Bellamy's Point of View
"Isn't that what you said that day?" He asked me, "That you where just giving the people what they wanted, right?" He said breaking down slightly. "God, and the day you did that to her… can only imagine what you did that for."
"You know I never meant to hurt her… That I would never hurt her so stop dragging her into this… this is between us." I shouted at him.
"That's the thing Bellamy… I could have forgiven you for what you did to me that day… had you not taken the one thing I wanted from me… you knew I wanted her… you f***ing knew!" he shouted at me.
I just stood there staring at him; I did know how he felt about her. Was I really that much of a dick, I mean I had wanted her ever since she and I met when we where fifteen at that dance. Every time I would bump into her afterwards just amplified the feelings I was feeling towards her.
Every time her eyes would land on me, or anytime her voice left her lips. I just found myself falling deeper and deeper in love with her. I knew he wanted her, but he didn't love her… he didn't long for her not like I did. Not like I do.
"I should have stopped them from attacking you, your right." I told him as I stared down at him.
"Yea, it's a little late for that now…" He sighed wiping his face on his sleeve.
"You think they're just gonna let you walk out of here?" I asked him holding the rope under my neck giving space between my knuckles and my neck. Holding the rope behind my head just in case Murphy would get angry and tug on it.
He began to rub his ear lightly before looking over at me; "Well, I think the princess is dead…" He said his eyes hard on me, "Which means so is your Queen, but I do know the King's about to die," He smirked. "So who's really gonna lead these people, huh?" He asked me.
Hearing him say how he believed Rayne to be dead forced a few tiny tears to leave the corner of my eye. I didn't want to admit that it was a possibility for her to be dead. I didn't care if I did, I just didn't want her to suffer that fate. I didn't want any one of those four to suffer that fate… if my death meant they would all stay alive I would die ten time over.
"Me, that's who, and yea, maybe I'll have to kill your grounder-pounding little sister—" He started to say as I kicked my leg out in an attempt to kick him. He jumped over to the slack pulling down on it as it began to choke me.
"And who knows maybe your little whore queen is still alive… and maybe she is on her way back here… and when she does she just like everyone else will do whatever the hell it is that I tell them to do..." I shut my eyes as he began talking trying to picture her face, if I was going to see anything before I died it was going to be her face not his.
"So either way, I get what I want… you out of the picture." He said again, I looked over at him he was about to speak again when we both heard Raven's voice through the floor as she shouted out in pain.
Murphy let go of the slack and looked up at me smirking softly, "I'm guessing that your sister right now." He said to me moving the gun off his back and aiming it at the floor. Raven was under there not Octavia. He began shooting around at the floor in an attempt to kill whom he thought was my sister.
"No!" I began to scream at him, the gun began to click he was out of ammo which meant he also had nothing but this noose to threaten me with. I began to fidget around with the noose in an attempt to make enough slack to remove it when he kicked the stool out from under me.
I could feel my breath escaping my lungs, not letting me breathe, I tried to keep my hands under the rope and against my neck in hopes that maybe he would push the stool back under my legs. Instead he walked over to me pulling my hands away from my neck; "Using your hands is a cheat!" He told me. "Mine where bound, remember?"
I punched him as hard as I could in the face knocking him to the ground as I went back to trying to move the noose away from my neck. Swinging there hanging in the noose, I tried holding on as best as I could. Hoping he didn't kill Raven and that she would some how get the door to open.
Murphy came back hitting me a bunch of times in the gut with the but of the gun. It was knocking every breath right out of me as I began to gag choking on the air that was left in my lungs. My wishes where answered when I heard the door start to creak open, however I could only hope anyone outside coming in would get to me quickly as I could feel my vision begin to go black.
"Raven you did it!" Someone said however it sounded like at this point my head was in a bowl. I felt someone grab my legs and push me upwards allowing me to breath again slightly my vision finally starting to return to normal again. I looked down to see that it was Jasper holding me up, supporting all my weight.
"Bell! Hold on!" I heard Octavia shout.
Soon I felt all the pressure on my body disappear as both Jasper and Octavia held me as I began to fall to the ground. I looked up at them both to thank them. When I realized Murphy was no longer in the room, which meant he went up, he was with all out food and all out guns and ammo.
