All Reigna could hear around her were the mostly gleeful cheers of the delinquents around her as she continued the job Bellamy gave Murphy and herself. Atom had wandered off moments ago to try to conjure up new clothes, despite Reigna telling him multiple times he would have to steal them off of another delinquent. Reigna stayed focused on her task, however, even though she could hear Atom and a newly arrived Wells having a conversation.
"Come on, it's really not as bad as you think it is." Reigna feigned compassion to the nervous delinquent in front of her. She caught a glimpse of Murphy in rolling his eyes in her peripheral vision. The girl still looked hesitant, so Reigna gave a fraction of a smile, the action feeling foreign on her face. The girl before her let out a strangled sigh and finally moved towards Murphy and Reigna. Reigna thought she heard Bellamy say something like, "What's wrong with a little chaos?" before she knocked the back of the girls knees, making them buckle and her body fall towards Murphy. He quickly seized her by the shoulders and held her face close to the fire as Reigna grabbed her wrist harshly. As Reigna began to wedge her knife between the bracelet and the girl's skin, she started squirming harder and let out a scream, making Reigna screw up her face in disgust.
"Bellamy. Check it out." Murphy turned his head to where Bellamy and Wells were standing, Reigna glancing over her shoulder at the two as well.
"We want the Ark to think the ground is killing us, right? We figured it would look better if we suffer a little bit first." Murphy grinned, proud of his and Reigna's idea. Before she could completely break the cuff apart she heard Wells yell and suddenly both her and Murphy were being pushed back, away from the girl.
"Let her go!" Wells yelled as Reigna glared up at him, retrieving her knife from under the girl's cuff and letting go of the harsh grip she had on her wrist. Wells looked back to Bellamy, a desperate look in his eyes, "You can stop this."
"Stop this?" Bellamy said as a question, a smirk on his face, "I'm just getting started."
Before he could say anything else, Murphy jumped to his feet and threw his fist into Wells's face. Reigna gasped in shock and scurried back toward the other delinquents, not being opposed to the fight, but not really being a fan of getting a black eye. Reigna got to her feet next to Bellamy just in time to see Murphy punch Wells in the stomach and knock him to the ground. Murphy got a few good hits in before Wells managed to turn them over and start punching Murphy in the jaw over and over again.
"Hey! Get the hell off of him you piece of shit!" Reigna tried to yell over the cheers of the surrounding delinquents. When Wells didn't move, she took a step forward intending to wrench Wells off Murphy herself, when Bellamy seized her by the forearm. Wells finally stood from Murphy's prone body and turned to face Bellamy.
"Don't you see you can't stop this?" Wells questioned. Reigna looked down to Murphy, silently pulling her sharpened knife from her waistband and tossing it discreetly to him while Wells wasn't paying attention to her. Murphy grabbed it from the ground and met Reigna's eyes for a moment before beginning to stand. With a huff, Murphy twirled the knife and faced Wells, mumbling a quiet "you're dead." before Bellamy finally stopped them. He stepped between the two, looking Wells in the eyes.
"Fair fight." He spoke before pulling a knife out of his waistband and dropping it on the ground in front of Wells. Bellamy slowly retreated to stand back beside Reigna as Wells looked around panicked before quickly snatching up the knife. Murphy and Wells circled each other silently, Murphy swinging out his knife twice at Wells who immediately backed away.
"Beat the shit outta him, Murph." Reigna mumbled, making him glance at her out of the corner of his eye before advancing quickly on Wells and managing to cut his arm. Wells looked up shocked and Murphy grew angrier.
"This is for my father!" Murphy yelled and ran at Wells, who seemed prepared for him to react this way. Wells dodged under Murphy's punch and restrained Murphy's arm that was holding the knife, locking his other arm around Murphy's neck. Reigna tensed and opened her mouth to speak but was interrupted.
