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Chapter 16: Metal and Pedal

Murphy's P.O.V:

That was.. Intense. And I'm not talking about the car starting. I'm talking about Raven's reaction to the car starting. Now, I never thought of myself as a guy who feels many emotions. Mostly because I was taught at a young age to hide them or else I'll be told "Don't you dare cry over your father's death." Or "It was your fault!" Or "You have no right." But I'll tell you.. whoever the hell's reading this in the future.. When I was standing there holding Raven while she had her legs wrapped around my waist and her arms around my neck while I held her up by her thighs. I felt, what I can only describe as, many emotions. The most evident one being hankering, if that's even an emotion. Like I said.. I'm new to this whole feeling thing so bare with me. My heart started beating a thousand miles a second when she placed her forehead on mine and slid her hands from the back of my neck to my cheeks. I was so ready to kiss her in that moment but the three pairs of wide eyes peering at us from behind the open hood of the Charger made that impossible. Raven cleared her throat and I let her drop back down to her feet. I glared at the three of them and when I did Clarke and Monty dropped off their tiptoes to hide behind the hood but Bellamy just raised an amused eyebrow at me.

"I knew we could do it!" Raven exclaimed once we walked over to them as she hugged Monty.

"Just simple chemistry Reyes." Monty stated with a huge smile and they both chuckled. I'd never admit it to the others but I like the nerd. I feel like he's the most trusting of anyone.

"Alright. Amazing job you guys." Bellamy stated as he glanced around the engine of the car. I didn't realize it until now but he and Clarke were holding on to each other's hands like one of them would float away if the other let go. "I'm going to look for the others and tell them the good news." He stated and then walked off with Warin to the garage. Raven pulled her hair out of its bun and dropped the scrunchie. I tried not to stare. I really did but the way her beautiful brown hair flowed down like a curtain over her shoulders made my jaw almost dislocate. I quickly looked away as her and Monty got to work on the engine, doing something with water bottles and gas while Clarke and I stood there not knowing what the hell to do. Clarke leaned closer to me and said in a quiet voice,

"That was interesting." She pulled away with a smirk.

"Zip it." Was my response which only made her smirk grow. I was about to comment on how I'm glad she's taking notes from me just to piss her off but I was interrupted by Jasper running towards us.

"Woah! Where's the fire?" Raven asked as Monty put a hand on his shoulder.

"Just breath Jasper." He said in a calm voice. Jaspers panting slowed and he took a deep breath. "Okay. Tell us what's happening."

"The grounders found us!" He screamed going back to panic mode. "This is why I drink."

"They're here!?" Raven asked but she got all the confirmation she needed when Bellamy and Octavia rushed over to us holding up a wounded Lincoln between them.

"Clarke! Lincoln's hurt." He said and Clarke rushed over to the three of them ushering them to sit Lincoln in the back seat. I opened the back door for them and they planted Lincoln there. Clarke got to work opening her backpack to grab her supplies and patching him up.

"Raven. Are we good to get the hell out of here?" Bellamy asked motioning to the car.

"I need more time! We just have to tighten everything. We won't get far with fluids leaking out." Raven answered.

"And the buggy?"

"That's good to go.. It has four seats some of you guys can get outta her-" Bellamy interrupted her, not even giving leaving some of us behind a thought, and went into commander mode.

"Alright! I need everyone with weapons to come with me to the door so we can buy Raven some time. Murphy, Kane, Jasper and O lets go." The four of us followed him with our weapons ready. I opened my revolver's moon clip and saw two missing bullets.. Remembering my interaction with the sea snake when I left the island. "Murphy, how many bullets do you have?" Bellamy asked, probably seeing my disappointed look when I opened the clip.

"Four." I answered, closing my eyes knowing we're less than prepared for this fight.

"Shit. Kane. Jasper. Remember we only have one magazine each. Use them sparingly."

We just made it to the garage door when I heard someone call my name from behind us. I turned around to see Raven running at me, now that her hair was down it was flowing behind her freely. I was thinking of something snarky to say like 'miss me already?' or 'I get it. I'm a hero.' but I couldn't because before I knew it her arms were wrapped around my neck and her lips were pressed against mine. It took me a second to process what was happening but I quickly kissed her back. I held her waist and brought her closer as I turned my head sideways a bit to gain better access. Her lips tasted sweet but with a tinge of oil and I loved every second of it. I wanted to deepen it but she pulled away, clearly remembering the danger we were in way before I did. "Don't die." She said with pleading eyes that I easily got lost in. I smiled at her, trying to give the best one I could, and nodded. She grabbed my hand that wasn't holding the pistol and squeezed before turning to the other four that were just staring at us.. well Kane was trying to pretend there was something very interesting about the floor he was staring at. "Oh yeah.. You guys too." She said before reluctantly letting go of my hand and quickly making her way back to the Charger to finish what she had to in order to get us outta the Wasteland. I watched her with a smile until she made it back to the others before I frowned and slowly turned around to Octavia, Jasper, Bellamy and Kane who all sported the same smirk.

