Descendants of Kane (probably won't update anymore, stopped watching)

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Arkadia

Abby was in the medical center checking Jaha's vitals, but Marcus stood outside too afraid to go in. He didn't want to hear his friend say the words, "Your daughter is dead."

"You don't have to worry about John Murphy," Jaha explained to Abby, "that boy is a fighter." Marcus' head jolted up from his hands.

Murphy was Eve's boyfriend. Murphy was alive and somewhere. Where ever he is, Eve must be there too. He wouldn't let her die.

Storming into the medical center, Marcus stared at Thelonious.

"What about the others?" Abby questioned Jaha, disregarding her lover, Kane. "You left with twelve people, Thelonious."

Jaha grinned, "Kane."

Marcus' face was drained of color from the intense fear that Eve was . . . he didn't even want to think about that possibility anymore. Leaning on a chair, he asked desperately, "Eve, is she . . . where is she? Is my daughter okay?"

"Eve is alive and well," Jaha smiled while explaining.

Sighing hard, Marcus sat down in the chair next to Abby, and asked, far less worried than before, "Where is she?"

Jaha explained, "She's with John Murphy in the forest somewhere."

"Why aren't they with you? Did she run away with him?" Kane asked rapidly, "Can you take me to her?"

Jaha danced around the truth, "They didn't want to join me in the City of Light, so they made a life for themselves stealing travelers' belongings."

"What?" Marcus was confused. "The whole reason she left was to finally reach peace, but she threw it all away?"

Abby crossed her arms, and glanced over at the body of the dead grounder boy next to him. "Ask his friend Otan. Apparently he's in there right now."

"I don't blame you for doubting, Abby, but it is real and it is incredible," Jaha explained in a dreamy way. Marcus was starting to understand why Even and Murphy didn't want to go to the City of Light any more. "Everything we worry about—war, power—nothing matters in the City of Light."

Then, creeping up slowly, Hannah Green approached Jaha, and grinned, "I heard you were here, sir."

"And I heard you made it, Hannah," Jaha replied, "I'm so glad."

"Chancellor Pike would like to speak with you," Hannah said, sending chills down Marcus' back.

Jaha smiled, stating to Kane, "We'll finish this later." Thelonious and Hannah exited the medical center, leaving Kane and Abby alone.

"I'm beginning to understand why Eve didn't join him," Marcus stated.

Abby placed a hand on Marcus' back, and quickly requested, "We need to talk when we get home."

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Murphy and I were back in our cave as night had fallen, and both of us were looking through the loot we had taken from our targets.

"So where do you want to head next?" Murphy asked, searching through the pile of cloth, "North, south, east, west? We've been on one heck of a roll."

I stared down at the armor the man had been carrying before responding. "I want to go home," I stated.

Murphy turned around, and sighed, "Honey, we've talked about this," he sat down next to me, "The whole reason we left was because camp was making you suicidal, why would you ever want to go back there?"

"My dad is there," I explained. "He thinks I'm dead, John. I have to let him know that I'm okay."

Murphy argued, "Going back to camp is not a good move."

"John," I growled at him, trying to hide the fact that he was making me upset.

He said angrily, "It's not a survivor's move, Eve. If we go back, and shit is still going down at Mt. Weather, we're done for."

My voice cracked, "You're just saying that to scare me."

"I'm not trying to scare you," Murphy narrowed his eyes at me.

I yelled, "Yes, you are! You're trying to convince me to not go because you're scared shitless by my dad."

"I'm not scared of him," he stated quickly.

I started getting emotional seeing that Murphy was getting mad at me, "Then why don't you want to go back?" I tried to stop myself from crying, but couldn't. I hated when he was mad at me. "I won't let him be mad at you, Murphy. I love you and my dad. Please just go with me."

Murphy took my hand, and he said softly, "I can't go back. Nobody wants me back there." Yanking my hand out of his, I abruptly stood up, and angrily walked to the front of the cave. My arms were folded across my chest as I watched the rain fall from the sky. "Eve," Murphy called out to me, standing up.

"Just leave me alone!" I yelled, wiping the tears from my cheeks with my jacket sleeve.

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It's a short chapter, but idc I'm sick and want to rest