"Wells! Let him go!" Reigna heard Clarke's voice to her left and didn't know whether to groan or thank her. Wells hesitated for a moment before throwing Murphy onto the ground, away from himself. Reigna ran to her friend, who was already preparing to charge at Wells again, but Reigna grabbed him arm.
"Hey, Murph. It's over. She spoke quietly, helping him to his feet as Bellamy ran to Octavia.
"Where's the food." She heard Bellamy ask from over her shoulder, but Reigna's eyes were glued to Murphy. If looks could kill, Wells would be dead ten times over in the 7th circle of hell.
"Hey." Reigna kept her voice quiet, "Murphy, look at me not him." Murphy took a deep breath before turning his head to look down at Reigna, who offered a sympathetic smile.
"There you are. You'll beat his ass next time. Reigna nodded, placing a comforting hand on Murphy's arm before tuning back into the conversation behind her.
"Attacked? By what?" Wells asked, making Reigna furrow her eyebrows in confusion.
"You were attacked?" Reigna asked, turning to face the group but keeping her hand on Murphy.
"Yes, where have you been?" Reigna sent a glare to Finn at his snarky comment, "And not what. Who. It turns out, when the last man from the ground died on the Ark, he wasn't the last Grounder." Finn's tone was somber as he explained to the group before Clarke piped in.
"It's true. Everything we thought we knew about the ground is wrong. There are people here, survivors. The good news is, that means we can survive. Radiation won't kill us." Clarke explained.
"Yeah, the bad news is the Grounders will." Finn spoke up quickly, addressing them all. Reigna hummed quietly in acknowledgement.
"Where's the kid with the goggles?" Wells spoke up, alerting the group who stayed behind of the missing group member.
"Jasper was hit. They took him. Where's your wristband?" Clarke quickly changed topics as she took notice of Wells's bare wrist. Wells grimaced and nodded his head toward Murphy and Reigna.
"Ask them."
Clarke had pure fury in her eyes as she looked to Reigna and Murphy standing side by side, Reigna's hand unmoving from Murphy's arm. "How many?"
"Twenty-four and counting." Murphy spoke, sounding proud.
"Give or take, you can count if you want." Reigna smiled, motioning toward the pile of broken cuffs on the ground next to the fire.
"You idiots. Life support on the Ark is failing. That's why they brought us down here. They need to know the ground is survivable again, and we need their help against whoever is out there. If you take off your wristbands, you're not just killing them. You're killing us!" Clarke's tone was angry, spouting off shit that Reigna already knew. Letting out a sigh, Reigna turned her attention to Murphy, not really caring for the team building bullshit Bellamy was about to spew from his mouth.
"She said that like it was gonna make us feel guilty." Reigna mumbled to Murphy, pulling him away from the pow wow happening behind them.
"You already knew?" Murphy asked quietly, ducking his head down slightly to keep their conversation private as they walked away.
"Why do you think I took off my bracelet so fast. There's no one worth saving for me on the Ark. Neither of us have anyone left we care about." Reigna finally began talking at a normal volume as they exited the group surrounding Bellamy, Clarke and the others.
"Don't you wish we did?" Murphy asked, his tone one Reigna hadn't heard in a long time. Dropping herself down on a log next to a fire, Murphy quickly joined her.
"Everyday."
"By the way, here's your knife back." Murphy finally spoke after a while. It had been an hour or two since the others returned to camp. Reigna and Murphy hadn't moved from their spot on the log having small talk and catching up from being apart for five years.
"Keep it, I have like three more in our tent anyway." Reigna shrugged and Murphy laughed once, a rare smile gracing his face.
"How many do you need?" He asked, tucking away the knife in his pants.
"I would rather be over prepared than under prepared." Reigna smiled back before standing to stretch her legs and back. Murphy followed her up and opened his mouth to speak before Bellamy interrupted him.
Reigna. Murphy. Come with me. Atom? My sister doesn't leave this camp. Is that clear?" Bellamy yelled over to the three, Atom being a bit farther away than Reigna and Murphy.
