Hey guys! Just to answer the questions in the reviews. :)
If I make it unclear and hard to read (I have a problem with not re-reading my stuff when I get antsy or excited to post it.), just let me know I'll edit.
Ask for Clarke possibly trying to take Bellamy from Rayne; you'll have to see why I am doing that in the next few Chapters. Don't wanna give too much away, as I have my own ideas for what I'm planning on doing, but I am following the show so I'm also kind of waiting to see what their going to do on there.
I also try to update as quickly as I can, as I want to not be too far behind when it comes to the episodes with the show. 21-23 Are all connected to Episode 7. I really do hope you're all enjoying the story :) Love your reviews and Support :D
Also; let me know if I should ever do another chapter in Bellamy's Point of view or do a second story completely in his point of view. I'm also writing another 100 fic, The main girl is a grounder, I have an interesting plot for that even though I will admit the first chapter is a little rough around the edges.
-Vanessa
"Bellamy, please think about this." I told him, "You know just as well as I do if you lay a finger on him… Octavia will never forgive you." I told him once he helped me through the hatch.
"Maybe not, but she needs to realize we need to know what we're up against… just like you said down there." He reminded me.
"And yes, I agree that we do need to know what we're up against. However Bellamy, this one isn't a bad one. He took care of Octavia and I, nursed us back to health." I told him softly.
"Then why did he chain you two up in a cave?" He asked me crossing his arms over his chest.
"So we wouldn't run away again, possibly get killed." I said as he shook his head.
"That's my job, to protect you, make sure you don't get killed…" He told me as his eyes where lingering all over my face.
"And you are Bellamy." I told him as I lifted my hand and cupped his cheek. "But we can't condemn him to torture, just to find answers. I'm sure talking to him will do the same."
Bellamy took in a deep breath, "Besides, if we eventually let him go… if he sees us the way we see them, they will attack us, but if they see us as frail and non fighters there's a chance they wont come attacking us." I continued, Bellamy pulled me closer resting his chin on the top of my head before moving back and kissing my forehead.
"That's a chance I'm not willing to risk, I wont take that gamble with your life Ray." He told me as we heard movement going on behind me.
"Whoa, He's awake." Murphy said.
Bellamy moved me behind him, just in time for me to see Octavia and run towards her. "Tie him tighter." Bellamy ordered them.
"Oh." I said as I helped her up the ladder. "Thanks." She said once she was on steady ground.
"The last thing we need is this bastard getting free because you screwed up." Bellamy commented.
I found Octavia and I standing next to each other with one arm around each other, our eyes dead on the now awake Grounder. Our savior in fact, it was hard to look at him like he was just any other grounder. He was our grounder, he has nursed us back to health, protected us from danger and here we were. Watching our people beat him into submission like an animal.
His eyes landed directly on Octavia and I, I averted my eyes from him looking down to Octavia who was gazing back at him. I knew after the night we had spent with the grounder that he would never harm us. He was so gentle and caring, especially with Octavia.
Octavia began to make her way closer to the grounder as I followed her just in case Bellamy where to lash out of the grounder for anything she was about to say or do. "Octavia, get out of here." Bellamy ordered her.
The Grounder was standing still, no movement moving through him. His eyes locked on Octavia's just as hers were locked onto him. "I told you he was protecting us." She said her voice growing dark.
"You don't have to do this." She said trying to move closer to the grounder, "This isn't about you." He told her as he saw me look closer to him too. "Either of you."
"I'm doing this for all of us." He said as I pulled Octavia away from her brother slightly.
"You did that for all of us?" She argued pointing right at the grounder. "Octavia." I said warning her.
"You may be able to forgive him for the shit he's done to you, but I can't…" She yelled at me.
"I haven't forgiven him, Octavia. I just understand that this world isn't as black and white as it was in the Ark. Yea maybe violence and hurting him isn't the answer but we need to know what is out there beyond the walls we've built. We need to know, how to stay alive. Otherwise one of his people, or the people like him… will kill us all one by one." I told her, she lowered her head,
"There has to be another way to do this." She said, I nodded, "Yea there does."
Bellamy took a sigh; "For your information Oh, I did that." He said pointing at the grounders busted up face. "For Finn, Jasper, Diggs, John and Roma." He said now closer to Octavia, nearly right up in her face.
"It wasn't even him!" She countered.
"You don't know that!" Bellamy yelled.
"Just like Rayne said, we need to know what we're up against. How many there are and why they're killing us and he's gonna tell us right now." Bellamy said as he began to walk closer to the grounder as Octavia tried to hold him back. She then looked back to me.
"Do something." She begged me.
"What do you want her to do Octavia?" We both heard Bellamy snap at her. "She has tried everything she could already to get me to stop and change my mind. I'm going to tell you just like I told Ray. I wont take the gamble on everyone's lives here on some hunch that he might not be apart of the group hunting us." He snapped.
