I watched as Bellamy walked away moving towards a group of people as he tried to leave the camp "Get out of my way!" I heard him yell to a boy as the boy slowly turned around facing Bellamy his eyes completely covered in blood. I turned and face Clarke who looked just as shocked as I was. Containment wasn't doing anything this was spreading like wildfire.
"Dude, your eyes." A boy said as another lifted up his gun ready to shoot.
"Nobody touch him!" The boy with the gun shouted as everyone began to move away from him.
"Get to the drop ship now." Bellamy ordered the boy as he nodded and made his way towards Clarke and I as Murphy turned to me sighing as we watched Clarke walk towards him leading him towards the entrance of the drop ship before walking back over to me.
"Hey, you ok?" I heard Raven ask someone, when I turned to look I watched as Fox began to fall only for a few people to catch her only for her to in turn throw up blood all over them.
"Oh shit…" I said loud enough for Clarke to hear me.
Everyone soon began to put up their guns pointing them at anyone who was sick or even just not holding a weapon. It was chaos; everyone was turning on one another. I began to step forwards so that I could talk to Bellamy. "Calm down!" I heard Bellamy shout in an attempt to keep everyone from going outright insane.
"Put that gun down. Put the gun down!" Finn started to yell at people.
Everyone had began to scream and shout, running around trying to get to safety, I looked next to me to get reassurance from whoever was holding a gun towards them. I spotted Raven who was in the center of one of the biggest pileups. Monty reached out to her and pulled her so that she was behind him. Thank god for that.
Gun shots rang through my ears as I was pushed towards the ground by Murphy out of instinct I guess to keep me safe, once the shots ended I uncovered my ears and looked up to see that Clarke was the one holding the gun, she had fired the shots in the air to silence the crowed.
She turned to me holding out her hand and helping me up off the ground, before she turned back to the group of people standing before us. The sickness had finally caught up to her, I could see it in her eyes, and they had been bleeding at some point. She looked so weak out of energy.
"This is exactly what the grounders want. Don't you see that?" Clarke asked as I began to walk towards Bellamy. I was scared, I needed to at least be near him. This distance was killing me, breaking my heart.
"They don't have to kill us if we kill each other first." She continued to say as she tried to reach out to stop me from walking but missed me completely.
"They won't have to kill us." A boy held up his gun towards me, I guess I was too closer for comfort. "If we all catch the virus." He said as I turned to look at Clarke who was rolling her eyes.
He moved closer to me his gun still raised pointed right at my chest, "Get back in the drop ship!" He yelled at me startling me causing me to jump.
Bellamy took the gun in the boy's hand wrestling him with him before using the stock of the gun to punch the boy in the face sending him down into the ground. "Don't ever point a gun at her again." He said not even looking at the boy who was now stumbling around.
Bellamy moved closer to me motioning for me to follow him back towards Clarke. "Not to state the obvious or anything, but your quarantine isn't working." He told Clarke.
Clarke's face barely registered an expression as she slowly dropped the gun to her side nearly falling over if it weren't for Finn who quickly swooped in and caught her in his arms lifting her up. "Finn, don't touch her!" Raven shouted a little too late.
"Hey, let me go. I'm ok." Clarke told him, barely keeping conscience. "No you're not." Finn whispered to her as I looked over at Murphy whom didn't seem to interested in what was going on.
I guess that meant Clarke ended things with him, I felt Bellamy move closer to me. "You shouldn't be so close to me." I mumbled to him.
"I'm probably already sick, and being even this close to you and not being able to hold you… is torture enough… don't send me away." He begged.
"Octavia will come back with a cure." Clarke said again as she began to sound more and more out of breath.
"There is no cure…" Octavia called out to us all as she reentered the camp walking towards us.
"But the grounders don't use the sickness to kill." She said loud enough for everyone to hear her. "Really?" Bellamy asked her, "Tell that to them." He said pointing towards Derek and the other girl.
"I warned you about seeing that grounder again." Bellamy said harshly as I moved my hand out to touch his shoulder in an attempt to calm him down, only to pull my hand back. Touching him would be a terrible idea.
"Yea? Well, I have a warning for you, too." Octavia said all matter-o-factly. "The grounders are coming…" She started saying, as she looked around the camp at all the now terrified faces. "And they're attacking at first light." She finished.
She went to walk past Bellamy as he grabbed her arm only for her to wretch it out of his grasp, she then turned to Finn who was still holding Clarke in his arms. "Rayne?" Octavia said as I turned to her. "Come on."
