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[ 024 ] the wasted.

— CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR,
the wasted.

WHEN THE RAIN STARTS, THE PEOPLE PANIC.

Thankfully, it hadn't been black rain.

Ruby wasn't outside when it started to rain, she's been by Ryland's beside for hours.

She currently sits by Ryland's side in med bay. It took her nearly an hour to calm down the night before, and Roan held her for as long as he needed to.

But now, Ruby doesn't take her eyes off of Ryland. She watches his bare chest rise and fall slowly, terrified that if she looks away, his chest will fall and it won't rise again.

He'd made it through the night.

Clarke barely got any sleep due to her tremendous efforts to keep her friend alive.

He lays on the bed, dressed in only his underwear with a blanket covering him from the abdomen down. An IV is hooked to his arm, it's full of crushed antibiotics to prevent any infections. His entire leg, from his ankle to his thigh, is covered in bandages that have to be changed every two hours.

Bellamy sits against the med bay wall, his legs sprawled out in front of him. He watches Ruby closely. He's worried about her. She's been fighting sleep since the previous night. She worried herself sick for her best friend. Bellamy knows this because he was the one who held her hair back away from her face as she threw up.

Clarke, Bellamy, and Roan are to leave for Becca's island soon to take ten barrels of Hydrazine to Raven and Abby.

Why?

Because they have a rocket.

A rocket.

Ruby is meant to go but she told the other she doesn't want to leave Ryland's side.

"Ru." Bellamy suddenly speaks up. He pushes himself up from the floor and approaches his girlfriend. He drops his hand to her shoulder. "You comin' with us?"

"Will he be okay?" She whispers.

"Niylah says he'll recover but slowly. The burns are third-degree, he inhaled a lot of smoke. He was in the server room when it happened, Ru. But he's a fighter. He's strong. He'll make it." Bellamy reassures her.

She says nothing as she leans up and kisses Ryland on the forehead. Bellamy listens as she whispers to her best friend. "I'll be bask soon, Ry. Don't you dare die."

Niylah approaches them and looks to Ruby. The Carson girl has deep purple bags under her eyes, her clothes ridden with blood and dirt and ash. "You should change before you leave." Niylah tells her.

"I was planning on it. Thankfully, my apartment wasn't apart of the destroyed living quarters." Ruby says. She then looks back at Ryland. "Please take care of him."

"I will," Niylah nods.

The two leave med bay for Ruby's apartment. 

They get to Ruby's apartment in no time. She opens the door and Bellamy follows her in. She can tell he wants to ask her something, so she waits for him to speak first as she walks into her bedroom.

That's when he finally asks, "what's going on with you and Roan?"

She turns to face him, looking at him as if he's lost his mind. "What?" She laughs. "Me and Roan? Are you crazy, Bell? He's the King of Azgeda. What is there to happen between us?" Ice Nation.