Day trip

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It's only been 2 days since Charlotte committed suicide Murphy got banished but unfortunately he's back, the night after Charlotte death he can back but no one done anything because he's the least of his worries, Raven had fixed the transceiver and they have been hearing this French woman on a loop repeating the same thing "...Il est dehors... Il est dehors et
Brennan pris les clefs!   Veuillez nous aider... Ils sont morts Ils sont tous morts... -- Nous aider... Ils son morts -- Il les a tues. Il les a tues tous."
They know this because luckily for them Jasper can speak a little bit of French he translated it to
"Please help... I'm alone now... on the island alone. Someone please come... the others, they're dead. It killed them. It killed them all."
Back at camp Raven has been working in a was to find where the message is transceiving but the only was it will work is she need 2 more people to help her so she asked Octavia and Bellamy
Raven explained how it was gonna work "Three antennas. Three points of a triangle. One here on the beach that Octavia will do"... she removes another antenna from the bag and hands it to Bellamy, "you will take the high ground" and she point towards the mountings
She brings up yet another antenna, this one hardwired to the ever-important transceiver. "I will position in the jungle, roughly two kilometers in. If the French transmission is coming from somewhere within our triangulation, I'll be able to locate the source. But there are two complications...
Bellamy: "Of course there are."
Raven continued "The power cells I've grafted onto the antennas are drained. There's no telling how long they'll last. A minute. Maybe more. Maybe less."
Octavia starts understanding "So we all have to be in position before we switch them on."
Bellamy: "Whoa, wait a minute, how are we supposed to do that? There's no way to communicate with each other."
Raven just smiles. Thought of this. She reaches into his duffel, pulls out three bottle rockets.
Octavia looks at her confused "Bottle rockets?"
Raven smiles again "God bless firework smugglers. When I'm in position, I'll fire off my rocket. When you two see it, fire yours. After the last one goes up, we'll antennas. all switch on our"
Octavia: "you said there was to complications"
Raven: "The battery in the transceiver is dead. And I've yet to find a suitable replacement. Without the transceiver, all of this is for nothing... Something from a PDA or, better yet, a laptop computer would probably work... but... I've been unable to salvage any from the wreckage."
Raven thinks for a moment and glance back at the beach camp " But I think I might know where to look"
While Raven, Bellamy and Octavia are trying to locate the source of the transmission the others are heading to a cave where the water is because Clarke feels like it's safer for the camp and it's. easier for water instead of people walking 5 miles just to get it, but the problem is not everyone wasn't to go so the camp has now split.
"why don't I believe you" Raven says addressing a lounging Murphy, with his battered
copy of watership down on his lap. He glances at her  "Couldn't say, cupcake. Most folks think I got a trustworthy face. Or so they tell me."
Raven: "You've been hoarding like a packrat since the crash and you don't have a single laptop?!"
Murphy studies Raven then smiles "we are test aren't we" and she  just looks at him. Then speaks to him evenly "God, it must be so exhausting..."
Murphy: "What's that?"
She continues "Living like a parasite. Always talking, never giving..."
Murphy: "Boy, you sure got me pegged."
Raven: "I get it now. It all makes sense you don't want to leave this island because there's nothing to you to get back to, there's no one you miss and there's no one no one misses you."
Murphy: Awww. Feelin' sorry for me. How sweet.
Raven: "I don't feel sorry for you. I pity you."
He just sits there for a moment. Then he reaches into his bag again and brings out a laptop. He slides the battery out, tosses it to her "All you had to do was say please."
She stares at him, then turns and goes. He watching her, his glib smirk melting away for just a second, showing he might just've been stung...
Bellamy and Raven are on their way up to their point of the triangle they were silent but Bellamy broke the silence "What we're doing. I mean, chasing some phantom distress signal What are the odds of this working?"
Raven smiles "No worse than the odds of us surviving that plane crash." Bellamy looks at her with confusion on his face "People survive plane crashes all the time"
Raven: "Not like this one. The tail section broke off when we were still in the air. The cockpit separated some time later... Our section cart-wheeled through the jungle, completely crushing those who died. And yet we escaped with nothing more than a few scrapes. How do you explain that?"
Bellamy doesn't really know what to say "blind luck?"
Raven: "no ones that lucky"
And after that they continued their trek.
Octavia's on the beach waiting for the signal on her own she doesn't like being on her own she rather be with someone but Clarke and Jasper are on their at to the caves, Monty well he's with Harper, And she doesn't really like Finn but she doesn't know why she can't seem to put her finger on it, so she just sitting there staring out at the ocean when something catches her eye it's a woman she hasn't spoken to sitting on her own holding something, so she decided to go to her
"Do you mind if I sit" but the woman dint answer her, so she just sat down next to her "that's fine we can just sit" Octavia says hoping to get something out of the woman but still nothing, she sits with her for a while "im Octavia" she says holding out her hand the woman just sits there so Octavia goes to walk off then she heard "I..I'm Abbie" the woman said Octavia sat back down
"Why are you hear on your own" Abbie looked down she looked at what she was holding that was on a necklace it was a ring "my husband Kane h..he was on the tail end of the plane"
