Fallen | Raven Reyes

Survival

"How many times Christine?! How many!" Kane yelled as a seven year old Gwen looked up at her parents with teary eyes. Christine shook her head. "Don't do that! Don't make me look like the villain in front of my daughter!"

"Our daughter! Chrissy! You can't keep doing this, you're hurting Gwen and you're hurting yourself. You need to get clean or else I will tell Jaha!"

Gwen felt a heat rising in her chest. "No!! No! no! No!!" She repeatedly yelled as she banged her fist against the wall. "Stop! It! Just stop!" She continued as blood dripped from her knuckles.

Marcus stepped toward Gwen. "Hey, sweetheart come here." He pulled her fist away from the wall but Gwen kept yelling. "No! Get away!"

So Christine tried but to no avail. "Both of you get away from me!" Gwen yelled and ran out the room. She kept running till she crashed into a boy.

"Ow, going to fast." The boy muttered as he stood. His eyes widened when he noticed the blood on Gwen's hands. "Whoa cool!" He looked at her tear stained face. "Sorry are you ok?"

She nodded but backed away from him slowly at the same time. "Hey, I'm not going to hurt you." He stuck out his hand. "Names John, most people call me Murphy."

She shook it with a laugh. "Gwen." She wiped her tears and looked at him with hopeful eyes. "Is there somewhere we can go? I don't want to be around my parents right now." Murphy nodded and led her down the hallway.

"Gwen?" Brandon snapped his fingers in front of Gwen's teary eyes. "Gwen? Hello?" She blinked rapidly before she focused on his face. "How was that? Did you remember a lot?"

She nodded. "I-I um wow." She let out a breath. "That's, that's not how I remember meeting Murphy but I guess." She took a pause. "I guess I met him after rejecting both of their hugs." She stood and so did Brandon.

"Look b I appreciate you helping me I really do, but do you think we could take a break for a while. I want to first actually talk to my father and get our friends out of mount weather before I remember everything." She touched his arm. "Is that okay?"

He nodded. "Of course it is, they're your memories you can do with them as you please when you please. Okay?" She nodded and hugged him before waving goodbye.

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Gwen looked at the two grounders who were watching Murphy. She smirked and went up to him. "Looks like you got admires Murphy, must've been such a good boy when you spent time with them." She sarcastically laughed.

Murphy rolled his eyes. "Shut up." He mumbled as Gwen walked towards Tanya.

"Gwen." Tanya said as she noticed the blonde approaching her. "It's good to see you again."

Gwen smiled widely. "Same to you. Abby told me that you told her to tell me sorry? For what exactly?"

Tanya looked down. "For your friend, Finn. And just sorry I didn't look out for you better." Gwen touched Tanya's arm softly.

"Finn is not your fault. He-he was losing his mind and that's what got him killed, as for the looking out for me, you did just fine" she laughed softly. "You did better than my own mother could've of. So thank you." They hugged which earned them some side glances and whispers but they didn't care.

"I know we don't have a lot in common." Marcus paused and made eye contact with Gwen who stood beside Tanya and Layla. He smiled softly before dropping it. "But we do have a common enemy and a common goal. And for us to reach it, to get our people out of mount weather we need to work together." His gaze then shifted to Indra. "Ogeda." Together.