, however, that everyone in the camp was going to want to talk about her and Bellamy and what they assumed happened. Just because they were fighting a war didn't mean that they weren't teenagers who gossiped.
The mood of the group sobered after Jordan's question, each one of them racking their brains to see if they had seen the two come back, or even Myles, the kid that had the gun with them. "No," Monty finally answered. "I don't think anyone's seen them."
"Ask around," Jordan told them. They all nodded. "If no one's seen them tell me." After Jordan's words they broke up, asking around camp if anyone had seen their other leader with Finn. Jordan looked around camp for someone, seeing Nicki leave the dropship. "You see Clarke, Finn, or Myles recently?" she asked the girl. Her head shot up from the ground, her eyes telling her no almost right away. She must have had feelings for the boy or something. "I'll take that as a no."
Jordan turned around to leave the girl, but a hand fell on her arm preventing her from leaving. "Please, he's the closest I have to family. I need you to find him." Jordan nodded, looking away from the pleading girl's eyes to see Bellamy walking past.
"I'll do whatever I can." With that she left Nicki for Bellamy, seeing him look over the camp with approval.
"Not back yet, are they?" Bellamy asked, the approving look on his face sliding off. He didn't look at Jordan to see if her face held the answer, he didn't need it. It was a bad idea sending them out, he shouldn't have allowed it. "They should-"
"We needed the food Bellamy, I don't want to hear it."
"Finn and Clarke are missing now!" he said harshly turning towards Jordan. "And that kid Myles!" He added as an afterthought.
Jordan took a deep breath, trying to figure out what to say that wouldn't come across as uncaring for the three missing kids, but they needed that food. "That's why we're going to look for them now, Bell. I know that you're upset we lost them, but they're also really smart. I'm sure we're going to find them."
"Find their dead bodies you mean," he interjected with a harsh look.
"They knew that they were signing up for when they went out, Bellamy!" He rolled his eyes, walking around Jordan to the ship.
"You can stay here."
"I can what?" Jordan asked she didn't know what he meant.
"You're not going to come with us looking for the three of them?"
"Is this a punishment?" Jordan asked angrily, not following him to the ship anymore. He stopped as well, turning around to face Jordan.
"Yeah, it is. You convinced me to let them go." Jordan felt her fist clench at his words, finding it really hard to stop herself from spitting out insults. Things were supposed to be better.
"It was the right thing to do and you know it!"
"How do I know anything?" He yelled. "You always tell me what to do!" She walked up to him, grabbing his arm and chin, making him look down at her.
"Bellamy, you've been leading this camp for the last two weeks and only a few people have died. You trusted me when things were bad, we can come up with a solution together."
"I need you here," he whispered down at her.
"For what?" Jordan was fed up with Bellamy's antics, she wanted the truth. "The truth, Bell, none of this shit that we've been giving each other."
Bellamy sighed, pulling Jordan away from the middle of the camp to the inside of the ship. "I need you safe, Jordan."
Jordan shut her eyes, this was the closest they were going to get to saying they had feelings for each other, wasn't it? Jordan inhaled, opening her eyes and looking away from an expectant Bellamy. "What do you want me to say, Bell?" All their fighting was Bellamy trying to keep her safe. It made her angry.
"That you'll do it, that you'll stay here."
"No, I'm going with you." Jordan finally looked back at Bellamy. He was closer than he was when she looked away. "You and I both know that if the Grounders want anything, they can just come in here. None of us are safe anywhere."
-:-
Jordan and Bellamy walked alongside each other through the woods, which was better than the alternate plan of Jordan staying with the camp or Jordan punching Bellamy in the face and leaving him in the camp. Neither were completely happy with the circumstances, seeing as Bellamy was annoyed with Jordan insisting on coming which Jordan was annoyed with Bellamy being annoyed at her. It was just a really big circle no one wanted to get involved in. "I thought you said you were heading west. Where are you?" Monty asked through the radio.
If Jordan was being honest she didn't even remember why Monty wasn't with them, she had been paying too much attention to her mood with Bellamy.
"Just keep the moon on your left, and you'll find us," Bellamy told him. Bellamy sent Jordan a disgruntled look when she ran into him, but she ignored him. She wasn't focused on Bellamy anymore, instead to the sound coming from the radio.
"Is anyone else hearing this signal?" Monty asked. Jordan was about to take the radio from Bellamy to say yes when Raven spoke.
"Just keep your eyes open."
"I think it's the same thing we heard in the black box," Monty panicked.
"Damn it, Monty, pay attention." Bellamy sent Jordan an annoyed look as she moved for the radio. "Do you see anything? Report." The two shared a worried look when Monty still didn't respond. There was loud static sound through the radio, making them wince. Something was really wrong with Monty.
"There's someone in the bushes," Raven said. Bellamy pocketed his radio, the two of them bringing their guns up and walking over to Raven and Octavia slowly.
"Myles, what happened?" Octavia asked as the two approached.
"Where are they?" Raven asked. "Clarke and Finn, where are they?"
"Grounders took them," Myles coughed out. Jordan refused to look at Bellamy in fear that he would be giving her an I-told-you-so look, one that she often wore.
"Take it easy," Jordan consoled, letting her gun fall as she crouched down next to Raven.
"We have to get him back to camp."
"Bell, what about Clarke and Finn?" Octavia asked. Raven got up from the ground, letting Jordan move over and check out Myles. Their concern right now was Myles, Jordan had faith in Clarke and Finn.
"Raven, I'm sorry," Bellamy said to the girl. Jordan moved Myles head, checking to see if there were any other wounds.
"We need to make a stretcher," Raven said.
"Monty, we're heading home." Jordan stood up from Myles, turning to Bellamy awaiting Monty's response. "You copy? Monty, can you hear me?" The four shared a worried look. "Monty. Monty, where the hell are you?Report, Monty."
Sorry this took forever to publish!