"Take a picture. It'll last longer." I holstered my weapon behind my back in the waistband of my pants and bent down to grab the handle to the garage door and turned to them again. "Don't you guys have something better to do? Like.. I don't know.. Kill grounders before they kill us?" With that the five of us opened the garage door, instantly hearing shouting in the distance. Crap I thought as the door slammed behind me. Now I can'tdie.

Bellamy's P.O.V:

Watching Raven kiss Murphy made me realize how quickly things can become serious. They knew they liked each other and Raven made this their moment. Now it was my turn with Clarke. Once we're in a safe enough place I think I'm going to try to show her how I feel. For right now, however, I had to focus on keeping everyone alive including my sister who I told to come with us through strategic thinking over brotherly thinking. Once the door was opened I heard chanting of some sorts coming from the grounders. It was dark out now with just a hint of blue sky still above. We closed the door and the four of them stood up and turned around. Before I did the same I stayed crouched on the ground facing the garage door while I tightened my rifle's scope.

"Alright guys. I feel like our best bet is to catch them off guard. We can do this by going to th-" My plan was cut short when I felt Kane tap my shoulder. I turned around to see what he wanted but I instead focused my gaze on the 50, or so, grounders boxing us in. All holding torches and very sharp weapons.

"Please. Continue. I'd love to hear the plan on how you're going to catch us off guard." I heard a deeper female voice say, full of anger.. That could only mean one thing..

"Indra?" Octavia asked. The woman in question stepped ahead out of the crowd.. Or should I say.. Army.

"We don't need to kill any of you. We are just here for the girl." She stated, getting straight to the point.

"We have no idea what you're talking about." Murphy said with a smug look. Indra walked, faster than anyone I've ever seen anyone walk before, over to Murphy and put a hand around his throat, slamming him up against the garage door.

"I'm not playing your stupid games." She had a vicious tone. Jasper raised his gun up which made the army of grounders react by raising their bows and spears.

"Put it down Jasper." I said with my hand out towards him. He complied and safetied his weapon. "She already left when we were told you were coming." I lied, ready to do anything in my power to keep Clarke with me and out of harm's way. I knew she would go with them in order to protect us and I'm not letting that happen. Indra released Murphy's neck. He dropped down to his knees and started coughing and she walked over to me, standing close enough for me to see that her eyes were, in fact, black and not brown.

"Then you will have no problem if we search the area you just came out of." My face stayed with no expression as to not show the worry I felt as I thought of how to fix this. Thankfully Octavia spoke up while Indra and I stared into each other's souls.

"Indra. Killing Clarke won't give you her powers. If that was the caseshe would have already wiped Trikru out after all those people she's killed." Indra turned to her with a frown.

"Killing someone for their powers is not a Trikru belief. It's Azgeda who believes in that tradition." The five of us exchanged confused looks after she said that.

"So why are you after Clarke?" Kane asked.

"After what Clarke did to the Mountain Men it weakened the commanders rule. She requests that Clarke command Trikru with her." My heart almost stopped. Clarke told me all about Lexa. Her beliefs about love being weakness, her harsh ways of commanding.. Their kiss.

"That sounds like something Clarke should choose rather than be threatened and forced into. Then again, your people do work in interesting ways." Murphy said, earning a glare from Indra.

"Wanheda is coming with us. Or you all die. Starting with the annoying boy." She stated, referring to Murphy.

"Is that so?" A deep, raspy, voice stated from my right. Everyone, including Indra's army, turned to see who it was. When I turned I didn't expect to see another army walking towards us but that's just what I saw. All the warriors of this army wore red face paint and carried similar weapons to the Trikru warriors as well as torches, which lit up the wasteland in the fast darkening night. One taller man with long hair and a beard stood in front of them all. "I'm pretty sure she's actually coming with us."

"Roan kom Azgeda. I thought you were banished." Indra kept fire in her voice as she spoke to the man in the front.

"You're right, I was. As were all the men and women fighters behind me." Roan stated raising his arms out to motion to the army without turning around. Growls and shouting erupted from behind him. He held a hand up for them to be quiet and they complied. "Imagine what the Coalition would think when their banished fighters bring Wanheda to the commander instead of you people. They will take us back and all of you will not be treated too kindly."

"This was a horrible day to quit drinking." I heard Jasper mumble from behind Octavia.

"No one's taking anyone." I said holding my ground. I cocked my weapon and Kane, Jasper and Murphy did the same as Octavia unsheathed her blade with a satisfying metal sound.

"Actually. We are. Right after we kill all of you." Roan spat as he too unsheathed his blade.

"Lexa wants nothing to do with any of you." Indra stated to the rogue army. "Wanheda wouldn't change that. I'd leave if I were you." Roan just chuckled and shook his head.

"Wrong choice." Was all he said before raising his sword to the air. In the span of a few seconds the warriors in the front of Roans army threw their spears and shot their bows at Indra's people leaving some of the front troops limp on the ground.

"Attack!" Indra shouted and her warriors ran towards Roans. When they met all that could be heard was metal scraping metal and more shouting.

"Bellamy." I looked at Octavia who had fight in her eyes. "Trikru is way out numbered. We have to help them!"

"This is not our fight, O." I answered.

