Third Person's POV
After a little while, things had calmed down a bit. Julia was standing with Murphy and his group when they noticed Jasper being grabbed and shoved away from Clarke by Wells.
Murphy walked forward towards them, Julia at his side and his group following behind them.
"Hey, hey, hey. Hands off of him. He's with us." Murphy spoke and Wells put his hands up.
"Relax. We're just trying to figure out where we are." Wells responded and Julia noticed Clarke was looking down at a map.
"We're on the ground. That not good enough for you?" Julia and the rest of them looked over to see it was Bellamy who spoke. Octavia stood next to him.
Wells sighed quietly before turning his body to face Bellamy instead of Murphy and Julia.
"We need to find Mount Weather. You heard my father's message. That has to be our first priority." Wells spoke, walking forward a few steps.
"None of us give a damn what your father told us to do." Julia spoke up, crossing her arms. Wells glanced over at her before looking back at Bellamy and Octavia.
"What, you think you're in charge here, you and your little princess?" Octavia questioned, tilting her head as she smirked slightly.
"Do you think we care who's in charge? We need to get to Mount Weather, not because the chancellor said so, but because the longer we wait, the hungrier we'll get and the hardest this'll be.
"How long do you think we'll last without those supplies? We're looking at a 20-mile trek, okay? So if we want to get there before dark, we need to leave now." Clarke finished her speech.
"I got a better idea. You two go, find it for us. Let the privileged do the hard work for a change." Bellamy suggested and there was a chorus of "yeah"s from the crowd.
"You're not listening. We all need to go." Wells spoke, but was cut off when Murphy came up from behind and shoved him.
"Look at this everyone – the chancellor of Earth." Murphy spoke and people laughed.
"Think that's funny?" Wells questioned and Murphy kicked his leg, making Wells fall back on the ground.
"Wells," Clark said and tried to move to him, but was held back by a member of Murphy's group.
"No, but that was." Murphy said in response to Wells question. Wells got up off the ground, his hands up to fight, limping because of his leg.
"All right." Murphy said before faking him out with a punch. The crowd cheered Murphy on, but the fight never happened because Finn dropped down from the side of the ship, landing between Wells and Murphy, facing the latter. Julia had to admit, the way he dropped down between them was pretty cool.
"Kid's got one leg. How about you wait until it's a fair fight?" Finn spoke and Murphy backed off a little.
"Hey, spacewalker, rescue me next." Octavia sauntered up to Finn, dissolving the tension as everyone laughed. Murphy turned and went off with his group as everyone separated and went back to doing their own things.
Usually Julia would've gone with Murphy, but she hung back to stand with her brother and sister. Bellamy was currently giving Octavia a disapproving look.
"What? He's cute." Octavia said, defensively. "He's a criminal." Bellamy spoke and Julia laughed and rolled her eyes. "They're all criminals, dude. Finn's one of the good ones."
Hearing Julia talk, Bellamy turned to face her. "And as for you, you seem pretty chummy with John Murphy." Bellamy said, narrowing in his eyes in the direction of the aforementioned.
"Yeah, Murphy's my best friend. I met him pretty soon after I first got put in lockup. He let me into his group and was there for me, which made me feel less alone. I don't know how I would've dealt with it without him." Julia explained.
Bellamy had mixed feelings. The most potent one was protectiveness of his little sister, which made him dislike the guy, but he also appreciated that he was there for her when he couldn't be. All in all, he decided he'd give the guy a chance, for his sister's sake.
"Look, I came down here to protect you both." Bellamy spoke and Octavia crossed her arms.
"Well, I don't need protecting. Julia and I have been locked up one way or another all our lives. I don't know about her, but I'm done following orders. I need to have fun, Bell. I need to just do something crazy just because I can, and no one, including you, is gonna stop me." Octavia told her brother.
"I can't stay with them." Bellamy said, glancing around. Julia furrowed her eyebrows. "What are you talking about?" She questioned.
Bellamy grabbed his sisters' arms and pulled them a little bit away where there were less people, so there was a less chance of being overheard.
"I did something, okay, to get on the drop ship, something that they will kill me for when they come down. I can't say what it is just yet, but you have to trust me. You do still trust me, don't you?" Bellamy looked between his sisters.
"Of course," Julia immediately responded, while Octavia nodded. "Yeah." She confirmed before the three of them walked back to the group.
"How are the two of you gonna carry enough food for a hundred?" Julia overheard Wells ask Clarke and Finn.
Finn turned and grabbed the two nearest guys, which happened to be Jasper and Monty, and pulled them over and turned them around. "Four of us. Can we go now?" Finn asked.
"Sounds like a party. Make it five." Octavia said, walking up to the group. "Hey, what the hell are you doing?" Bellamy questioned as he and Julia came up behind her. "Going for a walk." Octavia answered and the way she said it made Julia snort.
"Hey, were you trying to take this off?" Clarke demanded, walking up to Finn and grabbing his wrist to look at his wristband.
"Yeah. So?" Finn responded. "So this wristband transmits your vital signs to the Ark. Take it off and they'll think you're dead." Clarke explained.
"Should I care?" Finn questioned.
"Well, I don't know. Do you want the people you love to think you're dead? Do you want them to follow you down here in two months? Because they won't if they think we're dying." Clarke shot back and Finn backed down.
"Okay. Now let's go." Clarke said and she, Finn, Monty, and Jasper all started to head off. Octavia looked towards Bellamy.
"Go on." He confirmed and Octavia grinned and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Have fun!" Julia called out to her as Octavia ran off after the group.
