Barricade- John Murphy

Chapter 39

These next two chapters will be filler chapters. In the show they do a time jump of three months. But mine won't do that. Enjoy!

It had been two days since the remaining 100 were saved and brought home. The first night was reuniting most of them with family that were there. Others were just relieved to be back with us. Everyone loved hearing the stories of what happened in that time frame. Murphy and Nate exaggerated things I had done.

"Okay, so the battle happened. I saw you two take off to find your siblings. What happened past that?" Miller asks the next day. The remaining 100 had all clustered together sitting on the ground around the 'camp' Murphy, Nate, and Octavia used with me. "Keran found me in the trees. He and Mira had been looking for me, trying to keep an eye on me. He kelped me find Murphy, who another grounder was beating on. I killed that grounder, took his gear." I tell them and they all childishly cheer. I roll my eyes smiling.

"She's downplaying it. She totally kicked this grounders ass. Stabbed him with his own spear." Murphy grins up at me from laying in my lap. "Anyways, we camp back to the dropship and found Raven in there. We stayed with her and when we heard people outside, I sort of threatened them. Before realizing it was Marcus and the others." I say blushing and they laugh. "They helped us get back here and patch us up." I say looking to Raven and Clarke. "Go ahead." Raven tells me, grimacing as she shifts.

"Finn had freaked out not finding Clarke. He stayed with Raven while they operated, but then he was determined to find her." I say softly. "Where is he anyways? Out on his let's be friends trip again?" Fox asks me. "While we were looking for you guys, since this was before we knew it was the mountain. Keran told them where to go. I didn't go with them to the village because of what had happened there." I say and they nod frowning. I had explained it to them before starting this story.

"So, I came back here with the others after we found Mel. Which is when we found out Clarke was back, and about what happened. We immediately left, me wanting to find this idiot." I grin down at Murphy who huffs at me. "There was gunfire, so I took off. Finn thought this village of scavengers took you guys. Rallied them all up, and was questioning them. One of them ran to get away from Finn, and he started shooting." I say with a frown.

"He didn't..." Miller trails off shocked. "Yeah. He murdered 18 of their people. So, we got back here, and by the next day riders were here asking for him. Their commander, Lexa over there, wanted him to pay for what he did." I say pointing to the woman who was talking with Indra. "Clarke told her I was the leader, not her. So I went to talk with her, Murphy in tow. I told her we had loads to talk about. Told her what her people did, and that if Finn was dying, so were the men who hurt me and Murphy." I tell them.

"You got your justice." Harper smiles at me. "We both did." I smile back at her. "After the three men were dead, I was the one to kill Finn. How the grounders handle that kind of thing, is basically torturing them to death." I tell their shocked faces. "Mercy kill." Monty mutters and I nod. After that, was when we went to their village. And decided to send Bellamy in to shut down the acid fog. Then it was, plan after plan." I tell them.

"Don't skip the best part!" Murphy tells sitting up with a grin. "She punched Jaha!" He cheers and the others gape at me as I blush. "He was trying to scare everyone into leaving." I mutter. "I am so fucking jealous right now." Jasper says with a grin, Maya confused at his side. "Jaha is the idiot who sent us down here in the first place." I tell her and she nods. "Gotcha. Artemis, you are a total badass." She giggles. "Yes she is." I hear and look up at Lexa. "What's the plan?" I ask her curiously.

"Leave at first light. So we are to Polis at a good hour." She tells me and I nod. "Sounds good." I nod at her. "Indra will be here in the morning to collect you." She says walking away. "Collect you for what?" Miller asks confused. "Me and Murphy are going to Polis for a bit. Lexa wants us to officially join the coalition. And I can get more accustomed to grounder culture from Karan's training." I tell them. I had yet to tell anyone but Murphy about my blood. I never had time.

"Dad?" I call poking my head into his room. "Hey. You guys leaving soon?" He asks walking out from the bathroom. "Probably. The suns not even up yet. I wanted to talk to you about something." I tell him sitting on the couch. "Of course. What's going on?" He asks sitting with me. "In TonDC, I don't know if anyone told you that I got hurt. But I did and I needed blood. Lexa gave me her blood. She had special blood. And now because of her, so do I." I tell him. I cut my palm to show him and he's shocked.

"What does this mean?" He asks softly as I clean my hand. "It's called Natblida, Night Blood. It's the blood of the commander. If Lexa were to die, the Natblida's would fight to the death to find out who the next commander would be. Lexa is confident, if it ever happened, it would be me." I mumble looking at my hand with a frown. "I'm sure she's going to be here for a long while. But she's also right. If that ever happened, you would be the perfect person to take over. You're already an amazing leader." He tells me softly. "Thank you." I smile at him.

A knock makes us both turn seeing Murphy there. "They're ready to go." He tells us both and I nod. I turn giving Marcus a hug and he kisses my head. "Take the radio. Check in at least once a day." He tells me and I nod. "Already planned on it." I tell him and get up walking over to Murphy. "Let's go." I smile up at him. "Your favorite horse is waiting for you." Murphy teases me as we walk out. Not many people were awake yet as we walk to the gate. 

I laugh seeing the entire remaining 100 waiting at the gate. "What are you guys doing awake?" I grin at them. "We had to see you off. You saved our lives Arty. You better not disappear on us." Miller tells me. "As if, I'll be back so quick you'll think I never left." I joke giving them all a hug. "You got your radio?" Raven asks, leaning on the crutches she had to use. "Of course. Dad made sure I did too." I chuckle seeing Marcus outside now. 

"You better keep her safe." Bellamy says giving Murphy a look. "Always." Murphy says without hesitation. "Check in everyday. And you better not be gone long. Our leader can't leave us for long. And we'll only tolerate Kane for so long." Octavia lectures, saying the last half louder as Marcus walked over. I laugh seeing him shake his head, feigning offence. "It won't be long. Keran said my training is almost done." I tell her with a smile. 

"We should be going. Heda is waiting." Indra calls and I nod. "I'll check in when we get there so you know we made it safe." I tell them and they all nod as we walk out of the gates. I walk over to the white horse I had been using. "Hey beautiful." I smile petting the horses nose gently. I step around the horse and swing myself up onto its back. "Still a natural." Keran chimes from a ways ahead. "I know." I smirk as Murphy gets onto his own horse. 

"Wanheda." Indra says coming to my side on her own horse. She holds out a container of the war paint and I smile. I take it and expertly put it on. I hand it back and she smirks nodding her head. I look over my shoulder and they cheer before I turn back, riding off with the others.