Disclaimer: I do not own The 100 or the characters in it. They are owned by Kass Morgan
Summery: Clarke was always good at keeping secrets. In fact, she's been keeping one since she was six years old and it's about to come out in the open.
Couples: Bellarke eventually
Rating: T probably because of swearing mostly
Author's Note: I admit I didn't completely hate Finn throughout season 1, but I am going to make him a very minor character in this, just because.
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It's been over a year since she was arrested. Fourteen months and five days to be exact. Fourteen months since her father was floated (MURDERED!) for trying to tell The Ark the truth about their temporary home dying. Over a year since she's had any contact with anyone other than her mother. Being someone who held a dark secret was too risky for the council so they not only arrested her, but put her in solitary so she couldn't have any contact with any of the other prisoners. God forbid the delinquents start a riot!
So she sits and draws. Anything and everything that pops in her head; she draws on whatever blank service she can. Her mother gave her a long piece of charcoal over six months ago and she's put it to good use. Her prison cell may be dank but she's made it hers until she too, would be floated.
As she sits on the ground, drawing a beautiful dream of what the moon and stars would look like on Earth, her cell is opened and two guards step inside.
"Prisoner 319, you're coming with us." One says in a monotone.
"Wait no! I don't turn eighteen for another three months!" She exclaimed standing up. The other one sneaks closer to her and tries to grab her wrist that had her father's watch.
"Take this off now!" He says impatiently.
"What no. It was my father's!" She scoffs and before the guard can electrocute her, she hits him and locks them inside her cell.
The prison is in complete chaos! It made sense now. The council was going to kill them all.
"Clarke stop!" She hears and turns to see her mother stop two guards from taking her away.
"They are going to kill us all to save oxygen aren't they?" She asks angrily. It's been fourteen months! If they were going to kill her they should have done it a long time ago! Well she wasn't going down without a fight, that was for damn sure.
"No sweetie. They are taking you to the ground. All one hundred of you. Now you're instincts will tell you to take care of everyone else, just like your father, but you need to take care of yourself." She says before hugging her daughter tightly. Clarke is in too much of a shock to say anything until she feels a needle breaking her skin.
"You're going to Earth honey!" She whispers softly as her only family is being taking away from her.
"Good luck." She hears her mom whisper before everything goes black.
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When she wakes up, she is strapped inside a drop ship. Her mind feels very fuzzy but her mother's words kept echoing in her brain. Were they really going to the ground? This was the council's brilliant plan for their survival? Sending a group of kids in prison to test the radiation of Earth?
"Welcome back." She turns and sees her ex friend Wells looking at her and smiling softly. No matter what they shared in their lives, Clarke knew she would never forgive him for the role he played in her father's death, much less forget how he broke her trust. She tells the guy one secret and he couldn't keep it to himself for a week!
"What the hell are you doing here?" She asks harshly staring at him with fire in her eyes.
"When I heard they were bringing you down here, I got myself arrested. I couldn't live with myself knowing you hate me for getting your father arrested." He says softly. This past year has been torture on him knowing the only person who took the time to get to know him hated him. She couldn't even look at him without getting upset.
"Don't you dare talk about my father! They didn't arrest him you piece of shit, they floated him! So yes, I do hate you!" She exclaimed and his eyes widen at the realization that her father, the great Jake Griffin was dead.
Before Wells could say anything, the chancellor Jaha, Wells' father comes on screen. His perfect posture never wavering as he explains how as delinquents, their lives were expendable for this test to see if Earth is survivable. How if they do live and The Ark comes to Earth, they will all be pardoned for their crimes.
"Wells, your dad is an asshole!" People shout to him and Clarke almost feels bad for him at his broken expression. Almost.
As the ship enters Earth's atmosphere, the ship starts shaking, making everyone scream in panic. This was it. They were going to Earth. They would be the first people in ninety seven years to enter, and hopefully not die from radiation poisoning. It seems like forever before they land (somewhat crash) and everyone was jumping out of their seats.
"Is everyone okay?" Clarke calls out and she is replied with various yeses before everyone makes their way to the opening of the drop ship.
"Everyone stand back!" She hears a familiar yell as she tries to make her way to stop them from opening the ship right away.
"You can't open that ship! We could die from the radiation!" She tries to shout over everyone's yelling.
"BELLAMY!" She hears someone yell and she can see a girl, jump into the guards arms and hold him tightly. Clarke stands to the side, watching the reunion take place and smiles to herself. People around her start to complain about wanting to get out. However, they haven't seen each other in two years, she can only imagine how happy they must be.
"Hey do you mind? I haven't seen my brother in two years!" The girl shouts back and people look at her some what shocked.
"No one has a brother!" One shouts.
"You're the girl they hid in the floors for fifteen years!" The shouts bring a sad smile to the girl and Bellamy puts his hand on his sister's shoulder.
"Lets give them something else to remember you by. Like being the first person to step on Earth in almost a hundred years." He smiles and she smiled right back at him. Just as Bellamy is about to open the door Clarke steps in.
"We don't know if the air is toxic!" She protests and he narrows his eyes at her, almost insulted she dare speak up to him. If only Bellamy knew.
"Well then, either way we are dead." He shoots back at her and she will admit, he has a point.
"Clarke?" The girl asks hopefully and the two look at each other. The girl smiles realizing that not only was Bellamy here, but Clarke as well.
"Octavia!" Clarke exclaims and runs into the girl's welcoming arms. They cling to each other just as much, if not more than the siblings did. They don't see two sets of eyes looking at the pair in complete confusion.
Bellamy looks at his sister shocked and can faintly hear Clarke Griffin, The Ark's princess, whispering, "I tried. I tried so hard but I couldn't." before they broke apart with tears in their eyes. They still were holding each others hands though.
