Bellamy then walked over to the grounder, asking it all his questions over and over again as I began to look through the small leather bound book that they had found on the grounder. Flipping each page slowly gazing at everything he had drawn over the years he must have owned this.
There was a steel contraption pointing out of the water in one. I knew what it was by looking at it. The bow of a ship, I was curious if the boat was even still there, or if the boat could be explored. The next page was a patch of wild roses, each of them were in bloom.
The next image was a young woman; she looked a lot like the grounder we had. Her hair was long and braided hanging over her shoulder. Her eyes where wide open and she had a large smile spread across her lips. She just like the grounder had tattoos all over her arms and legs. She looked like a native person she was so stunning.
Was she his sister, or wife? Why had he drawn a picture of her? All the grounders we'd seen had been men. Looking over the girl again I realized how much she looked like Octavia. I smiled at the thought of him seeing this girl in Octavia. It would explain his eagerness to protect her and keep her close to him.
The next picture was of another woman, this ones hair was also long and in the sketch her hair was blowing in the wind. Her eyes where looking away from him and up at the sky. She was pointing at something too her smile almost hidden but still visible. She looked so much like me, was this why he was so adamant about keeping the two of us safe?
I looked up at the grounder who had his eyes on me, was he watching me while I was looking through his book. Bellamy was still shouting at him, trying to get the questions out of him without any luck. He then turned around and walked back over to me.
"You were jealous?" He asked me.
"Of course I was Bellamy. You give her nicknames, treat her like she's important to you… everyone sees it… I hear what they say." I told him closing the book on my lap.
"Ray…" he said softly.
"I gave her that nickname the first day we where here, because she is the Ark's golden child now."
"Oh so golden, gets whatever she wants and will still bitch about it after words." I said crossing my arms over my chest.
"You are the most important person to me Ray. You and Octavia… I did everything I have done for you two… to keep the two of you safe." He told me cupping my cheek to get me to turn and look at him. "I love you, and only you. Clarke can try all she wants but that fact will always remain." He told me.
"Then you promise not to be alone with her?" I asked him.
"You will always be by my side." He said kissing my lips softly as the grounder made a grunting noise before pushing against the chains.
Pounding on the hatch began to sound followed by Clarke's voice yelling to us to open it. I looked at Bellamy and shook my head, "No special treatment right…" I stood up walking away from him. "She literally always gets her way with you, does whatever the hell she wants… shocker." I told him moving to the other side of the small room.
"Open the door!" She yelled again. Miller walked over kicking the container out from the ladder and opening the hatch. He stopped her from coming up any further onto the ladder looking to me with a grin on his lips.
At least some people where on my side, I felt so childish with how I was acting but she did always get her way. "Get out of my way, Miller. Now!" She yelled. He moved his hands from the ladder as if he was some whipped dog.
I shook my head and rolled my eyes as Bellamy stood there his eyes on me, he looked scared. Why was he scared, did he think I was done with him because we where arguing about miss perfect over here?
She ignored us all and walked right over to the grounder. "What on this?" She asked him holding up the small dagger.
"What are you talking about?" Bellamy asked her attempting to leave as much space as he could between him and her.
"He poisoned the blade." Clarke said as I walked over towards Octavia who was now up here as well.
"You look rough." She said to me in a whisper.
"Yea, miss perfect here is apparently adding man stealer to her resume of things she's great at. Amongst it being, nearly getting people killed in a mob, and annoying the hell out of anything that breaths." I said harshly causing Octavia to giggle slightly before turning her attention back to the three in front of us, as I had.
"All this time, you knew Finn was gonna die no matter what we did." She said getting up in the grounders face. "What is it?" She yelled at him.
"He clearly isn't going to answer you Clarke, if he hadn't answered Bellamy yet either. Not everyone bows at your feet when you get angry." I snapped at her.
She turned around and glared at me. "Is there an antidote?" She asked him, reminding me about the small tin box he had with all the vials in it.
"Clarke, he doesn't understand you." Octavia said her voice full of annoyance.
"Vials." Bellamy said almost ignoring the fact that Octavia and I where even here.
I scoffed softly causing Murphy and Octavia to look at me, "What?" She whispered.
"He said he basically hates her, she never gets what she wants and loves us and will do anything we want." I said pointing to Bellamy fumbling around to help Clarke. "Clearly he was full of shit." I said as Octavia nodded, Murphy chuckled. "Women."
"It's gotta be here." Bellamy said looking into the small tin. Clarke tossed the knife to the ground as Octavia and I noticed it, looking at each other.
"Oh he'll notice us." She mumbled.
"You'd have to be stupid to have a poison around this long without an antidote." Clarke said looking through the small tin.
