After my last convocation with Bellamy I went to try and figure out how to get the bracelets off while I made my way back to the Drop Ship. Even if I tried to act like the guy who approached me earlier didn't faze me the whole situation left me shaken up. I realized that I was weaker than I thought, my abilities were not one hundred percent and I couldn't fight, I couldn't protect myself. Not while I was wounded. I also realized that I was surrounded by criminals. Disposable criminals, no one cared if they lived or died. They were the people who wouldn't get a fair trial once they were of age. Chills trail up my arms thinking about what these people could be in for. Sure there were a few nice people down here but most of them look as if they could kill. The Drop Ship is almost completely dark now and the silence is deafening. I make my way outside to see people crowding around a fire. I slip through the crowd like a snake looking for any sign of Bellamy. When I finally get through the front of the line I see a girl leaning over a rock. Another guy takes off her wristband and the crowd cheers. Bellamy did it, he was getting them to take off the wristbands. He was ensuring our safety. An escaped prisoner and the man who killed the Chancellor were probably on the top of the Ark's most wanted list and if they thought everyone on the ground was dead they wouldn't come down for at least another decade and then we'd do the same thing to our replacements. It was the only way Bellamy and I'd be safe. Before I realized what was happening, Murphy grabbed my arm, pulling me down towards the rock. At first all I could think about was the pain erupting at my side from Murphy's yanking but I realized they were all going to see I had no wristband. They were going to know that I wasn't supposed to be on the Drop Ship, I was supposed to be dead. "Wait! No, no, no!" I yell, trying to kick my way free. This is it. I squeeze my eyes shut attempting to yank my arm free of his grasp. "Don't!" I struggled against his unyielding grip. "Good the more you struggle the more they think your suffer." Murphy growls in my ear. I grabbed his wrist with a crushing force causing him to cry out in pain. I used this leverage to pull my wrist free of his grip and then grabbing his face with my hand ignoring the pain in my side screaming at me. I gripped him so tight my nails dug into his skin, he cried out in pain "You will never touch me without my consent ever again." I forced him to look at me, slowly crushing his face "I'm sorry! I will never touch you." He panicked, as I used my spare hand to bend his wrist back wards. "Say it again!" I ordered him "I won't touch you!" He said louder. I let him go and he fell to the ground in front of me. I turned to face the crowd and stood facing them "I am not one of you, I am twenty two years old and I was sentenced to die the day of the drop." I told them with a Superior voice "I snuck on the ship, I don't have a wristband." I said showing them my bare wrist. "You will not proceed the think you can ever take advantage of me. You will not forget that I am older stronger and superior than you. I've taken lives before and I won't hesitate to take them again. I will not be disobeyed, and those who do will get far worse a punishment than poor Murphy here." I said motioning to the boy on the ground whose face I had pressed into the dirt with the heel of my boot. "I've had twenty two years of practice in self defense and combat fighting. I was a sergeant of a kill squad on the Ark, and the General of the guard. Second in command to the Capitan at the age of twenty. You wanna fight me, go ahead, I can't promise I won't break you." I threatened to the crowd. When no one spoke up I let Murphy go "Now that that's settled," I said fixing pushing my hair behind my shoulder "I want everyone's wristbands burned." I ordered and the crowd erupted in cheering. I spotted Bellamy walking through the crowd on the opposite side of the fire. I tried to get his attention, but the cheers drown out my voice.
