Baby - Bellamy Blake

TWENTY - FOUR

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When Freya's eyes opened, she found herself staring at the roof of a make-shift hut. There was a pain rumbling in her leg that shot up her veins. With a small groan, she sat up and looked down at her leg. Her skin was wrapped in an aloe wrap.  

" You're awake, good." Freya turned to look at the source of the voice. She jumped when she spotted a beaten Murphy sitting in a cell next to hers.

" Murphy? " Freya sat up further to clearly see the boy. His face was bruised and swollen; his body a blood rag. She went to move to get closer but hissed in pain

" Don't move. The arrows still in there, they just snapped it, " Murphy weakly said. With a sigh, she turned her body to lean her back on the metal bars.

" You look like shit " Freya breathed out with a small turn of her head in Murphys direction. He chuckled slightly while turning to look at her through his one none-swollen eye

" Thanks. I really appreciate the compliment, " Murphy mumbled out, trying to hide his smile.

" Any time, John?" Freya leaned her head back and closed her eyes. Murphy looked at her with a small frown etched on his face. He didn't understand why he did what he did to her three months ago. But he regrets it excessively.

Murphy went to open his mouth but stopped when three grounders and Anya walked in. The two teens froze as they stared at Anya who held her gaze on Freya.

" Freya," Anya greeted. The said girl gritted her teeth in anger while pushing herself further into the bars. Her leg throbbed, and her vision was spiraling.

Anya motioned to Murphys cage, and a grounder headed in his direction. " No! Leave him alone. " Freya yelled and tried to stand up. Her leg wobbled under her weight, and she fell onto her hands and knees.

Looking through her hair, she watched as a grounder walked into the cage. " Leave him alone! " Freya cried as the grounder stepped closer to Murphy. " Please! " She cried

Anya whistled, and the grounder threw a punch at Murphy, knocking him out. Freya yelled when Murphy hit the floor unconscious. The grounder then injected him with something before leaving the cage. One thing that Freya took note of was the fact that he didn’t lock the cage.

It was off-putting that they injected him with something, then left the cage open. Freya knew they were up to something, and she didn't like the feeling of it. She wasn't dumb. That was for sure.

Anya then walked into Freya's cage, and the girl quickly pushed herself against the bars with her arms. Two grounders and Anya entered the cage and stood there.

" You want peace? " Anya asked. Freya narrowed her eyes at the question, not understanding the grounders motives.

" I'll tell you if you tell me your plan," Freya said while eyeing Murphys' unconditional body.

" He's been injected with a virus." Anya lifted her chin. Freya looked at Murphy and panic settled in as the realization drawled on her. They left his cage open so he could spread the virus.

" I don't think peace will be arriving any time soon, " Freya mumbled out while glaring at murhphy.

" Pity," Anya mumbled out.

" It is, isn't it?" Freya chuckled out. Anya motioned to the grounders behind her. Freya frantically looked at them in fear.

" We could have used you as a good peace maker," Anya said before leaving. Freya gulped as she looked up at the grounders. Her eyes went to Murphy, whose eyes were slowly beginning to open.

She was suddenly grabbed by the arm and lifted up and into a chest. Both her arms were seized as the other grounder stood in front of her. Her eyes narrowed as she watched him lift his fist in the air.

Before he could land a blow, she lifted her legs and hit him square on the chest. With the reflection of the kick, the grounder holding her stumbled back into the bars, letting her go.

Swiftly, Freya turned and landed a blow to his jaw, knocking him out. The other grounder then grabbed her by the back of the neck and rammed her face into the bars. She cried in pain as she fell to the floor, clutching her throbbing face.

When her hair was pulled, she tossed her elbow back, hitting the grounder square in the nose. Turning, she kicked his knees in, making him fall to the floor.

Rushing out the cage, she made her way to Murphys and opened the cage. He flung himself onto her, making her stumble from the pain in her leg. " We gotta hurry," Freya said as she turned to leave.

Suddenly Murphy had picked her up bridal style and began to run. All Freya could do was wrap her arms around his neck and snuggle her head into his chest. Her leg throbbed, and a knot formed in her stomach, the nausea forming.

Her body rocked with Murphys as he ran and jumped over logs. Her head nestled into his neck as her thoughts swarmed back to Bellamy. His smile kept her eyes open, and his voice kept her distracted from the pain in her leg.

Suddenly Murphy was tripping over something and the two fell to the floor. Freya rolled over onto her back as she stared at the blue sky. The nasuea she was desperately trying to push down, taking a lot of her energy and the throb in her leg, burning up her veins.

She could hear yelling in the distance, but it was muffled by her heartbeat in her ears. She prayed the voice was Bellamy. She hoped that he was the one to find her and help her off the ground.

But she would never know as her vision darkened and her breathing slowed.

When Octavia and the others found Murphy holding a limp body, they all thought the worst. Rushing to pull the unconscious Freya from Murphys hands, who yelled at them, they rushed to get her to camp

The entire run, Octavia was shouting for them to hurry and get the arrow from her leg. The Raven haired girl had a moment of protectiveness over her best friend like no other.

When they reached the camp, Connor and Derek took a yelling murphy who was trying to explain to the dropship and made him sit with them all surrounding him.

Octavia stood next to Freya, who laid on a bed, her leg bleeding once again, and her face pale, a small bruise forming around her right eye and cheek bone.

It was fifteen minutes later when Bellamy entered the hut, his eyes immediately finding Freyas body. Clarke was the next to enter with her eyes wide, and jaw dropped.

" Freya, " Bellamy whispered as tears filled his eyes. He felt as if her being taken was his fault. If only he had been quicker to get to her, she would have been fine. She would have been in his hold tight and safe.

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Thank you guys for being so patient with me. You guys are absolutely amazing. Ily🫶

-Jayme