Chapter 2

The 100 the cure

First thank you to the people who paid this fic attention, but I'm considering not going any further with this fic so if you like it and want me to continue developing it please review and tell me.

2 years 3 months 4 days ago

Bellamy sat in his small living room tapping his fingers nervously as he watched the news. 'After these instances of infection it was decided a quarantine of the whole town was the best call,' a reporter said in a composed voice that spoke of rehearsal standing in front of several large plastic army tents.

'Do we know if they are beginning to control the spread of the infected,' the presenter asked back in the news studio sounding equally rehearsed.

'We are getting reports of early success,' the reporter began on the scene smiling a fake smile, which caused Bellamy to give a frustrated sigh rolling his eyes at all this. They kept saying things were under control but somehow new instances of this weird infection or whatever it was continued to happen, clearly the media was lying about how bad things were. He hadn't seen one of the infected personally yet but he had a feeling that it was only a matter of time now; with the way he suspected things were going.

With this thought Bellamy pulled out his phone and looked at the time and then through it down on the sofa next to him frustrated with himself for looking. Octavia had barely been out of the house for two hours now and he was already worrying about her having a run in with some infected person while she was out with this new guy of hers. He had always been overprotective Bellamy knew that, but this whole thing really was doing a number on his head when it came to Octavia as a pose to all the other things he used to worry about when it came to her now he had this.

Biting his tongue he picked up his phone again and looking at it started to mull over the idea of texting her or something, he knew Octavia wouldn't like it and would probably end up shouting at him or something but it could be worth it if it stopped him worrying. But before he could come to a decision there was a load knock at the front door, Bellamy was so engrossed in his own mind that the sudden sound caused him to physically jump up ready for a fight.

Realising it was the door he calmed down 'you really need to calm down,' he said under his breath walking out the room 'you're getting jumpy.' Walking down the houses narrow corridor being careful to avoid strewn shoes, Bellamy opened the front door and then did a double take seeing who was on the other side. 'Shumway,' he said surprised seeing his former superior in the military standing there in front of the army jeep parked on the rather dank street his house was on. This was really the last thing he would have expected, when he was being kicked out of the army he had asked for Shumway's help in trying to find a way out of that whole mess and he in no uncertain terms had told him he wasn't going to help.

'What are you doing here,' Bellamy asked bewildered. But Shumway didn't respond he just moved past Bellamy walking in to his house, without out any kind of an invite to come in. Prick Bellamy thought to himself closing the door and turning around, 'not that it isn't a pleasure to see you but why are you here,' he asked following him in to the living room.

'Because all that is failing,' Shumway said matter of fatly turning off the TV which was still showing the story about the new quarantines that were being set up.

'You serious,' Bellamy said shocked, yes he had suspected this but it was quite another hearing it confirmed.

'Unfortunately,' he nodded frowning 'largely all that is propaganda,' he added gesturing at the TV 'to try and keep people calm. We're trying to establish safe zones now Bellamy instead where the uninfected can be safe ovoid getting infected and hopefully come up with some kind of solution to all this. Which is why I'm here an agency is being pulled together to protect the safe zones, work security that kind of thing were calling it the guard, and luckily for you we want you to join.'

'Why me,' Bellamy asked frowning, this offer just seemed too good to be true frankly.

'You meet some of the entry requirements,' Shumway sighed frowning slightly.

'And those are,' he asked exasperated when Shumway left this statement hanging.

'No idea Bellamy,' he snapped clearly angry about this fact 'I was given a list this mourning of guys I had to try and get to join the guard that's all, I don't know why they want you.' Hearing this concerned Bellamy so he opened his mouth to decline the offer there was no telling what they actually wanted from him, but Shumway cut him off 'you can bring Octavia,' he said quickly.

'What,' Bellamy asked in a stern voice not liking that Shumway had just brought up his sister.

'Members of the guard are allowed to bring select family members with them in to the safe zones,' he continued 'so if you agreed to join the guard, you would be able to bring Octavia with you, she would be safe.'

'Yes,' Bellamy said cutting across him 'you have me I'll join,' he didn't know why they wanted him but if he could keep O safe he didn't care.