"I'm sorry I asked, if you want we can set up a funeral for him like the others have down for their loved ones" Abbie looked at her and smiled "he's not dead, I have a feeling" Octavia dint know what to say "I have to go, I have a job to do over there" she says pointing to where it's set up
"You can come help if you want, I don't like to see you on your own" Abbie shock her head I'm fine hear" so Octavia smiles and nodes before getting up and going back over to where she was.
Raven and Bella,y were about half way now they continues to trek through the jungle when they hear a rustle in the underbrush they stop nervous
Bellamy whispered "Something's coming"
Murphy emerges from the jungle. Raven shakes her head before saying "What the hell are you doing here?"
Easy. I just came for a trek" Raven in a harsh tone "What makes you think Were interested in your help?" Murphy, taken aback by this reception. "You were right. About me. That I don't help anyone but myself. Well, here I am. Ready to pitch in."
Bellamy and Raven are both skeptical?
Bellamy "You're here to help?"
"Hey You act any more surprised, I'm gonna be insulted." Murphy replied
Waves crashes we find a more sparsely populated beach. Many of the castaways such as Clarke, Jasper and Finn have moved to the caves...
...but not Harper, who  sits in her disembodied plane seat as she writes in her journal. So engrossed, she doesn't see... "delivery!" Monty shouts handing her a bottom of water She smiles. There's  a nascent connection between these two, and yeah, even hints of ROMANCE. "Your sweet" she says "Anyway, I worry about you. Out here. It's very... sunny." Monty replies Harper then points
"Thus my hat." Then Monty looks realising  she's wearing a hat "Right. Hat. Sun hat. Brilliant. Lots of hats at the caves."
Harper looks at him and giggles  "I like the beach Monty" Harper then smacks her leg. Something just bit her.
"Yeah. Who wouldn't want to spend their day with sand fleas?" He says
"I want to be here, Monty. (serious; believing) For when we get rescued."
Monty: "Right. For when we get rescued." And O off he went, knowing full well that ain't gonna happen...
"This is far enough. We'll place the second antenna here." Raven says getting her antenna out of her bag she then takes out a small coil of wire, looks around, then at Murphy. "You want to help? Attach this antenna up in that tree. As high as you can."
"Golly, thanks!" He replies taking the antenna from Raven, giving her a wink, and moves *toward the tree. Bellamy then hands Raven  her bottle rocket. "Five o'clock. Watch for my flare. Then it's your turn." Raven tells Bellamy before he heads off to get in position "I don't trust him with you" Bellamy says to Raven just before he leaves she looks over at Murphy then back at Bellamy "I can handle him" Bellamy doesn't like it... but he nodes. Heads back off into the jungle.
Octavia is still just sitting on the beach aimlessly when out of her surprise Abbie sits next to her "so...what's your job, looks complicated" "at 5 o clock when I see a flare over there" she says pointing "I have to set mine off and once that's done I have to switch this on" Abbie looks at her and giggles "so complicated" Octavia then giggles "yeah,I guess" Abbie doesn't bother asking why she's doing it, she doesn't really care all she wants it to find Kane, Abbie doses want to talk about being stuck on this island so she asked Octavia "so what were you doing in Sydney" Octavia looks down at the sand then back up to Abbie "nothing special just a holiday with my brother" but she was lying she was actually there for her mother's funeral "what were you there for"
"I was there for mostly work, I'm a Doctor" but Abbie was lying as well she was there because her husband Kane wanted her to see a special doctor because she has cancer.
Monty and Harper are hanging wet clothes on a makeshift clothesline strung between two pieces of wreckage
Harper: "Warm, clean towels. Like when they first come out of the dryer. Your turn."
Monty: "Banoffi pie."
Harper: "You said that already."
Monty: (can taste it) "The toffee and cream. And crumbled biscuits."
Harper: "Is food the only thing you miss?"
Monty then stops hanging up the cloths and looks at Harper "Forgive me if the practicality of a clean towel eludes me. For God's sake,Don't you crave anything? Pickles? Ice Cream? Fried Chocolate"
Harper thought for a moment "Peanut butter. I'm the only Australian that craves peanut butter"
Monty processes this for a moment. Then, with a smile: "I can get you peanut butter."
Harper: "Right. Sure you can."
Monty: "Indeed... and when I provide you with your revered peanut butter, you must vacate this sandy strip of depression and move to the caves."
(puts out his hand) "Deal?"
Harper laughs. Doesn't quite think he'll get any peanut butter, but still likes this guy. Puts her hand in his. "You're on."
And off Monty, wondering where the hell he is going to find fucking PEANUT BUTTER.
Bellamy is at his position With his antenna Set up, he Checks his watch. FIVE SHARP. He takes a breath, and prepares to light his bottle rocket, the one and only failsafe he will have of signalling the others to turn on their antennas. He touches a match to the fuse WHOOSH!
Following the rocket up as it explodes in the sky above him as he prepares to activate the antenna
Bellamy:  "Alright, everyone. It's your turn." He says to himself
Octavia casually lying on the beach slowly dropping off as she sees Some sort of firework, she sits up only now realising it's her brothers bottle rocket
Octavia: "Oh, dammit, dammit, dammit" And she lunges for the bottle rocket.
Bellamy. His face lights up as Octavias bottle rocket explodes in the sky over the beach.
Bellamy: "Come on, Raven. One more..."
But nothing is happening. No bottle rocket. Bellamy begins to look nervous for a moment, then... SWOOSH -- the third bottle rocket EXPLODES above the jungle.
He switches on his antenna, the one connected to the transceiver -- and we see Bars. He's getting BARS.

