This is just going to be a collection of all my Bellarke one-shots. The goal is 100 of them. If any strike your fancy I might continue them as multishots elsewhere.
Disclaimer: I sadly do not own the characters or plot or Bellamy and Clarke would be married with four kids by now.
This really shouldn't faze him. He shot the chancellor in order to get on the dropship. He is a murderer. Atom was suffering. It shouldn't have taken much for him to simply take the knife in his hand and end it. And yet…he couldn't. Try as he might, he couldn't make his hand raise that knife to kill Atom. He may have strung him up for touching his sister, but he really did like the guy. He did what he was supposed to and didn't give any lip. Atom didn't deserve to die. Maybe he had a chance of getting better. Maybe if he killed him now he'd find out later that they could have saved him. He couldn't just throw away a valuable member of the 100 just because things looked desperate. That wouldn't be logical. That's why he couldn't kill him. It didn't make sense to kill him because there was a chance he might live.
That's when the Princess walked up. He explained what the scream was and Clarke knew he was holding the knife to mercy kill Atom. She looked him over and gave him a shake of the head. There wasn't anything she could do. There would be no saving Atom. So why was he still holding the knife and prolonging Atom's miserable life? He had no good reason to not just plunge the knife into his neck and make this end right then. His hand still didn't move.
"Okay. I'm gonna help you. Alright?" Clarke said gently to Atom. She brushed some hair from his face and hummed as she took the knife from his hand. Clarke was going to kill Atom for her. She was going to become a murderer so he wouldn't have to do it again. Why? They hated each other, right?
That's when he realized that she must have seen it in his eyes. He was usually so good at hiding things, even from himself. But Atom had him so riled up that everything must have been plain as day on his face. Clarke saw how vulnerable and terrified he was. He was wrong about her; she was capable of making the hard decisions. She had chosen to kill in mercy so a murderer wouldn't have to do it again.
She was so kind as she did it. She calmed Atom's nerves with her words and touch before calming them both with song. He couldn't help it; he stared at her. In that moment she wasn't just some pampered princess, she was a brave, strong leader that knew she had to do the right thing at all costs. And it was breathtaking.
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