Survivor

chapter twenty

I felt a tapping on my back, first it was light, then it got stronger. Soon I felt a full force on my back, I didn't even realize I had been rolled over onto my stomach until I began spitting up the blood I was choking on earlier.

As soon I spit it all up, I heard a buzzing sound in my ears, again. I guess I was in shock since I couldn't figure out how to breathe again. It's like my lungs stopped working and I was getting lightheaded yet again. I found myself coughing instead of working out how to breathe.

Suddenly someone's arms wrapped around me and pulled me against them, they were breathing slowly. Their chest going up and down very slowly. I tried to copy them, gasping for air, when finally, I felt oxygen seep into my lungs. I slowly caught my breathe as the ringing in my ears stopped and I could hear again.

I was regretting hearing now, I heard crying, screaming, and the sound of bullets flying through the air. Only now did I realize someone had dragged me up against a tree, the same someone who patted my back and helped me breathe again. I could see Octavia, Bellamy, Clarke, Finn and a bunch of my friends on the side of the bridge I was on now.  Most of them continued firing their ammunition at the grounders on the other side of what looked like a now broken bridge.

How'd it break? And how the hell did I get over here before it broke?

"Lizzie!" I suddenly heard.

I looked to my right to see the person who saved me, Raven. My heart started pounding, I really thought I'd never see her again and now here she was, right in front of me.

I immediately threw myself on her, wrapping my arms around her neck tightly and leaning my head into her shoulder. I breathed in the o-so-familiar scent of my sister. It relaxed me. I found myself crying tears into her shoulder that I never knew I even had.

"Hey..shh shh, it's okay, Lizzie. I got you..I got you." Raven whispered softly in my ear.

Nothing else seemed more important than staying in her arms. Not the fighting. Not the bridge. Not how I got here, just that I was here, with my long lost sister. Raven.

Suddenly- someone ran over, breaking us up.

"Come on! We have to get back to the drop-ship before more of them come after us!" Bellamy announced.

Raven nodded quietly as she got up, then she helped me off the floor. She held my left arm over her shoulder and began helping me walk. I hadn't even realized how much my chest and ribs hurt until now, in fact, it was making walking much harder.

Then, someone came on my right side, supporting me from that side so I'd move quicker. I looked over to see none other than Octavia. She shot me a reassuring smile and I responded with a tired smile. I was tired, exhausted actually. But at least I was going home.

***

"Clear a bed and get her some water."

"Got it." Someone responded.

"Shh it's ok.." I felt someone whisper in my ear.

"Lay her down here." Another person said.

I felt myself being gently set down on a comfortable blanket of some sort. I opened my eyes to see I was on the floor of the drop-ship, and looking up I could see Raven, Octavia, Clarke and Bellamy standing over me.

"W-what happened?" I said but it only came out in a whisper.

"It doesn't matter now." Bellamy said with a soft smile, as he squeezed my cheek. "You're home and that's all that matters."

"Hey! Hands off my face!" I found myself saying.

"Alright, alright. Just relax, you're safe now." Bellamy said quietly.