《Crossing Boundaries| Bellamy Blake》6| Having Value
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Cattleya looked up at the rising sun. The orange sunshine was mixing with the remaining dark sky. "You told me you were going to tell me where we're going." Cattleya stated. Bellamy sighed out in annoyance.
"You're going to help me find the pod."
"The what?"
"The thing that fell from the sky."
"I thought you said-"
"I know what I said." Bellamy snapped. Cattleya didn't understand why Bellamy would lie to Octavia, why he would like to his people. If he was willing to lie to the one person he trusted the most then why should she trust him. Swiftly, Cattleya took her dagger and held it against Bellamy's throat, again.
"You lied to Octavia. Why should I trust you?"
"You won't kill me."
"And why is that?"
"Because killing me would make you lose Octavia's trust."
"Or set me free." She heard the click again and felt it at her stomach. He was right. Cattleya wouldn't kill Bellamy; She respected Octavia enough not to do that and he had his own weapon aimed at her too. Cattleya put down her dagger and placed it back in its hold.
"The river is this way." She groaned marching in the direction of the lake.
The sun was fully out in the sky and neither one had said a word to each other. "What's in this pod that so important?" Cattleya asked.
"Stop asking questions." Bellamy commanded as she still noticed he had his weapon out.
"Then, it must be really important." She jokingly mumbled to herself. A twig snapped in the distance and Cattleya had her dagger ready to throw but Bellamy grabbed onto her forearm. It was Octavia.
"Bellamy! What are you doing?" She asked stomping her way toward the duo.
"Go back to camp. It isn't safe." He said ignoring her previous question.
"You lied to everyone. You lied to me. You just want whatever's in that pod." Octavia then turned to the Grounder. "And Cattleya, you're helping him."
"I'm not helping him. He forced me." Octavia face was turning red with anger and so was Bellamy's. He shoved Octavia back.
"Just go home!" Bellamy shouted at Octavia.
"You always want to play big brother, huh? Well, guess what? Jokes on me. You're just a selfish dick." Octavia sneered. Cattleya got in between the two siblings and pushed them apart. God, is this what it feels like to be a mother?
"Stop. Stop!" Cattleya tried calming the siblings down. "Can someone use their goddamn words?" Bellamy looked between Cattleya and Octavia considering telling them the truth.
"I did this for you, to protect you. If the Ark finds out we're alive, they'll come down. And when they do...I'm dead." He truthfully explained. Octavia scrunched her eyebrows. What did he do?
"What did you do?" Octavia asked.
"I shot him." Bellamy sighed. "I shot Jaha." Octavia's eyes widen. Bellamy went on to explain he had done everything so he could come to Earth to protect her.
Cattleya thought back to her siblings. She knew she would kill for anyone, any day if it meant keeping them safe and alive. Cattleya couldn't blame Bellamy for everything he's done but she can say he was doing it wrong. "I didn't want any of this." Octavia lastly stated before she stomped her way back to camp. Bellamy groaned in frustration and continued his way toward the fallen pod.
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Cattleya heard a small audible voice talking. "I hear someone talking." She whispered to Bellamy.
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"That's probably the radio." Bellamy said walking forward to the pod.
"What's a radio?"
"It doesn't matter." Bellamy lifted up the right side of the small silver pod. The voice coming from the pod became much clearer to hear. It was a woman's voice but its stopped when Bellamy cut the strings attached to the box. Bellamy shut the door of the metal pod as he held the radio in his hand.
"Is that a radio?" Cattleya asked him. Bellamy continued to ignore her and walked toward the streaming river. He threw the radio into the river and watched it sink deep under the water.
"Lets go." He grabbed Cattleya's arm. Cattleya snatched it back with force.
"I helped you, alright. The least you could do is let me walk on my fucking own."
"Like I said before, I don't trust you." Bellamy went to grab her arm again but she pulled away before he could.
"Look, I don't expect anything from you, but touch me again and I will cut your hand off."
"Why would I trust you? All you've done is cause trouble around camp." He stated. Was he being serious? Cattleya lips tightened and her face turned red.
"I've caused trouble! All I've done for you, Bellamy, is help you! It's your own people who's caused trouble. You, Skikru, don't have discipline, you don't have order! If it was anyone else, they would've killed your whole camp already."
"Are you saying we're lucky that we captured a weak Grounder?" Bellamy mocked her.
"I'm not weak!" Cattleya sneered causing Bellamy to smirk. "I value people's lives but you wouldn't know anything about that, would you?" Bellamy stayed quiet as they both glared at each other.
"What do you see in my people, anyway?"
"There are a lot of good people like Octavia, Clarke, Wells...I don't see it in Murphy. And, I don't see it in you." Cattleya said.
"I don't care what you think of me." Bellamy stated. "Lets go."
