Disclaimer: The usual. I don't own anything.
A/N: I'm going to add Abby's point of view as well in this story. She will play an integral role in my storyline and I want to tell it from her view as well.
Bellamy came to conscience and felt himself being dragged along the floor roughly. He felt dizzy from being hit in the head, and having it bounce on the rocky floor didn't help much. His hands and feet were tied with rope and he was bleeding from injuries sustained during the attack.
Whoever was dragging him, dropped him like a sack and pulled him up by his shirt to a sitting position. He swayed, not having had the chance to get his bearings. A rough hand held him in place. He squinched his eyes to get it to focus to see where he was at. He could tell he was in the reaper tunnels. A look around told him that it was reapers who dragged him in. But he wasn't alone. He saw other grounders next to him, tied up and gagged. The area he was in was new to him. He hadn't come across it during his journey in through the tunnels. There was a restricted area door with a keypad at the end of the section. It seemed like the reapers were waiting for someone to come through that. They were staring at the door expectantly.
They didn't have to wait long. The door buzzed and one person walked out in a hazmat medical suit. Bellamy couldn't tell who it was but he could tell it was a female. She was followed by another in a suit, who was carrying some kind of syringe in his hand with red liquid in them and a device on his other hand that was making a buzzing noise. The noise didn't do anything to him, but the reapers recoiled when they heard it as if it hurt them. Bellamy didn't know what was going on. They were followed by three more guards in suits carrying rifles in their hands.
The man with the syringe approached the reapers who kneeled in front of him like they were obedient pets. They turned their neck towards the man and he plunged the syringe to push some of the liquid inside them. The reaper looked like the pain subsided and they were feeling relief as they passed out. One by one, each reaper fell to the ground unconscious.
The female had a notepad in her hand as she walked in front of the captured grounders to size them up. After making some kind of mark in the notepad, she kept saying "Harvest" to the soldier behind the grounder and then the grounder was dragged away. Bellamy waited until it was his turn.
The woman looked at him in distaste, taking in his injuries. The soldier behind him ripped his shirt apart that was already half torn from the attack. He cut off the rest of clothes leaving Bellamy in his underwear. She made some marks in her notepad before she looked at the soldier behind.
Bellamy heard her say "Harvest" to the soldier behind him. Whatever fate was there for the other grounders fell on him as well. The soldier cut the rope tied to his feet and pulled him up by his arm. He tried to struggle, but he had no strength left and the soldier had a death grip on him. He was dragged along through the restricted door.
He was brought along with the grounders through a corridor in front of a room. He read the sign at the door say Quarantine Intake. They dragged in the grounders one by one inside the room. He could hear the grounders scream after a short while. He was the last in line.
He was pushed inside by the guard and once he entered, they used a metal collar on him with a long handle to keep their distance. He was pushed to the middle of the room. Someone in a hazmat suit came in with different equipment in their hand. The first one was a machine that produced hot steam. His skin burnt in the heat of the steam and he felt it blister. The next item used was some kind of white powder. They sprinkled the powder on his body completely, making sure it was covered with it. Then they used some kind of a scrubber to rub his body down. The powder made his skin itch badly, but the chains kept him in his place unable to move. Every time he flinched; he was held down harder.
The next equipment was a sprayer. They had a small bottle of liquid connected to the spray and they sprayed it on him. It was some kind of chemical that burned. With the open wounds he had, the chemical made it worse. He cried out in pain. He tried to move away from the chemical spray, but the guard with the collar handle pushed him in his place, keeping him where he was. He had to endure it as they made sure they applied it everywhere.
