Attitude Adjustment [Book 1 - Season 1]

Chapter 12: We are Grounders Part 1

Reigna felt her eyes droop as she stood outside the gate, watching other delinquents carefully digging holes to bury Raven's landmines. She didn't get much sleep the previous night between finding Myles injured in the woods and staying up late to help Murphy through a mild panic attack. That was definitely something she didn't think she would ever witness. Reigna assumed that all her coming and going throughout the day yesterday gave Murphy way too much time to be alone in his thoughts and it finally bubbled over last night. There were a lot of tears shed between the both of them. A lot of comforting words from Reigna's part and a lot of almost too tight hugs from Murphy. She didn't know why, but she felt like he was keeping something from her. She just couldn't get him to say what.

"Come on. These foxholes aren't gonna build themselves." Bellamy's booming voice woke Reigna from her daydreaming. Reigna was standing near Raven when Bellamy approached.

"You better hope all those landmines work. All the gunpowder we're wasting, we could be making more grenades." Bellamy grumbled.

"You wanna come over here and test one?" Raven joked and Reigna instinctively rolled her eyes.

"Cute. I need this entire section mined by morning. Then you move to the south field." Bellamy ordered. Raven blanched at his words.

"Hey... I told you we were going after Finn, Clarke, and Monty in the morning." Raven said.

"We don't have the time for that." Reigna interjected, ignoring the nast look Raven sent her.

"Also I don't remember holding any meeting about going out to find them so it was never going to happen anyway. Our top priority is keeping everyone in our walls safe. Which is also why I agree that grenades would have been a lot better than a bunch of landmines." Reigna said flatly, way too tired to deal with Raven's shitty attitude right now.

"What happened to peace keeping talks then, Kane." Raven spat out her last name like venom. Reigna scoffed at her aggression.

"Sadly that's off the table because someone thought it would be a good idea to secretly bring guns and a piss drunk Jasper. But what does it matter anymore? Drop the hostility Reyes and finish the fucking mines." Reigna spat out before turning on her heel and storming towards camp.

"And nobody leaves camp." Reigna heard Bellamy tack on before hearing his footsteps follow behind her. The walk was quickly interrupted by the sound of a gunshot near the wall. Both Reigna and Bellamy looked to each other for a moment before dashing towards the noise. Near the wall, there was a bustle of delinquents swarming around Sterling.

"Hey, what the hell happened." Reigna stormed up to them, Bellamy close behind her.

"What the hell is the matter with you?" Bellamy asked incredulously, taking in the drowsy boy before them.

"I'm sorry, guys. I fell asleep, I've been on watch all day." Sterling supplied, going red in the face.

'We've all been on watch all day! That bullet was one less dead grounder." Bellamy replied to him angrily, snatching away his gun before Octavia made her presence known.

"Bell, you're scaring people." Octavia said, an attempt to calm him down. But instead, the words of comfort made Reigna's tight string finally snap.

"Good! Everyone here should be scared!" Reigna stepped in, throwing her hands up in the air in frustration, "The bridge will only keep them away from us for so long you do realize that, right? If we don't get out shit together we'll all die. Clarke, Finn, and Monty have been gone for a day. I doubt they're coming back, they were most likely killed by the grounders. We had our chance to make peace with them but we fucked it up. So everyone get your shit together. No person or gun leaves this camp. Understood?" Reigna addressed the crowd before her, being met with a chorus of timid 'ok's and 'Understood's.