Finn: "All the food from the plane's been gone over a week, dude."
Monty: "No secret stash for "emergencies?"
Finn: "Sorry, man. There's no peanut butter, no peanuts, no nothing."
Monty: "All I need's a bag of peanuts"
Finn: " I have no food, okay?"
Finn shakes his head, starts walking again. Monty follows.
Monty: "Sorry. I shouldn't've kept on"
Finn stops walking and wonders why he apologised, "it's fine"
Monty: "so not even a single bag of...."
Finn: "dude!"
And Off Monty, bummed about letting Harper down,
Harper dozes. Peaceful. Lovely. Astrology Book by her side. Monty arrives. Trying not to wake her, he starts to fold and pack her clothing. As he does, she wakes up
Harper: "What... what're you doing?"
Monty "Packing your stuff."
He reaches for her Astrology Book. And says "I'm guessing you'll be taking this
with." Harper replies "where?" He just looks at her " the caves, your moving" she things for a moment
Harper: " You didn't -- Peanut butter?"
Monty nods "no way" she says shocked, he smiles at her " just as you ordered"
He reaches into his bag. Before pulling his hand out -- " There's one thing, though. It's
extra smooth."
Harper: " that's okay"
And finally, Monty produces... An EMPTY GLASS JAR.
Harper disappointed "It's... it's empty."
He unscrews the cap, digs his fingers in, and swirls them around.
Monty: "What? No it's not. It's full, see? Full to the top with stick to the roof of your mouth, god, it makes you want a glass of milk so bad, extra smooth..."
Lifting his fingers out, popping them in his mouth. Ecstasy. " best sodding peanut butter I've ever tasted, want some"
She's looking at him like he's crazy, Doesn't want to play along. But the sheer brilliance of Montys ploy can't be denied. Harper dips her fingers in. And Takes a taste.
Monty: " Good, isn't it"
Harper considers. Then, despite her reluctance, just plain CHARMED with His gesture, plays along
Harper: "No. It's great."
Monty:  grabbing her book "So... you'll be wanting this with you? In the caves?"
She NODS. Ready to leave the beach.

Bellamy: "Yes! Yes, yes, yes!" He can't believe Ravens idea worked not that he was doubting her As he slowly pivots his body away from trying to find the source... A SHADOW falls over him. Someone is behind him. He senses it, but before he can turn...
WHAM! A LARGE ROCK in the hand of someone we don't see SLAMS down on Bellamy head!
And as He CRASHES to the ground, unconscious...

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⏰ Last updated: Jul 20, 2019 ⏰

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