꧁★ act one — chapter four ★꧂

Wells was dead. He had been killed by a grounder, it basically made everyone look over their shoulders every few seconds in fear, it had happened right outside the walls. So close.

Madelyn and Charlotte were stood thing some logs together, the girls had been together all day, Cameron joining their conversations whenever he was around.

A guy dropped the log he was carrying and knelt to the ground making the two girls pause and turn around to see what happened.

"Hey!" Murphy's voice made Madelyn's head snap in the direction of where he and Bellamy where. "You think the grounder are just gonna sit around and wait for us to finish the wall?" Murphy asked as he made his way over to the guy. "Maybe we should let the little girls do the lifting for you, huh?"

"I just need some water, ok? Then I'll be fine." The guy spoke as Bellamy walked over. "Murphy, get this guy some water." Bellamy spoke then turned his attention to Madelyn and Charlotte. "Hey, you guys got this?" He asked and both of them went to go carry the log but Bellamy stepped forward with a smile. "I'm just kidding."

Madelyn and Charlotte both gave him a smile as he grabbed the log and started walking away. Charlotte turned back to continue tying when Madelyn noticed Murphy walking back over to the guy. Madelyn looked away in the disgust when he started urinating on the guy. "Gross." she muttered under her breath and Charlotte giggled very low at the girl so no one but them would hear.

"Uhh! What the hell is wrong with you, Murphy?" The guy yelled as he charged toward Murphy but was held back by some other guys. "I'll kill you!"

"You wanted a water break." Murphy simply spoke. "Get back to work!" He yelled, he looked around as everyone got back to work and noticed Madelyn giving him a disgusted look. "You got a problem kid?"

"Yeah. you." Madelyn spoke as she tilted her head at him." Can I ask you a question?" She asked and Murphy rolled his eyes but nodded his head for her to continue. "Do you have some kind of issues? Some kind of family trauma or some shit?" She asked, Murphy glared at her.

"Yeah i do actually." He said as he looked at her with pure hatred.

"I can tell." She said as she walked away, leaving Charlotte to laugh to herself and Murphy walking the other way trying to ignore what she said.

Madelyn walked over to the dropship, she took one of the spare shirts from the kids who had passed and she then went over to get some water, she then walked back to the guy Murphy had been not so friendly with.

"Hey. I got you some water and a new jacket because you know, yours is kind of gross." She laughed, the guy gave her a small smile and took the water drinking it before taking the jacket. "I'll take the other one and clean it." She said and he handed it to her. "Thank you." He said as she walked away.

"This knife was made of metal from the drop ship." Madelyn heard Clarke say as she stepped inside the tent. "Hey sorry, just wanted a little break if that's okay. My hands are hurting." Madelyn said with an awkward smile as she looked at Bellamy who nodded his head and she was about to walk out. "What happened?" She asked as she noticed the looks on their faces.

"Nothing. Go back outside." Clarke told her. "Alright, alright." Madelyn said, and not too long after she was sitting around on her little 'break' when they came out of the tent and stormed over to Murphy.

"You son of a bitch!" Clarke yelled as she pushed Murphy, Madelyn stood up with wide eyes and walked to Charlotte's side. "What's your problem?" Murphy asked.

"Recognize this?" Clarke asked as she held up a knife. "It's my knife. Where'd you find it?" Murphy asked as he grabbed for it but Clarke removed her arm away from his so he couldn't reach it, Madelyn noticed the way Charlotte had tended beside Madelyn, Charlotte had now taken Madelyn hand in hers and Madelyn gave it a comforted squeeze just like always.

"Where you dropped it after you killed Wells." Clarke said, a lot of people gasped around them as they heard what she said, Charlotte tensed a bit more, Madelyn giving her hand another squeeze thinking she was scared of the fact Murphy had killed Wells.

"Where I what?" Murphy asked. "The grounders killed Wells, not me." Murphy said as he walked closer to Clarke, people were starting to walk closer to them, listening.

"I know what you did, and you're gonna pay for it." Clarke spoke, hatred written all over her face. "Really? Bellamy, you really believe this crap?" Murphy asked, Bellamy stood with crossed arms.

"You threatened to kill him. We all heard you. You hated Wells." Clarke said getting angrier by the second. "Plenty of people hated Wells." True. "His father was the chancellor that locked us up." Murphy spoke up.

