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Murphy looked at the blonde in frustration she was still standing there staring at the blood stained bed. “Clarke, we have to get out of here.” Lexa was just taken from the room dead by Titus who shot her. The blonde looked devastated and even though people have called Murphy heartless. He felt for his leader.
He approached her carefully and tried to place his hand on her arm but she just shook him off. “Look princess I know she meant a lot to you but if we don’t get out of here now we are dead. They will blame us for this.” She still didn’t answer. She stood by the bed looking at the blood soaked blankets sobbing. He shook his head and went to the door. He couldn’t die for her.
He had to find Emori. He had to get out of here. He pushed the door and it opened. He sighed in relief. He looked over at the blonde who was still staring at the bed. He shook his head angry at himself for being so soft. He had to try one more time. He stood behind her. “Princess we have to go. The door is opened we have to get out of here, we have to get to this blockade shit that the bald guy was going on about when he was beating me senseless. Come with me.” Clarke shook her head.
“She’s gone Clarke. Your girlfriend isn’t here to save us this time.” She turned to him sharply and glared. He rolled his eyes. “I’m not an idiot unlike the rest of our people I can see a helping hand when it is given and that woman who was just killed gave us so many chances but she’s gone now and we have to go.”
“No.” She said softly. “You go Murphy, I’m going to stay and fix this.”
“Fix what exactly?”
“I have to stay to make sure that our people will still be the 13th clan. I have to stay and fight for the peace she did otherwise she died for nothing.”
He sighed. “Damn it Clarke, you’re going to get yourself killed!”
“I don’t care.”
He clenched his fists. “I can’t help you, do you understand that? I have to go find someone. Those people you fight for, those people who had us imprisoned for no damn reason, those people who killed innocent grounders while they slept are not MY people.” He took a breath to calm himself. “I have to find the one person who is my people. I can’t help you.”
She smiled at him softly. “It’s okay, Murphy. Go. I understand, believe me I do.”
“Fuck.” He sighed.
The blonde stood forward and took Murphy into her arms. “May we meet again.”
He rolled his eyes and hugged her back. “It would be too soon princess.”
She smiled through her tears. “Go.” She motioned at the door.
He nodded and took off.
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Somehow he ended back in the ritual room where Titus held him. “Great!” He threw his arms up.
“John?”
He turned quickly and saw Emori. They both ran into each other’s arms. He pulled back. “We have to get the hell out of here Emori, shit went down, and the flamekeeper shot and killed the commander.”
“What?!”
“I know it’s messed up. Clarke stayed behind to try and fix shit as usual but we have to get the hell out of here.”
“John wait, there’s something I have to tell you before we go.”
“Can it wait?”
“No. John, I’m pregnant.”
His eyes widened. “Shit.” He said shocked.
She rolled her eyes and hit him in his arms. “Shit?”
“No, I mean shit this is great but shit this has happened at the worst time in history.”
She smiled at him and kissed him softly on the lips.
“I can offer you both protection.” Titus appeared from behind the Polaris shuttle. Murphy protectively pushed Emori behind him.
“We don’t want anything from you!”
He held up his hands and approached them slowly. “There is something big coming.” He looked at both of them.
Emori stepped from behind John to stand beside him. “War?”
He chuckled sadly. “No. Much worse.”
Murphy was getting impatient. “Well, what then?!”
“This isn’t the first time the city of light has been bought to my attention or those flame keepers before me. Alie has resurfaced for a reason.” He looked at John. “You know why she was created.”
“Yeah.” He drawled, “To make human kind better but the bitch did that by setting off the bombs.”
“Sha. But at the time that is the only option she thought she had as the world was about to go to war which would have left no survivors.”
“Okay, so what is she back for then?”
“Once again the world will end. Beca pramheda left journals for flame keepers that have her predict that something called nuclear reactors would melt and cause another praimfaya.”
Emori looked at him shocked. “John? This is bad. I have been told stories about the praimfaya we will not survive.”
“Okay then what’s your solution?”
“There is a safe place you can go that will keep you, Emori and the baby safe.”
“What’s the catch?”
He sighed. “You take Lexa.”