I lay there on the ground trying my hardest to let all the air back into my lungs to hold onto life. "Bell, breathe!" Octavia cried out.
"Breathe!" I heard Jasper shout. "Can you breathe?" He then asked me.
I felt myself breathing normally again even though it hurt, as did my entire body. "Good. You're ok." Octavia cooed. "Raven, he's fine!" I heard Jasper shout out.
I rolled off my back so I was on my hands and knees, "Murphy!" I shouted. He failed, he failed at killing me and now that I knew what his plans where there was nothing he could do from stopping me from killing him.
I stood up Octavia trying to grab hold of me as I walked towards the ladder and shouted up at the hatch, "Murphy! It's over!" I shouldn't have stood up so quickly; I felt completely light headed either way I began to make my way up the ladder towards the hatch, and towards Murphy.
Once I reached the top I began to push up on the hatch feeling instantly that it was being blocked by something. Smart guy, he knew the second I was able to move freely I would go after him. "Murphy!" I shouted again.
I used every ounce of strength I had left in me as I continued to push against the hatch door. "There's only one way out of this for you now!" I yelled though the door at him, my voice sounding haggard and broken. Right when I was about to push up on the hatch again an explosion went off on the second floor in the room Murphy was in.
And he called me a coward? At least I didn't kill myself over facing justice for mindlessly killing a bunch of people, threatening the safety and lives of the entire camp over my own greed. No, Murphy was the selfish one.
Finally I pushed open the hatch now that whatever was holding it down in place was destroyed by the blast. "Murphy!" I shouted through the smoke that was all throughout the room. I tried to peer through the smoke as best as I could as I climbed the rest of the ways up the ladder before moving forwards into the room.
That's when I noticed the whole in the wall; he used all the gunpowder we had left to blow a hole in the drop ship so he could escape us. I stood there looking through the hole in the wall as I heard footsteps approaching me from behind. Turning my head slightly to see that it was Jasper who was now next to me.
"The guy knows how to make an exit." He said coyly from beside me. "Should we go after him?"
"No." I began to say, "Grounders will take care of Murphy." It was then I realized Murphy still had the walkie in his hand as he ran off into the forest further and further away from the camp, and closer to danger.
"We're going after Rayne, Clarke, Finn, and Monty." I told him as a large smile began to spread onto his lips. "You and Raven were right. We don't abandon our own. Two guns— you and me. That's it." I told him as he nodded, understanding what I was telling him.
"Raven stays here to build up defenses." I continued as I began to walk back towards the ladder so we could make our way down so we could get ready to leave and find the others. "We lost almost two days because of this, and out gunpowder."
"Raven!" I shouted down the ladder.
"Bellamy, wait." Jasper's voice came from behind me; his voice seemed soft, almost weak. "Look, I just…" he started saying once I stopped to turn and face him.
He rushed towards me pulling me into a hug, a tight hug. I could feel him whimpering against me, he was crying or at least trying not to. I wasn't sure what to do in situations like this. I had never had a guy hug me; I had never had to comfort someone before. "Thank you." He breathed out.
"Long way from 'Whatever the hell you want.'" He said chuckling causing me to smile, he was right my way of leading this group had changed so much since we've been down here. That was all thanks to Clarke butting heads with me constantly, trying to keep me in line and seeing her way, but also to Rayne for never giving up on me. For seeing me for the way I really am, for who I really am, For loving me unconditionally.
"All gunners! We got movement outside the south wall!" We suddenly heard Miller shout over the walkie-talkie.
"Someone's coming!" People began to shout once Jasper and I left the drop ship as we began to approach the massive group forming over near the south wall.
"Get ready!" Someone shouted as I neared them, "Stay together!" Another yelled.
"Wait!" Miller soon yelled, "Hold your fire!" He cried out again as I soon made my way towards the front of the line.
"It's Clarke, Finn and Rayne! Open the gate!" He yelled as I felt my heart begin to pound heavily against my chest.
"Get it!" Someone yelled as people began to move towards the gates to open them.
"Get the gate!" Two guys began to yell as two guys began to pull the gate open. "Move it!" Another yelled to rush them.
