11792 tally marks adorned her cell wall in the sky box.
"Just a few more and that'll make five years." the dark brunette muttered to herself, finally adding the tally mark on the wall with the knife she stole from a guard two years ago. Huffing to herself, the girl slumped against the wall opposite her tally marks. Reigna was locked up in the Skybox about a month after her 14th birthday. Today she turned 18 and would be floated for her crimes. Combing through her hair that had gotten significantly longer since she was locked up, Reigna sighed, tucking the stolen knife into the side of her shoe.
"Any minute now." Reigna sat with her legs crossed, hand poised over the side of her shoe that held her knife. Despite waiting for this day for literal years, Reigna was determined not to die. If she had to kick, punch, bite, and stab her way out of it she would. She only had one friend on the ark and didn't even know if he had gotten himself locked up. No family to care for her, no one to return to, but still determined to live.
Reigna's right ear quirked slightly as she heard heavy footsteps walking up to her door. Quickly getting to her feet, Reigna backed up to the rear of her cell, balling her hands into fists.
"Prisoner 396 please face the wall with your hands behind your back." A guard's voice called in before they even opened the door. Last time guards came in her cell for her monthly deep clean, she had sent them both to the medical wing with broken bones and deep cuts that scar. She heard later one almost lost an eye.
"Bite me." Reigna called out to them, keeping her fists balled up to fight. Immediately after she spoke the door to her cell burst open and not two, but four guards poured in, quickly seizing her arms. Reigna managed to kick one in the back of the knee and attempted to run forward out of her cell, but one quickly took the stunned guard's place, clamping a thick metal bracelet around her left wrist.
"What the hell is that! Let me go!" Reigna kicked and screamed as the guards carried her out of her cell. She caught a glimpse of other delinquents being dragged out of their cells and cuffed with the weird bracelets. She thought she spotted a familiar mop of brown hair before a guard stepped in front of her with a large needle. Reigna flailed and knocked her head into the guard's behind her and he stumbled letting go of one of her arms. Reigna took that opening and rammed her shoulder into the guard to her left and grabbed the knife out of her shoe when he toppled over.
"Reigna Vivian-"
"Do not finish that. You aren't killing me today, you bastard." Reigna hissed and swung her knife out at the guard with the syringe, catching his bicep. When the guard before he hesitated, checking his arm for bleeding, Reigna turned and attempted to flee before feeling a stinging, burning pain in the right leg. The guard the headbutted earlier had recovered and shocklashed her from the ground. Reigna fell and was quickly held down by three guards as the uncomfortable pain from the stun stick lingered in her calf.
"You have been a pain in my ass since they brought you here." The guard with the syringe grumbled and made his way in front of her.
"I really hope you die down there." He hissed out at her, and before Reigna could question him, she felt a prick in the neck and then everything went black.
When Reigna woke, she could no longer see the sky box. Instead she was surrounded by other delinquents strapped down into seats. Whipping her head to her right, she let out an audible gasp.
"Murphy? John Murphy wake your ass up!" Reigna used her slightly sluggish limbs to smack her best friend repeatedly in the face until his eyelids fluttered.
"Reign?" Murphy's voice was groggy as he mumbled out her nickname.
"Murphy! What the hell is going on? What's happening?" Reigna spat out questions as her groggy friend roughly rubbed at his eyes and glanced around and shrugged.
"Weren't they supposed to float you today?" Murphy asked on a more serious note, finally looking his best friend in the face. It had been almost five years since John Murphy had seen Reigna. Last he saw her, she was a tiny 14 year old with oddly placed dark freckles that Reigna had haughtily called 'beauty marks'. Her hair was a lot shorter too, then reaching her shoulder blades, now reaching her waist, but haircuts were never a priority in the sky box.
"I'm not convinced they aren't just killing us all right now." Reigna mumbled as the room around them shifted and a screen with Chancellor Jaha turned on.
