Survivor | John Murphy Love Story

We're back, bitches!

There was flickering of the lights, followed by a scream as the capsule started to shake. The screens turned on, showing the Chancellor:"Prisoners of the Ark, here me now. You have been given a second chance. And as your Chancellor it is my hope that you don't see this as a chance for you, but as a chance for all of us and Indeed, for mankind itself. We have no idea what is waiting for you down there..."

I didn't listen to the man anymore. I didn't need to hear him ranting on about how we were expendables because of our crimes. Personally I thought Jaha was the criminal. He was the one who floated innocent people, after all. I guess my father was also one of them, even if I'd never admit that. My father was trying to keep me safe, that's what he had told me. A loud bang ripped me out of my thoughts, boys were flying through the space craft, hitting their heads on the metal wall while everyone else was screaming. I wasn't. I was the one who had to be strong. I had to be strong for my mother and my father. I had to be strong for my best friend, who must have been floated by now, since he was older than me. If I had counted my days in hell correctly, he was being floated almost a week ago. I gripped my seat belts until my knuckles were turning white and I didn't stop holding on to the only thing keeping me safe at the moment. I had no clue what we were supposed to do when we had landed safely- in case we land safely. Were we supposed to go out, step on a planet full of radiation and just build a colony? Start a new life in the unknown? What where we going to eat? Where would we be going to sleep? I just hoped someone was here to help us, to guide us the way. The throbbing in my ears stopped and everything stood still. The screams died down and everyone was looking around curiously. We made it. We were on earth. 97 years after the nuclear apocalypse, we were back again. The criminals would be the one to bring back the life. WE would be the leaders of the earth. I couldn't hide my smile as I practically ripped my seat belt off, looking at the girl next to me excitingly. I rushed down the ladder as fast as I could and faced the giant door. There was a guardsman telling everyone to back up. The lower level was getting more crowded and a blonde girl ran forward:"The air could be toxic!"
„If the air is toxic we'd all be dead anyway", the guy shrugged. There was another girl, a brunette one that was stepping forward to hug the guard. Who the hell was she?

„Where is your wristband?", the other girl asked and I noticed that it was Clarke Griffin. Her and I were sort of good friends when we were little but well.. That changed once I got arrested.

„Do you mind? I haven't seen my brother in a year", the brunette one snapped.

I haven't seen my father since I was 14... Well, and today.

„No one has a brother", „That's Octavia Blake! The girl that hid in the floor!"

Octavia got angry and was about to charge but her brother, Bellamy, held her back. He mumbled something into her ear before opening the door, allowing the sunlight to blend everyone. I furrowed my eyebrows together and held my breath, afraid of what would happen. The first thing I noticed where the bright shades of green. There were lots of plants, reflecting the light and basically glowing in those beautiful colors. As soon as she stepped onto the ground and yelled „We're back, bitches!" everyone started rushing out of the spacecraft. With a huge smile on my face I grabbed Clarke's arm and pulled her out with me:"Come on, I don't remember you being that slow when we were little!"

She didn't say anything she just stood there, wide eyed, looking as if her dreams just came true.
„This is amazing", she breathed and I nodded, hugging her. It was good to see her again. It wasn't so scary being here anymore, even if I had loved this feeling down here. Being here before the heads of the Ark made me feel so powerful and special. We were going to be the experts once they come after us.

„They dropped us on the wrong damn mountain", Clarke said, looking at her map. So what? Where's the differe-I know what the difference was. Jaha told us that Mount Weather was full of supplies, here we had nothing.
„What's up, Princess...es?", Finn Collins, aka the spacewalker, came up to us. His smile fell as he noticed Clarke's frown and he looked slightly worried as she had told him that a forest full of radiation was separating us from our next meal. All 98 of us could go there together and then we'd be safe, but in case we can't get into the mountain, we would need shelter. The only thing keeping us safe was that stupid drop ship. I walked back in there to see if I can find anything else that could help us, even if I didn't know what exactly I was looking for. I climbed up the ladder again, so that I was on the upper floor, exploring the spacecraft. There were two dead boys lying on the ground, and I tried not to think of them. I wasn't feeling very well around those bodies but I was honestly worrying about something else. „What are you doing up here?"

I turned around to face a girl, probably just a year older than me, with long, dark hair and hazel eyes. Her nose was slim, but looked a little red. A single tear was slipping out of her eye.

„What are you doing up here?", I asked back, turning around to look around again. She sighed, probably rolling her eyes but not saying anything else for a while. She just sat down next to one of the boys. Probably knew him. I found a few irrelevant things like cables and a loose piece of metal which I was using to cut off a few seat belt. You never knew when you needed a rope or something like that, right?

„What's it with you stealing all that crap?", the girl asked, sounding bitterly. I shrugged and continued scavenging. I kind of wanted to keep my ideas for myself, I knew it was selfish, but I needed to survive. „Did you know that boy?", I asked nodding over to the guy in front of her. Now it was her turn to shrug:"You better not tell anyone about this or I'll cut your throat"

„I won't. Would you mind?"

The girl moved out of the way as I took a closer look at the first person. I took the guys' jacket in case I got cold and went down again. I was followed by the female criminal, whose name was Kamilla Spencer as I had learned. Once again, she threatened me if I called her Kamilla. She told me her nickname was „Kai". Whatever.