"Yeah, but you're the only one who got in a knife fight with him." Clarke yelled. "Yeah, I didn't kill him then, either." Murphy spoke, Clarke was clearly getting angrier and Murphy was definitely looking annoyed.

"Tried to kill Jasper, too." Octavia spoke up, Madelyn's eyes widened a little. "Come on this is ridiculous. I don't have to answer to you. I don't have to answer to anyone." Murphy was the one to yell this time. "Come again?" Bellamy asked as he slightly shifted.

"Bellamy, look, I'm telling you, man. I didn't do this." Murphy spoke as he walked toward Bellamy, Bellamy said something Madelyn couldn't hear but by the gasps from people, she could tell it wasn't good.

"Is this the kind of society we want? You say there should be no rules. Does that mean that we can kill each other without-- without punishment?" Clarke spoke, speaking to everyone this time not just to Murphy.

"I already told you. I didn't kill anyone." Murphy said as he walked back toward Clarke. "I say we float him." The guy that Madelyn had given the water and jacket too spoke, Madelyn's eyes spoke, they needed to be different from the ark or else they would become just like the people they hated. But several people agreed with this.

"That's not what I'm saying." Clarke said and the guy walked toward her. "Why not? He deserves to float. It's justice." The guy spoke and several people voiced their agreements yet again. "Revenge isn't justice." Clarke yelled.

"It's justice. Float him!" The guy started chanting and several people joined in chanting 'float him' over and over again.

Murphy tried to make a run for it but someone stuck their foot out so he tripped, people started attacking him, hitting him and kicking him, Madelyn and Charlotte were pushed back as they took a now tied up Murphy and pushed him down a hill, his hands behind his back and something tied around his mouth to keep him from talking.

They threw some rope that had been hade into a noose over the branch of a tree and Madelyn's eyes widened again as she figured out what they were going to do.

They put the rope around his neck and started lifting him in the air, Murphy struggling trying to get away somehow, but he couldn't.

"Bellamy! You should do it." The guy who'd suggested floating him, yelled. "Bel-la-my!" He yelled and then everyone began chanting it over and over again.

"Don't. Bellamy." Clarke cried as Bellamy walked forward. Everything happened so fast and Bellamy kicked whatever Murphy was standing on, Clarke cried out, Madelyn almost screamed and immediately squeezed Charlotte's hand hard who squeezed hard back. Murphy was struggling but Madelyn couldn't look away. "Charlotte! Madelyn! Get out of here now!" Finn yelled as he appeared into the crowd. "Cut him down!"

"No, just stop! Okay?" Charlotte yelled as she walked forward Madelyn tried to hold her back but instead was pulled with her almost falling over. "Murphy didn't kill Wells!" Everyone went quiet when the little girl yelled. "I did!" She yelled, Madelyn gasped and immediately her heard dropped and she dropped Charlotte's hand. Clarke went over and cut Murphy down but Madelyn was looking at Charlotte with wide eyes.

"I'm so sorry, Madelyn." Charlotte spoke, Madelyn shook her head, Charlotte reached out for Madelyn's hand, Madelyn had excepted herself to pull her hand away but she didn't, she let her take it.

"Bring out the girl, Bellamy!" They heard Murphy yell as they were stood inside the tent, Charlotte clinging to Madelyn's hand of the familiar comforting squeeze that would let her know that Madelyn was there for her, but Madelyn didn't give it to her. She let her hold Madelyn's hand but nothing more.

"Why, Charlotte?" Bellamy asked her. "I was just trying to slay my demons, like you told me."

"What the hell is she talking about?" Clarke asked as everyone looked at Bellamy. "She misunderstood me. Charlotte, that is not what I meant." Bellamy spoke as he looked back at Charlotte, Murphy continued yelling from outside. "Please don't let them hurt me."

"If you guys have any bright ideas, speak up." Bellamy spoke, Cameron stood beside Madelyn and shook his head. "Now you stay quiet."

"Those are your boys out there." Finn spoke as he was leaning on the table. "This is not my fault. If she had listened to me, those idiots would still be building the wall." Bellamy yelled back.

"You want to build a society, princess? Let's build a society. Bring her out." Murphy yelled from outside making Charlotte squeeze Madelyn's hand hoping she'd get one in return, but she didn't "No! Please, Bellamy."

