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"They're gonna come in a lot hotter next time, you know that right?"
Grace keeps her gaze firmly on the monitor in front of her. Monty sits beside her, fiddling with some radios. "All we have to do is hold the floor until Bellamy finds a way out."
She knows he will find a way out. He has to.
"We're gonna need more than a bucket of water and four guns to do that," Miller whispers. Grace sends him a pointed look. She understood his negativity, she felt it too, but did he have to tell everyone else? Their hope was already drastically diminishing with every passing second. They couldn't afford to loose anymore.
"This is President Wallace talking to the people who just killed ten of my men," Cage's voice comes in through the radio, everyone's heads immediately turning to it. Jasper takes it in his hands, turning it up.
"Jasper," Grace calls, her eyes widening as she stared down at the camera. On the monitor below her was what appeared to be a terrified Maya Vie. Her hands are held above her head in surrender. She is wearing a hazmat suit, telling them that Cage likely hasn't offered the treatments to any of his people— besides the guards — yet. That or he just didn't care about Maya at all.
"I thought we'd try something a little different this time. There's only twenty minutes of oxygen in Maya's suit. I know she's a friend of yours. Twenty minutes, your friend will either suffocate or burn . . . but you can save her. All you have to do is surrender."
A tense silence fills the air as everyone takes this in. None of them even had to think for more than a second about this. They would never allow Maya to die for them all to live, not after everything she's ever done for them. Grace couldn't even think about killing Maya. They wold just have to find another way to get her the oxygen she needs. The others work on removing the blockade while both Grace and Jasper immediately head for the girl outside.
Jasper helps her sit down, Grace standing about a foot away with one of her hands holding her hair from her eyes. Maya looks around at the three, already panting. "Listen to me. Fox is okay. Bellamy saved her."
Grace can't help but sigh in relief. Bellamy had saved Fox, which was more than any of them had hoped for. It also meant that Bellamy was okay for now, which Grace felt an overwhelming since of relief fill her stomach because of it. She wasn't sure what she would do if he died, now.
The girl had believed he was gone for so long and now he was here. Alive. If she truly lost him now, she was going to lose her shit.
"He's gonna get some guns in here through the trash chute," she informs them. Grace tenses, as does Monty. The two share a worried look. She has watched him dismantle it, even informed him of the chute in the first place. Now Maya was going to burn because of her idiocy.
