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The suspense and tension was lingering in the air as Bellamy and the other sat on the floor, listening to Jasper read out the letter Maya had left behind for him to find. It took a moment for him to start since he had to first gathered the courage to reread the letter that clearly was causing his heart much misery, but when he finally found it he coughed and cleared his throat and said:

Dear Jasper,

By the time you read this, I will be gone. Not by my own choice and most certainly not the way either one of us wanted me to go. I wanted to live a long and happy life, with you and the people you and I considers as our family regardless of blood. However some things are not meant to be and we just have to get through it. So that is why I'm writing this letter for you to learn the truth that I'm sure both Clarke and the real people responsible for the circumstances surrounding my death.

First thing first, as you may have figured out by now Clarke has been investigating Mt. Weather, going as far as to go undercover inside the facility, but what you may not know is that while her investigation started with suspicious disappearances around the area I was the one who requested her assistance in looking into Mt. Weather and their doings. And before you have a coronary, please understand that at the time I realized that something was off with the research we did and how I, one of the scientists with medical knowledge and scientific background, was kept in the dark of what we were doing and the purpose of the research we did. So I asked for Clarke's help, knowing that she would be efficient and discreet in case I was wrong about my suspicion.

As it turns out I wasn't wrong and that's where our trouble started. Clarke discovered illegal human experiments, which you probably have found out about now, and among other criminal and dangerous workings from behind the scene. She also found out that Mt. Weather were linked to the suspicious disappearances, who turned out to have died in the aftermath of the experiments they had been involuntarily put through.

Nonetheless after Clarke shared her discoveries to me we began discussing what we were supposed to do with the information. She wanted to go public with it, stating it was the right thing to do and people needed to know the truth, but I on the other hand I didn't. My reasons might be foolish and shortsighted, at least at the time, but I didn't want to tell what we knew in fear that something might happen to you or anyone else. We argued about it a lot, but in the end she followed my wishes because I was the client that hired her and it was my decision. I also made her promise on Bellamy's life, so I pushed her very close to the edge to get her to agree. However someone found out about the investigation and what we had discovered, seeing us as a huge threat that needed to be contained. In order to do this, these people proceeded in giving us threats, death threats towards us or one of our loved ones, certain close call 'accidents' and finally a kidnapping attempt where we were taken to a secluded location and held us there for what seemed like days when it was only a couple of hours.

During that last incident we were tied up, with our eyes covered, and given clear instructions to keep what we knew quiet or else everyone we loved and cared about would become a target until we understood the message. Which is why we kept our end of the deal up until now.

I know that you probably hate me for doing all of this, not telling you the truth, even getting Clarke to go against everything she believes in just to comply with both my terms and the bad guys terms, but please understand that while it was wrong of me to do this I only did it to protect you. Clarke understands that too and was more than willing to do the same for Bellamy, you and everyone else. I believe she would have tried everything to work around the terms and allow the truth to come out if she could. So I beg you, Jasper, don't blame Clarke for what happened with Mt. Weather and to me. I made a choice and I will stand by the choice that I have made. I can only hope that you will do the same, for my sake.

I'm sorry for everything. I love you and I will always love you. So until we may meet again…

Maya Vie.

Bellamy shouldn't be shocked, let alone speechless about it, but unfortunately he was and so was everyone else in the room, including Jasper who had read the letter before. That is why the silence and tension from earlier hit back like a freaking storm, blowing everything on its path away regardless of who or what was standing in its way. I know it shouldn't surprise me, especially since I figured these things out before I learned about the letter, but still I was taken by surprise and I feel like the lousiest person in the whole wide world. Bellamy thought to himself, exasperated and angry over his lack of…well everything. God, he was really an ass, and if he didn't have past experience to prove it then present time experience most certainly proved it now. Maya, Clarke, they were willing to give up everything for us. Apparently Maya did, and Clarke continued to do it while taking the role as the villain and losing everything in the process.

"Okay…this new piece of information is a lot to process," Raven said awkwardly, which was strange for her considering the fact that the young woman was usually so confident and strong. Bellamy nodded his head. "Right, but there is one thing that still isn't resolved."

"And what is that?" Octavia glared, which he wasn't certain if it was due to the information she had just learned or the fact that he was being incentive or something along those lines. She is my sister and I love her dearly, but man…sometimes she gives me too much whiplash than anyone can ever handle.

He closed his eyes, reminding himself over and over not to lose his patience and temper despite the lack of control he had on those two things at the moment due this revelation about Clarke and Mt. Weather. Then he said with authority, "The fact that we don't know whom the real bad guys behind this is or know what their plans is and where they are hiding. However what I do know is that Clarke is a liability to them, which is proven several times these last few days with the attempts on her life, and as soon as they found out that we know the truth there's nothing that is stopping or preventing them from going out of their way to get rid of her no matter the consequences. Then once she is out of the picture they will rip the last pieces of their problems, meaning us, and shut the lid of this whole thing forever."

