Hey guys I want to thank everyone for reading and wanted to dedicate this chapter to a reader who was kind enough to point some things out to me. Smoldering-Loki. Thanks again for the kind words and in site!
Also; it was brought to my attention that there is a similar story to mine out there. It's actually a pretty good story, and it's not too too similar but it's still pretty good, if you want it'd be great if you could check it out. I'm sure the writer would be pretty darn appreciative of it. No she didn't steal the story from me, just some ideas are the same. However it's still a good story and I suggest ya'll check it out. :)
'Darkness in the Sunlight' By XxNeverxLosexHopexX
She's a really great writer, so go read it.
Bellamy's Point of View
Clarke and I had been walking for what felt like a few hours; it was in complete silence after my outburst at her back at the camp. I knew she wasn't entirely to blame for the problems between Rayne and I, but I wanted to blame her for it. Rayne told me too many times to count how much she hated that Clarke looked at me.
How I would favor her, do whatever she asked me to do. I proved it that night with the grounder. Beating him the way I did, it only made her angrier that anything. I should have just done what her and Octavia asked and let them talk to him. There was clearly a stronger bond between them and the grounder, than I was allowing myself to believe.
"You know the first drop ship is gonna come down soon." Clarke said out of the blue after tossing me a small pack of peanuts. "Pretty sure you can't avoid Jaha forever."
"I can try." I snapped at her.
We instantly reached the top of a hill looking down at a small flooded field, which must have been a city at some point of another. Stone buildings everywhere, tall posts sticking out of the water, what stuck out was four pillars and a triangular roof. Well what a roof may have been attached to at some point or another.
"The depot is supposed to be around here somewhere." She told me.
"Well there's gotta be a door." I told her as she took a deep breath.
"Maybe he'll be lenient." She told me, I huffed out, "Look. I shot the man, Clarke. He's not just going to forgive and forget. Let's just split up, cover more ground." I told her as I watched her look down at her feet.
"Yea sure." She said as she began to walk off ahead of me.
"Stay within shouting distance." I told her before making my way towards the one side of the camp away from her and just alone with all my thoughts.
I knew what I was planning was the right thing. I had to gather some supplies from this depot and had to get as far away from the camp as possible. I knew Octavia and Rayne would be safe the moment the guard and council came to the ground. They'd be better off with them behind the walls they would build then the false hope I had built up.
There was no way either one of them would be safe coming with me, I don't even know why I was trying to get Ray to come with me. I knew she would say no, and then what? I take off and she's stuck with Clarke? They would just stand there fighting over absolutely nothing. I don't know why Murphy and Clarke didn't just come clean with what was going on. Why they had to drag me into it.
Than maybe at least I wouldn't be leaving Rayne knowing she hates me. She'd hate me either way; she'd pester me just like Clarke has been. Telling me to talk to Jaha, ask for amnesty or whatever. They were both naïve to think that Jaha would just pardon me for all my crimes. He wouldn't he'd just kill me on site, hell he probably already asked a few of the kids down here to detain me till he gets down.
I finally made it around the long ridge and began to head down the small hill towards the rubble. I stopped when I noticed something on the ground under a ton of brush. I knelt down next to it and began to tear off the brush hoping to find an entrance of some sort. Hacking at it, stopping when I hear Clarke calling my name. "Bellamy." She shouted.
I moved forward looking over the object I was hacking at to see Clarke standing there staring up at me with a mild bit of distaste in her eyes. I think she is starting to realize why I agreed to come alone with her after all the stuff going on between my girls and me.
"Over here, I found a door." She explained as I stood up putting my small axe back on my belt and headed back around towards where she had pointed too.
I made my way over to where she was crouched pushing away grass and twigs pulling on a pair of solid handles. "Uh!" She complained, "I think it's rusted shut." She told me as I was now finally next to her.
"Here." I said to her, "Watch your foot." I told her as she moved completely out of my way as I broke the door handle and lock with my axe. "Ok, give me a hand." I told her as I nestled the back end of the axe in the door using it to make a wedge so we could pull it open.
"Bellamy, I'm sorry for not just telling her." She told me as we sprung the door open. "It doesn't matter anymore." I told her as we looked down the dark hole that we had now found.
We slowly and cautiously made our way down the steps that where behind the doorway. This must have been where some people had gone to hide during the wars all those years ago. There where spider webs and dust everywhere, hell even us walking down the steps was causing dust to move about.
Clarke reached the bottom before I did, beside her read 'Emergency Aid Depot #23' guess this was the place she was talking about. I could only hope there was food, and supplies down here for when I was going to take off on my own.
She turned on a flashlight once I was down the steps and handed it to me, "Here." She said as I looked around at my surroundings.
