Warrior ‣ Bellamy Blake

Twenty-Five

"We've been locked up for hours," Miller muttered. "If it was Bellamy-"

"It was Bellamy," Aella interrupted. "He's here and Jasper saw him too. There's no way we both saw him if he wasn't here."

"It doesn't make any sense," Monty said.

"It does when you think about it. Clarke needed an inside man. He happens to be it."

Then a buzzing noise emitted from the doors as it opened. Mount Weather guards and Dr. Tsing strolled in and they immediately went for Harper as she cried in protest.

"No!" Aella shouted, trying to fight against the guards. "Stop it!"

"Not her," Tsing said. "She needs more time to recover." She turned to a blond boy and pointed, "This one."

"No!" Aella protested, standing in front of the blond boy. "If you drill from anyone, you drill from me."

"You need recovery time."

"You're gonna kill me anyway. Do it now, bitch."

Just like she had been doing since they got to the ground, she was protecting her people. 

As the guards grabbed onto Aella's arm, Monty, Jasper, and Harper stood in their way.

"I can take you all right now if I want," Tsing threatened lowly.

"Guys, step out of the way," she whispered. "She won't kill me yet. If she takes someone else, they'll die. Jessica never came back. They took her three hours ago." 

They wouldn't move as they were united to protect their leader, but Aella shoved past them all and went with Tsing willingly.

"I get hurt and no one dies. That's how it works."

"Thank you for cooperating," Tsing praised. She looked at two of her guards and ordered them, "Bring her to the marrow harvest chamber."

They obliged and dragged her away even though she was willingly leaving with them. Just another day in Mount Weather.

"You can't keep doing this to us!" Jasper shouted at the doctor angrily. "President Wallace said we could go."

"That President Wallace is no longer in command," she informed the bunch. "He had to step down for health reasons. Look, I'm sorry it has to be like this. I hope you know you're all incredibly special to us."

Then she waltzed out of the room with her flock of guards following.

"Funny, she doesn't sound sorry," Miller muttered, the sarcasm in his voice as clear as day.

***

Raven was reading through Aella's journal. Murphy gave it to her before he left to go find the City of Light. Jaha was on some faith power trip, so hopefully, no one would get hurt. Wishful thinking.

"Has he checked in yet?" Clarke asked, making the mechanic drop the journal in panic.

"No," she answered, looking at Clarke's guard. "You worried someone's gonna try and take a shot at you inside the Ark?"

"Wait outside, Ryder." The man nodded before obeying. "Lexa's orders."

"Whatever, Clarke." She still held a grudge against Lexa for forcing them to kill Finn and nearly killing her for the attempted murder.

She looked at the radio and murmured, "He's late. What if something's happened to him?"

"He'll be fine."

Clarke looked at Raven's setup. "You've been busy. Why are you focusing on the dam? I told you acid fog was our priority."

"Until Bellamy gets eyes on their dispersal system, there's only so much I can do."