[For all that it's been obvious where Bellamy was going with this, the moment he takes Murphy's hand and starts wrapping the torn fabric around his knuckles draws Murphy up short. Almost like he hadn't expected it to get this far, to fall away or be given up on before it got there.
His experiences of this kind of care have been scarce in the past few months, despite how many times he's been injured. Clarke, checking over his wrecked hands in the drop ship. Abby making sure the wound in his leg wasn't going to kill him before passing him back to the guards in Camp Jaha. Thoughts of milk drinks or future missions dry up as he watches Bellamy's fingers gently wind the makeshift bandage around his hand, looks at his face and the quiet concentration there.
The memories of Clarke and Abby both have Bellamy as a shadow, unforgiving and angry. Despite how far they've come since then, Murphy still would have never expected Bellamy to have turned this much care to him.]
Do you ever miss the Ark?
[It's an abrupt question, but his tone's softer, muted in the space between them. He doesn't mean the camp, whatever's been built out of the wreckage. He means before they'd been dropped, before any of them had ever seen the ground.]
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His experiences of this kind of care have been scarce in the past few months, despite how many times he's been injured. Clarke, checking over his wrecked hands in the drop ship. Abby making sure the wound in his leg wasn't going to kill him before passing him back to the guards in Camp Jaha. Thoughts of milk drinks or future missions dry up as he watches Bellamy's fingers gently wind the makeshift bandage around his hand, looks at his face and the quiet concentration there.
The memories of Clarke and Abby both have Bellamy as a shadow, unforgiving and angry. Despite how far they've come since then, Murphy still would have never expected Bellamy to have turned this much care to him.]
Do you ever miss the Ark?
[It's an abrupt question, but his tone's softer, muted in the space between them. He doesn't mean the camp, whatever's been built out of the wreckage. He means before they'd been dropped, before any of them had ever seen the ground.]