"What the fuck…" Reigna heard Murphy mumble to her right. Reigna chose to look around the room. Tons of other delinquents were all strapped into their chairs looking confused. She recognized Clarke Griffin and Wells Jaha across the room, not two of her favorite people. Some of the other she recognized from her classes before she was arrested but couldn't place names to faces. Only two really stuck out. A girl she had truly never seen before with long brown hair and a guard. Why there was a guard in the room with them all, she didn't know, she just knew she was pissed about it.
Murphy finally smacked Reigna's shoulder when Jaha said something of interest.
'Reign, he's sending us to earth." Murphy's face was hard, but she could see a hint of fear behind them.
"Of course they are, we're expendable." She replied, watching as a boy discovered you could float if you took off your belt.
"Well happy birthday to you, am I right?" Murphy joked and Reigna replied with a roll of her eyes.
"Best birthday ever!" Reigna feigned excitement as she waved her hands by her side. As soon as the words left her mouth, the dropship she finally discovered they were in started shuddering violently.
"Do you think this is really safe?" Murphy yelled over the sound of the dropship shaking and burning in earth's atmosphere.
"Do you really think they thought about that before they forced us in here?" Reigna's reply was sassy, but laced with fear as the shuddering and groaning grew louder before the dropship's descent was halted by the parachute deploying, causing Reigna and Murphy's heads to snap back to the rear of their seats.
"Listen." An asian boy with brown hair spoke after a minute, "No machine hum." Everyone on the dropship hesitated a moment before beginning to rip of their safety belts. Murphy got out of his quicker before hanging back to help Reigna literally tear hers apart.
"Of course I had the shitty belt." She commented before hearing the dropship door open and a girl scream " We're back bitches! "
"Murphy come on!" Reigna flung off her belt and slid down the ladder, pushing past other delinquents to get outside faster. The first thing Reigna saw was green and more green. Reigna reached behind her and grabbed Murphy's hand, pulling him outside.
"I never thought I would see trees." Reigna heard Murphy mumble beside her.
"I didn't think I would live long enough to see this." Reigna's eyes lingered on everything before she turned back to Murphy, "A lot greener than I thought." She quirked her head to the side and propped her elbow on his shoulder.
"You know I couldn't comment on this since we were sitting on the dropship, but i don't think you've gotten any taller since you got arrested." Murphy smirked already backing up as Reigna turned to him with a shocked expression.
"John Murphy! You're supposed to be nice to me on my birthday!" Reigna feigned hurt and shoved his chest gently.
"Murphy's right, Reign, You really haven't gotten any taller." A male voice spoke to her left. Atom, she recognized from her classes. She had only really talked to him because Murphy did. Rolling her eyes, she crossed her arms over her chest and faced Atom who was being flanked by Mbege and another guy she didn't recognize immediately.
"What do you think you're a catch or something?" Reigna spoke before looking around Atom to see Wells manhandling a kid who she thinks is named Jasper. Murphy was quickly walking over to them before Reigna was, pushing Wells's hands away from the lanky boy.
"Hey, watch it, hands off he's with us." Reigna caught up and heard Murphy speak to Wells, Atom and Mbege behind her.
"Relax, just trying to figure out where we are." Wells replied and Reigna rolled her eyes, joining Murphy by his side and throwing her elbow onto his shoulder. She opened her mouth to retort something to Wells but the guard beat her to it."
"We're on the ground. not good enough for you?" He spoke, Reigna looked at him out of the corner of her eye. The pretty girl from the dropship was standing close to his side and noted they looked kind of similar before it hit her that she was the girl who lived under the floor, so he must have been her brother. Meaning he wasn't a real guard, and she was very curious as to how he got himself down here.
"We need to find Mount Weather," Wells's voice snapped Reigna back into her head, "You heard my father's message, that has to be our first priority." Wells spoke and Reigna scoffed at his words.
"Screw your father," Floor girl yelled from beside her brother, "What, you think you're in charge here, you and your little Princess."
"Do you think we care who's in charge?" Reigna's face twisted at Clarke's irritating voice, "We need to get to Mount Weather not because the Chancellor said so, but because the longer we wait, the hungrier we'll get and the harder this'll be. How long do you think we'll last without those supplies? We're looking at a twenty-mile trek, okay? So if we want to get there before dark, we need to leave now." She finished and looked back down to her map.
