บท 16: We Are Grounders Part 1
Elara and Nova overhear Bellamy as he addresses the rest of the camp, "Come on. These foxholes aren't gonna build themselves. Better hope those landmines work. All the gunpowder we're wasting, we could be making more grenades."
"Raven's the best. I think she proved that when she made the bomb for the bridge." Elara pipes in sticking up for the engineer and her idea for landmines.
"And rather than lecturing, maybe help out so this can get done quicker." Nova scolds the older boy.
"I've been helping, Angel." Bellamy rolls his eyes, "I need this entire section mined by morning. Then the south field."
"Hey, I told you. We're going after Finn, Clarke, and Monty in the morning." Raven says.
"And I told you, nobody leaves this camp."
"I'm talking to you. We can't just abandon our people. You want to lead them, show them you give a damn!"
"Raven, I understand your concern, I want to find them too. But Bellamy's right. Right now the most important thing is to make sure the rest of us are prepared to fight the Grounders." Nova gently tells the girl.
Before anyone has a chance to reply, a gunshot is heard throughout camp. "Hey, what the hell is the matter with you?" Bellamy scolds Sterling.
"I'm sorry, man. I fell asleep. I've been on watch all day." Sterling replies, clearly scared of Bellamy.
"We've all been on watch all day. That bullet was one less dead grounder."
"Knock it off!" Nova glares, "Sterling, go rest for a bit. I'll take over watch for you."
Sterling nods in thanks as Octavia speaks to her brother, "You need to relax a bit, you're scaring people."
"They should be scared! The bomb in the bridge bought us sometime to prepare, but that time is up. The Grounders are out there right now, waiting for us to leave and picking us off one by one when we do! Clarke, Finn, and Monty are gone, probably dead, and if you want to be next, I can't stop you, but no guns are leaving this camp! This camp is the only thing keeping us alive. Get back to work."
*_*_*_*_*_*
Elara is inside the dropship taking care of Myles and trying not to eavesdrop on Bellamy and Jasper's conversation. "Don't you think I want to go after them, too?" Bellamy asks.
"If it was you out there, you think Monty, Clarke, or Finn would hide behind these walls?" Jasper retaliates.
"No. They'd go after me. Then They'd be dead too. I am doing what I think is right for the group."
"It's funny, you didn't think that way when Octavia went missing." Jasper starts walking away.
"Where are you going?" Bellamy calls after him.
"More gunpowder for your minefield, sir."
Myles breaks the tension by calling out, "Water... Please."
"I'll get some." Bellamy says, causing Elara to smile in thanks.
"Don't worry, he'll be back with water soon. I promise you'll get better." Elara whispers to the injured boy.
She turns to walk away to get some more clean bandages for the wound. As Elara, Bellamy, and Jasper leave Myles alone for a moment, Murphy sneaks in.
He takes the cushion from under Myles's head and starts to suffocate him. "This is for tying the noose that they hung me with. Say hi to Connor for me."
The struggle stopped as Myles stopped breathing. Murphy turns around to leave and sees Jasper behind him. "He stopped breathing. I was.. I was trying to help." Murphy tries lying.
"Murphy, just put the gun down." Jasper remains calm.
"He tried to kill me." Jasper starts moving as Murphy defends his actions, "Hey, don't move."
"Ok. Ok. It's cool."
"No, it's not. You know what'll happen to me if you tell Bellamy."
Elara now is hiding knowing that something is happening but she's just not sure what. "Tell Bellamy what?" She hears Bellamy through a walkie-talkie.
"Give me the radio, Jasper." Murphy commands.
"Murphy has a gun. He killed Myles." Jasper quickly says into the walkie, causing Elara to gasp loudly then cover her mouth afraid that Murphy will hear.
"Murphy, what the hell are you doing?" Bellamy's voice is heard once more.
Creaking is heard as the dropship door starts closing. "Get out here sweetheart, I know you're hiding." Slowly Elara moves out of her hiding spot looking at Murphy with wide eyes.
"Murphy! Murphy! Open the damn door!" Bellamy's voice calls again.
