Chapter 24

Bellamy, Lincoln and the large group of grounders are hiding to their best ability in the storage room while waiting for the small group they sent to the ventilation shaft entrance to pick up more weapons. All the grounders are out of the cages and Lincoln has explained the plan to attack the mountain men together with the sky people. Some make a point of being sceptical but the gist is basically the same as when Clarke made the deal with Lexa. Their hatred for the mountain men is way greater than any hatred for the group from the sky. Some of them had never even heard of the sky people. They were already taken into the mountain´s custody when the drop ship arrived. Some had been there months.

Since there had been total radio silence from both Murphy and Octavia, Bellamy was worried that the attack would have to be without the help of their friends. The grounders were mentally more than ready to fight but weeks of captivity made them sluggish and physically weak. An attack from the inside might still go their way but it would be good to have 30 plus more fighters.

Bellamy has kept the walkie-talkie on the whole time – just in case – all the guards seemed to have abandoned their posts anyway. The sudden sound of a familiar voice is a huge relief; he was getting really worried.

"Bellamy! Raven! Can you hear me?

Jasper´s voice! "Yes, Jasper, this is Bellamy, over"

Lincoln and some of the grounders were also listening. They all knew that they needed these reinforcements. Lincoln could see the group with the additional weapons were finally back and had already proceeded with handing out guns, spears and swords to all the former captives.

"We´re on our way over to you, we need directions" Jasper replies.

"We are in a large room closer to the main entrance" Bellamy explains the route in detail. And while he just doesn´t want to ask this next question he needs to know. Now.

"Do you have everybody with you, is Octavia there? She and Raven were going after Murphy and Monroe!" Bellamy sounds hopeful. He had to focus on the mission dammit but he needed to know that his sister was OK.

"Octavia?" Jasper sounds confused and Bellamy´s heart sinks. "No, I haven´t seen her. We sent some people to help Murphy and Monroe outside, the rest are with me to fight with you guys. Never saw Raven either"

Bellamy´s face has a small trace of the panic he feels as he tries the radio again.

"BELLAMY TO OCTAVIA. BELLAMY TO RAVEN" He almost shouts into the radio. Lincoln hushes him while looking just as worried.

They hear only static.

Monroe is barely breathing but awake. There is a horrifying gurgling sound with each breath she takes and Murphy just knows her lungs are slowly filling up with blood. He considers forcing himself out of there to get help, but he doesn´t want to leave her alone. And it´s not like he could easily get help from somewhere either. He doesn´t really know what to say to her, but the graveness of the situation has kept him talking to keep her awake. Her head is in Murphy´s lap while his hand is unsuccessfully trying to stop the still flowing blood seeping thought her bandaged wound.

He hopes Jasper has at least made it to the others so they can assist Bellamy in the attack.

"Am I dying now?"

Monroe speaks for the first time in ages and it quickly jars him back to the here and now. Her breathing is so shallow now she almost can´t get the words out. He doesn´t know what to say to that – what do you say do that? He has seen her injured many times before from the pit fights but never like this. As he looks into Monroe´s glazed eyes he can´t help but nod in affirmation to her question– he just couldn't bring himself to lie. He doesn´t say anything though just kisses her cheek while he squeezes her hand. Her eyes are closed now but he feels her hand softly react to his touch. And then she stops breathing for good.

Octavia comes to with a slow yawn. What happened? Last thing she remembers is walking down one of the corridors with Raven, on their way to get Murphy and Monroe out of there. She touches a sore area on her neck and can feel a small bruise like it is from a needle. Had she been drugged? She sure felt drowsy enough. How long had she been out? What about the attack?

She looks around the room – more like prison cell - and immediately spots a still Raven. She looks her over. She seems unhurt, just sleeping. There are no signs of any guards and the door is locked.

a/n

I know there are some logical, let´s call them issues, in this story. Like how come the mountain men cannot find all these people who are roaming around inside their own home…and how the grounders forgave the sky folks VERY easily for that s1 massacre. Not even I am buying that, and I am writing the story ;)

Nothing major-major, but several little things like that just don´t add up. This happens when I don´t plot properly and then I have suddenly written too much and can´t change it without changing almost everything. Sorry about this, my focus is mainly to have fun with the characters and practice my writing skills. Next time I can practice plotting also – not too mention better character development….

But I am still enjoying it so there might be more stories coming up. This one is approaching the end.