"Better idea," Floor girl's brother spoke up, "You two go, find it for us. Let the privileged do the hard work for a change." At his words other delinquents verbally agreed.
"You're not listening, we need to go." Wells interrupted the delinquents, attempting to get their attention.
"Look at him Murph, Chancellor of Earth." Reigna finally spoke up, the boys around her chuckling, Murphy slightly more than the others.
"You think that's funny." Wells took a step closer to Reigna at her words, and before Reigna could shove him back herself Murphy beat her to it, shoving Wells back and watching him fall and twist his ankle. Reigna backed up slightly toward Atom and Mbege as Clarke helped Wells to his feet.
"Beat him up, Murph." Reigna goaded on her friend as both Murphy and Wells held up their fists. Wells was struggling to stand on his injured ankle and Murphy fake swiped at him once before trying to get Wells to swing the frist punch. Wells limped forward and was about to swing at Murphy before a boy with shaggy brown hair jumped down from the top of the dropship, making both Reigna and Murphy whip their heads up to where he had jumped down from confused looks painting both of their faces.
"Kids got one leg," Shaggy hair spoke, standing directly in front of Murphy, "Why don't you wait till its a fair fight." Reigna couldn't see Murphy's face, but she could tell he was pissed. Reigna quickly stepped forward before Murphy could decide to fight this kid too, placing her hand on his shoulder.
"Murph, he's right. It'll feel a lot better if you beat the shit outta him when he's at a hundred percent." Reigna narrowed her eyes at the shaggy haired boy before sweeping them over to Wells behind him, who was limping to lean against the drop ship. When Murphy looked down at Reigna she nodded her head to the right, urging him to follow her away. He eventually gave in after sending another glare to the boy. Floor girl strode up to the boy, looking him up and down before speaking.
"Hey, spacewalker, rescue me next."
Reigna and Murphy didn't stick around long enough to hear the rest of the conversation.
"Hey, Atom? Help me rip this chunk off the dropship." Reigna turned to the only unoccupied boy as she sighed, letting go of the precariously torn metal on the dropship.
"Didn't you already finish making a knife?" Atom asked, gesturing to the already sharpened knife Reigna tucked into the waist of her pants.
"Backup knife, duh." She shrugged. Reigna had long since shed the jacket she wore on the way down, haven very quickly gotten hot under the sun. She was left in a crimson red tank top littered with holes that she had been wearing for around two years and was beginning to be to small for her chest and slightly lengthened torso. She also had on very uncomfortable long pants that she almost considered cutting before realizing that at some point it would get cold and she doubted the ark was going to send them warm clothing for the winter. Reigna clapped once when Atom finally pulled the piece of metal from the dropship and placed it in Reigna's hands.
" 'Preciate it!" Reigna nodded before walking off and joining Murphy on a rock closer to the center of their new camp.
"Left a little something for Wells on the wall outside the dropship." Murphy spoke as soon as Reigna sat down beside him.
"Did you, now." Reigna sighed out, grabbing a rock about the size of her hand to help her bend and sharpen the piece of metal in her hand.
"I'll show you when he comes back to camp." Murphy threw his arm around Reigna's shoulders as she continued focusing on shaping her knife.
"Knowing you, it's probably something you'll get in a fight about." She sighed, leaning heavily against her friend's side. "Are you… okay by the way?" Reigna hesitated to speak.
"I'm fine." Murphy answered quickly, ending the conversation.
She had already been locked up when she heard about Murphy's father, and she couldn't help but blame herself for him getting locked up. She hadn't asked him what he had done, yet, but she wasn't in a hurry to. Reigna met John Murphy when she was 8 and snuck out of her house/room after being yelled at by her father that day. It wasn't the first time Reigna snuck out, but it was the first time she ran into another person. In order to not be seen by guards on patrol, little Reigna had taken to the vents on the Ark, staying out of view to anyone who may be passing by. She often found herself on different stations, only daring to creep out of her vent if she was sure there wasn't anyone around. And that was how she met John Murphy, a sickly looking stick of a kid who seemed to have just as much trouble as she did making friends. After their first meeting, Reigna decided they were best friends, going so far as to help steal food and other supplies for Murphy through the vents she had memorized. All of her free time was dedicated to John Murphy, every second she could escape from her home life was spent with Murphy. They learned quickly how to keep the other grounded, how to keep each other in check. And everything was fine until Reigna's arrest.
