in which gabriella k. hastings struggles to hang onto her humanity
&& bellamy blake is there to be her lifeline
BELLAMY BLAKE &&. JOHN MURPHY
book two of "rules of survival"
season three ── season four
cover by -voidlegends
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"It's been three hours. What are they waiting for?" Bellamy complained for what felt like the hundredth time in the past half an hour.
"Can you stop whining?" Gabriella snapped, gripping the wheel in her hand. Although she was starting to get impatient herself. They have been sitting in the rover for more than three hours after the grounders ambushed them and made a tree fall in front of the rover. Wells nodded in agreement and Gabriella saw him give Kane a deadpan look through the rearview mirror while he spoke, "We can make a run for it. There's literally nobody there."
"No." Kane shook his head, "That's what they want us to do."
"The boy is right." Indra drew out slowly, "They can wait longer than we can."
Gabriella allowed herself to turn around and face the others after three hours of staring through the windows and saw Kane staring at the floor in deep thought, before he sighed.
"Okay, Bellamy. Get in the turret, and you cover for us. Once we get to that ridge over there, we'll cover you." Shaking her head, Gabriella didn't even try to hide her dislike for that plan and scoffed while glaring at Kane, "Yeah, absolutely not."
"It will be fine." Bellamy pushed, his eyebrows raised in slight surprise at her outburst but he was quick to recover and turn back to Kane, "Copy that. Run fast."
"Bell ── "
"I'll be fine." the Blake brother assured her and didn't give her a chance to argue further as he opened the hatch on top of the rover and pushed the top of his body out of it. Gabriella bit her finger nails in anticipation, her body going completely still when she heard Bellamy's shaky voice from the outside.
"They're here."
All four of them inside aimed their weapons towards the hatch when they heard a male voice yell, "Everybody out or the boy dies."
