Hope you all enjoy this Chapter again, Italics are flashbacks. In this chapter they are Bellamy's Flashbacks!
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-Vanessa
Bellamy's Point of View
The sun had finally risen and we had been walking for what felt like hours. We where a little bit spread apart as we were looking around in the dirt hoping for find clues for which way the Grounders must have taken them. I kept turning around keeping my eye on each of the members of the group making sure they where ok or if they had found something.
"I got nothing," Finn finally said sighing in defeat. "We lost the trail."
I don't think it could have made my heart sink any lower into the pit of my stomach hearing that we'd lost their tracks. I didn't want to give up hope. I refused to give up hope, on Octavia, on Rayne. I couldn't.
"Keep looking." I said trying not to sound defeated, yet I was beginning to be. "Wandering around aimlessly isn't the way to find them." Finn said to me as we continued to walk. "We should backtrack..."
"I'm not going back." I said harshly to him.
"They have to be here some where, I mean if the tracks stop here… that must mean there's like a trap door or something." Murphy began to say, "I mean there is literally nothing, and hey John got anymore water?" He asked his friend turning around to face him.
"Hey, where's John?" Roma asked as everyone started to look around. "He was right here a minuet ago." Murphy said, "I was just talking to him."
"Spread out. He couldn't have gotten that far." I told them rolling my eyes whilst looking at Finn. "This is wasting time." I mumbled as Finn shrugged.
Just then a loud thump was heard behind us as the other two in the group jumped. John had fallen right in between them, we immediately began to look up into the trees, there was no way he climb that tree and fell to the ground on his own. I walked closer to the body to see that his neck had been sliced open. Lucky for him he must have died quickly.
"They use the trees." Finn began to speak softly incase the grounders were listening to us.
We all began to look around and up in the trees for any signs of the grounder that may have used to grab John. "We shouldn't have crossed the boundary." Gibbs said, "Shut up." Murphy scoffed at him.
"Now can we go back?" Roma asked as Jasper hushed us. "Look there." He said pointing to a tall man off in the distance; it looked like he had blue hair or something sticking up off the top of his head.
Gibbs pointed in another direction as we watched a gladiator looking grounder run off in the distance, he had a shield and a spear in his hands. We began to look in all directions, they had us boxed in. "Another one…" He said as his voice cracked.
"There," Murphy said pointing to the third one, "We should run." Finn whispered to us.
It took me no time at all to turn and run with Finn and Jasper right behind me. Murphy and the girls weren't too much behind us. I couldn't even tell where Gibbs was I assumed he was close the other three.
The grounders where fast they kept up with us, running right along side us, I suppose they had to be fast if they where chasing and eating the animals on Earth. I could feel my heart pounding against my chest, and sweat dripping off my forehead.
"Let's go!" I yelled back to the group running as fast as I could.
"Common let's go!" Finn yelled shortly after me.
"What're we gonna do? They keep cutting us off." Gibbs said as everyone had pretty much caught up to each other.
"Just keep running!" Murphy yelled back to him.
"I can't run much longer!" Jasper yelled, "Leave him behind!" Murphy yelled.
"Yea Rayne would love to hear how we left her friend to die!" I shouted at Murphy.
"I'm not stopping for him!" Gibbs yelled in agreement with Murphy.
"I'm sick if running anyway." I said stopping along side Finn and Jasper.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Finn asked me, as Murphy and one of the girls stopped with us. "They know where they are." I argued with Finn.
"Diggs, where are you?" Roma yelled from off in the distance.
"Great." Murphy sighed.
"Roma!" Diggs called from another location, we all began to run off to hopefully find Roma and Diggs. Roma screamed as she looked at Diggs's corpse in front of us. Some sort of trap impaled him it was tripped by something.
"Wait! Roma!" I called to her, as Finn put his hand out to stop me, "Could be more. Stop." He said to me.
"They're leading us here, it's the only direction we could run in." Jasper said as he began to look around us.
"Hey, where'd they go?" Finn asked after looking around, only to face me once again.
Murphy shook his head, "Roma…" Was all he said which caused me to look over at him, "Exactly, after Roma." I said slowly as we all began to jog off in that direction hoping we would find her quickly.
Rayne's Point of View
"Oh, slow down." I told her as she and I hide behind a tree looking around before continuing a ways, "I heard screaming coming from this direction." She told me.
"Yea sounded like a girl." I confirmed for her.
