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Chapter 10: Silencer

Raven's P.O.V

Bellamy, Lincoln, Clarke and Murphy just left to go check out this "Wasteland" Lincoln was talking about. I couldn't stop thinking about Murphy and I's conversation. He actually apologized. John Murphy apologized. At first I was trying to think of the catch. He never struck me as the type to just flip a switch knowing he's being an asshole and to stop acting like one. So far there hasn't been a catch. Which makes me think he really wants to be different, be better. What he said though.. That he doesn't want anyone close to him because he doesn't want them to sacrifice anything for him.. That will stick with me for a bit. Hopefully I can help him open up and want people to care about him. Also the fact that he saved my life makes me want to repay him and I think helping him be a better person will be a good start. I haven't really thought about it yet, but Murphy pushed me out of the way of that bear. The man who almost took my life is the same man who saved it. I think that makes us even now.

"Ugh! We should be with them!" Octavia groaned after about 15 minutes of them being away.

"I agree. We're stronger in numbers." Monty stated

"Lincoln was clear on his orders." Kane stated, standing up from the rock he was sitting on.

"Last time I checked.. Lincoln wasn't the boss of us, in fact, nobody is the boss of us." Jasper said. I decided to speak up,

"Yeah, but he knows this place better than any of us. I'd even go as far to say he's our life-line on this trip." Jasper scoffed at that.

"We took care of ourselves fine without him when we first landed." He looked at Kane. "Without you too."

"That may be so Mr. Jordan, but Raven's right. We are going through a very new territory that none of us have been before."

"Murphy said that he went through a desert and that numskull is still alive." Octavia stated, I felt a tinge of anger and clenched my fists at what she said about him. "Besides, if Lincoln is our life-line then shouldn't we be with him?" She hoped up onto a rock so everyone could hear her better. "I say we stop waiting around and letting everyone do the work for once and go to the Wasteland with them. I'm sick of feeling useless." She declared and we all shared a glance.

"Alright, I say we do it." Monty said.

"I'm in." Jasper stated, picking up a bag and his rifle.

"Count me in." I said with a smirk, realizing it probably is the better option rather than waiting around for if the others make it back.

"You kids really don't like to follow orders, do you?" Kane said in more of a statement than a question.

"You should probably get used to it Kane." Jasper said as he walked by him with a smirk.

The five of us followed the same path that the others went. We all stopped at the border between forest and desert. None of us had felt sand under our feet before. The sun was already beating down on us because we didn't have the shade from the trees anymore. I took the first step forward and my boots sunk a little bit into the sand. It made a pleasant light crunching noise. I took another step forward with my bad leg and felt my feet slide a little bit underneath me. I couldn't help but smile and look back at the others who all took their first steps into the desert, having similar reactions. Even Kane smiled wide as ever.

"Interesting." Monty said with excitement. "There are hundreds of minerals crunched together yet they still don't form a firm surface." He reached down and grabbed a handful of it and let it fall out of his hand, creating a sand waterfall. "Every particle is a single mineral. I always thought sand was more clumped toget-"

"Nerd alert." Jasper said, interrupting him.

"It's much hotter here than in the forest." Kane said, taking off his Guard jacket and stuffing it in his bag. When he opened his bag I noticed a long, thin metal cylinder.

"What's that?" I asked, nodding my head towards the thing.

"Oh this?" He asked, taking it out of the bag and holding it up with three fingers. "It's a silencer, for my gun. Wick made it in case we needed to be quiet." Leave it to Wick to take the fun projects..

"Does it work well?" I asked.

"I'm not sure. I didn't get the chance to test it. He handed it to me while I was leaving."

"Knowing Wick it's a 50-50 shot.. Literally.." We shared a smirk at that.

"C'mon. Let's move." Octavia started walking forward without looking back to see if we were following. With that we were off. Not knowing who, or what, we might find in this Wasteland.

It wasn't a far walk, maybe 20 minutes, before we saw a huge sand dune in front of us. Without hesitation, Octavia sprinted up the hill using her hands to climb as well. We all watched as she got to the top using her hand to block out the bright sun as she looked down. I saw a smile grow on her face and she turned around to all of us.

"We're here!" She said from the top. We all exchanged a glance then ran, or in my case hobbled, up the dune to look at the Wasteland. We got to the top and stared down at it. It was a decently sized, ruined, town. Many of the structures were destroyed by the bombs but there were still quite a few intact.

