"Reigna!" Bellamy's voice flooded into the girl's tent as he flung the flap open.
"What." Reigna responded, not bothering to lift her head from Murphy's jacket folded under her head.
"Get up, I need your help."
"Oh… You need my help." Reigna sat up slightly, leaning on her elbow to look at Bellamy.
"Octavia's missing. Get your ass up." Bellamy huffed after a moment before moving away from her tent. Reigna blinked before rushing to unfold Murphy's jacket and throwing it on along with her boots.
"What do you mean Octavia's missing?" Reigna asked with a shocked expression.
"I mean that she's missing, Reigna. I've already checked all the tents, I don't know what else to do." Bellamy stopped suddenly to face Reigna. His face was a mixture of pain and sadness and Reigna let out a sigh after looking at him for a moment.
"I doubt she's far. You run through all the tents again and find Clarke, I'll check outside the wall." Reigna instructed. Before turning away she slowly put a hand on Bellamy's arm, "I'm sure she's fine, Bell," his nickname slipped out before she could stop it, "we'll find her and everything will be fine." Reigna reassured him before turning on her heel and walking away. Turning away too fast to see the look of admiration plastered on Bellamy's face as she walked out of the camp.
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"Still nothing?" Bellamy's voice made Reigna jolt as he exited camp to find her scanning the woods one last time.
"Nothing. Maybe something happened after she left us yesterday? Did you ask anyone if they saw her back at camp?" Reigna asked, stepping backwards to stand beside him.
"No one saw her. Something had to have happened." Bellamy sounded panicked.
"Grab some people from camp. We need to go look for her." Reigna turned to walk back into camp, her heart racing in her chest. Reigna hadn't said a word to Octavia after Murphy got banished. Seeing how the younger girl looked at her with a look of mild terror after Reigna advocated for Charlotte to be floated made her keep her distance. But before that she did consider Octavia a friend, and the thought of something bad happening to her made her gut twist.
"Did you get Clarke?" Reigna asked Bellamy as they both quickly walked to the dropship.
"Yeah, she's way ahead of us clearly." Bellamy replied as he glanced ahead at the group of delinquents gathered at the dropship entrance. Bellamy strode in front of Reigna, acknowledging the group before him.
"Everybody, gather around and grab a weapon. My sister's been alone out there for 12 hours. Arm up. We're not coming back without her." Bellamy spoke up to the crowd. As soon as he finished, everyone bustled around for weapons and other equipment. Reigna saw Clarke pull Jasper slightly to the side.
"Jasper, you don't have to do this. You haven't left camp since we brought you back." Clarke's voice held concern as she spoke quietly to Jasper, but just loud enough so both Reigna and Bellamy heard.
"Clarke, I need to do this." Reigna heard Jasper say as both her and Bellamy approached the two.
"We need all the people we can get." Bellamy said to Clarke before looking toward Finn's tent, "And we need a tracker. Finn, get your ass out here." Bellamy called out to him. Not waiting for a response, Bellamy turned on his heel to head for the exit.
"Surprised you of all people are following him around, Reigna." Reigna heard Clarke's snarky comment and sent the blonde a glare.
"Believe it or not, I do care about Octavia. This isn't about him. And I really don't want to hear your 'holier than thou' bullshit right now. Murphy's banishment isn't just on Bellamy. That was your call. Watch your ass, Griffin." Reigna hissed out before turning and walking away, joining Bellamy at the exit to camp.
"Finn, we're leaving." Bellamy called out when Reigna reached him.
"All right. I'm coming." Reigna heard Finn's voice as she looked down to check herself. Bending down, she adjusted the two knives she hid in each boot, then stood to straighten the four she hid in the waistband of her pants. Smoothing down Murphy's jacket she turned when she heard delinquents behind her begin to mumble and awe.
Reigna and Bellamy both looked up, a confused look crossing Bellamy's face but Reigna knew. And she knew deep in her heart she should feel some kind of remorse, but she couldn't, in fact it made her feel good.
"They didn't work. They didn't see the flares." Reigna heard Raven's despondent voice to her left.
