On Purpose

Chapter 2

Clarke's POV

A few days later I went hunting again with some of the others. Bellamy came with us this time. We split up and went together two and two. I went with Finn.

"It's so beautiful out here. I know we've been here for a while now, but the beauty surprises me every time." Finn smiled at me. 

I gave him a smile back before pointing over to between some trees where there was a bird we could kill if we moved quickly enough. 

I walked closer slowly, before throwing myself over it and killing it. 

"Hey, I got i-" I stopped in my sentence when I turned around to see a grounder standing with a gun. It was probably one of the guns we had learned them to use and given to them in exchange for other things. 

The grounder pointed his gun at me, but Finn stepped in in front of me. "Move, or I'll shoot you." The grounder mumbled, threatening Finn. "You're gonna have to take me too if you want her." He said, trying to sound brave even though I knew he was filled with fear. The grounder shot him in the leg. I looked shocked and worried at him while he fell to the ground and cried out. I looked back up at the grounder.

"I don't want you. I want the great leader of Skaikru who made a deal with our people." My heart began racing, and I began breathing heavily. 

Maybe this would be how my life ended. My heart was beating so fast I couldn't hear much else. 

As the grounder reached out to grab me, a figure came from behind and swung the gun out of the hand of the grounder. 

I recognized the brown hair and the movements, and I knew who it was. Bellamy.

He gave the grounder an elbow in the stomach and shot him with his own gun. Monty and a few others came running behind him. He ran the few meters to me as the others made their way over to Finn. 

My heart was still beating and I couldn't hear much of what Bellamy said to me. I don't know why I had it like that. A gun had been put to my head many times before, it was not unusual at all. 

He put his arm around me as I stumbled around to make my way forward. Slowly I began to hear more of what was happening around me. 

"Clarke? Clarke are you okay?" Bellamy asked as he turned me around to look me in the eye. He looked me up and down to see if I was hurt. 

"Yeah, I-I'm okay," I said almost out of breath.

"I'll stay right here, okay?" He said as we began walking back to camp. Some of the others were helping Finn walk, and Bellamy made sure I was by his side the whole time. 

"Open the gate!" People shouted as we made our way back. I didn't know how bad Finn's wound was, we just hurried him back to camp. 

My mother and a lot of others met us at the gate. "We need to get him to medical," I told my mother as Monty and another guy carried him over there. Abby rushed with them. 

"You gonna be alright?" Bellamy asked after Finn disappeared into medical. 

"Yeah, I don't know why I reacted like that, It's not like I haven't had a gun pointed at me before," I answered while looking into his face that was covered in freckles. 

"It also annoys me that it was a grounder. We just made a deal with them, but maybe he was just one of those who only wants to kill us. I don't believe they're all like that. But I'm worried what everyone else will think when they hear it." I confessed. 

"Hey. It will work. It will. Eventually." Bellamy said and a small smile spread across my lips. 

"Goodnight." He said. I said goodnight too and put a hand on his shoulder as I walked past him.