"Hey, Reign." Murphy's voice snapped Reigna out of her memories, "Wells is back." He mumbled and the arm around her shoulders retreated. Reigna stood as Murphy did, stuffing her other half finished knife into her waistband next to her finished one, quickly following beside Murphy as Mbege caught up to the two.
"Find any water yet?" Murphy asked, not really caring for an answer. Wells shook his head.
"No, not yet, but i'm going back out if you want to come." Wells glanced up at the two before him before looking to where Murphy was looking.
'First son to dye' was hastily carved into the side of the dropship. Reigna read it over and gave a soft chuckle before crossing her arms and leaning heavily against Murphy's side.
"You know, my father begged for mercy in the airlock chamber when your father floated him." Murphy's voice was cold as he glared at Wells. Wells sent a halfhearted glare Murphy's way before dropping the few sticks he was holding.
"You spelled die wrong, geniuses." He grumbled out before walking past the group, shoulder checking Murphy as he went. Both Reigna and Murphy turned their heads to watch him go and Reigna spied Floor Girl's brother making their way towards them.
"If you're gonna kill someone, it's probably not best to announce it." He targeted his words at Murphy. Reigna took a moment to look the older guy up and down before scoffing.
"You're not really a member of the guard, are you." Reigna propped her elbow on Murphy's shoulder before meeting the guy's eyes. A smirk graced her lips at the light shock behind his eyes before he quickly recovered.
"No. The real guard will be here soon unless we stop don't actually think they're gonna forgive your crimes. Even if they do, then what?" The guy spoke, his voice strong.
'It's not my crimes i'm worried about.' Reigna thought before glancing at Murphy, whos head was down.
"People like us, we're gonna become model citizens now, get jobs, if we're lucky, maybe pick us their trash?"
"What's your point." Reigna interrupted narrowing her eyes at the guy before her. In the corner of her eye she saw Mbege cross his arms and Murphy tilt his head back up to look at the guy before them.
"No, i got a question." Floor Girl's brother stared her down as he spoke, "They locked you up, dumped you down here like lab rats to die, so why are you helping them." Reigna cast her eyes to the ground at his words. She had even said it herself earlier to Murphy, they were expendable.
"The hell we are." Mbege voice was loud and clear to her left.
"You're wearing those bracelets, aren't you?" At his words, Reigna glanced to the thick metal cuff secured around her left wrist, "Right now those things are telling them whether or not it's safe to follow us down."
"Okay. You said we could stop it. How?" Murphy finally spoke up again, glancing at Reigna who was closely inspecting the cuff on her wrist before pulling her uncomplete knife from her waistband.
"Hey, Reign what the hell-" Murphy started while he watch Reigna shimmy the metal between her skin and the cuff, struggling to pull the cuff apart before it finally gave way and popped apart, falling to the ground. Slipping the knife back into her waist band she massaged her lightly bleeding wrist. Floor Girl's brother raised his eyebrows slightly before nodding towards Reigna.
"Now they think she's dead."
"What's in it for us if we all do this?" Reigna brought her gaze back up to Murphy before looking back to the guy in front of the three and he smirked.
"Someone has to help me run things.
It had been a few hours since their talk with the older boy. Reigna still didn't know his name and didn't bother to ask him either. Reigna already helped Murphy, Mbege and Atom pry off their bracelets and toss them into a pile. The four were currently all sitting around, watching the other delinquents do busy work. Catching a glimpse of a very out of place guard jacket, Reigna jumped to her feet.
"Be right back, boys." Reigna spoke quickly before darting off to Floor Girl's brother.
"Hey! Floor boy!" Reigna called to him to catch his attention. He spun around quickly, confusion clear on his face and he looked at Reigna.