"A meteor shower tells you that?" Bellamy asked, sounding confused.
"It's not a meteor shower." Reigna said, her eyes still trained on the streaks of light darting across the sky.
"It's a funeral," Clarke clarified angrily, "hundreds of bodies being returned to the earth from the Ark. This is what it looks like from the other side." Clarke said before turning to Raven, "They didn't get our message."
Raven didn't reply, only angrily looked up at the sky for a moment before spinning on her heel and marching to where Bellamy and Reigna were standing.
"This is all because of you two." Raven yelled and Reigna rolled her eyes.
"We helped you find the radio." Reigna huffed.
"Yeah, after you stole it from my pod and chucked it down a river, Kane!" Raven yelled in Reigna's face. Faster than anyone stop her, Reigna had pulled a knife from her waist and pressed the tip directly under Raven's chin, keeping her in her place.
"I know what I did," Reigna made sure she emphasized that, "I think it's a pretty good thing that i don't feel bad about it."
"Reign," Bellamy's voice called out in warning before she felt his hand on her arm. "We gotta get moving." Bellamy said as Reigna slowly lowered her knife, replacing it in her waistband before finally turning away from Raven and walking away without another word.
"You coming or what?" Reigna heard Bellamy ask only to hear a short response from Finn.
"What are we waiting for? Move out." Bellamy said once he was back beside Reigna and the group finally left the camp.
"Reigna. You do realize that's on both of us." Bellamy said to Reigna.
"No. It's on me. I threw the radio which in turn means I broke the radio, keeping us from contacting the Ark. You had better reasons than me to keep everyone from coming down." Reigna shook her head as she spoke.
"Only because I knew they would kill me if they did." Bellamy tried to explain, making Reigna scoff.
"Self-preservation isn't all that selfish when you have someone you're trying to protect. I'm being selfish. I just don't want to see my father, and everyone who was ever an ass to me to suffer just a little for once." Reigna kept her eyes trained forward as they lead the group forward.
"So don't compare yourself to be, Bell. I'm so much worse than you give me credit for." Reigna's voice held a hint of sadness as she sped up her pace to put some distance between her and Bellamy.
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"Hey look over there." Mbege's voice ripped Reigna from her thoughts. As the group was passing a steep hill, Mbege spotted a ripped piece of fabric on a tree branch.
"What is it?" Reigna heard Bellamy ask behind her.
"Right there. You see it?" Mbege pointed towards the fabric. Reigna noticed it seemed to be a piece of a belt, "Is it Octavia's?"
"Rope." Bellamy said after a moment. Mbege gave him an incredulous look before taking it off his shoulder and handing it to Bellamy.
"What are you doing?" Finn asked, making his way to the front.
"We need the rope to get back up. Flashlight," Bellamy said tying the rope to a sturdy tree before wrapping it around his arm. Grabbing the light from Mbege, he inched toward the hill, "I'm going all the way down." Reigna watched as Bellamy kept the rope wrapped tightly around his arm, inching down the slope of the hill. Once he got to the bottom, Reigna stepped forward and looked down. Bellamy was crouched down over a rock inspecting the ground. Without bothering to use the rope, Reigna stepped forward and took quick short steps down the hill, almost sliding once she hit the bottom. Finn and Jasper followed quickly after her as Bellamy stood up to his full height once more.
"Someone else was here." Bellamy spoke, sounding nervous. Reigna looked to the ground where Bellamy had been hunched over. There was a rock with a streak of fresh looking blood and deep boot prints in the mud. Finn stepped forward and crouched down where Bellamy had been.
"The prints are deeper going that way. He was carrying her." Finn spoke, turning to face Bellamy and the others.
"If they took her, she's alive. Like when they took me." Jasper said anxiously. Reigna nodded at his words.
"That just means we need to move faster. Lead the way tracker." Reigna said and motioned for Finn to move, leading them deeper into the woods.
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After a while of walking in silence, Reigna found herself walking beside Bellamy once again. Keeping her eyes trained forward she decided not to say anything to him. She was still livid with him for his decision to banish Murphy, but Octavia was her friend who just happened to be Bellamy's sister.