I watched as Octavia was ahead of me when we heard yet another scream. She was about to jolt forward towards the sound when the Grounder dropped down from the tree and clasped his hand over her mouth and pulled her back a bit.
He then turned his attention to me causing me to stop in place. He motioned for us both to look in a certain direction as I made my way over to Octavia and the Grounder. He clearly wasn't here to hurt us, however my gut was telling me if I made a sound or tried to run he would hurt Octavia.
He moved his hand off her mouth, "What is it?" I asked him as I saw Roma run into our view, "They're looking for us." I said as Octavia smiled and nodded.
Roma began to run along through the forest, she seemed to be alone too. Till we watched a spear get thrown right into her chest. I covered my mouth with my hands as the Grounder slowly took his hands away from Octavia's mouth as she stood up with him to be eye level with me. We both stared at each other tears threating to spill from our eyes. The grounder than lifted us both up over his shoulders and began to run off.
I watched as Rayne walked into the cafeteria, getting her rations for the day and sitting down at a table with another medical intern. She had done this every day for the past few weeks, every day looking more and more sad. I had heard how they had floated Jake Griffin, she was staying with him and his wife after her family was floated.
Their daughter had been sent to the skybox where Octavia was she was accused of treason. Same thing as her father and Rayne's parents were accused of. I moved closer to eaves drop on her and her friend like I had been for weeks.
"Rayne, cheer up please. Abby thinks you're depressed." The guy said.
"I am Liam… I can't go anywhere or do anything without Kane watching me like a hawk. Did you hear what they did to that young girl a few weeks ago? I never would have forgiven Jaha if he had her floated. I was there at her intake, I had to see if she was healthy or had anything wrong with her. That was me. I was the last nice face she ever got to see." She said lifting her head. She was talking about Octavia.
"Her brother used to be a real up and comer in the guard. He got fired for knowing his mother had a second child and said nothing." The guy said.
"That's because a real man wouldn't condemn his mother to dead, and sister to a life in a cell…" She told him causing me to smile.
"Yea, Rayne, the Blake children will never get anything they want in this lifetime if the Chancellor or council have anything to say about it."
I could almost hear the sound of her rolling her eyes at her friend; "I'd marry him, at least I know he'd be willing to do anything in this world to keep me and our potential children safe." She said with a grin as she turned her face towards her food.
"Such a dreamer, just Rayne… stop playing with fire… you know the second one of the council members find out about what you've been doing… you will get floated." He said, what was she doing that would get her floated.
"I'm always safe about what I'm doing. The people deserve to be cared for. Same with the children in the skybox, they are in there all alone. My visits with them to give them snacks or medicine… it helps." She said. She was going against all the laws to keep the children happy and feeling loved, she really was perfect.
"Look lunch is over, don't want Abby to be angry let's go." He told her as he stood up and went to the door as she made her way over to the trashcan. I quickly put my mask on not wanting her to see my face.
"Let me take it…" I told her extending my hand. She smiled at me kindly; "I see you here everyday, when are you going to tell me your name? Or better yet, stop flirting with me and ask me out?" She said giggling softly.
I smiled at her, "One of these days, trust me. Once I get enough courage." She smiled at me again.
"All it takes is a leap of faith." She told me; "Besides, wouldn't want me chancing bad boys." She chuckled to herself, was she warning me if I didn't ask her out she would go… find me? I wish I had the guts to whip off my mask and tell her it was me from the party when we where younger, and I was Bellamy Blake.
Octavia and I had been walking for a while with the Grounder in front of us; she stopped to lean against a tree. "Oh. Are you ok?" I asked her causing the Grounder to turn around and face us.
"My leg." She sighed looked at him; he began to walk closer to her. "Wait let me look at it." I told him as he stopped and crossed his arms over his chest.
"Is the pain in your knee?" I asked her, "Yea."
"She's been walking and running on her knee too long. There hasn't been enough time to heal yet." I told him as he continued to stand there staring at us.
"I don't think he understands us." Octavia smirked.
He walked over so he was beside me, lifting Octavia off the ground carrying her in his arms but constantly looking beside him at me to make sure I was still with him and her. I don't know what made him think I would have left her alone and ran.
"Thank you. You save my life." Octavia said to her, "Both our lives." She said.
"And as thankful as we are, we need to go home." I told him.
"That girl back there, we knew her, So if she's here, then so is my brother, her lover boy." Octavia said making me instantly want to face palm myself. Now was not the time to be cute and girly, mainly because I doubt he even knew what she was doing.
"Please, you have to help him, too. They'll kill him." Octavia continued to beg him.
