Walking into the drop ship Bellamy lead me towards the ladder that lead to the second story, motioning me to take a seat. Sitting down I looked up at him more than confused as to why he wanted me to talk to me in the first place let alone… alone.
"So then…" I said after taking a deep breath.
"You said back there to the princess that you're a medic. Why would they send a medic down here to die they need your kind up there." The tall shaggy haired boy said.
"My kind? Seriously? I am your kind, but thanks for being so quick to judge." I snapped at him crossing my arms and leaning back in the seat.
Bellamy leaned against the wall across from me smirking, "Than what are you?" He asked.
"Lucky." Was all I replied before standing up readying myself to go back outside.
"Wait." Bellamy said taking hold of my arm when I was between him and the exit.
"I committed a crime, they decided rather than floating me that they would send me down here to do whatever it is they want. Yet they betrayed me long ago." I said simply. "So to answer either question you got formulating in that pretty little head of yours I'm neither your friend or your enemy."
"Pretty?" He chuckled, "And I just wanted to know what side you're on."
"There are already sides to be chosen? We haven't even been on Earth for two hours." I said with a smirk.
"I over heard the Princess talking about how these wristbands tell the Ark how it is on Earth. If it's safe or not for them to follow us down here, she wants you all to keep them on like slaves to the Chancellor so that they will follow us down here. I say we take them off; they don't deserve this place after what they have condemned us all too." Bellamy explained passionately.
Moving closer to Bellamy I placed my hand on his shoulder moving my face close to his ear. Whispering softly to him, "You do whatever the hell you want." I left it at that climbing back down the ladder and heading out the entrance of the drop ship.
Once outside I began wondering around looking for anything I could find to build some sort of place to sleep. I soon noticed someone walking towards me. Wells. Great.
"Rayne?" He said softly.
"Something you need help with? Because the only medical advice I can give you is to stay off your foot and let it heal naturally. Why are you even here? You must have known ninety-eight out of one hundred of these kids would want you dead."
He sighed nodding; "I'm here to protect Clarke." He told me. That would make two of us. Only clearly he will be doing a better job since she already managed to piss me off.
"I just wanted to ask you if you needed any help building a hut, or starting a fire?" He asked me.
"I'll probably just sleep in the drop ship with some of the other girls. Wait… what are they doing?" I asked as Wells turned to look at what I was watching.
Some of the children where taking off their wristbands. That can't be good. I turned my attention back to Wells, sighing I gave in. Maybe giving him something to do would make him feel less like a burden and more like he belonged here. "Hey why don't you go get some fire wood and help them build that fire up nice and big?" I suggested as he walked away from me towards the forest.
"I don't get why you're so nice to him." I heard a voice from behind me.
"He's human." I told the guy as I slowly turned to face the person who was talking to me. It was the snarky boy from the little 'meeting' I had earlier with Bellamy. The boy towered over me, his short choppy brown hair hanging in his face. He had a long straight nose defined brow line, and light blue eyes. He didn't look like someone that easily went out of his way to help other's that was for sure.
"That guy is a joke, he's a privileged twat." He told me leaning against a tree. "He doesn't belong down here with us. He isn't like us…" he said going on.
"What do you mean like us?" I asked curiously.
"I know you… well of you." He continued. "Do you now?" I asked.
"Rayne Locke. You're mom and dad they where floated when you were twelve… right?" He asked me.
I starred at him my eyes searching him for answers to the many questions now flooding my mind. How did he know my first and last name, how did he know my parents where floated? How did he know anything about me? I continued to stare at him hoping for some sort of explanation to the information he knew.
"My Mother had gone to school with your mom, I remember when your parents where floated my mom talking about it. She said they told people it was because of treason but my mom never believed that. She said there had to be something the council didn't want getting out."
"Yea." I said scratching the back of my neck, "You could say that. So then who are you if you know all this about me?" I asked.
"John Murphy." He said slowly, "And don't worry, I wont tell anyone what happened to your parents." He told me as he began to walk away. "There's a small bed well, sleeping spot made up for you in the drop ship if you're interested." He told me walking back towards the main group of people.
