Bellamy's Point of View
I stood there in the drop ship with the map we had made of the camp laid out in front of me as I began to plan where we would place our gunmen for any fight heading our way. I felt a few tears escape my eyes; I still couldn't believe that I had so openly given up on Rayne.
She would be so heart broken if she knew I had just given up on her like that. Just didn't even give looking for her a second shot, she would feel exactly like Raven had describe it. Like I didn't care, like she didn't matter to me. When in reality she had become my entire world.
I heard Myles coughing from behind me as I quickly wiped the fear tears on my face away with my sleeve. I was about to make my way over to Myles when I turned around to see Jasper enter the drop ship holding his gun in his hand. The look of rage in his face didn't surprise me. Not only did I deny him the ability to go looking for his best friend Monty. I refused him from finding the two people who saved his life from certain death the first few days we'd gotten down here.
"Don't you think I want to go after them, too?" I asked him moving away from the table.
"If it was you out there, you think Monty, Clarke, Finn…" He paused, "Rayne. Do you think they would hide behind these walls?" He asked me.
"Rayne would probably kill the person who denied her the ability to hunt you down, which would probably mean Clarke would have to go with her, than Finn would follow Clarke… Octavia would follow Rayne… we're a family now Bellamy… we look after each other not hide, and leave them to die." He continued.
"No, you're right. They'd go after me. Then they'd be dead, too..." I began to tell him, it killed me to talk like this.
Of course I wanted to be out there hunting them down, but for the sake of the entire camp I needed to be strong. I had to build up our defenses, what use was going and looking for the four of them if there was no safe haven to bring them back too?
"I'm doing what I think is right for the group." I told him as he scoffed.
"It's funny, you didn't think that way when Octavia and Rayne went missing. Rayne is captured; the grounders have her and you're just standing here…" He drifted off.
I turned to the table that he had just put his gun down on before quickly looking back at him, dismissing his comments entirely. "Where are you going?" I asked him.
"More gunpowder for your minefield… sir." Jasper said as he saluted me before moving himself up the ladder towards the second floor of the drop ship. Myles groaned in pain again capturing my attention once again.
"Water… please." I heard the young boy beg.
The boy was dying; and unless Rayne or Clarke magically appeared in the next day or so Myles was dead. We didn't know how to get the arrow out of his safely, or how to treat his wound. What to feed him nothing we were lost, both our medics would get captured at the same time.
It was times like this I wish I had Clarke around to boss me around, tell me what to do. Discuss what we needed to do. Or Finn to be the voice of reason even though for the most part I just ignored him. Rayne… I needed her for more than just moral guidance. Not having her here just left this huge void in my chest. "I'll get you some." I told Myles as I left the drop ship and headed out towards the tent we had the water tank in.
Once I got to the water tank I leaned against the bowl we had there and just took in a deep breath before splashing some water onto my face. Everything Jasper had said was right, I was just abandoning Rayne and the others. Even after I had made such a fuss over saving her and my sister when my sisters grounder had taken them.
I took in another deep breath before filling a small cup up with water. When I suddenly heard my radio go off, "You know what'll happen to me if you tell Bellamy." I heard Murphy's voice come through.
Confused as to why I was hearing Murphy talk when the only people who had walkie's where Raven, Myself and Jasper.
"Tell Bellamy why?" I asked into the radio.
Silence soon followed, no response from Jasper or Murphy. I didn't even realize Murphy was in the drop ship. Was he on the third level or the second? Maybe he went in after I had left. However I didn't know why he even needed to be in there.
"Murphy has a gun. He killed Myles." Jasper finally yelled into the radio after a few moments of silence.
"Murphy, what the hell are you doing?" I yelled into the walkie as I continued to make my way back to the drop ship. When I heard a creaking noise causing me to look up from the ground only to se the door to the drop ship moving.
Tossing the cup of water to the side I began to full on sprint towards the drop ship followed by many of the people in the camp who also had guns. "Murphy!" I yelled towards the door. "Murphy!"
"Open the damn door!" I shouted at the door, I was completely frustrated and unsure of what to do next. Not only was all out ammo and weapons inside but her was holding Jasper hostage.
"You try to be a hero, Jasper dies." I heard Murphy say right as the door shut.
Rayne's Point of View
It had been so long since Lincoln left to go get Clarke from Anya's camp. I had taken a nap only to be woken up by the sharp pounding of hoof prints, standing up I dusted my bottom off moving over to Finn looking around the beacon to see if Clarke was with Lincoln.
I had to contain my excitement when I saw him get off the horse, pulling Clarke off once he was on the ground. We stood there anxiously as he cut the ropes off her wrists and pushed her so that she was facing the two of us.
I lightly pushed Finn from the back towards her so that he would move towards her. After all for the past who knows how many hours all he'd been babbling about was Clarke and how much he loved her. I knew deep down even though they had both claimed to be together secretly. Clarke was always having that internal debate if she wanted him back or not.
