《Fallen: b.b (book 1) REWRITING》chapter thirty-five
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"Ana" Monty stated watching her pace up and down the room, as she bit at her nails, "Can you at least try to calm down" he questioned her seated amongst the others that were taken in by Mrs.Ruby to level 3 after the last sweep. Anastasia wasn't worried till they blasted the message of the irradiation of level 5 and the success of the marrow treatments marking the 44 left as criminals.
"Kind of hard when a entire army of guards are coming for you to take your marrow" Anastasia sarcastically retorted.
"Okay" Monty seceded, holding his hands up in emission, "Your pacing is just giving me major anxiety" he added looking at her legs move in speed, back and forth constantly.
"It helps me get my thoughts together so i don't end up bursting out" she fired back, moving Monty to the side as she took a seat next to him, stopping her pacing but her legs still moved up and do quickly. Monty sighed outwardly before Anastasia playfully slapped him in the chest for showing his annoyance of her anxiety. Monty fell back jokingly, as Anastasia laughed lightly.
"You seem happy" Monty commented sitting back up, wiggling his eyebrows at her.
"Oh quit it" she blew him off rolling her eyes. Monty chuckled noticing her embarrassment over his comment.
"I'm sorry" Monty uttered lightly, "But I mean you should hide the fact that Bellamy makes you happy"
"Yeah, yeah" Anastasia blew him off as Mrs.Ryan rushed into the room.
"Hide!" She urged, "They're here!" Monty pulled Anastasia back towards him. Anastasia shoved him off seeing the others that were being shooed in by Mrs.Ryan.
"We have to help her" Anastasia cried hearing the pound of the footsteps getting louder along the stone floors.
"There's no time!" Monty yelled he pulled her with him.
"I don't care" Anastasia resented once again pulling towards Mrs.Ryan. Monty let her go, running into the hidden cabinet as the guards busted in.
"Get down!" The guard shouted at Anastasia and the others. Anastasia went towards them hoping she could take out at least one, she could make her escape. That was before she saw her people standing in fear behind the guards, "Get down!" The guard shoved her in her dazed state. The guards turned towards Mrs.Ryan as she was cowering in fear trying to protect the few kids under her grasp, "Mrs.Ryan you are harboring multiple fugitives of state, which is punishable by death"
"These are kids, not fugitives, Paul" Ryan claimed, "I won't let you take them" she fought standing up to protect the kids.
"Claire, it's either you or them" Paul stated, "Tell us where the others are and we'll let you live"
"Never" Mrs.Ryan cursed, "I won't let you kill these children"
"Seize her, take them!" The guard commanded in a fell swoop as Ryan was swept away, and the yanked everyone up including Anastasia. She peeked back at the hidden room, knowing that Monty had found refuge back there, and that was all she needed to know to go with the guard, "Come on" he pushed her forward as they stepped in front of her as they began walking.
"The grounders have escaped" stated a voice beeping through the guards walkie-talkies.
She heard the sounds of cries and pleads that seemed to belong to feminine and quaint voice of Mrs.Ryan. The cries were quickly followed by a echoing shot of a gun. All of the group reacted by stopping suddenly and turning backwards as Paul the guard arrived back with his gun still smoking.
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"Move!" He shouted as the guards took them down multiple hallways and found their way walking down multiple stairs. It wasn't until they guards open a dungeon like door with the assistants that were drilling into Anastasia before with Tsing, "Lock them up!" The guards preceded to grab her people and they strung them up upon the wall with handcuffs keeping them up. Anastasia was pushed against the wall as sliver cuffs were clasped around her hands roughly tightened to the max.
"You won't get away with this" Anastasia cursed looking up at the guard.
"But we already have begone to" the guard smirked walking off.
Bellamy, Jasper, and Maya rushed their way down to level 3 stopped by the sound of gunshots and shots. Bellamy urged caution as they continued into the hallway, it was empty with a slam of a door. A bloody figure laid under the hanging light as it swung in the dark room. Maya stepped forth as the figure became clearer, the women was shot in the head laying in a pool of blood.