"She's home…" Octavia whispered to me.
"Guys look their back!" Some guy shouted as I walked towards them.
"Hey, we heard an explosion. What happened?" Clarke asked as if she hadn't been missing the past two days.
Rayne on the other hand had already attached herself to me, Her arms wrapped tightly around my neck, she had jumped up wrapping her legs around me as I supported her holding her close to me. I felt her nuzzle her face in the crook of my neck breathing softly against me. Even with all the pain I was going through, I was more than willing to deal with it all just to hold her closely. Just incase this was a dream and she wasn't really here.
"Murphy happened." I answered Clarke.
"Murphy?" I heard Rayne asked as she let go of me moving away from my body slightly, however now holding my hand.
"He killed Dax, Connor, and Myles." I explained to them as they all exchanged glances.
"Thank god!" Jasper said rushing over and hugging Clarke as Octavia did the same to Rayne.
"Where have you been?" Octavia asked them. "Where's Monty?" Jasper asked meriting a strange look from Clarke.
"Monty's gone?" Clarke and Rayne said in almost perfect unison.
"Clarke, Rayne, we need to leave, now." Finn said to them.
"What?" I asked harshly. No, she just came back to me no way she is leaving me again. "All of us do." Finn continued.
"There's an army of grounders, unlike anything we've ever seen, coming for us right now." He continued to explain, "We need to pack what we can and run."
"Like hell we do. We knew this was coming." I said wrapping my arm around Rayne tightly pulling her closer to me so she was tightly against my side.
"Bell, we're not prepared." Octavia said. "She's right, their right… babe we need to go." Rayne said from beside me.
"And they're not here yet." I said looking around at them all. "We still have time to get ready. Besides, where would we go? Where would we be safer than behind these walls?"
"There's an Ocean to the east." Finn began to explain, the crowed of people starting to form around us, the entire camp was now here listening to us all talk, discuss. "People there will help us."
"You saw Lincoln?" Octavia asked her voice full of hope.
"You expect us to trust a grounder?" I asked him, "I do... he saved my life twice, and brought me back to you." Rayne began to say.
I felt Rayne move away from me and stand next to Clarke as I moved away from the group of them; "This is our home now. We built this from nothing with our bare hands! Our dead are buried behind that wall in this ground! Our Ground! The grounders think they can take that away. They think that because we came from the sky, we don't belong here. But they're yet to realize one very important fact: We are on the ground now, and that means we are grounders!" I yelled out to be received with many cheers and shouts from the entire camp.
"Grounders with guns!" Someone shouted.
"Damn right! I say let 'em come!" I said as Rayne lowered her head looking over at Clarke as the two girls whispered something before Clarke moved away from her and began to move about the camp as Rayne walked over to me attaching herself around me once again, I leaned my head down and kissed the top of her head.
"Bellamy's right." Clarke began to say causing me to look up at her. "If we leave, we may never find a place as safe as this. And god knows, in this world, we could be faced with something even worse tomorrow. But that doesn't change the simple fact that if we stay here, we will die tonight. So pack your things." Clarke finished saying as I felt Rayne's grip around me tighten.
"Just take what you can carry, now." Clarke continued.
Everyone in the camp began to move around quickly getting they're things ready to leave the camp. Not something I wanted to do, not something I felt we should do however. If Clarke was right and if we stayed here we would die… Murphy will have won. He will have gotten what he wanted, he'd know we were all dead and he was the soul survivor. I wouldn't let that happen, not today.
"Where is he?" Octavia asked walking closer to Finn.
"He said he loves you." I heard Rayne say stopping Finn from saying anything. However he handed her Lincolns weapons anyway.
"Help me." We suddenly all heard Raven say as we all spun around to look at the gate where she was now barely standing holding her stomach.
"Raven!" One guys shouted. "Shit Raven's injured!" Another soon yelled after. Finn soon lifted her up as I explained that Murphy had shot her, "Get her onto the drop ship." Clarke told him as Finn took off with Raven.
"Clarke, leaving here is a mistake." I stopped her as I felt Rayne squeeze my hand. "The decision's been made." She told me as she moved her eyes to look at Rayne who was nodding in agreement with her.
