it's for your own good (it's for the neighborhood)

by orange-yarn

100 word drabbles for CW's The 100. Spoilers through 1X08 Day Trip.

25. 1X07 Contents Under Pressure (Octavia)

WARNING: Torture.

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1X07 Contents Under Pressure (Octavia)

Something twists, deep inside you, each and every time Bellamy hits the grounder. It's horrifying to watch, but you can't look away, you can't leave, because that would mean that you're okay with this, and you're not.

It's guilt, you realize, when you've lost count of the lashes. Maybe if you figured out sooner the grounder really was trying to keep you safe, maybe if Bellamy would actually listen to you for once, this wouldn't be happening.

You have to stop this, but you don't know how, not until you see the knife lying abandoned on the floor, just waiting.