"You know, we wanted you to be a leader too, Reign." Bellamy said from beside her. Reigna snorted.
"Yeah, I highly doubt that was a decision you and Clarke both agreed on."
"It was Clarke's idea." Bellamy responded, making Reigna raise her brows in confusion.
"Why would she want me to co-lead?" You two seem to have it down good enough without me."
"People listen to you." Bellamy shrugged, looking down at Reigna as she walked.
"Because they're scared of me." Reigna reminded him, "It's not like I have knives with me at all times or anything like that." Reigna said sarcastically, rolling her eyes as she swatted a bug away from her face.
Bellamy opened his mouth to respond but Finn interrupted him.
"Uh, guys…" Finn spoke warily, pointing forward. Reinga and Bellamy both looked ahead to a tunnel like entrance covered in animal and seemingly human bones.
"I don't speak grounder but i'm pretty sure this means keep out." Finn finished, glancing around them hesitantly. Reigna's face displayed mild disgust as she heard a few of the delinquents behind them get nervous and want to go back.
"Go back if you want to." Bellamy spoke without turning to face them, "My sister, my responsibility." Reigna heard him mumble to himself before he began to walk forward, not waiting for anyone. Reigna shrugged and followed closely behind him, not bothering to see if anyone else would follow.
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"I got nothing. We lost the trail." Finn sighed, standing to his full height once again. Reigna furrowed her brows keeping her knife gripped tightly in her hand. The longer it took to find Octavia, the more Reigna's anxiety grew.
"Keep looking." Bellamy's voice portrayed Reigna's anxiety.
"Wandering around aimlessly isn't the way to find your sister. We should backtrack." Finn suggested, looking over to Reigna as if to plead for her to agree with him.
"I'm not going back." Bellamy spoke up before Reigna could speak. Before Reigna could open her mouth to get any thoughts out, Roma spoke up.
"Hey, where's John?"
Reigna flinched slightly at the name, almost wanting to curse Murphy's mother for giving him such a common first name.
"I saw him just a second ago." Jasper spoke, eyes scanning the woods around them.
"Spread out, he couldn't have gotten far." Bellamy said to the small group. And almost like prophecy, as soon as Bellamy spoke, John's dead body dropped from the trees directly between Diggs and Roma. Bellamy, Reigna, and Finn sprinted over to the fallen body, Reigna's eyes immediately looking up and scanning the trees for movement.
"They use the trees." Reigna spoke softly, keeping her eyes trained on the leaves above them for any shaking.
"We shouldn't have crossed the boundary." Diggs' voice shook as he spoke.
"Not can we go back?" Roma asked, making Reigna snap her head to face her.
"Is Octavia safe yet?" She asked, mocking her tone.
"Over there." Jasper's voice was quiet as he pointed with the long stick he had been carrying with them. Looking through the trees, Reigna saw a human figure walking through the brush.
"Another one." Diggs pointed out, his voice quaking in fear. Reign looked to Bellamy as he did the same with her.
"We should run." Reigna suggested. Bellamy nodded once before turning on his heel and taking off through the woods, Reigna hot on his heels as everyone followed after them.
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Reigna let out a deep breath as she vaulted over a fallen log, struggling not to trip over the large tangles vines covering the ground as she ran. Behind her she heard Jasper call forward.
"What are we gonna do? They keep heading us off." Jasper sounded tired as he struggled to keep up.
"Keep running." Finn yelled back to him, much farther ahead in the crowd than Jasper was.
"I can't run much longer." Jasper yelled forward once again as Reigna swatted a tree branch out of her way to keep up with Bellamy.
"I'm not stopping for him!" Diggs yelled, voice full of fear.
"I'm sick of running anyway!" Bellamy stopped suddenly, Reigna almost crashing into his back as abruptly stopped.
"Hey what are you doing?" Finn asked frantically, grabbing Bellamy's arm as he caught up.
"They know where she is." Bellamy spoke, voice strong as he stood his ground. Reigna struggled to catch her breath as she once again gripped her knife tightly in her hand, knuckles turning white.
