𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄 𝐎𝐍 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄 || 𝐛. 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐤𝐞

𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧

IVY GROANED AS SHE STIRRED, AND SHE FELT HAND ON HER SHOULDERS. She opened her eyes to see Bellamy kneeling beside her and helping her sit up. She furrowed her eyebrows as she blinked and looked around, realizing that they were back in the town square. How she got out, she had no clue. Her head was pounding, and she felt sticky.

She looked down, and her eyes widened when she saw that her hands and arms were covered with blood. She felt her stomach drop in horror when she saw Murphy lying next to her, not breathing. As if reading her thoughts, Bellamy was quick to assure her, "You didn't do anything. You were trying to save him."

"No, no, no, no, no," she muttered, moving over to the unconscious boy and placing her ear on his chest, trying to hear his heartbeat. Bellamy tried to grab her arm, but she quickly shrugged him off. She was panicking. The guy was annoying, but he was her family. "Murphy! Murphy, get up!"

She looked up when she heard Clarke mutter something, and she had not even realized that Abby, Octavia, Gaia, and some woman she didn't know had joined them. Everyone around her was watching as a crowd of people approached them. Bellamy glanced back at all of them, saying, "Remember, we're in their home. Everyone keep calm. Weapons down. Ivy, stay with Murphy."

"Hey, It's okay," Clarke announced to the group as a man stepped forward, clearly the leader. "We're from Earth. We come in peace."

"Kaylee, where have you been? Where's your family?" he asked the woman that Ivy didn't know. She glanced between the two, wondering what the hell was going on and if their reunion could wait until after they've saved Murphy.

The woman turned back to the group with an accusing glare. "They killed them."

"No, no, no, no," Ivy muttered when Murphy began to jerk, drawing all of the attention to him. She looked up at Abby and Clarke, the medical people, begging for them to do something. "He's seizing."

Clarke turned to the residents, specifically the man, and she pleaded, "Help us, please. Our friend's dying. He's not breathing."

"He's already dead. Fortunately for him, death is not the end," the man told her, and Ivy was so confused. A man stepped forward, and the leader nodded at him. "Cillian...he was exposed to the seaweed during the red sun. Do it." Cillian crouched down next to Murphy, and two men came and pulled Ivy away from him. She was too focused on the snake that he had just pulled out to fight back. "We call it Kepa-She, means 'hideous snake' in Chinese."