The Rebel

"Want her what, dead-?" He asked before I cut him short.

"I want her," I repeat again. He nods at me and then at the tent, I nod back and head to it following him. It was worth a shot anyway, we enter the tent and he looks at me before speaking.

"Fine. Consider her yours," he smirks extending his hand, a shake it and smirk back. "But you'll need to do a couple of things."

The Princess

I hear bangs and shouts and utter chaos in the low light of dusk, but as he said that's what he wants. chaos. Sickening agenda of a criminal. We help Jasper to his feet for the announcement, he was beaming with joy to leave, we didn't spoil it by saying it was for Bellamy to yell whatever the hell we want. The fever broke sometime last night or very early morning, he pulled his goggles on and smile jumping the hatch. Kids were standing everywhere so they could see Bellamy and his goons. Some stupid 'we aren't criminals foreshore followed by and 'take off your only way to live!'

"Alright alright," he silenced everyone gathering around. "From now on, if there is still a band on your arm no food or water. If you are caught giving food or water to anyone with a band, you will be tied for two days and one who takes it with a band for four. We cannot let them control us, and those bands are aiding them! Children under the age of ten will be the only exception to this, dismissed," he shouts at us. I looked to Jasper and Finn in the low light of dusk as they ran their fingers over their bands. We were the cause of this, they knew it you can see it in the depression on their faces. With Wells and Finn grabbing Jasper's arms to help him we all leave to our hatch. We didn't have any food up there, not even a crumb. But we had water, essential in keeping jasper with us. So I poured all the water I could fit into the skin and then put it under Jasper's bed and had him lie down on it. Bellamy has tried to doom us, but there's no way I was going down without a fight. Monty walks over to his perch and I hear something

"Clarke, let's remember the defence," Wells joked mimicking his father's accent

Around an hour later Murphy and Atom come pounding their fist on the hatch, no doubt being sent by our great and powerful leader to check us for water and food. We were quick to hide Monty's projects and everything hidden as we claimed the hatch got stuck.

"You're feeling weak, standing took a lot out of you alright?" I say to Jasper removing his goggles and jacket and pulling the makeshift blanket over him. He nods, and Finn opens the hatch. Murphy and Atom climb up and knots forms in my stomach as Octavia hid the medicine behind the screen wrapped in her own jacket.

"Clarke, come with us," Murphy said reaching for my arm as Atom dumped the water in the pot down the hatch. What do they want with me, what did I do? Nothing, they want my band off, if they have to kill me to do it. I've known this, I wake up knowing to avoid it. But now, it's getting real.

"No, I won't!" I shriek as he grabs my arm, pulling at it. Wells picks up the knife and walks towards us when Atom grabs his wrist.

"Whoa, whoa man. I suggest you sit down and don't worry about the princess," he says grabbing the knife from him sling him to the ground. He then walks over the screen and pulls out the jacket and the seaweed. Holding the red weed up in the air for us all to see, he smirks. Without that seaweed Jasper might die, we all know that, Atom knows that. "Well look here, Murphy would you say this counts as food?"

"Hhhmmm... I don't know," He glances down at me with smirk, it's a silent deal. I come, the seaweed stays. "What do you think Miss. Griffin?"

"I-I don't think so," I nod at him and glance a jasper mouthing no and then to Octavia her face twisting with anger. At Wells pulling himself from the dingy grey floor in defeat, knowing my choice. Monty gripping the screwdriver till his knuckles are white, and Finn silently damning everything behind his plastered blank face. I turn away, it kills me to look at them I stare at the open hatch, Atom drops the knife and seaweed to the floor in slight victory and in spite. Atom then walks over a disappears jumping through the hatch. "After you," Murphy shoves me slightly towards it. I don't jump I brush past him and pull Jasper into a hug.

"You're not allowed to die, you got that," I mutter into his chest before standing and going to Monty and embracing him as tightly.

"Hold down the fort, okay?" He nods into my shoulder squeezing me tightly before releasing me to walk to Octavia and grab her into a tight hug.

"No swimming okay?" I smile weakly at her tapping her leg, she smiles back slightly and gives me a gentle squeeze. Then I grab Finn, and squeeze him tightly.

"Keep them safe," I whisper letting go and moving to Wells, pulling him tightly into my arms.

"Wells...I need you to be here and be strong, I don't know..." he nods before I'm finished and squeezes me tightly. And then without looking back I jump though the hatch. He grabbed my arm as we landed pulling me into the to the chosen direction. Where was he taking me? To the wooded area to leave me for the grounders? To push me in the spiked pit? My mind raced and assumed the worst. The worst was sadly highly possible, this night might just be the night I die.

"Are you going to tell me where you're taking me?" I asked Murphy as he led me away from the pod were my friends remained that'd I'd been pulled from moments before.

"Bellamy requested your presence if you must know," He scoffed at me.

"Why, what's he going to do to me?" I stuttered nervously staring at my feet trying to pull the arm he held from his grasp, how I wish I could run back and lock the hatch. Be away and safe with the rest of my friends, waiting for Monty to connect to the ark. I'm shoved into the tent on my knees on the grounded with Murphy holding my wrists behind my back.

"Why ruin the surprise, my dear?" My head snaps up to see the devil himself smirking from the opening of his tent, Bellamy Blake.