"Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you."

9.

The loud thunder and rain hitting the dropship makes it hard for anyone to hear clearly, but Raven continues to speak into the radio.

"This is Raven Reyes from mecha station. I'm on the ground. The hundred are alive. I need to speak to Doctor Abby Griffin." She says.

"Raven?" A voice comes through.

"Mom?" Clarke questions and turns her head towards the radio, happiness taking over her features.

"Clarke? It's me." Clarkes mom says and Clarke grabs the radio and explains our situation.
Abby starts to explain what we have to do just as Miller walks in.
Miller comes over, "That's everyone, but Monty and Jasper aren't back. And neither is Bellamy."

"They will find somewhere to ride out the storm, close the door." I tell him. He nods and pulls the lever and the door starts to close.

"I have to pull it out." Clarke tells me. I nod encouraging her. She grabs on the handle and starts to pull up when the dropship shakes form the storm causing her to pull it out rapidly. The wound leaked a little blood but she did it.

"You did it, Clarke!" I exclaim and she smiles. I grabbed the jelly stuff I took from the grounder and I started to place it around his wound.

"Here's the needle and some wire." Octavia says coming down from the second floor. She hands them to Clarke but Clarkes hands are shaking so I take them from her.

"I'll do it." I say and she steps back and takes a sip of the moonshine. I carefully start to stitch him up and then I cut and tie the wire at the end.

"He's going to make it." I say and Raven smiles. It seems like the rain had stopped so I opened the door and people filed out. After almost everyone left Bellamy walks in with two guys behind him carrying someone, the grounder who took me and Octavia. Octavia walks up to him.

"'The hell are you doing?" She yells at him.

"It's time to get some answers." Bellamy crosses his arms.

"Oh, you mean revenge?" Octavia scoffs.

"I mean Intel." He turns to the two guys who carried the grounder in. "Get him up stairs."
I walk up to Bellamy.

"Bellamy, stop this." I exclaim. I was happy to see him for a short time and then he goes and does something stupid like always. It's a never ending cycle.

"Princess, this has to be done." He tries to touch my arm but I back up.

"This isn't who we are." I shake my head. He looks hurt from my rejection but I'm glad. Suddenly Clarke's mom comes through the radio again and Clarke talks to her. Bellamy looks surprised at the sound of the radio, I know he knows this means they are coming down.

"It is now." He says and goes upstairs. What a jackass.
As Clarke is speaking with her mom I decided to go up to the second floor to see what they were doing. I open up the latch and Jake is blocking me.

"What do you need?" He questions.

"If you don't let me up..." I threaten. His eyes go wide and he lifts the opening all the way stepping aside. I climb up. The grounder is chained up, he's shirtless and he's got scars littering his body and many tattoos. I see that it's just Bellamy, Octavia, and two other guys.

"Go downstairs, princess. I don't want you to see this." He grabs a seat belt and wraps it around his hand.

"Bellamy, stop. You can't do this." I shake my head and walk up to him.

"I have too."

"No you don't, he helped me and Octavia. He didn't hurt us." I try to reason with him. There's no reason we should harm this grounder. Sure, he chained us up but who wouldn't take that precaution with someone they don't know.

"He still held you guys against your will." He explained and walks over to the grounder.

"Bellamy, we told you he helped us. If it weren't for him Taylor could have bled to death." Octavia butts in.

"I'm sorry, but he won't talk and we need information. It's not about revenge." Bellamy tells her. He walks closer to the grounder and he lashes the seat belt at him. I hear the sound and know he's hit bone. The grounder doesn't make noise but his face twitches in pain. Bellamy strikes him again but he doesn't say anything. This is an ugly side of Bellamy I do not wish to see ever.

"Bellamy, stop!" I yell but he does it again as he keeps asking questions. I can't stand here and let this happen, I see Octavia close to tears in the corner. As Bellamy goes to strike again I step in front of the grounder last minute and the seat belt strikes me on my chest. The pain is excruciating as I drop to the floor, I scream out in agony as I see Bellamy and Octavia rush over towards me.

"No, no, no. Princess, I didn't mean to hit you. No. I'm sorry. You jumped in the way. Oh my god. I'm so sorry." Bellamy rambles off apologizing but I can't be bothered to listen to him.

"Stop this, Bellamy. Don't do this." I don't leave him with much choice as I hold a hand over the the left side of my chest just right below my collarbone. If he would've hit it, it would have broken.

"Okay, okay." He says with tears in his eyes. He grabs a hold of my face and looks in my eyes.

"I'm so sorry, are you okay?" He repeats.

"No, it hurts. But-" I start to speak but Clarke bursts in yelling directly toward the grounder,

"What's on the knife?!"

"Clarke, slow down, what are you talking about?" I say getting off the floor while still holding my chest. It's throbbing and now I'm wondering if that was such a good idea. Probably not but it got Bellamy to stop.

"The knife. It's poisoned. Finn could die." She says.

"What's on the knife?!" Bellamy yells at the grounder. He doesn't answer and keeps the same expression through the whole thing.
Bellamy goes and grabs the seat belt again.

"Bellamy, no!" Me and Octavia yell at the same time. Bellamy goes and grabs a pouch and opens it up. They turn out to be little vials, one of the 5 must be the antidote for the poison.

"Finn, could die if he doesn't tell us!" Bellamy shouts at us. He looks at Clarke and Clarke nods her head, giving him the okay to torture him. Bellamy asks him which antidote it is but he doesn't answer so he strikes him. He does three more times till Raven comes in.

"Finns breathing, but who knows when he will stop again. Did you find out?" She points her question towards Clarke.

"He won't talk." Clarke tell hers. Raven glares at the grounder and walks over to a panel to the side of the grounder.
Raven starts to pull wires out of the wall, "Want to bet?"