"Your boyfriend really does know what he's doing. We're in good hands." Kane stated to Octaivia while looking at the Wasteland. She just nodded and Jasper raised a flask to the broken town below.

"To Lincoln." He said before taking a swig.

Bellamy's P.O.V:

The five of us cautiously made our way to the broken down fence of the Wasteland. Once we got there we took cover behind a part of the fence that had a metal sheet over it. I flipped my weapon off safety and waited for Lincoln's orders. Warin was picking up our stealthy ways quite quickly because he was hunched down with us not making a peep. Lincoln peaked his head up over the fence.

"Kay, I'm sure we'd have heard like.. Voices by now if there was anyone here." Murphy said standing up with his revolver out and casually walking between the fence. Lincoln glared at him, Clarke rolled her eyes and I just sighed as we followed him in. We walked on the cracked, sand filled, roads (or what's left of them) and looked around at the buildings. I was in awe at the structures, even though they were broken down it was still incredible. All my life I've been hearing about towns, villages and cities and here one is, right in front of me.

"So what's the plan?" Clarke asked, breaking the long silence.

"I say we split up into two, cover more ground." I suggested and the others nodded.

"Alright Murphy and I will take Warin and you two st-" He stopped talking suddenly and squinted his eyes, looking like he was listening for something.

"I think we broke him." Murphy stated with a smirk.

"Shh" Lincoln held his finger up for all of us to stay quiet. Then I heard it.. Voices.. More than one. Speaking the language I still don't fully understand.

"Come." Lincoln whispered and the four of us followed him into what's left of a fast food restaurant. We got down behind the counter and peeked our heads over it to peer out the window. Through the broken and dust-stained glass we could see four, no, six figures, all dressed in the same clothes and war paint as the Ice Nation army.

"Another wave of that army?" Clarke asked, turning to Lincoln.

"No. They must have had to split up from the others."

"Now they're trying to catch up to them." I added and Lincoln nodded.

"So what's the plan?" Murphy asked.

"We wait for them to pass." Lincoln said, but I had another idea.

"I want to know why they're hunting us." I said firmly.

"No, Bellamy." Lincoln stated sitting with his back against the freezer doors behind where we were hiding. Murphy sat beside Lincoln and spoke up,

"Bellamy, look, there's six of them and four of us. Okay? We don't need to know why as long as we stay out of their way. It's not that big of a deal."

"Well of course you don't care. You're not being hunted because they don't know you're with us." I said a little more aggressive than I intended to.

"I'm with Bellamy on this." Clarke stated and I looked at her with a smile.

"I coulda predicted that one." Murphy stated to Lincoln and I think I saw Lincoln smirk at that.

"This is something that affects all of us now. If we're being hunted they might try to take out Arkadia since we're not there. We have to find out the reason why they're after us." Clarke stated and Lincoln just sighed.

"If we shoot we will give our position away to the scouts in the trees and the army will be on their way back. Making our journey much harder." He stated, making a good point. I turned to Clarke who looked at me and tightened her lips. I knew that look. I know all of her looks. This one means we can't argue with that. I turned back to Lincoln and nodded in defeat.

"Uh.. guys.." Murphy stated with his hands up for some reason. I brought my glance to a spear that was held to his neck and my eyes widened at the tall grounder holding it. "Looks like we're in trouble.. As usual." Warin jumped at the man but he kicked him down. Anger flashed through me after hearing his whimper and I was about to lunge at him but I felt Clarkes fingers wrap around my tensed bicep. I turned to her with a face of fury and she just slowly shook her head. I know that look too.. It's her don't make this worse than it already is look. Lincoln and I dropped our weapons and put our hands up slowly rising to our feet as the man shouted towards the others, who looked shocked when they saw us. Those looks of shock turned to evil grins very fast. The others walked over and held us, each of them holding our hands behind our backs so we didn't try anything. Two of them held Lincoln. The man restraining Murphy felt his pistol in his pocket and removed it from him, throwing it to the ground. They said something along the lines of "it's them" in Trigedasleng. The others came in and grabbed our weapons as they brought us outside in the middle of the cracked streets. They threw our weapons on the ground and the man who found us walked up to Clarke.

"Where are the others?" He asked, his deep voice right beside my ear.

