No one in camp got much sleep that night. Between Reigna's continuous sobbs of anguish and being awoken soon after she finally fell asleep to a ship loudly entering Earth's atmosphere.
"Hey, Reigna," Octavia's soft voice intruded on Reigna's not so peaceful sleep, "Reigna, Bellamy's asking for you."
"Tell him he can go fuck himself," Reigna's voice was raw and scratchy from screaming and crying for hours. At the mention of Bellamy's name her eyes began to tear up at the thought of where Murphy could be, or what he was going through without her.
"It's serious. A dropship landed, he wants your opinion." Octavia explained, watching Reigna's tear streaked face finally be removed from Murphy's jacket, the only belonging of his Reigna had left.
"Fine." Reigna croaked out with a loud sniff before slowly sitting up and donning the jacket she just had clutched to her face. Reigna may have been tempted to stab Bellamy upon seeing him, but she would rather die than face anyone from the ark. After exiting her tent, Octavia began quickly walking to Bellamy's tent with Reigna following close behind. As they walked, the other delinquents turned to glance at Reigna, her tired red eyes and dark eye bags drawing everyone's attention. But she didn't care, all she could think of was The Ark and Murphy.
"I got her, Bell." Octavia spoke as soon as she entered the tent. Bellamy nodded, sweeping his eyes over Reigna's tired form. Not only were her eyes bleary and red, but her posture was slouched as she entered the tent and Bellamy couldn't tell if she looked pale or if it was just the lack of light.
"Reigna, I told Bell that we need to get moving if it landed near the lake. We could get there by sunrise." Octavia sounded mildly excited but Reigna could feel tension in the tent. Glancing at Bellamy over Octavia's shoulder, he finally spoke up.
"And I said it was too dangerous to move while it's dark. We should go as soon as the sun rises." Bellamy clarified, looking Reigna dead in the eye. She got the message.
"As much as I don't want to, I actually agree with Bellamy," Reigna rasped out.
"Reign, you can't be-"
"Do you really want to risk getting speared in the chest like Jasper just because you guys saw a dropship? Nobody's even sure if there's even anything or anyone in it." Reigna shrugged, "And if there was someone in it, they might not have lived through the landing. Bellamy's right, we wait till first light."
At her words, Octavia huffed, clearly having had expected Reigna to take her side over Bellamy's, before turning on her heel and storming out of the tent. The tent was silent for a beat before Reigna heard Bellamy spoke.
"As soon as everyone settles down, we'll go. They'll probably have a radio on the dropship, we'll need to get rid of it." Bellamy spoke softly in case there was anyone outside the tent. Reigna nodded once before starting toward the exit. Bellamy quickly reached out and grabbed Reigna's bicep, making the smaller girl angrily rip her arm away from Bellamy.
"This does not make us okay. Understand that, Blake?" Reigna hissed, "You sent my best friend to his death. I'm only doing this with you now because I would rather die than face my father. We-" Reigna gestured between the two of them, "Are not okay." she finished before quickly leaving the tent to gather her essentials for the short journey before her.
-0-
The camp finally settled and Bellamy came to collect Reigna and her plethora of knives for their trek to the dropship. They had been walking for about ten minutes in complete silence, Reigna following Bellamy at a distance. For a while everything was quiet besides the bugs and the sound of a breeze rustling the branches, before Reigna heard quick steps behind her. Reigna whipped out a knife quickly, making Bellamy stop before they both heard a familiar voice.
"Bellamy! Reigna! What are you two doing?" Octavia called out, sprinting slightly to catch up to the two. Reigna looked down, putting her knife back into her waistband before turning and continuing to walk.
"Go back to camp, it isn't safe." Bellamy spoke to Octavia as he continued to walk, albeit slower than Reigna.
"You both lied. You lied to everyone and me. You two just want what's in that pod." Octavia caught up to Bellamy and grabbed his arm. Reigna shook her head and continued to surge forward.
"Just go home!" Bellamy exclaimed, shoving Octavia off his arm. Reigna didn't have the patience to listen to a sibling spat so she continued on alone, far enough so Bellamy could find her but she didn't have to listen to them argue. After a minute of twisting one of her knives between her fingers, she heard Octavia dejectedly say, "I didn't ask for any of this," before her footsteps quickly faded away. Reigna didn't hear Bellamy move for a moment but soon his footsteps made their way to where she was leaning against a tree, still twirling her knife.
"You finally told her about Jaha?" Reigna asked, her voice still scratchy from crying.
"How did you know i never did?" Bellamy asked as the two started walking in the direction of the dropship once again.
"Intuition." was Reigna's only response. At this Bellamy sighed before giving a nod.
"I mean, I guess I understand why you never did. She didn't need to know before now. We never expected anyone else to come down here." Reigna said, never once looking up at him.