"None of us mean any harm to you and your people. Our people from space want to come down here too… build a life for us all again, a life you and your people are more than welcome to join." I told him.
"He doesn't understand me, does he?" She asked me as I shrugged. "Great, this is just great." She sighed.
He finally put Octavia down and she moved closer to me wrapping her arms around me watching him closely, just as closely as I was. He pushed something back and looked at the two of us then back to the hole in the ground.
We both climbed down the hole followed by him as he led us both back to the same cave we where in not but hours before. I looked over at Octavia as the two of us sat down on the ground out backs against a wall.
"Why are you taking care of us?" She asked him. "You found us at the bottom of that ravine." She continued,
"We were both bruised, broken, cut up, you could have easily left us both there to die… but you took us here and healed us up… why would you do that? Where you the one who helped Jasper?" I asked him as he walked over to a wall.
He then grabbed Octavia's hands and began to chain her up, "What are you doing, wait!" I yelled at him as Octavia began to struggle.
"What the hell are you doing?" She asked him as he turned to me grabbing me by the foot and pulling me closer to him, chaining my hands up too, once the cuffs where on he linked out cuffs to chains and attached it to a ring against the wall before locking that up too to keep us exactly where we were.
"Please don't do this." Octavia began to beg.
"Is this because we ran?" I asked him only to hear a grunt from him.
"Ah!" She cried as he began to tighten our cuffs and chains. "Stop it!" I yelled at him, "Please stop it!" Octavia cried.
"Stop please!" Octavia began to yell as he dragged her across the room and hooped her chain through the ring over there keeping her close to the wall, before using a bolt lock to keep it in place.
He then grabbed me and moved me to the same hoop so I was next to Octavia. "Please don't do this!" I begged him as he did the same thing to me.
Octavia began to cry as I moved closer to her and attempted to allow her to lean against me, she continued to cry onto my shoulder even after the grounder had gone. "Oh, we need to find a way to break that lock." I told her as she sniffled and looked up at me. "But how?" She said.
"Look for a rock, anything." I told her, as we began to look around the floor near by us.
"How about this one?" Octavia asked me from out of the blue, "Shhh," I hushed her, "He's back… hide it." I told her.
"Where?" She whispered harshly.
"Uh… I have no idea… shit!" I spat out.
She was facing me when he came into the cave; I had my back to the wall watching him. My heart was racing; I don't think I've ever been so scared. Not to mention she was holding the rock still. He knelt down next to her in an attempt to comfort her most likely. Where had he gone, did he go kill Bellamy or save him?
He was examining Octavia when she looked at me nodding, oh god what was she about to do? She leaned up and wacked him in the face with the rock, causing him to fall backwards. "Uhh" He groaned in pain. "Octavia!" I shouted.
She then stood over top of him and smacked him a second time till he was on the ground cold, "Well now when he wakes up, he's going to kill us." I said with a nervous laugh.
"No, he wont look." She said moving towards his slowly taking the keys out of his hand.
"He was going to untie us?" I questioned, "Who knows Ray." She said softly.
She moved back to the hoop that had us attached and put the key in the lock hoping it would be the right key, "Oh thank god." She said when the lock unhinged. We soon heard footprints approaching us, Octavia turned to me panic filling her eyes. She returned back to the lock when we saw a shadow approaching us as. "Come on…" She said to the lock.
She finally got it unlocked and went to my lock doing the same thing for me, we divided out attention to getting the loops of chains off our writs, "I can't." I said my voice dripping with fear as the footsteps continued to approach us.
"Bellamy?" I said looking up as Octavia continued with her wrists. "Rayne, Octavia." He said rushing towards the two of us pulling us into a hug.
"Get the key." Octavia commanded him, she was worried the grounder was going to wake up and kill us all.
He undid her hands, then moving onto me cupping my face pulling me close to him kissing me roughly on the lips. "I was so scared you where dead." He said to me as he released my hands too. "I thought we'd never see you again." I told him as he helped me stand up.
Murphy, Jasper, Monroe and Finn had filed into the cave with us. I looked at each of them, they all looked tired, and terrified. Well at least their expressions matched my own. I turned my attention back to Bellamy as Octavia made her way over to Jasper. "You came?" She asked him. "Of course I did." Jasper smiled.
"Monroe, Murphy, watch the entrance." Bellamy said to the girl as she nodded and ran off.
Bellamy pulled Octavia and I into another tight hug, "I thought I lost you both." He said again, his voice full of desperation.