arabella, bellamy, murphy, and wells had regrouped and found clarke and finn. clarke had told them they were close to finding jasper after she and finn had found his blood smeared over some rocks. the group was now walking by the side of a small stream.

"hey, how do we know this is the right way?" murphy spoke.

"we don't. spacewalker thinks he's a tracker." bellamy answered.

"it's called "cutting sign" fourth-year earth skills. he's good." wells chimed in.

"you want to keep it down or should i paint a target on your back?" finn snapped.

"you know? i don't even remember those earth skills classes." arabella muttered to murphy who was standing next to her.

"yeah, because you always slept through them, bella." he muttered back letting out a small laugh.

the girl let out a small 'oh'.

finn stopped to look at a tree with a thin branch that had snapped but was still attached to the tree. arabella watched as he knelt down and saw a small rock with droplets of blood on it.

"see? You're invisible." arabella heard bellamy whisper to wells.

a loud moan was heard from the distance.

"what the hell was that?" murphy asked.

"now might be a good time to take out that gun." clarke told bellamy.

the group quickly followed the low moaning. when clarke and finn stopped, arabella quickly limped to where the moans were coming from, what they saw made their jaws drop. jasper was strung up to a tree, arabella squinted and saw something was covering his wound.

"oh my god." arabella muttered, she quickly walked over to the tree but felt the ground cave in beneath her, she felt a hand grab her wrist, and let out a breath she didn't know she was holding, her eyes were closed out of instinct and fear and when she opened them she saw Bellamy. he had a terrified look on his face, bellamy quickly pulled her up, with the help of murphy and finn.

"bella, are you hurt?" murphy asked worriedly.

"no, i'm fine." she sighed, letting out shaky breaths. "thank you." the girl looked at bellamy giving him a grateful smile, and he returned the smile giving her a small nod.

"we need to get him down." clarke stated shakily.

"i'll climb up there and cut the vines." finn said. "you." he looked at murphy. "let's go."

"there's a poultice on his wound." clarke told them, arabella was zoned out, she didn't get scared often but almost dying again affected her quite a bit, she didn't think she could be any more grateful for bellamy saving her.

she snapped out of her daze when she felt a large hand on her shoulder, arabella slightly jumped turning around and saw bellamy with a concerned look on his face.

"you alright, sweetheart?" he asked, arabella, smiled slightly at the nickname, almost blushing, she just nodded her head.

finn and murphy were trying to cut jasper down as quickly as possible.

"hurry up, murphy." finn rushed.

"be careful." clarke said in her usual tone of concern.

arabella was just staring at the trap that she had fallen into and almost died in, but when she heard distant growling her head immediately shot up.

"what the hell was that?" murphy asked from the tree.

"grounders?" bellamy guessed.

arabella wearily spun in circles to see if anything or anyone was about to attack them. the girls eyes widened when she saw what looked like a black panther running towards her and clarke. the animal snarled as it ran at the two girls.

"bellamy, gun!" arabella shouted.

bellamy reached for his gun, but it wasn't there. a gunshot was fired at the panther, arabella spun around to see wells shooting the animal. clarke grabbed arabella's hand bringing her over to where wells was stood, he had shot the panther in the leg, but it disappeared into the bushes.

"jesus christ." arabella muttered, taking the gun from wells and aiming wherever the panther was, the animal continued to growl in the bushes until it stopped. arabella focused on where she last heard it, which happened to be scarily close to bellamy, suddenly, the panther pounced at bellamy but before it could reach him arabella shot it in the head and the panther fell straight to the ground.

"not very good at using a gun are you, wells." arabella grumbled at the boy, walking over to bellamy and handing him back the gun. "you alright, bell?" she asked, he just nodded.

"now she sees you." bellamy told wells.

***

the group had returned to camp, with jasper and with the panther arabella killed. clarke, finn, and wells took jasper into the dropship, but arabella had stayed with murphy and bellamy, the girl wouldn't admit it but her leg was hurting, a lot, she winced every time she walked, the girl just wanted to sleep.

murphy and bellamy unwrapped the panther showing it to all the delinquents.

"who's hungry?!" bellamy shouted in a gruff voice.

"yeah!" the delinquents cheered.

"bellamy! whooo."

arabella sat herself down on a log resting her injured leg, she knew she had made it worse from all the walking she had done but she was just glad they had brought jasper back.

when the panther was cooked bellamy was making people take off their wristbands for food, arabella had taken hers off herself when they arrived back at the camp, she wondered how her father would feel if he thought she was dead, the girl hoped it hurt him and she hoped it hurt him a lot.

arabella watched as delinquents lined up to get food, she scoffed standing up from where she was sat, she tried not to limp but it wasn't that easy. she walked over to bellamy grabbing the food which was on a stick, giving the man a smug look.

"don't even bother bellamy, i killed that panther, not you. also, i already took off my wristband and I did it for myself, not for you." she snapped.

arabella limped away going back to her log, she took a bite into her food, it was slightly chewy but she hadn't eaten for a while and she was very hungry. soon after eating her food she laid down on the ground and fell asleep almost instantly.