Secrets - Bellamy blake

Biological Warfare

We made it back to camp, just as the light was fading. Something was up. Tensions were high. I know some more of our loved ones had just died. But something else was annoying people. As we walking in I heard whispers of Murphy. I looked at Bellamy who's nostrils were flaring at the mere name.

"Where is he?" He demanded as he got to the dropship. I stopped when my eyes met with the frail form of Murphy, blood covering his face. Fear written all over his face. "Everyone apart from Derek and Connor out." Bellamy spat. "Now!"

"He claims he was with the Grounders." Derek sneered.

"We found him trying to sneak back into camp." Connor added.

"I wasn't sneaking," he mumbled. "I was running from the Grounders."

"Anyone see any Grounders?" Bellamy asked. Derek and Connor shook their heads. "Well in that case.." Bellamy lifted his gun and aimed it at Murphy.

"Hey, what the hell is wrong with you?" Finn shouted making Bellamy lower his gun.

"We were clear, what would happen if he came back." Bellamy aimed his gun again.

"No." I said stepping in front of Bellamy. "If he was with the Grounders then he might know things that can help us." Bellamy looked at me.

"Help us? We hung him, banished him, now we are gonna kill him." Bellamy took a step forward. Finn to a step in front of me. "Get out my way."

"No, Finn's right" Clarke pushed past us all and went to Murphy.

"Like hell he is." Bellamy looked at me. "Think about Charlotte?" He said.

"I am thinking of Charlotte." I said placing a hand over his and pushing the gun down. "But what happened to Charlotte is as much out fault as his."

"He's not lying." I looked over at Clarke who was holding a bloodied hand. "His fingernails were torn off. They tortured him."

Finn looked at Bellamy. "You and the Grounders should compare notes."

"The Grounders know we're at war." Bellamy glared at Murphy. "What did you tell them?"

"Everything!" He said voicing shaking, eyes showing no emotion. I turned and punched him in the face. Clarke pulled me off him.

"Once he's better, we find out what he knows, then he's out of here, okay?" I nodded and walked away. Bellamy raised a concern that I think we were all thinking.

"What if he refuses leave? What do we do with him then?" I looked from Bellamy to Clarke.

"We kill him." Everyone turned to me shocked with my suggestion.

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I was sat outside the dropship when the sound of choking made me turn. As I did I saw Derek coughing up blood. I hurried him to the dropship. When I got their the sight made me gasp in horror. Murphy was laid on the floor bloody dripping from his eyes. "Clarke?" I yelled. She turned to me. I saw her eyes. Red blood running down her face like tears.

"Athena, stay out!" She pleaded.

I pushed Derek in so she could check on him. "What's happening?" Clarke just looked at me when Bellamy turned up.

"Did he do something to you?" Bellamy asked. Clarke shook her head coughing. "What the hell is this?"

"Biological warfare. You were waiting for the Grounders to retaliate for the bridge? This is it." She was cut off by Murphy coughing. "Murphy is the weapon." I looked at Bellamy as he walked closer to the entrance.

"Is this your revenge, helping the Grounders kill us?"

"I didn't know about this, ok?" Murphy replied after he finished coughing. He seemed sincere. "I swear!"

"Stop lying!" Bellamy shouted. "When are they coming?"

Clarke turned to Murphy. "Murphy think, alright? What can you tell us that's useful? Did you hear anything?"

Murphy seemed to think for sometime before answering. He told us nothing we didn't already know! He told us they were vicious and cruel.

"You want to see vicious!" Bellamy yelled.

"Hey, stop!" Clarke yelled at them both. "Whatever this is, it spreads through contact.

Derek started seizing on the floor. He turned on his hand and knees and coughed up more blood. I looked down at my hands. Making sure none and hit me. Clarke was at his side in a flash. Finn tried to grab her. "Hey, don't touch me!" She snapped at him. "You could get sick. Wash your hands now!" The coughing stopped, as did the seizing.

"Is he-?" Bellamy couldn't finish his sentence.

Clarke nodded. "He's dead." My hand flew to my mouth trying to stop the silent scream escaping. She grabbed a bottle of alcohol. "Here!" She said to Finn. "Ho,d out your hands!" She poured some into his palms.

"What do we do?" He asked as he rubbed his hands together.

"Quarantine! Round up anyone who had contact with Murphy. Get them here." She said.

"And everyone who had contact with them?" Bellamy asked her.

"We have to start somewhere." She turned to Connor who was next to her. "Connor, who was with you when you found him? Who carried him in?" She asked gently. "Think!"

Connor looked at Bellamy. Eyes full of remorse. "The first one there was Octavia!" I heard Bellamy's breath catch in his throat.

"Bellamy." I turned to look at him, tears filling with tears. "I brought Derek here!" I saw the fear not only for his sister, but for me as well washover his face. He went to touch me but I stepped back. Hand covering my face, shaking my head. "I'm sorry! I don't want you to get it. Go get the others." He nodded and went off.

The dead were being brought out every so often. It was painful to see so many friends dying in such a short space of time. We were 100, now now we were slowly dying off. "You got enough food in there?" I looked up to see Bellamy stood at the entrance. "Water?"

"Some medicine might be nice!" Clarke said to him. He smiled at her. I felt a slight pain of jealous as I watched them interact.

"I'll see what I can do!" He turned to me and smiled. "How you holding up warrior?"

"Oh you know me. I'll get there. What's a few coughing fits with a little bit a blood going to do?" I looked at him his lips in a tight line. "What too soon?" I laughed. "Bell, if I am going to die, then at least let me make a joke out of it. It's helping me cope."

"Your not going to die Athena. We will find out what this is and fix it." He knelt down within in touch distance. "I'm not going to lose you, or anyone else." I nodded at him and laid down.

I fell into a deep slumber. I dreamt about life on the Ark, my father, my dead beat of a mother. I dreamt of Bellamy and how he looks at me like I'm the only one there. The way he smiles when he thinks no one is watching. I dreamt of what the guards did to me!