Shameless ~ Bellamy Blake

34~ Near Death Experience

"He stopped breathing." Murphy tries to explain. "I was trying to help him."

I stay frozen. My eyes dart to the left of Murphy where a gun lay. I immediately lunge for it, but Murphy's faster than me. The gun, the safety off and loaded, is now pointed at my skull.

"Murphy, don't do this." I mumble. "I didn't hang you. I was gonna be next."

"Which is why I wonder why you love Bellamy so much." Murphy smiles pressing the gun further into my forehead and pressing the large red button to close the door of the drop ship.

My eyes grow wider as I realize we're the only two in the drop ship and no one knows what's going on. Murphy could easily kill me and get away with it.

I move slightly away from the gun.

"Hey! Don't move!" Murphy yells, stepping forward to make sure the gun is still pressed against me. "I don't want to hurt you, Tatum. But we both know what'll happen if Bellamy finds out."

"If Bellamy finds out about what?" I booming voice comes from the make-shift walky-talky laying on the table beside Murphy. 

"Murphy has a gun." I pipe out, my voice becoming shakier as I see Murphy's anger radiating off of him. "He killed Myles."

"Murphy, what the hell are you doing?" Bellamy yells through the walky-talky from outside. "Open the damn door!"

"If you try to be a hero, your little girlfriend here dies." Murphy smirks.

"Don't you dare touch her." Bellamy growls.

Radio silence sounds again as Bellamy gets off the walky-talky, obviously talking to someone outside.

"Listen, Murphy-" I begin.

"Stop. Don't even try." Murphy demands.

"Murphy, I know you can hear me." Bellamy voice comes through again. "All our ammo and food are in the middle level. You know that." Bellamy's voice rises a little. "You're leaving un vulnerable to an attack. I can't let that happen."

"Well, in case you haven't noticed, you're not exactly in control right now." Murphy fires back.

"You don't want to hurt Tatum. You want to hurt me." Bellamy says. "So, what do you say? How about we trade her for me?"

"No!" I scream.

"Tatum, be quiet." Bellamy warns. "All you have to do is let her go. And I'll take her place. Open the door. I walk in and she walks out."

"Just you, Bellamy, unarmed." Murphy replies.

"I'm here." Bellamy yells from outside. 

Murphy shoves me backwards into the door, before pushing the red button. The drop ship door opens with a creak and Murphy shoves me backwards outside. I go tumbling down the drop ship steps and land at the feet of Octavia. I don't have any time to get back up before the drop ship doors are closed again, with Bellamy inside.

"We have to get him out of there." I look at Jasper, Octavia, Raven and the growing crowd around us with tears in my eyes. "Murphy's going to kill him."

"Tatum," Raven walks over to me. "I can get under the floor of the drop ship. There's a loose noose on the back. If I can pop it, we can get through."

"Go." Is all I said before her and Jasper take off behind the drop ship.

A loud gun shot fires through the drop ship, my ears begin ringing but my only worry is Bellamy. I snatch the radio from Octavia.

"Bellamy?" My voice cracks in the middle of saying his name. "Are you alright?"

A muffled voice comes through, unintelligible.

"Bellamy?" Tears begin to flow. "Are you there?"

"Just a misfire." Bellamy calls out. 

"Oh thank God." I cry out, almost lurching towards Octavia who is equally as emotional as I.

***

It's been an hour. Or maybe an hour and a half since Bellamy walked into that drop ship. My body nor mind hasn't relaxed since then. Every now and then I call in on the radio, double checking that he's still alive. 

Suddenly Jasper comes running out from behind the drop ship.

"She's almost done." Jasper calls. "The door should be opening any minute. Be ready."

I immediately get at the foot of the drop ship, ready to run in. Suddenly, sparks fly from under the drop ship and the door does not open.

"I thought you said-" Octavia begins but is cut off by the multiple gun shots that are then fired through the drop ship floor by none other than Murphy. My eyes grow wide as I look over at Jasper who's thinking the same thing...Raven.

A loud CLANG comes from inside the drop ship.

"What was that?" I ask.

Suddenly, with a loud creak, the drop ship door slowly begins opening. Without even waiting for it to reach the ground, I jump up on it and begin running into the drop ship, Jasper at my heels. The sight before me takes the breath literally right out of me. Bellamy is being hung from multiple of the red seat belts from the ceiling. He had obviously put up a good fight because his body is limp now, near death. Jasper lurches forward and grabs Bellamy's legs and lifts him up, giving him air. I run forward and grab a knife that was sitting on the floor and cut down the seat belts. Bellamy falls to the floor with a BANG and I crawl over to him.

"Bellamy." I mumble, tears flowing through my eyes. "You're okay." I say stroking his cheek with my thumb. Bellamy grabs my face and slams his lips against mine before jumping up and climbing up the ladder to the second floor door, which is locked.

"He went up here." Bellamy growls, beating against the door.

Finally Bellamy's attempts at getting the locked latch door open, works. The door flies open and all four of us climb into the level. 

"We're too late." Octavia says as she examines the huge howl in the side of the drop ship where Murphy escaped.

"The guy knows how to make an exit." Bellamy mumbles.

***

Bellamy stands talking to Clarke outside of the drop ship as Raven is being carried inside. Murphy shot Raven when he fired through the drop ships floor. Clarke nods and then turns to go into the drop ship.

"Bellamy." I say, walking to him. I wanted to give him this huge long speech. I wanted to tell him about how utterly in love I am with him. But as I stand here, looking into his eyes as he looks into my teary ones, everything I wanted to say to him disappears. I just melt. I throw myself into his arms and a loud cry comes from my lips as I barry my face in his neck. "You almost died." 

"I know." Bellamy says, as he strokes my hair and hugs me tighter. 

"Don't you ever leave me, Bellamy Blake. Do you hear me? I don't think I could survive without you." I say, pulling away from him and kissing his rough lips. 

"I love you, Tatum. I'll never leave you." Bellamy promises.

"I love you too."

"We need to leave." Finn says walking up to us. "The Grounders are coming for us right now."

"Just take what you can carry!" Jasper calls out as Bellamy and I realize that all around us are our friends, our people, packing up there things...ready to run.