Fallen

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Return to Drop Ship

Bellamy sets the device down on the table. Someone bugged Pike's office, so they have been feeding false information to them. Hopefully they can weed out who it is. Him and Pike go into another office so no one hears what they are actually talking about.

"It's most likely Kane and those loyal to him," Pike states.

"Or if they just disagree," Bellamy mutters. "Some think we're killing ourselves."

Pike looks over at him.

"I assume you are talking about Ash."

"She fought these Grounders with me and yet she stands with them."

"Hopefully over time she sides with us. Others will also turn if she joins us."

Bellamy thinks about how it's not the first time he heard that about her. Jasper had mentioned that people would follow her decisions in the Mountain.

"She's stubborn."

"Try talking to her. If she can see our side of things, she can work with us."

Bellamy processes this. Ash may be able to actually leave the cell as well. But she won't listen to him. Not after he was the reason for her being arrested again.

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Ash sits on ground next to Lincoln. They left the benches open so that those who are worst can lay down. The door opens and Sinclair is pushed in. Lincoln walks over to him. Sinclair whispers something in his ear before Lincoln walks back over.

"Prepare to leave tonight," he mutters to her.

"What about the blockade?" she quietly responds. As a guard looks over, she looks at her hands. She strips the small piece of fabric. Something they have seen her do before. The guard turns away.

"We'll figure that out," he mutters about it. Some people had came to torment the sick Grounders because of the blockade.

After a couple hours, Marcus is thrown in. Ash gets up and hugs her dad. Pike steps forward. Bellamy a couple steps behind.

"Marcus, Lincoln, and Sinclair," he calls up. "The three of you will be executed in the morning. Ash, you will be given a second chance under a watchful eye afterwards."

Horror and shock flash in Bellamy's eyes. As Ash goes to respond, Marcus pushes her behind him. He nods his head and Pike leaves. Marcus turns to his daughter.

"I can't lose you also," she states.

"You won't," he promises. He walks away to talk to Lincoln and Sinclair. She crosses her arms while making sure no one is looking at them. Eventually, Lincoln walks over to Ash. He stands by her, but facing away.

"Once the door is open, run," he tells her.

"Where's the meeting location?" she asks. He falls silent. Her eyes flicker towards him. He has a stoic expression "You three need to escape-"

"Ash, stop," he responds. "Only one of us can escape right  now. Strategically it's you. They don't have anyone to punish for your actions. We're already marked to be killed. Plus you had the most recent training in fighting."

His words process in her brain.

"You better fucking escape," she responds, barely accepting it. She moves towards the wall by the door while Sinclair goes over to Lincoln. He bumps into him.

"What's your problem?" Lincoln snaps.

"You," Sinclair yells back. "You're part of the problem."

The two start 'fighting' while Marcus tries to break the apart. A guard swings open the door and Ash quickly kicks the back of his knee. As he falls down, she grabs the baton off his belt. She knocks him out before taking off.

A couple guards take off towards the cell and her. She uses the baton to knock them out. She aims for legs, stomach, head. Non-lethal spots that could still cause them to not follow her.

An alarm goes off as she continues to hurry. A hand grabs her and pulls her into a closet. The grip releases as an arm wraps around her stomach and a hand clasps over her mouth. She hears footsteps run past the dark room. After a moment the person lets her go. She turns to see Bellamy. Ash quickly pushes him away.

"We need to get you out," he states.

"Get bent," she tells him.

"I didn't mean for all of this to wrong. I was just trying to protect our people."

"Our people now include the Grounders as well," she snaps back. She pulls away from him before cautiously opening the door. Bellamy closes the door, pinning her against it.

"I am not with Pike any more," he hisses. "I didn't know he was going to sentence them to death."

She knees him before taking off out of the closet. She gets to the piece of wall that opens, sliding in. She quietly closes the hidden door before sneaking through the walls. It is not much bigger than the hidden space in the mountain, though it is easier since she is alone this time. She follows the path until she finds the exit. It spits her out by the weak spot in the fence. 

She slides out before taking off into the woods. She keeps running in a random direction. Slowing down, she looks round at the familiar woods. A smirk grows on her face as she takes off again. Her feet knowing the path very well. Soon the homemade wall appears. Ducking through the hidden tunnel, she enters in the area. Then it all hits her. This is the first time she has been back here.

 Grass has started to take over where it should have been burnt. All the bodies have been removed from the area. All the signs of battle before is the destroyed tents. A message to Clarke is carved into the drop ship. She walks over to the drop ship, her fingers running over the carved words. Even the ones from the beginning when people were insulting Wells. She softly chuckles at Murphy misspelling words. 

"We ended up in the same place," she hears. She quickly turns to see Bellamy there. 'I planned on meeting O here."

"Well I'm here," another voice chimes in. Octavia walks out of the drop ship. She seems to ignore Ash, going straight for her brother. Bellamy goes for a hug, however Octavia just drugs him. She starts tying his hands.

"Help me carry him," Octavia requests. Ash quickly heads over and the two carry him to a cave where an injured Indra is waiting.