Chapter 10

It's been a day since the acid fog. The wall was still being built, but they were making progress. They had a gate, tents, and a good amount of it was built. They haven't had any problems with the grounders since Jasper.

Clarke was sitting on a log looking at a picture of her and her parents. Finn walks up to her.

"Hey". Finn says. Clarke looks at him.

"Don't worry, you're gonna see mom again soon". Finn says.

"Thanks, Finn, but I don't think I'm ready to see her". Clarke says. Finn looks at her, confused.

"What? Why, what happened"? Clarke asks.

"Wells didn't get my father killed". Finn looks at her.

"It was my mother". Clarke says. Finn looks at her, shocked.

"Wells let me hate him so i wouldn't hate my mother. Just wish there was something I could do. To tell her I know. Make her know what im-," Clarke stops herself before she walks away.

"Hey where are you going?" Finn asks.

"To make her feel it." Clarke says as she walks into the dropship, Finn follows and sees Monty taking off her wristband.

"Yes! I did it. It's still operational." Monty says. Clarke nods as stands up and sees Finn staring at her.

"What? Monty needed a working wristband." Clarke said.

"And you needed to punish your mother." Finn says. Clarke rolls her eyes.

"Look, they're running out of air, we need their help. And my mother thinking I'm dead is only temporary." Clarke says.

"Not if I can't patch through the dropship mainframe. I can do it, we'll be talking to the Ark by nightfall." Clarke she walks out of the dropship.

The Ark

Abby walks into Mecha station, where Raven was working on the pod. "How soon till you get this thing ready to drop?" Abby asks.

"I'm still scraping up parts to fabricate a pressure regulator. We have a day left, right?" Raven asks.

"Is there any way we can we launch without that part?" Abby asks.

"We could launch, but we'll be dead before we even hit the ground. And I mean bad dead. Ruptured lungs, air bubbles in the brain. We need that part. But why, did something change?" Raven asks.

"Clarke's wristband signal just went out." Abby says. Raven looks at her.

"Hey, that doesn't mean anything, right? She took it off like the rest of them." Raven says. Abby nods.

"Ok, I can get pressure regulator, today." Raven says.

"How?" Abby asks.

"The less you know, the better." Raven says as she picks up her jacket and walks out.

The ground

Murphy and Bellamy were watching the hundred.

"This section should be finished by tomorrow." Murphy says. Bellamy nods. Murphy sees a teen falls to the ground and drop a log.

"Hey!" Murphy says as he walks up to him. Bellamy looks.

"What, you think the grounders are just gonna sit around and wait for us to finish the wall?" Murphy asks. Bellamy walk towards him.

"I just need some water and I'll be fine, ok?" The teen asks.

"Murphy, get this guy some water." Bellamy says. He looks at Charlotte.

"Hey, you got this, right?" Bellamy asks. Charlotte walks over and tries to grab the log as Bellamy beats her to it.

"Hey, I'm just kidding." Bellamy says, smirking. Charlotte smiles. as Bellamy grabs the log the teen had drop and carry it as he walks away.

Murphy looks at him, then looks at the teen on the ground. He unzips his pants and pees on him. The teen winced and get up and and glares at Murphy.

"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU MURPHY? I'LL KILL YOU!!" The teen roared out in anger and pushes Murphy. Two other teens grab him.

Murphy smirks. "You wanted a water break". Murphy says. The teen glares at him. "Get back to work". Murphy tells the hundred. They nod and get back to finishing the Wall.

Octavia was walking Jasper out of the camp. "Okay, just a few more steps. One foot in front of the other." Octavia says. She turns and sees Jasper standing there, scared to take one more step.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Octavia asks.

"Hm, oh uh, nothing, I'm good." Jasper says, Octavia sees he's clearly not fine.

"Come on Jasper, you've been given a second chance, you gotta use it." Octavia says as she continue to walk, then falls into a bush.

"Octavia? Octavia?" Jasper calls out for her name, no response. He runs towards the Bush.

"Octavia! Octavia, are you ok?" Jasper asks, as a teen jumps out of the bush, scaring Jasper. He was holding Octavia with his hand over her mouth. She pushes him off.

"JERK!! Get the hell out of here!" She tells the teen, who just laughs.

Jasper shook his head and walks away. Octavia runs up to him.

"Jasper, come on. There's nothing to be afraid of." She says as Jasper trips on a twig and falls. Octavia tries helps him up before she and Jasper sees Wells on the ground with a knife in his hip.

"Oh my God." She says. A few minutes later they bring Wells in the dropship. Clarke patches him up and asks Jasper and Octavia what happen. They think it was grounders. Clarke takes a look at the knife Wells was stabbed with. She tries to walk out the dropship before Bellamy stops her.