"Floor boy?" He questioned with a slight tilt of his head.
"And I'll keep calling you that until i get your name." Reigna countered, crossing her arms over her chest. He nodded, unabashedly looking Reigna up and down before speaking.
"Bellamy Blake,"
"Blake, I thought I heard that name around while I was in lockup." Reigna mumbled before continuing on, "So what did you do to get on the dropship? I mean clearly you didn't want to let little sister Blake come down alone but I doubt they would have let you on the dropship just because you asked nicely." Reigna's tone was teasing as Bellamy shook his head at her questioning.
"You made me give you my name, so I'm not answering until i have yours." He spoke, copying her stance, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Fair enough," Reigna nodded, "Reigna. My name is Reigna.
"You have a last name, Reigna." Bellamy asked, obviously curious.
"Not one i'm willing to give to anyone. But I told you my name, now answer my question." Reigna pushed on, leaning back against a nearby tree. Bellamy huffed and looked around before seizing Reigna's arm and pulling her away from any nearby delinquents.
"Hey! I'm not your sister, you don't get to drag me places!" Reigna hissed and yanked her arm away from Bellamy's halfhearted grip. Bellamy glanced over her shoulder to make sure no one was around before the tension released from his shoulders.
"I'm only telling you this because I'm thinking you won't tell Clarke or Wells about this." Bellamy's voice was nervous as he looked back to Reigna, who raised her brows in confusion.
"You are correct on that front, Clarke and Wells are literally my least favorite people." Reigna trailed off, looking back up at Bellamy before narrowing her eyes. "Did you kill someone?" Reigna asked, and when Bellamy didn't immediately respond, she urged him on. Lifting up the hem of his shirt, she silently showed Reigna a gun. When Regina stayed silent Bellamy sighed.
"I shot the chancellor."
" You shot the ch-" Reigna didn't get to finish her sentence as Bellamy clapped his hand over her mouth and pulled her farther into the woods near the dropship. Reigna slapped both of Bellamy's arms until he let her go.
"No one can know about this." He looked as nervous as he sounded.
"That's why you don't want the ark coming down. Because they'll kill you." Reigna questioned and Bellamy nodded. Reigna sighed, looking back towards the camp, Murphy and her other friends were completely out of sight by this point.
"I'll grab the guys and we can start gently convincing the rest of the delinquents to let us take off those bracelets." Reigna nodded at her own plan as she spoke it.
"The way you said gently makes me think it won't be so gentle." Bellamy's eyebrows creased as he looked at Reigna.
"Because it won't be." Reigna turned back to Bellamy before continuing, "But you don't need to be worrying about everyone else. Wells is gonna be an issue for you." She stated matter of factly.
"You think I don't know that?"
"No I do but i'm absolutely not gonna sit around and do all your thinking for you. Figure out how to get his stupid cuff off then i doubt you'll have to worry that much about Jaha coming down here." Reigna concluded and turned to walk off. Before she could make it far Bellamy grabbed her upper arm one more time, not as hard as before.
"What the hell did you do to get locked up anyway, Reigna?" Bellamy's voice was quieter than it had been before. Reigna glanced at her arm then to the ground, not looking back up at the boy before her.
"I killed my mom." She mumbled, barely audible, before pulling her arm away and quickly retreating back to camp, to Murphy, leaving Bellamy shocked and alone in the woods.
A few hours have passed since Reigna's conversation with Bellamy and she had long since enlisted the help of her three friends to round up any and all delinquents completely and slightly less willing to let the foursome remove their wristbands. As the group of willing participants grew larger, Bellamy joined them, overseeing the group removing their wristbands.
Reigna was currently using her unfinished, unsharpened knife to remove a younger delinquent's wristband, she thinks her name was Fox. The crowd around her cheered as she finally popped the bracelet off Fox's wrist, patting the girl of the shoulder once before ushering her out of the way.
"Who's next?" Reigna heard Bellamy's loud voice behind her as she stood up to stretch her arms.
"What the hell are you doing?" Reigna heard Wells's voice before she saw him. Turning her body to the side, she saw Wells limping quickly over to the group of delinquents getting their cuffs removed, an angry look on his face.
