On the Run ~ON HOLD~

Chapter 5 Search Parties and Egotistical Sons of Bitches

"Clarke, come on!" Finn yelled as he pulled the girl's arm as she stopped to look behind them.

Thea ran after them, her adrenaline taking over, causing her to forget anything other than the urge to run.

Monty, who ran behind her, tripped and went crashing to the ground.

"Monty! Get up! C'mon we gotta go!" Thea panted as she and Finn each took one of his arms and attempted to haul him to his feet.

The boy was frozen however, stating at something in front of him. Thea looked down, stepping back in horror as she realized what he was looking at. Bones.

"Who are they?" Finn panted.

"What are they?" Clarke corrected, picking up an almost human-like but distorted skull as the others looked on fearfully.

"We are so screwed," Octavia breathed. Thea nodded in agreement, her eyes wide as she took in the scene in front of her.

All of the sudden, there was a scream from the direction they had been running from. Clarke dropped the skull as she and Thea made eye contact.

"Jasper." Thea muttered to herself, "He's alive." she gasped before taking off in the direction of the boy's screams.

"Thea. Wait. Wait!" Finn yelled, taking off after the girl.

"Wait." Finn grabbed her arm, pulling her back before she could run any further. He said something else but Thea blocked him out, focusing on the spot where Jasper had been only moments before.

"He was right there." Fear was evident in Monty's voice as he looked at the empty ground where his best friend had been. "Where is he?"

Thea's eyes widened in fear, "They took him."

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The group of five walked, dejectedly back towards the drop ship's landing site, each lost in their own thoughts.

As they got closer to their destination, they could hear a commotion coming from the direction of the camp. Several kids were yelling and the sound of fighting could be heard. Clarke rushed forward, the others close behind her.

When they reached the source of the noise, the five froze momentarily at the scene in front of them. Wells held Murphy, a knife pressed to the boy's throat.

"Wells!" Clarke called out to the boy. "Let him go."

Wells obeyed, shoving Murphy forward onto the ground. The boy was immediately up again, lunging for Wells. He was stopped, however, by Bellamy who had evidently decided to put an end to the fighting.

"Enough, Murphy." Bellamy spoke as he pulled the boy back. "Octavia." He ran forward as he spotted his sister limping into camp with Thea and Monty supporting her.

"Are you alright?" The older sibling lifted his sister down from the log she stood on, supporting her to make sure she didn't fall.

"Yeah." Octavia answered unconvincingly as she winced in pain.

"Where's the food?" Bellamy demanded.

"Well at least he has his priorities straight." Thea muttered to herself.

"We didn't make it to Mount Weather," Finn sighed as he sat down on a log.