"Charlotte, hey, it's gonna be ok. Just stay with them." Bellamy said as he walked out o the tent.

They had ran. Clarke, Finn, Charlotte, Cameron and Madelyn were all on the run, trying to take Charlotte away.

"It's gonna be night soon, Finn." Clarke spoke as the two of them were in front. "Where are we going? At least tell me you have a plan and we're not just wandering aimlessly through the woods."

"I have a plan." Finn spoke up, Madelyn watched Charlotte step forward and take Clarke's hand, obviously not trying to get the comfort from Madelyn who wasn't giving to her.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Clarke spoke as she immidieatly ripped her hand away from Charlotte. "Just because we saved you doesn't mean you're forgiven. Got it?"

"Clarke." Finn spoke giving her a dissapointed look as she turned to him. "What?"

"She's just a kid." Finn spoke. "Look." Madelyn spoke as she stepped forward. "Kid or not. Charlotte you killed someone, for one Wells didn't do shit to you. Two, you claim that you hate the chancellor and those people on the ark yet, by killing someone you're being just like them." Madelyn spoke, she didn't mean to sound meant but, Charlotte needed to realize what she had done.

"You can't just kill someone to make yourself feel better." Clarke suddenly yelled getting upset by this whole situation. Charlotte had tears in her eyes as she looked at Clarke.

"Charlotte! Clarke, Finn and the two kids can't save you." They heard Murphy yell and Clarke suggested for them to run. "Yeah, that's one way to go. I like my plan better." Finn spoke as he opened up some hatch. "Get in."

It was a bunker of some kind. "Finn, what is this place?" Clarke asked as they all looked around. "For now, it's home."

Madelyn had been the first to fall asleep, but that also meant the first to wake up, or rather second, she woke up and noticed Charlotte gone, Madelyn widened her eyes and looked around seeing, Cameron, Clarke and Finn still sleeping. "Shit." She muttered under her breath, she thought for a second and made the possibly the dumbest decision.

Madelyn took her jacket and a light, she went up the ladder and outside, she turned every way to look for either grounders or Murphy but she saw no one, she walked for a couple minutes until she saw someone, Charlotte.

"Charlotte!" She whisper-yelled, Charlotte spun around toward Madelyn with wide eyes. "What are you doing?" Madelyn asked as she walked closer to her. "I was just-" Charlotte couldn't answer.

"Alright. Let's just get away from here, alright?" Madelyn asked and Charlotte nodded, unknown to Madelyn what Charlotte plan actually was.

The two girls were just standing around not knowing which way to go when someone came out from the shadows and grabbed Charlotte, both girls screamed, Madelyn immediately calmed down when she noticed Bellamy. "Shh! Shh!"

They could hear Murphy and all of the people on his side yelling in the distance, Bellamy was starting to pull Charlotte along, Madelyn following after. "Let me go!"

"I'm trying-- hey, hey." Bellamy said as he stopped walking but still held a tight grip on Charlotte before continuing to walk "I'm trying to help you." They then came to another stop, Madelyn bumped into Bellamy and muttered a quick 'sorry'.

"I'm not your sister! Just stop helping me!" Charlotte spoke then she started running. "I'm over here!" She yelled as Bellamy ran after her, Madelyn's eyes widened, she was trying to get herself caught.

"Are you trying to get us all killed?" Bellamy asked as he caught Charlotte. "Just go, ok? I'm the one they want."

"Ok, Charlotte, listen to me. I won't ever leave you." Madelyn gave a small smile at his words, those were the kind of words she always wanting to hear from her father but ever did, instead he did the exact opposite, killed people and got himself floated, leaving her behind all alone.

"Please, Bellamy."  Charlotte said and then she tried to run again, but Bellamy caught her quick and threw her over his shoulder, she screamed. "Murphy! I'm over here!" Madelyn and Bellamy began running.

All of a sudden they came to a stop as they came to the edge of a cliff, Bellamy put her down. "Damn it."

"Bellamy!" Madelyn turned around at the sound of Murphy's voice, Madelyn stood behind both of them, Bellamy in front of both girls, Charlotte slightly in front of Madelyn as they too turned around. "You cannot fight all of us. Give her up."

