Rhea woke up to a slight chill on her skin, behind closed eyes she remembered that Bellamy had been with her before she had fallen asleep. Opening her eyes she looked around trying to find him, only to be disappointed when she realized that he wasn't there.
The sky was still dark above her causing the thought of laying back down to go back to sleep to pass through her mind but she knew in her current state staying up there was pushing it. Forcing herself up she went to go towards the ladder but was distracted by movement in the sky.
Looking up she watched as a ship from the ARK came flying to Earth. Immediately she panicked, the thought of Shumway coming down to kill Bellamy flying through her mind. Rushing down the ladder she ran off to find Clarke. That's when she saw him, standing there with no shirt looking quite disheveled, though the sight was very appealing, it was not what drew her attention. Coming out of his tent looking equally disheveled were two girls that Rhea had seen around camp. It hit her like a brick, Bellamy had left her to be with them. Shaking her head she walked into the drop ship refusing to allow any tears to fall.
"Clarke?" Rhea yelled, trying to find the other leader of the camp, when no one responded she decided to climb the ladder to the middle part of the ship.
"Clarke?" She tried again, looking around. The only one on the level was Monty in the back, still fiddling with one of the wristbands.
"Hey Monty, have you seen Clarke?" She tried, but when he just shook his head in response without looking at her she knew to leave him alone.
"Alright, well good luck with whatever you are doing." She muttered, walking back down the ladder. Walking out of the drop ship she slammed into Octavia, both girls falling backwards due to the impact.
"There you are," She smirked, "I've been looking for you everywhere."
"Here I am. Do you know where Clarke is? I was hoping she had a plan on what we would do about whatever just landed." Rhea asked, motioning towards the general area of the crash.
"Nope, that's why I was looking for you, Bellamy doesn't want to go until morning, I was hoping you could talk some sense into him." Octavia looked at her, obviously itching to run off and find out who had braved the journey from the ARK.
"He won't listen to me. Whatever he wants is usually how it goes." she knew she sounded bitter but she didn't care. The look on the younger Blake's face one of pure disappointment. "He does what he wants, you know that as well as I do O..." Knowing how upset she was made Rhea start to feel bad.
"But, we could always break the rules, just this once." This earned a squeal from Octavia, who had pulled Rhea into a bone crushing hug. Wincing she pushed Octavia away telling her to go get her things.
"We meet back here in five minutes, are we clear?" She asked looking her dead in the eye.
"Yeah, I'll be here." With that Octavia scurried off towards her tent. Moving towards the fire Rhea sat down on a log, her back wasn't fully healed so it was hurting her a decent amount. She looked up for a brief moment just in time to see Bellamy slip out of the camp. Jumping up she ran over to Octavia's tent giving it a shake.
"Octavia, we have to go now." She needed to know why Bellamy had left after he had ordered the camp to stay. With that she walked off towards the entrance, hearing Octavia behind her.
"Why are we in such a rush?" She questioned while she was trying to catch up to Rhea. "Come on Rhea, slow down, the wreck isn't going anywhere"
"No it isn't," Rhea agreed, turning away she muttered. "Unless your brother gets to it first."
Bellamy had managed to get a pretty good head start so Rhea sped up alittle more. The pace they were going made it so they caught up with him in no time.
"Bellamy?" Octavia questioned, looking ahead to see her brother jogging at a constant pace. She took off shouting at her brother, Rhea decided to stay back to give the siblings privacy.
She watched the interaction between the two of them, slowly walking towards them. What she heard when she got close enough made her blood run cold.
"If the ARK finds out we're alive, they'll come down." Bellamy shouted, "and when they do, I'm dead." She knew she had to walk away, she knew what Bellamy was about to tell his sister, the orders Shumway gave her flying through her head. If Bellamy told anyone why he was down here, she had to kill him. Shaking her head she needed to stop them.
"Bellany, please don't" She pleaded, he just realized she was there, the stare he was giving his sister softening when he saw Rhea's face.
"What did you do?" Octavia pushed, Rhea feeling her arm reach for her gun.
