Ghost - Bellamy Blake [1]

Chapter 7 - Contents Under Pressure

"Hold it down!" Teens shout as they try to hold down the parachute flap that covers the entrance of the dropship.

Thunder and lightning claps loudly in the distance, rain thumps down hard as the strong wind throws around the parachute flap. Clarke stands there and watches the teens struggling with the storm as delinquents walk around behind her, having taken refuge in the dropship from the heavy rain. In the background, amongst all the shouting, is the voice of Raven, desperately trying to call the Ark.

"This is Raven Reyes calling Ark Station. Come in, Ark Station."

Breathing a heavy sigh, the blonde turns around and makes her way back through the dropship as the brunette repeats her message.

"This is Raven Reyes calling Ark Station. Please come in. Can anyone hear me?"

"Are you sure you have the right frequency?" Monroe asks from where she stands, looking over the brunettes handy work.

"Yeah," Raven snaps quickly, "I'm sure."

Monty and Finn look up anxiously from Myles as the blonde reaches Raven.

"Raven?" Clarke asserts strongly, leaning over the table to meet eyes with the brunette, "You can do this. Okay?"

Neither girl says anything more, as the blonde tears herself away to walk over to the injured redhead. The knife is still sticking out of her chest, and Murphy's stab wound had yet to be stitched back up. Finn bounces his leg nervously as Monty runs his fingers through her hair, gently caressing his best friends face. As Clarke approaches, she runs her fingers along the deeply engraved, white scars littered over the red haired teens bare torso. Myles's pale, flushed skin looks almost tan compared to the stark white lines across her skin and the black of her thin bra.

"Do you think that's what Bellamy meant?" Finn worriedly questions as Clarke carefully unwraps the fabric around the knife, "Those scars?"

Blue eyes look up into the teens dark brown as Monty scoffs above them.

"That's really what you're thinking about right now?" The Asian teen accuses bitterly.

Clarke stares at the knife protruding from Myles' pale skin as she answers quietly, "She's spent every day down here keeping us alive. Bringing us food and water, spending hours making supplies. Jumping in front of spear pits, and panthers, and bullets."

Raven eavesdrops in the background for a moment before continuing to repeat her message for the Ark, pleading for someone to answer her.

"She saved my life," Finn mumbled, "twice today."

The brunette pauses in her continued uttering of her message to whip her head towards the injured redhead.

"She saved your life?" Raven enquires softly and her brown haired boyfriend nods, solemnly.

"Stopped him from becoming a grounder kebab," Monroe starts thickly, before gesturing towards the knife sticking out from the red haired teens chest in disdain, "Jumped in front of that knife."

Raven almost drops the radio in her hand as Finn confirms the statement, "He was trying to get me. I was so awful to her all day and she..."

"It's not the first time," Clarke adds with a heavy sigh.

The brown haired girl looks at Myles with admiration mixed with regret, and then turns back to her radio to persist with her attempts to contact the Ark. Finn looks at the worried best friend as he frets about the red haired girls head.

"What did happen?" The teen wonders out loud. Monty looks up to meet his eyes with a clear look of 'not now' on his face, and the brown haired teen continues haltingly, "I just... don't understand. How can someone do the things she's done down here, but be a murderer on the Ark?"