"It's Mrs.Ryan" Maya replied looking at the women on the floor.
"She was hiding the last of the 12" Bellamy stepped forward still with his gun latched in his hand ready for anyone to jump out.
"Where'd they take them?" Jasper met up with the rest his steps more rushed that the others.
"It's got to be level 5" Maya stated without a second thought Jasper turned towards the door but Bellamy stopped him.
"Get out of my way" Jasper commanded him.
"Every person inside this mountain is on level 5" Bellamy explained, "Every solider" he urged but Jasper wasn't listening, "Tell him" he introduced Maya back into the conversation.
"Jasper's right" she disagreed, "After lockdown, It'll be almost impossible to get them out" she explained, "It's now or never" she added insistently.
"All right" Bellamy agreed, "How do we even get..." he was interrupted by a bang the room, the both threw up their guns at the shadow approaching in the midst. The shadow became more pronounced as he came in the light.
"Monty" Jasper breathed in relief as he stepped up to him but stopped when Monty fell to the ground in front of Mrs.Ryan,
"What is it?" Bellamy asked him as the looked of despair was around his face, "What's wrong?"
"They know about the grounders" Monty stated softly, "That's why I hid" he confessed, he took a second his voice began breaking, "I didn't do anything to save the others, I didn't do anything to save Anastasia, I let them kill Mrs.Ryan" he broke down looking down at the blood pooling on the floor.
"What do you mean they know about the grounders" Bellamy questioned coldly.
"It was on a solider's walkie" Monty explained, "They're going for the harvest chamber" she stated as Bellamy's face dropped.
"If they take that, we lose everybody" Bellamy took a break before saying. Bellamy rushed off as Jasper and Maya followed closely behind picking up Monty along the way scooping him along.
"Miller!" Anastasia called out watching the hoards of kids be issued into the room, his eyes perked up as he broke out the ground pushing past the guards to hug her.
"Ana!" He gasped as he was pulled away by the guards linked up next to her, as they continued with the rest.
"What happened?" She asked looking at him as the guards dispersed around the room.
"Bellamy lead us to the harvest chamber, and before we knew they were storming it, they separated us from the grounders and took us down here" he explained
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"They're not going to stop until everyone of their people are cured" Anastasia muttered breathlessly.
"Well then let's just hope that Bellamy and Clarke can stop it before it comes to that" Miller replied as the door opened she expected for the beginning of the operations to start. She was surprised that they hadn't started before when they first of them arrived to the torturous room.
"Let go of me!" She heard a strong feminine voice yell as she was moved into the room.
"Raven?" Anastasia questioned pulling at her chains, as the maroon headed girl looked up at the girl in shock. To Raven, Anastasia had a rougher appearance, even if she was sleeping in a muddy tent, and rarely washed her hair. Ana always looked like this enlightened angel. She had this softness about it, even if she sometimes looked at Raven with the hatred that couldn't be told with words. Now all the innocence and light were almost gone in Ana.
"Ana?" Raven questioned as the guard pushed her into the wall chaining her up. A guy that was brought in with Raven was chained up next to her as they were both beaten up badly, clearly they were working on a part of Clarke's plan and ended up getting caught in the process.
The doctors began walking in as she knew what was coming upon them. The guards picked someone off as they thrashed against the pull, but their efforts were wasted as they were strapped onto the steel death trap, as the drill was taken. The doctor started at the leg, as the unruly scream of the teenager flooded the room, the doctor picked up a syringe and filled it with the red blood marrow of their victim. The drill started again as the screams began again until it eventually ended as death was the inevitable end.
"Take the treatments up, and prepare the next subject" one of the guards spoke roughly as the moved the tubes filled with the marrow up throwing the dead teen to the side as the grabbed another causing the cycle continued. Anastasia slipped in and out of consciousness, as the sounds continued, Miller kept on trying to get Anastasia to focus on a way out of the handcuffs but she wasn't able to focus on anything.
