Barricade- John Murphy

Chapter 46

Season 3

Episode 5:
Hakeldama

Early the next morning, just before the sun would rise, I was nudged awake. My grip around my kinfe tightens as my head pops up. "It's me." Keran says quietly. "What's going on?" I ask quietly, shifting out of Murphy's arms. "The man you called Pike." He tells me and I curse. I stuff on my boots quickly and get up. I pull on all my weapons in record time. "Murph." I say smacking his leg. He jolts awake holding his own knife.

"Pike." Is all I say and he sits up putting on his boots. "Where is he?" I ask Keran. "Mira and a few warriors have them contained." He tells me as I stand up straight. I tug down the shirt I had put on yesterday. It was a crop top, and actually very comfortable to sleep in. I pull my hair into a ponytail as I walk, planning to worry about my braids later. 

"You said them. How many?" I ask him as we walk. "Four others besides himself. They had the weapons you call automatic weapons?" He says and I nod. "I know which ones. Damn it." I mutter as we get to the gate. "Open it up." I tell the one on guard. He nods, doing as told and we head to the camp. "Murphy. Radio Lexa and tell her what's going on. So she's not blind-sided." I tell him and he nods taking the radio from my belt loop. 

We get into the camp and the grounders all nod to me as I walk through. "I warned you." I say the second I spot the man. He glares at me and I raise a brow. "Should that look scare me? I told you, not to go after them. That they were here on my orders." I snap at him. "Let me point out what I told my brother. If they wanted to kill all of you, they wouldn't have set up camp. You wouldn't have even known they were there." I say annoyed. 

"They are grounders. The enemy. You said so yourself, all that time ago." He tells me. "That was before I met them. Before we had a common enemy, and ended up bonding ALOT. Before I realized we're all after the same thing. Living, and surviving." I say firmly, not seeing the looks from the ones nearby. "These people right here, and the people back in camp? They are my people. And you? Right now, you're my enemy." I say glaring at him.

"She's on her way." Murphy says hooking the radio back to my belt loop. "John Murphy?" Pike questions seeming surprised. "That's my name." He says, standing behind me, his hands hovering near his weapons. "You don't get to talk. Not to him especially." I say annoyed. "What are you still mad?" He asks and I scoff. "You almost fucking killed him! To prove a fucking point!" I yell at him. 

"And he had to have you fight his battles." Pike spits at me. The four behind Pike were wide eyed watching. "Get those four back to my dad. Now." I tell Mira and Indra. The two nod and leave with the four, hands still bound. The second they're out of sight I whirl around punching him in the face. "You wanted to make us band together. To prove we were ready. That we would survive together. And in the process, you almost fucking killed him." I snarl at the man. 

"And look at you now. You did it." He says smugly. "That had nothing to do with you. That was me. Even when I was missing from camp for weeks. They relied on what I would do. How I would figure things out. It had nothing to do with you and your shit teaching ideas." I say angrily. "It's true." I hear behind me and turn seeing Bellamy there. "Go back to camp." I mutter and he shakes his head.