Love & War

Going Home

Bellamy POV

We arrive on the ship, steeping out, cautions. We walk through the hallway to the bridge to find a hole in the door. We step up to the computers, Raven gets to work. Raven turns on the radio and we listen to them on the ground. We hear that they are chasing our people. If they are chasing our people then they got out. 

We soon make a plan. Raven uses the computers to find the fuel we need for the ship. Once she finds the fuel Monty and Murphy go get it, taking it to the ship. 

Raven, Echo and I wait in the bridge, trying to find out what this ship is. Raven brings up information on the ship, showing us that it is a mining ship. They used prisoners to mine asteroids to get hythylodium. We watch a video that shows the captain being killed by the prisoners. We soon find out that the woman on the radio is their leader. 

Raven pulls up her information and we see that she is a criminal. Killed lots of people. Her name is Charmaine Diyoza. We look up ore information when one attacks us. Echo and I fight him off, trying to kill him but he doesn't go down. It takes all of us to kill him. We finally leave to find the others.

We find them in a cryogenic chamber. We stand there, shocked. Never have we thought to see something like this. I stare at Echo and see her face is shocked. We walk up to some of them, looking down.

"How long can they live like this?" I ask.

"Technically." Raven says looking at me. "Forever."

"Or we can kill them all right now." Murphy says walking in. He looks at us. "What happened to you?"

"One of them woke up." Echo says. 

"The question is how?" I wonder. 

"No the question is why the hell are we waiting for. Serious we're all gassed up. Let's pull the switch on the sleeping army and go home." Murphy says.

"Not an option." I say, not wanting to repeat the past. "We kill theirs, they kill ours."

Raven is looking at the pods as we talk.

"Raven." I call to her.

"The pods are all jacked into the main frame. They activated this one from the ground." She points to the empty one. Probably in response to us tripping their alarm."

"When he doesn't check in they'll wake up more." Echo says looking at the other pods.

"I'd say thats a good bet." I look at Raven and then Echo.

"Argo lets get out of here." Murphy says again.

"Bellamy you know if these guys get to the ground." Echo says. "Murphy's not wrong. This is an army." I look down, closing my eyes. "I know how you feel. But it took three of us to take one of them down. Giving them reinforcement is a mistake." I look at her and then at Murphy before looking back at the sleeping army.

"We've been off the ring for less than a day, and we're already talking about murdering hundreds of people." I say, not wanting to do this.

"This is not murder. It's survival. They die now or we die later. If Clarke was here, this wouldn't even be..."

"Clarke's not here!" I snap at Murphy. Breathing hard. I haven't said her name in a long time.

"Exactly. She died so we could live, Bellamy. This is how we do that." I shake my head not wanting to do that. 

"Maybe not." I look behind me at Raven. "We can leave them like this but block the signal from the ground so they can't wake them up."

"They have a shuttle. They can just come up and do it themselves." Murphy points out. 

"Can you rig it so we can kill them all?" Echo asks.

"Tricky but can be done." Ravens says. "Why?"

"Leverage." I say looking at Echo. "Put down your weapons or we pull the plug." I look at Murphy then Raven. 

"How long do you need to make that possible." I step up beside her.

"I don't know but i'm on it." Raven asks typing on the computer. Murphy moves to head out of the room. 

"Wait, Murphy!" I call to him. "I want to know what you think?"

"I think it's a risk." He says.

"Your right, it is. But Clarke didn't die for us to live just so we can go back to the ground and make the same mistakes." He turns before looking at us.

"What the hell? Let's be the good guys." He smiles walking out.

I later find Raven on the bridge. She typing away when she tells me she needs to stay. That in order to have the leverage, someone needs to stay. I argue with her that I should stay but she points out that I would not know what I was doing.

"I left Clarke behind to die, and I..." I look at her before shaking my head. "I'm not doing that again."

"I'll be fine." She says. "Six years ago I promised I would get you down. Please, let me get you all home."

I finally agree. I tell the others that Raven is staying. Murphy decides to stay too. Emori gets us down. We all rejoice and then get out, making our way up a hill when we are stopped. The prisoners have found us. We are home but is it our home still?