"Bellamy, please don't do this." Rhea tried one more time, hoping that he would listen.
"I shot him." He hesitated, taking a breath before he continued,
"I shot Jaha." After those words left his mouth caused Rhea to be so stunned that she couldn't even breath. The words he just said hitting her like a punch to the gut.
"What?" Octavia asked, not wanting to believe her brother.
" I found out that they were sending you to Earth, I couldn't let you go alone." he tried to explain. "Someone came to me with a deal, do this, kill him and they'd get me on the dropship. And I did it." Bellamy admitted. Rhea choked on the air she was breathing in, her mind reeling. Shumway gave him the deal, he had too of, that's why he wanted her to kill him, so when the ARK came down there would be no witnesses. One thing that didn't make sense to her was how Bellamy could of done it. The Bellamy she knew didn't have the heart for it.
"You killed the chancellor?" Rhea whispered, but it was ignored as Octavia asked him the same thing.
"He floated our mother, he locked you up." His face now held a stubborn expression, "He deserved it."
His words suddenly brought everything together for her, he did it to protect his sister. He couldn't let her come down to Earth without him, she was his baby sister after all. Octavia clued into the same thing Rhea did,
"I didn't ask you to do that." Which seemed to make Bellamy think,
"You're right," He stated,"I made the choice, this is on me. Whatever they sent down I'll take care of it." Rhea could see panic written all over Octavia's face, hoping that she didn't look the same, even though her mind was going 100 miles per minute. Her orders kept flashing through her head, but even still, she couldn't move a muscle.
"I didn't ask for any of this." Octavia finally said as she turned and ran away from her brother, seemingly overwhelmed by the lengths her brother would go to protect her. Rhea was brought to her senses by Bellamy directing his attention to her,
"Well now you know why I am down here, are you going ready to elighten me on why you are here?" Bellamy shot at her, clearly frustrated with how his sister had taken the news, his eyes flickering to her hand that was gripping the handle of her gun.
"Ah, I see. You are Shumway's back up plan." He sneered, trying to be tough, though Rhea could see the heartache in his eyes. "Why haven't you killed me yet? I'm sure you want too!"
"You honestly think I want to kill you?" She was instantly set off by his words and knew she was yelling but she really didn't care, she was angered by what he had just accused her of.
"Why wouldn't you? After everything I have done and continue to do." His walls starting to crash, the expression on his face softening. "Rhea, I had to do it, she's all I have left." Tears falling onto his cheeks.
She knew she had to make a judgement call, follow orders and never forgive herself but still have her families legacy intact, or put her gun away and protect the man she loved. With one look at him she made her decision, with a swift movement she put her gun into it's place and moved towards him, gently she placed her hands on either side of his face and used her thumbs to wipe away and stray tears. He was shocked by her sudden change but it was soon masked by panic.
"Just do it Rhea, he will kill you when he gets down here." His voice held so much panic, he knew what would happen to her when Shumway found out and so did she, but she honestly could careless. Being Shumway's personal hitman wasn't the legacy she wanted.
"No, I would never forgive myself, because what you don't realize Bellamy is that no matter how much you push me away and break my heart, you're all I have. There is nothing left up there for me." Rhea pointed to the ARK to emphasize her point. "My friends are down here, the man I love is down here." This time she pointed right at him, she knew she might regret this later but at this moment she didn't care, she needed him too know.
"Now go," She motioned towards the direction of the wreck, "keep us safe."
With that she took off at a run in the direction Octavia had gone, hoping to catch up to the younger girl. She knew running off after admitting such a big thing was cowardly but she had to check on Octavia.
After running for quite a while she began to worry when she didn't see her ahead of her, wondering if maybe she took a wrong turn. Looking down she tried to find a hint that Octavia had gone this way. That's when she heard her grunts from ahead, not even thinking she ran towards the sound. As she came to the top of a slope she looked around, seeing Octavia at the bottom of it.
"Octavia!" Rhea shouted, when she received no response she began to panic, but before she could do much of anything someone slammed her over the head knocking her unconcious.