"Maybe not, but I guarantee I'll take a few of you with me." Bellamy spoke trying to scared them off. "Bellamy! Stop!" Clarke yelled as her and Finn ran out from the trees. "This has gone too far." She said to Murphy. "Just calm down. We'll talk about this."

It happened very quickly everyone was starring in silence and then Murphy lunged forward and grabbed Clarke, his arms around her neck and a knife in his hand, holding it to her neck threatening to cut her throat.

"I'm sick of listening to you talk." Murphy spoke, Finn walked forward trying to get him to stop. "Back off!" Murphy yelled at him. "I will slit her throat."

"No, please. Please don't hurt her." Charlotte pleaded, Madelyn's worry grew bigger and bigger not knowing how this was going to end, finally she saw Cameron walk out from the trees, his eyes widened as he saw Murphy holding Clarke.

"Don't hurt her? Ok, I'll make you a deal. You come with me right now, I will let her go." Murphy spoke, Madelyn poked Charlotte who turned to her and Madelyn shook her head, Charlotte looked back at Murphy.

"Don't do it, Charlotte." Clarke spoke, Charlotte tried to walk forward but Bellamy put his arms out to stop her. "Don't do it, Charlotte!" Clarke yelled, Charlotte screamed and fought back as Bellamy held her back not letting her go. "No! No, I have to!"

"Murphy, this is not happening." Bellamy said as he turned around to face Murphy.

"I can't let any of you get hurt anymore. Not because of me. Not after what I did." Charlotte spoke as she turned around, Madelyn watched her spread out her arms as she neared the edge, Madelyn wasn't quick enough to catch on to what Charlotte was doing before her hand hit Madelyn's chest as Charlotte hoped over the edge, accidentally taking Madelyn with her.

"Madelyn!" Cameron's loud voice could be heard as he ran to the edge, the pure pain could be heard as he screamed. The pleading cries from Clarke as she screamed 'no' over and over again.

"No!" Bellamy screamed as he was sat beside Clarke. "Madelyn." He whispered as he too broke down before anger took over.

Madelyn who hadn't jumped had instead simply tumbled over the edge, she heard the screams and cries form the others as her shirt caught onto a branch sticking out of the stones, Madelyn let out a breath of relief, but a second later she heard the material ripped, Madelyn looked at her shirt and her eyes widened as her shirt was ripping. "No. No." she spoke as her shirt gave out.

Madelyn squeezed her eyes out and just held her hands out in case she could grip onto something and she did, her hands gripped a stone that was sticking out.

But to Madelyn's luck the stone began shifting from her weight. "No! No! NO!" She screamed over and over again as the stone fell. Madelyn tumbled own the side of the cliff, rolling, suddenly the rolling stopped as she hit the bottom.

Madelyn opened her eyes slowly, as she breathed heavily. She looked up and saw nothing but dark, she looked around and could faintly make out trees, she looked around everywhere trying to make sense of where she was but it was an unfamiliar place.

The only familiar thing she noticed was Charlotte, Madelyn screamed and back up into the side of the cliff as she looked at Charlotte's body. Her eyes were still opened starring straight at Madelyn. Her mouth was moving and she could see tears in her eyes. She wasn't quite dead yet, just on on her last breath, in pain.

Madelyn crawled over to the girl, she had to do something, she sat down on her knees groaning from the pain but ignored it. She took Charlotte's hand and gave it the squeeze Charlotte had been wanting, she smiled at Charlotte.

"You're okay." Madelyn whispered as she took out her knife. "You can go get peace now, no more running from Murphy, no more looking over your shoulder worried about grounders. Just sleep." Madelyn said as she kept her hand in Charlotte's and the other hand that held the knife brushed Charlotte's hair away from her face.

"In peace may you leave the shore." Madelyn started speaking with a smile squeezing Charlotte's hand with each word. "In love may you find the next, safe passage on your travel, until our final journey to the ground." Madelyn slipped the knife into Charlotte's neck making her death quicker so she'd be in peace quicker.

"May we meet again."

AUTHOR'S NOTE!

AHH! OMG! I have had this plan for this episode foreverrrr.

I am so sorry I did it but I had too, I've had the idea for too long and it needed to be done.

Opinions? I personally really liked this chapter, I did however cry while writing it :(

Here comes the memes!

Me writing this chapter

Also me smiling through the pain

Me knowing what's coming next (I'm not not okay)

Most likely y'all right now (I can feel your glares)