"Diggs! Where are you?" Roma suddenly turned and ran off into the woods, searching for Diggs who Reigna just realized never stopped running.
The group took off running once again, trying to keep up with Roma as she ran, stumbling across a newly dead Diggs who triggered a grounder trap.
"Wait, Roma! There could be more." Finn called out to her as she ran around him.
"Wait stop!" Jasper yelled as she caught up to them, "They were leading us here. It's the only direction we could run." Jasper pointed out, breathing heavily.
"Wait," Finn spoke while catching his breath, "Where'd they go?" He asked, scanning their surroundings.
"After Roma." Reigna panted, looking off in the direction Roma ran. Looking back to Bellamy and Finn, she sighed before running around Diggs dead body before trying to chase after Roma.
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"There she is. Roma!" Monre called out once they reached a call clearing. After a moment when she didn't move, Regina looked back to Bellamy before Finn, Bellamy and herself moved forward.
"Shit." Reigna mumbled as she saw Roma's body had been staked to a tree.
"They're playing with us." Finn spoke quietly, Reigna turning around as Bellamy took another step towards Roma's body.
"She only came because of me." Bellamy's voice held shock as he looked down at her, Reigna's eyes carefully scanning the strangely still forest around them.
"They can kill us whenever they want." Finn whispered, mostly to Bellamy but Jasper heard loud and clear.
"Then they should get it over with!" Jasper began yelling, making Reigna whip her head in his direction, eyes wide.
"Come on! We know you're out there!" Reigna rushed towards Jasper, alone with Bellamy and Finn in an attempt to shut him up. Finn seized Jasper by the arms yelling at him to quiet down.
"Here they come!" Monroe yelled behind Reinga. Her eyes shifted to the treeline, watching as the bushes shook as grounders began emerging from the woods. Reigna backed up, keeping her knife tightly in her hand as they began to advance on the small group when suddenly a loud horn sounded in the distance.
"They're leaving." Bellamy noticed, watching as the grounders backed up and ran off back into the woods.
"What's the horn mean?" Reigna asked, watching as Finn hurriedly pulled a tent out of the small back he had over his shoulder.
"Acid fog." he spoke quickly and began unfurling the tent.
"We should run, then." Monroe spoke anxiously as Finn began placing down the tent.
"There's no time."
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Reigna was uncomfortable to say the least. She was hyper aware of Bellamy's arm pressing against her torso on her left and Monroe's sharp elbow jabing into her ribs on her right. The sound of everyone breathing was almost enough to drive her crazy and they had only been in the tent for a few minutes.
"How long are we supposed to wait?" Jasper asked, almost reading Reigna's mind.
"Will this even work?" Monroe's voice was loud in her ear as she spoke.
"We'll find out." Finn spoke from beside Bellamy.
"No we won't." Reigna moved forward on her elbows as Bellamy frantically tried to hold her back. Shaking him off, Reigna moved forward and flipped the tent flap over her head and sighed angrily, "There's no fog."
Pulling herself to her feet she rubbed the side of her ribs where Monroe's elbow had been jabbing into her.
"Maybe it was a false alarm?" Finn sounded confused as he looked around the woods.
"They're coming back." Bellamy's voice was rigid as he spotted a grounder sprinting through the trees before them.
"He's alone." Reigna noted after scanning the trees around them for a moment.
"Now can we run?" Monroe asked. Reigna ignored her and looked up to Bellamy.
"He hasn't seen us has he?" Bellamy asked. Reigna shook her head, watching as the grounder continued on his way. "We're going after him."
"And do what? Kill him?" Finn said softly to the two.
"No. Catch him, make him tell us where Octavia is." Bellamy responded before standing to his full height.
"Then we kill him." Reigna continued, following close behind Bellamy as they walked.
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"Down we go." Reigna mumbled after the small group watched the grounder descend down a hole in the ground, camouflaged by leaves and branches. Bellamy went down first, calling back up to Reigna once he got to the bottom. Reigna descended slowly, eyes having to adjust to the low light underground. Reigna called up to Finn to follow her as she slowly inched toward Bellamy, who was looking down a long corridor made of rocks. Looking down at Reigna, he nodded his head and the two began slowly inching down the rocky corridor, coming to a stop once they reached a fork in their path. Bellamy held an arm in front of Reigna as he slowly leaned around the corner.