Miller kicked her foot roughly waking her up, as they ushered in multiple people wearing hoods, pushing them down to the to the ground on their knees. The stood in watch until Cage walked into the room slowly turning to his right hand man as they shared a quiet conversation between each other before Cage commanded,
"Take off the hoods!"
One by one the hoods came off as Anastasia came to see faces she didn't expect to see starting with Monroe . They all seemed beaten but not as bad as she was, another hood was removed but Anastasia couldn't place him until Miller cried out for his father, before his father was knocked on the head by a back of the gun for trying to reach his son.
"You bastards!" Miller yelled yanking at his chains.
The hoods kept on being removed as Anastasia was shocked to she her father as he was to see her. Ana found herself speechless as another hood was removed revealing Abby under it.
"What is wrong with you people?" Her father exhausted lightly staring at the operating table as they barbarically took another sample.
"Where's my daughter!" Abby screamed looking around noticing Anastasia. The guard muttered something to Cage before he stepped towards Abby, whispering something, before he stepped out of the room. The guards began to follow suit chaining up the recent captives, along the wall.
The cycle continued until the screaming stopped, Anastasia hoped that he just passed out, but the hopes were expunged when the doctors uttered,
"He's dead" as they took out the last syringe.
"That's ok" the other doctor replied emotionless, "We already got all of the marrow" the blood went into the tube, "Guards we need another one" he said as two walked in patrolling the victims. As the doctors moved another body to the side.
Without even a thought the guard looked over to Raven, "She's next" he pointed to the dark-haired girl who began to rage against her chains.
"No,Take me!" the guy that Raven came in with uttered, the ignored him walking over to her, "Don't touch her!" He shouted pulling at his chains as they shocked her to get her to comply, unlocking her chain, setting her down on the table.
As they began to lace the straps around her. In a instant, Raven lunged at one of the doctors on the side of her body that was still free biting at his ear, as blood leaked out. He pulled back as they pulled him off, frying her stomach over and over until she fell unconscious. The crowd was growing rowdy, as they locked her up. The doctor with the drill waited for Raven to come to, before he looked at her malevolently, poking the drill into the ripped part of her clothes starting it up as it went further. She tried to hold back her screams but it eventually came out hoarsely.
Dante was shocked when the door beeped as Bellamy, Clarke, and Monty stepped into his room. He stood up looking at the trio that had infiltrated his room.
"Hello, Clarke" he spoke picking her out of the crowd.
"Sir, we need your help again" Bellamy interrupted, as Dante moved his attention to him, staying quiet.
"It's fine" Monty comforted, "I took out the camera, from the junction box in the hall" he explained, "We can talk freely"
"No ones watching anyway" Dante retorted roughly "Thanks to you, they're all on level 5"
"You're not" Clarke supplied.
"No" Dante replied slowly, "I'm not" he seemed to hold his aggression against her.
"Please" Bellamy interjected getting back his attention, "We don't have much time, we need a way, to get our people out of this mountain without killing everyone"
"He's not going to help us" Clarke replied noticing his face as he stayed quiet.
"You cut the power, risking the lives of everyone in this mountain, my people, even the ones that helped you" he stated voicing his distain for the idea.
"We knew they be safe on level 5" Clarke stepped up to him, "We made sure not to destroy the turbines so you could repair them" she explained, as her voice raised, "We're the good guys here, not you!" She yelled in his face.
"Tell me, if we released your people and theirs, what would've happened to mine?" He questioned her.
Clarke took a second, biting her lip before turning to Monty, "Can you get us into the command center?" She asked him, "We need to see what's happening on level 5"
Monty nodded, "no problem" he added as Bellamy pushed forward to Dante grabbing him.
"Let's go" he said grabbing Dante by his shoulder roughing pushing him towards the door, "You're going to help us, whether you like it or not" he pushed him to the hallway as the others follow.
The turned to hall to the door of the control room, Bellamy had finally let go of Dante, letting himself stay a few steps behind.
"I told you, there's no one here" Dante uttered watching them put down their guns with the sight of a empty hallway.
"Sorry if we don't take your word for it" Bellamy bit back as Monty raced towards the door, opening up the scanner to rewire it. Clarke, Bellamy, and Dante took a normal speed.
