Apparently Reigna and Octavia slept right through the crashing of the Exodus ship last night. Either that or Reigna blocked it out because she didn't care. Standing amidst the rubble, Reigna surveyed the damage. The exodus ship, according to Clarke, had exploded upon entering Earth's atmosphere, killing everyone inside. If her memory was correct Abby Griffin, Clarke's mother, was on that dropship along with her father. Clarke was torn up by the death of her mother, while Reigna.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Bellamy's voice hit her ears and a wave of anger flooded her system.
"How many times do I have to tell you I'm okay before you believe me. Or are you not gonna trust me about this either." Reigna hissed, turning on her heel and walking away from him, stepping over burnt bodies as if they were just rocks in her way.
"Stay sharp. Grounder retaliation for what happened on the bridge is coming, just a matter of when." Bellamy called out to the members of the group investigating the crash.
"Can you blame them?" Finn rounded on him and Reigna sighed loudly, stalking away from the crash site and up onto a hill. She didn't want to hear the same song and dance from last night. If anything, she was just mad she didn't fight Bellamy harder to let Octavia join them outside of the camp, but after ten solid minutes of arguing, Octavia conceded, staying in camp to watch over since all three of the leaders were leaving.
Sitting down at the top of the hill, Reigna let the tension out of her shoulders with a sigh.
"Mind if i join you?" Reigna heard Finn's voice from behind her.
"If you so desire." she replied, keeping her eyes trained on the scenery before her. The hill was high enough so she could finally see above the trees and, in a way, it felt significantly less claustrophobic than being in the valley where the crash was.
"I really appreciate you for everything yesterday. I know it had to have been hard for you." Finn said after he sat.
"In a way. I didn't really know how I felt about the grounders. All I knew is that Lincoln had my trust because if he wanted to hurt Octavia he could have a long time ago," Reigna explained, "But they obviously must think a little similar to us if Anya was so willing to agree to my terms. I just wish they would have trusted us." Reigna trailed off at the end, gazing toward a tall mountain, she assumed Mount Weather, off in the distance.
"You really did have it together. I will admit i was a bit hesitant when Octavia and Lincoln said they told Anya you were our main leader, but after hearing how Clarke was talking to Anya on the bridge, i'm kinda glad it was you instead of her." Finn admitted making Reigna crack a small smile. Reigna opened her mouth to thank him but was interrupted by the sound of an explosion at the crash site. Reigna and Finn looked to each other in shock before standing and rushing down the hill.
"What the hell was that?" Reigna asked, looking around and seeing no visible change in the crash.
"Raven found Hydrazine, it's time to head back to camp." Bellamy said, making a move to put his hand on her shoulder, but she shoved him away.
"Then back to camp we go. What a waste of time." Reigna mumbled before beginning the walk back to camp, not bothering to wait for anyone else.
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"Reigna!" Octavia rushed up to her as soon as she entered the gates, "Come with me you won't believe this."
"Hold up, where's the fire?" Bellamy asked from behind her, watching as all the remaining members from the crash investigation group filed into camp.
"Murphy's back." Octavia exclaimed and at that moment, Reigna felt her body light on fire, like all the life that left her when Murphy left suddenly reentered her. Without saying a word, Reigna took off to the dropship after Octavia directed her there. Shoving past other delinquents, Reigna finally tore past the sheets covering the dropship entrance.
"Murphy?" Reigna asked, making her way to the back of the dropship and seeing Murphy's bruised and bloody figure crumpled on the ground. Immediately tears flooded her eyes as Murphy looked up at her, a few tears spilling out of his own eyes at the sight of her.
"Reign?" Murphy spoke, his voice rough and dry. And with the sound of her name, Reigna collapsed in a heap, pulling herself towards Murphy and wrapping her arms around him, beginning to sob as he mirrored her actions and buried his head in her shoulder.
"Reigna get away from him. Everyone but Connor and Derek out now." Bellamy's voice boomed as he stomped into the dropship. She heard the sounds of multiple delinquents rushing out of the dropship but also the sound of two pairs of footsteps entering after him. Reigna remained unmoving, tightening her grip on her best friend.