I knew for a fact this was the place she was hoping to move the entire camp for the winter. It looked to be safe enough from Grounders, and from the winter. However, all of them being crammed into this small place might just sprout up diseases. They'd be stuck inside a tin can for who knows how many months, the fresh spring air might kill them all.
"Really think this place hasn't been touched since the war?" I asked her casually.
Obviously it hadn't been, I can almost bet people died down here. We'd probably find skeletons of something waiting in the hallways or in beds. If there where any beds to be found here.
"A girl can dream." She said causing me to snap out of my thoughts.
"When we get back to the camp, I swear I will find Rayne and tell her everything. She'll be back with you in no time." She said giving me a reassuring smile. Only problem is it neither reassured me or was needed. "Come on." She said leading me down the only route we could take.
We headed down the hallway before ended up at yet another staircase. "You know, maybe I shouldn't have come to you with all that stuff… than you wouldn't be forced to lie to Rayne." She continued.
"Clarke honestly, drop it. Rayne told me to give her time, so I'll give her all the time she needs. Forcing her to listen to me, won't get her to listen to me." I told her.
"Yea but… maybe if I talk to her she wont hate me as much either." She explained to me.
"I can only assume she is going to distrust us and hate us for quite a time." I told her as she got to the bottom of the first set of stairs to find a skeletal body holding onto the railing sitting down. I looked at her carefully, as she continued down the next set of stairs.
"Hell of a place to die." I told her.
"So much for living down here." She told me, called it. I knew she would want to move the entire camp here for the winter; it would only kill them faster. "This place is disgusting." She said causing me to dry laugh soundlessly.
She was right this entire place was disgusting, for all we knew the people who died down here had a disease just lingering waiting for the perfect environment to attack them. Killing every last one of our people. I wasn't about to let Clarke lead Rayne and Octavia down here to die. "Damn it." She said angrily.
I could understand why she wanted to bring them here; it was actually much safer than the camp was. If they cleared out all the bones, cobwebs and debris, they could use this place as a place to sleep during the winter. That was if they never closed that door we came in through.
Outside they could build a wall around the compound and have tents outside for everyone when it's warmer. Start a well for water, trenches for bathrooms. It could work, however with the short amount of time they had till winter. This place would be a tomb not a home.
"Maybe after the winter passes this could be a pretty ideal place to move the camp too." I told her, hoping to jog the thoughts into her head.
"Yea if we survive this winter." She snapped at me.
"Anything left down here is ruined." I told her as we continued down the long corridor. "I mean it could work but the amount of water damage, and time damage done to everything, staying here for any long amount of time with a massive group could be dangerous."
"I get it Bellamy, I already agreed that this place would kill us all." She said turning to me as she rolled her eyes.
She let out a long frustrated sigh "They must have distributed most of the supplies before the last bombs went off." She explained to me. Looking around the room I had to agree with her on that. It looked as if this entire place was baron there was nothing left down here except dust and maybe rats if we where that lucky.
I opened up a container and tossed my bag into it as she continued to look around the room. I cracked one of my glow sticks that we'd brought and began to look around as she called out from the other side of the room.
"Hey, I found blankets." She told me.
"You're excited about a couple of blankets?" I asked her as I began to look through the bin my bag was in. If she didn't realize what I was doing before I was almost positive she would know now.
There was nothing in here that was useful to me, nothing that I could use for when I take off to find a place to live on my own away from the council and Jaha when they get down to earth. Did this make me a coward? Leaving everyone that I cared about behind just because I was afraid of what might happen to me when they get to Earth?
She shut the case as I began to walk past her, "Well, it's something." She said to me causing me annoyance just at the sound of her voice at this point. I just wanted to leave and not have to worry about anyone else. I mean obviously I would always be worried and thinking about Octavia and Rayne but they would be better off once I was gone.
"How about a canteen or a med kit?" I shouted at startling her, she almost looked like she'd jumped back a bit her entire body stiffening at my sudden burst of anger. "Or maybe a decent fricking tent?" I continued.
I smacked my hand on a drum hearing that it wasn't hollow and something was inside it. I immediately began to try and pry open the drum hoping maybe something useful was inside of it. The words along side the drum where long worn off making it impossible to read what was inside.
Finally I had gotten the drums lid off and I leaned closer to the substance inside of it, it at one point must have been water. However over the years the water had been inside this drum causing the metal of the drum to contaminate the water turning it into a light sludge.
I almost felt like this was my last straw, I could feel the anger inside me growing. I flicked the slim back into the drum before moving away from him looking around at the room before kicking the drum backwards letting the entire contents spill all over the floor behind it. Clarke spun around and looked at me with shock covering her face.
We both heard it; we had to have heard it. The water sloshed against something metal. Clarke began to walk closer to me and the drum while I went closer to the small indent in the ground where the water had ended up going. That's when I saw it, the entire trench was filled with guns, M4-A1's to be exact.