"I don't need a babysitter." Reigna heard Octavia mumble and she smiled.
"Yea, Bellamy, she doesn't need a babysitter." Reigna yelled, making Bellamy lower his brows at the grinning girl and Octavia send her a thankful smile before Reigna shrugged, darting towards her and Murphy's shared tent, grabbing her three extra knives and running back to where Bellamy and Murphy were standing.
"Since when are we in the rescuing business, huh?" Murphy's tone was completely different compared to when he talked to Reigna. After tucking her spare knives into her waist band, Reigna looked up at Bellamy with a questioning look.
"I'm wondering the same. Goggles kid that important or something?" Reigna asked, crossing her arms over her chest. Bellamy took a step forward and lowered his head slightly, his voice quieter than before.
"The Ark thinks the prince is dead. Once they think the princess is too, they'll never come down. I'm getting that wrist band, even if i have to cut her hand off to do it."
Reigna let out a huff after the group of five had been walking through the woods for what felt like hours already to her.
"What's even the point of this rescue mission," Reigna mumbled to Murphy, who was directly to her right, "The guy's probably dead already anyway." Reigna heard Murphy hum in agreement before surged forward from her left, taking long strides toward Clarke and Wells, who had picked up their pace.
"Hey, hold up. What's the rush? You don't survive a spear through the heart." Bellamy's tone held a hint of mocking as he called out to Clarke.
"Way to take the words right out of your mouth." Murphy snorted, making Reigna roll her eyes as the two sped up their pace to catch up with the rest of the group. When the two caught back up to the three, Bellamy was shoving his gun back into the waistband of his pants, with a very pissed Wells glaring at him as Clarke crossed her arms over her chest.
"Jasper screamed when they moved him. If the spear struck his heart, he'd have died instantly. It doesn't mean we have time to waste." Clarke's voice was strong. As soon as she finished speaking she spun on her heel, intending to continue leading the group forward to where they left Jasper, but Bellamy seized her by the arm.
"As soon as you take this wristband off, we can go." Bellamy said, not letting go of Clarke's wrist. Reigna watched this interaction carefully, placing her hand on the handle of one of her knives discreetly.
"The only way the ark is gonna think I'm dead is if I'm dead. Got it?" Clarke narrowed her eyes up at Bellamy, yanking her arm away from the taller male, who responded at first with only a smirk.
"Brave princess." Bellamy mumbled, his voice holding a bit of malice at Clarke's response.
"Hey, why don't you find your own nickname." Reigna snapped her head to the side at the addition of a new voice. Finn waltzes out of the woods behind Reigna and Murphy and strode through the group towards the front. "You call this a rescue party? Got to split up. Cover more ground. Clarke, come with me." Finn didn't even pause, before he was walking off with Clarke, who mumbled a quiet 'better late than never' before following quickly after him. Reigna finally relaxed her arm, letting go of her knife before looking from Murphy to Bellamy. Reigna caught him clench his jaw once while glaring after Clarke and Finn before turning to look to Murphy and Reigna.
"He said spread out, so I guess that's what's happening. Look for any traces of the damn kid."
"We're gonna find him. He just might not be alive when we do." Reigna looked over Bellamy's shoulder. She could barely make out Clarke and Finn weaving through the woods in the distance, and once she blinked they were gone from her sight. Sweeping her eyes from Bellamy to Wells, who was standing awkwardly away from the three, she narrowed her eyes and smirked.
"Got any bright ideas, Chancellor." Reigna called out to Wells, who finally approached them.
"Well to start, I don't trust either of you," He gestured to Reigna and Murphy, " So if we split up I say one of you comes with me." He tried to sound stern.
"Not gonna happen." Reigna replied quickly, already inching herself impossibly closer to Murphy.
"Actually," Bellamy spoke up, giving Wells the fakest smile Reigna had almost ever seen. "I need a word with you two." Bellamy didn't give Reigna time to reject before he wrangled her bicep and pulled her away, Murphy beside her.
