꧁★ act one — chapter six ★꧂

"What the hell is going on?" Madelyn asked as Cameron walked over to her, her body was still aching so Bellamy told her to stay put in the drop ship. "Food blew up. We're going hunting to get more food." Cameron explained as he squatted down in front of her.

"You're leaving me?" Madelyn said with a fake pout. "Shut up." Cameron spoke and they both laughed as Cameron pushed her shoulder causing her to hit him. "Hey! Injured remember?"

"Yeah, yeah, sorry." Cameron spoke sarcastically as he got up and got ready to go out and hunt.

"Each group takes someone with a gun, and they're for killing grounders, not food. We don't have the ammo. Use the spears for hunting. Get what you can. Be back by nightfall. No one stays out after dark." Bellamy instructed, he then walked over to Madelyn.

"Hey you, how are you doing?" He asked as he smiled down at her. "I'm okay, I guess, still hurts a little, Madelyn - 0, cliff - 1, I guess." Madelyn laughs, Bellamy laughed with her. "As long as you're at least okay, you're probably still hurting because you quite literally fell down a cliff, then walked all the way back to camp only to get deadly sick." Bellamy said.

"Yeah, I'm pretty bad ass." Madelyn smiled. "Yeah definetly, you've survived more things than someone your age should." Bellamy spoke. "You take it easy while we're out, yeah?" Madelyn gave him a nod and a smile.

When the people who were out hunting came back, Clarke and Finn hadn't returned, it worried Madelyn, Cameron had come back with a slightly bruised forehead.

"What the fuck happened?" Madelyn asked as her eyes widened. "Nothing." Cameron said as he sat down and looked at the floor.

"Cameron... did you walk into another tree?" Madelyn asked as she raised a brow, when Cameron kept quiet and kept looking at the ground, Madelyn burst out laughing, Cameron's head shot her way with wide eyes. "It's not funny!"

"It is!" Madelyn laughed, she couldn't stop. "It really annoys me that all of the times you've either fallen over or walked into something I'm never there, I want to see it!" Madelyn spoke, Cameron's jaw dropped.

"You really find it that funny that I get hurt?" Cameron asked. "Yes!" Madelyn laughed and Cameron hit her shoulder like he'd done earlier. "Hey! Asshole."

Madelyn sat, watching Raven doing her thing when Monty walked in. "You finished the walkies." He spoke. "Hey... I'm sorry about before, really, and about your family." Raven spoke, Madelyn who spent all day in the drop ship had seen their little not so fun moment earlier, she smiled at Raven.

"Thanks. So all the hunters are back except Clarke and Finn." Monty said, Madelyn looked at Raven who seemed to have no reaction. "Ok."

"Raven, they were with another kid--Myles. They all left camp together." Monty spoke, shit, another person was missing. "All three of them are still out there?" Raven asked, she seemed to have a bit more of a reaction now.

"Yeah. We're going to look for them. Bring the walkies." Monty spoke. "Alright, I'm going too." Madelyn spoke as she started to stand up only for both Monty and Raven to put their hands on her shoulders and make her sit back down. "No you're not, you need at least a couple of days, you went through hell, you're not ready to go on adventures just yet." Raven explained, Madelyn sighed but nodded and leant back against the wall.

Madelyn stood beside Bellamy, both looking over when Myles started groaning in pain and discomfort. Madelyn turned around when someone walked in, Jasper.

"Don't you think I want to go after them, too?" Bellamy asked after a moment of silence. "If it was you out there, you think Monty, Clarke, or Finn would hide behind these walls?" Jasper asked, Monty had dissapered when they went out and looked for Clarke, Finn and Myles, they found Myles but in return they lost Monty.

"No. They'd go after me. Then they'd be dead, too. I am doing what I think is right for the group." Bellamy explained, Madelyn couldn't help but feel bad for both of them, Jasper was obviously hurting because Monty was his best friend, Bellamy had good intentions, it was just as if right now Jasper couldn't see that.

"It's funny, you didn't think that way when Octavia went missing." Jasper spoke then walked toward the ladder. "Where are you going?" Bellamy asked. "More gunpowder for your minefield..sir." Jasper said with a salute which made Madelyn smile, even in situations like this Jasper still couldn't help but be Jasper.

Bellamy left to get Myles water and Madelyn laid down to go to sleep, she opened her eyes when she heard someone walk into the drop ship, she opened her eyes just in time to see Murphy putting a bag over Myles' head, Madelyn's eyes widened but she was frozen in fear, Murphy obviously thought she was asleep. "This is for tying the noose that they hung me with. Say hi to Colin for me."