She always told me that she did but then she would act differently when she finally got Finn alone. I don't blame her; he did ignore her the moment Raven got down here. Even though I knew better. Even before we'd all been sent down to Earth his feelings for Raven were gone.
"Finn." Clarke said softly, "Rayne." She said noticing me behind him; I waved at her with a grin on my lips as she ran towards the two of us engulfing Finn in a hug. "Oh my god!" She yelled right before leaping into his arms.
She smiled looking over at me as I nodded my head off in Finn's direction basically telling her not to worry about me. Finn was the one she needed to be focused on. I walked away from the two of them and towards Lincoln.
"I don't understand how-" I heard Clarke say as Finn must have said something cutting her off. I reached Lincoln as he pulled the mask off his face looking over at the two of them.
"Lincoln saved Rayne the day they took us… than naturally he saved my life too." He explained to her.
"Hey I helped too, moral support." I said causing Clarke to let out a long breath of air dry laughing shaking her head at me.
"He killed two of his own people to save us Clarke." I heard Finn continue as I turned my attention to Lincoln.
"Your people are going to come looking for you aren't they?" I asked him as he nodded solemnly.
"I'm sorry for all the trouble we have caused you since coming to Earth." I continued; "You and your people have nothing to be sorry for Rayne." He told me.
"But we do… you wouldn't be a traitor, they wouldn't be hunting you…" Lincoln cut me off by pressing a finger to my mouth.
"Has Bellamy never told you that your worry and fret to much, Rayne?" He asked me with a slight smile on his lips.
I shrugged; "Only thirty times a day…" I said as he chuckled.
"Signal fire?" Clarke asked walking towards us. "That was you?"
"We needed a distraction." Lincoln told her, as we all turned to look at the small speck of light flickering in the woods miles away from us. "I'd say it worked." Finn said from beside Clarke.
The fire went out almost immediately after Finn had said that, like he jinxed it or something. "Not well enough." Lincoln sighed.
"What does that mean? I asked him. "Yea then putting out the fire can't mean they know?" Finn said slowly.
"Them putting out the fire means Anya knows Clarke isn't dead, which could mean she also knows Rayne never made it to the base camp, and that you are also still alive." He explained to us.
"Great." Clarke mumbled.
"We need to hurry." Lincoln explained as he walked the two-headed horse towards the edge of the woods before slapping its backside forcing it to run off into the woods.
"Let's hope they follow the horse." He said as he stalked off.
"Hey, what do we do now?" Finn yelled after Lincoln.
"We run Finn…" I said as I pasted the two of them and jogged off after Lincoln.
Trying to keep up with Lincoln was one of those things that was just next to impossible to do. Clarke and I ended up running side by side as Lincoln and Finn where a head of us. "Come on Ray we have to run!" She called to me once I had started to fall behind.
"Come on. It's right up here." Lincoln said to us.
"What is?" Clarke asked.
"Someplace they won't follow."
We finally reached a cave as Clarke and I looked down the dark tunnel then to each other, this wasn't something either of us felt like exploring it just spelt out danger. "Oh, wait. Where does it lead?" She asked.
"Everywhere. There's a tunnel to your camp." Lincoln said trying to push us all into the tunnel. "If we make it through we should get there before Tristan."
Soon we heard hoof beats approaching us through the woods followed by some light. They where hear, I turned to look over at Clarke when I felt her hand cling onto mine tightly much like she used to when we were children whenever she had gotten scared. Lincoln was now urging us all to hurry up and enter the cave.
"Go, Go!" He yelled as Finn entered the cave followed closely by Clarke and I.
"Lincoln!" I heard Anya yell into the cave, she was so close to reaching us. Thank god for listening to Lincoln when we did.
Bellamy's Point of View
"I just heard Murphy has Jasper!" Octavia said from beside me.
I must have been completely zoned out, I wasn't even aware she was next to me. I mean I remembered Raven was here just now talking to me about searching the outside of the drop ship for any ways to get inside like a hatch or something. Octavia; I hadn't even realized she was here.
Guess my main focus of trying to get Jasper out of the drop ship had completely consumed my mind. I took a deep breath as I turned to face my now livid little sister. "Yea. South foxhole done?" I asked her expressionless.
She jolted back slightly, taken back by my lack of response to what she had said to me. "What?" She asked, "Bellamy, my friend's in there with a killer." She began to point of her voice growing hot with anger.
"O, Look around no one's working. If the grounders attack us right now, we're all dead." I told her as she rolled her eyes and walked around me towards the drop ship.
"Murphy!" She yelled at the shut door.
"Murphy, if you even touch Jasper, I swear to god, you're dead!" She yelled at the door causing me to roll my eyes at her before moving so that I was beside her.
"Octavia, I got this." I told her trying to move her away from the drop ship.