"Which one?" Clarke snapped at him as Octavia and I stood next to each other constantly looking from the grounder to Clarke and Bellamy.
"Answer the question!" Bellamy shouted at him.
"Show us, please." Octavia begged.
"Which one? Our friend is dying down there." I begged him as Octavia squeezed my hand. "And you can stop that." Clarke interrupted me.
Clarke looked up at Bellamy who continued to ignore Octavia and I where there as he looked over at the grounder a pained expression in his eyes. Bellamy rubbed his face taking a deep breath before making his way over to the grounder.
"I'll get him to talk." He then said as he balled his fist and pulled his arm back, Octavia grabbed his arm. "Bellamy, no." She begged.
"He wants Finn to die!" Bellamy yelled at her causing her and I to take a step away from him. "Why can't you see that?"
Octavia stood there, "Because punching him clearly hasn't made him talk yet Bellamy, that is obviously not working on him." I snapped at him causing him to look at me confused by my outburst.
"Do you want him to live or not?" He said ignoring Octavia and I and turning to Clarke. I felt myself squeezing Octavia's hand even more tightly than she had before. The anger flowing through my body unlike it had ever before.
Being lied to straight to my face by the man who is supposed to love me. Well that's a new type of betrayal. Clarke stood there looking at Bellamy like he was some sort of key she needed on a chain to do her bidding. "Clarke, you even said it yourself." Octavia began to attempt reasoning with her.
"This is not who we are! He was protecting Rayne and I, he saved our lives." She begged.
"We're talking about Finn's life!" Bellamy shouted at her, Clarke turned to Bellamy and uttered the two words that sealed her fate in Octavia's mind. "Do it."
Octavia turned and began to head towards the grounder as Miller and Murphy stopped her from moving any further holding them back. "Just tell us!" She begged him.
"Let her go." I demanded them as they both stopped holding her back, leaving her on the other side of the room. "You get to live with what's about to happen to this man Clarke. Hope you are god damn proud of yourself you, selfish little bitch." I seethed at her before walking towards Octavia pulling her into a hug, to try and keep her eyes away from what was about to happen.
She pulled herself away from me and gave me a look telling me she wanted to see what her brother and Clarke where capable of. Bellamy had a belt strap over his shoulder, and had begun to cut the shirt right off of the grounder. The man never taking his eyes off Octavia and I as we stood there helpless against what was about to happen.
"You're gonna show us the antidote." Bellamy had begun to say to him as Clarke moved around the room closer to the grounder.
"Or you're gonna wish you had."
Looking at the grounder's body the way it was, he was already hurt. Cuts all over his chest, which I may add, were more than chiseled. He was a very good-looking man by any standards. I could tell Octavia was grazing her eyes all over the man as well.
Bellamy took one last look at Octavia and I, seeing the tears flowing from her and the look of utter betrayal from mine. He lowered his head running his hand through his hair before looking up at Clarke as she nodded at him, telling him to start the lashes they where about to inflict on the man.
"Bellamy, no. Please." Octavia begged him.
He whipped the man with the belt, the buckle cracking against the mans ribs causing everyone to either look down or away. Clarke flinched. "No, you don't get to flinch." I told her causing her to look at me her face covered in shock. "You caused this pain." I told her, "Like you do every other time."
She looked away from her and then down to the floor as Bellamy whipped the man a second time. The grounder let out a harsh noise before almost kneeling on the ground. Clarke ran over stopping Bellamy from continuing as she knelt on the ground in front of the grounder, putting all the vials on the ground in front of him.
"Please. Which one's the antidote?" Clarke asked him, "Just tell them." Octavia begged the man her face now completely stained with tears.
Bellamy put his hand on Clarke shoulder urging her to stand up as he was probably going to continue with the lashes. I looked to Octavia then to the ground where the knife was. I knew what would probably get him to tell us which one it was. He cared for Octavia and I, knowing either of us if not both of us are poisoned he would for sure tell them which it was.
Not only that but then Clarke would have to realize what she's done. Seeing us nearly get ourselves killed was a direct result of her actions. I went to move towards the blade when Octavia grabbed onto me. She was scared.
Bellamy than whipped the man a third time, a fourth time. He had hit him five more times before Clarke began to beg again for him to tell us which vial was the one filled with the antidote. "Please stop!" Octavia yelled as Raven yelled up the ladder.
"Clarke! He's getting worse!"
"We're running out of time." Clarke said as Bellamy moved away from her seemingly out of breath and not looking so good, maybe he was realizing I was right about Clarke, and about the fact that pain wasn't going to get him to answer anyone.
"Which one? Which one is it?" Clarke began to beg the man again. "If you tell us they'll stop!" She pleaded.