“Lexa is dead! You killed her!”
“No.” He shook his head. “The fisa saved her. But she won’t be strong enough to face Ontari.”
“How about you go tell Clarke?!”
“No.” He shook his head. “I don’t know how the people will survive what’s to come but she will play an important role. As usual.”
Murphy scoffed, “Then why try to kill her you idiot!”
“Because she was putting Lexa’s life in danger!”
He laughed and walked away. He looked at Emori and her stomach that would soon be full of a baby, his baby. He thought about Clarke and what she would want. He came to the conclusion that she would want Lexa safe. “Fine!” He huffed.
“Good. Meet me by the gates. Take this.” He handed both Emori and John a necklace shaped like an infinity symbol. “This will get you anywhere no questions asked.”
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Murphy was pacing near the gates of Polis with an amused Emori looking on. “What’s the problem John?”
He stopped and looked at her. “The problem? The world is going to end.”
“Yes, it is and me, you and the baby will be safe.”
“What about everyone else. Shouldn’t we warn them?”
Emori sighed. “Okay, you know more about this stuff then I do. Can we stop these reactors from melting?”
He shook his head. “No.”
“Okay, so help me understand then? How would anyone survive this?”
“I dunno, hide, find a bunker and wish for good luck.”
“Okay.” She said as she moved closer to him. “Okay. So obviously not everyone is going to be saved. I’m an outcast in my clan same as you, we can warn them but it won’t change anything for us. They won’t help us or choose us to be a selective few that may survive. They will choose people like Clarke.”
“And Bellamy.”
“Yeah, this is beyond us John. We take the commander to this bunker, we stay down low and survive the radiation.” She shrugged. “What else can we do?”
“What if the commander wakes and kills us?”
“I don’t think she will do that. If you want to help your friend. This Clarke. Keeping Lexa alive is the way to do it. It’s the only thing you can do.”
He nodded as she embraced him. “You’re right. I know you’re right.”
“I always am John and don’t forget it.”
Two horses with a cart attached to an old cart were bought through the gates with Titus trailing behind. In the cart was Lexa covered with blankets.
“She is under the blankets.”
Murphy moved to the cart and moved the blanket so he could see for himself that the commander was alive. He pulled it down slightly and saw the commander sleeping peacefully, she still had black blood around her lips but he could clearly see a pulse on her throat. He pulled down a little more and seen the wound which was covered by bandages. It looked reasonably clean. She was strapped to the cart with soft material tight enough to keep her still but not too tight to hurt her. He sighed and pulled the blanket back over her head. “How are we supposed to keep her alive?”
“She is already alive. But everything you need will be at this location.” He handed Murphy directions.
He looked at the parchment. “This is near the mansion?” He handed the directions to Emori.
“Sha.” She nodded.
Titus looked at Murphy. “I know you don’t owe me anything but please I beg of you give this letter to Lexa when she wakes.”
He rolled his eyes and snatched it from him. “I don’t owe you shit but I’ll do it for her and for Clarke not for you.”
“Mochof.”
Murphy sighed at the sight of the older man. He looked remorseful. “Listen. I know you don’t trust the princess but she truly does want what’s best for everyone. If you want people to survive she is the one to lead everyone.”
He looked down to the ground in shame. “I know.”
Murphy sighed and walked away. “Bye, badly.” He sat down next to Emori. “I had a look, she’s pretty well secured in the cart so we can both sit at the front.”
“Good.” She said as she made the horses move.
“If Clarke survives the end of the world.” He chuckled. “Who am I kidding of course she will. WHEN Clarke survives the end of the world and finds out that Lexa’s alive and I kept it from her. She’s going to kill me.”
Emori smiled. “Or she could just be thankful John.”
“Nope. I’m a dead man.”
Emori laughed and nudged him. “I’ll protect you.”
He shook his head and smiled. He looked over his shoulder and saw Titus looking remorseful still standing there watching them leave. He felt sorry for the old fool. He clearly did care about Lexa, he rolled his eyes. Thinking that the ground has made him soft. He watched Polis disappeared over his shoulder and hoped that Clarke could save as many people as she could.