Saving Me 》 Bellamy Blake {Book Two}

Chapter Five: Close Calls

A/N: Chapter song is "Heartbeat" by The Fray

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They ran together in a close group through the woods for a few hours following the map the grounder drew. They ducked under trees and jumped over fallen logs, stumbling occasionally.

"Everyone, eyes peeled. We're in grounder territory." Bellamy threw over his shoulder, holding up a tree branch for Jamie.

Finn ducked under the branch as Bellamy let go and stepped through behind Jamie. "Everything is grounder territory."

"I can't keep running, all right?" Murphy called out, stopping and kneeling over with his hands on his knees. "We don't even know if the guy Finn killed was telling the truth."

"Keep moving." Finn remarked, getting ready to continue on.

Bellamy held up a hand to stop him and shook his head. "We can give him a minute."

"No, we can't. You heard what the grounder said. They'll outlive their usefulness." Finn looked at Jamie as he spoke to see her doubled over similarly to Murphy. Her chest rapidly rose and fell from the exertion of the long run but she remained silent in the argument.

"Yeah, I heard what he said when you had a gun to his head." Bellamy scowled at him, taking note of how exhausted everyone was.

Finn sighed and shook his head. "You think I wanted to do that? He would have told his people we're coming and by the time we got there our people would be dead. Maybe that's something you can live with but I can't!"

Bellamy took a step forward, voice dropping as he spoke. "You did what you think you had to do but you are not yourself right now and I can't be out here with another loose cannon."

"Guys."

They all looked up at Jamie as she scanned the area. A few feet ahead of them there were dozens of bodies scattered on the ground.

"Fall in." Bellamy called out, pulling Jamie back behind him as they started walking once more.

"Where the hell did they come from?" Murphy asked, looking around at all the mangled corpses.

Jamie gasped as she spotted familiar black hair. She leaned over the girl she'd met in engineering and brushed her hair away from her face. Her face paled when she noticed the girl's eyes still open in fear. "The Ark." She mumbled, glancing at Bellamy as she climbed to her feet and they continued on towards a large clearing just beyond the woods.

They parted through the trees to find a cliff and looked over to see the destroyed station at the bottom.

"Rough landing." Murphy mumbled.

Jamie stared down with wide, horror filled eyes as she thought about the people that could have been on that ship. "Do we know what station this is?" Her mind raced at the possibility of it being farm station and Monty's parents being on board.

"No, look there's nothing we can do for these people. We gotta go." Bellamy lightly grasped Jamie's arm and pulled her away from the cliff, Finn turning to follow them.

A light cry drew their attention and Jamie turned back towards the cliff. She pulled out of Bellamy's grasp and went back to the edge of the cliff, peering down at the ground far below them. Another cry had her looking up at the nearest person, Murphy.

"Did you hear that?"

His eyes widened marginally when hers met his and he found himself nodding. He returned his gaze to the cliff's edge and was surprised to find a young woman grasping onto a ledge. "Hey, there's someone down there." His eyes frantically darted up to Jamie's before he looked back down. "Hey!" Murphy yelled to the young woman.