"Why aren't you with your people on level 5?" Clarke asked him as they reached the door.
"After what i've done, they can be free" he uttered, "I can't" he stated, "Deliverance comes at a cost" Dante quoted as Clarke watched him in shock, "I bear it so they don't have to"
"It wasn't Cage" Bellamy blurted out as Dante turned to him, "It was your idea to make a deal with the grounders" Dante nodded slightly as Clarke gave him a disgusted look.
"We're in" Monty uttered as the door opened. Bellamy came through first with his gun ready and his other air dragging Dante.
"It's clear" he remarked surprised letting go of Dante, "He was telling the truth" Bellamy said grabbing Wallace once again yanking him to the side as Clarke and Monty walked in.
"Let's get the monitors up" Clarke said as Monty nodded as he walked over to the computers.
Anastasia twisted against the chains as her ears were filled with screams from Raven, as they continued to drill into her. She hoped for once second that if she caused enough noise they would want to get rid of her and let Raven live for just a few more hours. She knew that it would be a blind optimist to think that she could truly save all of them, when they would continue the drilling on someone else after she died.
"You're going to break your wrist" Miller remarked in a whispered at the girl. The slight memory of her and Octavia stuck in Lincoln's cave came back to her when she remarked the same words before Bellamy and the others saved them minutes later. A slight tear came on her face but she couldn't wipe it away, so it just slid down her face slowly before falling on her dirt covered, blood soaked clothing, "Hey are you good?" Miller asked as Anastasia hoarsely let out a rhetorical laugh.
"I'm fine, you know just about to die a horribly, slow death" she quivered.
"Clarke and Bellamy are going to save us" Miller replied softly, "I just know" he sounded certain.
"The longer we're here, the less that becomes believable" Anastasia replied.
"The command center is live" Monty remarked as the screens in front of him began to get flooded with images, the were horrid images of the dorm room where everything was taking place.
"Oh my god" Clarke exhausted watching the horror on the screen.
"Is that Raven?" Bellamy questioned watching the camera zoom in on the table as her face was revealed when one of the doctors walked away.
The camera moved to the side, towards the door, "Mom" Clarke cried seeing Abby cuffed up on the wall. Monty shifted the camera to the other side, as it focused on Anastasia, who was barely holding it together.
Bellamy lunged at the collection of radios, grabbing a walkie talkie, "Tell them to stop" he yelled at him holding the walkie towards him face, "Now!" He screamed.
"I won't do that" Wallace stated bluntly with a clear and calm voice. Clarke eyes floated around all the cameras but they suddenly stopped on one image, she squinted her eyes, before whispering something under her breath. She strutted over to Bellamy yanking the walkie out of his hand.
Clarke turned around towards the screen. She pressed the button and spoke into it roughly, "Carl Emerson, Mount Weather security detail, come in"
"Who is this?" The wavering voice came through after the displaced static, on the monitor he seemed to keep his composure.
"You know who this is" she responded as Emerson tightened up, "Give the radio to the president" she added. Emerson waited a second to turning around and heading off of the screen.
"They're moving" Bellamy stated.
"Not a problem" Monty replied as he began messing with the buttons of the control panel, "I'll bring it on main monitor" within a second the dorm room hallway was plastered on the big screen as Cage was standing in the middle of it with the walkie in his hand.
"This is President Wallace" Cage spoke.
"I have your father" Clarke retorted walking Cage's face turn down with worry, "If you don't let my people go, I'll kill him" she sneered.
"How do I know you have him?" Cage questioned with a trembled in his voice as he tried to stay calm for the people that occupied the dining hall, as Emerson stayed by the door on watch. Clarke held the walkie in front of Dante's face, pressing the button.
"Stay the course, Cage" Dante muttered before Clarke snatched the walkie away from him.
"You won't do it" Cage responded as his voice wavered from the movement of it switching hands.
"You don't know me very well" Clarke replied sinisterly. Clarke turned around and began softly speaking into the radio, "This ends now, release my people"
"I can't do that" President Wallace replied.
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