Present day

'You know I'm still not sure this is a good idea,' Clarke said as Bellamy drove the rover towards the city, looking at all the abounded and burnt cars seating in the lane next to them motionless there abounded by their owners as they tried to flee the city no doubt.

'Neither am I Clarke,' Bellamy said truthfully trying to concentrate on the seemingly deserted road as he drove forwards, 'but we both agreed that the speed of cutting through the city was worth the danger.'

'I know,' Clarke sighed turning to look at him dressed in his black riot gear as he so often was now 'but how much time were we really going to lose travelling on the back roads Bellamy.'

'Well the road here is clear for one thing,' he said shrugging 'there could very well be things blocking the back roads'.

'Yeah I guess,' Clarke frowned looking back at the wrecked cars they were passing not entirely satisfied with this answer.

'Look,' Bellamy sighed stealing a glance at Clarke 'there aren't really any good or for that matter bad options when it comes to this kind of thing, there's only the best we can manage.'

'Yeah I guess,' Clarke said sighing her self-looking back at him.

In the back Madi eyed Clarke and Bellamy staring at each other briefly then looked back down at her book they really were weird in her opinion. The way they acted around each other just didn't seem to make sense to her sometimes they would argue like they hated each other yet other times they would act like the best of friends.

'You OK Madi,' Bellamy asked looking at her in the back briefly, he had seen her staring at him and Clarke.

'I'm fine,' she smiled looking up 'it's just I was thinking you two are weird.'

'Weird how,' Clarke laughed looking at Bellamy's grinning face and then to Madi's embarrassed looking one.

'Well I don't know,' she said squirming slightly, looking out the window as she did so trying to think of something to say that could get her out of this line of questioning. The moment she did so she immediately regretted it, because she saw an infected appearing walking up from the side of the road lumbering towards them its arms out stretched reaching for what, she knew all too well. Madi gave an involuntary shiver as she court site of that dark green almost black gunk oozing out of the infected's mouth and the caps and tips of roots breaking through its dead and rotting flesh; the infected really were nightmare creatures.

'It's OK Madi,' she heard Clarke's voice say softly. Turning away from the window as they passed by the infected she saw Clarke giving her a reassuring look and smilling 'you hear me,' Clarke said doubling down 'everything's OK, we are OK.'

'No we're not Clarke,' Madi said looking back at the infected as they drove away 'I don't think anyone is OK.'

'You know I would have thought we would have seen more infected by now,' Clarke said looking around the deserted streets as Bellamy drove the rover through the city, the only signs of life infected or otherwise had been the occasional abandoned vehicle.

'Yeah me to,' Bellamy said 'I remember hearing about reports that they were beginning to migrate out of the cities, so maybe that's why.'

'Maybe,' Clarke said mulling this possibility over in her mind 'I also suppose we could just be having a bit of luck.'

'Yeah,' Bellamy chuckled 'I think were dew some.' As he said this Bellamy glanced at the gages above the steering wheel everything looked normal except the one indicating the amount of charge in the rover's batteries. It was lower than it should be, he was pretty familiar with the rover these days, how all its machinery worked and he knew the charge it held went down at a pretty steady rate. 'I think we might have talked too soon,' he said being to slow down.

'What's wrong,' Clarke asked sounding worried as the rover came to a halt.

'We don't have as much charge in the batteries as we should,' Bellamy said pulling a release to open the front of the rover. 'I think its best I take a look while still have some charge on the batteries,' he added as he opened his door and got out.

'Stay here Madi,' Clarke said quickly getting out herself. Walking around the front of the rover just as Bellamy opened it up she saw what she guessed was the problem, it was fairly obvious one of the leads coming out of what she knew to be one of the rovers batteries looked to have torn away from it.

'Dame it,' Bellamy spat frustrated picking up the lead and then throwing it back down 'I thought I had fixed that one.'

'Really,' Clarke said grinning a slight sarcastic grin 'did you really; you and I are both terrible at this kind of thing.'

'I guess we are,' he said giving a frustrated sigh smiling slightly himself. 'Well it's best we see to this now so I suggest you go sit with Madi while I try and figure this out.'