"You really need to stop that." Reigna ripped her arm away once they were far enough away from Wells.
"Get over it. I need you two to separate for once." Bellamy spoke quickly, trying to keep Reigna from interrupting him.
"No!" Reigna yelled, furrowing her brows at Bellamy. Beside her, Murphy narrowed his eyes and put a gentle hand on Reigna's shoulder in an attempt to keep her mildly calm.
"Can i ask why?" Murphy wasn't really one for compliance, and Reigna was sure as hell not going to willingly separate from him just because Bellamy asked nicely.
"I need one of you to keep an eye on him." Bellamy spoke, nodding his head back to Wells. Reigna gave Bellamy an incredulous look.
"And we can't both watch him, you know, at the same time?" Reigna enunciated her words as she spoke, her irritation growing.
"He's already suspicious of both of you and me. And believe it or not, me telling Clarke i want her damn bracelet off did not make him any less suspicious. If both of you are following him around, he's gonna think you're doing something for me." Bellamy tried to explain but Reigna quickly huffed. , 'But we are'.
"I'll stay with Wells." Murphy spoke up before Reigna and Bellamy could start going back and forth. Reigna's eyes opened impossibly wide before whipping her head to her right. "Give us a sec, will ya." Murphy's face remained emotionless as he looked to Bellamy, silently urging him away. Bellamy looked between the two for a second before nodding once and making his way to Wells.
"I'm not gonna kill him." Murphy's face softened as soon as Bellamy was out of earshot.
"That's not what I'm worried about." Reigna's brows furrowed, "I was separated from you for five fucking years, Murph. That's a long time of me not knowing the whole story of what happened to you. Not knowing what happened to your parents, or being able to help you through any of it." Reigna tried her best to explain as Murphy stayed silent.
"I'm not worried about whether or not you'll try to kill Wells if I'm not around because I don't give a shit about whether or not he's alive, but you're all I have. If something happens to you, I'm alone. And believe it or not, I don't trust anyone but myself to even attempt to keep you alive." Reigna tried to keep herself from sounding emotional, but found herself failing. In theory, she knew this wasn't exactly the most dangerous thing they could be doing, but it was less about the danger and more about trust. She was well aware that they were not a favored duo in the small rescue party, let alone at the camp. And while Regina didn't exactly excel in any field that wasn't fighting, she didn't trust Clarke, Wells or anyone else to give their all to keep Murphy alive if something happened to him. In fact, she didn't expect them to attempt to help him at all. Murphy took a deep breath, glancing at Bellamy and Wells who looked to be in a slightly heated conversation. Reigna felt Murphy's hand on her shoulder, ushering her farther away from the two, behind some bushes and trees where Reigna saw Finn emerge from earlier. As soon as they were out of sight from the other two, Murphy wrapped Reigna in a tight embrace, Reign quickly reciprocating the gesture.
"How about I swear." Murphy spoke, his voice muted slightly by Reigna's hair and jacket she had stolen from Murphy earlier.
"Swear what?"
"Three things. I swear I won't kill Wells." He started.
"I already said I don't-"
"I'm not done." Murphy pulled back, putting his hand on her shoulders. "I swear I'll be careful. Nothing's going to happen to me."
"You can't promise that." Reigna mumbled.
"Not technically no. But I also swear I'm not gonna leave you alone. I wouldn't do that to you." Murphy's voice was genuine. This softer, more genuine Murphy saved for Reigna's eyes only, and she knew that wholeheartedly.
"I did that to you, though." Reigna spoke quietly
"I don't blame you for that. It wasn't your fault. If I have to blame someone for locking you up, i'm blaming your dad." Murphy responded, his voice holding anger. Reigna opened her mouth to respond but Bellamy called out for them in the distance. "We'll finish this conversation when we get back to camp. I swear." Murphy spoke, finally removing his hands from Reigna's shoulders.
