"Ah, 014, there you are. Thought you ran off and became one with the wild." 014's head whipped up to Bellamy's smiling face. Quickly, he schooled his features to make his face one of boredom. Though, by Miller's chuckling, he had already noticed.
"What can I say? I wanted to stake claim on my territory." A smirk formed on 014's face as it was mirrored on Bellamy's own.
"Don't think the girls would appreciate you taking a piss on their things." The smirked stretched across the olive coloured face as his arms crossed his chest.
014 let out an offending huff and rolled his eyes."Please, if anything, they'd be honoured."
Bellamy chuckled and shook his head, his eyes coming to land on the metal bracelet on the shorter's wrist. His face immediately sobered, he then jerked his head to Miller.
"You can leave now." Miller rose a black brow but after getting a stare from Bellamy, he did so.
"Let's talk in my tent, more privacy there."
Honey eyes widened in disgust, "There's no way in all the nine circles of Hell that I'm going in that tent." To further prove his point, 014 took a step backwards causing Bellamy to roll his eyes.
"You're more of a Princess than the actual Princess." 014's brows rose in confusion, there was no nobility on the Ark. Elite, yes. Nobility, no.
"Princess?"
"Oh yeah, you weren't here. One of the Earth Counselor's friend likes to think that she can dictate everything that goes down here. Clark Griffin, better known as Princess." Annoyance coloured his voice.
"Clark Griffin? Wasn't she in solitary confinement for a year?"
"Yeah I'm surprised she was even in there to start with as she's an Elite." Bellamy shrugged and continued. "Let's not talk about this anymore, we're on Earth now. Why don't you wait here while I get a shirt?"
"I'm sure by now you've already fucked half the female population so what's the point?"
A scoff came from Bellamy's mouth, "It seems like even though you cover up, you're not a prude. Unlike you, I have some dignity." Bellamy said in a false pompous voice.
"Whatever you say, King."
"King?"
"You act like one. Besides, you're the leader of this rag-tag group." Bellamy shrugged at this, 014 had a point. As the presumed eldest, the kids naturally followed him.
"So where are we heading then?"
"We can head over to my tent if you don't have a place in mind. It's on the borders so we should be left alone."
"My my, you're already taking me to your place and we haven't even had dinner yet." A teasing smirk found itself on Bellamy's lips, he found it easy to interact with the long haired male.
"Just put on your shirt already."
Bellamy chuckled and raised his hands up in surrender as he headed back to his tent. It took him a few minutes, and 014 assumed he was talking to the girls inside, yes girls, but eventually he came out. Seeing that he was ready and properly clothed, to 014's disappointment, 014 began to lead the way back to his tent.
When they arrived at 014's claimed spot, 014 found that the tent had been set up.
"That's a big tent." Bellamy said giving a long whistle, it almost rivaled his own.
"One of the kids set it up, guess they went and got more fabric." 014 gave Bellamy a grin, happy with his new accommodations. 014 walked over to his new fortress and held open the flap.
"After you, my King." With a smirk, Bellamy headed inside.
After Bellamy entered, 014 followed, taking in the makeshift bed made from crates and fabrics found on the Exodus. Next to the bed, there were several crates to serve as stands and chairs.
"Damn this is better than mine, and I'm the King!" Bellamy said, feeling a bit miffed.
"What can I say, your subjects love me more." 014 was pleased with his tent. It was a bit bare, but compared to his room back at the Ark, this was far better. Miller did me good.
"They probably just fear you more after seeing what you did on the Ark." Bellamy said rolling his eyes.
"Fear is a powerful motivator." 014 mouthed slowly, his mind absent as he recalled Her saying the same words.
Seeing that 014;s attention was drifting, Bellamy cleared his throat awkwardly as he pulled a crate to sit on. "Let's get back to business."
014 shook his head to clear his mind and dragged his own crate over. "What do you need?"
"Princess told us what that does," Bellamy nodded to the metal tracking bracelet on 014's wrist. "It monitors your vitals and sends it back to the Earth. I need you to take it off." He said bluntly.
"Take it off? Can you even do it? In fact, why would I do it?" 014 did want to get it off, he wanted to be free of Her, but he needed to know the reason.
