Clarke had spent what felt like and hour, just standing there paused, not saying anything to the threats the people had been shooting towards Murphy. She turned and faced one boy, the same boy Murphy had urinated on earlier in the day. I moved so I was now standing in between Bellamy and Octavia. Bellamy's hand in mine as he tightened the grip hoping it would keep me where I stood.

"That's not what I meant." Clarke finally said.

"Why not? He deserves to float." The boy had said, he had every right to be angry. But no one had the right to say someone deserved to die without proof. "It's justice." He continued. Murphy turned for a moment facing us, he was terrified and he had every right to be.

Everyone began to cheer in agreement with the boy, "Revenge isn't justice!" Clarke tried to reason. Oh now she was going to try and back track, she'd already condemned Murphy. Bellamy needed to speak up.

"It's justice. Float him!" The kid yelled into the crowed.

The crowed began to chant, 'float him'. I looked over at Clarke as she turned to face us. I just shook my head at her. She did this, anything that happened to Murphy was completely and entirely her fault. God why was she so stupid. Wells wouldn't want her leading into blind justice. This wasn't even justice this was just plain stupidity on her part. Getting a guy killed for what purpose? Because her 'gut' tells her he must have done it? Wells told me she had told him to walk out into that fog. That same fog that killed Atom. She was no better than Murphy and she knew it.

Bellamy had begun to look around knowing that at this point it was out of his control to do just about anything but let things play out till her could do something. Murphy was staring at Clarke than turned to face us; he was begging us to do something. Why did he assume I had any pull on these people? They just looked at me like I was the girl sleeping with their leader. The medic, I had literally no pull here.

Murphy turned around attempting to make a run for it when someone tripped him, he instantly fell to the ground as the group of guy around him started to kick him. "No! Get off him!" Clarke yelled. Does she not realize this was all her fault?

The crowed had continued to chant and beat Murphy while he was on the ground. Kicking him in the stomach, the back, soon I couldn't even see him anymore. I looked at Bellamy, then to Octavia. They both looked scared, there were nothing we could do without getting hurt ourselves.

"We should have done something." Octavia finally said.

"There was nothing we could do… Clarke has a mind of her own." I said, "This is where her mind has lead her."

"Blind hate, and madness." Bellamy said.

"Aren't we all mad?" I asked him. Octavia and I looked at each other; we couldn't let this go on. She moved to jump to the crowed to stop it when Jasper and Monty pulled her back to us. I was about to do the same when Bellamy wrapped his arms tightly around me.

"You two will get killed." He scolded us. "I can't protect you both."

"Get off of him!" Someone yelled from beyond the crowd.

I saw someone move closer to Murphy who was on the ground, but I couldn't see what they where doing. What was going on, I felt my heart sink into my stomach, why was Clarke so stupid. I felt like I was asking this over and over again. She was supposed to be so smart, so level headed. Not this brazen girl who doesn't think before she acts. How could she not have know this is how people would react to her accusing Murphy of all people?

Idiot.

I could hear Murphy's voice but it was muffled. They had gagged him, oh my god. This was just getting worse, I could see Charlotte in the crowd she was trying to make her way to us, but was just getting pushed back by the huge group of people who were attacking Murphy. Why was Bellamy not doing anything, he didn't seem to do anything but keep Octavia and I out of this. Holding us back wasn't going to save Murphy's life, it wasn't going to do anything.

"Let him go!" I heard Clarke yell again.

They finally stopped and picked him up off the ground his arms where bound. Charlotte was looking at me; she looked like she was about to break down in tears. Why was she so upset, I think I knew the answer to that without wanting to know the answer to it.

Bellamy tried to stop Octavia and I from running to see where they where taking Murphy but he couldn't catch us. Not in time anyway, we stood at the top of a hill as they tossed him down the hill he rolled the whole way in the dirt. I felt myself cover my mouth in shock. Had people really stooped so low as to do something like this to a person just because they where upset?

I felt Octavia put her arm around me, pulling me close to her. She also had her mouth covered by her hand, figures we'd both be shocked and disgusted by this. I soon felt someone come up along side me, Charlotte. She said nothing just took my hand in hers and watched. Her eyes sullen and scared, she looked miserable.

Some guy had run down the hill pulling him up from the mud only so the boy who had started the whole 'float him' crap could punch him square in the jaw forcing him back into the dirt. At this point Clarke had made her way down there in the center of all the attention once again. Maybe now she will see her handy work in action. This was her doing start to finish.