The person in the hazmat suit pulled out a small light in his hand next and came close to him. Bellamy could tell that it was a man that up close. It was not the same woman as before. The chain in his hand was pulled down to keep him in place by the guard behind him. And the collar tightened to make sure he doesn't move. The man with the light tried to open his mouth. Bellamy kept it shut, refusing to give them access. He wasn't going to be a willing participant. The man looked behind at the guard and then Bellamy felt a sharp pain course through him. He was electrocuted. He cried out in pain and the man stuck some kind of metal in his mouth to keep him from closing it. Bellamy tried to push it but they had it pushed in. The man looked inside his mouth for something Bellamy couldn't tell what for. Satisfied with whatever he was looking, he pulled out some kind of long barrel and put something inside. He punched it inside Bellamy's throat and Bellamy felt something go in with air following it. Bellamy had no choice but to swallow it.
The man stepped back and pulled out a long syringe to inject him. Bellamy was given multiple injections before the man was satisfied and ordered the guard to take him away. The guard dragged Bellamy along to the next room where he was placed above a grate. His hands were chained up to the roof of the room and the collar kept him in place. The man in that room pulled out a hose from the wall and started spraying. The water pressure was very strong and it hurt when it hit his body. The guards started rubbing him down roughly using a wash brush with hard bristles. It grated his skin, causing him pain. He cried out, but they kept doing it without care. He was given a good scrub down before they pulled him away.
He was taken by some corridors towards where he could hear a lot of noise coming through. The guard unlocked a door with his key card and Bellamy was pulled in through. He saw cages. Hundreds, maybe thousands of cages inside. Some were empty. But most had a human inside. Bellamy stopped to take it in, and was reminded to move by a guard pushing him forward. He obeyed and he was pulled towards a cage that was open. Bellamy realized he was going to be locked in that cage. He tried to fight again, only to be knocked down by the guard and carried inside the cage. The cage was very small and he had barely any room to move. They locked him inside.
Bellamy waited for the guards to leave before he tried to look around through the cage. The cages were placed in the holes on the mountain. Each hole had its own door. His one had about fifty cages and most were empty. He could see the grounders that were brought in with him there. There were other grounders as well. They looked weak. Not the confident, strong willed people he has come to expect from the grounders. These grounders looked broken. They had bandages around their bodies. Some looked like they haven't eaten for weeks, maybe months.
He saw a girl, almost his age in the cage next to him. She looked different. Unlike other grounders with tattoos all over their bodies, this girl didn't have any. She had a fierce look in her as if she had willed herself not to break. Bellamy can see the bandages in her body as well, but they looked more recent.
As he was checking her, she was watching him too. When he looked up at her, she started speaking. She spoke fast in Trigedasleng and he couldn't understand a single word she said.
"I can't… I don't understand you." Bellamy told her and she stopped in mid-sentence. She came close to him pushing her face to the cage to look at him closer. She took in his appearance.
"Sky Person?" She asked in English. Bellamy was surprised, but he didn't show it. He nodded.
Her reaction was not what he expected. She spit on him. She caught him off-guard and the spit landed on his face. He wiped it off and stared at her.
"What was that for?" He asked confused. He wondered if she was part of Anya's army and that is why she hates him.
"Your people are doing this." She accused him in a harsh voice.
Bellamy growled in frustration. "If you didn't notice, I am in the same cage like you. These are not my people." He pointed out.
She sat back in her previous position and stared at him, not convinced. "Why are you here then?" She asked him, in a normal voice. She looked confused after he pointed out his situation.
"The reapers brought me in. Long story. I assume you're not part of Anya's attack?" He asked her to confirm. If she didn't know what happened at that camp, then she wasn't part of it, he thought to himself. She shook her head.
He tried to rattle the cage doors to see if he can force it open. It didn't work.
"Stop it. They'll here and they will come." She warned him. Bellamy understood what she was trying to say. She was warning him about what not to do.
"I need to get out of this cage." He told her. He wasn't going to die in the cage. He will get back to his people, however he can.
"And then what?" She asked mockingly.
"And then I'll kill everyone in this mountain." He vowed. He has seen the end result in the tunnels before. And now he has seen what went inside and it made him sick. The mountain men will pay for the lives they had taken. He will make sure of it.
"What's your name?" The girl asked him. He looked at her, wondering if he should tell her or not.