"Get the hell out of my way Bellamy." Clarke hisses.

"Be smart about this. Look what we have achieved. The walls, the patrols. Fear of the grounders is building that wall. And Besides what are you gonna do? Just walks out and ask the guy that stabbed Wells to step forward? You don't even know who's knife that is." Bellamy says. Clarke shows him the bottom of the knife.

"You see that? J.M. John Murphy." Clarke says.

"Like it or not, people have a right to know." Clarke says as she walks past Bellamy. She walks out and sees Murphy and furiously pushes him.

"YOU STUPID SON OF A BITCH!!!" Clarke yells out.

"Whoa, whoa, what's your problem?" Murphy asks.

"Recognize this," she spits at Murphy, holding up his knife for everyone to see.

Other campers stop what they're doing and are now absorbed in the scene playing before them. Bellamy, Finn, Octavia and Jasper walks towards them, Bellamy had his arms crossed over his chest.

Murphy reaches for the knife. "Hey I've been looking for that, where'd you find it?"

Clarke shoves his hand away, "By Wells' body, you fuck! Where you tried to murder him!"

Murphy's faces twists in bewilderment and disgust."Where I what?"

"I know what you did, and you're gonna pay for it." Clarke says.

"Oh really?" Murphy asks as he turns his head to Bellamy.

"Bellamy, you really believe this shit?"

Now a crowd has formed.

"You tried to kill Wells," she screams, "and you've threatend to kill him before! We all heard you! Youhated Wells"

"Plenty,of people hated Wells! His father was the Chancellor that locked us up!" Murphy shouted.

"Yeah but you're the only one who got in a knife fight with him!" Clarke shouts back.

Octavia pipes up. "He tried to kill Jasper too!"

Murphy's eyes fix on Bellamy,"Bellamy, I'm telling you man. I didn't do it."

"They found his body withyour knife,"Bellamy reasons.

"Is this the kind of society we want? Where we can justkillpeople without any punishment?"

A voice calls out from the crowd. "I say we float him!"

Clarke's heart stops. "That's not what I'm saying-" she back pedals.

Connor shouts indignantly. "Why not?It's justice!"

The crowd begins to chant."Float him! Float him! Float him! Float him!"

Chaos ensues.

Murphy tries to run away as a teen trips him. Another kicks him, along another, and another, and then Murphy was just surrounded by teens kicking him.

"NO, GET OFF HIM!!!" Clarke screams out. Octavia tries to rush forward as Bellamy stop her. The teens start to Tie a rope on Murphy's hands and put another around his mouth.

"NO, LET HIM GO!!" Clarke screams as she tries to stop the chaos. The teens then drags Murphy then kicks him down a small hill. They pick him up and punches him as a the delinquents wraps a rope on a tree branch. Charlotte looks at the chaos she has made. She only wanted to end her nightmares, instead, she made a new one. She starts to cry. The teens ties the rope around Murphy's neck and makes stand on a crate. Clarke rushes forward but a Connor grabs her. "LET GO OF ME!!" Clarke screams. The hundred was starting to cheer. Bellamy watches. Clarke rushes towards him.

"BELLAMY, YOU CAN STOP THIS!!! THEY'LL LISTEN TO YOU!!!! I SAW YOU IN THE WOODS WITH THAT TEEN I KNOW YOU'RE NOT A KILLER!!!! BELLAMY PLEASE!!!" Clarke begs. Bellamy looks at her for a moment. "Hey, Bellamy should do it." Connor says as he begins to chant, then soon so did the hundred. Bellamy looks at Murphy, who shakes his head, muffling under the rope around his mouth.was being hanged. Bellamy looks back at Clarke before he walks forward to Murphy.

"NO, BELLAMY, DON'T!!" Clarke screams as Bellamy kicks the crate from under Murphy as his body swings between the trees as he chokes and sputters for his breath. The hundred starts to cheer.

"DAMN IT BELLAMY!!!" Clarke yells out.

"HEY, THIS IS ON YOU PRINCESS. YOU SHOULD'VE KEPT YOUR MOUTH SHUT!!" Bellamy yelled out. Seconds tick by and Murphy's life is being strangled away, the light in his eyes beginning to fade.

Bellamy's eyes widen at something behind Clarke as someone stumbles into her back.

Wells.

"IT WASN'T MURPHY," he shouts, causing the crowd to still, "IT WAS CHARLOTTE! CUT HIM DOWN!"

Oh my god.

Clarke reaches for the hatchet in Bellamy's belt and hacks the rope that has Murphy strung up, causing his body to free fall.

Of two things Clarke is certain: one, Murphy is still breathing.

And two:this is all her fault.

Bellamy looks at Charlotte, who was sobbing.

"Why?" Bellamy asked.

TO BE CONTINUED...