I watched, i watched her jump to the ground and then be lead forward by Murphy. I heard her question him and then try to break away, before being shoved to the ground in front of me.
"Why ruin the surprise," I smirk down at her nodding Murphy away, he quickly left keeping his classic poker face.
"What do you want with me?" She whispers, she's beautiful even like this, even though her lovely green eyes don't shine as usual. I kneel and take her chin in my hands rubbing a bit of dirt off with my thumb.
"You're a reasonable person princess, let's make a deal shall we?" I smirk down at her. "What I want is you and I have something you want." Determination hardened her face as she tried to stand up. I push her back down, not roughly just so she understands that down here I'm higher than her.
"What could you possible have I want?" She spat up at me from the ground looks of anger and rage didn't leave her face. It amused me, how now she looks like this but in seconds it'd be gone or faked. All thanks to me, I'm the spider the ground is the web and Princess is my fly.
"Food, water, medicine you and your little friends no different the rest of us need them to survive. You come and visit me every night I'm not on guard and they'll be given no questions asked. Do we have a deal?" I offered extending a hand for her to shake.
A mixture of anger and fear crossed through her eyes she looked up at me so defiantly. "No I won't do it, I'm not going to be your little whore." She spat trying to stand yet again, I let her. She stared me in the eyes with a defiant glare, she tries so hard to intimdate me. I was prepared for this, Murphy was smart enough to know this would happen. She'd take a bit of convincing but it would be worth it for me to up the stakes.
I smirked, she was cute like this staring up at me like a five year old ready to take on a middle school bully. "I'll give you some time to think, and learn to use prettier words princess." She gave me a last look of disgust before leaving.
The princess
It'd been four days, water was running short and all of us are tired from lack of food. They'd refused the ones of us without bands food and water because they were high risk 'gifters'. Water we could quietly sneak out of the camp at night and get some. Thank god we had a bit of an angel, Atom. He'd sneak us scraps when both Murphy and Bellamy were out of the camp. Then the occasional handful of berries or one or two pieces of meat getting mixed up in the medical supplies when he drug someone upstairs for healing. But tonight was different we heard Monty get caught getting water outside the camp. And the moment I heard him scream out in pain, I knew we'd been caught. We opened the hatch as fast as possible, running down barefoot without jackets. we push through a gathered crowed, some cheering some yelling for Murphy to stop. He'd beat him up a little by the looks of it, then tied his hands behind his back. We ran faster shoving are way though the crowd as he kicked Monty's legs out from under him. He tied his ankles barely loose enough to walk and then forced him to stand. He slung some rope in the direction of one of his cheering goons. "You, take him to a tree!" he growled pushing him roughly towards him. Octavia ran a cradled his head putting herself between the people and Monty.
"Leave him alone!" She shrieked.
"Murphy, that's enough," Atom said putting a hand on his shoulder, it was quick. Murphy turned around knocking Atom to the ground with a punch. Atom groaned as Murphy nodded at another boy and he walked over and kicked him in the ribs before roughly pulling him to his feet holding his hands behind his back.
"Bellamy control your sister," Murphy screamed over to him, Bellamy walked over and glanced at me. before walking by leaning down to my ear and whispering to me.
"You can end it at anytime," And then walked over. "Up now, and into a that tent." He commanded her pointing to a tent on the left.
"What? No, I live in the pod you aren't the boss of me Bell!" She said standing up starring to his eyes defiantly.
"Not anymore, go. Or I'll make it six days with no water for him," He said pointing to Monty on the ground. Rage bubbled up in my chest I stared at Octavia she shook her head at me and walked into the tent. Monty mouthed the word no at me as he way pulled to his feet, a grim silence had fallen over it everyone. Jasper's hand was on my shoulder, I turned to him to see his face twisted in anger with Finn holding his wrist tightly.
"Don't, he's upping the stakes to mess with you," he whispered.
"Murphy my sister's not to leave that tent, she can have her jacket but I want her shoes in my tent. You," He nodded at another goon and turned to Atom in disgust. "String him next to him, he's a gifter."
"Now all of you get back to bed! I want everyone up by five to finnish the ninth section!"
We walked back quickly, I grabbed Octavia's jacket and shoes but something caught my eye in her shoes besides the socks which I tucked in her jacket. It was a rusty metal comb and a bracelet woven out of wire. I quickly tucked them into the jacket as well and started back to the hatch. But Jasper grabbed my arm and pulled me over.
"I'll take 'um," He whispered taking the item from my hands. He was mighty brave to have been stabbed in the chest. A very strong to walk out the door after his boyfriend and his girlfriend tugged away from him by the dictator.
"For a guy who almost died, he's certainly got his shit together," Finn muttered slinking down beside a the screen. He wasn't even attempting a brave face anymore as he ran his hand through his hair. His body was visible tired, if they got us outside working wall building instead of gathering Murphy purposely worked us harder. They want us to fail, me to fail and bend to Bellamy's wishes. I will have to eventually, I knew that, I accepted it. I wasn't going to make it easy but watching them suffer and realizing how much rations would help. I was hard not to walk into that tent, I knew math. Four or five nights a week plus my 'virtue' meant twenty-four cups of water, a six handfuls of berries or herbs and six pieces of meat a day every week. Plus better medical supplies than moonshine, seaweed and the bandages.
"Clarke," I hear Wells whisper behind me place his hand one my shoulder. "Don't, we'll make it through."
"I'm not...I'm..I'm not sure I can, I mean knowing I can do something. To keep us alive," I stare into his eyes. I saw something I'd never seen in Wells, anger. "Wells..." he looked at me and growled slightly turning and driving his fist through the screen that had played the message during our descend. Terror shot through out me, I had to stay calm I thought stepping towards him and pulling his hand free. It's covered in blood bits of the screen deep in his flesh. The blood dripped down staining the floor as I examined it. Know bones showed, I didn't believe it needed stitches.
"It's not bad," I mutter to Finn feeling Wells' breathe heave his weakening body, his pulse was fast under my fingertips. "Wells, I'm..I won't. Finn get the extra bandage."