"Really?" She sassed. "Because it doesn't look like you're doing anything about it." She continued to snap at me.
"Bellamy, you were right." Raven said as she began to walk towards me. "There's a loose panel on the back." I turned to face Raven only to see that she was a little to close to me for comfort.
Moving away from her slightly she continued to explain her plan to me. "If I can pop it, we can get in through the floor." I nodded at her, "Good. Do it." I told her as she too then nodded before walking off back towards the other side of the drop ship.
Octavia swallowed hard before leaning close to me, "Sorry." She said with one short breath. I understood why she was upset; in fact she had every reason to be pissed off at this moment. Jasper was her friend, and now not only where all her friends in sticky situations but there was nothing she could do about any of it.
Monty was missing since we went searching for the other three. Rayne was apparently being taken away to the grounder hide out, Finn and Clarke had been taken in a totally different direction. Now there's Jasper being held captive not even five feet from her and all she could do was stand here and hope for a good outcome.
Once Octavia had walked away I held the radio up to my mouth. "Murphy, I know you can hear me." I said into it. "All our ammo and food is in the middle level." I continued to tell him hoping for him to pick up the radio and answer me.
"You know what?" I finally said, I knew exactly what I had to do. I knew Octavia wouldn't be ok with it but it was the only thing I could do to get Jasper out of there while Raven worked on a way to get the door open.
"You're leaving us vulnerable to an attack. I can't let that happen." I was about to continue when I heard the radio click from the other side.
"Yea, well, in case you haven't noticed, you're not exactly in control right now." Murphy explained to me.
I knew even when Rayne had told Clarke and I not to banish Murphy it would probably come back to bite us in the ass. This was it coming back full circle; I think I always knew he would never forgive us for the day. Was he the one that killed Connor? I mean I think we all had some feeling that he was the one that killed Dax… but was he the one the killed Connor? I had always just assumed he died from the illness.
"Come on, Murphy." I said calmly. "You don't want to hurt Jasper. You want to hurt me." This I knew was true. Not only was I the one who kicked the box from under his feet. I took the girl he has feelings for right from out of his reach, I was the one who wanted to toss him off a cliff for what he put Charlotte through. Me. No one else.
"So what do you say?" I asked him again. "How about you trade him for me?" I asked.
"No." Octavia shouted at me in a hushed tone. Luckily for me I wasn't holding the talk button down for Murphy to hear her say that. I can only imagine what he would say to that.
"All you have to do is let him go, and I'll take his place."
"How?" He asked.
"Bellamy, if you do this, he'll kill you. What if Rayne and the others come back… don't do that to her and me… Bells." Octavia began to beg me.
"If I don't he'll kill Jasper. I'll be fine Octavia." I told her in an attempt to reassure her.
"Simple. You open the door, I walk in, and he walks out." I told him bringing the radio up to my mouth once again. I began to hear the creaking of the drop ship doors again as I turned around and watched the door slowly drop back down towards the ground.
"Just you, Bellamy, unarmed." Murphy shouted from inside. I felt my stomach drop. I knew what going inside meant, and if Rayne and the others did come back I was leaving her with this psychopath. Knowing Murphy with me dead, and if the four of them returned he'd likely kill all four of them, Octavia and Jasper too… just to tie up all the loose ends.
"Take this." I said to one of the guys closest to me as I handed him my gun, and my axe.
"Ten seconds, or I'll put one in Jasper's leg." Murphy began to threaten.
"One…"
"Raven will find a way to get you out." Octavia attempted to comfort me, even though I knew the odds of me getting out of this drop ship alive.
"I can handle Murphy." I told her confidently. "Get everyone back to work." I told her as I moved closer to the entrance of the drop ship. "The grounders are still coming."
"Four… five…" Murphy continued.
"I'm here." I shouted to him.
I quickly walked up the ramp and into the drop ship. If Rayne were dead, at least within the next hour I would be with her. God I was so stupid for not sending people out to search for them. I just knew she was probably trying everything in her power to get back here to be with us, or searching for Clarke. Here I am, making a minefield.
Once I entered the drop ship Murphy tossed Jasper out the drop ship door holding the gun towards me keeping me in my place so I wouldn't do anything stupid in his mind. "Should have listened to the others." He shot at me.
"Think about it, if you where out there hunting down your little whore… you wouldn't be in here with me…" He snapped.
"Don't you dare call her that! Rayne has been nothing but kind to you." Murphy laughed; "There you go making it all about Ray… I wasn't talking about her… she isn't even yours Bellamy… never was." I just stared at him, was he upset over Clarke leaving him? I stared at him intently as he stood there pointing the gun at me.
I just hoped he either shot me soon, or Raven figured out a way to get me out of this mess so I could organize a search party for Rayne, Clarke, Finn and Monty. The others were right, we shouldn't have left them behind. We should have just gone right away to go find them.