I looked around and headed out into the forest for a walk to clear my head and to think about what my game plan was going to be while down here. Help the Ark and Abby like I had been asked? Join Bellamy and his group? Follow Clarke and whatever she was planning on doing? Or would I go off on my own? I knew the last option wasn't even considerable since I probably wouldn't last very long wondering around the woods.
Then there was Clarke; until I figured out what her game plan even was there was no point in considering that either. Following Bellamy meant giving up any hope of having the rest of the Ark's occupants joining us down here on Earth. And helping Abby and the Ark really meant letting them know the ground was safe.
But it also meant that once they are down here, all the laws would pretty much stay the same. The first thing they would establish is a jail, and a way to punish those who cross them. God knows Kane would find a way to succumb to complete and total power. That wouldn't be a good thing on any planet, and in any time. But did I really want to give up all hope for them just to join something and someone who kind of made more sense?
I found myself back at the camp we had established once the sun had set completely. The large fire was emitting the only light in the entire camp that they had going in the center of the camp. I noticed a large group of the one hundred standing around the fire cheering each other on for some reason. I made my way over to see that they where taking off their wristbands and tossing them into the fire.
I was about to speak up when Wells had started to yell at Bellamy about what was going on. "What the hell are you doing?" Wells called out to Bellamy as I pushed through the crowd to listen in.
"We're liberating ourselves. What does it look like?" Bellamy said gaining him cheers from the many 'liberated' youths standing behind him without their wristbands.
"It looks like you're trying to get us all killed." Countered Wells. I looked over at Bellamy whom just had an amused expression on his face.
"Listen, the communication system is dead." Wells said as he looked around the mass group. "These wristbands are all we got," Wells continued. "Take them off and the Ark will think we're dying and that it's not safe down here for them."
"We can take care of ourselves. Can't we?" Bellamy asked granting him more cheers from the group of youths all around. They agreed with him, I did too, well to an extent.
Wells moved closer to the center of the huge group, "You think this is a game?" He asked his voice dripping with frustration. He then pointed up to the sky at the Ark. "Those aren't just our friends and our parents up there. They're our farmer, our doctors, our engineers." He continued meriting a loud scoff from Bellamy.
"We have a do have a doctor." Bellamy said motioning towards me.
Wells turned his attention to me and shook his head. "He has a point Wells. I am trained in the medical field. I can help where needed." I told him causing Bellamy to grin like he'd one some sort of contest. I think I inadvertently helped his cause.
"I don't care what he tells you." Wells said point harshly in Bellamy's direction. "We wont survive here on our own." He said as he looked directly at me as if I was the key to his rant.
Sure our doctors, famers and engineers where up on the Ark. Sure our families, if any of us even had any left where up there. Sure, the human race could face extinction if we left them up there to rot. But they did send us all down here knowing full well the out come could be one of two things. They knew sending us here was Life or Death for us.
They didn't care either, as Jaha said on the tape. We're expendable because of our crimes. Many of the youth down here simply committed the crime of being upset over a parent being floated. Skipping classes, getting into fights. This made our lives forfeit, and here Wells is telling us how we owe it to them to bring them down here with us.
Spoken like a true Chancellor, just like his father. Someone was clearly paying attention to every speech his father ever gave. I was snapped out of my thoughts by Wells continuing to talk; "And besides, if it really is safe. How could you not want the rest of our people to come down?"
Our people? Really? His people, my people were all dead because of his father and the stupid laws. I had no people up there to want to bring down. Not even Abby, she was the reason I was here in the first damn place.
"My people are already down." Bellamy's silky smooth voice caught my attention. "Those people locked my people up." He said again now pointing up at the Ark. "Those people, killed my mother for the crime of having a second child." He continued as he walked closer to wells. "Your father did that." he finished.
"My father didn't write the laws." Wells said his voice filling with defeat. I almost felt sorry for Wells, until Clarke came back he really had no friends here to watch over him.
"No," Bellamy answered. "He enforced them. Not anymore, not here." He continued as he looked around at the group of delinquents all of them watching and waiting.
"Here! There are no laws." Bellamy shouted causing Wells to look around his eyes filling with fear as the group cheered in agreement with Bellamy.
Bellamy than closed his eyes before searching the group, leaving his eyes to land on me. He smirked before he continued to speak; "Here, we do whatever the hell we want, whenever the hell we want."