It felt like the world stopped and stood still the moment he entered her hospital room. A ridiculous thought, but she couldn't help it. This man had not once, not twice, but at least three times now tried to kill her and the worst part is she knew and remembered who he was too well for her liking.

Seriously, what are the chances that he would be the one who was sent out to kill me? Not being, knowing him he would have jumped on the opportunity to kill her, especially considering that he blamed her for ruining his life the moment Mt. Weather fell. Clarke sighed heavily, but didn't close her eyes to gather her courage to stand face to face with her assassin. Instead she appeared on the outside as calm and strong, showing him that his presence had no effect on her, but on the inside she was freaking out and scared out of her mind. "Emerson…"

His lips turned slightly upwards, not at all smiling, gloating or smirking, as one would normally expect in these circumstances. Instead he stared at her like hunter looking at his prey. With concentration, motivation and finally self-confidence that literally brought shivers up her spine.

"Normally I would say nice to see you again," Emerson said, not taking his eyes of her or trying to approach her any further, which in her mind was a warning sign that she couldn't lose her guard around him. No matter how none-threatening he appeared to be. "But considering what your actions did to Mt. Weather, my home where my family and all my friends resided, I can't bring myself to say it, let alone care about you at all for that matter."

The feeling is mutual, especially considering the fact that you were there that day when Maya and I were kidnapped and threatened if we were spoke of what we knew about Mt. Weather to anyone. Clarke thought angrily. Her eyes narrowed on the man, viewing him with loathing that he more than deserved. "So you are here to kill me then? What are you waiting for? An invitation? Do it! I dare you. You have already failed to do it three times now!"

"No, Clarke. I want revenge. I want you to suffer the same way that I've suffered," Emerson said. However this time he retrieved the gun that he had hidden in his inner jacket pocket, charged it and then aimed it right on her. "I figured out that simply killing you wouldn't make you suffer. So instead I'm going to kill all the people you love and care about in front of you, making you see the fear and pleading in their eyes before the life is sucked out of them, leaving you with a pain that will never ever go away."

She nodded her head, suddenly realizing that if she were to ever escape out of this alive without being tortured to watch Bellamy and everyone die in front of her then she had do something now. Without a second more to think or hesitate, she leaped to the side by the hospital bed to make cover, talking Emerson by surprise until he followed after her to grab her, but she rolled under the bed and quickly got up and made an exit towards the door. Unfortunately Emerson caught up to her before she could put her hand on the door handle and wrapped his arms around her arms and waist, while holding the side of gun against his arm, and pulled her away from the door. They struggled, with him forcing her to calm down and she trying to force him let go of her, however neither was willing to back down and give up even though they both knew that someone was bound to come into her room and see the situation that could only lead to catastrophe. And to make matters even worse, Clarke was starting to have problems, with her injury still existing and expressing the terrible pain that made it hard for her to breathe, and if the pain escalated any further then she might end up worse to wear before Emerson even gets the chance to make her suffer.

Monty's hands were shivering like a terrified bunny about to get eaten. It was a normal human reaction, but still he felt horrible leaving his friend behind without knowing what happened to her. However he knew that if Clarke were there she would have told him to go and get some help regardless what were to happened the second he was gone. Still…that doesn't make it right. You never leave your friends' behind that's what Clarke taught me. Sure, her leaving town after Mt. Weather doesn't exactly support her statement, but she did it to protect us.

Despite his nerves spinning out of control, Monty gathered up the courage to push the buttons on his cellphone and call Bellamy. Once the call was connected and before the older man had the chance to say anything, he said frantically, "You need to gather as much man power as you can because we have a problem. Houston, I repeat, we have a problem."

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Thank you guys so much for the reviews, favorite and followings, and I'm glad so many of you got interested in my story. So I hope you guys like the this chapter, especially since it arrived a date later than usual.

Also I like to add that there are and will be grammar errors in this story, I had forgotten to mention before, and not a perfect writer and I don't have a Beta to fix it for me (which I have no intention on getting anyways), so if people have issues with that then you just have to live with it, okay? I write and release this mainly to entertain you guys as well release some of my creativity.

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Okay, another reviewer asked me some time ago how much longer this story is and I'm happy to tell you that I have recently finished writing the entire thing, which is 33 chapters in total. So I'm going to be releasing the last few chapter more rapidly, about two-three times a week. And as for other news I'm starting on another Bellarke story, so once this one is officially completed I'm hoping to be working on more chapters on it before I release for you guys to read it. Nonetheless stay tuned for more.

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