I was sitting beside a tree waiting for another sign of Bellamy, but he seemed to vanish. I watched from my position by the tree as the teenagers frolicked about like scared children. Though they were not as simple minded as I figured, they had set up a pretty good camp. They had a fire in the middle of the camp, a little less than a hundred people around it. They seemed blissfully unaware of me assessing them, watching with fascination. They were still taking off the bracelets as I ordered. Wells walked into camp and yelled "What the hell are you doing?" "We're liberating ourselves. What does it look like?" I said as I stood, the others moving out of my way to make a clear path to Wells and Clark. "It looks like you're trying to get us all killed," Wells told me. He was still wearing the bracelets everyone else in the camp was ridding themselves of. "The communication system is down. If you take these off, the Ark won't come down." Clark argued. I scowled. I was intrigued by her balls, but she was a mere cub to what I could be dealing with. "That's the point, Chancellor." I narrowed my eyes at Bellamy as he walked up next to me. He and I had established ourselves as the leaders and we needed to be to keep the Ark in space. Clark didn't seem happy about that, I didn't really give a damn, even if she was my sister I barely knew her. My first priority was and would always be Octavia and Bellamy's safety. "We can take care of ourselves. Can't we?" The crowd roared, and I smirked at their reaction. I was mocking her, and it was quite the insult to her and Wells. Many of the others agreed with me, and it looked like the Wells was falling out of favor with our people now being led by Bellamy and I. Wells was be quite unpopular to begin with and now this outburst, he wasn't going to last long here. "You think this is a game? Those are our friends and our parents up there. They're our farmers, our doctors, our engineers." Wells named off a few jobs our people had in the sky. "I don't care what they tell you. We won't survive on our own. And besides, if it really is safe, how could you not want the rest of our people to come down?" I thought he made a good point. But I knew why I couldn't let them come down, Bellamy and I just had to convince the others the same thing. "My people are already down here," Bellamy replied, pointing a finger to the sky where we were from. "Those people locked my people up. Those people were going to kill Adria for killing a man who beat her and held her hostage because of her fathers political station." He nearly yelled "Those people tried to kill her father for getting her the medication she needed when she was dying. Those people forced her mother to leave when Adria was a kid because her parents had an affair; they sent her away and allowed her mother to have a second child yet those people killed my mother for the crime of having a second child. Your father did that." Bellamy threatened Wells "My father didn't write the laws." Wells argued "No. He enforced them. But not anymore. Not here." I spoke up, taking in the reactions of the others. "Here, there are no laws. Here, we do whatever the hell we want, whenever the hell we want. Now, you don't have to like it, Wells. You can even try to stop it, change it, kill me. You know why?" Bellamy taunted him "Whatever the hell we want." Bell finished visibly flaunting off the fact that these people only followed him and I now. A chant started among the people, and I had to fight off the laughter in myself. These people claimed anything but discipline. I would change that. It was more than just funny to me, it was downright stupid. These people were not real men, they were children with dreams, and dreams were shot down to easily. But Bellamy and I had a mission. And right now I had never been more attracted to him in my life, taking charge, being a leader. This new him, it was sexy. The idea of being by his side with and army behind us to protect us from the Ark was pleasing. I had never needed another person to protect me, never found a mountain I couldn't climb by myself. But Bellamy, this new Bellamy, watching him take charge turned me on in a way I didn't think I could be. I wanted him. I wanted him right then and there. Before I was practically ready to jump him a rumble came over my head, and rain fell to the ground suddenly. I stood there just as shocked as everyone else around us. Rain drops fell from the sky and soaked my long black hair, but I could care less. I felt the cold rain drops hit my pale skin softly coating my body in fresh water, water that hadn't been recycled on the Ark for ninety seven years. I couldn't help but smile as I put my hands out to embrace nature. I laughed as I pulled away my jacket so that the water could get to the rest of my flesh. It danced across my skin and I couldn't help but smile as I twirled around in circles a few times before Bellamy caught my wrists and pulled me into his soaked arms. I smirked at the sight of him, his hair now soaked hung draped past his eyes like a curtain. He very much resembled a wet cat, and I loved it. The rain had washed away the leftover gel that once pushed his hair away from his eyes, leaving his hair curled wild and free to take which ever form it wished. I pushed back his curly wet hair from his tan freckled face to see he was smiling just as wide as I was. He ran his fingers through my long black hair caressing the sides of my arms, careful not to bump my wound, until his hands found their way to my hips. The feeling of his skin on mine sent tingles down my spine. The others cheered around us as if it was the most amazing thing that had ever seen, but Bellamy and I weren't paying attention to them. We were too absorbed in the way our skin felt against each other, I suddenly felt the need to be close to him. I hadn't felt this need since what Marko did to me, in fact I didn't think I'd ever feel it but I did. I couldn't stay away from Bellamy, he was my other half, I felt like I needed to be closer to him, I needed to be with him and anything other than that felt unnatural and foreign to me. I leaned into him, brushing my lips against his ever so sweetly. I pulled away for a moment, noticing Clark still standing next to us and I struggled to find the words to excuse us from her presents. "If you're done with your pointless rant now, Princess, were going to go...enjoy our new tent." Bellamy took the words right out of my mouth and I took his hand with the intent to never let go. Before she could say another word Bellamy was pulling me through the rain.
