#a.l.i.e.

A.L.I.E.

THE 100 ⇢ 3x08 | TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Parings: John Murphy/OC

Warnings: None

Chapter: eight

Bellamy

“I can’t believe you!”

Sighing I followed my sister down the hallway, ignoring the looks others gave us as we argued. “Clarke was willing to let you die Octavia, I came back to protect you.”

She finally stopped walking and glared at me. “How? Explain to me how you are helping anyone apart from yourself?”

I opened my mouth to answer her when I caught a glimpse of white hair. Cora? I’d heard from Pike that she was here, and made a deal with him, but I was yet to see her myself. I didn’t believe she would betray her people but crazier things had happened, and I’d also noticed the lack of bad attitude in camp. Murphy wasn’t here. I had told Pike that he never got a choice in assisting the grounder to camp. That it was either to show her the way or die.

Turning to my sister I gulped down. “We will continue this later, just don’t do anything stupid until then.”

As I walked away I could hear Octavia mumbling an insult under her breath. I just couldn’t win with her. I’d figure out how to get my sister back on my side later, right now I needed to focus on finding out what was going on in Polis.

I approached her slowly, making sure she was alone before I spoke. “Cora?”

She turned to face me with a bleak look across her face. Cora no longer looked like a grounder. Her once braided hair was now down, and the war paint was gone but she was still wearing her own clothes. She looked miserable.

“Yes?”

I leaned in closer, and spoke in a low voice so nobody else could hear. “We need to talk, I know about the deal.”

Cora tilted her head to the side and pressed her lips together. She was glaring at me. “I suppose we do Bellamy Blake.”

I led her outside to an area that isn't crowded. The last thing I needed was somebody overheating and getting suspicious. “Why did you take the deal Pike offered you?”

“Why did you take the deal and shot Jaha?” She quipped back.

It surprised me how she knew this piece of information, but then I thought about who she had spent time with. Bloody Murphy. In the distance I could hear an argument breaking out between my people and a grounder, I didn’t have long until other guards would appear. “Where is Murphy? Is he-”

“He’s not dead.” Although me and Murphy had a lot of history between us, I’d never have wanted to get him killed, this wasn’t like before. The husky sound of Cora’s voice brought me out of my thoughts. “I had a feeling the grounder slayer would double cross my people, along with his own.”

I frowned at the comment. “What’s that supposed to mean?”

Cora looked at me with disapproval. “I had a feeling you’d double cross us, so I knocked Murphy out and left him behind.”

Oh. I wasn’t expecting her to say that. It was strange to me that the grounder went through such an effort to keep Murphy out of harm's way. She was right though, I had left Clarke in Polis to protect my people. “I told Pike why you were coming here. I did it for Octavia.”

“All I want is to find him.”

Looking at the person in front of me all I could see was a sister looking out for her brother. The bile was burning in the back of my throat, I had to tell her that he was dead. I’d be heartbroken if it was my sister.

“Cora..I have something I need to tell you.”

Cora

As I sat clutching at my chest I almost never heard the person approach me from behind. If he wanted to kill me he could, I didn’t care anymore. My brother was dead, my one and only reason for living was gone. I had nothing else to fight for.

“I’m sorry about your brother.”

“Thanks,” I said while wiping the tears off my face. I turned to face the person speaking to me, I recognised him as the person Bellamy shot. Jaha. The look he was giving me was starting to creep me out. “Sorry, can I do something for you?”

“It’s what I can do for you that I'm interested in.” Jaha sat down beside me, which surprised me as I was sitting on the grass next to the fence. “Your commander used and betrayed you. Not caring if you lived or died, and now you’re lost, Carpo.”

I stared at him blankly, his words felt like a wound being reopened. Even hearing my brother's name was painful. My own heda used me stung, I always thought Lexa was kind as well as a great leader, but I wasn’t so sure anymore. More tears threatened to spill from my eyes as I struggled to put on a brave front. A horrible feeling cursed through my body as Jaha continued to speak.

“I can make all this pain go away Persephone.”

Murphy

The ark, Ice Nation, Ontari, Titus, Lexa, Pike, Arkadia, Clarke, Bellamy, A.L.I.E, Emori, Jaha. It never stopped. The constant fight to survive would never stop.

I knew I couldn’t trust any of them, I should just cut my losses and leave while I still could. The only reason I had a reason to fight before was my own life, but now I had Emori to fight for as well. Those two things were the only reason I hadn’t found a way to escape Polis yet.

Emori has been chipped, and Ontari has me locked up. I didn’t mind the solitude, I actually preferred it to the inevitable fight that was about to happen. The moment Pike appeared I knew shit was about to go down. I’d already talked Indra out of killing him a couple of times.

“So what do we do now? Wait for your people to save the day?” Indra asked.

Pike didn’t answer her, he just continued staring out of the window. Up until the moment he had been trying to pretend he wasn’t worried, but I could tell he was faking it. Finally Pike spoke.

“We need to find a way to get out of here and destroy A.L.I.E, I did have a grand plan in motion but Jaha ruined it with his city of lights nonsense.”

I scoffed, “oh yeah? What was this grand plan that was going to save the day?”

Pike smirked at me, “I had a secret weapon.” I was about to ask why he didn’t use this ‘secret weapon’ when he continued. “A grounder made me an interesting deal.”

“No grounder would make a deal with vermin like you.” Indra spat.

Pike started to pace the room with his hands clasped behind his back. “She did happily since your heda turned her back on her. Poor girl, all she wanted was to find her brother. I offered her a place on the guard for information.” I glared at him. Pike knew about Cora, and was trying to bait. If Indra knew who it was I was sure Cora would be executed. “The strangest part of the deal was Murphy being pardoned of any treason charges he faced if he returned.”

Had I heard him wrong? Cora wanted me to be pardoned? I needed to play it cool on the outside, while my heart rattled against my chest as I processed this information. I shrugged, “I know nothing about that.”

Pike raised his eyebrows at me. “Hm. Regardless, my plan was ruined the moment Jaha spoke to her alone.”

“Why? What did he do to her?” Indra’s voice was full of anger as she spoke.

“She accepted the chip.”

long overdue break he deserved.