"He claims he was with the grounders." Reigna heard Derek relay to Bellamy.
"We caught him trying to sneak back into camp." Connor continued for him and Reigna felt Murphy tense in her grasp.
"I wasn't sneaking. I was running from the grounders." Murphy tried to clarify, lifting his head from Reigna's embrace to speak.
"Anyone see any grounders?" Bellamy asked expectantly. The room was silent as Reigna finally pulled away to glance around the room.
"Well in that case-" Bellamy pulled out his gun and aimed it at Murphy, Reigna darting to her feet and slapping the muzzle of the gun away.
"What the fuck is wrong with you!" Reigna asked, voice strained from crying.
"I was clear what would happen if he came back." Bellamy glared down at her.
"Kill him and i will fucking end you." Reigna hissed taking a step closer to Bellamy as she spoke.
"Hey, if he was with the grounders, then he knows things that can help us." Finn reasoned.
"Help us?" Bellamy asked incredulously, "We hanged him. We banished him, and now we're gonna kill him. Reigna, get out of my way." Bellamy rounded on her and aimed his gun at her chest.
"Shoot me then, try me, I dare you." Reigna stood her ground, making Murphy panic behind her.
"No Reigna don't!" Murphy pleaded but Reigna remained unmoving.
"Bellamy stop, Finn is right." Clarke interrupted, moving around both Bellamy and Reigna.
"Clarke, you can't be serious. Think about Charlotte." Bellamy tried to reason, but Clarke was already crouching down in front of Murphy, inspecting his wounds.
"I am thinking about her, but what happened to Charlotte was as much our fault as his." Clarke pointed out before grabbing Murphy's hands, "He's not lying. His fingernails were torn off. They tortured him." Clarke said before standing, Reigna taking her place. Crouching down on her knees in front of Murphy, Reigna grabbed his hands and entwined her fingers with his.
"I'm not letting him touch you." Reigna promised, squeezing their entwined hands as more tears slipped out of Murphy's eyes.
"You and the grounders should compare notes." Reigna heard Finn hiss at Bellamy.
"The grounders know we're at war. What did you tell them about us?" Bellamy asked Murphy, making him flinch.
"Everything…" He whispered out before attempting to curl in on himself. Reigna's eyes softened at the sight as she took Murphy back into her arms, feeling him relax slightly as he wound his arms back around her.
"Once he's better, we find out what he knows, and then he's out of here, okay?" Clarke reasoned with Bellamy.
"Like hell, i didn't agree to that." Reigna threw over her shoulder.
"What if he refuses to leave? What if Reigna won't let him leave? What then, Clarke?" Bellamy asked angrily.
"We kill them both." Clarke shrugged before turning and leaving the dropship. Bellamy and Finn followed suit, Finn slightly after Bellamy, leaving Reigna alone in the dropship with Murphy.
"Reigna you can't. If they want me to leave after this then I'll leave. I don't want you to get hurt." Murphy's voice shook as he spoke. Reigna pulled away, resting her hands on his cheeks.
"Remember what we said before everything went to shit? Keep eachother safe." Reigna spoke softly, reeling Murphy back in from his panic.
"And fuck everyone else." He mumbled.
"I would kill everyone in this camp to keep you safe. And I know you would do the same for me. Bellamy won't do jack shit to hurt me. I will do literally anything to keep you here. You understand?" Reigna asked and Murphy nodded. Reigna nodded once in solidation, running her hand through Murphy's matted and muddy hair.
"I'm gonna go get a bucket of water okay? Need to clean you up a bit, you look disgusting." Reigna joked, cracking a smile on Murphy's face finally, "Be right back." Reigna smiled and stood, quickly walking to the dropship entrance. She didn't want to leave Murphy alone for too long, she didn't trust any of the fuckers in this camp anymore except for Finn and Octavia.
