Jasper and Maya were spending a lot of time together recently. Monty let it go. Jasper was happy and that's all he wanted. It was bothering him that he hadn't apologised for saying what he had said and it was guilting him so much. He decided on what to say and went looking for his best friend. He found him, alone, in his bunk. "Jasper," Monty started. He looked up from the hand he was fiddling with at him. "Hm?" Monty sighed. "I'm not here to confront you. I want to apologise. I've been rude to you and I shouldn't said the things I did. I'm sorry. You know I didn't mean it." He rambled nervously for another few seconds before looking back at a smiling Jasper. "It's okay," he gestured for Monty to come closer, "sit." "I shouldn't have done what I did. You were right to be mad, Monty. I'm sorry." He nodded. "It's okay." He debated on asking how Maya was, but decided to avoid the subject for now. It's not like much had happened.
Murphy had found something better than the dropship. He found Arkadia. Anya was awake now, but barely walking. They were both limping from the blisters on their feet and the weakness in their bones. Lincoln met them at the gate and took Anya to a bed. Bellamy was still with Raven in the infirmary. Abby was asleep. Kane took the blonde into the infirmary where his two friends had fallen asleep. Kane stitched Murphy's chest closed and cleaned the dirt and blood off of him. They didn't speak. The new chancellor didn't know what to say and Murphy was too tired. The boy sat in a chair next to Bellamy and started sipping water. Reluctantly waking him up.
He was shaken awake softly and opened his eyes slowly. He groaned and looked to the boy next to him. He blinked a few times to make sure it was really him. He gently slipped his hand out of Raven's grasp and lifted it to the blonde's face. His breath was shaky as he sighed and collapsed into Murphy's arms. They hugged for a while. Murphy stared at Raven over Bellamy's shoulder before he pulled away. "Let me see," Bellamy said referring to the new chest. Murphy lifted his shirt and the other boy stared for a bit, lightly touching below the fresh stitches.
The blonde grinned softly before gesturing for Bellamy to follow him outside so they didn't wake Raven. "Where's Lincoln?" Murphy needed to see him. If anyone knew what was going on, that Bellamy also trusted, it would be him. "I don't know I haven't seen him for a while. Where were you? What happened?" He was desperate for answers at this point. He needed to find his friends. "I need to find Lincoln first." "He might not even be here right now, Murphy. Talk to me." Lincoln had been leaving camp every few hours to check on Octavia. She wa still in his cave with Nyko. He kept going out in hopes she'd follow him back, but she was always too nervous to again face the people who saw her as a problem.
Bellamy sat Murphy in a chair across from him in a private room. "Tell me what's going on." The blonde sighed. He didn't know where to begin. "Mount Weather. Everyone is in Mount Weather." Before he could get anything else out, the older boy mumbled, "Mountain Men" under his breath. "You know?" Murphy's eyes widened. "No. Well, not really. Lincoln kept saying that you were with the Mountain Men. And then he said you were safe. Are they safe?"
"No, Bellamy, we have to get them out quickly. They're capturing Grounders and taking their blood. I saved one. They aren't immune to radiation like us or the Grounders. They're using their blood as treatment and we could be next."
"How did you escape?"
"There's a chute, sort of like a sideways airlock, that they put bodies on for disposal. The Grounder and I fell into this cart in a cave and some creatures or people called Reapers started pushing it and they were eating the other bodies. We ran until we found a chasm that went into a lake and we jumped."
"We're going to figure this out. We have to."
Octavia watched Nyko play in the dirt as Lincoln approached. She looked up and smiled at him before he sat next to her. "I'm glad he likes you," Lincoln said now fixated on the boy. "Likes me? Are you kidding? He loves me." "Well, I guess that's one thing we have in common then," he said smirking at his girlfriend. She playfully nudged him and leaned her head on his shoulder. They didn't say anything for a bit until the brunette spoke. "I want to go with you this time." "Thank you," the Grounder whispered to her. "I'm scared, Lincoln." "Don't be. They won't hurt you. I'm right here."
They sat for a bit longer so Lincoln could rest. It was a two hour walk to the cave he had already taken now twice today. "It's getting dark we have to go." The couple stood up and gestured for Nyko to follow.
They looked at the gate for a while before Octavia was finally ready to go in. Mostly everyone was inside. It was dark. Lincoln went inside with the brunette behind him. Nyko clutching her tight. "You're okay," she said reassuringly to the little boy. Bellamy beamed when he saw his sister. They greeted each other with a hug before he grabbed Lincoln to talk to Murphy. "Murphy escaped the mountain. We need to get my friends out before they start taking them like they do your people. I'm sorry for not trusting you." The Grounder nodded before listening to the blonde explain everything he saw.
Murphy and Anya each had pretty close descriptions of what had happened and they were each trying to devise a plan of extraction. Each agreed that they needed to work together as one to take down the mountain.