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They were walking back to camp in complete silence. Bellamy don't know what to think of the Grounder next to him. Again, she wasn't what he expected. He expected a ruthless, vicious Grounder with no moral whatsoever. Instead, he got a woman who says she values his peoples lives. Who had every clear opportunity to kill him and his people and chose not to do it. Bellamy became so lost in thoughts he hadn't realized Cattleya had stopped walking. "What the hell are-"
"Shhh!" Bellamy watched as Cattleya reached for her daggers at her sides. "We're not alone." She stated. Quickly, Bellamy stood by her side and held up his gun in defense.
"Where's it coming from?"
"Straight ahead. We keep walking cautiously."
They continued to walk with listening and watching their surrounding intently until Cattleya heard the footsteps getting dangerously closer. Cattleya knew off hand it wasn't her people. They knew how to walk on ground without making so much noise, and if they were to attack them they would use the trees for travel.
Clarke emerged form the trees with straight anger in her eyes. "Hey!" She called out to Bellamy, but he kept walking ahead once he realized who it was "Where is it?"
"Hey, princess, you taking a walk in the woods?" He said dismissing the subject.
"The radio?" Cattleya asked. Clarke turned her attention to Cattleya, slightly confused as to why she was out of camp with Bellamy.
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"Yes, the radio. They're getting ready to kill three hundred people up there to save oxygen, and I can guarantee you it won't be council members. It'll be working people." Clarke aggressively pointed at his chest. "Your people."
Finn also emerged from the woods and angrily shoved Bellamy back. "Bellamy, where's the radio?" Finn asked. Bellamy angrily shoved Finn back.
"I have no idea what you're talking about." He lied. Cattleya noticed a young, tan girl standing behind Finn.
"Bellamy Blake?" The unfamiliar girl asked. "They're looking everywhere for you."
"Shut up." Bellamy snapped at the girl as he moved closer to Finn. Did he know the girl?
"Looking for him, why?" Clarke interrupted the tension between Bellamy and Finn.
"He shot Chancellor Jaha." The girl stated. Cattleya realized this was her chance. The Sky People were so focused on their own problems they had forgotten about her.
Slowly, Cattleya moved back further into the woods, until Bellamy pushed the dark-haired girl on the nearest tree as she quickly held a knife to his neck. Cattleya grinned at the scene before her. She decided she already liked this girl, however, Cattleya didn't plan on staying to learn the her name. She wanted to go home and now was her chance. Yet, Cattleya debated with herself: if she stayed she could get more information on the Sky People and their intentions, but if she didn't leave now then she might never get a chance like this again.
"Cattleya," Clarke called out. All their attention moved to her. Too late. Bellamy glared his eyes at her. He noticed the distance Cattleya had made between everyone else and herself. Clarke approached Cattleya with desperate eyes. "Can you lead us back to the river?"
"What would this radio do for my people?"
"Who's she?" The tan girl bluntly asked.
"She's a Grounder, who's been helping us." Finn explained.
"Not by will." Cattleya added.
"My people can bring bring engineers, farmers, medicine and they'll be able to help your people too."Clarke said.
"And, I have your word?"
"I will try my best to convince them."
"That's not enough."
"Or we can shoot you." Bellamy said.
"Then do it."
"Yes, you have my word!" Clarke interjected. Cattleya turned on her heel toward the lake but didn't hear the footsteps behind her.
"Are you coming or not?"
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Once they reached the river, Clarke, Bellamy, Finn and the girl looked around the river for the radio. Cattleya didn't understand why they didn't actually go in the water to look for the radio? The current was strong today. It could be possible the radio was caught between the rocks. But, the radio was most likely in the deeper side of the river.
She began to take her clothes off placing them on the nearest rock. Out the corner of his eye, Bellamy noticed Cattleya had stripped down to nothing but her underwear and a bra. "What the hell are you doing?" He said marching over to her.
"I'm getting your radio."
"You don't have to take off your clothes to do that."
Cattleya ignored Bellamy's previous comment. "Your radio isn't in the shallow end." She pointed to the deep side of the river. "The current's too strong. It's most likely at the deeper end and none of you have even bothered to look over there."
"We can't swim." Bellamy informed her. Cattleya rolled her eyes. Of course they couldn't.
"Of course you can't." She scoffed.
The Sky People watched as the Grounder walked her way into the water before completely diving under. Cattleya remembered back to her first time learning how to swim: she was four and her father had simply thrown her into the small, shallow pond; he grasped onto Cattleya arm to calm her down. Her mother was already in the water laughing hysterically at Cattleya's small startled face. "Come to me." Her mother simply stated.
"I can't!" she cried.
"Look at me! Do you think I will let you drown?" Cattleya shook her head. "Do you think your mother will let you drown?" Again, Cattleya shook her head. "Then there are no excuses!" Her father snapped at his daughter. "Swim to your mother." Cattleya frantically moved her limbs toward her mother, until she had learned to move them in unison. A smile grew on her father's face as he watched from the grass, his daughter learned to swim. Her mother kissed her cheek as Cattleya wrapped her wet arms around her neck.
