Ghost - Bellamy Blake [1]

Chapter 9 - Unity Day

Myles sighs loudly, standing next to a beanie wearing Miller in the cold weather, listening to Jaha drone on. The redhead had been in the tent she shared with Monty and Jasper, sitting with the boys as they brewed more moonshine, but the fumes had made the girl dizzy. It's been almost a week since Dax had tried to kill Bellamy and Raven has been keeping herself busy. Small monitors are secured outside of the dropship and the Chancellors face sits on the screen as he addresses the Ark and the delinquents.

Disinterested hazel eyes sweep over to Miller, and red eyebrows dance on her face mockingly as the boy laughs.

"This is an historic Unity Day," the Chancellor proclaims, "every year, we mark the moment our ancestors of the twelve stations joined to form the Ark but this is the last time we do so while aboard her." Most of the teens walk past, chattering to themselves with little care for what the man has to say, but a small group crowd around the monitor. "Next year... on the ground."

Applause rings out from the Ark and Miller has enough.

"Right," the beanie wearing boy says sarcastically, "after we did all the work. Someone shut him up."

"You shut up, Miller" Raven shoots back at the teen, "no one's forcing you to watch."

"For 97 years," Jaha keeps going, unable to hear the teens, and Myles swivels her eyes around casually. "We have eked out an existence..." Octavia meets her eyes and the redhead stills, walking away from the group.

Jogging up to the brown haired girl as she waits by the wall, "not here."

Quickly grabbing the Blake sisters arm and guiding her to a more discreet part of the wall. Octavia slips out first and Myles isn't too far behind her. The girls hurriedly rush towards Lincoln's cave as the red haired girls best friend shouts out in triumph for Monty's new batch of moonshine. Myles' quick movements tug at her stitches as the redhead ensures Octavia's safe arrival.

Beautiful white flowers greet them as they approach where the mans cave is, alerting them that they're close. Octavia brightens considerably when she sees them, bending down to pick one up. When they get to the hole in the Earth, Myles stops the Blake sister before she can enter.

"Tell Lilo I said 'hi'," the redhead winks at Octavia.

Octavia laughs lightly and waves goodbye to the red haired girl before disappearing into the cave. Myles stands there a moment, waiting to hear if the two have reunited safely before turning on her heel and hurrying back to camp, pocketing some fruit on the way to make it look like she actually did something. It had started to get dark quickly, the winter days being much shorter than their others on Earth, and the camp is cloaked in the early evening murkiness when she returns.

Bellamy greets her by the wide open gate, as if he'd been waiting for her. Leaning against the wall with his rifle, the happy, slurring noises of the delinquents enjoying Monty's moonshine behind him. Deep brown eyes spot her instantly as she slinks out of the trees.

"Didn't even take your bow this time?" Bellamy enquires, raising a dark brown eyebrow expectantly.

"Nope," Myles sighs heavily, coming to stand beside the man. "I come back."

"But one day you won't," the Blake brother laments, deep brown eyes looking imploringly into hazel.

The redhead leans heavily against the wall beside Bellamy, "Bellamy – "

"You can't stay here," the man shrugs halfheartedly, looking away from Myles, "I get it."

"I'm sorry," the red haired teen tells the Blake brother, red eyebrows drawn together apologetically. "I'll stay until the first dropship comes down, like I promised."