Chapter 24
"Well is it taken care of?" A.L.I.E. asks Jaha when he enters her private room.
"Not exactly." Jaha replies slowly and hesitantly.
"What do you mean not exactly? He's either dead or not. Now which is it?" She snaps at him.
"N..not but..." Jaha begins nervously but before he can continue he's thrown against the wall by shadows.
"What! What! How the hell can some kid who barely knows who or what he is still be alive?" She yells as her face contorts in anger and she starts to become completely shadows.
Suddenly he's dropped to the floor as she releases him and then collapses to the floor herself. Jaha is by her side in an instant as she slowly comes back to herself.
"Your strength and power is beginning to fade. You can't exert that much power and energy at one time or you'll die." Jaha says cautiously.
"I know but I'm having a hard time believing that some kid can stop you. So explain it to me while I recover."
"He's stronger than anticipated. I've never encountered a dream walker that strong. Not even John's mother was that strong. He's also managed to somehow lock me out of John's mind. I can't reach him anymore." Jaha explains and then braces himself for the explosion he knows is coming.
A.L.I.E.'s face contorts in anger again but she manages to reign it in before she goes full shadow again but the calm voice that follows scares Jaha more than the shadows ever would.
"He's locked you out? That's not possible. It can't be done. It can't...unless...no. They can't be. I would've felt them. I..." She begins muttering to herself in a hushed voice that both confuses and scares Jaha.
"What are you talking about? What are you not telling me?" He asks cautiously.
"It's nothing we can't handle. We just need to try harder and go about things a different way. Since we can't seem to get to Bellamy then we'll get to his sister. He can't protect them both and since she's here we can use her." A.L.I.E. says with a devilish smile on her face.
"What do you want me to do?"
"It won't be long before he learns to find people in their dreams and the first person he'll search for will be her so let's make it easier for him. Make her cry out for him in her dreams and when he comes for her and let's his guard down, we'll know where they are."
"Why don't we let him know where we are instead? If we bring them to us it'll be easier to dispose of them and we can use the others a leverage to get what we want, like a trade." Jaha suggests.
"I like the way you think. It's a shame we didn't meet sooner in life, things may have turned out differently for us but they certainly wouldn't be as fun now would they?"
"Definitely not." Jaha agrees as they both begin laughing.
Little did they know that someone was listening to their every word and was determined to stop Bellamy and whoever this John was from coming after them. Clarke knew it meant death but she wasn't gonna let more suffer at the hands of these two. She had a plan and though it was risky, she needed to stop Bellamy from coming here at all costs.
"Octavia? Octavia, are you awake?" She whispered hoping that it was loud enough for her to hear but not loud enough for A.L.I.E. and her goons to hear.
"Yeah, but why are you whispering?" Came Octavia's hushed reply a few seconds later.
"Because I don't want us to be overheard. Can you still talk to Bellamy telepathically?"
"I guess so. I'm not sure cause we haven't done it since we were kids. Why?"
"I need you to try and get a message to him. We can't let him come here after us. If he does he'll be playing right into her hands. You have to try and stop him." Clarke tells her quickly sensing that someone was coming.
"I'll try but I can't make any promises that it'll work." She replied just as the main door to the cell room opened to reveal Ontari.
"What the hell are you guys whispering about?" She shouts angrily.
"Would you shut up, Clarke is trying to sleep." Lexa snaps at her.
"I heard voices. What are you planning?" She asks accusingly.
"We aren't planning anything and for your information Clarke whispers in her sleep." Raven replies and as if on cue Clarke, pretending to be asleep begins whispering.
Most of it is nonsense but every now and then she'd throw in a medical term or say some one's name and then she started arguing. Of course it was a one sided argument because it was meant to be happening in her head. Ontari scoffed and left the room in a huff. Once the door was slammed Raven, Octavia and Lexa began laughing as Clarke sets up and looks around.
"That was fucking brilliant, Clarke." Octavia manages to gasp in between laughs.
"Well Raven certainly didn't make it easy for me saying I whispered in my sleep."
"What the fuck else was I supposed to say when she said she heard whispering?" Raven counters.
"Besides you didn't have to start an argument with your imagination." Lexa says and Clarke glares at her.
"Thanks for the help, Lex."
"She has a point, you know. You really didn't have to break out the crazy." Octavia teases.
"What the hell else was I supposed to do, she wouldn't leave. Besides I've found that if you space out or act like you're talking or in my case arguing with essentially yourself that people tend to leave you alone. At the very least you win the argument."
"So that's how you do it? I always wondered why Bell came away from so many arguments with you looking so damn confused and shaking his head. You might wanna tell him you do that if we get out of here before he has Abby try and lock you in a room for your own safety."
"Very funny, O." Clarke says rolling her eyes at her friend.
"Are we getting out of here?" Comes a quite voice and all turn to look at Monty whose looking at them expectantly for an answer.
"I don't know. I wish I did but I don't." Clarke says solemnly.
"If there's a way to get us out of here, Bellamy will find it. He'll come for us Monty. He'd never leave us here to die." Miller assures him but as he looks at the girls he realizes that there's something the two of them missed.
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Bellamy is snapped out of his sleep by a voice in his head. It's faint at first but soon becomes louder until he can make out his name being called. He tries focusing on the voice hoping to be able to figure out who it belongs too but Murphy starts shaking in his sleep beside him and he turns his attention to him instead.
Bellamy tries waking him but it doesn't work and his shaking becomes thrashing. He knows he's having some kind of nightmare or something and closes his eyes to connect with Murphy in the dream world. It doesn't take him long to figure out what's causing Murphy to thrash around.
Bellamy knows it's not a nightmare but a memory because the look and feel of it is different than a nightmare. As he watches he notices that Murphy appears to be replaying the night he killed Dax and he's about to stop it when something catches his eye. There's a reflection of some kind in the water but it isn't Murphy's or Dax's. In fact it doesn't even look human.
When he's close enough to see the water clearly he looks at the reflection and sees that it's a mass of black shadows in the crude form of a human. He moves to wake Murphy but notices another reflection beside the black shadows. He's not sure where it's coming from until he moves his arm and the reflection does too.
He watches in both curiosity and horror as the black shadows begin to attack the new reflection, his reflection. Suddenly the white shadows that are apparently his reflection reach into the mass of black shadows and pulls out Murphy. Once he's free of the shadows there's a horrible shrieking noise as the shadows disappear and Bellamy is back in the bed holding Murphy whose slowly waking up.
Just before Murphy's eyes open he hears the voice in his head again but this time it's loud and he knows it's Octavia trying to reach him telepathically.