Captured by love • Bellamy Blake

003, bye Murphy

Bye Murphy

They stayed in the tent for the next thirty minutes discussing the death. The ground was scary enough and now there was murderer in camp.

Bellamy argued whoever killed him wasn't the only murderer and told Clarke to keep this quiet. It was rare but Ivy agreed with him. That was until Clarke held up the knife, revealing the initials J.M etched in on the metal. John Murphy.

"Well shit." Ivy groaned out as Clarke exited the tent.

Ivy and Octavia trailed a little bit behind Jasper and Bellamy who stood behind Clarke as she argued with Murphy.

"Bellamy, you really believe this crap?" Bellamy kept standing there angling his head slightly up.

"You threatened to kill him. We all heard you. You hated Wells."

"Plenty of people hated Wells. His father was the chancellor that locked us up."

"Yeah, but you're the only one who got in a knife fight with him."

"Yeah, I didn't kill him then, either."

"Tried to kill Jasper, too."

"Come on. This is ridiculous. I don't have to answer to you. I don't have to answer to anyone."

"Come again?" Murphy walked away from Clarke and made his way over to the four of them.

"Bellamy, look, I'm telling you, man. I didn't do this."

"They found his fingers on the ground with your knife."

"Is this the kind of society that we want? You say there should be no rules. Does that mean that we can kill each other? Without— without punishment?"

"I already told you. I didn't kill anyone."

"I say we float him." Some random boy called out from the crowd.

"That's not what I'm saying."

Ivy cut between Clarke and the boy who was now speaking, facing him before she started to talk.

"If we kill Murphy, we're no better than him. We'd be killers."

"Not if he committed a crime."

"We've all committed crimes, genius." The boy shoved her backward but before she could raise her first and punch him, Bellamy got between us and placed a hand on his chest.

"Float him!" He yelled as Bellamy continued to attempt getting him away from the girl. Then the whole crowd started chanting "float him"

Murphy lunged forward at the guy who started the chant but didn't get far before someone tripped him. Bellamy grabbed Ivy's hand and pulled her away form the crowd as they began to beat up Murphy.

One of them gagged his mouth and a group of them stood him up and began walking with him.

The men threw him down the hill which caused a shiver to go down the brunettes spine. Though the next thing made her face turn pale, they through a rope over a thick three branch, they were gonna hang him.