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After rushing back to her tent and tearing one of her uncomfortable blankets to shreds, Reigna grabbed one of the camp's makeshift buckets and began to fill it with water.
"Hey, Reign," Octavia approached Reigna, taking the fabric she had haphazardly stuffed under her arm and holding it for her, "Hows Murphy?" She asked.
"Beat up and scared. I want to get back in there as fast as possible. I don't trust these bastards. They want him dead." Reigna hissed, bending over to grab her now full bucket, Reigna's head suddenly began spinning. Quickly grabbing onto Octavia's arm, Reigna attempted to steady herself.
"Reign, you okay? You look pale." Octavia asked worriedly, handing Reigna her fabric back and instead grabbing the water bucket for her.
"Yea, i- i think i'm just a bit warm." Reigna sighed, using a piece of the fabric to pull her long hair into a makeshift ponytail.
"I think you need to see Clarke, Reigna." Octavia said hurriedly, grabbing her hand and pulling her towards the dropship.
"What? No i'm-" Reigna moved to wipe the dripping sweat from her cheeks, before pulling her hand away and seeing it covered in blood, "What?"
"Your eyes are bleeding, Reign, come on." Octavia urged, pulling a dazed Reigna into the dropship. Octavia and Reigna entered the dropship to see Bellamy threatening Murphy, who was coughing and vomiting blood.
"Get away from him, bastard!" Reigna yelled, moving past Clarke and Octavia and shoving Bellamy away from Murphy before dropping to her knees in front of him.
"Reigna! Your eyes!" Murphy gasped, shakily moving his hands to wipe away the blood dripping from her tear ducts.
"Don't worry about it. Did he hurt you?" Reigna asked, looking over Murphy as she spoke.
"Reigna! Let me see your eyes." Clarke snapped, grabbing Reigna's chin and forcing her to look away from Murphy. Clarke manipulated Reigna's head, looking into her steadily bleeding eyes and Finn looked on in confusion with Bellamy and Octavia.
"It's some kind of hemorrhagic fever. We need to contain it before-" Clarke began but was interrupted by Derek beginning to cough up blood onto the floor. Finn walked forward as Clarke let go of Reigna's face, who immediately turned back to Murphy.
"Hey, don't touch me," Clarke stopped Finn as he tried to approach her, "You could get sick. Wash your hands. Now." Clarke urged, motioning them all towards a bucket of Monty's moonshine.
"What the hell is happening?" Finn asked, nervously glancing around the dropship.
"I don't know." Clarke mumbled before all the heads in the dropship turned to Derek's coughing form. Clarke raced to him, holding him on his side, but his coughing only grew worse. Finally, after what seemed like forever, Derek's body went limp.
"Is he-" Bellamy began.
"He's dead." Clarke confirmed after pressing her fingers to his pulse point, feeling nothing. Reigna's eyes widened at the scene, glancing back to Murphy who looked just as scared as her.
"What do we do?" Finn asked, taking the words right out of Reigna's mouth.
"Quarantine," Clarke said, "Round up everyone who had contact with Murphy. Bring them here." Finn nodded at Clarke's words and exited the dropship wordlessly.
"And everyone they had contact with?" Bellamy asked.
"Well we have to start somewhere," Clarke shrugged before turning to Connor, "Connor, who was with you when you found Murphy. Who carried him in."
"The first one there was Octavia." Connor choked out before a coughing fit started up. Reigna glanced anxiously out of the dropship entrance as Bellamy rushed out. Letting out a resigned sigh, Reigna moved to lean back against the wall beside Murphy.
"Reigna I'm so sorry I didn't know. I-" Murphy rambled on before Reigna interrupted him.
"John, hush. I'm not blaming you. Like you just said you didn't know. And besides," Reigna turned her head to face him as she spoke, "If we're being honest, i'm kinda glad now that everything went to shit yesterday. Because i feel like if we hadn't fucked things up so royalty with the grounders i never would have gotten to see you again." She admitted.
"You mean that?" Murphy asked, his tone holding shock.
