Living On The Ground - John Murphy

Chapter 4 (Camp)

About an hour later we got back to camp. We didn't talk much after our conversation at the stream, but I didn't mind. When we got to the entrance I could see that some of the other delinquents had put up tents and started building a wall. I walked over the the drop ship and saw Bellamy standing there giving more orders to people. He saw me coming and started to walk towards me.

"Did you find anything?" He said with one eyebrow raised.

"Ya, we found a stream a little wile away from camp. I figured we could use i for our water supply."

He smiled at me before he said something.

"Good job. Is that all you found?"

"Ya there isn't much around, mostly only trees and rocks.

Bellamy laughed to himself looking down at the ground with his arms crossed. He looked back up at me. And said something loosing his smile a little.

"Wait, where's Murphy?

I shook my head

"I don't know, he took off right as we got back to camp." I said before I heard a girl scream.

I ran over to the sound right behind Bellamy. When I got there I found Murphy. He was holding a girl over a fire smiling. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

"Hey Bellamy. Check it out, we want the ark to think that the ground is killing us, right? Figure it'll look better if we suffer a little bit first."

I was about to step in right before Wells pushed Murphy off the girl.

"Let her go!" Well's said.

Wells turned around and faced Bellamy. He looked disappointed when he spoke to him.

"You can stop this."

Bellamy smirked.

"Stop this? I'm just getting started."

Suddenly Murphy got off the ground and punched Wells in the face. Murphy kept punching him until Wells pushed Murphy off. Then Murphy tackled him. He was pinning Wells to the ground hitting him in the across the head. Wells got Murphy off of him and started hitting Murphy in the face. He hit him against the ground before finally letting him go.
Wells stood up and continued his conversation with Bellamy.

"Don't you see you can't control this?"

Murphy rolled over of the ground grabbing his knife. And mumbled something to Wells.

"Your dead."

I almost ran over to him trying to stop what was about to happen. Octavia grabbed me before I could do anything stupid. The fight was getting completely out of hand.

Murphy started to walk towards him, but Bellamy held out his arm.

"Wait. Fair fight."

He dropped a knife on the ground in front of Wells.I saw Murphy grip his knife harder making his knuckles turn white. Wells grabbed the knife off the ground. Murphy fake swung at him before cutting him in the arm. Murphy shouted something before trying to hit Wells again.

"This is for my father!"

He threw himself at Wells, but he grabbed Murphy turning him around. He had a tight grasp on him and held the knife up to his throat. Then someone shouted for Wells to stop. It was Clark.

"Wells! Let him go." She said with the space walker tight behind her.

Wells pushed Murphy off of him onto the ground. He immediately jumped up and tried to go after Wells but Bellamy held him back.

"Murphy, that's enough." Bellamy said holding both his shoulders.

Murphy examined his face before he stepped back.

Me and Octavia walked over next to Bellamy trying to here what Clark was saying. She noticed that Wells didn't have his wrist band on and started to freak. She quickly turned her head towards Bellamy.

"How many?"

I could tell that she was implying about the wrist bands.

"24 and counting." Murphy said smiling to himself.

I could tell that Clark was surprised because her eyes got wider. I swallowed had at that number, considering I wasn't planing on taking of my wrist band.
Then Clark went off again. She gave us all a motivational speech about how we weren't just killing the people on the ark, but that we were also killing our selves by taking off our wrist bands. She told us that the ark was dying and that we needed there help to fight what was out there.
After a few more minutes rambling Bellamy stepped in. This Time he gave us a motivational speech about how we were strong enough to survive and fight for ourselves. That if the ark came down here then we would just be prisoners again. He started to make every cheer for him before he looked back at Clark.

It was about an hour later that I saw Bellamy starting to pack up some stuff in the drop ship. I went up to him.

"What's going on?"

He looked up at me then back at his stuff.

"The kid with the goggles was taken by the grounders."

"You mean Jasper?!" I said a little to loud.

"Ya Jasper, were going out to try and find him." He said still looking at his stuff.

There was silence before I spoke.

"I want to come with you." Is said sounding like I wouldn't take no for an answer.

He finally turned away from his stuff and looked at me.

"Really? You want to come with us to go find a kid that we don't even know is still alive?" He said with one eyebrow raised.

I nodded my head. Bellamy took a deep breath before looking me in the eye.

"Fine, you can cary my stuff." He said handing me the bag.

He walked out of the drop ship as I followed him. There were 4 other people waiting outside. I looked at all of them in a row. Clark, Wells, Finn, and Murphy. Once I saw Murphy I could tell that this was going to be another interesting trip.
Clark turned around and started walking away from the camp. She took a deep breath and said something right as we left.

"Ok, lets go find Jasper."