"Why are you after us?" Clarke asked in a frightened tone. He walked up to her and got up into her face.

"That doesn't answer my question.. Wanheda." I saw Lincoln's face turn to him with a look of disgust at what he said.

"You're not worthy of that word leaving your lips, Enton." Lincoln stated with a vicious tone and the grounder turned to him and walked over with a smirk.

"Says the traitor." With that Enton punched Lincoln in the stomach hard, sending him to his knees, or he would have gone to his knees if there weren't two grounders holding each of his arms. I tried to shake off the man holding my arms together to beat his ass but his grip was too strong.

"Hey hey look, we're cooperating okay?" Murphy said desperately.

"The only way you cooperate is by telling us where the others are!" He shouted in Murphy's face who just gave a death stare. Clarke spoke up from behind him,

"They left. We don't know where they ar-"

"LIES!" He shouted, quickly walking up to her again. He was like a tower standing over her.

"Please. Just tell us why you're after us and we can-"

"You don't seem to realize that you're not in charge!"

And then…

SMACK

As soon as Enton's hand made contact with Clarkes beautiful face I physically felt myself snap. The world slowed down and my only objective in that moment was getting to her as fast as I could. I kicked in the shin of the grounder who was holding me, he loosened his grip on me enough to where I could elbow him in the chin causing him to fall back. I heard Clarke and Lincoln shouting for me to stop but it was just background noise for me. Another grounder ran up to me. I blocked his punch and pushed him aside as I made my way to Enton, the man who hurt Clarke. I got one good punch in before he grabbed my wrist and threw me onto the ground with one of my arms behind my back and his knee on my cheek. I heard Lincoln shuffling and grunting on the other side of me like he was trying to get free. My head was turned to Clarke. At least if he's going to kill me she can be the last thing I see. She would have already been the last thing I thought about.

"Don't hurt him! Please! We'll do whatever you want just please.. Don't hurt him." Clarke said shedding tears. "Please.." She said again looking down. I hated seeing her like this.

"Tell me where your friends are or I will break this boy's neck." The weight of his knee felt unbearable on my cheek. It felt as though my jaw would just snap right off if I unclenched it, but I couldn't give up my friends. I looked at Clarke whose lips were trembling with.. Fear? Sadness? Desperation? I couldn't tell but I knew what had to be done and I accepted it. I shook my head, as best as someone could with a 7 foot grounder on top of them, and she shook her head right back at me. She was going to break. My eyes widened at her, but before she could say anything Warin pounced on the man causing him to fall off me screaming with every bite to his flesh. I stood up quickly to fight the others but right as I did I heard what can only be described as an air gun being shot. The men dropped to the ground lifeless. Murphy, Lincoln and I ran to get our weapons off the ground where they threw them. We had no clue what to expect. The screams of Enton were all that could be heard. Murphy and I pulled Warin off of him and he groaned loudly in pain.

"It's clear!" I heard a familiar voice say.

"Kane?" I asked using my hand to shield the sun from my eyes to get a better view. I saw all of them, the rest of our friends, walk out of the destroyed fast food restaurant we were originally hiding in.

"Thought we'd join the party." Jasper said hopping out of a window.

"Good thing you did." Lincoln said embracing one of his arms with Kane's, who returned the action. After that I saw Octavia hug Lincoln, which made me smile. I walked over to Clarke who was looking at the dead body of the man who was holding her back. The thought of asking if she's okay never crosses my mind because the answer is so blatantly obvious.

"It was them or our friends." I stated.

"I know." Was all she said before she looked up at me with watery eyes and swallowed. "It seems like that's going to be the case with a lot of things now." A flash image of us pulling that lever in Mount Weather came to mind. I wrapped an arm around her and she let her head fall into my breast.

"Where did they come from?" Raven asked, snapping me out of my thoughts. Clarke and I walked over to the others.

"They were with the army we saw in the forest. They must have fallen behind." Lincoln answered.

"So what's the plan with him?" Monty asked motioning to the bleeding grounder Warin took down.

"I think we should all know the answer to that by now." Murphy said as Kane and Lincoln tied the man up.

HEY! Wow that went 0 to 100 pretty fast. Yes, I AM aware that these last few chapters have only been a day and it seems like this story is very slow but remember, I'm going to be skipping days where nothing happens. I got plenty of plans for this story as long as you keep reading! Have a fantastic day guys!