She and the others began to walk back into the drop ship as I turned to Bellamy; "Whatever you decide to do… about the news. I am with you one hundred percent… I love you Bells…" I said as he smiled at me watching me jog off back into the drop ship.
"What do I have to do to stop you from coming in here?" Clarke asked Finn as the our of us entered the drop ship, I looked around seeing everyone, most people where on the ground curled into Balls.
Except for Dax who was lying in a hammock talking Murphy only making my stomach churn even more than it had before. I was getting such a bad gut feeling that they two where up to something. It was like Murphy knew something or was planning on doing something. It wasn't like he didn't have reasons to want to hurt a few people in the camp. Bellamy, Clarke and I included.
"Get better." Finn told her looking around for somewhere to put her as I watched Dax get off the hammock he was in.
"If he's not sick by now, then he's probably immune like me." Octavia told us. "One can only hope." I muttered causing Octavia to smirk.
"Here. Come on. She can take mine." Dax said offering up his hammock for Clarke as Finn rushed over and placed Clarke down in the hammock before turning to Octavia same as I did. "What else did Lincon tell you?" He asked her.
"The virus doesn't last long." She said rubbing Clarke's hand comfortingly.
"It's true. I feel better." Dax said to us from beside Murphy.
"They need to stay hydrated." Clarke said struggling in the hammock. "You need to stay hydrated." I told her pushing her hair out of her face as Octavia returned with a small cup of water slowly handing it to Clarke.
She began to drink the water before handing it back to Octavia, "Ok. Them, too." Clarke said as Finn looked to me.
"Clarke, we're family… I need you strong and back on your feet. Stop worrying about everyone else in here and start being concerned about yourself. Like Octavia said it shouldn't last long, Dax and I are already better… well I hope I'm better." I said the last part slightly silent.
"Please?" Clarke begged me as I looked to Octavia giving her a nod to go ahead and start getting the others water. I turned to watch her only to see Dax get up and move to help give the others water as well.
"He can't be all that terrible anymore." I whispered to Clarke as she gave me a stern look. "I don't trust him." She told me as I nodded to her.
"We'll have to wait and see…" I said to her as she shrugged.
"You need to save yourselves." Clarke said looking up at Finn. "Just leave camp. Take anyone healthy enough with you."
"If you think that's even a possibility, you don't know me very well." Finn smiled at her, "Besides; Bellamy wouldn't let anyone leave until Rayne's better anyway." He continued causing me to giggle.
"And I won't leave until you're better, Clarke. Looks like your stuck with us." I said to her causing both her and Finn to crack smiles.
"Look. At this rate, when the grounders get here, there won't be anyone left to fight back." Murphy said walking over to us after Clarke had fallen asleep.
"That's the point." Octavia said from the back corner.
"Then we slow them down." Finn shot out as he walked out of the drop ship along side Murphy leaving me standing there watching over a sleeping Clarke.
"I'll watch her if you need air you don't look so good." Octavia said as I smiled and headed outside the drop ship.
I stood there leaning against the wall of the drop ship watching everyone who was still outside they're tents wonder around looking for anything to do to keep busy till our impending deaths. I noticed Bellamy walk out of the ammunitions tent where all the guns where kept. He seemed to be staggering around oddly, He motioned over to jasper then held his hand out to stop the boy from coming any closer to him.
"Don't you have jobs to do?" Bellamy suddenly yelled as the two continued to talk till Bellamy walked away only to fall into a near by tent. "Bellamy!" Jasper yelled as I ran over to Bellamy as he and two other boys did as well.
"We have to get him in the drop ship." The one told me.
"Follow me than." I said as I put one of Bellamy's arms over my shoulder walking with the two boys towards the drop ship. "Octavia." I said as soon as we entered the ship.
"Bell? No." She said quickly rushing over to us, "Clear some space. Lay him down." She said as I helped Bellamy toward a small bed laying him down on his side as I sat next to his head.
The second they put Bellamy down on the ground he starting coughing up blood, Octavia helped me roll him onto his side as he began to spit up blood onto the side of the sheet next to him.
"Oh, no… Bell." Octavia cooed.
Once he was finished we rolled him onto his back putting his head on my lap and Octavia kneeling beside the two of us as she looked over him smiling, "Hey, Big Brother." She said to him as I began to stroke back his hair as she started to wipe the blood from his face.
"I'm scared…" Bellamy breathed out looking directly at Octavia as I wiped away the few tears forming in his eyes.
