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Epilogue
Ella squealed as she slipped on a slippery rock in her bare feet under the water, Murphy rushing up behind her to catch her before she fell backwards.
"Thank you," she said breathlessly, smiling and turned around to wrap her arms around his neck.
Ella, Murphy, Raven, Finn, Jasper, Emile, and with some encouragement, Monty had all finished their work early so that they could go down to the pond and swim.
It had been two months since Miller and Harper had been banished from camp, and no one had heard from them since. Ella wasn't entirely sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing.
For weeks, every time the team had gone out to go hunting, Ella had been looking from side to side the entire time, expecting to see one of them in the woods. But, she never did.
She couldn't help but wonder what had happened to them and if they were all right.
Everything in camp had finally slowed down, and she was now able to walk out of her tent without people bombarding her with questions.
Everyone who had been injured during what had happened two months ago had healed completely, including Emile who was now being held up by Jasper in the water, smiling in his arms.
Out of all of them, Jasper had been the one to catch on to the whole swimming thing first, and now Emile and Monty were the only ones who still couldn't.
They were all in the water now but Monty who was sitting on the small pebbles on shore, messing with some mechanical object in his lap, deep in concentration.
Finn and Raven were sitting on the log that her and Ella had sat on the day Ella had run out into the woods, and she noticed Raven's gaze flashing over to Monty with worry written all over her face, but clearly didn't want Finn to notice, so did so discreetly, less he be mad.
Jasper and Emile got out of the water then and walked over to Monty, sitting down beside him and tried to pull him into a conversation.
Monty had gotten better in the last few weeks. The first month after Jame's death, he seemed like a ghost. Ella had gone to see him often, sitting down and talking to him in his tent even though he never answered her. She just wanted to be there for him.
He wasn't completely better yet, but he responded when asked a question and had gone back to work in the work tent with Raven, and that gave her hope.
Even though their physical appearance looked fine, they were all still healing.
Ella wrapped her legs around Murphy's waist under the water and he lifted her up his body a bit so that he could kiss her.
She was wearing only her sports bra and shorts in the water and knew that this was going to be a pain to walk back in under her cloth, but at the moment, she could really care less about that when she was in the arms of a wet and shirtless Murphy.
Ella blushed at her own thoughts and buried her face in his neck so that he wouldn't see.
Murphy backed up in the water so that he could rest his back on the wall of rock behind him, sitting down on a rock slightly raised in the water and sat Ella down on his lap, watching as her long silver hair fanned out in the water around her.
Murphy wiped away a water droplet off her nose just before it fell and her blue eyes sparkled up at him, drawing a chuckle out of him and he couldn't help bending down to kiss her again.
"We should go back in about an hour, before it gets dark," said Murphy, looking around at the trees in front of them seriously. "We wouldn't want to be stuck out here with the Grounders at night, not to mention Miller and Harper, who are probably waiting in the bushes for us with their sidekick the evil two-headed deer."
Ella laughed and hit him on the chest.
"There will never be a day where you are unable to work the two-headed deer into a conversation," she said, shaking her head.
He laughed and kicked out in the water, watching it fall back down like rain.
Ella smiled as she looked back out on all her friends: Jasper and Emile, pulling a smile out of Monty – a very rare sight - as they talked on shore. Raven and Finn, sitting on the log with their feet in the water, Finn's arms slung over Raven's shoulders and pulling her against him as she laughed at something he said.
She felt complete watching them all, and snuggled closer to Murphy, running a finger through the water and watching it ripple.
They were finally home.
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