Great he was using my words to justify what was going on around us. It did cause me to smile softly at him. Before he turned his attention back to Wells as the crowd had began to grow louder with their excitement.
"Now, you don't have to like it Wells." He continued. "You can even try to stop it or change it. Kill me." He said, and I wasn't sure why but those last few words had caused me to take a step forward. Why would he invite someone to kill him was he mad?
"You know why?" Bellamy said finally, as Murphy appeared behind him and shouted. "Whatever the hell we want!"
The entire group soon began to chant with him growing louder and louder, everyone joining in tossing their arms in the air. The smiles on there faces glowing. I moved closer to Wells and Bellamy placing my hands on either of their shoulders. I was about to say something when thunder rolled through the air, causing a slight bolt of lightning in the distance to crack through the sky. Parting the light from the darkness for not more than a second.
I looked to Bellamy as I took my hands off them to look up at the sky; I had read about thunder and lightning in class. I had experienced simulated weather changes on the Ark but nothing like this, nothing real. The rain soon slowly fell from the sky, picking up and turning into a slight down pour.
The harsh droplets where cool on my skin, causing Goosebumps to appear on my arms, and the hair on my body to stand up. It was a very cool sensation running over my body. The entire day the air had been humid almost unbearable but this made it all worth it. It was perfect.
I began to smile widely as I closed my eyes and moved my head so it was facing up to the sky. Letting the raindrops hit my face, slowly causing my hair to stick to my skin. I heard Wells move slightly probably a bit further away from Bellamy who had been right in his face.
"We need to collect this." Wells told him, "Whatever the hell you want." Bellamy responded.
I kept standing there letting the water land on my face; I could hear all the youth cheering and screaming with excitement. This was the first time any of us experienced real rain. Not simulated, and fake. But real rain from the clouds, and it was far more amazing than anything I could have ever imagined.
I could feel eyes on me as I stood there in the rain. "You look beautiful." I opened my eyes and lowered my head facing Bellamy, his hair wet and stuck to his face. "You look like a wet cat." I pointed out causing him to smirk.
"Not one for compliments I take it." He said to me.
"Oh no I am, what girl isn't?" I took a deep breath before closing my eyes slightly and looking back at him, "What is it you want from me Bellamy? My wristband? Or do you want me to pledge my allegiance to you and your cause. Nice touch by the way. 'Whatever the hell we want' that's sure to bite us all in the ass later." I continued. I heard him chuckle softly, and place a hand on my cheek brushing some of the water droplets from my skin causing a chill to roll down my back.
It was then I realized everyone else had taken cover in the drop ship or in the small huts they'd been building throughout the day. I let my eyes gaze up at him as he continued to cup my cheek in his hand. "Bellamy…" I whispered softly to him.
"I wont hurt you Rayne." He said; the way my name rolled out of his mouth was enough to make me melt. Why did he have this effect on me, he was a criminal, he had to be otherwise how did he get onto the drop ship unseen.
"I know." Was all I could muster myself to say to him as I closed my eyes, "I hope you trust me, when I say its for the best they don't follow us down here." He told me as he moved his face closer to mine, letting me feel his warm breath slowly pant along my lips.
"Why don't you want them to follow us down Bellamy? What did you do?" I asked him softly. I felt his breathing cease on my lips; he'd closed his mouth. "I did something to get on that drop ship, something they will kill me for." He loosely explained to me.
"So?" I stated opening my eyes to see his eyes close to mine, his forehead slowly leaning on my own. "Let them come down here, let them try to hurt any of us. They would never find this camp, and if they did they have nothing more they can take from us."
I could tell he was smiling, "Don't be naïve Rayne. They would kill every single one of these kids. They would kill us. Just to set an example to the rest of their people."
"Then we will all be gone by the time they land. We don't need to deny them life and a chance, because we're afraid. We can take this group and get as far away from this spot as possible."
He lifted his head and looked at me; "You dream big, I don't know if you know who Kane is but…" he began to say as I cut him off.
"He'd stop at nothing to rule over the entire populace." I told him.
"Exactly." Was all Bellamy said before I realized his lips were hovering lightly over my own. Was he going to kiss me? I'd known him all of twenty-four hours. Not that I wasn't attracted to him I was, he was the only person here even close to my age.