On the Run ~ON HOLD~

Chapter 19 The Price of Love

Thea was surprisingly good at hunting. She had managed to shoot a deer with a makeshift spear she had made and was now helping store the meat for the upcoming winter.

She was hanging a piece of meat on the drying rack when she heard Clarke's voice. 

"Have you seen Thea? I need to speak to her."

"In here," Thea shouted, exiting the tent while wiping her hands on her pants.

"What's up?" she asked when she reached Clarke who was exiting Bellamy's tent.

"The Ark found some records that show an old supply depot, not far from here. It might have things we need to survive the winter. Would you mind going to check it out? I have work to do here and I don't trust anyone else."

"Of course," Thea replied, smiling at the girl, "Show me the way and I'll get going right now."

"Alright, I've drawn out a map," Clarke handed it over, "Just follow this route and it should be right here," she traced her finger along the map until she tapped the area where the depot was.

"Alright sounds good," Thea said, "I'll grab my stuff and get going right away."

"Alright, Bellamy will meet you at the gate in ten minutes."

"Bellamy will what?" Thea asked, bewildered.

But Clarke had already turned and left, heading back to the dropship.

"Great," Thea muttered sarcastically to herself.

Spending a whole day alone with Bellamy, exactly what she wanted to do. She rolled her eyes and went to gather some supplies.

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Thea waited impatiently by the gate for Bellamy. She would have rather gone by herself and she had a feeling that Clarke knew that but chose to send her with Bellamy anyway.

That little shit, Thea thought, I'll get her back for this eventually.

Finally, she saw Bellamy trudging towards her with a backpack slung over his shoulder.

"Took you long enough." Thea snorted as he approached, "Did you have to style your hair or something? Or were you just taking your time eating all those rations I saw you stuffing into your bag earlier? Don't want to get famished now do we, princess?" she teased.

"Shut up," Bellamy growled, obviously disliking this as much as she did.

However, she had decided while she was patiently awaiting his arrival, that if she had to spend the entire day with him, she might as well put it to good use and annoy him as much as possible.

When they had been walking in silence for a while, Thea decided to speak up again.

"So," she paused, "the first dropship will be coming down soon. You can't avoid Jaha forever."

"I can try," Bellamy replied, obviously not wanting to discuss the subject.

Thea sighed as they crested the hill they'd been climbing and stood on top of it, looking at the ruins of the structure below.

"The depot's supposed to be around here." Thea said as they looked around.

"There's gotta be a door."