"I won't let anything happen to you." She told him as his eyes wondered to me, "Neither of us will. I promise." She continued to tell him.
"That's what I said to you the day you were born." He told her as she looked towards me with a soft smile playing along their lips.
"I know." She said with a large smile on her face. "You told me that, like, a thousand times."
"I doubt that's the only thing." He said smugly.
"You've told me at least a million times how much you love this twit." Octavia said nodding to me. "Gee thanks O'" I said rolling my eyes causing Bellamy to chuckle softly.
"I'm glad you're both here." He said as he put his hand over Octavia.
"Just get some rest now, ok?" She said to him before turning to me handing me the damp cloth, "I'll get him some water, but I need some air." She told me softly.
After she handed me the water I watched her as she left the drop ship, Bellamy looking up at me his eyes filled with tiny tears. "She left to see him… didn't she?" He asked me.
"She'll be back babe. Trust me?" I asked.
"I trust you; it just… it hurts watching her constantly pick that grounder over us." He said as I leaned down and kissed his forehead.
"She's not picking him over us, she's choosing love over emptiness; however when the time comes to choose. She will pick us baby." I told him softly.
"Why did you choose me? There were so many times you could have walked away." He sighed.
"Something tells me you'd never just let me walk away from you Bells. Besides the heart works in mysterious ways, I think I've always wanted you… regardless of what happens. It'll always be you."
"Such a cheesy girl." He smirked.
"Says the boy who looks like a twisted cartoon character." I smiled as I watched him fall asleep on my lap.
"You're good for him." I suddenly heard from in front of me seeing Clarke sit up in the hammock.
"What makes you say that?" I asked.
"Just how peaceful and happy he is around you." She smiled; "Reminds me of how—never mind." She stopped saying.
"How you and Finn where before Raven got down here? Give it time hun; things have a funny way of working themselves out." I told her softly, as I stood up and made my way over to her sitting next to her on the hammock.
"I missed you Clarke, Like, I missed us like this." I told her as I looked down at my feet.
"I did too. I just wish I had told you what was going on, I mean I don't even know why I thought the whole Murphy thing would upset you, that was completely stupid." She said laughing softly.
"I don't know why I didn't just keep on you two till one of you caved in and told me." I snickered.
"Agree to disagree we're both idiots." She said with a giggle, I heard a shuffle noticing Bellamy waking up, sitting up on his small mat looking around for Octavia and I.
Dax moved towards him with a small tin of water, "Here." He offered him as Clarke smirked. "That's all yours… I have to end things with Murphy." She said getting up and walking away as I made my way back over to Bellamy.
"Get the hell away from me." Bellamy said to the guy pushing the water away from him.
"Bellamy, you're sick, ok?" Dax told him. "I'm just trying to help."
Dax reached behind him for a cloth handing it over to Bellamy who was whipping his bleeding nose on his arm. "Here."
"When I get better, if you're still here—" Bellamy began to say as I quickly cut him off.
"Dax, I got this one." I said putting my hand on his shoulder taking the cup of water from him, watching as he stood up nodding before walking away from the two of us.
"Still not a nap person eh?" I asked him as he lowered his head shaking it as I sat next to him on the mat.
"Drink this, you need to stay hydrated." I told him handing him the small cup filled with room temperature warm water.
"Are you feeling any better at least?" He asked me gazing deep into my eyes.
I leaned in close to him kissing his cheek softly; "Much."
"At least there's some good news." He said as he took a swig of the water.
"Where's my sister?" He asked.
"She was up all night helping everyone else around the drop ship. I'm sure she just went to get some sleep." I told him with a smile, "Murphy and Dax gave her a break… a while back." I continued.
"Don't tell me you trust Dax now." She said looking at me from the corner of his eye.
"Trust?" I scoffed shaking my head, "Good lord no." I told him causing Bellamy to smile.
"However, Clarke and I where talking and I guess we both believe in second chances." I told him as he now scoffed.
"You two giving each other a second chance is incomparable to him getting one."
I nodded; "True enough." Bellamy looked away from me and towards the outside of the drop ship. "It's almost dawn. Better get everyone inside." He told me.
"If we lock the doors, maybe the grounders will think we're not home." Bellamy said looking over at me with a worrisome look.
"Babe, not everyone is sick."
"Sick is better than dead." He told me taking another sip of water.
"You don't think the boys will pull it off… do you?" I asked him causing him to look at me with shock, I guess he didn't realize they spoke to me before they left.