Octavia nudged me as I saw them toss a rope up and over a tree branch. "Oh my god…" I whispered. They where going to hang him? That was they're idea of floating him? I would have thought they would just beat him up and cast him out of the camp. This was far worse than that, they where going to make everyone watch him die.

"You can't do this!" Clarke yelled to them.

Octavia and Charlotte turned and looked at me as I turned to face Bellamy. We where now down on the ground feet away from Clarke. I shook my head at him, why was he still doing nothing? My heart clenched, was this the kind of man I was falling in love with? Was I falling in love with him?

"Get off me!" Clarke yelled as the boy was pushing her out of his way.

We watched as they began to string Murphy up in the tree by his neck, "No!" Clarke yelled to the, I grabbed Bellamy's arm.

"Do something, we can't just let them kill him, Bells please." I begged him. He moved his face closer to mine, "do you like him?" He asked me, catching me off guard. "You love him?" He asked seeming taken aback. "No you idiot, I love you. This is just wrong." I told him as he stood up straight.

"Lesson hasn't been learned." He scoffed softly looking at Clarke.

They brought a box and put it under Murphy standing him on it. Clarke turned to Bellamy who still looked shocked. "You can stop this!" She yelled to him.

She could have stopped this by listening to Bellamy and I and not starting it in the first place, at this point I just wanted to smack her upside the head. She had drawn out my last few ounces of care for her. How had she gotten to this point, how had she fallen so far from who she was?

"They'll listen to you!" She said pushing me away from Bellamy almost into the ground as the other John caught me in his arms. He was Murphy's best friend; he was one of the first two to take off his wristband. I barely spoke to him but I knew he was a trust worthy guy, and from the look on his face he felt the exact same way I was feeling about all of this.

"Thank you." I said to him as he nodded.

Bellamy looked away from Clarke and up at Murphy who was strung up in the tree. "Bellamy! You should do it!" The kid who was still continuing to instigate the whole thing shouted at him.

"Bellamy, No!" I shouted to him.

"Bel – la –my!" The guy started to chant soon after followed by the entire crowd of people around him. I looked to Octavia and the other John both of them shocked out of their minds at what was happening.

"Rayne…" Octavia begged, this had gone on way to long.

"Bellamy please…" I begged to him, Clarke gave me a look. A look she had no right in giving me.

Murphy was looking at me from where he was, his face full of defeat. Octavia was looking around was no one going to do anything? Was Bellamy not going to do anything? I looked from John, to Octavia, to Charlotte, to Clarke and Bellamy. This couldn't actually be happening. I looked at Murphy tears threatening to burst from my eyes once again.

"I saw you in the woods with Atom." Clarke yelled at Bellamy. "What if this was Octavia… what if this was Rayne?" She said to him again.

"I know you're not a killer." She continued saying.

"Bellamy…" I cried to him as his eyes landed on me. I was literally begging him at this point.

"Bellamy, don't do this. Don't …" She begged him.

"Don't… Don't." She continued to beg him as he walked closer to where Murphy was.

"Bellamy please!" I shouted at him, Octavia wrapping herself around my arm. Me looking at her tears streaming down our faces, the hot sticky tears sticking the free hair I had against my skin. "No…" I said barely above a whisper.

"You can't do this, Bellamy." Clarke continued to cry over the chanting group.

Murphy was literally trying to beg for his life against the gag as he hung up there standing on the box. I shook my head this was probably one of the worst moments I'd ever experienced in my life, next to watching my parents be sucked away into space.

Bellamy kicked the box harshly from under Murphy, causing him to hang there in the air. I screamed out, causing Bellamy and many others to look in my directions. Why would he do that? Why would he kill Murphy? "Bellamy don't stop this! This is madness!"

Murphy was choking, dying even swinging around in the air. My eyes where on Bellamy, I couldn't believe he would do such a thing. To a friend of his no doubt, just to give the people what they wanted? Blind justice? "No, Bellamy, no!" Clarke yelled pounding her hands against his chest.

"This is on you, princess!" He yelled angrily, "You should've kept your mouth shut and listened to Rayne and I… this would have been completely avoided." He said to her.

"What the hell are you doing?" I heard Finn yelled from behind us. I turned to watch him as he tried to push through the crowd to get to Murphy, Bellamy and Clarke.

"Cut him down! Charlotte, " I heard Finn say as I looked to Charlotte who was crying, Octavia and I pulled Charlotte to us, me wrapping my free arm around the girl keeping her close to me. How could I have forgotten she was here, I knew why in the pit of my stomach why I forgot.