"They only started because of you!" I screamed at her from behind Bellamy. Clarke didn't even turn around to look at me. Bellamy who had his hand on his knees bent over gasping for air looked at me his eyes filled with regret and sorrow. He knew I wasn't going to soon forgive him for this either.
"Please, tell us which is the antidote and they'll stop this." She begged again.
The grounder just held his ground standing up straight again looking down at Clarke like she was dirt on his shoe, before looking straight forward at Octavia and I who didn't know if we could handle anymore of this.
Bellamy bundled up the belt and tossed it into the ground. "If that doesn't work maybe this will." He said finally.
"Girls, you don't have to be here for this." He said fiddling around with something in his hand as Octavia turned to look at me, shock filling her eyes.
"I'm not leaving until I get that antidote." She said to him, resting her hands on her hips.
Bellamy was holding some sort of nail in his hand as he made his way over to the grounder. "Last chance." He said as he held the mans arm still before forcefully stuffing the nail into his hand causing Octavia and I to fully burst into tears as the Bellamy moved away form the man.
I looked at the grounder as he was stung up there the nail in his hand, grunting and shaking in pain trying to hold his composure. I shook my head this was disgusting what have we become. We may not be fighters but we were defiantly not tortures.
"What's taking so long?" Raven asked as she climbed up the ladder. "He stopped breathing." Raven said walking over to Clarke.
"What?" Clarke said moving towards the ladder, "He started again, but next time he might not." Raven explained to her.
"He wont tell us anything." Clarke told her as I felt eyes staring at me from the side, only to turn and see Bellamy was the one who was looking at me. His eyes still filled with that same, pain, regret and sorrow that he had, had before he stuck the nail in the mans hand.
Raven looked around the room, "Want to bet?" She asked walking over to the one side of the room pulling at a bunch of the wires.
Bellamy jumped up from the spot he was sitting, "What are you doing?" He asked her.
A spark ignited from the wires when she pulled them out causing the grounder to try moving away from her, this was wrong, so wrong. Wrong on so many levels. "Showing him something new." Raven said looking at me as I gave her a look of disgust.
She began to rub the exposed wires together causing them to spark and buzz as she moved closer to the grounder. He continued to try and move away from her. Making noises of our fear, and confusion as to what she had in her hands. She clearly didn't care what she was about to do.
Pressing the wires against his skin, she began to electrocute him. Octavia moved backwards as I walked over to where the blade was. Once back next to Octavia I took her hand.
"We have to stop this." I told her, "both of us?" She asked.
"One will get the antidote. Both of us will send a message to Clarke, Raven… and him." I said nodding my head off in Bellamy's direction. "That this torture isn't the answer."
The lights had began to flicker the entire time the wires where attached to him, he was groaning and grunting in pain. This was the only thing we where going to be able to do.
"Which one is it?" Raven asked him as she stopped pressing the wires to his skin. He looked right at Octavia and I as we both turned to each other again. "Come on!" Raven yelled.
She then pushed the wires onto his skin again, the lights flickering again. Him making pained noises as Bellamy and Clarke just stood by saying and doing nothing to stop the madness. "He's all I have!" Raven yelled at the grounder.
"No more!" Octavia yelled holding the knife in the air as I stood by her side.
"He's letting Finn die!" Raven yelled.
"Clearly hurting him is getting answers! Oh wait… it's not. Nothing any of you have done has made him say anything! Now we do it our way." I yelled at them.
Octavia looked at me, "Enough." She said as she grabbed my arm, cutting into it, before dropping my arm and cutting into her own arm. Bellamy and Clarke looked like they where about to kill someone.
"Octavia! No! Rayne…" Bellamy said out of confusion.
The grounder immediately began to push and press against his chains at the sight of us bleeding from the same blade that was laced with poison. "He won't let us die." She said softly.
"Octavia, what the hell did you do to you both?" Bellamy yelled to her as she walked closer to the grounder.
She than knelt on the ground as Bellamy made his way over to me trying to hold me but I just pushed him away from me. "Don't even touch me." I snarled at him, "Go attend to you fucking princess." I said walking away grabbing a strip of cloth wrapping it tightly around my arm. I looked over at Bellamy who looked hurt but knew exactly what I was referring too.
"I did that for Finn." He said walking closer to me. "No you did that for Clarke." I snapped.
"Here." Octavia said as she handed a vial to Clarke. "Thank you." She said as the two girls ran towards the ladder to go give some of the antidote to Finn.
"Rayne…" Bellamy tried to say as I walked over to Octavia.
"I don't like that we had to trick you." I told the grounder as he just lowered his eyes.
Bellamy moved to help Octavia off the ground. "Don't touch me." She snapped at him. He looked at us both once we were standing. "Please…" he begged us.