"Pa, I did it! I did it!"
"I'm so proud of you!" Her mother said. "Go swim to your father." Without hesitation, Cattleya swam to her father where he held a few blackberries for her. Her father reached down to his daughter and proudly hugged her wet body before placing a blackberry in her mouth. Staining Cattleya's entire mouth a deep blue as she continued to laugh. Today was nothing like that day.
Through the grainy water, Cattleya recognized a metal box with colored strings attached to it. She reached out to the strings and forcefully tugged at them yet the box didn't move. The metal box was tightly stuck between the river rocks. Cattleya removed some of the rocks around the box and gave one last forceful tug at the strings making some air leave from her nose.
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The Sky People noticed the air bubbles escape from underwater and began to assume the worse. "We need to get her out of there!" Clarke said looking at her watch. "She could be drowning." Clarke, Raven and Finn tried to find vines or something to try to pull Cattleya out, but Bellamy started walking straight into the water.
"Bellamy, what are you doing? Stop!" Clarke shouted.
"You'll drown!" Finn said.
Before they knew it, Cattleya emerged from under the water with a metal box in her hand. "Is this a radio?" She said between breaths. "Looking at all these string, I don't think it's supposed to be in water."
"Yeah, no shit." The dark-haired girl said. Bellamy helped Cattleya out of he water wrapping his jacket around her wet body. He lead her to the dry rocks as Cattleya gave the radio over to the girl.
"Are you okay?" Bellamy asked. Cattleya waved him off trying to catch her breath. She must have been under for at least five minutes.
"Can you fix it?" Clarke asked the girl.
"Maybe, but it'll take half the day just to dry out the components to see what's broken." The girl said.
"Like I said, it's too late." Bellamy stated again.
"Do you have any idea what you did? Do you even care?" Clarke shouted. Cattleya scoffed. If they kept yelling like this, her people would find them without any problem.
"You asked me to help. I helped." He argued.
Cattleya mindlessly rang out her dark hair while the Sky People argued among themselves. But before she knew it, they had left her alone with Bellamy. "Where'd Clarke go?"
"She hurried back to camp with Finn and um....Raven. Raven has a plan to signal the Ark. They would have waited but you're taking too damn long." Cattleya rolled her eyes and shrugged off Bellamy's damp jacket. She threw his jacket at his face before walking off to where she had placed her clothes.
Bellamy would be blind not to notice how...nice Cattleya looked; if the situation wasn't as fucked up as it was, he would've already had se-she had a big tattoo. The tattoo traveled down the arc of her back, curved around her waist and around the curve of-no, she was a Grounder. Her people were the enemy. Cattleya was the enemy. Bellamy shook his head ridding him of his thoughts. "Hurry up. Put your clothes on, I don't want to stay out here longer than I have to." He said frustrated.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to keep you waiting." Cattleya replied while putting on her boots. "It's not like I didn't just swim into a whole river to get a damn radio for your people. It's not like I just tried saving your people from dying."
"Are you done?" Bellamy dismissed her. "We have to get back to the camp. I don't need your shit." He grabbed her arm, again, and Cattleya pushed him off, again. They both held their weapons in their hand before beginning to walk side by side back to the Dropship.
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Night had come quicker than any of Sky People would have liked. Bellamy had tied Cattleya to the outside of the Dropship. She watched the Sky People frantically get to work with Raven at command. They planned to launch rockets into the sky to signal their people that they are surviving on Earth.
Cattleya started to question whether she had done the right thing for her people. Would Clarke really be able to convince her people to help her's? She watched the Sky People. This the only time she had seen them work together without complaining and efficiently.
That's because they are all desperate to save the people they love. Love. "Love is a weakness." She heard Lexa say numerous times. But despite hearing it repeatedly, she refused to believe it. Love is not a weakness. Cattleya saw love in her parents and they were both stronger because of it.
The blaring sound of the rockets ripped Cattleya from her thoughts. Cattleya looked up at the sky mesmerized at the sight of the odd flying colors. She knew Octavia would love to see this but she hadn't noticed Octavia when she entered the camp. Or running around to help. Where is she? Cattleya pulled against her restraints testing it strength. They weren't as strong as before but if she kept pulling at them, she would get rope burns. She would have used her daggers if Bellamy didn't take them away, again. So, Cattleya resorted to using her teeth to loosen the knots around her left wrist. It had taken several minutes and some blood before it had come undone.
By the time she freed herself, most of the Sky People had gone off to their own tents to do their own things. With ease, Cattleya walked straight to the tent she saw Bellamy enter in earlier and ignoring the girl, Roma, in his tent with him. "Where's Octavia?"
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