"We're liberating ourselves. What does it look like?" Bellamy sounded just as cocky as he looked. Wells glared up at him and at Reigna's small group of friends before speaking, "It looks like you're trying to get us all killed. The communication system is dead. These wristbands are all we got. Take them off, and the Ark will think we're dying, that it's not safe for them to follow."
"That's the point, Chancellor. We can take care of ourselves, can't we?" Bellamy spoke to the crowd, turning to face them and smiling as they all loudly agreed and cheered. Reigna watched as Wells grew increasingly more irritated the less people paid attention to his words. Looking back over her shoulder, Reigna sent Murphy a smile before he left his spot and strode up to stand beside her.
"You think this is a game? Those aren't just out friends and our parents up there. They're out farmers, our doctors, our engineers. I don't care what he tells you. We won't survive here on our own, and besides, if it really is safe, how could you not want the rest of our people to come down?" Wells was yelling now, looking around at all the delinquents who were barely listening to anything he was saying.
"My people are already down here. Those people locked my people up. Those people floated my mother for the crime of having another child. Your father did that." Bellamy's voice grew hard as he stared down Wells, anger behind his words.
"My father didn't write the laws." Wells tried to do damage control quickly but was cut off by Bellamy.
"No, but he enforced them, but not anymore, not here. Here there are no laws." Bellamy's voice stayed strong as he glared down at Wells. The delinquents around them all rallying around Bellamy's words.
"Here, we do whatever the hell we want whenever the hell we want. Now, you don't have to like it, Wells. You can even try to stop it or change it, kill me. You know why? Whatever the hell we want." Reigna glanced over past Murphy to Bellamy. He had a look of satisfaction on his face after he realized he had swayed all these delinquents to his side, and Reigna agreed.
"Whatever the hell we want!" Murphy yelled from beside her, looking directly at Wells shocked face.
" Whatever the hell we want!" Reigna followed Murphy in his cheers, other delinquents following after them. Wells had an unreadable expression, something between upset and horrified. Soon all the other delinquents were shouting and cheering for whatever the hell they want. Any argument Wells could made was caught in his throat, no one would listen to anything else he had to say after this. Reigna looked back to Murphy and opened her mouth to speak before she felt cold drops hitting her bare shoulders. Furrowing their brows, both Reigna and Murphy looked up to the sky just in time for a delinquent behind them to shout
" Rain! It's raining!"
A smile grew on Reigna's face as she looked from the sky to her best friend, whose hair was beginning to droop as it got wet from the rain.
"Holy shit." Her voice was soft as Murphy grinned at her.
"Never thought we'd get to see rain, huh." Murphy's voice was just as quiet as he attempted to collect some of the rain in his hands before letting it fall to the ground.
"I'm just glad we lived long enough to see it." Reigna laughed, running her hands over her now soaking wet hair as she looked over the other kids running around and splashing each other.
"Guess your birthday didn't turn out so bad, Reign." Murphy's arm was back on its place around her shoulders before she could speak again. She brought her eyes back up to the sky and was relieved the rain clouds were covering her view of the stars so she wouldn't be reminded of the Ark.
"Happy birthday to me."
Night had long since fallen and Reigna was grateful to be one of the people given a tent. Murphy had been with Mbege gathering other supplies to hold the rainwater for everyone while Bellamy helped her make sure her tent wouldn't fall apart while she slept. He insisted it was just for her, no one else, but as soon as he left her vicinity she called out to Murphy to tell him they were sharing a tent.
"You really think i was gonna make you sleep on a hammock in the dropship? What kind of friend do you think I am?" Reigna had sounded offended as Murphy threw his few belongings through the flap of their now shared tent.
"Uh I dunno, haven't seen you in five years. Wasn't sure if you had changed that much or not." Murphy almost sounded regretful to say those words aloud.
"I mean, I can't blame you. I was just holding out hope that dry sense of humor you have stuck with you." Reigna grinned and flung her arm around Murphy's shoulders, bringing him down slightly because of their height difference.