"You try to be a hero, Jasper and Elara die." At Murphy's words, Jasper takes a protective stance in front of Elara.
*_*_*_*_*_*
Outside Nova still is unaware that Elara and Jasper are in danger. Octavia runs up to Bellamy, "I just heard Murphy has Jasper and Elara."
"Yeah. South foxhole all done?" Bellamy questions his sister.
"What? Bellamy, my friends are in there with a killer."
"O, look around. No one's working. If the grounders attack us right now, we're all dead."
Octavia grabs the radio from Bellamy's hand, "Murphy! Murphy, if you even touch Jasper or Elara, I swear to God, you're dead."
Bellamy grabs the radio back. "Octavia, I got this."
"Really? Because it doesn't look like you're doing anything about it."
Just as the words leave her mouth Raven comes around the corner, "Bellamy, you were right. There's a loose panel on the back. If I can pop it, we can get in through the floor."
"Sorry." Octavia says, to her brother.
Bellamy lifts the radio to talk to Murphy, "Murphy, I know you can hear me. All our ammo and food is in the middle level. You know that. You're leaving us vulnerable to an attack. I can't let that happen."
"Yeah, well, in case you haven't noticed, you're not exactly in control right now." Murphy replies.
"Come on, Murphy. You don't want to hurt Jasper or Elara. You want to hurt me. So what do you say? How about you trade them for me?"
"No." Octavia immediately tries to argue.
"All you have to do is let them go, and I'll take their place." Bellamy continues, ignoring his sister's protest.
"That's not a fair trade. Only you for both of them? I'll trade you Jasper for you. The only way I'll trade Elara is if Nova trades places."
Bellamy clenches his jaw as Octavia tries to change his mind, "Bellamy, if you do this, he'll kill you."
"If I don't he'll kill them." He takes a breath then speaks once more over the radio, "You open the door, I walk in, he walks out."
The dropship door starts opening, "Just you Bellamy, unarmed."
"Take this." Bellamy shrugs off his gun, handing it to his sister. "Don't let Nova know about this."
"10 seconds, or I'll put one in Jasper's leg." Murphy says then quickly starts counting.
"Raven will find a way to get you out." Octavia reassures Bellamy.
"I can handle Murphy. Get everyone back to work. The Grounders are still coming." Bellamy walks away from his sister and up the ramp, passing by Jasper as he walks out. "Are you alright, Elara?"
"Just peachy." Elara replies, attention returning to Murphy as he starts to shut the door once more.
*_*_*_*_*_*
"Why isn't anyone working?" Nova asks, walking up to Octavia. "And where's Bellamy?"
"Oh um," Octavia pauses, unsure how to answer.
Nova narrows her eyes, "What's wrong?"
"Well, Murphy has Bellamy in the dropship. I think he's going to kill him."
Nova nods then turns to everyone else, "Get back to work! The Grounders are coming and we need to be ready." The delinquents listen as Nova turns back to Octavia. "Alright what happened and is there a plan in place?"
"Murphy killed Myles and Jasper saw, so he shut the doors. Bellamy traded places because he knows Murphy didn't want to hurt Jasper but he does want to hurt him." She pauses to take a breath, "Raven and Jasper are trying to open the door from underneath."
"Ok, good." Nova starts but is interrupted by the sound of a gunshot.
"Bellamy? Are you ok?" Octavia asks over the radio.
Inside the dropship, Murphy is trying to get Bellamy to tie his own noose while Elara sits helplessly on the side. "You want her to know you're alive? Start tying."
"Bellamy, do you copy?" Octavia asks once more.
"I'm fine. We're both fine. Just a misfire. Now stop worrying and get back to work. And tell Raven to hurry her ass up." Bellamy replies.
"Why would he say we're both fine? Like we care about Murphy." Nova says to Octavia.
"He wasn't talking about Murphy." Octavia closes her eyes, "Elara is in there too."
"WHAT?" Nova yells. "Why the hell didn't you tell me that before?!"
"Bellamy asked me not to say anything. With him in there and Clarke missing, you may be our only leader."