"I did it to protect her." Bellamy's voice broke as he spoke.
"I'm sure you did." Reigna mumbled before speeding up, not wanting to say anything else to him.
Bellamy watched her speed up, his eyes trained on her back. Watching her slouch even as she walked, Bellamy almost wished he hadn't banished Murphy for her sake. But then his mind wandered to Charlotte and he shook his head. Pushing those thoughts out of his head he quickened his pace to catch up with Reigna.
-0-
"I hear something." Reigna stopped, Bellamy following suit soon after her. "Over there." Reigna pointed. The two surged forward, entering a small clearing and finding the dropship crashed into the ground. Inside the dropship Reigna could hear a radio repeating a message. 'Pod one, Pod one, this is Ark Station Medical. If you are receiving please respond.' Reigna looked to Bellamy and he nodded, moving to force the door open.
"That's it," Reigna's voice was deathly quiet as they peered inside the small dropship. Inside wasn't just the radio, but a vaguely familiar face to Reigna. She swallowed hard eyeing the unconscious girl in the dropship as Bellamy glanced at Reigna over his shoulder before turning and ripping the radio out, finally silencing it.
"Should we…" Bellamy gestured to the girl, "You know."
Reigna stared at her for another moment before turning away, "We got what we came here for. Lets just go." Her voice was hard as she ripped the now dead radio out of Bellamy's hands and stalked toward the rushing river. Looking the radio over once, Reigna reeled her arm back before throwing it as hard as she could into the water.
"Try contacting the Ark now." She muttered before turning and quickly leaving the area, Bellamy following beside her.
-0-
"Hey! Where is it?" Reigna heard Clarke's irritating voice intrude in her mind.
"Hey princess, you taking a walk in the woods?" Bellamy spoke up when he realized Reigna wouldn't.
"They're getting ready to kill three hundred people up there to save oxygen, and I can guarantee you it won't be council members." Clarke rushed in front of the two, halting them, "It'll be working people, your people." Clarke poked Bellamy's chest for emphasis.
"Reigna. Bellamy. Where's the radio." Finn rushed up shoving Bellamy back a step before Reigna shoved between the two, shoving Finn back just as hard.
"We don't know what you're talking about.
"Bellamy Blake? They're looking everywhere for you. And you… Reinga-"
"You stop right there." Reigna's hairs stood on end as she interrupted the new girl.
"Why. Don't want anyone to know about your dad? What he's planning?" She insisted, taking a step toward Reigna, who stood her ground.
"I couldn't give less shits about what he could be doing up there." Reigna hissed at her.
"You give up after you killed your mom? Or did you forget about your grandmother too. I wouldn't be surprised. You Kane's really could care less about other people's lives that aren't your own." The girl's voice rang loud and clear.
"Kane?" Finn's voice reached her ears but all Reigna saw was this girl. Before she could blink, Reigna tried to jump forward, knife in hand to attack this girl, but felt herself being held back. Bellamy had quickly wrapped his arms around her midsection.
"Bellamy Blake let me go so I can kill her!"
"Wait, she's a Kane? As in Marcus Kane?" Finn questioned.
"She's Kane's daughter. Her mother was Olivia Kane, the psychiatrist. Reigna killed her. Made her overdose." Clarke explained and Reigna screamed, flailing in Bellamy's arms.
"Why are they looking for Bellamy?" Finn asked, deadly serious for answers as he turned toward the nameless girl.
"Shut up" Bellamy grunted aggressively as he tried to hold Reigna back.
"He shot Chancellor Jaha." She said, narrowing her eyes at him. Bellamy didn't respond but basically tossed Reigna in the direction of camp, keeping her on her feet before urging her to walk. She kept her knife gripped tightly in her hand as Bellamy pulled her along.
"That's why you two took the wristbands. You needed them to think we were dead." Clarke sounded shocked at this revelation.
"All that whatever the hell we want was just to save your own ass. And Reigna only played along because she doesn't want to see Kane." Finn accused, speeding up to try to catch up with Reigna and Bellamy.
"Hey Kane. Shooter. Where's my radio." The girl sprints to step in front of the two.
"Get out of our way." Bellamy growls.
"Where is it." She urges, taking a step closer to them.
"I should have killed you when we opened that damned ship." Reigna hissed.
"Well i'm right here." Space girl taunts and Reigna flares with anger, ripping her arm away from Bellamy's grip and throwing space girl against the nearest tree, her knife digging into her neck.
"Reigna!" Bellamy called out, rushing toward the two, along with Clarke and Finn.
"Where's my radio, Kane." Space girl asks again, tauntingly.
"Okay that's enough," Finn pulls Reigna off her before she can do any real damage. Bellamy reaches and pulls Reigna behind him before speaking.
"Jaha deserved to die. You all know that." Bellamy speaks loudly, taking some of the heat off Reigna.