Bellamy turned to his youngest sister. "You sure you don't want to go too?" He asked her. Julia shook her head.
"Nah. I want to stay here and spend some time with my big brother." She nudged him in the side and shot him a playful glance.
Bellamy just smiled and hung his arm over her shoulder before they turned and started walking back to the rest of the group.
~~~
A little while later, Julia was standing and talking with Bellamy when she took notice of a confrontation between Murphy, John Mbege, and Wells.
Bellamy also noticed this and the two of them walked over just as Wells walked away from Murphy and Mbege.
On the side of the drop ship, Murphy and Mbege had carved in the message "First Son, First to Dye".
"If you're gonna kill someone, it's probably best not to announce it." Bellamy voiced as he and Julia walked up to them.
Murphy chuckled. "You're not really a member of the guard, are you?" He questioned and Julia realized something.
"Oh, I haven't properly introduced you guys yet. Murphy, this is my brother Bellamy. Bellamy, this is my best friend John Murphy. And that's John Mbege." Julia introduced them before adding on, "And no, he's not actually a member of the guard."
"The real guard will be here soon unless we stop it. You don't actually think they're gonna forgive your crimes. Even if they do, then what? Guys like us, we're gonna become model citizens now, get jobs, if we're lucky, maybe pick up their trash?" Bellamy spoke.
"You got a point?" Mbege demanded. "No, I got a question. They locked you up, dumped you down here like lab rats to die, so why are you helping them?" Bellamy asked.
"The hell we are." Mbege responded defensively. "You're wearing those bracelets, aren't you? Right now, those things are telling them whether or not it's safe to follow us down." Bellamy explained.
"Okay. You said we could stop it. How?" Murphy asked him. "Take them off. The Ark will think you're dead, that it's not safe to follow. You follow?" Bellamy responded.
"Right, and if we do, I mean, what's in it for us?" Murphy questioned, glancing between Bellamy and Julia. He knew if she had been the one to ask, he would've done it no question, but since it was her brother, he wanted to know what they'd get out of it.
"Someone has got to help me run things." Bellamy answered before turning around and walking off. Julia stuck around with Murphy and Mbege.
"You know, your brother's pretty persuasive." Murphy spoke and Julia glanced at her brothers retreating figure. "That he is."
~~~
It was dark out and the fire the group had built climbed high. The group was gathered around it as one-by-one people came forward to get their wristbands taken off.
Julia stepped forward and crouched as she placed her right arm on a stone block. She locked eyes with Murphy, who was the one taking off the wristbands.
She gave him a quick nod before he stuck the metal bar under the wristband and pushed, prying it off. It was a little painful as the metal bar dug into her wrist, but soon the wristband propped open and fell off.
Julia smiled largely as she stood up, tossing the wristband into the fire. Bellamy looked over at his sister, smiling proudly. Then she went to stand behind Murphy as he went to take the wristband off the next person.
He had just taken the wristband off and thrown it into the fire when Wells returned and saw what they were doing.
"Who's next?" Bellamy called out to the crowd. "What the hell are you doing?" Wells demanded as he advanced closer to Bellamy.
Mbege went to move forward to Wells, but Bellamy reached out his arm, blocking him. "We're liberating ourselves. What does it look like?" Bellamy responded.
"It looks like you're trying to get us all killed. The communication system is dead. These wristbands are all we got. Take them off and the Ark will think we're dying, that it's not safe for them to follow." Wells tried to warn the crowd.
"That's the point, chancellor. We can take care of ourselves, can't we?" Bellamy spoke out to the crowd and there were a chorus of "yeah"s, including one from Julia and Murphy.
"You think this is a game? Those aren't just our friends and our parents up there. They're our farmers, our doctors, our engineers. I don't care what he tells you. We won't survive here on our own. . . And besides, if it really is safe, how could you not want the rest of our people to come down?" Wells questioned.
"My people already are down. Those people locked my people up. Those people killed my mother for the crime of having more than one child. Your father did that." Bellamy told Wells, and Julia agreed.
There was no one on the Ark that she cared about or that cared about her anymore. Growing up, the only people she knew was her mom and her siblings. Then, once she got put in lockup, she met others.
But everyone she met in lockup and both of her siblings were on the ground. The only person that wasn't was her mother, who had been executed. So she fully agreed with what Bellamy was saying. Her people were the ones already there.
"My father didn't write the laws." Wells stood up for his dad. "No, he enforced them, but not anymore, not here. Here, there are no laws. Here, we do whatever the hell we want whenever the hell we want." Bellamy started his speech and people cheered, agreeing with his words.
"Now, you don't have to like it, Wells. You can even try to stop it or change it. Kill me. You know why? Whatever the hell we want." Bellamy finished.
"Whatever the hell we want!" Murphy yelled out and soon the entire crowd was chanting those words over and over.
After a few moments of chanting, there was a clap of thunder and rain started pouring down on the group.
"Oh my, God, Murphy! Rain! Real rain!" Julia exclaimed as she grinned. She tilted her head up towards the rain and spread her arms out, twirling in a circle as she laughed.
Murphy, who had been jumping and cheering along with the rest of the crowd, moved closer to Julia and scooped her up into his arms. She wrapped her arms around his neck to keep from slipping as he continued jumping and cheering.
If someone had told Julia yesterday that she would be on Earth in the rain today, she would've laughed in their face. The thought alone was ridiculous. But it was true. She was really there, and she was loving every minute of it.