"What are you doing?" Bellamy questions the girl.

"Showing him something new." She touches two wires together and they spark. No. I step over to her.

"No, Raven, you can't do this. Don't." I try to convince her but she tries to get past me.

"Get out of my way, Taylor." Raven yells.
But I stand my guard. Before I knew what she was doing she puts the wires to my stomach and my whole body clenches from the new pain. I fall to the floor for the second time today and I put my head against the floor. For a second I couldn't breathe but then I catch up with my breath and inhale and start coughing. I feel sick and dizzy, almost as if I'm going to pass out.

"Taylor, get up." Octavia helps me stand up, I get a little wobbly but she helps me. Raven had already electrocuted the grounder but he still wouldn't speak. She kept doing it till finally Octavia left my side and walked over to the grounder but not before taking the knife out of Clarkes hand.

"Raven, stop." Octavia says and Raven looks at her. Everyone gets quiet when Octavia cuts down her arm with the poisoned knife.

"Octavia!" Bellamy yells at her with wide eyes.

"He won't let me die." She says calmly and kneels on the ground. The grounder looks upset. I knew he wasn't ever trying to hurt us, especially Octavia, he was just trying to help.

"Which one is it?" She starts pointing to the vials until she points to one and he nods his head in defeat. She grabs it and hands it to Clarke and her and Raven rush down the ladder.

"Octavia..." Bellamy tries to speak to her but she cuts him off.

"No. Don't. We told you he helped us. Yet you tortured him anyway." Octavia shakes her head at him and walks down the ladder. He turns to look at me and I roll my eyes and follow her. As I get down I see Bellamy coming down too.

"Stop okay? We had to do what we did to save Finn's life." Bellamy explained to me and Octavia.

"It didn't even matter in the end because it wasn't you who saved his life. It was Octavia." I yell in frustration.

"I know that!" He yells back.

"You know, besides the grounder, Taylor was the one tortured. She just wanted to make peace but you all think violence is always the answer and ended up hurting her in the process." Octavia yells at them and everyone stays quiet.

"Octavia they are monsters." Bellamy says quietly and before Octavia can speak I laugh in irony.

"Says the one who was holding the weapon and using it against the defenseless man." I say and walk out of the drop ship.

I sit at the guard watch taking Millers place, I told him I needed the distraction and he agreed. My chest hurt so bad still but I tried to ignore it. I did touch it and I know there's a cut in the middle and if I look down I can see some bruising so what I can't see most be bruised really bad. The electricity did not help either, I still feel very sick but the cool breeze calms me.

"Hey, Taylor, are you okay?" Octavia climbs up on the post and sits by me as we watch the woods.

"No..." I shake my head. I bite my lip to keep myself from crying.

"Hey, look. Take this. It helps with the pain." Octavia hold up a vial with blackish liquid.

"How do you know?" I take it from here.

"Lincoln told me." She said. I make a face wondering who the hell is Lincoln and then it hits me.

"The grounder? He spoke to you?" I ask her in shock.

"Yeah, he told me to tell you thank you for trying to help him. And he told me that would help you." She pointed to the vial in my hand. I popped it open and drink half of it, who knows when we'll need the other half.

"So my brother..." Octavia starts,

"Are you doing okay with that?"

"With what?"

"With Bellamy, I know you guys have something going on." She says. I shake my head.

"We don't, but I'm fine. I just wish he would stop being an arrogant selfish dick." I say sincerely and Octavia laughs.

"Keep on wishing." She tells me and it's my turn to laugh.

"Go get some sleep, you've had the longest day in history. You deserve sleep." She pushes me to go and I thank her and walk over to my tent and enter in. I take off my shoes and jacket like always and lay my head down on my jacket and cover myself with the blanket. I couldn't fall asleep though, my body ached and I felt sick to my stomach. Through the pain I cant' help but wonder if my parents would be proud, I did what I thought was right even if I was getting hurt in the process, just as my mom did when she stole to help sick patients.

"But you were trying to help them! You just wanted to help!" I cry into my moms shoulder as she hugs me tighter to her.

"I know, I know. But I broke the law, I have to take responsibility." She brushes my hair out of my face. I only had so little time with her before they take her away to be floated. I was extremely close with my mom, she was my best friend aside from Monty and Jasper. She only ever wanted to do good and help people like my dad, she didn't deserve this.

"I don't want you to go." I shake my head as more tears fall down my face.

"Hey, I'm not going anywhere, I will always be with you and your father. Always remember that, It's time now. I love you." She pulls me into another hug and I wrap my arms tightly around her. She gets pulled away by the guards and out of the room, I quickly follow behind with my dad. Jaha and Kane are at the end of the hall standing next to the lever that opens the department to be floated in. When I see it more tears roll down my face, my dad grabs my hand and squeezes.

"Grace Queen, you are sentenced to death after stealing herbs from the medical wing, anything you want to say?" Jaha spoke. His expression never changed, as if he wasn't taking away a mother and a wife. I squeezed my dads hand tighter as my mom shook her head and walked forward into the vault. The seal closed behind her and she turned around to face us. She wasn't crying, she wore a sad smile toward me and my dad. Jaha nodded to Kane and Kane put his hand on the lever, waited for a second and then pushed down. The other side of the vault opened and before I could see my mom get sucked into space I buried my head into my dads shoulder and let out a sob.

A/N:

Hey guys, I know this is a short chapter compared to the other ones but I figured since there is a lot going on It would be fine. My updates are frequent anyways so you'll get the next chapter soon. But I hope you all are enjoying Queen so far as much as I am. I decided to fit in a little flashback so you can see more of her mom.