"You sure are swearing a lot today." Reigna commented, turning away from Murphy and closing herself back up. Murphy snorted behind her.
"If it makes you feel better, I'd do anything."
"So, Murphy." Bellamy finally spoke. The two had been leisurely walking through the woods, hardly looking for any signs of Jasper's whereabouts, or signs he was alive.
"What about him." Reigna replied, keeping her eyes trained on the woods.
"I mean are you two like… You know." Bellamy made vague gestures with his hands as Reigna finally looked over at him, furrowing her brows.
"No we aren't fucking, Bellamy." Reigna spoke harshly. He held up his hands in surrender before continuing to talk, "Hey, I'm not out of line thinking that-"
"I disagree."
"You two share a tent, and have been damned near inseparable since we landed, you have this specific way you talk to each other, like your guard is down but only for him-"
"Because it is."
"Can't forget how protective you are of each other-"
"Are you done?" Reigna interrupted him again, louder this time and Bellamy shrugged. "How about John Murphy is the only friend I've ever had my entire life?" Reigna provided, making Bellamy finally look to the shorter girl.
"Surprisingly i have a hard time believing that." He spoke flatly and Reigna couldn't read his tone.
"I'm not telling you about my family, but I will tell you that I wasn't a fan favorite because of them. In fact, more people hated me because of them. Most of them i still don't know and couldn't tell you their names. I just know they hated me for things i had no control of. Because of my parents." Reigna began, "Murphy didn't give a shit. He was just a sickly kid whose parents were trying their best to keep him alive with everything they had. And when I met him, I wanted to do the same. Because it didn't take that much effort for someone who was already regularly sneaking into the medical bay to steal medicine to steal just a little bit more." Reigna explained and Bellamy nodded.
"So you helped him out."
"For a long time. I met Murph when we were eight and i got locked up a month after I turned 14. I wasn't around when Murphy's dad got floated. I just heard about it in passing from the guards in the skybox. And I didn't know anything that happened after until Murphy told me last night." Reigna got quieter, not bothering to go into all the details for Bellamy. "Anyways, he never cared about my family. He's the only one that knows who they are and even back then he didn't hate me for it, because he knows they never gave a shit about me anyway."
"So you're scared." Bellamy said. Quick and to the point. Reigna would have recoiled if she hadn't been expecting him to say it. When she didn't immediately respond Bellamy elaborated.
"Maybe scared isn't the right word but I can't think of a replacement. You just don't want anything else to happen to him." Reigna slowly nodded at his words.
"Because I know nobody but me will try to help him if something happens to him. Clarke hates his guts, i'm sure that bitch would be happy to watch Murphy die. Same with Wells and Finn. Everyone else back at camp is scared of him, of us. He's the only friend and the closest thing to family I have. Nothing can happen to him, i won't let it." Reigna's voice wavered slightly when she spoke and Bellamy nodded.
"If it comes down to it, I won't let him die. He might have an awful temper, but he's good at what he does. You two work well together keeping everyone in line at camp." Bellamy stopped walking and turned to Reigna.
"I won't let Murphy die, Reigna."
Reigna took a deep breath in, biting the inside of her cheek and nodding once.
"Thanks, Bellamy." she spoke, barely loud enough for Bellamy to hear before continuing to walk forward, Bellamy following beside her.
Clarke and Finn managed to gather everyone together once they found a hint to Jasper's location. Reigna immediately glued herself to Murphy's side as soon as they were reunited. Just as Murphy promised, Wells was alive and he was okay. Uninjured but mildly pissed, making Reigna contact angry with Wells for whatever he said or did to Murphy while they were together. Without many words the group was walking forward again before Reigna could ask Murphy what was wrong. After a few more minutes of walking Murphy let out an overexaggerated sigh from beside her.
"Hey, how do we know this is the right way?" He called out loudly to Finn and Clarke, who were leading the group.