I instantly felt my entire body flood with joy. "What? What is it?" Clarke asked me, I guess I hadn't made a noise beside the noise in my head when I found the guns.
"Oh my god." I exclaimed quietly as I looked over the many guns. I could only hope that along with these guns would be boxes filled with ammo. If all we had where tons of guns with single clips of ammo we'd probably be screwed.
"What?" She asked again.
I lifted up one of the M4-A1's and stood up slowly ready to show her what I had in my hands. I hated to admit it but the suspense of seeing the excitement that would be on her face was killing me. Now I really should have forced Rayne to come with us.
She'd probably be holding me right now, or jumping for joy knowing we at least had a way to protect ourselves. However different we saw our enemies we at least knew we had to stay safe. I showed the gun to Clarke and watched the confused fearful look on her face slowly change to a look of excitement.
I don't think I've ever been so happy raiding a building.
Rayne's Point of View
I sat in my tent that I was now sharing with Jasper, Monty and Octavia while Bellamy and I where fighting. When Jasper entered the tent with a small baggy full of nuts. He looked completely skittish like he was deranged or something.
"Earth is scary." He stated as he looked over to me.
"It sure can be." I said with a soft laugh.
"It's amazing—" Monty said from the other corner of the tent. "Fresh air, trees…and nuts." Monty said as he popped a nut into his mouth. I looked from both boys trying not to laugh; they had been acting really weird all afternoon.
"Yep, pretty amazing." I told him.
"These taste better than usual, right?" He asked Jasper and I.
"Than your usual every day nut?" I asked him, he looked at me giving me that, 'I'm not crazy' look. "Yes." He sighed.
"Oh, I'd like to give Earth a giant hug." Monty said as he lay back on his bed as Jasper wondered over to him slowly. I watched, as he stood right over top of Monty slowly eating the nuts that he had in his hands.
"You're acting weird." Jasper told Monty.
"He's acting weird? You're both acting weird." I commented as I stood up from my place deciding that I was going to go out and look for Octavia. She had left some time ago after we where with Lincon up in the drop ship. She said she needed to clean up but god knows what she's been doing since we parted ways.
"I feel weird, but in a good way." Monty said really quickly as he winked at Jasper causing me to shake my head. "Oh god." I said to him as I exited the tent just in time to hear Jasper announce his need to urinate.
I walked around the tent and headed over to a spot where I found Octavia, sitting next to her as she was threading some pelts I assumed for the winter to keep people warm. "We need to figure something out quickly." I told her, "this will be our only shot, and once Bellamy and Clarke get back he's done for." I told her as she nodded.
"I know exactly, but what?" She asked.
"Octavia! Rayne!" We looked up to see a freaked out Jasper running towards us. "What the hell?" She mumbled to me.
"No idea." I said.
"I think I'm going crazy." He said to the both of us as he looked around his eyes wide open full of fear and panic. Octavia turned away and looked at me almost as if to say. 'He is crazy.' "Or the grounders are here," He explained to us moving closer to us as he spoke. "Or, I'm going crazy, or—" He started to raise his voice.
"Ok, hey just slow down." Octavia said as she grabbed his hands.
"Just tell us what you saw." I told him.
I looked at Jasper as he looked straight ahead of himself his eyes completely filled with fear and panic. I looked at Octavia who looked just as confused as I did. What was he looking at? The only people in front of him where Kyle and Megan talking, and the group of fifteen year olds I forgot their names but they where working what on earth was he so afraid of?
"Him." He finally said causing me to realize he was hallucinating.
"Jasper, there's no one there." She told him.
"He's right there!" He yelled causing Octavia to jump slightly. "We have to run. We have to run." He started to tell us both completely in panic. "Why isn't anyone doing any—" He began to yell.
"Jasper calm down!" I yelled at him as everyone started to stare at us. Murphy began to walk over and looked at me, "What the hell is wrong with him?"
"Stop it! Shut up. Jasper, are you on something?" Octavia asked him her voice hushed.
"I think he's hallucinating." I told Murphy quietly causing him to turn and face me his expression wide and yet completely amused.
"I love you, and I just want you to know this." Jasper began to admit to Octavia, she looked at me completely confused.
"We're all gonna die soon, ok?" Jasper continued, I took a deep breath biting my lip before looking back over to Murphy. "I think he finally snapped."
"Maybe." He chuckled before walking away from the three of us.
"Thank Murphy!" I shouted causing Murphy to laugh harder.
"I love you." Jasper began to tell Octavia again as he popped some nuts into his mouth.
"Is that all you've eaten today?" I asked him as Octavia looked over to me.
"It is, but who the hell cares now?" Jasper begun to sob.
"It's—" he started to say as Octavia turned and looked at me the both of us starting to smile, we may have just found our way to get Lincon out of this camp alive.