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After a moment, the lights in the ship suddenly went out for a few seconds before flickering back to life steadily. It repeated itself once more and she left her position beside the table and glanced up the hatch.
“What the hell is going on up there?” she yelled with a puzzled expression. Just like with Raven, nobody answered her question. She walked back to Finn anxiously and sat down in the chair that she had been occupying previously. Putting a hand to his forehead, she discovered that his temperature had spiked; something she hadn’t thought was possible.
“You’re going to be okay,” she affirmed quietly, knowing it was likely that he couldn’t hear her. A loud scuffling noise and the sounds of panicked voices erupted from the level above …show more content…

Lana nodded and the two picked up each end of the body, backing up out of the ship and into the mess of delinquents attempting to piece the camp back together.
“Taylor!” Shifting slightly and trying to ignore the burning that spread throughout her arm, she turned and saw Clarke walking towards her with Bellamy at her side. “Let me take a look at your arm.”
“After I bury him,” she replied, seeing that the long bandage she had wrapped around her arm was turning red. She turned her attention to Bellamy and looked at him expectantly. “So what do we plan on doing with the Grounder we’ve got locked up in there?”
“We can let him go, you know that. He’ll come back with others,” he answered, training his eyes on his feet. She knew that he was right but she also knew it could’ve been avoided if they hadn’t taken him in the first place. But Finn might also have been dead if they hadn’t. It was too much for her to think about. “Just let Clarke look at your arm, this can wait -”
“No,” she interrupted, shaking her head with tears brimming in her eyes. “This is my fault, I’m going to take care of it. I’ll come see you later, Clarke.” Nodding for Lana to keep moving, the two trudged out of camp to where the rest of the graves were located.
It was a long and hard process to dig a grave as deep as the others and cover it back up when the body was put in it. Taylor had no idea how Wells had ever managed to do all of it on his own. When they finished, she stood up and

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