"We don't" Reigna replied, making sure she was loud enough so they three at the front could hear her.
"Spacewalker thinks he's a tracker." Bellamy spoke up to Reigna's left, a mocking tone in his voice.
"It's called cutting sign. Fourth-year earth skills. He's good." Wells spun on the three behind him and Reigna made a face.
"I wouldn't know. Didn't get to take it." Reigna sassed the taller boy, making him pause his walking for a moment to glare down at her.
"Huh, thought your dad would have taken care of your arrest he's-"
"Shut up." Both Murphy and Reigna loudly cut off Wells as he tried to bring up Reigna's family. Wells opened his mouth to speak but was once again interrupted, this time by an irritated sounding Finn.
"You wanna keep it down, or should I paint a target on your backs." Finn hissed out at the four. Reigna narrowed her eyes at both Finn and Wells before continuing to walk, clocking Wells's shoulder with her own as she passed him, Murphy following closely behind her.
Finn and Clarke bent low to the ground, making Murphy and Reigna pause their walking. Reigna heard Bellamy say something quietly to Wells behind her but was quickly distracted by the sound of pained moaning in the distance.
"What the hell was that?" Murphy spoke loud enough for Reigna to hear as the girl quickly pulled one of her knives out of her waist band.
"Now would be a good time to take out that gun." Clarke spoke to Bellamy without turning around, keeping her eyes of the general direction of the moaning. The group surged onward through the bushes. Another pained moan rang out through the woods as Clarke and Finn pushed aside some branches that opened up into a clearing. Murphy, Reigna, Bellamy and Wells were hot on their heels as they all stepped forward, hesitant to enter the clearing completely. Before them Jasper was barely clinging to life, tied up by his wrists and waist to a huge dead looking tree.
"Jasper, oh my god." Clarke gasped before surging forward towards him.
"Clarke, be careful!" Finn yelled and followed after her along with everyone else. Almost as soon as he spoke, the ground gave way ander Clarke. Reigna made no move to grab her. But out of instinct, Bellamy dropped down and grabbed her wrist before she could be impaled by the wooden stakes below her. For a moment. Bellamy just held her there.
'If it were me I would just drop her' Reigna thought to herself as Finn and Murphy dropped down on either side of him to help pull her out of the pit. After both of Clarke's feet were successfully back on the ground, she shot Bellamy a look before turning to face Jasper.
"We need to get him down." Clarke spoke, sounding distressed.
"Good luck with that." Reigna mumbled to herself, taking her spot next to Murphy once again.
"Yeah, I'll climb up there and cut the vines." Finn nodded and started toward the tree.
"I'm with you." Reigna heard Wells to her right.
"No, you stay with Clarke. You, come with me." Finn pointed toward Murphy and Reaigna narrowed her eyes toward Finn. Murphy huffed and moved toward Finn before Reigna held her arm out in front of him.
"I'll be fine." He said quietly, for only her ears, before gently moving her arm out of his way and continuing toward the tree.
"There's a poultice on his wound." Clarke spoke as Reigna joined the trio, standing next to Bellamy in front of the pit Clarke fell in.
"Medicine?" Reigna heard Wells speak to her right, but he kept her eyes trained on Murphy in the tree with Finn attempting to cut down Jasper. "Why would they save his life just to string him up as live bait?" He finished.
"Maybe what their trying to catch likes its dinner breathing." Bellamy responded.
"Maybe they're trying to catch us."
"Hurry up, Murphy." Reigna heard Finn say to Murphy. Snapping her head in the direction of the two, she trained her eyes on Murphy for what felt like the millionth time that day
"Be careful." Clarke called up to them, mostly for Finn, Reigna assumed.
'Yea, Murph, be careful." Reigna called out to him after Clarke. Almost immediately after Reigna spoke, she heard a deep rumbling noise coming from the bushes over her shoulder.
