《Fallen: b.b (book 1) REWRITING》chapter twenty-one
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𝙽𝚘𝚋𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝, 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚖𝚎
Raven asked in hushed tone, as the three girls moved deeper in the words.
"We'll find them" Octavia replied, as all of them stood at attention as they slowly made their way. Muffled voices of Monty and Bellamy floated in and out of the area, with the crackling sound of the walkies, one of which was placed in Raven's hand. Anastasia kept her space from the group making the replies from the walkie talkies almost incoherent.
"This morning, all i could think about was how much easier this would all be if Finn was just" she began, with remorse in her voice, "Gone" she added, talking a deep breath
"You didn't wish this into being, Raven" Octavia replied, clearly sympathizing with her, "stop torturing yourself"
"Just keep your eyes open" Raven said into the walkie, replying to something Monty had uttered over the radio.
"We need to stay quiet, so kindly shut up" Anastasia snapped back, meeting the confused glance of Octavia, and the anxious glaze of Raven.
"Ana, are you okay?" Octavia asked her, as Anastasia looked over her eyes drifting past Octavia and onto Raven who snapped her eyes away when she felt Anastasia staring at her.
"I'm fine" Anastasia replied looking back to the straight path of the forest. Movement caught her eye along with the others. The bus shook again, which was odd because there was no wind blowing through the forest.
"Uh, there's something in the bushes" Raven spoke into the walkie talkie, as the girls slowly approached the bushes. Anastasia was taken back to the night when she was captured by Lincoln. The adrenaline rushing through her body mixed with the fear of the unknown, it was killing her not to know what was behind the bushes. Anastasia ran up to the bushes as she swat away at the foliage, keeping her gun aimed.
"Myles?" She questioned seeing his scared face, looking severely hurt.
"Myles, what happened!" Octavia questioned running aside,
"Where's are they? Clarke and Finn, where are they?" Raven pleaded
"grounders took them" he barely made out, as he gasped for breath.
"Take it easy" Anastasia heard Bellamy voice, her head jetted to the side to see him next to Raven, "We have to get him back to camp"
"Bell, what about Clarke and Finn?" Octavia asked,
"Raven, I'm sorry" Bellamy spoke as he watched Raven stepped away from Myles, horrified at the fact that the person she loved was kidnapped. Anastasia felt for the girl, but she couldn't help but get a sick feeling at the sight of Bellamy comforting Raven.
"We need to make a stretcher" Anastasia hoarsely uttered as she broke the rest of the bushes to aid Myles. Raven and Octavia began to collect the stuff and made a makeshift stretcher in record time, Bellamy lopped him onto the stretcher that Octavia and Anastasia carried.
"Monty, we're heading home" Bellamy spoke into the walkie, "Monty, can you hear me?" Anastasia began to worry when there was no response, "Monty, Monty, where the hell are you? Report" Bellamy screamed into the walkie, only static replied,
"Bellamy?" Octavia asked, watching her brother get frustrated
"Go, we have to go" Bellamy retorted as the girls started moving, with Bellamy following behind them, "We'll look for them in the morning"
As soon as they got back to camp Octavia and Anastasia rushed Myles to the drop ship so Anastasia could work on him.
"Is he going to be okay?" Octavia asked
"Yeah, just help me wrap up these wounds" Anastasia stated, as she grabbed some cloth gripping his knee as she began to wrapped the cloth around the bloody gash in it.
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"Ana, Octavia, you're on watch" Bellamy retorted storming into the drop ship.
"What! Bell, we have to help Myles" Octavia replied
"We need to protect ourselves from the grounders, Watch! Now!" He shouted pointing towards to drop ship's opening. Octavia lifted up a gun from the side cocking it before storming out with a flat face as she gave Bellamy the death stare, "Ana, you too" he spoke up, noticing the girl hasn't moved.
"Just making sure another one of our own doesn't die" She bit back pushing a scrunched up piece of cloth towards him chest wound, grabbing his hand lightly placing his palm over the cloth, "just hold it right there" she replied gently squeezing his hand, Myles gave her a slight smile before she turned away. She past by Bellamy going towards the exit
"Ana, hold on" Bellamy changed his mind quickly reaching out for the girl, "wait" he called out for her again when she didn't stop walking away from him.
