Warrior

Chapter 14: the 48

Rowan woke staring at the tree line above her as she realised that her ears were ringing from the impact of the rockets being fired from the dropship, as she slowly tried stand up as she placed a hand on her head to realised that she was bleeding from where she had hit her head as well as that her ribs now ached and looked extremely bruised if not broken. As she looked around she realised that Finn and Bellamy where no where in sight as she realised that they must have been separated in the blast which by the looks of the destruction around her seemed to have delivered the effect that they had been aiming for as she was surrounded by Grounders who had been fried in the fire that the blast had created, she began to wonder if any of them had actually survived. Rowan slowly tried to walk away when she got her answer as she felt something grab her leg and pull her back into the ground with a thud before the culprit began to climb on top of her in order to place his knife at her throat

" you're one of them, you're skaikru!" The boy with the knife said to her as Rowan realised that he couldn't be much older than her but still covered in tattoos and black war paint on his face

" and you're currently bleeding on me so either you can kill me and die or you can get off me and let me treat you. I'm a healer" Rowan said as calmly as she could under the circumstances

" you're the healer that Anya took prisoner to save Tris? She was my friend" the boy said as he slowly climbed off of her and leaned against a near by tree with the pain from his wound written on his face

" I'm sorry I couldn't save her, her wounds were just to far gone... I go by Rowan rather than just healer, you got a name?" Rowan said as she stood up to check out his wound for herself

" Hawk... my name is Hawk" he said as Rowan began to loosely braid her hair to one side before kneeling down in front of him as she admired him slight from his boyish good looks to his  mass of messy brown waves

" well then Hawk, I need you to umm... to lift your shirt so I can see how bad the damage is" Rowan said a little nervous since she had rarely seen a boy with their shirt off except for Bellamy

" I have to find the rest of my people and Anya, after Tris died I was made her new second in command" Hawk said trying to stand up as Rowan pushed him back down to stop him

" what you have to do is to let me treat you otherwise you'll end up dead like everyone else around us right now" Rowan said as she lifted his shift up to see a two bullet wounds to his side

" you know your people have gone too, I saw the mountain men carrying them away" Hawk said before letting out a groan of pain as Rowan gently touched his wounds before grabbed his water bottle

" I know I'm probably going to regret asking this but who are the mountain men?" Rowan said as she opened up his canteen of water before taking of her own shirt leaving her in her black sports bra to tearing strip off to use as bandages

"Mountain men are worse than reapers, they come in misty fog and take our people" Hawk said as Rowan noticed the fear in his voice as he spoke about them as she began to clean his wound

" eyes up here, buddy! Where do they take them?" Rowan said noticing that he was looking at her chest as she realised how exposed she was now as she wondered if she could get them back

" I'm not sure, it's not like our people back to tell us tales of what happened to them there or where they were" Hawk said as he wondered if she was different if the rest of her clan or if they were all like her

" I'm sorry about this but I'm going to need to pull out these bullets with my fingers, it'll be  painful and a rough job. You can bite down on this" Rowan said handing him a stick to use