"What the hell was that." Murphy sounded concerned as Reigna turned to face the woods behind her, eyes narrowed as she pulled one of her knives out of her waistband.
"Grounders?" Reigna heard Bellamy's voice behind her, but she made no move to turn to face him, keeping her eyes trained on the dense foliage before them. Far in front of them on the path they had taken to reach Jasper, a large black panther entered Reigna's line of sight.
"Nope, big cat." Regina gripped the knife tighter in her hand as she spoke, backing up slowly towards Bellamy, who was still behind her.
"Bellamy, gun!" Clarke exclaimed as the panther began charging towards the four. Reigna backed up quicker, glancing out of the corner of her eye when she didn't immediately hear gun shots. Suddenly, to her left, Reigna heard Bellamy's gun go off despite him not being the one shooting it. Wells at some point had stolen Belllamy's gun from him and shot a few poorly aimed shots at the panther, managing to hit it in the leg.
"What the fuck, Wells!" Reigna hissed, standing in front of Bellamy since he was unarmed at the moment. Wells didn't respond to her anger and instead continued to point the gun at the rustling bushes before Reigna and Bellamy.
"Reigna, you should back up." Bellamy sounded tense as he himself began slowly backing away from the bushes, trying to pull Reigna along with him. The bushes had stopped moving for a moment and Reigna held her breath as she slowly put her feet one behind the other, her knuckles white on her knife.
"Reigna-" Murphy yelled from the tree, making her whip her head toward the panther, which decided to leap out of the bushes at her and Bellamy. Without warning, Wells tried to unload the rest of the bullets into the Panther but missed all but one which grazed Reigna's upper bicep, not detering it in the slightest. As it leaped, Reigna ripped her arm from Bellamy's grasp and threw her knife as hard as she could at its head, piercing it through the eye, making its dead body land heavily on her, knocking her to the ground.
"Reigna!" Bellamy and Clarke's panicked voices hit her ears as she squirmed.
"I'm fine just get this heavy ass thing off me!" Reigna yelled, as Wells and Clarke raced toward her, Bellamy already starting to roll the panther off the smaller girl. Once it was finally moved out of the way, Reigna sat up and took a deep breath in, the panther having knocked the wind out of her on the way down. Suddenly her vision was invaded by only Murphy as he roughly pushed Wells and Bellamy out of his way.
"Reign! Are you okay? Are you hurt?" Murphy showed genuine concern as his hands flew over Reinga's head and arms.
"Cat didn't hurt me. Wells is a damn awful shot though." Reigna sighed, lifting her arm to inspect the wound on her arm. Clarke moved hesitantly beside Murphy, inspecting the graze before ripping off a piece of her pant leg.
"Its superficial, thankfully the bullet didn't actually get lodged in your arm, but you need to keep it covered since we don't have any disinfectant." Clarke explained while quickly tying the fabric over the graze.
"You sure you're okay?" Murphy asked as Clarke moved away to assist Finn with Jasper.
"I'm fine, Murph." Reigna smiled up at him, "Definitely shaken, but if anything you shitheads should be thanking me." Reigna joked as Murphy helped her to her feet.
"And why would we do that." Wells voice rang out from behind her.
"A few reasons," Reigna turned on her heel to face him, "Saving both yours and Bellamy's asses from becoming cat foot," She pointing an accusing finger between the two of them, "And getting us dinner."
The walk back to camp was uneventful, to say the most. Clarke, Finn and Wells walked ahead with Jasper on a makeshift stretcher while Bellamy, Murphy and Reigna stayed behind carrying the Panther.
"For the record, i do appreciate you saving my ass, Reigna." Bellamy spoke so Reigna could hear him, being the one carrying the back half of the panther.
"Well for the record, you're welcome." Reigna nodded back to him, "And keep that close, not many people get to hear me say that." She smirked, nudging Murphy gently on the arm.
"Tell me about it." He snickered. Bellamy was silent for a moment, observing the two before speaking again.