"I'm sorry Bellamy. But I'm with Octavia." Kane stated and I gave him a confused and angry look. "If Azgeda wins and catches us they will most likely kill Clarke and all of us. We should help a bit until Raven and Monty are ready." I sighed because he made good points.

"Alright. But I swear to God Octavia. When you see that car pull out of the garage you better get your ass in it." I said looking her in the eyes. She nodded firmly and ran with Indra to join the battle. When she disappeared into the battling crowd I turned to my shooters. "Okay. Kane, Jasper, switch your weapons to semi-automatic and only aim for the warriors decorated in red facepaint. We'll take turns to conserve ammo." I turned to Murphy now who was watching the battle go on with amusement in his eyes. "Murphy, try to get closer since your pistol is close range."

"Always gotta be me who's put in harm's way, isn't it?" Murphy asked and I gave him a smirk.

"That's what I would expect from a cockroach." He snorted and then gave a firm nod which I returned before he ran closer to the battle and fired his first shot, sending one of the rogue's to the ground.

"Guess this is really happening." Jasper said as he switched his weapon to semi-auto with Kane. The three of us started taking shots into the crowd and were quickly targeted when they realized why so many of their fighters were dropping. One after the other the rogues started running at us as we took turns firing so none of us would shoot the same one and waste a shot. I turned my attention to Murphy when I heard a click from his pistol, meaning he was out of bullets. He got tackled to the dusty road by a very hefty grounder wielding an axe. The grounder got one good slice on his arm before I shot him off Murphy. When I did he pushed the man off of him and made his way over to us. His arm was bleeding very heavily. And there was blood on his face from when I shot the grounder off of him.

"I'm out!" He shouted over Kane and Jaspers shots. I heard another click and turned to Jasper.

"Shit. Me too!"

"You two get inside and do what you can to help." I commanded them quickly as I raised my rifle again and started firing after Kane. They started opening the door and when they did I heard the deep grumble of an engine. My weapon ran out of ammo right as a man was charging me. I slammed the butt of my rifle into his nose, sending him to the ground screaming in agony before Kane finished him off with a bullet from his rifle. I turned around to see the Charger rolling up to the door with Monty in the buggy behind it.

"Good timing." Murphy said, sounding in pain as he held the door up with one arm.

"Get the hell in here!" Raven shouted, sticking her head out of the window. My gaze shifted to the passenger.

"Get Clarke in the back!" I shouted. I didn't want them to have an easy shot on her. Raven said something to Clarke before she nodded and scooted to the back. I let my weapon hang down and held the door up with both arms so that Murphy and Jasper could get to the vehicles. I turned my head as much as I could to see Jasper run to the buggy and Raven put the car in park to open the door and meet Murphy halfway to help him walk to the Charger. He was definitely dizzy due to the tremendous amount of blood loss. I turned my head back to Kane who was in front of me fighting a rogue warrior who was definitely bigger than him.

"Kane, forget him!" I shouted but he landed another punch to the grounder. I had to admit that Kane was definitely holding his ground well with blocking and punching. The grounder let out an angry growl and knocked Kane to the ground then proceeded to straddle his chest and started feeding him punches left and right. "Shit." I said and quickly thought about what to do. I had to hold the door up for Raven but I knew this man would kill Kane if he kept going. "C'mon Raven!" I shouted and she drove up out of the garage with Monty right behind her. I let the garage door fall and made my way over to the man who was slowly killing Kane. I tackled the rogue off him and started mimicking what he was doing to Kane as I fed him punches one after the other. Once I could tell the man had no more fight left in him I stood up. He looked at me with confusion, as if he expected me to kill him. I turned away from him when I saw Octavia running towards me. I left him lying there on his back with a bloody face staring at me while I ran to meet up with Octavia. "Are you okay?" I asked urgently looking over her for any wounds.

"Yeah, you?" She asked out of breath. I nodded and motioned towards the Charger so she could be with Lincoln. She got in the back of the car and I ran towards the buggy to join Kane, Monty and Jasper. I jumped into the passenger seat and with that we were off. It was far from an easy exit, however. We couldn't risk losing one of the tires on the car so I made it my mission to draw their arrows and spears to us since we were a harder target.. Although we didn't have much cover.

"Kane. Hand me your weapon!" I shouted and Kane passed me his rifle from where he sat in the back. I flipped it off safety and stood up on my seat while we drove, using one of the overhead bars that acted like a roof to hang on. I looped my arm with the bar and fired the four remaining shots towards the grounder battle, mostly at the ground so I didn't hit any Trikru members. It worked and they drew their fire towards us, only landing two arrows on the hood of the buggy and one spear into the side. We drove out of the rusty, half-buried, gates of the Wasteland and were once again out in the desert.

I had no idea where we were headed next. But what I do know is that it's going to be a HELL of a lot easier now that we have food, water.. Oh yeah.. a freaking CAR and a freaking BUGGY… Or so I think..

Reviews:

GinnyWeasley09:LINCOLN! Well other than letting Lincoln get stabbed great job! Just kidding, I get that it's for the story. And raven and murphy almost kissed! Yay!

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