Bygones

~{Chapter 2}~

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"Raven?! Oh my god!", I gasped in disbelief. We hugged so tightly I think I might of crushed her lungs a little. I let go of her and smiled at her, "Wow... Its really you.. I can't believe it!"
"I know! Its been eight years. I kept track. I never lost hope in you", she smiled. Then I realized that something was missing from my side. No, someone was missing.
"Leyla, Raven where's Leyla? Is she okay?", I said as I got off of the table. As I stood up and a sharp pain shot through my right leg and I leaned against the table for support.
"Sloan, take it easy... Your daughter is fine. She's with Bellamy", she said as she help me back on the table. I tensed up as I heard the name Bellamy, it sounded so familiar for some reason.
"Mommy!", Leyla yelled as she came running to me, "Mommy are you okay?". She had teary eyes when she saw my leg. I swung my legs over the table and hugged her tightly. I took her face in my hands, "Hey, sweetheart Mommy's okay. Are you okay? Did anyone hurt you?".
"Mmm-mm," she shook her head. I sighed in relief and kissed her forehead. Raven walks over and sits down next to me. Leyla takes my hand and pulls herself into me.
"It's okay, its just Raven. She's my best friend", I said to her.
Raven smiles and kneels down to face her and smiles. Leyla hesitated a little and then she hugged Raven.
"She's a bit of a hugger", I laughed.

"Wow... Where are we?", I whisper as Raven, Leyla, and I walked outside. I looked back to see that we exit out of an escape pod. "So was that the 'Health Room'?", I asked Raven.
"Something like that", she said. There were people everywhere as busy as ants on a summer day. It was a little overwhelming to see so many people at once.
A voice came from behind and made me jump. I stepped in front of Leyla.
"So you guys are the newcomers", this guys said. He had a busted lip and a couple of scratches on his face. I just stared at him.
"She not really the talking type", Raved said to him.
"Oh.. Uh its cool. I'm Murphy", he smiled at me and held his hand out. I looked at his hand for a couple of seconds and slowly held my hand out and shook it.
"Don't worry, you guys are safe here... Well relatively speaking", he said to me and then he look at Leyla. She shifted behind me even more, pressed her head against my leg, and tightened her grip on my hand.
"Why are you being so nice to us?", I asked sternly.
"Everyone needs a friend right?... Look", he took a step closer to us, "I know what its like stuck out there, alone. All by yourself with no one to talk to. It's not easy". Its seemed like her really knew how I felt.
"Thank you. For understanding, I mean. Not a lot of people get what I've been through", I said. I looked over his shoulder to see a man observing us from afar. He had dark curly hair, a structured jaw, and he was holding a gun. He quickly looked away when our eyes met and started to walk away. Then it hit me. That man was the man who raped me and left me there to die in The Room. That man was Bellamy Blake.
"Here take her back inside, please. I have someone I need to deal with", I said to Raven as I handed Leyla's hand over to her. I took Murphy's shot gun and went after Bellamy.
I held the gun up to the back of his head and pulled the lock. He stopped walking, but he didn't turn around.
"How rude of you, leaving me there without giving me your name", I said sarcastically, but sternly. He turned around to face me. People were starting to stare and sure it didn't seem like he liked that kind of attention.
"Look," he took a step closer to me, but I shifted my gun and stood my ground as a warning that if he came any closer, I'd shoot him, " Can we please do this somewhere private?"
"Why? Afraid that people will think you're weak because a woman is holding you down?", I said, loudly, on purpose.
He tried to move closer, "Please just-"
I shot the ground to give him one last warning and raised the gun back into position. Something hard and cold was pressed against the back of my head, and then it clicked. I figured out what it was and and I lowered the gun.
"Shane I have it handled", Bellamy said. Shane lowered the gun from my head, but remained standing behind me.
"Fine. In private. Lead the way.", I said coldly. We headed for the infirmary. Just as we were at the doc, Bellamy puts his gun and knife down. What is he doing?, I thought to myself as I watched him. As I started to walk up the doc, Shane stepped in front on me and looked at my gun. I rolled my eyes and dropped the gun on the floor. Then Shane looked at me, raised his eyebrows, and crossed his arms. I annoyingly sighed and took out the knife from my boot, a piece of sharp metal from my sleeve pocket, a wooden steak from my inside jacket pocket, my gun from the back rim of my pants, and a pocket knife from my bra. Bellamy raised his eyebrows in amazement and told Shane to let me in.

I leaned against the table that I woke up from and crossed my arms. He sat down on a bench across from me, not too close, but not too far. I looked at him blankly and waited for him to say something. Why should I say something first when he was the reason I was here?
"I'm sure we're not here to have a staring contest," he shifted in his seat.
I scoffed in disbelief, "Are you kidding me!," he really ticked me off right there and then, "You left me in The Room to die and here you expect me to say something?! I can NOT believe this! You know when we were little, I saw you and her together and I knew that she was your sister. I could've ratted you and Octavia out but-"
"Don't you dare talk about her or else-," he stood up.
"Or else WHAT, Bellamy?! Are you going you going to kill me? I'm mean I'm sure you'll be fine with that because YOU'VE ALREADY TRIED TO!," I screamed loudly. I felt that my face was flushing and I was panting a little. His eyes had the same apologetic look he had when he took me to The Room. It was silent for a couple of minuets before I started again, but with a softer tone.
"Daniel... Daniel was a brave person. He gave himself up so that I could live a non-hiding life from people... He... He was just like you," I looked up at him with teary eyes, but my voice was steady, "he was an older brother who swore to protect his family even if it involved him taking his own life".
Bellamy's face dropped when he heard that Daniel was my brother.
"I'm.. I'm sorry I didn't know...," he whispers in shock.
"But even if you did know, you still would have done it."
"I had to do it... I just... I did it for my fam-"
"Family... I know". I tried my hardest to not cry in front of him, but a stupid tear drop streamed down my face. I sniffed and wiped it away.
He steps closer to me and gently said, "I'm really sorry about your brother..."
I stood up and wiped my face. "No... I'm not going to cry in front of you and make you feel sorry for me. I'm sure you understand what it's like to lose a family member, but you don't know what it's like to lose your entire family. Leyla can't understand some of the things I go through. You have Octavia".
"But you now have Raven. And you have me", Bellamy said as he tried to hold my hand. I moved my hand away and headed for the exit. I really couldn't bare another second in the same room as him.
"She's mine... Isn't she?" Bellamy called out softly as I got to the exit.
I got furious at this point of our "conversation" and I whirled around and said through my teeth, "You're the leader of this group, right? And leaders have rules, right? I'm the leader of my family here on the ground so I have some rules, too. You stay away from Leyla and I certainly do not want to see you talking to her. I have a lot of bottled up anger that I haven't let out yet so if I see you trying to get to her, I won't hesitate to shoot you, is that clear?". I didn't even wait for him to answer me and I walked out of the infirmary. I picked up my weapons at the bottom of the doc and went somewhere where no one could find me.

I found a little space between the wall and some kind of tent structure. A couple of birds that were propped on the wall started chirping. I watched them fly away and kept my head up to the sky. I took a couple of deep breaths and then I closed my eyes. God, why did I have to start crying in front of him, I thought, it made me feel so weak. I opened my eyes and slid my back against the wall and sat down. A lump was rising in my throat. It felt like I swallowed a rock and I couldn't keep it down, and I bursted into tears. I cried until my tear ducts were emptied and I just laid there, looking up at the sky, wishing I was a bird. Wishing that I could fly away to my family, and leave all my misery and pain behind.
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