Chapter 22

Mount Weather

Jasper wakes up groggily – had he seen Murphy? No, that couldn´t be right.

He had been taken out of the large comfortable room with bunks that the group from the hundred juveniles were kept in, the thirty-six that were left of them. Jasper shrugged. In the beginning all had seemed fine, or even amazing. The food had been great for starters. But they were never allowed to leave their room; the first red flag. Then Monty disappeared…

He had been taken from there to a room with two beds set up with medical equipment and been given an injection. It was all a bit blurry after that.

Now he seemed to be on the floor in a completely different room, this one almost bare. And he was not alone. Next to him there was Murphy – he hadn´t dreamt it – lying almost over Monroe, both of them completely still and covered in blood.

Jasper couldn´t believe his eyes! The two of them! If Monty was there it would be a reunion.

The thought of Monty did not bring happy thoughts.

But what were the odds that those two would be here together? He knew very well what Monroe´s feelings towards Murphy amounted to, and he also knew that she had hoped he didn´t recognise her after the first landing on earth. He had honestly thought the whole thing had passed. While these thoughts were going through his mind he looked them over. Murphy seemed the best off. He had what looked like a gunshot wound on his shoulder - he could try to wake him up. What worried Jasper was Monroe´s erratic breathing. It was accompanied by a terrifying gurgling sound.

Bellamy and Lincoln finished releasing all the grounders from the cages. Two guards with guns had entered at one point but the ever-expanding group of freed grounders quickly silenced them. Bellamy had thanked the gods - and Raven – for the walkie-talkies. It means that he could tell her and Octavia about Murphy and Monroe´s situation without stopping liberating the grounders. They needed this grounder army to fight the mountain men from the inside. The plan was to get a group out to get more weapons while teaming up with the freed kids. With Murphy and Monroe immobilized – hope they were OK - he wasn´t sure how they were going to solve that one.

Raven and Octavia are going in themselves. Everybody else is occupied at the main entrance and Raven knows the layout of the place. Bellamy´s message had been short. There had been shootout and their friends were still locked up. Cage was dead, and Murphy, Monroe were holding up somewhere, both wounded. And Jasper was with them.

There was no time to waste!

Raven takes some supplies that might come in handy, they both take two guns and they message to Clarke that they are going in. She needs to send somebody else to guard that entrance and make sure they got the weapons inside in time for the attack.

Clarke is not happy with what she hears, but she knows that it is the best idea to have the two of them go in – Bellamy will be pissed. She sends four of the strongest warriors to the ventilation shaft entrance.

The shootout has been on and off. The hole in the main entrance door makes for a standoff. No one has lost or gained any ground. The mountain men are resilient.

After trying to put on more bandages - it doesn´t really seem to help - Jasper has finally managed to wake up Murphy. He decides to keep it fairly light, despite the situation. "Hey man, good to see you and all, but what are you two losers doing here?"

When he looks at Murphy´s expression he almost feels guilty at the flippant question.

Murphyn looks desperate and rushes his words. "You need to get the others, get Bellamy or Raven on the walkie-talkie, It´s in my jacket pocket" Murphy´s eyes are glazed but he sounds lucid enough and manages to sit up.

Jasper is confused but his gut tells him to just trust Murphy on this and to do as he says. He sees the device and grabs it.

Useless! It has no more battery. Jasper looks deflated at Murphy.

"We need to get our people out to join the attack. You can use my key" Murphy is clearly in pain and has to lie down as he gets the key card out of his pocket. "Get them out, find Bellamy, he is also here, most of the guards are busy at the main entrance. The plan is to attack them from the back together with the grounders. GO NOW!"

Jasper leaves and it is just the two former child gladiators left.

Murphy starts to panic when he understands Monroe is not breathing