"I would burn the world to the ground again for you John Murphy. Get that through your thick skull." Reigna smiled, knocking her knuckles against his forehead. Right after Reigna finished talking, Bellamy rushed in once more with Octavia in tow this time. Ignoring Clarke, Octavia surged towards Reigna, only to be held back by Bellamy.
"O, stop. Clarke needs to examine you." Bellamy urged. Octavia rolled her eyes, allowing Clarke to approach her.
"Reigna, are you okay?" Octavia asked her as Clarke observed Octavia's ear canals and tear ducts.
"Just peachy," Reigna joked before an overwhelming itch invaded her throat. Moving torso away from the wall, Reigna bent over to cough until the itch finally left her, having to turn away from Murphy to spit out a glob of blood that had made its way up her throat.
"That didn't sound that peachy to me." Octavia said concerned as she watched Murphy take one of the pieces of fabric Reigna had brought in and carefully wipe the blood away from her eyes and mouth.
"Just an itch, i'm fine." Reigna said softly, as to not irritate her throat, while sending Octavia a casual thumbs up.
"Okay. We're done. No visible signs of swelling or bleeding." Clarke concluded, cleaning off her hands in moonshine.
"So you're saying she doesn't have it?" Bellamy asked.
"I'm saying she doesn't have symptoms," Clarke said, leaning heavily against the dropship ladder, "We need to keep her here just in case she begins to show symptoms later."
Reigna signed heavily, leaning back against the wall fully. Listening to Bellamy talk was giving her a headache.
"Murph, gimme your shoulder," Reigna asked, grabbing his arm and attempting to pull him closer to her. Murphy obliged and scooted along the wall until their crossed legs touched, letting Reigna hug his arm and lean her head against his shoulder.
"You think you'll be okay?" Murphy asked, to which Reigna responded with a nod.
"I went through worse after you left." She murmured, shifting away to peel off Murphy's jacket she still wore, only to move right back where she was to show Murphy the now healed scar that ran from her elbow to her pinkie finger.
"What the hell happened for you to get this?" Murphy asked in shock, moving his free arm to inspect Reigna's gnarly new scar.
"Octavia got kidnapped. When we found her a grounder attacked us. He cut me there and stabbed Finn in the stomach. We didn't find out until a hell of a lot later that we were poisoned. I remember getting really hot and then passing out. Next thing I knew I was awake, with my cut stitched." Reigna reminisced, turning her arm to glance over her scar as she did.
"You could have died and I wouldn't even have known." Murphy mumbled sadly, shifting to entwine the hand of the arm Reigna was hugging with hers.
"Oh you would have known. I would have haunted your ass," Reigna laughed lightly, making her cough a few times and spit up another clump of blood.
"Aren't you scared, Reigna?" Murphy asked.
"Of what?"
"Dying…"
At this, Reigna had to think for a moment. Back on the ark, death was never something she thought about. Not even while she was in lockup for the most part. She didn't think about getting floated until two days before her eighteenth birthday, but never before that. Even after seeing her mother's corpse, dead on their couch, she didn't think about death. It never loomed over her or her family besides her mother. Her grandmother, Vera, was still alive and her grandfather died before she was born. Her father's death didn't even affect her even though everyone around her expected it to. But after watching Murphy get hung all those weeks ago? Getting poisoned? And now this bloody, uncomfortable fever and the threat of grounders right outside their walls?
"I think i'm scared of myself dying. And you. And Octavia." Reigna admitted, "I'm not gonna lie, I just never thought i would die. But down here it feels like everything wants to kill you, doesn't it." Reigna asked and she felt Murphy nod in agreement.
"If we live through this, promise me we'll never die." Murphy said, using his free hand to lock their pinkies together.
"Promise." Reigna smiled, squeezing their pinkies together as she spoke. This life was not going to be taken from her this easily. She refused.
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It had only been a few hours since Reigna had been diagnosed, but in those few hours Reigna started to feel like her insides were trying way too hard to be her outsides.
"Reigna, hold on, i'll get you another rag." Murphy rushed as another wave of nausea ran through Reigna's body, watching as the smaller girl groaned and threw up wave after wave of blood.