"Crowds make bad decisions." I told her, "Just ask Murphy."
"Leaders do what they think is right." I continued telling her as her eyes never left Rayne's. "I am." Clarke said as she took off towards the drop ship leaving me with Rayne.
"Trust us babe; staying here is the biggest mistake we will ever make… I don't want to go through losing you a second time, and to death of all things… please… trust us…" Rayne begged me.
"I love you, with all my heart Rayne… but this is a mistake… we don't know what else is out there." I told her.
"No, you're right we don't… for all we know the army already has the camp surrounded, or the clan we're headed too is worse than the one hunting us… we don't know… but all that is worth the risk to me if it means I get to spend at least one more day with you." She said as she leaned up pressing her lips softly against mine.
"I would go through hell and back to be with you Bellamy… don't let me lose you by us all staying here…" She said to me as I nodding kissing her lips tenderly again as she took my hand and lead me into the drop ship following Clarke, Octavia, Finn, Jasper, and Raven.
Kane's Point of View
I stood there in front of the monitors with Sinclair behind me typing in all of the scenarios I was spewing out at him. I knew deep down nothing was going to work and that Jaha was right, I was wasting my last few hours trying to find something that just didn't exist.
All I wanted was to get to Earth, find my child and start life over. I wanted that second chance so badly that even when I knew it was impossible. I refused to let that hope squeeze through my fingers.
"What is we jettison sections three through seven?" I asked Sinclair.
"Sir, we've run every scenario twice. There are no more options. I would really like to be with my wife—" He began to say to me as I turned slightly to face him as he stood up straight in his place.
"Chancellor on deck." He said as everyone stood in attention.
"At ease, Sinclair." Jaha said as he walked over to me.
"Anything to report?" He asked me.
"No, Sir." I said softly looking down at the ground. He was right, this was a lost cause and no matter how badly I wanted to get to the ground and get to Rayne it was just not going to happen. "Nothing we've tried will save the Ark."
"Have you tried not saving it?" He asked causing both Sinclair and I to stare at him in disbelief.
"What is this about?" I heard Abby's voice come from the other side of Jaha. I leaned forward to look at her; she didn't look like she was doing so well. I wish I could console her with good news, news that we would be going to see our kids soon. However if I told her that I would be lying.
"It's about going home." Jaha explained loosely. "From where I stand, we have two options—" He began to explain as I took a deep breath.
"Die in space, or probably die trying to get to the ground."
I exhaled harshly leaning my hand on the desk in front of me before turning my head slightly to the side looking over at Jaha. "We have no more exodus ships, Sir."
"You're wrong, Kane." He said to me staring me directly in the eyes. "There is one." He said causing me to cock my head to the side with interest.
"We call it the Ark." Jaha said simply.
Sinclair and I looked at each other almost instantly, probably thinking the exact same thing. That the chancellor had gone insane, he wanted us to crash land the entire Ark on Earth. That could possibly kill us all, the kids too if we crash land anywhere close to them. However if we were to land in the water we could possibly survive. That would of course only be the case if we even managed to stay alive on the trip to Earth.
"Sinclair, please tell us what would happen if we used the thrusters that keep the Ark in orbit to propel us into the atmosphere instead." Jaha asked him as I looked over at Sinclair who still looked like this entire thing was the most insane thing he'd ever heard.
"The Ark would break apart, first into its original twelve stations, then further as the violence intensified. Ninety-Five percent of the structures would explode on the way down." He explained, as Jaha pulled out what looked to be the blue prints of the entire Ark.
"You think you're smart enough to pinpoint the five percent that wouldn't?" Jaha asked as he set down the schematics.
"Are we really gonna do this?" I asked him perching my hands on both my hips looking over at him skeptically. "Bring the Ark to the ground?" as I leaned forward towards Jaha as he turned his head to look at me with a crooked smile on his lips.
"Have a better idea?" He asked.
I smirked as I turned to Sinclair who was now looking over the entire schematics of the whole Ark station trying to pinpoint and figure out where the safest place to be during the decent to Earth.
"What do you say, Abby?" I heard him ask the woman whom I knew better than most, wanted nothing more than to be reunited with her child. "You ready to see your daughter again?