"Charlotte het out of here now!" Finn called to the young girl, "Cut him down!" he called to Bellamy.

The same guy who instigated the entire thing pulled a knife on Finn, "Get out of my way." I heard Finn say as Charlotte tried to wiggle out of Octavia and my own arms.

"Stop! Ok?" I heard Charlotte's soft little voice yell through the crowd.

"Murphy didn't kill Wells!" She yelled as Octavia and I tried to pull her back towards us.

Everyone went silent the moment she had said it, Octavia and I dropping our arms, my headshot up and I looked directly at Bellamy. His face mirroring my own, deep down he and I knew exactly what she was about to say. Something neither of us wanted to hear from her, something we weren't ready to hear from her.

Clarke's face held fear in it. It was like deep down inside we had wanted it to be someone else but knew who it probably was, the three of us not saying anything, I shut my eyes. Wiping every tear off my face with my sleeve before opening them again looking at the back of the little girls head.

"I did!" She shouted angrily at the crowd of now completely shocked onlookers.

"Oh my god…" Clarke said quickly grabbing Bellamy's axe cutting Murphy down from his noose.

"Char…" I said softly as she turned around and faced me.

Finn instantly ran to Murphy's side waving me over to him, I looked at Charlotte one last time before going to Murphy's side. I began to untie the gag in his mouth and used it to wipe away some of the blood and dirt from his face. "I knew you believed me." He whispered to me. Finn continued to untie the rest of the knots that where behind his back and around his arms.

I looked back at Bellamy who just stood there as people moved around him. That must have been a breaking point for him, hearing Charlotte the youngest person down here admitting to committing cold-blooded murder. "Bellamy." I said from where I was kneeling down. I smiled weakly at Murphy, "I am so sorry Murphy." I said to him as he cupped my cheek with his newly freed hand.

"That's the kind of man, you're sticking by. He nearly killed me, now watch him do nothing." He said to me as I shook my head not wanting to believe him as I went to Bellamy. "We have to move her now." I told him.

Quickly taking Charlotte, Finn, Clarke, Bellamy and I entered the tent once more. We needed to figure out what to do with her, if she leaves this tent, Murphy will surely kill her. By now he was already rallying everyone who was just against him to his now legit fight against both Clarke and Charlotte.

I could hear Murphy outside the tent, by now the entire remainder of the one-hundred where out there having his back wanting the real justice for what had happened to Wells, and now Murphy.

"Bring out the girl, Bellamy!" Murphy yelled to us.

"Why Charlotte." Bellamy said to the young girl whom was in my arms.

"I was just trying to slay my demons, like you told me to." She said causing his face to drop.

I looked at Bellamy; I knew the moment we had found Wells dead Charlotte must have done something, she said ever since she heard me hum that song. I didn't hum it to Atom until she had left us. How else could she have known about it? My heart felt like it was breaking in two.

"What the hell is she talking about?" Clarke said.

I looked at Clarke; "Don't you think you've done enough damage for one day Clarke? Leave it alone before you get more people nearly killed because your gut tells you its ok." I snapped at her. Bellamy looked at me his eyes softening.

"She just misunderstood me." Bellamy began to explain to Clarke, he placed a hand on my shoulder as he looked at Charlotte. "Charlotte, that is not what I meant." He told her.

"Bring the girl out now!" Murphy yelled again, "Want me to go calm him down?" I asked Bellamy whose face snapped up at me. "No." He said sternly. "No."

"Please don't let them hurt me." Charlotte said, "No one is going to touch you." I told Charlotte as I pat her hair down. "No one."

"If you guys have any bright ideas, speak up." Bellamy said looking to Finn and Clarke. "Yea Clarke, anything at all… that wont end up in a mob lynching?" I asked her.

This entire thing was her fault, and she had better know how pissed I was with her. If anything happened to Charlotte, god help me… Clarke better watch her step with me. "Ray…" Bellamy said softly to me.

They both stood there not saying anything but looking around the tent like there would be ideas floating about for them to grab onto. "Now you stay quiet?" Bellamy yelled at them.

"Those are your boys out there." Finn said harshly.

"This is not my fault." Bellamy shot back.

"If she had listened to Rayne and I in the first place, those idiots would still be building the wall." He snarled at them.

"But no her gut feeling told her she had to go out and find the truth. A blade Clarke was that your proof? A blade with no god damned blood on it? Really?" I shouted at her. She pushed her hair back from her face she was stressed. Not that she had a reason to be anything to screwed over at the moment.

