after murphy had slightly recovered and was able to stand up, arabella was dragged into a tent by bellamy.

"get the hell off me." she seethed, arabella noticed charlotte was also in the tent, she clenched her jaw trying to restrain herself to hit the twelve-year-old.

"bring the girl out, bellamy!" she heard murphy shout from outside.

"why, charlotte?" bellamy asked calmly.

"i was just trying to slay my demons like you and arabella told me." she slightly shouted.

"me?" arabella questioned angrily. "i just told you not to be weak, are you joking?."

"what the hell is she talking about?" clarke asked, the blond looked very pissed.

"she misunderstood us." bellamy replied, he turned to the young girl. "charlotte that is not what we meant."

"no, she misunderstood you." arabella pointed to bellamy, fury taking over her.

"bring the girl out now!" murphy shouted again.

"please don't let me hurt me." charlotte cried.

arabella now had a very psychotic look on her face. "hurt you? you let murphy get hung, he almost died!" she shouted, walking over to the girl.

"arabella no, she's just a kid." bellamy pushed her back.

"i don't care if she's a kid bellamy, she killed wells and almost got murphy killed. you're just gonna let that slide?" arabella angrily told him.

bellamy just ignored arabella. "if you guys have any bright ideas, speak up."

"give her to murphy." arabella simply said.

"no."

"why?"

"she's a kid."

"does it look like i care?" arabella laughed dryly.

bellamy rolled his eyes at arabella. "now you stay quiet?" he rhetorically asked clarke.

"those are your boys out there." finn spoke up.

"this is not my fault." bellamy shouted. "if she had listened to me, those idiots would still be building the wall!"

"you want to build a society, princess? let's build a society, bring her out!" murphy shouted, clearly getting sick of waiting.

"no! please, bellamy." Charlotte cried.

bellamy knelt to the child's level. "charlotte, hey. it's gonna be ok." he softly told her. "just stay with them." he motioned to clarke and finn.

bellamy left the tent arabella following behind.

"well, well, well. look who decided to join us." murphy taunted bellamy.

"dial it down and back off."

"or what? what are you gonna do about me? hang me?" murphy fumed.

"i was just giving the people what they wanted." bellamy told him.

"yeah. yeah, that's a good idea. why don't we do that right now?" murphy asked.

"this isn't gonna end well." arabella muttered.

murphy turned to the crowd. "so, who here wants to see the real murderer hung up?" he shouted, raising his hand. "all in favor?"

four people raised their hands, arabella thought about it for a few seconds, charlotte was the one who murdered wells, she let everyone accuse murphy of it, she let them hang him and only confessed when he was almost dead. the kane girl felt so much anger towards charlotte, so she raised her hand which left bellamy shocked, also octavia and jasper who were amongst the crowd.

when nobody else raised their hand after arabella, murphy spoke up. "i see."

"so, it's okay to string me up for nothing?" he shouted, turning and pointing to the tent charlotte, finn, and clarke were in. "but when this little bitch confesses, you let her walk!?"

"cowards! all of you are cowards!" murphy shouted, almost scaring arabella she had never seen him so angry.

"hey! murphy!" bellamy shouted angrily, storming up to him. "murphy. it's over."

murphy raised his hands to his side. "whatever you say, boss." he said calmly.

this made arabella furrow her eyebrows, murphy wouldn't give up that easily, no way, not after what happened.

as bellamy walked away, murphy grabbed a small log swinging it at the back of bellamy's head, knocking him unconscious.

"oh my god, bellamy!" arabella shouted running to the man who was out cold.

"son of a bitch! hey!" octavia screamed trying to go for murphy but jasper held her back, which resulted in jasper getting punched in the face.

"murphy! calm down!" arabella shouted, trying to focus on bellamy.

"focus on your boyfriend bella, stay the hell out of this." he snapped at her.

"okay for one he's not my boyfriend." arabella grimaced. "and two don't tell me to stay out of this when i tried saving you stupid ass." she stood up and walked towards murphy shoving him. "i've done nothing but defend and protect you and you just give me shit."

the boy stayed silent for a few moments before he spoke. "come on, let's get the girl." murphy told the four people who were willing to help, completely ignoring arabella.

he walked past arabella not bothering to give her a second glance. the girl scoffed and walked back over to a still-unconscious bellamy.

but when murphy got to the tent and looked inside charlotte, finn and clarke weren't inside. "charlotte!" he shouted. "charlotte, i know you can hear me! and when i find you, you are gonna pay!"

murphy and the four others ran off into the woods while arabella and octavia sat with bellamy waiting for him to wake.