"So, Murphy. Was Reigna like this on the ark too?"
"For the most part. When we were 10 she punched Atom in the nose because he said I had weird eyes. I think he had a crush on her for like a year after that." Murphy reminisced as Reigna snorted beside him.
"You should have seen me in my cell when one on the guards that walked past talked about Pike beating the shit out of Murphy during an Earth Skills class. I didn't know Murphy had been locked up at the time, but I tried my hardest to get out so i could beat Pike up myself so he knew how it felt." Reigna spoke, taking a step closer to Murphy after the memory
"I can almost picture you going nuts pacing back and forth in your cell."
"Oh I wasn't pacing. I was banging on that door, demanding them to let me out." Reigna said and they laughed. As the two continued talking, Bellamy watched them silently, remembering what Reigna told him in the woods and hoping he would never have to break that promise to her.
Upon returning to camp, the three carrying rushed off to the dropship while Reigna, Bellamy and Murphy rallied all the other delinquents together to begin to prep the panther to eat. Reigna snorted at their excited cheers as Murphy finally dropped the front of the panther to the ground, stretching his tired arms behind his back. Reigna finally dropped to her knees and pulled her knife from the panther's eyes as Bellamy yelled a booming 'Who's hungry?!' above her, only to be met with louder cheers. Everyone quickly got to work skinning and cutting up the panther, skewering the meat to cook over a fire, when Reigna came up with the idea to only give people food who would take off their wristbands. Reigna and Murphy both had lines of people before them, waiting for the metal to be removed.
"Woah, Woah. Wait. What, you think you play by different rules?" Reigna heard Murphy to her right and looked up to see him trying to stop Finn from getting food.
"I thought there were no rules." Finn stated before turning away from Murphy towards Clarke with two serving of food in his hands. Murphy looked back to Reigna just as she tried to follow after him in anger before he grabbed her uninjured bicep and shook his head. Another delinquent pushed out of line, trying to follow Finn's example but was quickly punched and knocked out by Bellamy, who quickly walked away.
Reigna sat down with a huff in her tent, Murphy following right after her and shedding his jacket. After Bellamy insisted Murphy, Miller and herself come with him to hang Atom by his wrists on a tree for getting cozy with Octavia, she was more than happy to finally return to her tent.
"I know we were only out for a day but it feels like I haven't sat down in weeks." Reigna said in an exaggerated fashion before throwing herself onto her back.
"We're definitely gonna feel it in the morning." Murphy didn't sound too excited at the prospect of being sore, but moved toward Reigna's feet, pulling her boots off for her and hearing her mumble a quiet 'thanks, Murph' before he began to pull his own off. Murphy finally let out a sigh of his own as he laid down on his back beside Reigna, who immedietly moved her head to his shoulder.
"Can I ask something of you, Reign." Murphy spoke quietly, his eyes closed.
"Always, Murph. Anything." Reigna's tone held concern as she lifted her head slightly, only to feel Murphy's hand on the back of her head guiding it back down to his shoulder.
"Never scare me again like you did today," Reigna furrowed her brows sadly as she heard Murphy's voice threaten to break as he spoke, "I think my heart stopped when I saw that damn thing jump at you and I couldn't do anything to help." Reigna saw his jaw physically clench when he stopped speaking.
"How about we just never leave each other alone. I don't give a shit anymore. When we're away from each other bad things always happen. We keep each other safe. I can't trust anyone else to do my job for me." Reigna said in a serious tone, bringing Murphy into a hug which he quickly reciprocated.
"I can't lose you too, Reign." Murphy's voice was muffled by Reigna shoulder and she hugged him tighter.
"I can't lose you either, John." At the sound of his first name, Murphy tightened his hold on Reigna for a moment to look her directly in the face.
"Keep each other safe." He repeated her words.
"And fuck everyone else." Reigna replied with a smile. Murphy nodded, a smile spreading across his own face.
"Fuck everyone else."