Madelyn slowly sat up when the struggling stopped and she heard Jasper coming down the ladder. "He stopped breathing. I was-- I was trying to help him." Murphy quickly said, but when Murphy noticed Jasper didn't believe him and noticed the look on Madelyn's face, he knew she'd seen so he went forward and grabbed the gun on the table before Jasper could and pointed it at him.

"Murphy, just put the gun down." Jasper spoke, Madelyn stood up, ready for whatever might happen. "He tried to kill me." Murphy said, Jasper then backed up causing Murphy to point the gun at him.

"Hey, don't move." Murphy spoke and Jasper stopped. "Ok. ok. It's cool." Jasper said, Madelyn backed up a step but not too much so she'd get herself shot. "No, It's not. You know what'll happen to me if you tell Bellamy." Murphy spoke.

"Tell Bellamy what?" Bellamy's voice came through the walkie-talkie that Jasper had. "Give me the radio, Jasper." Murphy demanded. Jasper slowly pulled out the walkie-talkie.

"Murphy has a gun. He killed Myles." Jasper started talking into the walkie but was quickly knocked out by Murphy. "Murphy what the hell are you doing?" Bellamy asked through the walkie, Madelyn watched as Murphy pulled the lever to close the drop ship.

"You try to be a hero, Jasper and your precious little kid in here, dies." Murphy yelled and Madelyn's heart dropped, none of them had done anything yet Murphy was willing to kill them to get what he wanted, which was something that Madelyn never understood about her father why he was willing to kill people to get what he wanted.

"Murphy, I know you can hear me. All our ammo and food is in the middle level. You know that. You're leaving us vulnerable to an attack. I can't let that happen." Bellamy spoke through the radio, Murphy had tied both Jasper and Madelyn up, sitting on different sides of the drop ship.

"Yeah, well, in case you haven't noticed, you're not exactly in control right now." Murphy said back. "Come on, Murphy. You don't want to hurt Jasper and Madelyn. You want to hurt me." Bellamy respond causing Murphy to look Jasper's way, but he didn't look toward Madelyn.

"So what do you say? How about you trade them for me?" Bellamy asked and Madelyn's eyes widened. "All you have to do is let them go, and I'll take their place."

"How?" Murphy asked as he looked at Jasper again not looking at Madelyn, Madelyn then came to the realization that he had no intent on letting her go. "Simple. You open the door, I walk in, he walk out." Bellamy spoke, Murphy looked at her with a small smirk and she knew she was right, he turned back and Madelyn got up, hands tied behind her back and she used her shoulder to remove the cloth around her mouth.

Murphy went to respond but Madelyn quickly interrupted. "Don't fall for it Bellamy, he's not gonna--"

"Shut up!" Murphy yelled and then a gun shot went off, Madelyn screamed as she felt the bullet hit her thigh, Murphy pushed her back and she hit the wall and slid down, Murphy went over and opened the drop ship doors.

"Just you Bellamy, unarmed!" Murphy yelled. "10 seconds, or I'll put one in Jasper's leg, or Madelyn's other! One... two!.. three...four...five..." Murphy yelled and he started counting. "I'm here." Bellamy yelled.

Madelyn sat on the floor when Bellamy walked in, he looked at her with wide eyes. "What the fuck?" Bellamy spoke with anger as he looked at Murphy, he tried to walk over to the struggling Madelyn but a gun was pointed at him so he stopped.

"That's good." Murphy spoke still pointing the gun at Bellamy, Madelyn groaned slightly as the pain in her thigh kept going, from what she could tell, the fact that Murphy had been close to her made the bullet go all the way through, but unluckily for her that meant if this went on for too long she could possibly bleed out.

"Then do what I said." Murphy spoke again. "Bellamy?" Octavia's voice came through the walkie. "Bellamy! Are you ok?" Octavia's voice came through again as Madelyn looked around for something that she could use to wrap around her leg.

"You want her to know you're alive? start tying." Murphy spoke, Madelyn went to get up so she could find something to use, but stopped when Murphy pointed the gun at her. "Sit the fuck back down."

"Bellamy! Do you copy?" Octavia spoke through the walkie again. "I'm fine. Just a misfire. Now stop worrying about me and get back to work all of you... and tell Raven to hurry her ass up." Bellamy responded.

"All right, that's long enough. Tie those two ends together." Murphy instructed and Bellamy did as he was told. "All right. Now get up and toss it over." Murphy instructed and Madelyn finally understood what Murphy was trying to do. He was going to hang Bellamy like they hanged Murphy.