"he's such an idiot." arabella shouted angrily, talking about murphy. she ran her hand across her face taking in a deep breath. "god i wish i was still on the ark."

"arabella, if you were on the ark you'd be dead." octavia told her, a wave of confusion on her face.

"exactly, o." she replied with a tight smile.

...

bellamy had finally woken up, it was now nightfall and murphy was still looking for charlotte.

"finally, jesus how hard did he hit you?" arabella joked.

"real funny, sweetheart." bellamy rolled his eyes, trying to sit up.

"be careful though, you may have a concussion." she told him.

"since when were you a doctor?" he teased the girl. "where is murphy anyway?" bellamy asked.

"um, he's trying to find charlotte, but finn and clarke have her so I think she's safe."

bellamy slowly stood himself up using the tree next to him. "why aren't you with him then?" he shot.

arabella sighed. "i care about you more than anything else right now, even though i kinda hate you. but i just wanted to make sure you were okay."

bellamy just nodded. "understandable." the silence became thick and slightly awkward. "where's, octavia?"

"she's helping jasper. murphy punched him, i said i would look after you." she shyly told the man.

"thanks." he smiled, his gaze landing on her face, then down to her lips for a moment too long. "we should go. are you sure you're okay to run?"

"yes, bellamy, i may have almost gotten eaten by a sea monster but my leg is still intact." arabella rolled her eyes.

...

arabella and bellamy were running through the woods when they saw a small girl running. bellamy sped up grabbing charlotte, who let out a scream, he put his hand over her mouth shushing her.

"trust finn and clarke to look after a kid." arabella scoffed.

"let me go!" charlotte shouted, trying to get out of bellamy's grasp and they tried to hide from murphy.

"i'm trying- hey hey." he grabbed charlotte again. "we are trying to help you." he told the young girl.

"i'm not your sister! just stop helping me!" charlotte told him, she managed to get out of bellamy's hold running away.

"i'm over here!" she screamed.

bellamy ran and grabbed her again. "are you trying to get us killed?"

"charlotte. stop we are trying to help you, stop being a brat." arabella huffed.

"just go, ok? i'm the one they want." charlotte told the two adults.

"ok, charlotte, listen to me." bellamy crouched down to her size. "i won't leave you." he told her. "we won't leave you." he looked at arabella who was looking around them to see if murphy was coming.

"please, bellamy." she looked at him, then at the kane girl. "arabella." she tried to run again but bellamy stopped her.

murphy and the other four delinquents were very close, and bellamy had to pick charlotte up. "ahh! murphy! i'm over here!" charlotte screamed.

bellamy grabbed arabella's hand, bringing her with him.

"come on out, charlotte! come on out." arabella heard murphy shout.

arabella and bellamy were trying to stop charlotte from shouting and running away every five seconds.

"no, no! murphy!" she screeched.

"charlotte stop!" arabella tried to quietly shout.

bellamy still had charlotte over his shoulder, but murphy and the others were very close.

"ahh! put me down!" she yelled, hitting his back.

"charlotte!" murphy shouted.

bellamy stopped and put charlotte down when they found themselves at the end of a very high cliff that went straight into what sounded like a fast-flowing river.

"we are so screwed." arabella told bellamy.

"damn it."

murphy appeared from the tree with the four other people behind him. "bellamy!" he shouted. "you can not fight all of us. give her up."

"maybe not, but i guarantee i'll take a few of you with me." he told murphy.

then clarke and finn joined them.

"how nice of you to show up." arabella shot.

"bellamy, arabella! stop!" clarke shouted.

arabella stepped forward to murphy. "look, this has gone too far. please, murphy, stop." she told him calmly. "just calm down. we can talk about this."

murphy didn't say anything he looked from arabella to charlotte, then he grabbed arabella holding a knife up to her neck.

"murphy!" she cried out feeling the blade up against her neck. "think about what you're doing."

"shut up!" he shouted. "you never stop talking."

"i don't even know who you are anymore." arabella told him bitterly.

"let her go." finn tried to reach for her.

murphy put his hand up indicating for finn to stop. "i will slit her throat."