"You definitely didn't get taller in those five years, that's for sure." Murphy joked and Reigna groaned.
"We haven't even been on the ground for a full day and you've already made like three comments about my height." Reigna whined as Murphy and herself made their way to one of the few fires still burning.
"To be fair, there isn't much to make fun of you for." Murphy admitted, standing back up to his full height once Reigna's arm left his shoulders. Before Reigna could reply to Murphy's comment, Bellamy strode up to the two quickly, leaning his head down as he spoke.
"I need you two to do something for me." Bellamy's voice was quiet as he spoke, his eyes darting to the side quickly before looking back at the two. Murphy made a gesture with his hand, urging Bellamy to continue.
"We're getting Wells's wristband tonight, I need you two to hang out behind some bushes down the ridge west of here. I'm bringing Wells there and if he doesn't want to cooperate and take that damn thing off himself, we're forcing it off him. And out there no one'll hear him if he tries to call for help." Bellamy explained.
"I doubt anyone would want to help him anyway." Reigna sighed, crossing her arms over her chest and looking over to Murphy. He gave her a subtle nod and Reigna looked back to Bellamy, "Sounds good to me." Reigna agreed. Bellamy stood to his full height and nodded at them both.
"Grab Atom and Mbege too, just in case he tries to run. We'll need more people to hold him down anyway." Bellamy said before stalking off, Leaving Reigna and Murphy alone.
"You heard the man." Reigna turned to Murphy before shrugging, "I'll grab Atom, you get Mbege and meet at that ridge asap. Sound cool?" Reigna asked, beginning to head toward where Atom was sleeping.
"Reign, wait." Murphy grabbed Reigna's wrist, gently pulling her to their tent before Murphy went in, quickly passing Reigna both of her knives.
"Don't know what i'd do without you, Murph." Reigna smiled, tucking them both into her waistband before walking towards Atom.
"Yeah, me either." Murphy called back out to her before heading in the opposite direction.
"Did Bellamy say how long this would take?" Atom whispered from behind a large rock, over to Reigna and Murphy behind a different rock.
"Nope." Murphy sounded irritated as he inspected his own knife, eyes narrowed at the blade.
"Hey, we're not killing him. You know that right?" Reigna teased, putting her hand on his wrist, forcing him to look away from his knife.
"I wish we were." He mumbled, making Reigna frown.
"You don't mean that. You're an asshole, but you aren't that big of an asshole." Reigna fully sat down, her legs getting tired of crouching. Murphy raised his brows at Regina's comment before following suit, fully sitting down on the ground before mumbling a ' thanks' .
"If you two are done flirting, can you-" Atom started before both Murphy and Reigna peaked over the rock behind them.
" Shut up, Atom " they both spoke, watching as Bellamy finally brought a scared looking Wells into the clearing, "They're here." Reigna whispered over to Atom who them relayed the message back to Mbege and another delinquent whose name she didn't know further back. Reigna couldn't quite make out what Bellamy and Wells were saying but she did see Bellamy tuck his gun behind his back after a moment. Murphy stood up from behind the rock, making Reigna panic for a moment before Wells tried to run past them. Reigna grabbed one of his legs as he attempted to run past the rock she was hiding behind. Murphy, Atom, and Mbege ran forward to help Reigna keep him pinned to the ground as Murphy maneuvered the arm with the wrist cuff onto the rock Reigna had been hiding behind. Wells was writhing and kicking as Bellamy yelled at them to keep him down, Reigna moved away for the other delinquent to take her place, pulling her dulled and unfinished knife from her waist.
"No! Come on man, let me go!" Wells pleaded and continued to struggle as Murphy finally got his cuffed arm onto the rock and pinned down. Reigna moved up to the rock, looking up to Bellamy for confirmation.
"Do it." His voice was firm as he nodded down at Reigna. She didn't need him to say it twice as she wedged her dull knife between his skin and the metal of the cuff. Wells continued trying to yell and struggle as Reigna began prying the metal apart, Wells anguished yells falling on deaf ears as the link finally gave way and the bracelet popped off his wrist.