"Yea he's not my favorite either, but he isn't dead." Space girl says while rubbing her neck where Reigna's knife had been.
"What?" Both Bellamy and Reigna exclaim.
"You're a lousy shot." Space girl says with a roll of her eyes, taking a step towards the two.
"Bellamy, don't you see what this means? You're not a murderer. You always did what you had to do to protect your sister. That's who you are. And you can do it again by protecting three hundred of your people." Clarke says, stepping closer to Bellamy and completely disregarding Reigna. "Where's the radio." Clarke asks once more.
Reigna can feel her stomach turning at the thought of Kane coming down to earth. Looking up at Bellamy with a panicked face, she can see his resolve breaking before her eyes. Before he has a chance to open his mouth Reigna speaks.
"It's too late."
"What?" Clarke and Space girl exclaim.
"It's too late. I threw it in the river."
-0-
Bellamy and Reigna were told to gather a group of delinquents to try and scour the river for the lost radio. Reigna and Bellamy didn't take a step into the water, unlike Bellamy, Reigna didn't give two shits about any of the people who were possibly dying on the Ark. She was plagued by that name in space. Kane. It was a curse. A reason for people to hate her without ever speaking a word to her. Especially after Olivia started becoming despondent from her drug use. Olivia was labeled an insensitive bitch for falling asleep or zoning out during therapy and counselling sessions with other Ark residents. Her father was a bastard and the worst member of the council and her Grandmother Vera was labeled crazy. There was no winning for her. No laying low, no flying under the radar. People saw Reigna and saw Marcus Kane. The only person who was ever nice to her in space was now either wandering or dead in the unforgiving woods on Earth.
"Reigna Vivian Kane." Bellamy's voice brought Reigna out of her thoughts.
"Say that name to me again and I'll slit your throat in your sleep." Reigna's voice was deadly serious as she spoke.
"I never would have guessed. Though I should have made the connection when you said your mother's name was Olivia. She was my mother's therapist once a month. Stress related anxiety. Of course no one knew the stress was because of Octavia under the floor…" Bellamy faded off.
"What's your point, Blake." Reigna said flatly.
"My point is that I really appreciate everything your mother did for mine. And though I'm not really the biggest fan of your father I won't tell anyone else about this." Bellamy finished.
"How can I be sure you'll keep this promise." Reigna spat harshly. Bellamy shook his head.
"You can't be…" he said softly. Reigna fumbled for a response before Jones's voice rang loud from downstream.
"I found it!" he yelled, holding a dripping radio in his hands. Clarke, Finn and the now named Raven ran as fast as they could to Jones, who passed the soaking wet radio to Raven.
"Can you fix it?" Clarke asks nervously. Raven shrugs.
"Maybe? But it'll take half a day just to dry out the components just to see what's broken." Raven sighs.
"I told you it was too late." Reigna calls out from the shore, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Do you have any idea what you two have done?" Clarke yelled angrily, stomping over to the two, "Do you even care."
"If only I did." Reigna admitted, glaring at Clarke directly in her eyes, bringing a shocked expression to the blonde's face.
"Hey, you asked us to help. We helped." Bellamy spoke, taking Clarke's attention away from the brunette.
"Three hundred people are going to die today because of you two!" Clarke yelled.
"Hold up," Raven called out, catching up to Clarke, "We don't actually have to talk to the Ark. We just have to let them know we're down here, right?" she asks.
"Yeah, but how do we do that with no radio?" Finn asks, bringing a smile to Raven's face. Reigna's mood and stomach drop. Of course there's a way. There's always a way.
-0-
The camp was in organized anarchy as Raven bustled about and gave directions. Reigna hid away against the wall, hoping they wouldn't shoot them off in time. Hoping that somehow, someway, something would finally go her way. Her eyes traveled from rig to rig watching as delinquents hurried to connect wires and circuits to the rockets. Bellamy looks back and gives Reigna a look as the rockets are finally rigged and prepared to be shot off. Not accepting, but admitting defeat, Reigna slowly steps away from the wall and takes a spot next to Bellamy, biting down on her lip so hard it bleeds as the rockets shoot off into the sky and the delinquents around them cheer.
"You think they can see it up there?" Bellamy asks Clarke, who was standing on his other side.
"I don't know. I hope so." Clarke pauses, glancing at Reigna out of the corner of her eye, "Can you wish on this kind of shooting star?" Clarke asks, making Bellamy give her an odd look.
"Forget it." Clarke sighs and waves him off and walks away.
"I wouldn't even know what to wish for." Bellamy mutters, "What would you wish for, Reigna." Bellamy asks her, turning his head to stare at the smaller girl standing rigid beside him.
"That they never see it." Reigna whispers as she swallows hard and a single tear escapes her eye, only to be wiped away as if it was never there.