Octavia ran over to Bellamy trying to hold her back, "Murphy, Miller get her out of here." He pointed to Octavia.
"What about Ray?" Murphy asked. Bellamy looked over to me as I stood there back against the wall. He smiled softly at me, "She stays with me."
Octavia turned to me; I raised my hands in defense. "I will help him the best I can Oh…" I told her, "I'm sorry."
"It's not your fault." She said to me, "You as much of a captive as I am."
"I was there!" Octavia yelled at Bellamy once the two goys grabbed hold of her, "Rayne-" She got cut off.
"Hey, get—" She started to struggle. "Get off of me!" She yelled.
Octavia began to walk towards the ladder, "I don't even think he speaks English." She spat at Bellamy. "He won't understand you."
"Oh, I think he will." Bellamy said once Octavia was down the ladder and the boys closed the hatch.
Bellamy took a hard swing at the grounders face, "That is for touching Rayne… no one does."
"Bellamy!" I cried out as the grounder struggled against the chains starring at me. "He didn't hurt me, he saved me, my arm was dislocated and the other was cut wide open… he helped me." I tried explaining to him.
"Please just, tell him what he asks…. Please." I begged the grounder.
The entire drop ship shook causing me to fly backwards forcefully into the wall, along with each of the boys being tossed around too. We could hear everyone below us groan and streak in fear as well us.
"Ray you all right?" Murphy said rushing to my side and helping me up. "Yea, yea I'm fine… my head just hurts." I explained to him
"Drink this." He said handing me some water in a sack.
"Thanks." I said to him as he helped me sit down on one of the remaining seats. I finally looked up and saw Bellamy walk over and place his hands on my thighs. "You ok?" he asked.
Cupping his cheek I smiled; "Of course I am… but Bells you don't need to do this, not this way." I told him.
He put his hand over mine and took it off his face, kissing the top of my hand before placing it on my thigh. "I know, but I have to… to keep you safe." He said.
"What the hell was that?" Bellamy finally said to the guys standing up moving the lights he had hanging up around the room back in place.
"We under attack or not?" He shouted down the ladder.
"Storm damage. We're ok." Murphy said as he returned up the ladder. I hadn't even seen him leave the room. I looked back over at the grounder. They wore such normal looking clothing under all their gear. Where did they even find some things.
"We're gonna try this one more time." Bellamy said turning to face the grounder.
"What's your name?" He asked. The ground said nothing, didn't even make a noise.
"Where's your camp?" Bellamy asked again after taking a deep breath.
"How any of you are there?" He asked again, he must have asked these questions at least three or four times each already.
"Bellamy." I said softly causing the grounder to move against the chains looking at me.
"Ray…" Bellamy warned me.
"Hey." Miller said from beside me. "Check it out."
I looked over his shoulder at the little box her was holding as Bellamy and Murphy made their way over to him. "What is all this stuff?"
"Antidotes." I said softly, "or poison's."
They all turned to face me, "We had many vial's" like that in the med bay." I said shortly as Bellamy knelt down next to Miller taking the box.
"What if it's neither?" Murphy asked me.
"Hell knows with these people." Bellamy said turning to look at the grounder again.
Bellamy picked up what looked like a notebook; it was thick and full of pages. Bound tightly with a leather strap. The grounder began to move against the chains relentlessly at the sight of him holding it. I looked at the grounder with sympathy. If I could help him I would, anything I would do would only make things worse for him.
"I think we found something, he doesn't want us to see, boys." Bellamy said as he stood up.
Bellamy began to flip through the pages, the sketches and drawings on each page where out standing and incredibly beautiful. "These aren't bad." Bellamy said as if we shared a brain at that moment.
Bellamy brushed the pages quickly before landing on a page with a picture that looked a lot like Octavia on one side and on the other page it was me. He flipped the page over and there was another picture of Octavia and I, it almost looked like the one day she and I where sitting on the small hill… the day she and I where talking about Atom.
Bellamy went back to the page before of the singular pictures of just Octavia and I and took in a deep breathe before looking up at the grounder hate filling his eyes. I looked over at the grounder. He didn't look scared, but he did look upset and worried… was he worried about what Bellamy was going to do?
Going back a few pages Bellamy noticed another page, "It's our camp." He said as he looked at each of us in the group, including me.
"I'm guessing if I counted all those marks, it would add up to one hundred and three." Bellamy pointed out. "Ten crossed out."
"He must have been watching us; I doubt in a bad way… he must have been curious… counting the dead has to stand for something other—" Murphy cut us off.
"There's nothing good about counting us when we die off Rayne."
"Hey, watch it." Bellamy said to him.
"That's how many people we've lost." Bellamy said to the grounder as he stood up and made his way closer to the man.
"They've been watching us ever since we got here." Bellamy pointed out again.
