Barricade- John Murphy

Chapter 7

Episode 4:
Murphy's Law

The next day was instant chaos. Wells was dead. The grounders caught him outside the wall. Jasper had finally woken up last night. When I heard, I ran inside and spent half the night talking with him, Nate, and Monty. Murphy was out helping supervise the wall building. 

As I went outside to check on everyone, I caught sight of Finn sneaking away. I follow after him and jump on him. "Where are you going?" I ask and he jumps in fright, catching me when I almost fall. "Jesus Artemis. What are you doing?" He asks me. "I was bored. Then I saw you sneaking off and followed you." I shrug and he chuckles.

"So where are we going?" I ask him. "Nowhere specific. Just nice to get a break from camp." He shrugs. We walk in silence for a while before he speaks. "So what's up with you and Murphy?" He asks sending me a smirk. "Nothing official. We've kissed, but nothing official. What about you and Clarke?" I ask with my own grin.

"Same. Nothing official." He chuckles. "So, what made you use air on the ark? For your space walk?" I ask him. "Can you keep a secret?" He asks me. "Of course." I nod my head. "It wasn't me who did it." He tells me. "It was my girlfriend Raven." He finishes, and my eyes widen. "Girlfriend?" I ask him.

"Yeah. She has a heart condition, and wouldn't have been able to do it for months with her crew. So after she did it and came in, I took the fall for it. She's barely older than me and would have gotten floated for it." He explains. "That's really sweet of you Finn. Who knew you were so soft?" I tease and he rolls his eyes. 

As we get closer to camp we hear yelling and cheering. "Are they chanting my brothers name?" I ask confused. "We better go." Finn says running off. I take off after him and freeze upon seeing what was going on. Murphy was strung up in a tree, a noose around his neck, choking. "What the hell are you doing? Cut him down! Charlotte get out of here!" Finn yells plowing through the crowds. 

I rush forward finally, pushing through people and some people get quiet seeing me. "Murphy! Get him down!" I yell. "Stop! Okay? Murphy didn't kill Wells! I did!" Charlotte yells. Everyone freezes, except for me. I run grabbing the axe from Bellamy's belt loop and swing breaking the rope. 

He hits the ground hard, and I drop the axe running over and collapsing next to him. "Murphy? Breathe. Breathe Murphy." I chant yanking the noose off of him. He gasps and coughs rolling towards me. "You're okay. You're okay." I cry, gently grabbing his face. Bellamy disappears with the little girl, Clarke and Finn following. 

"Hey, slow down. I know you're mad but let me clean your face." I tell him quickly as he tries to get up. John Mbege brings over a rag and some water. I carefully clean off his face. Bruises blooming, joining the cuts on his face. "What the hell happened?" I ask softly. "Clarke accused me of killing Wells. They found his fingers and my knife." He tells me and I scoff.

"Seriously? You were with me all night. You even fell asleep before me." I say and he nods. "I should have been here. None of this would have happened if I was here." I mumble softly. "It's not your fault Goddess. I'm glad you weren't so you didn't have to see all of that." He mutters softly.