"Bellamy." He answered her finally. He decided to show some trust in her. She could be his only ally in this place. "What's yours?" He asked her.
"Echo." She replied back. She had decided that he was trustworthy as well, it seemed. Bellamy nodded and attempted to break the door again. She sighed and rested in her position, letting him to his task.
- 100 -
It took a while for the guards to show up again. Bellamy had given up trying to break the door. It was too strong and he wasn't up to his full strength yet. He decided to save his energy, to use when he needed it the most.
"Quiet." Echo told in general. All the grounders there sunk into their cages. Bellamy noticed that Echo had somehow taken charge of the grounders in cages in their area. She coiled herself in her cage and Bellamy decided to follow her example.
The guards were now unmasked in their normal uniforms. They were not wearing the hazmat suits anymore.
They walked by him and looked around. They rested their eyes on Echo.
"This will do." One guard nodded and the other one pulled a set of keys from his belt buckle.
Bellamy looked over and saw the terror in Echo's eyes. She was terrified at what they were going to do to her. Bellamy couldn't sit back and watch it happen. He kicked the door of his cage hard. He kept kicking until the guards took notice.
"We got us a live one." One guard chuckled and they both moved from Echo's cage to his. Echo looked up at him afraid. He looked back at her, trying to convey that it was ok. He didn't want to say anything in case the guards realized they can talk.
Bellamy planned to kick the door in the guard's face when they unlocked it. But his plan foiled when one of the guards pulled out a long stick and zapped him with it. The pain made him numb, unable to move. By the time he recovered, the cage door was open and the guard zapped him once again. Bellamy couldn't react as he felt a needle go into his arm. His body slacked and he was numb completely. The guards pulled him out by his arms, careless of how he fell to the floor, chained him up by his wrists and feet and dragged him along. He saw Echo stare at him concerned, as he was taken in.
He was taken into some kind of laboratory. They did some tests that he has seen people do in the Ark. He had undergone a complete medical check-up during his guard training and this experience was very similar to that. They noted down his pulse and pressure and other measurements. He was then hoisted up by the chain at his feet and felt himself hang upside down.
"Let me go." He growled at the man in front of him, but the man ignored him.
He saw them bring in some kind of machine that had a lot of wires and needles. Bellamy was afraid. He felt helpless. He didn't know how to escape or if he could. He wished he had died during the attack. Going down fighting was better than being some kind of lab experiment.
The man he was yelling at approached him with no fear in his eyes. He was not in a hazmat suit as before and he looked like someone from the Ark. Like a doctor. He punched a few things in the device before pulling the wires that had some kind of patches in them. He placed them in Bellamy and saw the device come to life indicating his pulse and pressure. Once satisfied, he pulled out more wires that had needles attached to them and punched into Bellamy. Bellamy felt them penetrate his skin and felt the blood flow through them. It hurt, but he kept his mouth shut. The blood was going into some kind of container, but he didn't understand what it meant. He wished Clarke was there to explain it for him. But then he squashed that thought. He never wished for her to experience this at all. He will bare it all if he had to, so she won't ever need to.
He felt himself losing conscience once again as the blood drained out of him. His last thoughts were Clarke lying next to him, smiling over her shoulder as they made eye contact.
- 100 -
Abby stepped out of the Alpha station doors to look at her surroundings. The view was magnificent. Better than anything she could have imagined living in the Ark. The sun was up in the sky and the area they landed had destroyed the vegetation nearby. But she could see the green trees in a short distance. It was vibrant and alive and after staring at the grey walls of the Ark all her life, the change in colour scenery was beautiful.
But she didn't have the time to take in the nature's beauty. She had a job to do. The Alpha station landing left a lot of her people injured. Not everyone survived as the crash destroyed part of the station. Those who did sustained injuries. Luckily the med bay survived and she had limited supplies.
