Kingdom Of Heavens - The 100 [1]

Chapter 1

Flashback, Venus's POV (2 years ago)

I woke up in a sea of sheets. I slowly turned over feeling their softness against my bare flesh. And there he was, as handsome as ever. His longish brown hair had been tossed around during the night. I reached out with one hand to brush the bits that had fallen in front of his beautiful brown eyes away. He encircled my hand with his and brought it down to his lips. His hands were rough, the hands of a hard worker, but his lips were oh so soft. I knew every trace of him by heart, but still found myself staring at the beauty that was the love of my life.

Suddenly, he pushed himself up and climbed over me out of his bed, ruining the moment we had. I sat up, slightly confused at this change, as he didn't have a job to go to today. "What's with the rush?" I watched as he pulled on his pants from the night before, and began to look for his shirt amongst the pile of our clothes that we had so carelessly thrown on the floor the night before.

"Where's my shirt babe?" He finally gave up looking, realizing the rest were just mine, and looked up at me with that smirk of his I loved so much. A shiver went down my spine as I stared back, savoring all his beautiful features. I was truly in love.

"Oh, I don't know." I giggled slightly as I laid back down in the bed, feeling the shirt under the covers by my toes. I had managed to wake up an hour ago and hide the shirt from him. He's usually not in a rush, but when he is this little trick got him to stay just a little bit longer, and usually got me another hour of fun with him.

He climbed up on the bed, and straddled my small body, now only half under the sheets. "Something tells me you do." My mouth watered as I stared at his lips, realizing all too well I had not yet received a morning kiss from him.

I shrugged innocently, poorly acting as though I didn't know where the shirt was. The smile that I could not conceal gave me away, as it did every other morning I tried this.

"Give it up V." His fingers danced over my body, focusing most at my armpits – I should have never told him that's where I was the most ticklish. I squirmed under him, laughing uncontrollably. Between fits of laughter, I could see he had begun to lean down, closer to my face. His lips were just about to meet mine when the door flung open.

"John Murphy, you are under arrest." Several guards marched into the room alongside Councilman Marcus Kane, my father. Two guards grabbed Murphy, each taking an arm, and pulled him from the bed. A third already had his taser out and ready, in case he tried to fight back, which of course he did rewarding him a jolt of electricity to his side. This sent him into a few brief convulsions before he stopped resisting the guards. I had to look away for a second, I hated seeing him this way. I quickly noticed the breeze on my chest before pulling the blanket up to cover myself.

"What's going on??" Despite being the youngest, the only female, and the only one completely unclothed in the room, my curiosity still came through. Even through the heaps of embarrassment I was feeling from my father standing right there. I hated that man. The guards began to escort my boyfriend out of the small room as I called after him. "What's going on? What did you do? What did you do John Murphy??"

When it was just us two left in the room, my father eyed me over as my hands held onto the sheets to cover myself, almost as if for dear life. He glanced down at my pile of clothes on the floor before putting two and two together. "Get dressed." He spoke in his usual monotone voice before leaving the room.

I couldn't believe it. One moment we were laying here together, in each other's arms. And the next, John was arrested. It took a few moments for that to really sink in before I understood the full meaning of what that meant. Arrested. Floated.