"You want to build a society, Princess?" Murphy yelled out to Clarke. "Let's build a society. Bring her out."

"Bellamy, let me talk to him…" I said again.

"No, that's a terrible idea." Finn said, "Exactly, that's what he wants to tear us apart… I wont let him have that gratification." Bellamy said.

"Seriously? You're making this about us? This is about keeping Charlotte safe." I said, "And maybe me calming him down will do just that." I said again.

"No!" Charlottes voice cracked, "Please Bellamy… Rayne." She begged.

"I promised you, no one is going to hurt you." I told her, as Bellamy knelt down in front of her, "Charlotte, she's right. It's gonna be ok." He comforted her. "Just stay with them." He said motioning to Clarke and Finn.

"If you're going to talk to him, I'm coming with you." He said to me as he stood up.

He lifted up the tarp letting me out first. "Rayne…" Murphy's voice was soft, and pained. I lowered my head, as Bellamy followed me out.

"Well, well, well." Murphy began to say. "Look who decided to join us." I looked over at Murphy.

"John…" I whispered, "Don't do this please." I said begging him. He turned to face me lowering her eyes to the ground.

"Dial it down and back off." Bellamy said to him, "Really?" He said he then turned to me. "This guy, nearly killed me… and now he wont let me have justice… your man." He said to me.

"John, this wont solve anything… killing her wont change anything." He nodded, "No, but it's a pretty good start." He whispered to me. "What happened to you…" I said my voice low, barely audible. "You chose the wrong man… that's what happened."

"Back off…" Murphy said slowly. "Or what? What are you gonna do about me? Hang me?" He asked.

"Murphy… please…"

"See she should be begging my name, just like that… but a different situation." Murphy said smirking at Bellamy. I could tell he was at his next breaking point I grabbed his arm squeezing it, "that's enough." I said to them.

"Not nearly." Murphy seethed.

"I was just giving the people what they wanted." Bellamy said choosing to ignore his comment about me.

"Yea. Yea, that's a good idea." Murphy smirked, "Why don't we do that right now?"

"So, who here wants to see the real murderer hung up?" Murphy asked. "All in favor?"

Less than a few people raised their hands with him; I knew this was only going to rile him up more. Make him even more angry, Clarke and Finn had better thought of a good plan for keeping Charlotte safe.

"I see." Murphy began to say. "So it's ok to string me up for nothing, but when this little bitch confesses." He started to say.

"Murphy don't!" I yelled at him. He ignored me, "You all let her walk?" He yelled at the crowd, he then looked right at me. "You knew I wasn't guilty, I saw the look in your eyes when they had me stung up… and you wont let me near her?" He asked me.

"She's just a child Murphy. She isn't the one who did this to you." I told him.

"No it was the bitch of a Princess." He snarled at me, I lowered my head quickly as Bellamy placed his hand on my shoulder.

"Cowards! All of you are Cowards!" He yelled at them. "And you!" He pointed at me, "Are blind." Was all he said to me I felt a single tear slide down my cheek.

"Hey, Murphy!" Bellamy said as he made his way over to him, leaving me on my own next to the tent. "Murphy. It's over."

Murphy shrugged at him, "Whatever you say, boss."

Bellamy turned around and began to walk back towards me, I smiled at him meekly I just wanted this entire day to be over and done with. I wanted things to be as they where yesterday.
I saw Murphy bend down to the ground picking up a plank of wood. "Murphy?" I said slowly causing Bellamy to look at me confused. In one swift movement Murphy smacked Bellamy on the back of the head causing him to fall forward unconscious.

"Son of a bitch! Hey!" Octavia shouted.

"Murphy what the hell!" I yelled.

Jasper when to stop Octavia from running to me and Bellamy and got knocked down by Murphy, who let Octavia finally pass him and kneel down beside me. "Octavia…" I said softly. I felt like we where completely unsafe at this moment even though I knew Murphy would never hurt me.

"Come on. Let's get the girl." Murphy said to his group.

"Murphy please don't do this!" I begged him.

"Look at your protector, laying on the ground out for the count. I could actually protect you… why…" He asked me.

"Please Murphy don't hurt her please."

"Begging is beneath you so don't, you know I'm going to do what needs to be done. Just accept it." He said to me a he knelt down next to me pushing my hair out of my face before lightly caressing it. "Don't touch her." Octavia said, as Murphy smirked to her standing up and making his way to the tent.

He pushed up the tent and to reveal she wasn't in there and neither was Finn and Clarke. Thank god they took her away from there. "Charlotte!" Murphy yelled violently.