Bellamy let out a sigh and brought his hands up to his face to massage his temples. "We can, it'll hurt but it'll come off. It can be done. We've already gotten others off. It'll hurt a bit but you should be fine." He took a deep breath after this, bringing up his hands to massage his temples.
"You seem like a good kid, I trust you. I… I'm not a guard. At least not anymore. Once I heard my sister was heading here, I just couldn't let her come here alone. I… I shot Jaha to come here. If he comes down on Earth, I'm dead." I heard that Octavia was going to be sent down here, I couldn't let her go alone. She's all I have left. I did something that would get me punished in order to get down here. I can't let the Ark know that they can come down." Bellamy looked to 014 with pleading eyes, he had to understand.
Seeing the brown haired man's conviction, 014 let out a soft sigh and brought his cuffed arm up. "Well, get to it, King."
Bellamy looked back at 014 in shock that he agreed so quickly but nodded anyways. He got to bring another crate close and pulled a shard of metal from his pocket. "Put your arm on this." 014 complied.
"Ok, just take in a deep breath, it'll be over soon." 014 let out a snort. With the way Bellamy was worrying about him, one would think that they were siblings.
Taking in a deep breath, Bellamy steadied his hand at positioned it over where the metal met on 014's arm, pity welling inside him as he took notice of the scars littering said arm. With a grunt, he heaved the metal in his hands into the crack of the bracelet, forcing it to come open.
014 looked at his freed arm. His mind felt numb despite the tiny rivulets of blood going down his left arm. She would think he died. He was free.
"Shit, you're bleeding." Bellamy said in concern. 014 ignored him, taking the the metal tracking bracelet and throwing it on the floor before stomping on it to further break it.
"Damn, I knew I said I didn't want them to come, but you didn't have to go that far." 014 turned around to face Bellamy, his face carefully blank.
"You called me kid earlier. Tell me, how old do you think I am?"
"What? What does your age have to do with this?" Bellamy felt confused as the statement had nothing to do with the previous event, what was wrong with 014?
"I believe in equivalent exchange. You told me your story, let me tell you mine." Bellamy sighed at seeing the determination in 014's eyes. Though this is not bad, he thought, I can learn more about him.
"Sixteen or seventeen when you smile. Eighteen when you frown." Bellamy answered honestly. 014 rose an eyebrow at this, he didn't expect Bellamy to pay such great attention to him.
"Wrong." 014 allowed a smirk on his face when confusion coloured Bellamy's face.
"Fuck, you're fifteen?" Bellamy exclaimed in disbelief, he couldn't believe it, sure 014 looked young but the way he held himself didn't make him seem like fifteen. This only made him hate the guards even more for their treatment to the perceived young boy.
"Add ten years. I am twenty-five."
"Twenty-five? How did you get on the ship?" Bellamy couldn't believe his eyes, had he read 014's lips correctly?
"Yes. I'm twenty-five. To answer your other question, I was sent down here with the mission to befriend the leaders of Earth." He tried his best to keep things vague while still answering Bellamy's question. While the King was nice to him, 014 didn't want to give away all his secrets. He knew better than to trust people.
The younger man's face twisted into a scowl, anger blazing in his eyes. "You were going to use me?"
014 scoffed. "Don't patronize me." He mouthed indignantly. "You would do the same, you aren't an innocent lamb, Bellamy Blake. And no, I'm not going to use you." He stated more absentmindedly. "I am the tool, not the user. All of my actions thus far have been genuine. If anything, the most I would do is condition you to be against Her. My life is forfeit, so when I die, I'd like for it to be on my own terms." He mouthed rapidly and carelessly, his lips moved faster than his mind, but he was not expecting Bellamy to read his lips that proficiently. He was used to people not caring for what he said.
"Her? Who's her? Why is your life forfeit? Do you have a disease or something? I'm sure we can make medicine for you here, Princess's mom is a doctor after all so Princess should know something."
With 014 telling him that he was wrong, Bellamy felt guilty for believing that the long haired man's intentions were malicious. Now, all he felt was worry, whoever she was, 014 hated her with every fibre of his being. Bellamy wasn't good at reading faces but even he knew loathing when he saw it.
Honey eyes widened in surprise, he honestly didn't believe that Bellamy was paying attention to him or that he was able to read his lips at such speed. A fake smile found itself on 014's face. "She isn't anyone you should worry about and I'm not dying. Now that we're done, don't we have something else we can do?"