Still chuckling to herself slightly Clarke walked back around the rover and got back in 'you OK,' she said turning so she could face Madi.

'Yeah I'm fine,' Madi smiled 'what's wrong with the rover,' she asked pointing out the windshield at where the rovers bonnet could be seen standing upright.

'We're having some trouble with the battery Madi,' Clarke sighed 'but don't worry OK I'm sure Bellamy will be able to sort it out.' The small brunet just looked at Clarke as way of a response a kind of look that asked if she was being serious. 'Come on,' she laughed exasperated 'we've always fixed the rover in the past,' she paused 'eventually.'

'Well how far away are we from the Atlanta safe zone now,' Madi asked letting the matter drop.

'I'm not sure,' Clarke frowned 'the way we've been traveling it's difficult to tell how long it will take, and of course that's assuming nothing slows us down.'

'OK,' Madi frowned 'but when we get there they will be able to help us wont they,' she asked worry in her voice now.

'Madi don't be scared,' Clarke said giving her a reassuring look 'me and Bellamy won't let anything happen to you, also,' she added 'were talking about the safe zone where the CDC is do you really think what happened at factory station safe zone could happen there.'

'I guess not,' Madi grumbled under her breath giving Clarke a look that said she admitted to Clarke's logic but didn't really want to.

She opened her mouth intending to push this point home but as she did so there was a loud cracking sound all of a sudden kind of like a fire cracker followed by a stifled yell from Bellamy. 'What's going on out there,' Clarke shouted turning back around and getting out the rover walking back around to face Bellamy who was sucking one of his fingers.

'Well clearly I messed something up,' he practically growled letting go of his finger revealing a small red burn.

'That looks bad,' Madi's voice said from behind Clarke.

'Madi,' Clarke shouted swivelling around seeing the small pail blue eyed brunet standing there behind her 'I've told you, you can't just do that you need to ask me or Bellamy if you want to get out of the rover.'

'I thought something might be wrong,' Madi shouted back defensively 'I wanted to help.'

'That's what I'm here for,' Clarke shouted getting angry now herself.

'Girls,' Bellamy yelled over both of them causing them both to turn and look at his clearly amused face which caused both of them to scowl. 'Madi I'm fine,' Bellamy laughed, growing up with a little sister was good practise for this kind of thing 'it isn't as bad as it looks, but Clarke is right you do need to tell one of us when you want to get out the rover.'

'You would say that you always take her side,' Madi said frowning giving Bellamy an annoyed glair.

'What's that supposed to mean,' Bellamy asked taken aback by this comment, he and Clarke spent at least half the time arguing. Madi opened her mouth to respond giving him an eye role as she did which made Bellamy smile, curiously Madi's look of supreme annoyance was very similar to Octavia's. But before she could say anything there was an all to formula moaning sound and a look of fear spread across Madi's face. Turning Bellamy saw an infected probably attracted by the noise lumbering around a corner of a side street breaking away from the main road they were on, heading towards them. It's one arm out stretched towards them somehow it had lost the other right up to the shoulder which now had black roots and caps sticking out at odd angles from what was left, it was possible to forget that the infected weren't human anymore but ones like this were a good reminder.

Giving a regretful sigh Clarke moved back around the rover past Bellamy and Madi 'I'll deal with it Bellamy,' she said matter-of-factly pulling one of her knives out of her medical bag from inside the front of the rover. Armed with it she started walking towards the infected leaving Madi with Bellamy, by no means was this something she wanted to do but she knew it had to be done this pour soul was already gone.

As Clarke got close to the infected and it began to pick up speed she raised her knife readying herself, but as it reached her and she in the same moment quickly moved to one side surprising the infected and stabbed her knife up in to its skull several more infected appeared. They came lumbering around the same corner the first had come from and as they saw her they started to moan and move fast as the infected did when they got riled up, this in turn must have signalled others because a moment later yet more ran round the corner towards her. Clarke didn't waste any time she turned and ran instinctively screaming a warning to Madi and Bellamy.