"Bellamy?" A familiar voice rang out from the room.
"Octavia!" Both Bellamy and Reigna exclaimed, Reigna pushing away Bellamy's arm as they both rushed to the chained up Octavia.
"Reigna, you too?" Octavia's voice was hopeful as Bellamy turned to her gesturing to the chains.
"I'll get the key." She spoke before Bellamy even had to ask.
"Monroe, watch the entrance." Bellamy called out to her as Finn and Jasper made their way into the room. Reigna tossed Bellamy the small key and he began unlocking Octavia from her chains and attempting to calm her down. Finn nuged Reigna's arm gently before motioning to the ground where the grounder they followed was passed out on the ground, bleeding from his forehead. Reigna warily eyed the fallen grounder and silently slipped one of her knives from her waistband, watching him carefully as Bellamy gathered Octavia.
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"How did you find me?" Octavia asked as Bellamy helped her to her feet.
"Followed him." Reigna gestured to the grounder with her knife, finally taking her eyes off him to look at Octavia.
"We should go. Before he wakes up." Octavia spoke, looking between Bellamy and Reigna.
"He's not gonna wake up." Bellamy let go og Octavia, grabbing a sharpened stick off the wall and walking over to the grounder.
"Bellamy stop! He didn't hurt me, let's just go!" Octavia pleaded, making Reigna furrow her brows and walk to stand beside Finn, who was crouched over the grounder.
"They started this. Finn, move." Bellamy ordered, gripping the stake tightly in his hands.
"Foghorn." Finn muttered as Reigna crouched down beside him, eyeing the horn Finn was examining.
"Bellamy-" Reigna started before the grounder's eyes shot open. Before Reigna could retaliate, Reigna felt a stinging in her arm and Finn fell backward away from her.
"Finn!" Reigna yelled, attempting to kick the grounder in Bellamy's direction. She crawled toward Finn who was barely conscious.
"Guys we have to go." Reigna yelled once Jasper knocked out the grounder above Bellamy.
"Don't touch it!" Reigna exclaimed wide eyed as Jasper attempted to touch the knife impaled in Finn's chest.
"Bellamy carry him, we have to get him back to camp now."
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Reigna ran ahead of the group, shoving open the wooden gate to the camp she looked around frantically.
"Where's Clarke?" Reigna yelled.
"Reigna?" Clarke emerged from a crowd of delinquents, jogging over to Reigna, "What's wrong? Why are you-"
"Finn got stabbed. Bellamy's bringing him in, i ran ahead to tell you. How can I help?" Reigna spoke quickly, ignoring the warm feeling creeping down her arm as she breathed heavily.
"Finn got stabbed?" Clarke excalined, eyes going wide.
"The knife's still in him. Tell me what I need to get you." Reigna said one more time.
"Monty's moonshine. And water. Rags. Maybe some wire. Take it to the dropship" Clarke floundered and Reigna took off, grabbing a pile of discarded clothing and a bucket of water nearby. Carefully taking them and dropping them next to a table inside the dropship Reigna noticed a handful of the clothing she brought for rags were already soaked red. Glancing down she noticed what Clarke was trying to ask her about. Her right hand was dripping blood. Stripping off Murphy's jacket, Reigna turned her arm and saw a large cut running down her arm from elbow to her pinkie finger. Cursing softly Reigna took one of the shirts and ripped it to pieces, tying it tightly around her arm to hopefully slow the bleeding. Slipping Murphy's jacket back over her shoulders, Reigna darted out of the dropship just as Bellamy brought in Finn's limp body. Bellamy hesitated, seeing Reigna's hand dripping blood.
"Reigna are you-"
"Not now. Help Finn." Reigna responded shortly, running off to find Monty's supply of moonshine. Her wound would have to wait. Keeping Finn alive was her top priority.