Until We Go Down (The 100 Fanfic) [BOOK 2]

Ch. 6: Rough Landing

ELARA
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He holds the gun up to the grounders head.

Without hesitation, he pulls the trigger.

Bang— I flinched out of my thoughts.

"Keep a look out," Bellamy says, "we're in grounder territory,"

I jog behind everyone else, still in shock from the events that happened only a mere hour ago.

The one-eyed grounders body flashes in my mind briefly. I ignore it and keep moving.

I watch as Murphy stumbles. "Don't you get it?" He says to Bellamy slowing down. "Everywhere is grounder territory. I can't keep running. Hell, we don't even know if the guy Finn killed was even telling the truth,"

For a moment, I was tempted to agree with him. We can't keep running. No matter how fast we move, we don't know if our friends are even still alive.

Finn shoves Murphy, "Keep moving,"

"We can give everyone a minute," Bellamy says.

"No," Finn argues, "we can't. You heard the grounder. Our friends are going to our live their usefulness. They might already have," he pauses. "So no, we can't take a minute,"

"Yeah, we heard what he said when you had a gun to his head," I say.

Finn whips around to face me. "You think I wanted to do that?" His eyes held pain and regret— but they also held something else, desperation. "He would've escaped—"

"You don't know that!"

"Yes I do," he continues, "he would've gotten out and he would've told his people. I did what I thought was right,"

"That's problem, Finn! You thought! It's not just about what you think is right, there were other options!" I shout at him.

Bellamy places a hand on my arm and hushes me. He turns to Finn and says, "You are not yourself right now. We can't afford to be out here with another loose cannon,"

"Guys," Monroe says grabbing our attention.

I look back at her to see that her eyes were glued to something in the bushes. I follow her line of sight and that's when I noticed the bloodied foot, alone.

Further ahead was the owner of the foot, a body that was contorted in an odd position. It's skin was half burnt and blood soaked it's clothes.

I nearly gag at the sight. I raise my gun as we walk closer.

But the further we go, the more bodies we find.

They were all torn apart and burnt. This must've been one of the Ark station's crash sites.

The stench was over powering and the flies were swarming around our heads. I cover my nose briefly while continuing to follow Bellamy.

Debris laid along side the bodies.

It was definitely apart of the Ark.

I stop when Bellamy stops. I peer over his shoulder at the enormous crater below us. The Ark was still smoking in the ground.

I open my mouth to speak but nothing comes out.

"Rough landing," Murphy comments.

I study the crash site and press my lips into a straight line. "We should go, there's nothing we can do here."

The others nod in agreement. We turn to leave but that's when we hear a young woman whimpering over the cliffs edge.

"Did you hear that?"

I follow the others back and look down near the wreckage.

On the side of the ledge a young girl hangs from a branch. Her knuckles were white as she holds on for dear life.

"Somebody," she whimpers, "help me."

Sterling pulls us back from the edge. "I know that girl. We were friends back on the Ark. we have to get down there,"

"Are you crazy?" Finn speaks up. "We can't save her. There's nothing we can do-"

"We could make a rope,"

"With what?"

Sterling shrugs. "There's gotta be seatbelts we could use, wires too."

Finn shakes his head. Bellamy pulls him to the side and speaks lowly to him. "Look, I know you want to find Clarke and the others. We do too. But right now, we don't even know they're alive. This girl is. We don't know if we'll be able to save our friends, but we can save this one girl now,"

"He's right," I interject. I place my hands on my hips. "If we can save one person now, we should do it."

Finn presses his lips into a straight line. "You better hope we can save her because if we can't, and our friends die. . .that's on you,"

[A/N:

Hey guys sorry for the really short chapter and sorry it took so long to upload. I've been really busy with work lately and just haven't been feeling up writing more. I'll try to write and update the next chapter as soon as possible. Hope you're all having a good summer:)

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