Blood Must Have Blood: Part 2

Toby POV

People keep dying, they're all dropping like flies. Fox cries as the life seeps out of her body, she doesn't scream like the rest do. We're all bloody, beaten and broken and hearing the cries of a friend makes the conviction leave every one.

At some point there are guards that come in bringing more of Ark soldiers with bags over their heads. "On their knees." The headguard instructs the others as a door opens and Cage walks in.

"We take any losses?" He asks, looking around the room with distaste.

Blondie shakes his head. "Not as many as they did, sir." He pauses. "I'm afraid I'm the only one left who's cured. Some kids are still missing. If you like, I'll take a team in haz mats and sweep the other levels."

Cage looks at me when he responds. "No. No more wasted lives. In forty-eight hours we'll all be on the ground." He gestures to the Ark people kneeling on the ground. "Take off their hoods."

They remove the hoods to reveal a teenager girl, Miller's dad, Kane and Dr. Griffin. Abby finds my blank gaze and responds with a sad one.

Kane steps towards me and brushes a hand down my cheek. He leans in to whisper to me, "I'd kiss you, but I'll wait until you get cleaned up once this is all over."

He pulls away and smiles at my lack of reaction once he steps out the door I grimace and watch as they chain up the new arrivals. This is like living in a nightmare

-/-

Third POV

"Command centers live." Monty says anxiously as the screens boot to life.

All the security feeds throughout the mountain are front and center, but the only TV they can watch is the dorm security feed showing Raven being tortured.

"Oh, my god." Clarke mutters under her breath.

"Is that Raven?" Bellamy asks angrily.

Monty points the camera around the room and Clarke steps forward to get a better look. "Mom?" The camera pans to the other corner and a pixilated image of Toby appears. "Toby?" Clarkes voice cracks.

Bellamy storms to the radios and grabs one, forcing it at Dante. "Tell them to stop! Now!"

"I won't do that." Dante stands his ground.

Clarke looks to the camera showing the dining room. "Emerson." She mumbles. Clarke grabs the radio from Bellamy's hands and turns it on. "Carl Emerson. Mount Weather security detail, come in."

"Who is this?" The radio crackles to life.

"You know who it is." Clarke baits the man. "Give the radio to the President."

The group shifts to follow Emerson and Cage out into the hallway.

"This is President Wallace."

"I have your father." Clarke stares at the image of the president on the TV screens. "If you don't let my people go, I'll kill him."

"How do I know you have him?" Even without the TV screens everyone could hear the annoyance in Cage's voice.

Clarke holds the radio up to Dante so he can speak. "Stay the course Cage."

"You won't do it." Now his voice is anxious, and low.

"You don't know me very well." Clarke goads him. "This ends now. Release my people."

"I can't do that."

"It would mean the end of our people Clarke." Dante tells her plainly.

She doubts that this plan will work, then steels herself and whips the gun out pointing it at Dante.

Bellamy steps forwards quickly. "Clarke, we need him." He reasons.

"And I need his son to believe me." She raises the radio to her lips. "Don't make me do this."

"Dad. I'll take care of our people." They watch Cage hesitate on the screens.

Dante's eyes widen. "None of us has a choice here, Clarke."

"I didn't want this." Clarke says sadly.

Cage runs, and they follow his path until he reaches the dorm with all the Ark people. He holds the radio up to Toby.

"Clarke?"

They all whip their faces to the screen as the radio crackles with her voice. She's hurting.

"Toby? Are you okay?"

"Clarke what are you doing?"

Tears gather in the corner of Clarke's eye. "What needs to be done."

"You don't have to do this. There's always another way."

Clarke turns off the safety. "Not here." She pulls the trigger and shoots Dante above the heart. Cage listens to his father die and his grip on Toby's shoulder tightens. "Cage listen to me. I don't want anyone else to die. Stop the drilling and we can talk. There must be a way to get us all out of this."

-/-

Toby POV

Hearing Clarkes voice over the radio cements the pain growing in my heart. Hearing Dante die doesn't do much to help. She sounds like she's in agony, like she's holding the weight of the world on her shoulders and in some ways, I suppose she is.

"Take that one off the table." The tech doesn't move as Cage asks for Raven to be moved. "Now!"

The tech unbuckles Raven as Cage looks over at me. "Put her on it."

"Wait." My voice cracks. "Please Cage. Not again."

He shakes his head. "Should have been a better negotiator."

As the guards strap me to the table, I don't fight. Those strapped to the walls negotiate with Cage about donating bone marrow. It doesn't matter; I have no energy left. If they drill, I will die here.

Cage keeps eye contact with me as they cut open my jeans. The drill nears my knees, the only places left without holes drilled into them. It cuts through my skin and I only cringe at the noise it makes.

"Please Cage, if you had asked, people would have helped willingly." I stutter through my sentence as tears drip down my face.

"That would have never happened."

My chest heaves as it becomes harder and harder to breathe. "Cage, this is killing people." Black and white spots cloud my vision and I let out a sob. "Please, just stop."

"I need to save my people Toby, this is the only way." He stares straight ahead, now he's not even making eye contact.

I shiver, even though it's not cold. The drill makes all my bones vibrate and I can even feel it in my teeth. It becomes hard to focus and I wonder if this is what the beginning of death feels like.

Something is happening, alarms blair and guards drop. No one comes at me with a drill again. I rock my head back and forth, trying to gain some energy back. My eyes are fuzzy and I can't focus on anything. Someone comes and undoes the restraints holding me to the table. I think they're asking me if I can walk.

I try to nod, but all that happens is my head lolling onto their shoulder. "You will be okay."

"Bellamy?" It sounds like him but I can't be sure.

He sweeps me off my feet and I lean my head on him. "I'm sorry- sorry I left."

"Shh, we can deal with it all later."

-/-

I wake up in the medical sector of the fallen Ark. There's no one around me and I push myself up. I test my leg and find it aches, but I can push through it to get out of here. My spine aches and all the places they drilled feel like they were patched with pins and needles. I grit my teeth and shuffle out of the wing. There aren't any people in the Ark, they're all outside enjoying the sun.

"Toby!"

I spin around when I hear Monty calling me. He's standing with Bellamy and Harper. I wobble over to them, but when they notice me having difficulty, they run to meet me.

I wrap my arms around Monty's neck and fall into his hug. I hear someone crying and I realize it's me. He rubs my back and tells me it's okay. He helps me stand and I'm pulled into another embrace, this one from Bellamy.

He cups my face in one hand and smiles at me. "Everything will be okay."