notion • john murphy

25 - FINAL PLAN

[ FINAL PLAN ]

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   "Tell me something." Octavia suddenly said as she sat next to Sayah while they waited at the door. They waited for anything; anyone of their people.

   "What do you mean?" Sayah questioned gently.

   "Tell me anything, to keep my mind off of worrying." Octavia clenched her jaw. "Worrying about Bellamy, about Clarke, about all of them."

   Sayah frowned. What was she supposed to say? She had already reassured Octavia a million times over that everything would be fine. Her friends would get out and Bellamy would be with them. Everything would be okay.

   "Tell me about you and Murphy." Octavia suddenly said, head turning to her.

   "You really wish to speak about that now?" Sayah raised her brows in surprise. "While we are here, waiting—"

   "Yes." Octavia stated. "I do. Tell me what it was like. You never even told anyone how you two. . . became so close."

   "I was the one to capture him after your people banished him." Sayah chuckled. "I had first found him weak, foolish. But then. . ." She furrowed her brows in thought. "I held the blade to his throat, and he begged me to kill him."

   "He wanted to die, Octavia." Sayah shook her head in disbelief as Octavia listened with interest. "And I realised that he was. . . just a boy."

   "So you spared his life?"

   "Yes." Sayah nodded. "And the more I held him prisoner and the more we spoke, the more I learned about him." Octavia was silent, waiting for Sayah to continue. Sayah then chuckled. "It's humorous," She smiled. "How he was my prisoner and yet I let myself grow so attached to him."

   Octavia then smiled. "Sounds like Lincoln and I."

   Sayah laughed, truly laughed while she nodded. "Yes it does, doesn't it?" How strange.

   When their laughter died down, Octavia pursed her lips. "When did you realise you loved him?"

   Sayah was silent for a moment. "I'm not quite sure, if I'm being honest, Via. It just happened."

   "Suddenly after him," Sayah's gaze fell to the ground. "I truly had something to fight for."

   Octavia sighed. "You love him too much, Sayah." Sayah didn't reply. But she knew what she wanted to say.

   And I'll never stop.

   Suddenly, the ringing of a buzzer resonated. "Finally." Octavia sighed in relief, getting up as well as Sayah to have a look what came out of the chute.

   Sayah's eyes widened at the sight. It was a girl. But she was dead.

   "Fox," Octavia breathed out. Sayah glanced to Octavia.

   "You know her?"

   "Yeah," Octavia murmured sadly.