The Earth We Once Knew - John Murphy

Pay Back

(TW: hanging)

I kept the gun pointed at Bellamy as Murphy stands next to me 

Murphy- start tying

I look at the straps on the ground as I kept the gun pointed towards Bellamy before shooting the ground by his foot, Octavia's voice came through the walkie

Octavia- Bellamy! do you copy!?

he started tying as he answers her

Bellamy- I'm fine, it was a misfire. now stop worrying about me and get back to work, all of you. tell Raven to hurry her ass up

Murphy- alright that's long enough. tie those two ends together 

I lean back against the wall letting Murphy take the lead as he instructs Bellamy on what to do

Murphy- alright now get up and toss it over

Bellamy looks up than does as he is told while I watch feeling a little off about this whole thing

Bellamy- what do you want me to say? *Looks at Murphy* you want me to apologize? I'm- *cuts off*

he goes to say it, but Murphy grabs the gun from me pointing it at Bellamy himself while I was kind of stunned by the action. Bellamy looks at me than at Murphy

Bellamy- I'm sorry, to the both of you

Murphy smirks as I kind of lean off the wall not liking this anymore, in all honesty I wasn't going to hang Bellamy. I was only going to rough him up a little until he admits his faults, this was out of my control

Murphy- you got it all wrong Bellamy. I don't want you to say anything. I want you to feel what I felt and then I want you to die

I looked at Murphy shocked slightly something in me felt like it clicked like a realization that this was wrong, all very wrong. I watch Bellamy get up on the stool 

Murphy- put it over your head

Bellamy- this is insane, the grounders could- *cut off again*

Murphy shots next to him making me jump as the bullet hits off the pole and wall

Murphy- put it over your head

Bellamy listens and puts the noose over his neck while I move towards Murphy still looking at Bellamy, I had a bad feeling and I hated this.

Bellamy- happy now?

Murphy takes the end of the straps and looks at Bellamy

Murphy- you're so brave, aren't you? I mean you came in here thinking you're just going to turn this whole thing around, that you were stronger than her, and maybe one of your friends would come and help you. but you didn't expect me to show up, so what are you thinking now, Bellamy? hm?

Murphy pulls the strap-hanging Murphy as my eyes widen, he puts him down and backs up as I just watch

Murphy- you know, I got to hand it to you Bellamy. you got 'em all fooled. they actually look up to you, almost as much as they look up to Clarke. yeah well, we know the truth, don't we? you're a coward

he got closer to Bellamy as I stared at him

Murphy- I learned that the day you kicked out the crate from beneath me. isn't that what you said? that you were just giving the people what they wanted, right?

Bellamy- I should have stopped them.

I was kind of shocked to hear him say that I felt almost bad for Bellamy. I know I had a lot of rage for them almost killing Murphy that I killed two people but this, this was something else. I walked over to Murphy seeing his eyes filled with tears