a/n I made some small changes to chapters 1, 2, 3 and 13 to fix some spelling + a couple of plot holes. (there are more, I know..)
Chapter 14.
The Ark.
The Ark camp looks the same hadn´t it been for the new wired up fences that some of the engineers had set up. She even thinks she can hear the electric hum. Octavia decides the best option is to just go in through the front door. They had both agreed that Lincoln should wait in the dark of the trees – just in case.
There were two guards at the front entrance. Octavia could see she had been spotted so she waves but continues to move forward. The guards keep their guns pointing at her but as soon as she expects them to shout stop – or shoot - one of them wave back. She had been recognized. Octavia instantly go to search for Bellamy.
She doesn´t find Bellamy but soon runs into Abby and is rewarded with the information that Bellamy is not there, but on an expedition to Mount Weather to get supplies. Octavia´s heart drops. Abby can tell something is up "Clarke has also gone to Mount Weather, what´s wrong? "; her voice is filled with anxiety.
"We need to save them from there" Octavia almost shouts" There are people living at Mount Weather and they are NOT friendly. Lincoln says the grounders call them the mountain men, and they have kidnapped hundreds of their people"
Abby is so shocked she can´t bring herself to reply.
Mount Weather
They had been exploring the corridors for a few minutes, but now the little group consisting of Clarke, Bellamy, Raven and Monroe were at a dead end – to the side a locked door made of steel. After some useless plundering to get it open Clarke spots a guard doing his rounds. Thankfully she sees him first and manages to signal the others before they are spotted. "Let´s take his key card so we can check a bit further" she whispers to the group. She has a feeling Murphy is close. Bellamy steps up behind the guard, knocks him out and suddenly they are up one gun and one key card.
Raven takes the key card and opens the metal door and the first thing that hits is the pungent stench of human suffering and hey can hear painful moans and the rattling of cages. They are looking into the storage room from hell.
As their eyes adjust to the light they are shocked. There are cages filled with what appear to be grounders. Must be more than a hundred! What to do? The group quickly confer and come to a decision. Heartless as it is they can´t save them all right now. They would just have to be quick and see if Murphy was in one of the cages. They spread out and start searching the cages.
Raven is disgusted and pissed off at what she sees. No one deserves this kind of treatment. Not grounders and not her people. What was going on here? Did Lincoln know about this treatment?
Raven can se some dark hair sticky with blood poke out of the cage to her left, away from the main stack. She recognizes him instantly. He lies awkwardly in a puddle of blood with his back to the wall, head leaning against the side of the cage. He looks totally out of it. She shouts and rattles his cage "Murphy!" He doesn´t move a muscle, but she sees his steady breathing and breathes her own sigh of relief. At least he is alive.
Monroe has started to work on opening the lock to Murphy´s cage. She can´t believe that he was one of the 100 juveniles sent to earth – she would have expected him to be dead by then. It´s not like she has forgotten – or forgiven – the horrible things he did to her while she was one of the top fighters on his team back on the ark. But as she sees him now – in a state she many times had wanted to see him in – she didn´t feel rage as much as pity - and sadness at both their pasts. There! She manages to pry the lock open. Raven and Bellamy drag him gently out so that Clarke can look him over. She has already determined that the head wound is the most serious and he probably has a concussion. The question was how much blood he had lost. "We should wake him up, he has a concussion for sure"
Raven leans in over Murphy, winces at the sight of him but shakes him gently "you need to wake up" and amazingly he opens his eyes with a moan. "These people are not what they say" he manages to get out in a panic. "We know, we know, relax" Raven reassures him "but right now we only need to get out as soon as possible"
Clarke has been examining Murphy some more and the head wound is deep but not life threatening. That he woke up is a very good sign. "Let´s go"
It is still dark in the corridors and they manage to get back to where they had come in. With the key card Raven didn´t even have to hack the door. Murphy walks unsteadily between Bellamy and Clarke, but at least he is awake. He manages to stay awake almost until they make it back to camp. They carry him the last mile or so.