"Yeah, well, with Clarke missing and Elara in there we don't have a medic and that's just as important. Especially considering you or Miller could easily step up as leader."
As Nova and Octavia talk, Raven is still trying to wire the door and Bellamy is just finishing his noose. "All right, that's long enough. Tie those two ends together." Murphy tells Bellamy. "Now get up and toss it over."
"What do you want me to say? You want me to apologize? I'm... I'm sorry." Bellamy says.
"You got it all wrong, Bellamy. I don't want you to say anything. I want you to feel what I felt, and then... Then I want you to die."
"Enough Murphy. You've had your fun. Just let us go." Elara tries.
"Not happening sweetheart."
*_*_*_*_*_*
"Murphy! Let them go and we can talk properly." Nova calls over the radio.
"There's our Angel. Wanna trade places with Elara?" Murphy asks.
"Don't do it, Nov!" Elara yells. Murphy runs over to Elara and slaps her across the face making her raise her hand to her cheek.
"I don't know what you're playing at Murphy. There's no getting out of here alive if you do this." Nova tries once more to reason with Murphy.
"Well, that's something for me to discuss later. Now do you want to trade or not?"
"Dammit." Nova mumbles before raising the walkie once more, "Open the doors, I'll come."
As soon as the door is wide open, Nova makes her way inside. "You're so stupid! How could you-" Elara starts scolding Nova.
"Out before I decide to keep all three of you." Murphy says, forcing Elara out.
"I'll be fine, Lara." Nova encourages with a nod. As soon as the doors start to close she turns her attention to Murphy, "Why did she have a red mark on her cheek?"
"I needed to punish her for talking without me telling her to." Murphy replies with a shrug, "Now sit over there like a good Angel and I'll get to you soon."
He turns back around to address Bellamy. "Stand on it. Put it over your head."
Bellamy shakes his head, "This is insane. The Grounders could..."
"Put it over your head." Murphy says once more, "Or I'll shoot her." He raises his gun to aim at Nova.
"Why don't you put the gun down and fight me like a man?" Nova speaks up, unfazed with the gun aimed at her head.
Bellamy quickly places the noose over his head to distract Murphy from Nova, "Happy now?"
"You're so brave, aren't you? Both of you? I mean, you came in here thinking you're just gonna turn this whole thing around, that you were stronger than me, and maybe one of your friends would come and help you. Well, what are you thinking now, Bellamy? Hmm?" Murphy says, when he gets no answer he tugs on the rope, choking the older boy.
*_*_*_*_*_*
"Are you alright?" Octavia calls to Elara, noticing the bruise forming on her cheek.
"Yeah, Murphy slapped me when I told Nova not to go in." Elara replies.
"That dick. Raven better be almost done. Why don't you go check in on everyone to make sure they're all ok?"
"Not happening. Nova may not be blood related but she's still my sister, I'm not leaving until I know she's alright."
Just as the words leave her mouth Jasper comes back around, "Raven said she thinks she has it and to be ready when the doors open." The two girls nod in response.
Inside, Murphy is continuing his rant, "You know, I gotta hand it to you guys. You got them all fooled. They actually look up to you. Yeah, well, we know the truth, don't we? You're both cowards, I learned that the day you kicked out the crate from beneath me and you gave him the ok to do it."
He looks at Bellamy again, "Isn't that what you said? That you were just giving the people what they wanted, right?"
"I should have stopped them." Bellamy says.
"Yeah, it's a little late for that now."
"I personally wish we killed you the day you came back to camp, sick or not. It's not like you were much help against the Grounder's anyway." Nova speaks up, causing Bellamy to glare at the girl, now is not the time to talk back to the guy with the gun.
Murphy walks over to Nova, who remains unfazed, staring Murphy in the eyes. He rams the butt of the gun into her ribs. She groans in pain as Murphy begins talking once more, "Next time you speak to me like that, I'm putting a bullet through you."
"Do you seriously think they're just gonna let you walk out of here?" Bellamy asks, bringing the attention back to him.
"Well, I think the princess is dead... but I know the king and angel are about to die, so who's really gonna lead these people, huh?" Me, that's who, and yeah, maybe I'll have to kill your Grounder-pounder little sister."
