Chapter 28

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The five of us make our way to the entrance door at the Reapers and open it. Clarke and Octavia look at us with wide eyes and she immediately falls into Octavia's arms. I look at Clarke and give her a quick smile, but she comes to me and hugs me tightly. Octavia also hugs Monty and Jasper.

Bellamy runs to me and Clarke. "Where's your army?" "Gone. Just like yours."

We split up. Jasper, Octavia and Maya go to level 5 to give Maya oxygen since she's almost out of it. Clarke, Monty, Bellamy and I go to Wallance first and with him to the command centre. As he doesn't come with us voluntarily, we have to force him and it's not difficult for me.

In the room, Monty immediately sits down at the computer and starts activating the surveillance cameras and displaying them on the screen, which he manages to do. "Is that Raven?" I look at Bellamy's with anxious eyes and then at the screen. It is Raven. My Raven and she's being tortured by these monsters. They are drilling into her leg and I can feel the pain. It's coming over me like they're doing it to me.

"Dad?" My whole body gets goose bumps when I see my father on the screen. "He's alive?" At this moment, I don't care if Bellamy finds out he's my father, all I want to do is free the two of them now.

"Tell them to stop." Bellamy holds the radio up to Mr Wallance. "I won't do that." "Emerson." Clarke grabs the radio and looks at the screen. "Carl Emerson, Mount Weather security detail, come in." "Who is this?" "Who know who this is. Give the radio to the president." We watch as Emerson walks over to Cade. "This is President Wallace." Just seeing his face makes me boil with rage.

"I have you father. If you don't let my people go, I'll kill him." "How do I know you have him?" Clarke extends the radio to him. "Stay the course, Cage." "You won't do it." "You don't know me very well. This end
now. Realise my people." "I can't do that." Clarke pulls out her gun and draws on him. "Don't make me do this." "Dad, I'll take care of our people."

The moment I hear this sentence from Cage, I jerk my gun and shoot Wallance without flinching. Everyone looks at me and I run for the door. "What are you doing?" "I'm saving Raven." Bellamy holds me back by the wrist. "You won't. They'll kill you." Tears form on my face. "I have to. I love her Bellamy." "No." I pull myself free and run out. I immediately lock the door and destroy the cartel reader so they can't get out so quickly.

I run downstairs faster than ever before. My mind is out of it, but all that matters is Raven. When I reach the room, I kick the door open and immediately shoot at the guards. They run at me and I knock my gun away, pulling out my knife and stabbing them. Several times, as often as I can. One of them hits me with the electric baton and I fall to the ground.

He bends down to push me to the ground as I bite into his neck and rip out a chunk of his throat. He screams and holds his neck as Cage comes into the room and immediately turns his gun on me when he sees me. Before I can defend myself, the other guards in the room come and hold me down.

Cage walks slowly towards me and grabs my chin to force me to look at him, causing me to spit in his face. A smirk forms on his face. "You've always been my favourite." He runs his hand slowly down my neck to my chest. "Actually, I came here to swap Clarke's mum for the girl on the table, but now I have something that probably means something to more than just Clarke. You're Bellamy's girl, aren't you?"

"Put her on the table." I immediately try to resist, but it's no use. As soon as they remove Raven from the table, they put me on it and fixate me. "Leave my daughter alone." I turn my head and look into my father's eyes. "Dad." A smile forms on my face. I've never been so happy to see him. But he and Raven are still not safe.

I scream out as they start to drill into my leg. My scream gets louder and louder and I feel the pain all over my body. "Let her go!" They silence my father with an electric baton and Raven lies unconscious on the floor. They continue and my whole body aches, but all I can think about is the safety of my people.

Before they can insert the drill one more time, the guards who are still alive start screaming. Radiation. They have activated it. They all start to burn alive. Except Cage. His face is full of rage and fear at the same time. He bends over me and releases me before I pull myself with him. "Let go of her!" I can barely manage a step with my aching legs, but he just pulls me along with him. Once in the corridor, he speeds up.

"Let her go!" Cage turns with me and puts the gun to my head when I see Bellamy and Clarke. "Let me go and I'll let her go-" Before he can finish speaking, Bellamy shoots him in the arm. He falls over and holds his arm while I immediately take a few steps away from him, or rather crawl away.

Bellamy pulls his knife out of his trousers and holds it to Cage's neck. "You touched her! You touched her against her will! Go to hell!" With those words, Bellamy slits his throat and my eyes widen. Clarke is in the room with her mum, helping to free everyone, while Bellamy takes care of me and lifts me up. "Don't ever do that again!"

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Back at camp, I'm sitting in the infirmary with Raven and we're having our wounds tended to by Abby. I have already spoken to my father and I am so glad that I was able to hug him again. I'm so glad he's not dead.

Raven is still holding my hand and leaning her head on my shoulder. She is tired and lies down on my lap. It doesn't take long before she is fast asleep. I slowly stroke her hair and watch her sleep. She has always been the most important thing to me. Ever since the day she found me crying in a corner on the Ark. She sat down next to me and tried to get me to talk. She was the first person I told my problems to. Not all of them, of course, but it was so good to talk about them. I told her that I hated my father's actions and was afraid that I would become like him.

"It's not your blood that defines you. It's you heart."

She said this sentence to me and I will probably never be able to forget it.

She lost so much. Her mom. Her dad and Finn. Finn died and I couldn't even say goodbye to him. Clarke is gone because she can't look the people in the eyes after what she did to safe us. But at least I have my girl in my armes and my boy on my side.

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