"Do you?" He asked countering my question.
"I'll get everyone inside." We heard Clarke say from in front of us causing both Bellamy and I to chuckle as we both stood up and headed outside to round everyone up.
"Hey everyone; we need to get everyone inside the drop ship. Those not sick head to the third level, anyone showing minor symptoms to the second level and anyone sick… first level." Clarke yelled out, as we all heard a huge blast go off in the distance.
Bellamy, Clarke and I spun around seeing the huge mushroom cloud of smoke go off in the distance. I couldn't help but feel the smile creep onto my lips at the sight of it. They succeeded, thank god for that. I felt Bellamy wrap his arms around my waist pulling me against him. "They did it." He said softly.
"You doubted them?" I softly laughed.
"Get a room." Clarke smirked rolling her eyes at us.
"I am become death, destroyer of worlds." Clarke said as she stared up at the dark gray cloud entranced.
I watched as Bellamy slowly turned to look at her as if she was insanely babbling to herself. "It's Oppenheimer, the man who built the first-" I began to explained to him.
"I know who Oppenheimer is." He said causing Clarke to laugh.
"Impressive." I smirked up at him.
A few hours passed as Clarke, Bellamy and I just sat there outside breathing in the fresh air. Knowing the grounders had been stopped at least one day from trying to kill us brought us all so much comfort. "There!" Someone yelled jolting me out of Bellamy's arms, and Clarke's head to whip around to look behind us.
"It's them! Open the gate!" Another yelled.
The three of us stood up as everyone began to clap as Monty and Jasper walked back into the campsite. They where heroes in a sense; this was the second time one of them had saved the entire camps lives. I turned to Clarke and watched the cheeky grin dance along her lips. Before they fell slightly at the sight of Finn carrying an unconscious Raven into the camp and towards the drop ship.
"That's all you my dear." I told her as she nodded to me and wondered off.
Bellamy moved so that he was in front of me, pulling my lips to his kissing me hungrily for a brief moment before pulling himself away from me. "God, two days is far to long to not be doing that." He told me as I rolled my eyes.
Later that night everyone began to celebrate the victory of destroying the bridge as Clarke walked over to me taking me by the wrist and leading me out towards where the graves where. Bellamy was following a few feet behind us.
She stood in front of Wells's gravesite looking them over before calmly turning to me as if to say something when she was interrupted. "You two are outside the wall without guns."
"Fourteen graves." Clarke suddenly said nearly ignoring Bellamy all together.
"We need to talk about Dax." Bellamy said.
"Not just Dax…" I commented as the two of them turned to look at me. "What do you mean?" Bellamy asked.
"Something's up with Murphy too… the two of them constantly looking at each other as if there's something going on that we're not aware of." Clarke said.
"You saw it too?" I asked her as she nodded.
"I noticed it the day Dax was brought in… they way he just stared at Murphy, the two of them always together talking… it's just odd to me." She said as I nodded.
"What do we do than?" Bellamy asked us.
"He was right about the bridge." Clarke explained.
"We'll see." Bellamy continued.
"We just keep an eye on the both of them… make sure when Connor get's better him and Miller report everything the two of them do." Clarke said as Bellamy and I agreed.
"Octavia says the Mountain men are pissed." I told them both, "What ever the hell that's supposed to mean."
"I'd say it means we need as many soldiers as we can get." Clarke sighed.
"So, what, we have pardon power now?" Bellamy asked.
"It's hard running things." Clarke mused.
Third Person Point of View
"I did it, means it's your turn." A dark voice said in the dark behind the drop ship.
"So you killed one person, big deal… I was tortured." Another voice added in.
"Neither of us is going to get the revenge we deserve if we act like this is a contest… Bellamy will die… he will, so will that stupid Princess, and Rayne if she keeps getting in the way." The first voice growled.
The second male voice chuckled; "I thought you wanted me to help you get them all to hate one another so taking her out of his hands was easier."
"Making them all hate and distrust each other will be easy; the hard part will be killing the two of them without Rayne suspecting anything… once their dealt with we'll radio for Shumway and have him ensure you're mom gets down here."
Dax chuckled; "Chances are everyone on the Ark is dead… I want Bellamy dead for being the reason my mom will never come down, for banishing me, and because he's a prick he deserves to die."
Murphy took in a deep breath as he walked out of the shadow and into the fire's glow. "They will all get what they deserve… just… don't tell them what the grounders told you about Rayne and they're plans for this camp… and we'll be golden." He said before taking off.