"That only makes sense Bellamy… we did crash land into their world." I told him.
"Ray…" He warned me again. "Don't defend him."
I knew Bellamy needed to do what he had to, no one else would ever do what needed to be done. However a part of me besides from knowing this violence was completely wrong. I knew hurting the grounder wouldn't give us anything we needed from him. He wasn't going to respond from it.
Bellamy walked back towards the others and me with the book going through it. Standing next to him I made him stop on a page with what looked like a man completely covered in hair.
"What the hell is that thing?" Murphy asked him.
"Friend of yours?" Bellamy asked him holding up the book as the latch at the ladder opened and Clarke began to climb up.
Of course she would be coming up here. I don't know why but lately even the sight of her made my ever fiber boil with anger. I just wanted to toss her out of the drop ship and let her fend in the wild for herself. Maybe it was the way I always caught her looking at Bellamy. That was making me hate her the way that I was beginning to.
Murphy moved so that he was standing in her way, glaring down at her. The action caused me to smile slightly, Bellamy looked over at Murphy and Clarke then to me with a questioning look on his face.
"Get the hell out of my way." She threatened him.
"It's ok. Let her through." Bellamy said causing me to huff in anger before moving away from him as Clarke walked forwards looking at the grounder.
"What do you want Clarke?" I spat at her.
She ignored me continuing to stare at the grounder, "Well, if he didn't hate us before, he does now." Clarke growled.
"Hates all of you, you're more than welcome to leave Octavia and I out of that." I spat at her again walking closer to Bellamy only to rub my back lightly. He than grabbed Clarke roughly by the wrist pulling her away from me and everyone else.
"Who cares?" Bellamy asked her. "How's Finn?" He asked, seeming genuinely concerned for the guy.
"Alive. His people will care." She said pointing off to the grounder. "How long until they figure out where he is?" She asked him. "And what happens when they do? I mean, when they come looking for him? They will, Bellamy."
Constantly questioning everything anyone around her does, if it doesn't suit her needs. Or what she wants, she was so self-righteous that it ate at me. She was always like this back on the Ark. Telling me who I could and couldn't associate with. I remember when she and I where in the cafeteria eating our rations once I told her I wanted to ask out the garbage man because he was always so nice to me.
She told me that people like that and people like "her and I" just don't mix, that we're like water and oil. Yet she could roam around doing anything she wanted to with whomever she wanted, without any care in the world.
Bellamy and I could have been happy together if it wasn't for Clarke coming on into either of our lives and choosing fate for people. Clarke and her mom where exactly the type of person the Chancellor loved to surround himself with.
"Don't you have someone to attend to Clarke? It's not a good idea to leave a patient that had a knife pulled out of them alone." I snapped at her causing Bellamy and Clarke to look over at me. Murphy and Miller started to chuckle at my outburst.
Bellamy attempted to hide his smirk, "Relax, Princess. No one saw us take him, he was chained up in that cave the entire time, and thanks to the storm, and we didn't see a soul on the way back." Bellamy began to ream her out.
Another loud thud burst through the entire drop ship causing us all to look around. I took in a deep breath eagerly waiting for Clarke to take her leave. "Ok. In case you missed it." He started saying to her again fiddling with the book causing Murphy and Miller to roll their eyes.
"Why does he always waste his time bothering to explain shit to Clarke? When he has Rayne." Miller asked Murphy thinking I couldn't hear him. "Man clearly doesn't care for what he has, but what he doesn't have." Murphy mumbled.
"His people are already killing us. How many more of our people need to die until you realize we're fighting a war?" He asked her harshly.
"We're not soldiers, Bellamy. Look at him." She said turning to face us. We can't win."
"Don't be so naïve." I spat at her, "This is what we need to be, to stay alive. If you want to sit around and play house… go ahead, I will not die for you Clarke." I told her as Murphy and Miller fist bumped each other at my new found rage towards Clarke.
"I have gone through enough in this life, because of you and your family… I will not go through anymore, loose anymore people because you are just either too stupid to realize what is happing around you or to thick headed to care." I spat again. Bellamy wondered over to me placing his hands on my shoulders as I began to breath heavily.
"What's wrong?" He asked me in a whisper.
"It's pretty obvious what's wrong Bellamy. I'm sick of the way she looks at you, like she can take you from me… I am sick, of her taking everything I love from me…" I said quietly.
"I would rather be killed by a grounder, than be with her. I love you Ray, I wouldn't have fought this hard to get you just to walk away now." He told me kissing my forehead before walking back over to a snarling Clarke.
"You're right. We can't." He said loudly. "If we don't fight."
"Clarke, he's seizing!" Raven yelled up to her. "On my way." Clarke yelled down as she climbed quickly back down the ladder. Bellamy shut the hatch behind her before turning to face the grounder again.