"What do you want me to say? You want me to apologize? I'm--" Bellamy was cut off by Murphy adjusting the gun clearly ready to shoot him. "I'm sorry."

"You got it all wrong, Bellamy. I don't want you to say anything. I want you to feel what I felt, and then... then I want you to die." Murphy spoke and Madelyn's heart dropped, she couldn't help but tear up a little.

"Put it over you head." Murphy spoke when Bellamy stood on the stool. "This is insane. The grounders could--" Bellamy spoke but was cut off when Murphy fired the gun, Madelyn let out a scream and covered her head.

"Put it over your head." Murphy spoke as he grabbed the other end, Madelyn's heart was racing. "Happy now?" Bellamy asked, Murphy smirked and pulled in the end he was holding so it got tighter for Bellamy, Madelyn started tearing up, she didn't want anyone to die, not even Murphy in this moment.

"You're so brave aren't you? I mean, you came in here thinking you're just gonna turn this whole thing around, that you were stronger than me, and maybe one of your friends would come and help you. Well, what are you thinking now, Bellamy?" Murphy spoke, Madelyn's mind was racing about all sorts of things.

Someone on the outside must've thought about something, they must've been trying to get into the drop ship as this was happening, so Madelyn figured they needed more time and she began thinking about ways to stall. Murphy tugged on the end he was holding again making Bellamy slightly choke. Madelyn could feel the blood loss catching up to her.

"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. I learned that the day you kicked out the crate from beneath me." Murphy spoke, he was still holding Bellamy kind of tight, so Bellamy was still struggling a bit.

"Isn't that what you said? That you were just giving the people what they wanted, right?" Murphy spoke, Bellamy was holding the noose open to stop him from choking.

"I should have stopped them." Bellamy spoke, Madelyn could tell that even if in the moment when he kicked the crate from beneath Murphy he'd looked like he enjoyed it, Madelyn could tell and believed that he truly didn't.

"yeah, it's a little late for that now." Murphy spoke, he was tearing up too. "You think they're just gonna let you walk out of here?" Bellamy asked, he was stalling too, like Madelyn had thought someone must be working on a way to save them so all Bellamy and Madelyn had to do was stall stall stall.

"Well, I think the princess is dead... but I know the king and his little right hand or whatever is about to die, so who's really gonna lead these people, huh? Me, that's who, and, yeah, maybe I'll have to kill your grounder-pounding little sister--" Bellamy lunged forward when Murphy said that, so Murphy went over and tugged in the other end so Bellamy began being choked.

"Wait wait! Stop!" Madelyn yelled and Murphy loosened his grip and turned to her. "Please just, why didn't you let me go? Why just Jasper? What did I do?" Madelyn asked and Murphy let go of of the makeshift rope and pointed his gun at her. "What did you do?!" He yelled.

"Was- was it because of what I said? The joke?" She asked with tears running down from her face, she'd realized what positioned she'd now put herself in. When Murphy said nothing she got her answer.

"That's just like a- a umm I don't know- a fucking coping thing, I make jokes about shitty parents because I grew up and I'm going to continue growing up with no mother because she died, and my dad is a fucking serial killer and i joke about shitty parents because my dad, was who he was, it's the only way I can talk about it without breaking down." Madelyn explained as she broke down into tiny sobs, Murphy sighed and stopped pointing his gun at her, he went over to where she'd been sleeping.

He ripped up a piece on some of the clothes or something and handed it to her, Madelyn flinched when he did and he he bent down and wrapped the piece of cloth around her leg to stop the bleeding.

Just as everything was going alright a sound came from underneath the ship. "I'm guessing that's her right now." Murphy spoke returning to the topic of Octavia. He took his gun and started shooting at the floor, Madelyn flinched as he was shooting right beside her. He kept shutting until the gun clicked. Bellamy tried to get free from the rope but Murphy quickly kicked the stool.

"NO!" Madelyn screamed as she watched Bellamy get hung, "no.." she sobbed. "Using your hands is a cheat. Mine were bound, remember?" Murphy spoke after a second of watching Bellamy struggle, Bellamy punched Murphy in the face making him fall back.

This angered Murphy enough to hit Bellamy with his gun making him knock out cold, Murphy stopped when he heard the door to the drop ship open, he quickly went to the ladder to get upstairs, pausing and looking over at Madelyn who was sobbing.