"Why should I?" she questioned him shaking her head, "I mean why should I ever listen to you at all anymore" she turned to him stepping towards him aggressively, "The only reason I'm going on watch is so I can get away from you" she sneered turning back towards the exit. Anastasia made her way towards the hideout where Octavia was already placed
"You're joking right" she could hear Octavia utter in complete confusion as she saw the brunette climb up the ladder as she took the other guards position, "what's going on between you and my brother?" Octavia was relentless, "I don't mean in general, i mean why are you acting like a bitch, and why is he once again acting like a overpowering dick"
"O, just drop it" Anastasia said as she watched Raven come out to gate boarders with Bellamy behind her Anastasia stood a attention aiming the gun at them watching their interaction between the scope.
"Drop it?" She questioned sarcastically, "Of course, yeah because it definitely seems like nothing" she joked, scoffing a little bit as she leaned back, "I mean I spy on things that are nothing too" she added, causing Anastasia to remove her glare from her scope as she lowered to gun back down.
"It's just grounder stress" Anastasia lied through her teeth, biting her lip.
"Okay, sure" Octavia replied still suspicious as she continued to watch Anastasia.
Anastasia tried to keep her focus off of Bellamy and Raven, setting her gun down and leaning back to watch the sky line, as the new day began to show itself. The view of the light from the sky, reminded her that she hasn't slept for almost 24 hours, and the sleep deprivation was starting to get to her. Anastasia felt a yawn come on causing her eyes to begin to water, she released her hand from her rifle, wiping the ill-placed tears from her eyes.
Boom.
Out of nowhere she was fully awake, the sound of a gunfire had taken her sleeplessness away.
"Hey! What the hell is the matter with you!" Bellamy screamed running up to a kid who was laying on watch by a tree.
"I'm sorry man, i feel asleep" the kid explained staring into the fearing face of Bellamy, he stumbled upon his words, "I've been on watch all day" Bellamy snapped gripping the kid by his throat, holding him against a tree.
"We've all been on watch all day!" Bellamy screamed at him, "That bullet was one less dead grounder!"
Bell, you're scaring people" Octavia called out softly getting his attention scanning his side seeing both Octavia and Anastasia worried and confused.
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"They should be scared!" He called back, letting the kid go, Bellamy's expression softened, "The bomb on the bridge bought us some time to prepare, but that time is up" Bellamy's voice was laced with grief, he sounded choked up, "The grounders are out there right now, waiting for us to leave and picking us off one by one when we do" He took a second, with one big gulp he continued, "Clarke, Finn, and Monty are gone, probably dead, and if you want to be next, I can't stop you" suddenly Bellamy's demeanor changed, "but no guns are leaving this camp!, This camp is the only thing keeping us alive!" He choked up again, he took a deep breath, "Get back to work!" He shouted before turning around and storming off.
"You should go check on him" Octavia uttered relaxing back down, "I'll keep watch for you"
"That's not my job anymore" Anastasia bluntly replied, resetting herself back to watching the woods from the tower.
"Not your?" Octavia fumbled, "Okay, what the hell happened between you guys?" She questioned concerned.
"Nothing" Anastasia lied keeping her gaze on the tree line, though she could hear Octavia standing up and walking towards her, "I just think that it's better if I keep watch right now"
"Ana, i think you should go..."
"I'm staying here, O" Anastasia snapped back, Raven stopped at the top of the ladder after hearing the rude reply, Raven cleared her throat, getting both of the girls attention.
"Hey, can i talk to Anastasia for a second?" She questioned shyly noticing the already hostile environment she was in. Octavia pushed her friend forward towards Raven
"Um yeah" Anastasia breathed out nodding her head.
"In private" Raven coughed looking at Octavia standing near them.
"Okay I'll go" Octavia remarked shouldering her gun as she began to climb down.
"I want to apologize for what you saw" Raven spoke as she watched Octavia leave.
"You don't have to apologize, it's not your fault" Anastasia shook her head, "I mean this isn't the first time it's happened"
"No it is, I forced myself on him" Raven disagreed.
