Keep Trying // j.m

T W E L V E

"Fire," I heard someone yell, and I turned away from my conversation with Jasper and Monty. We all ran towards the fire and saw the meat furnace caught in flames reaching above the wall. 

"This is all your fault!" Murphy said and got up from behind Octavia. "We told you that it was too much wood!" He said and attacked the guy standing in front of the fire. He was able to give the guy a good punch in the jaw before Bellamy interfered.

"Save it for the grounders," Bellamy told them before Murphy turned around and walked towards me.

"Get some control on your boyfriend," the guy yelled at me.

"Get some control on the fire you started, hmm," I yelled back before grabbing Murphy's sleeve, pulling him closer before he did anything stupid. "You okay?" I asked him quietly. 

"Yeah," he nodded bitterly and ripped out of my grip.

"Hey, it took me hours to make Bellamy agree to let you stay, so you better take it easy!" I whispered through gritted teeth. I wasn't going to let him act like that, if it was only going to result in him being kicked out again.

"Bell, now what the hell are we gonna do?" Octavia asked bringing all the attention to her. "That was all the food!" I turned to look at the fire, and I couldn't believe my eyes. We were pretty much screwed. 

"We need to put it out," Bellamy yelled to the crowd. "You know what to do!" Everyone started to walk away, grabbing some sort of container before getting water. When everyone helped, it didn't take long to kill the fire. All that was left was ruins. The black wood surrounding nothing but bones and burnt flesh. "Everyone inside the dropship," Bellamy suddenly yelled. "We have to hunt." Everyone that was outside entered the dropship.

"What's going on?" Monty asked and came up to me.

"We're going hunting," Murphy answered for me, as he had followed me close behind.

"Yeah," Monty said hesitantly looking at him, before turning his nervous look at me. "Obviously!" I knew what he meant. He, like the rest of the people down here, didn't trust or like Murphy. They wanted him gone.

"They'll probably want you to stay here," I said to Monty. "So you can continue your work-"

"Each crew takes someone with a gun!" Bellamy yelled. "They're for killing grounders, not food. We don't have the ammo, use the spears for hunting! Get what you can, be back before nightfall. No one stays out after dark." People were quick to follow Bellamy's orders. They all teamed up and got geared up. I turned to look at Murphy, and he continued to look at the people exiting the dropship. In the end, it was only us left and Bellamy. He came walking towards us.

"I'll go with Murphy," I said and startes to walk towards the weapons, but Bellamy stopped me.

"Is that supposed to be a joke?" Bellamy chuckled. "He's not going out there," he said and nodded towards Murphy. I felt my shoulders drop. I was tired of arguing with Bellamy.

"Thought you'd be happy to have him out of camp for a day," I sighed and wrapped my arms over my chest.

"So he can run and tell his grounder friends about everything."

"Just two days ago you were arguing to kick him out again, now you want him to stay? You are the most confusing man I've ever met!" I said sounding more disappointed than anything else. "I'm going to keep my eyes on him at all times, what is he going to do? And we need all the help we can get." Bellamy looked up at Murphy before turning to me again.

"You can go catch fish. And come back early!" He finished and turned around leaving us alone with Monty, who seemed rather awkward.

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