Bellamy sighed at the change of subject but allowed for it to happen, 014 told him enough. "Why don't we go to camp?"
014 nodded and the eldest pair left his tent to head towards the centre of the camp where a bonfire was set up. Bellamy went towards the bonfire, gesturing for 014 to follow. He then let out a piercing whistle to bring the attention of the 100 to him. Seeing that he got their attention almost immediately, he smirked.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the Princess and her followers want you to keep your wristbands on. But we don't want that do we? We don't want the people who unjustly wronged us to come down here and govern us on a land we have claimed as our own! We govern ourselves down here! Who needs the council? Listen to me and take off your wristbands!" Seeing that he had people on the proverbial fence about their decision, he decided that he had to be a bit more dramatic to win them over. Marching over to 014, Bellamy reached for his left arm at held it up in the air for the delinquents to see, startling the older man.
"This is 014. Many of you saw his fight on the Ark. He managed to subdue a guard while cuffed. So don't be afraid, we are not to be underestimated. We are not to be trampled by people who think themselves to be better!" The crowd began to cheer, invigorated by Bellamy's speech. Bellamy then let go of 014's arm, sending him an apologetic look.
"Who's next?" With this, a surge of people went towards Bellamy, eager to get their bracelets removed.
"What the hell are you doing?" A voice called above the others. The sea of people parted to reveal a disgruntled Wells. Wells walked closer to Bellamy, hoping to get some answers.
"We're liberating ourselves. What does it look like?" Bellamy replied in annoyance, an eyebrow cocked up as he crossed his arms to make himself seem more imposing.
Wells let out a groan of frustration. How could they be so stupid? "It looks like you're trying to get us all killed. The communication system is dead. These wristbands are all we got." He paused after saying this, hoping that it would sink into the thick skulls of the 100. "Take them off, and the Ark will think we're dying, that it's not safe for them to follow." The kids went silent after this, some of them starting to mutter to themselves, they did have some family up there.
Seeing that the kids were beginning to doubt themselves, Bellamy took a quick step forwards to address the crowd. "That's the point, Chancellor. We can take care of ourselves, can't we?" Cheers erupted again at the King's question, words of acknowledgement and approval filling the air.
"You think this is a game? Those aren't just our friends and our parents up there. They're our farmers, our engineers, our doctors." The anger in Wells' tone made the words come out sharper. "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 didn't understand how the 100 could so easily stand behind a man they barely knew compared to those they knew their entire lives.
"My people already are down. Those people locked my people up. Those people killed my mother for the crime of having a second child. Your father did that." Bellamy was nearly shouting at this point, he could never keep calm when the topic of his mother and sister came up.
"My father didn't write the laws." Wells said meekly, trying to defend his father who had sent him on Earth. 014 snorted, even Wells seemed to see the logic in Bellamy's words. What a good King, indeed.
Bellamy inclined his head at that. "No. He enforced them, but not anymore, not here. Here, there are no laws." He turned to the 100 after saying this, causing them to yell their approval to their King. He then turned back to Wells.
"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, we do it." The confidence oozing from Bellamy was nearly palpable. Bellamy knew that Wells had a good heart, even if he was forced to, he wouldn't kill Bellamy, hence why he had said those words.
"Whatever the hell we want!" A delinquent near Bellamy yelled, Murphy, 014 believed his name to be.
"Whatever the hell we want!" Another howled, causing the crowd to chant the phrase, the 100 gradually getting loud enough to hurt 014's sensitive ears.
Suddenly, a loud clamor went through the air, causing everyone to go quiet in apprehension. Slowly, 014 reached back for his new weapon, narrowed eyes scanning for the threat. With another blink, 014 found his whole body wet. Releasing his hold on his transforming staff, he looked up to the sky in wonder, droplets of rain hitting his face.
"Rain! Real rain!" A girl cried out in shock and exhilaration.
"Check it out!" A boy said as he stepped in a puddle of the sky's tears.
"It's water!" Another girl said in reverence.
"We need to collect this." Wells clear voice cut over the 100 again as he faced Bellamy. While he was amazed by the wonder called rain, his mind was more focused on survival.
Bellamy shrugged, he didn't care what Wells did as long as it wasn't in his way. "Whatever the hell you want."
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