"It's not like he couldn't say no" Ana shook her head taking a seat on the ground. Raven took a spot next to her noticing how distraught the girl was getting, even though Anastasia was trying to hide it.
"He said your name" Raven stated getting Anastasia attention, "He wanted it to be you" she added fiddling with her fingers.
"Raven, I'm sorry" she could tell the girl regretted it.
"No, I'm sorry" Raven placed a hand on the girl's shoulder, "It's what I get for using him to try to get over Finn"
"Nobody deserves that, trust me" Anastasia replied, she didn't know what it felt like to have someone say another name during sex. She could bet that it would be discouraging.
"Thanks, but I really still feel bad" Raven responded.
"How about this" Anastasia uttered standing up dusting herself off. Ana reached out her hand helping the other girl up, "I'll forgive you if you forgive yourself" Raven smiled at the girl turning her helping hand into hand shake.
"Okay deal" she agreed, breaking away from the handshake, "now I have to go get more gunpowder" Raven uttered.
"Let me, I have to go check on Myles anyway, and I wouldn't mind the walk" Anastasia added stopping Raven from leaving.
"Thanks" Raven smiled as she headed down, Anastasia went down after her.
She knocked through the foliage that stood in her way of the gate and the watch areas. The camp area was mainly empty minus a few people going to sleep. She walked forward, making her way towards the drop ship, it felt odd for the camp ground to be so barren around this time.
The other kids that were laid around the fire, had by that point was put out, some were up and active. The sight of no one was haunting, Anastasia shook off the feeling as continued to the opening of the drop ship. Her hands wrapped around the fabric hanging over it, she heard Jasper arguing with Bellamy.
"It's funny" Jasper let out, "you didn't think, that way when Octavia and Ana went missing" he let out clearly talking about the Clarke, Finn, and Monty situation.
"Ana" Bellamy spoke seeing her walk in causing Jasper to turn around to face her.
"Um, Jasper, Raven" she broke her speech when she met Bellamy's eyes, "Raven, she needs more gunpowder" Jasper began moving, getting stopped by Bellamy.
"Where are you going?" He asked him, Jasper tensed up moving his hand to his forehead in a military way.
"More gunpowder for your minefield, sir" Jasper answered mockingly, holding his hand over his head like a solder, as he walked over to the ladder walking up it quickly.
"Ana" Bellamy walked towards her with his hands out, she held her hands out defensively stopping his from getting close to her, "Please, I'm sorry, I lo"
"Water, please" Bellamy was caught off by Myles's cries, Anastasia walked over to Myles, laying amongst, as his moans of pain seemed to grow.
"I'll get you some" Bellamy replied unenthusiastic, as he walked out of the drop ship.
Anastasia watched him walk out feeling her heart drop, she could feel the words he was about to say falling out of his mouth before it did. The thought of it cause her heartbeat to speed up. She took a much needed deep breath after Bellamy left, dreading the moment when he came back and finish his sentence. She took the cloth that was on his chest from his hands applying her own pressure upon it.
"Hey, uh, Anastasia" she heard Murphy utter seeing him walk out from the depths of the drop ship, "What are you doing here?" He questioned with a concerning attitude.
"Just checking up on Myles" she responded quickly noticing his stance and demeanor, "What about you?" She asked looking at his suspicions self.
"Well, um, Bellamy doesn't want to see me, so I've been staying in here" He responded, "I can watch him if you want to go out on watch"
"Thanks, Murph" Anastasia responded, standing up, she didn't like his attitude but is she was able to escape the drop ship before Bellamy returned than she could keep away from his answer for at least 1 more day, "I have to check on Jasper, first, Raven was also bugging me about more gunpowder"
"Okay see you later" Murphy said turning his back, clearly not realizing that Jasper was upstairs, she walked up the ladder missing the attention of Murphy as she lead herself up to the top of the drop ship. It was almost like Murphy thought she had already left.
"Hey Ana" Jasper said seeing her enter, "Look I'm really sorry about what you heard coming in" he added turning back to the gunpowder.
"It's fine, I have so much on my plate already, that I don't even really care" she stated standing behind him, "Do you have to extra gun powder?" She asked him, brightly Jasper turned around with a smile shuffling around a jar of gunpowder clearly by the label, "Great" she replied watching as Jasper headed down the ladder, one hand filled with the jar of gunpowder.