"We told you…" Octavia said, "He wasn't here to hurt anyone."
"Rayne…"
"You told me, you don't do anything for her… yet she comes running and you fall at your knees to do whatever she asks… So don't Rayne me… you lied straight to my face." I yelled at him.
"I swear, I did it for Finn…" he pleaded with me again.
Bellamy and Murphy left the room just as Clarke came up the ladder with water and a clean rag. She ignored both Octavia and I and began to attempt to clear the wounds on the Grounders body after she had taken the nail out of his hand.
He would just keep flinching away from her, or shutting his hand so that she couldn't do anything. She lowered her head realizing most likely that Octavia and I where right the entire time. That the violence and pain she brought on him was why he would now never trust anyone in this camp besides the two of us.
"Look I need to clean this." She tried telling him. He kept struggling against her attempts to help him. "Here." Octavia said as we both stood up and walked towards her.
"Let me try." She said.
"I never wanted him to get hurt." She told us. "You both have to know that. I just wanted to save Finn."
The grounder was letting Octavia clean his wounds without struggling, he just stood there his eyes on her and I the entire time. Watching her now care for him like he had done for us.
"For the record, you didn't save Finn. That was us." Octavia snapped. "But whatever you want to tell yourself to feel better."
"I'm going to head outside check out the damage." I said softly, Octavia looked to me and nodded, "Good luck." She said to me. "Good luck?" I asked. "Avoiding my brother." She sighed, "Knowing you're mad at him, he will stop at nothing to change that." I smirked. "Good luck to him than. I'm more than just mad." I smirked before heading towards and down the ladder.
"Rayne." Clarke said once she and I had made it down the ladder.
"What Clarke?" I snapped at her. "You know… I'm not—" I held my hand up to cut her off.
"Just stay the hell away from Bellamy… how about that. I don't care if you aren't trying to take him from me… I see the way you look at him, it's the same way you still look at Finn… why not fuck, find your own boyfriend?"
I walked away from her once the two of us were a safe enough distance from the drop ship. Everything was destroyed outside. Most of the wall was tipped over, tents where thrown around everywhere. So much debris just scattered throughout the entire camp.
"Just do what I said Clarke… stay away from him. I'm done watching you pawn over him, and getting him to do every little thing you ask of him." I snapped. She lowered her head and nodded, "I'm so sorry Rayne… for everything… from back on the Ark, to down here, to what happened up there with the grounder." She said.
"You aren't sorry." I told her, moving so I was right up in her face. "But you wait, because you will be." I told her before spinning on my heel and walking off.
I could tell she was still behind me following me not satisfied with the anger I was tossing her in face. I went to look over my shoulder at her which caused me to walk right into someone. Moving to look at the person I saw that it was Bellamy.
Clarke stopped a foot away from him and I. "We'll get it cleaned up." He told her.
"I wish this was out only mess." She told him, motioning towards me and then to the drop ship.
Obviously she was talking about, Octavia, the grounder and me. So glad she views what they've done to us as a mess not a gigantic cluster…disaster.
"Clarke." Bellamy said to her as he snatched the nail from her hand and kept his other arm on me. "Who we are, and who we need to be to survive are very different things." He told her as I struggled to get out of his grasp.
I would not stand here and watch the two of them get all googly eyed and flustered with each other. Not after I warned her to stay away from him. She couldn't even do that much after claiming she would do what I asked. Selfish.
"What are we gonna do with him?" She asked him. "We can't keep him locked up forever."
"If we let him go, he'll be back, and not alone next time." Bellamy said.
"Oh god, I wonder why that would be. Couldn't be because of what the two of you did to him." I snapped, trying to wretch myself out of Bellamy's grasp again only this time he wrapped his arm around me tighter pulling me closer to his chest.
"It's not easy being in charge, is it?" He asked Clarke only for me to scoff at the though of her being in charge of anything. Bellamy then tossed me over his shoulder as he moved past and away from Clarke.
"Put me down Bellamy."
"Not until we talk, I'm not losing you over that blonde princess, and the grounder… so please… can we just talk about this like normal people." I laughed at him once he had said that. "Bellamy, we are anything but normal people." I sighed as he put me down pushing me against the out side of the drop ship.
"I love you Bellamy, I always will but we cannot just leave him tied up in there… he means us no harm… he has proved that much." I told him.
"Rayne!" I heard Octavia yell.
"Go up to where he is… we'll talk about this after I hear what Octavia wants to talk about." I told him. Bellamy nodded, before making his way into the drop ship.
"Rayne." Octavia said rushing over to me.
"What is it?" I asked her.
"He understands us… and speaks English." She told me as my eyes widen with shock.