"I thought Octavia was coming back with a cure." Murphy said, watching as Finn carried a semi-limp Clarke back into the dropship before moving back to Reigna's side and cleaning off her bloody face.
"There is no cure," Octavia's voice entered Reigna's ears, hearing her rushed footsteps get closer to her. She felt her head gently being lifted but couldn't help a groan of pain. Forcing her eyes open, Reigna saw both Murphy and Octavia looking down at her with concern before having to force her eyes shut again, light being too painful for her head.
"The grounders don't use this sickness to kill, though." Reigna heard Octavia speak once again, feeling her hand gently brushing through her hair with her fingers. The motion easing the constant headache slightly as she did.
"Really? Tell that to them," Bellamy's voice boomed as he spoke, making Reigna groan in pain as she struggled to cover her ears with her hands.
"I warned you about seeing that grounder again." Bellamy's voice was noticeably softer as he continued.
"Yeah? Well I have a warning for you, too. The grounders are coming… And they're attacking at first light." Octavia responded before turning her full attention back to Reigna.
"Finn," Murphy called out, "Clarke can have my blanket, i'm feeling better." Murphy said, tossing the small blanket over to Finn. He caught it easily and sent him a grateful nod before turning back to Clarke.
"She's been getting worse," Octavia mumbled, continuing to comb through Reigna's hair, moving aside slightly as Murphy started to wipe the rest of the blood from her face. "I thought if anyone would have been immune to something like this, it would have been her."
"You would think," Murphy agreed, "I don't think she ever got sick once while we were on the ark."
"The poison must have fucked with her immune system… but if that's the case, Finn would be sick too…" Octavia mumbled. Reigna felt a hand ghost over her scar and, in a moment of clarity, managed to mumble.
"Stop that tickles," before rolling off Octavia's legs to begin coughing once more.
"You would think her being sick would make her shut up for once in her life too." Octavia huffed, holding back the other girl's hair as she coughed up a puddle of blood.
"No actually, she hasn't shut up the whole time we've been here." Murphy replied, unabashedly looking at Reigna with fondness.
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Despite keeping her eyes closed ninety percent of the time Reigna's ears were working just fine. Which is why she was flooded with concern when she heard a commotion in the direction of the dropship entrance and Octavia's gasp.
"Whats going on?" Reigna asked, forcing her eyes open as Octavia gently transferred Reigna's head from her lap to Murphy's.
"It's nothing," Octavia rushed, "Just stay put, okay?" Reigna furrowed her brows watching Octavian rush away to help lay someone down. Squinting at the sight, Reigna almost gasped when she realized it was Bellamy.
"Murphy, help Clarke out for a bit." Reigna struggled out, forcing herself onto her hands and knees.
"Reigna-"
"Just… Let me, okay? If I start puking again you can grab me but for now help Clarke, she needs it." Reigna smiled to ease his nerves before forcing her body to crawl towards Bellamy. The distance wasn't very far, but to Reigna's tired body it felt like miles. Collapsing on her stomach beside Octavia, Reigna made her presence known by grabbing Bellamy's arm.
"Reigna, what the hell! You need to be resting." Octavia sputtered, looking between her brother and Reigna.
"When have I ever followed directions." Reigna chuckled, forcing herself to move to a sitting position, "Besides, i may be so beyond pissed at you right now," Reigna turned her attention to Bellamy, "But you're still kinda my friend so." Reigna looked away.
"Murphy's watching you like a hawk." Octavia pointed out flatly.
"He also thinks i'm made of glass, what's your point?" Reigna smirked, flinching slightly when she felt Bellamy grasp her hand tightly.
"Reign. O. I'm scared." Bellamy's voice was dry as tears flooded his eyes.
"You'll be okay. You're a big strong manly man." Reigna said lightheartedly, grasping his hand back with both of her smaller ones, "If i, a girl who is probably 20 pounds soaking wet, can even begin to recover from something like this you will too."