A scream from below us cuts Murphy off, "I'm guessing that's her right now."
Murphy moves to shoot at the floor, but Bellamy tries to kick him. So Murphy releases the rope to hang Bellamy. He then proceeds to shoot at the floor. With Murphy distracted, Nova rushes to him, and tackles him to the floor.
The two roll over fighting to overpower the other. Murphy hits Nova in the ribs once more, knowing that a weak spot for her at the moment. Just as the door begins to open, Murphy punches Nova across the face then runs up to the second floor.
Jasper, Elara, and Octavia rush in. Octavia and Jasper run to Bellamy as Elara runs to Nova. "Upstairs! Murphy went upstairs!" Nova calls, pushing herself off the floor.
She stumbles slightly as she hears Jasper ask Bellamy, "Can you breathe?"
Bellamy stands to pound on the latch to the second floor, "Murphy! It's over, Murphy! There's only one way out of this for you now!"
"You want to bet?" Murphy calls back.
From above them, an explosion is heard, the group rushes out to see Murphy running from the camp and into the woods. "That guy knows how to make an exit. Should we go after him?" Jasper asks.
"No. Grounders will take care of Murphy. We're going after Clarke, Finn, and Monty." Bellamy says.
"What? No, we aren't! That's how the Grounders have been getting us so far." Nova argues.
"Jasper and Raven were right. We don't abandon our own. Two guns. Jasper and me, that's it. Raven stays here to build up defenses. We lost a day because of this, and our gunpowder. Raven!" He yells for the girl.
Miller interrupts the conversation through a walkie, "All gunners! We got movement outside the south wall!"
People start moving before Miller speaks once more, "Wait! Hold your fire! It's Clarke and Finn! Open the gate!"
As soon as the pair are through the gate Clarke asks, "We heard an explosion. What happened?"
"Murphy happened." Bellamy answers.
"Are guys alright? No injuries?" Elara asks.
"No, we're fine." Finn says.
"Thank God! Where have you been? Where's Monty?" Jasper questions.
"Monty's gone?" Clarke asks, confusion lacing her voice.
"Clarke, we need to leave, now. All of us do. There's an army of Grounders, unlike anything we've seen, coming for us right now. We need to pack what we can and run." Finn interrupts.
"Like hell we do. We knew this was coming." Bellamy argues.
"Bell, we're not prepared." Octavia says.
"And they're not here yet. We still have time to get ready. Besides, where would we go? Where would we be safer than behind these walls?"
"There's an ocean to the east. People there will help us." Finn explains.
"You saw Lincoln." Octavia smiles.
Finn nods in response causing Bellamy to reply, "You expect us to trust a Grounder? This is our home now. We built this from nothing with our bare hands! Our dead are buried behind that wall in this ground. Our ground! The Grounders think they can take that away. They think that because we came from the sky, we don't belong here. But they're yet to realize one very important fact: We are on the ground now, and that means we are Grounders."
A few delinquents yell out in support, "Yeah! Grounders with guns!"
"Damn right! I say let 'em come!"
Clarke takes this as her cue to start speaking, "Bellamy's right. If we leave, we may never find a place as safe as this. And God knows, in this world, we could be faced with something even worse tomorrow. But that doesn't change the simple fact that if we stay here, we will die tonight. So pack your things. Just take what you can carry, now."
"What do you think, Nova?" Atlas calls from the crowd.
Nova sighs, "I agree with Clarke. Even if we can manage to beat the Grounders who are coming we will still lose people in this war. And I want to avoid that. I don't like the idea of running away but right now, that's our best option." She turns to look at Elara, "We're not warriors. We're kids, teenagers. We shouldn't need to fight for our lives."
"Help me." A voice calls out. The group turns their heads to see a limping Raven. She's clutching her side as blood drips through her fingers.
"Murphy shot her." Bellamy says as Finn rushes to her side.
"Get her onto the dropship." Clarke calls as she and Elara make their way inside to help her. The rest of the group start collecting their things, getting ready to leave the camp for good.
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