"O, how do you know her?" He asks harshly grabbing his sister's arm to pull her closer to him.
Octavia looks at Clarke with a giant smile on her face. Almost as if she is finally being able to do something she's wanted to do forever.
"Clarke has been my best friend since I five." She says and Clarke is smiling right along with her.
Just then, someone opens the drop ship door, drawing everyone's attention else where.
(Flashback)
Six year old Clarke Griffin is holding onto her daddy, Jake Griffin's hand as she skips her way to the residential stations for the workers on The Ark. She's never been on this side of her home before, so she was paying extra close attention to everything and everyone around her. People were looking at her daddy with a mixture of happy faces and frowns. It confused her why people would be frowning at her dad. He was the best! He worked so hard for their home to be in the best shape possible so everyone could be happy!
Her dad raises his hand to knock on a door marked 517, and waits patiently while making silly faces at her. She giggles and grips her dad's hand tight, so happy he let her go with him on this errand. She's always wanted to explore The Ark, but her mommy wouldn't let her.
A couple minutes later, a nice woman opens the door slightly with a tight smile on her face.
"I'm sorry Mr. Griffin, I was just straightening up. What can I do for you?" She asks nicely knowing there was no way a man like Jake Griffin would be knocking on her door for anything other than a sewing emergency.
"Hello Aurora, I was wondering if you could stitch up my daughter's dress for tonight? I know it's last minute but my daughter can't sit still for her life and just tore the side right up." He says in a teasing way making the little girl bite her lip in guilt but knowing her daddy wasn't really mad at her. Mommy, however, yelled at her for a good three minutes before she went to work.
The woman looks at her and her eyes soften.
"It'll take a half hour. Do you want to come back then?" She asks and Clarke notices the nice woman grip her door a little tighter. It was like she wanted them to go, but why?
Before he could respond, an announcement came on, "Jake Griffin please report to maintenance immediately."
Her daddy looks at her and the nice lady in somewhat of a panic.
"Crap I need to get going. Maybe I can drop you off home and you're mother can pick up the dress. But wait she's in the Medical Bay. Crap what do I do?" Her dad mutters to himself.
"Can I stay with the nice lady until my dress is done and I can walk back?" She asks sweetly looking at the two adults. This was her chance to explore and she wasn't going to pass it up!
"Sweetie you don't know how to get back." He denies and she shakes her head.
"It's fifty two steps straight, turn right, thirty nine steps, turn right again, then a hundred steps to our section." She recites proudly and her dad looks proud at her for a second before looking to the nice lady named Aurora.
"Would you mind? I promise I'll pay you double but this is an emergency." He pleads and the nice lady looks torn.
She looks up to her and holds her hands in front of her.
"Please Miss Aurora, I'll be on my BEST behavior." She swears and the lady's faces looks defeated before she nods at her father.
He thanks the nice lady before wrapping his arms around her. "Be careful sweetheart and do whatever Miss Aurora says. And don't tell your mother I let you do this." He says before running towards maintenance.
Miss Aurora opens the door for her to step through before closing it and locking it quickly.
"I'll just get started on your dress sweetie so you can get ready for your party." She says nicely and motions for her to sit on the bed.
"Thank you for letting me stay here." She says sweetly and Miss Aurora smiles softly at her before she sits at her table and gets her sewing supplies out.
"Do you have a child Miss Aurora?" She asks when she sees a kid's book on the bed. It was the children version of Mythology. She's always been interested in learning everything and anything, but Mythology wasn't what her mommy let her read.
"Yes...a son named Bellamy." She answers tightly again. She has a strange look on her face but Clarke guesses she was just concentrating on her sewing.
She sits quietly looking around the tiny home for about five minutes before she hears it. She looks at Miss Aurora who is trying to ignore the sound but she knows the nice lady heard it too.
It was someone crying below her feet.
The noise happens again, only a little louder before. Clarke gets off the bed and crawls on the floor to where the cries were coming from. She can hear Miss Aurora telling her to sit back down, but for once, she ignores what the adult tells her to do. She closes one eye to look through a crack and she can see eyes staring back at her. She quickly gets up and looks at Miss Aurora who was trying not to cry.
"We have to let her out!" She says trying to move the table but Miss Aurora was shaking so badly and she couldn't understand why. Who was under there?
"Please! Please Clarke you cannot tell anyone you saw her!" The nice lady was crying now but Clarke could only keep trying to move the table off from where the girl is.
"We need to get her out." She repeats and Miss Aurora sighs sadly before moving the chairs away and taking out the floor panel.
Inside the floor was a little girl, holding a stuffed animal and crying to herself. Without even thinking about who she is or why she was in there, Clarke reaches out to her and pulls her out of the floor and hugs her.
"It's okay. It's okay." She whispers into the girls hair as she continues to cry.
"This is my daughter." She hears Miss Aurora whisper frightfully and Clarke looks confused for a second. She thought a mom could only have one child!
"I'm not afraid." The little girl keeps whispering to herself and Clarke just hugs her tighter.
"You don't have to be afraid anymore. I'll protect you." She promises and looks at Miss Aurora who was crying as well. She nods to her.
"I won't tell anyone." She swears lowly at to them both but she didn't think they heard her. So she continues to hug the little girl until she stops crying.
"Are you going to tell someone and have them take my mom away?" The little girl asks sadly.
"No. I won't tell anyone, I promise! I'm Clarke Griffin." She says holding out her hand. The girl looks to her mother who is silent.
"I'm Octavia Blake." She says shyly taking her hand and shaking it.
(End Flashback)
TBC.
There's the first chapter and a flashback on how they met. Please let me know what you think.