"She's right," Octavia continued, " and I won't let anything happen to you, I promise."
"Now do as I say and not as I do and take a nap. You need it." Reigna said with a smile.
"Will you stay?" Bellamy asked, directing the question to Reigna.
"I'll be right here." Reigna confirmed after hesitating for a moment. Almost immediately after she finished speaking, Bellamy's eyelids were fluttering shut. Reigna knew the virus was draining, who was to know how long his body had been trying to fight it off before he succumbed.
"Will you stay with him? I'm gonna help Clarke and Murphy out a bit." Octavia asked, to which Reigna responded with a nod.
"I doubt Murphy wants me to move now anyway, now that I've parked it." She joked.
"Thanks, Reign." Octavia nodded gratefully before standing to her full height and walking away.
"No prob, little sis." Reigna mumbled, turning back to Bellamy's unconscious form before sighing. This would be a while.
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It hadn't been too long, but Reigna felt one million times better than she did two hours ago. Reigna eventually left Bellamy's side, working with Murphy for a while to help out other delinquents who had fallen ill. After a while, Clarke had Reigna helping one of the younger Delinquents to get some water down. Murphy wandered off and Reigna didn't mind until she heard Bellamy behind her.
"Get the hell away from me." Bellamy commanded, voice rough from dehydration.
"Bellamy, you're sick, okay? I'm just trying to help. Here." Murphy tried again to give Bellamy the small cup of water but Bellamy slapped it away angrily.
"If you're still here when i'm better-"
"Hey," Reigna interrupted, "Murphy, I can handle him, go help fox for me, please?" Reigna asked, crouching down on her knees and placing a gentle hand on Murphy's shoulder.
"No problem." Murphy replied before standing and moving away from the two.
"Here," Reigna handed Bellamy a full cup of water, which he took gratefully, "What happened to that whole i'll help you keep him alive shit you told me the first day down here." Reigna mumbled with an edge to her voice. Bellamy looked up a Reigna with an apologetic look on his face, but she continued.
"Don't answer that. I came to terms with the facts yesterday, Blake. You're a liar, a really good one at that," she finished.
"What happened to the pity sympathy you were giving me an hour ago." Bellamy managed to choke out, making Reigna laugh dryly.
"You're better than you were when you first got here. Pity party's over." Reigna clarified, moving to stand up.
"Where's Octavia." Bellamy asked quickly before she could walk away.
"Taking a break. Murphy relieved her." Reigna replied, making Bellamy scoff.
"Don't start your shit, Blake," Reigna said angrily, narrowing her eyes at him, "You should be glad he was being nice to you at all a minute ago. In case you forgot, you hung him for a murder someone else comitted. If he had died, his blood would have been on your hands." Reigna finally stood, looking down at Bellamy as she spoke, "Not that you would have gotten to feel bad about for very long. I would have gutted you if he died." Reigna finished before stalking away in Murphy's direction. Passing by Clarke, she paused for a moment.
"You deal with Bellamy from now on, I'm sick of his shit." Reigna said before moving on to Murphy's side.
"I'm sorry about him-" Reigna started before Murphy interrupted her.
"You don't have to apologize for him, it's not your place." Murphy said, finishing up with cleaning off Fox's face and moving away, Reigna following after him.
"But I feel the need to." Reigna clarified.
"You shouldn't. You're the only one who's never done anything wrong to me." Murphy replied, sending her a grateful smile.
"You know why." Reigna mumbled before Clarke called out for her, "Duty calls, I'll be right back." Reigna sighed before rushing to Clarke's side and out of the dropship. Murphy watched her leave as he sat down against the dropship wall.
"Yeah, I love you too, Reign."
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"So why are we getting everyone into the dropship?" Reigna asked, watching as all of the delinquents in the camp filed into the dropship.
"I don't really trust Jasper to blow up the bridge, so if we get everyone inside, we at least can protect everyone from inside." Clarke explained, huffing in irritation as some people took longer than others to make their way to the dropship. Reigna was about to complain about the decision but before she could get any words out, there was a loud boom in the distance and the both turned to see a large mushroom cloud forming in the direction of the bridge.