Anastasia waited awhile so she wouldn't hit him before descending. She noticed something off when Jasper stopped for a second, and then continued, looking like he was communicating with someone giving a nod as he continued down, out of nowhere he jumped off. Anastasia rushed down the rest of the ladder, to find Murphy with a gun pointed at both of them.
"Murphy, just put down the gun" Jasper said defensively, pulling Anastasia to the side with him. She was still confused why, Murphy was holding the gun and Jasper was acting cautious around him
"He tried to kill me" Murphy uttered turning towards Myles, and she finally saw it. Murphy had killed Myles, as the kid now laid lifeless.
"Oh god" Anastasia uttered seeing the face of Myles staring straight up with no movement. Jasper began pulling her back as he moved along with her towards the opening
"Hey! Don't move!" Murphy screamed aiming the gun back at them. Jasper let go of Anastasia reaching into his pocket.
"Ok, ok" Jasper replied, "It's cool" he said nodding.
"No it's not" Murphy replied shaking his head violently, "You know what will happen if you tell Bellamy" He replied stuttering
"Tell Bellamy what?" Bellamy's voice broke through the silence followed by static. Anastasia looked down at Jasper's pants, hearing the static come from his pockets.
"Give me the radio Jasper" Murphy ordered, as Jasper slowly pulled the radio out of his pocket, he lifted it up cautious. Then in a swift movement he pressed the button quickly uttering
"Murphy has a gun" Murphy ran at him, "He killed Myles" he managed to finish before Murphy hit Jasper with the back of his gun, knocking him to the ground. Anastasia tried to rush over to help Jasper
"Back it up, bitch!" He yelled at her aiming the gun towards her head
"Murphy, what the hell happened" Bellamy's voice boomed through the radio, Murphy ran over to the controls, hearing his voice not only through the radio but also from outside, he pulled the lever and suddenly the drop ship doors began to close, "Murphy! Murphy! Open the damn door!" Bellamy's voice yelled from outside before the door slammed closed. Murphy pressed his finger over the button on the radio taking a breath before speaking into it.
"You try to be a hero, Jasper and Anastasia, die" he spoke out with venom. The other side went silent, as Murphy set the radio down grabbing seatbelts that were set aside. He first pulled the unconscious Jasper to the side binding his hands behind his back, and then gagging him.
"Come on, princess" he said coming back to her gripping his hair in his hand dragging her along, throwing her next to Jasper tying her hands, "Should've left when I gave you the chance, Ana, I was almost going to let you live, forgive you for what you did, but now, I think fate wants you gone" he uttered tying the gag around her mouth, silencing her reply. Anastasia wasn't sure how much time has gone by, but it felt like hours, and somewhere in between the time, Jasper woke up freaking out. Anastasia tried to calm him down, being talked through hostage situations back on the Ark, she tried to follow through her father's steps but it was harder in practice than on paper.
"Murphy!" She heard the sweet voice of Octavia yell, "Murphy! If you even touch either of them, I swear to god, you're dead!" Octavia spit out from outside the drop ship.
Anastasia tried not to think about the fact that the last conversation she had with Octavia would have been a fight, she tried not to think that the last conversations she had with both of the Blake's was a fight and she might not get a chance to fix that.
"Murphy" Bellamy's voice spoke over the radio, "I know you can hear me" he said as Murphy walked over to the table picking up the radio, "all our ammo and food is in the middle level, you know that, you're are leaving us vulnerable to attack" Bellamy said, "I can't let that happen"
"Yeah, well, in case you haven't noticed, you're aren't exactly in control right now" Murphy replied with a smirk on his face, and confidence in his voice, which was difference from when he spoke to her and Jasper.
"Come on, Murphy" Bellamy let out, "You don't want to hurt either of them, you want to hurt me" Bellamy said as Murphy's eyes were lead towards both of his hostages, "So what do you say? How about you trade them for me" He proposed, "All you have to do is let them go, and I'll take their place" Murphy stared at both of them, keeping his finger gripped on the button
"How?" Murphy questioned keeping his eyes on them
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