Hearing her scream Bellamy turned and immediately felt the bottom drop out of his stomach as he saw Clarke running in their direction and the hoard on her heals. He right away went in to survival mode forcing the front of the Rover shut and running round the side of it, he had disconnect the battery to do what he was doing and he didn't have enough time to reattach it so driving away unfortunately wasn't an option. Pulling out his back pack and Clarkes medical bag which he through to Madi then Bellamy slammed the door shut taking care to lock it hopefully they would be able to get back here at some point.

'Run,' he yelled as he turned around and saw Madi just standing there clutching Clarkes medical bag, grabbing the small girls hand and pulling her forward with him.

'What about,' Madi began in a worried voice.

'Not now,' he shouted, turning he saw that Clarke was a short distance behind them but the infected weren't too far behind her. Still holding tightly to Madi with one of his hands and still running Bellamy raised his gun with the other and fired several shots at the infected closest to Clarke, only two found there marks but it gave Clarke breathing room. 'Come on,' Bellamy hissed urgently turning back to Madi, the small girl besides him was his responsibility not Clarke so he needed to trust she could catch up.

Bellamy kept himself looking forward as he ran pulling Madi with him he knew looking back only slowed you down. Largely he acted on what he could hear, he could still here the infected were behind them so he kept running, he didn't even know where he was going he just kept running down various deserted desolate streets. He worried about Clarke for what felt like an age but thankfully she did eventually catch up with them, shouting at them as she did so to keep running in fact.

They ran as a group from that point onwards but things didn't get better because as they ran more infected appeared running out from other side streets lumbering towards them. Bellamy manged to shoot a few of them as they ran but it wasn't much help, and as time went by they began to slow. Bellamy and Clarke could keep running but Madi didn't have the endurance they had acquired, as she stumbled for the dozenth time in so many minutes slowing them all down both Clarke and Bellamy's eyes met.

'Come on,' Clarke said urgently both of them stopping leaning down while Bellamy started firing behind them 'I'll carry you.'

As this was going on Bellamy tried to concentrate on the infected firing at the ones that were closest, taking one down with a head shot he moved his attention to another one aiming at the caps breaking out it's skull that he could see through its hair. But before he could pull the trigger there was a gun shot from somewhere else and the infected's head blow open sending it tumbling to the ground. 'What,' Bellamy said taken aback by this, but before he could think of anything to do several more shots rang out felling a bunch more infected and then he realised the shots were coming from above them. Looking up he court glimpses of a rifle for a second on the roof of the shopping centre they were next to 'Clarke,' he began turning, but just then there was the sound of a door opening.

As Clarke was about to pick Madi up she heard Bellamy say her name but she ignored him thinking he was just telling her to be quicker but then she heard what sounded like a heavy door being opened. 'Bellamy,' she said questioningly turning in his direction, but just as she said this they all heard two voice coming from the alley a few steps in front of them calling to them.

With infected still on their heels both Clarke and Bellamy decided to take a chance with the voices getting up and running round the corner down the alley pulling Madi with them. Breaking in to the alley infected still at their backs they saw the source of the voices two boys probably not to many years younger than Clarke, one short and fin with pale skin and another shorter with dark skin. 'Over here,' the boys yelled in unison gesturing to them to head towards the open security door they were standing a few steps in front of.

'Madi cover yourself up,' both Bellamy and Clarke yelled together seeing the boys there as they ran towards them, which the small girl promptly did pulling down the sleeves of her coat.

Reaching the door they all through them self's in side after the boys where a third quickly slammed it shut, the loud thumping sound on the other side indicating several infected had ran straight in to it they really had been right behind them. 'Thank you, thank you ,thank you,' Clarke said breathlessly collapsing on the hard tiled floor next to where Madi had collapsed out of exhaustion grabbing hold of her instinctively. 'Yeah, thanks,' Bellamy said panting letting himself lean against a wall to catch his breath, look from the two boys to the third who looked old than them probably between his and Clarke's age.

'Don't mention it mate,' he smiled somehow manging to be positive in this situation 'I'm Finn,' he added out stretching a hand.

'Bellamy,' he gulped still trying to slow his breathing, taking his hand shaking it.

Well there we are, sorry it took me so long to add more but I've had a lot on. If you like this fic really do review and tell me because if not I'll spend my time developing other ideas.