I stepped out into the bright sunlight again, looking for my friends. There were dozens of people here, and most of them were wearing the same clothing. How was I supposed to find Clarke?

Also, it didn't really help that it started getting dark now. Even if Kai didn't offer to help me to find my friends, she somehow stuck around with me. She wasn't that bad. Just a bit annoying now and then. „Maybe they've been floated", she joked and I charged at her, pushing her to the ground. I pressed my arm against her throat so that she had trouble breathing and she dug her nails into my skin causing me to bleed. Not so funny anymore when you're facing death, huh? Her face turned red and she tried to wiggle out of my grip but this time, I was the stronger person. I was better than her and I liked it. Finally having power felt great and I didn't want this moment to stop but someone had pulled me off of her. „Let me go", I growled, ripping my arm away from my childhood friend holding me. At the moment I didn't give a shit about Wells and why he was here, I was just so angry. „You better watch out, Bitch", I hissed, spitting in her face before walking off to the others. I couldn't believe how someone would joke about this. People like Kai don't deserve to live anymore. I was getting curious about why everyone was crowding the campfire.

„Who's next?", the „guard", Bellamy asked loudly and everyone cheered. I followed Wells to the happening and saw that a few of the criminals had taken their wristbands off. We've gotten them so that the Ark could see our pulse and everything.

„Take them off, and the Ark will think we're dead", the Chancellor's son warned. Was it really that bad if the Ark was thinking that the earth wasn't survivable? If they knew they could safely follow us down here they would lock us all away or even kill us. If they didn't know this planet wasn't full of radiation anymore, everyone in the sky would die. Including my father. I already lost my mother and my best friend I didn't want to lose him, too.

„Noah?"

I looked up and there he was. Just standing there, looking at me like he couldn't believe it himself. What was John doing here? He was supposed to be dead. I had cried for hours once I counted to the day he turned eighteen. How was it possible that they didn't float him? My heart skipped a beat as I ran to him and wrapped my arms around his neck, holding on to him as firmly as I could. I thought I had lost my best friend, it felt so surreal. Everything was happening so fast. I got out of my cell, I was able to see my father again I had landed on earth and finally, I have found my best friend, John Murphy, again. „I thought they had killed you on your birthday", I sobbed, allowing all the emotion I had held back in all those years to flow out. „My birthday isn't until tomorrow", John mumbled, taking my face in his hands. His birthday wasn't until tomorrow. I had made a mistake. That one day had saved his life. I sighed and hugged him again. I've never been this happy before.

„Hey, Murphy, your little girlfriend is still wearing her wristband", Bellamy commented with a smirk. I stepped back from my friend and looked at my arm. Did I really want to take it off? I looked at the criminals. They were my family now. We were all the same. We had made mistakes, yes, but this was our second chance. There was no Chancellor Jaha down here. We were the ones making the decisions on earth.

„Take it off", I breathed and the others cheered. They had probably expected me to protest like Wells but fuck it. It was our turn now. I bent down and grit my teeth as John ripped the metal piece off of my wrist but I couldn't hide my proud smile as I everyone looked at me with passion in their eyes.

„You think this is a game? Noah, I've expected more from you. Your Dad is up there. There are not just our friends and family up there, there is our farmers, our doctors, our engineers! I don't care what he tells you. We won't survive here on our own. And besides, if it's really that safe how could you not want our people to come down?", Wells asked desperately. I looked down at the floor. I honestly didn't know what was wrong with me. I was constantly torn. I really wanted earth to be our place, but was it really worth killing thousands of people? That wouldn't make us better than the Chancellor, would it? It was to late now, anyways, I had already taken my wrist band off. Up on the Ark my father would think that I was dead. First he had lost my mom, now he thought I was dead, too. I immediately felt sorry for him.

„My people already are down. Those people", Bellamy pointed to the sky:"locked my people up. Those people killed my mother for the crime of having a second child. Your father did that"

„My father didn't write the laws", Wells tried to defend his family as his newborn rival took a step forward. That wouldn't end very well, I knew that the Jaha's never stopped justifying themselves once they begun.

„He enforced them. But not anymore, not here. Here there are no laws. We do whatever the hell we want, whenever the hell we want. You don't have to like it, Wells. You can try to stop it, change it. Kill me. You know why? Whatever the hell we want!"

I had to admit, Bellamy was amazing at preaching. I think we'd be totally fine if he was our „leader". We started yelling uniformly, raising our wirstband-free-fists. Both of the guys were staring at each other, ready to attack if necessary. There was a loud bang and suddenly, rain was pouring down on us. I had a huge smile plastered on my face as I looked up into the sky, not caring that the water was soon drenching me. This was our first rain and it felt amazing. It felt as if all the sins and bad thoughts would be washed away. I didn't care that Clarke left without me and that the Ark would think we were dead, I didn't care that Wells was angry at me, I didn't care about anything. For the first time in forever, I felt free. Kids were running around, hugging each other and laughing.
„This is so amazing", John yelled loud enough for me to hear. I nodded running a hand through my wet hair:"I never thought rain would be this great"