"Holy shit." Reigna said, shock lacing her voice. She heard the cloth behind her and Clarke rustle as Bellamy stepped out, looking pleased at the cloud in the distance.
"They did it." Bellamy said, moving to stand beside Reigna.
"I am become death, destroyer of worlds," Clarke quoted, making both Reigna and Bellamy shoot her looks as she raised her brows, "It's Oppenheimer, the man who built the first-"
"Atomic bomb, I'm aware." Reigna interrupted, "you're just a nerd for quoting him" Reigna clarified, looking back to the explosion remnants as Bellamy chuckled.
"Rude…" Clarke muttered before staring off into the woods herself.
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Clarke finally cleared Reigna and Murphy medically, allowing them both to sleep in her tent for the night with the promise that if they felt any nausea or any bleeding at all they would come to her immediately. Reigna went back to the tent as soon as she was cleared, Murphy saying he would join her soon. Throwing herself down onto her pile of blankets, Reigna let out a muffled groan, the feeling of being back in her own space after a whole day of sleeping against the dropship walls and floor being incredibly soothing. She didn't know how long she was lying face down in her pile, but after a while she heard the tent flap shuffle and Murphy's chuckling hit her ears.
"How long have you been like that?" He asked, sitting down and pulling off Reigna's shoes she had neglected to take off herself.
"No clue," She spoke into her blankets.
"You've gotten a lot more blankets since I've left." Murphy noted, tossing away Reigna's boots once they were removed before moving to his own he somehow still had after being taken by the grounders.
"I stole all of them." Reigna admitted, rolling onto her side to observe Murphy as he tossed his boots into a pile with Reigna's and flopped flat onto his back, letting out a sigh of relief as he did.
"This is probably the best you've had it since you left, huh." Reigna mumbled, unconsciously moving and brushing through Murphy's bangs.
"It was hell…" Murphy mumbled, "I worried about you every day. I thought they might go after you because you were so close to me."
"Instead they made me a leader. Seems kind of backwards to me but it gave me an opportunity to remind Bellamy how pissed i was about it every day i woke up." Reigna snickered, finally laying down. Murphy shifted to move Reigna's head onto her shoulder, making her remember their first night on earth, "If they really take my status seriously, you won't be going anywhere." Reigna muttered, staring up at the top of their tent.
"Please don't do anything that would get you hurt. The last thing I want to see is those bastards stringing you up like they did to me." Murphy said seriously, turning his head to look Reigna in the eyes. Reigna met his gaze with a cheeky smile.
"They could die trying. I took down guards in lockup, I think I can take a few vandals and thieves." She joked, making Murphy mirror her face. The conversation hit a lull, the silence between them comfortable.
"They'll let you stay, you helped Clarke a lot today. She's too nice to make you leave after that." Reigna mumbled, feeling like if she spoke any louder everything would shatter. Like John Murphy finally being back in her life again was just a dream she would wake up from.
"I don't want to be away from you anymore." Murphy replied, bringing Reigna into a hug which she gladly reciprocated. This was all she wanted in life. John Murphy and now Octavia Blake. She could live with it if everyone else she knew died. She could be happy if the three of them lived forever. But that was an unattainable dream, the thought was almost enough to make her cry. Murphy would die one day. Octavia would die one day. Reigna felt her eyes burn as she pulled away from Murphy just enough to look him in the eyes.
"Never leave me again." Reigna whispered, tears finally spilling out.
"I wouldn't dream of it." Murphy's response was instant, she could feel his breath on her cheeks.
"I love you, John Murphy." Reigna choked out, moving forward as Murphy met her halfway. It had been five years since Reigna had kissed John Murphy. While kissing when they were thirteen was nothing to brag about, It was something Reigna had never forgotten. Nothing had changed except the feeling of his lips. John Murphy still still loved her just as much as he did when they were eight, and Reigna was still ready to destroy worlds to keep Murphy close to her.