"you wouldn't dare, i mean too much to you, the guilt would kill you too." arabella confidently told him with a smirk on her face.

"no, please. please don't hurt her." charlotte cried.

"don't hurt her?" murphy asked. "ok, i'll make you a deal. you come with me right now, i will let her go." he patted arabella's shoulder.

"charlotte, don't you dare." arabella told the young girl.

charlotte tried to go forward but bellamy stopped her.

"charlotte stop! he wouldn't dare hurt me, it's okay." arabella calmly told her, then she felt the blade of the knife slightly cutting her throat, and she winced feeling the blood trickle down her neck.

"no! no i have to!" she shouted.

"murphy, this is not happening." bellamy told him.

"i can't let any of you get hurt anymore." charlotte told them. "not because of me. not after what I did." arabella noticed she had slightly turned around.

"charlotte!" arabella shouted, feeling murphy loosen his grip on the girl.

charlotte had turned around and threw herself off the cliff.

"no!" bellamy shouted trying to grab her but failing.

clarke also tried to grab her, but she failed as well. "no, no, no! No!" clarke cried.

murphy completely let go of arabella, who held onto her neck with tears in her eyes.

"oh my god." she muttered.

bellamy turned around his focus going straight to murphy.

"bellamy."

the older blake ran straight to murphy, tackling him to the floor and throwing multiple punches to his face.

"bellamy stop!" arabella screamed. "please! you'll kill him."

finn went forward pulling bellamy of murphy.

"get off me! he deserves to die!" he shouted.

arabella quickly went to murphy's side. "oh, what have you done murphy?" she asked him softly.

"no, we don't decide who lives and dies. not down here." clarke shouted at bellamy.

"so help me god, if you say the people have a right to decide-." bellamy argued back, arabella left murphy's side and stood next to finn who was watching clarke and bellamy shout at each other.

"no, i was wrong before, ok? you were right. sometimes it's dangerous to tell people the truth. but if we're gonna survive down here, we can't just live by 'whatever the hell we want.' we need rules." she told him

bellamy ran his hand across his face. "and who makes those rules, huh? you?"

"for now, we make the rules, ok?" she answered.

"so, what then?" bellamy asked "we just take him back and pretend like it never happened?" he pointed to murphy who was still on the ground.

"no." clarke looked back to murphy. "we banish him."

arabella's jaw dropped. "what? no, the grounders will kill him!"

bellamy looked to arabella and finn, then grabbed murphy off the ground. "get up." he told him angrily.

"bellamy no!" arabella shouted as he dragged murphy to the edge of the cliff.

"if i ever catch you near the camp, we'll be back here. understand?" he gruffly told him "and if you ever hurt arabella or go near her again, we'll be back here and that is a
promise." but the last part nobody could hear apart from Murphy.

murphy nodded slightly, bellamy then threw him to the ground.

"as for you four of you, you can come back and follow me, or go off with him to die. your choice." bellamy told them, before making his way back to camp.

everyone except finn and arabella followed finn dropped a knife beside murphy, and then he left. which just left arabella with murphy.

"bella, go ." he tiredly told her.

"no, i'm staying with you." she argued.

"arabella, go with them." murphy slightly raised his voice at the girl. "i hurt you, i don't deserve you."

"you're right, but i'm not leaving you."

"please. i want you to be happy." murphy begged.

arabella hugged murphy, who was now standing up. "may we meet again." she sadly smiled, pressing a soft kiss to his bloodied cheek.

she walked away, heading back to the camp, tears falling out of her eyes.

...

arabella had taken a slower walk back to camp, she could still see bellamy and the others in front of her but she decided to stay behind. she saw how bellamy would look behind him every so often to make sure she was still there.

the blood on her neck had mostly dried up now, but there was still a small sting. arabella was growing tired and just wanted to sleep for the rest of her life, but knowing how things were on earth she knew that was never going to be possible.

she soon arrived back at the camp, she was about to go to her tent but clarke stopped her.

"i need to check your neck, arabella." she softly told her.

"it's fine, clarke, it's just a cut i'll live." arabella replied, trying to go to her tent.

"please?" clarke begged, a soft but sad smile on her face.

arabella let out a sigh. "fine."

after clarke checked arabella's cut, which took longer than it should have, the girl was finally able to get some sleep.