"Why?.. You could've been good.." Madelyn spoke as she looked at Murphy. "I know. Don't die okay?" Murphy said and then he ran, the first on to enter the drop ship was Jasper who ran to Bellamy when he saw him hanging, next Octavia, who immidiaetly panicked.

Madelyn looked up and broke into tears when she saw Bellamy breathe, she looked toward the drop ship doors and saw Cameron, she only had to look at him for a second before she broke down into tears again, he ran to her as soon as he saw her.

"Are you okay?" He asked panicked as he felt her face in his hands. "Yeah I'm okay. Murphy shot me but.." Madelyn started. "But what?" Cameron asked.

"He stopped the bleeding by tying this around and then before he ran he just said 'don't die okay?' like I don't understand." Madelyn explained, genuinely confused.

Murphy had blown a hole in the wall of the upper Leven of the drop ship and escapes, Bellamy had been quick to go up there and when he saw that Murphy was gone and came back down, the first thing he did was make sure Madelyn was okay, which she was but he was definitely gonna make her stay inside the drop ship again.

Everybody ran out as they saw movement outside the walls, Cameron helped Madelyn walk out there to see what was going on.

"Wait! Hold your fire! It's Clarke and Finn! Open the gate!" Miller yelled and some ran over to open the gates. "Hey, we heard an explosion what happened?" Clarke asked as she and Finn ran into camp, the gates being securely closed behind them.

"Murphy happened." Madelyn spoke and Clarke looked at her. "Are you okay?" Clarke asked and Madelyn gave her a nod. "Thank god." Jasper spoke as he pulled Clarke into a hug. "Where's Monty?"

"Monty's gone?" Clarke asked. "Clarke, we need to leave, now. All of us do. There's an army of grounders., unlike anything we've ever seen, coming for us right now. We need to pack what we can and run." Finn spoke, Madelyn sighed, it was like a never ending loop, always another danger waiting on the corner of your next path, earth was supposed to be the dream, now it was just a nightmare.

"Like hell we do. We knew this was coming." Bellamy argued. "Bell, we're not prepared, and we've got injured." Octavia spoke and nodded toward Madelyn. "And they're not here yet. We still have time to get ready. Besides, where would we go? Where would we be safer than behind these walls?" Bellamy spoke, he did have a point, if the were out there in their territory, where they know all the good hiding spots for a good kill, they were fucked.

"There's an ocean to the east. People there will help us." Finn explained. "You saw Lincoln." Octavia said, Finn nodded.

"You expect us to just a grounder?" Bellamy asked but no one said anything. "This is out home now. We built this from nothing with our bare hands! Our dead are buried behind that wall in this ground! Our ground! The grounders think they can take that away. They think that because we came from the sky, we don't belong here. But they're yet to realize one very important fact: We are on the ground now. And that means we are grounders!" Bellamy gave his speech and the crowd broke into cheers, Madelyn smiled a little. "I say let them come!"

"Bellamy's right. If we leave, we may never find a place as safe as this. And god knows, in this world, we could be faced with something even worse tomorrow. But that doesn't change the simple fact that if we stay here, we will die tonight. So pack your things, just take what you can carry, now." Clarke spoke and to no ones surprise people started doing what she said.

"Help me." they heard someone say as everyone went their way to pack. "Raven!" Raven was stumbling in holding her stomach, she was bleeding.

Madelyn and Cameron followed them into the drop ship, Clarke was gonna check up on Madelyn but right now Raven was more important, so Madelyn brushed her off and told her to help Raven first, sure Madelyn had lost a large amount of blood but Madelyn was fine.

AUTHOR'S NOTE!

Hey! I am so sorry that it took a while to get another chapter out, been trying my best to write everyday, but my brain just can't write a whole chapter just straight in one sitting, I know that might sound weird, but I can't concentrate for that long, I don't know why, I just can't concentrate nor focus lol.

Anywayssss I really hoped you liked this chapter, I know Madelyn has been going THROUGH IT and I apologize, I can't promise it gets better, there is a lot happening now, one more chapter and we're done with act one, it's so excitinggg, specifically because it'll be my first time ever finishing a whole season for one of my fics lmao.

any opinions on this chapter?

Madelyn and Murphy WILL be getting better, there was a little sneak peak of that in this chapter, I love future them so much. Deep down he genuinely cares for her, but sometimes she reminds him of himself and he hates it.

Forgot the memes in the last chapter, sorry about that but here they are!

Me seeing Mads in pain

Me writing this chapter

Probably y'all (sorry)

Hopefully not y'all

I am hoping that this is not what y'all are imagining toward me rn but knowing what I put Maddie through it probably is

sorry not sorry