She saw Kane walk out with her through the door. He was in charge of bringing the survivors out of the station to make room. She assisted those in stretchers as they brought people outside to be placed on the ground. Those who could walk, did and took in the outside.
She saw Kane order everyone to stay close to the station. It was a wise decision as they didn't know what to expect.
The last they heard from the dropship was that they were facing impending attack from the people living in the ground. It was still a miracle how people have survived in the ground for nearly hundred years. It was improbable, but it proved that human race had the will to survive at any means necessary.
But the survivors in the ground didn't take kindly to those coming from the sky. She heard her daughter tell the Ark council about the attacks they had faced and the people they had lost. Abby had to tell the parents of the children that had died on the ground. It was devastating to see their only hope in life was gone. Abby couldn't imagine having to go through that herself.
That reminded her of the tension between her and her daughter. Clarke had found out Abby's role in her father's death. And her daughter had not forgiven her. Abby believed that she was doing the right thing when she went to Thelonious to get him to talk Jake out of it. She didn't expect Jake to be floated. But when it was done, she had to live with that guilt herself. She didn't tell her daughter of her involvement in her father's death. She let Wells take the blame and watched her daughter destroy the friendship she had built since she was a child, because she couldn't admit her fault in Jake's death.
She threw herself in making sure that his death would not be in vain by finding a way to survive. She came up with the idea of sending people to Earth to see if they can survive there and she built the trackers to monitor them. She fought as much as she could to ensure that they survived, so all her actions will be justified.
And now, she felt vindicated. She had landed on Earth and the Ark had survivors. It made her feel like she did the right thing by reporting Jake in. She believed it as she saw people come out of the station one by one.
Thelonious Jaha walked out of the station. He had a bandage in his head to cover his bleeding wound he sustained, when he hurt himself during the landing. He smiled at her and Abby smiled back.
"We made it." He told her when he was next to her.
"Yes, we did." She answered back. They both stared at the trees up ahead.
"We need to get to the dropship. We need the guards with us." Abby told him. Thelonious was lost in his thoughts.
"We need to secure our site first." He told her, looking at her. "We have a lot of injured who can't be transported. We don't have a secure perimeter and everything we need is in the station. We can't leave it alone and rush to the dropship with our guns blazing." He explained. He knew Abby wouldn't accept the reality.
And she didn't. Her daughter was in danger of impending attack. She needed to go there with armed guards to protect her.
"Clarke is there. Rest of them are still there, facing an army that can attack any minute. Thelonious, we should be there to protect them." She argued.
"Say that they are still there, waiting for the army. What will we do when we get there? Fight them with the guards we have? Most of them are injured. Those who can fight may not survive the attack. Even If we do win, do you think the grounders won't retaliate? If they come here, we will be left unguarded. We'll lose everything we have and be at their mercy." Jaha pointed out.
Abby could see the rational argument he was making. As a leader, he was thinking of the bigger picture and all of his people. But Abby was focused on only one person. Her daughter.
"If you are not going to help, I am going there. Alone if necessary." She told him. She will get to her daughter however she could.
"No, you won't." Jaha stated in a commanding voice. He looked at her in the eyes. "You have a duty as the doctor to these people. You know they won't survive without your help. You need to help them. That is your duty. Get to it." He told her and walked away back to the people coming out of the station.
Abby stood there watching him go. She was conflicted. She knows that she was needed there and with the number of injuries, Jackson won't be able to help alone. But she needed to get to her daughter too.
She saw someone come next to her and turned around to see Kane standing there.
"We'll get to them Abby." He said comfortingly.
"Will we be in time?" She asked him. Kane didn't have an answer for that. He stood silently next to her as she stared at the people.
Making her decision, she moved forward to render assistance to those still untreated from the injuries.
A/N: Writing Abby's POV is going to be fun and challenging. Her character is not someone I identified with, but with the story I have in mind, I need her POV. I made Jaha survive here as he will be essential in the storyline and since Raven and Sinclair kept working on the landing together, they managed to do it without anyone being left behind.