Chapter One- The Aftermath
Octavia – 07:34
Please Clarke, don't shut everyone out, we love you and we're here for you x
Jasper – 08:09
At some point you're going to have to leave the house, and when you do, we'll all be here x
Dad – 09:12
Just going into a case briefing, text me if you need anything. Hopefully I'll see you later, always here for you hun. I love you x
Abby – 09:42
Clarke, you need to leave that house. If you don't show up, how will I explain it to Thelonious? I arranged your transport in case you change your mind. Wells would want you to go.
Clarke read the messages, but never replied. That was until one message came through that she couldn't resist the urge to answer.
Bellamy – 10:01
You may think that this is my weird way of trying to cheer you up, but I have a serious question to ask you. Please help me?
Clarke – 10:03
What?
Bellamy – 10:04
Where did O buy her favourite lamp? I went to hers to get my jacket and I knocked it over, I need to replace it before she gets back.
Clarke – 10:05
It used to be mine.
Bellamy – 10:05
Shit. Any chance you have another? ;)
For the first time in days, Clarke smiled. Someone was finally sharing their problems with her instead of treating her as though she could break at any minute.
Clarke – 10:07
No, sorry.
Bellamy – 10:08
Its fine, I'll just tell her it was Jasper.
Bellamy – 10:10
Are you going later?
She was wrong, he was just like everyone else. Except Bellamy was the only one to ease her into the topic slowly, but that's what made it worse.
Bellamy – 10:12
I'm sorry, everyone's just worried about you.
Bellamy – 10:12
Including me.
You'd think that they would've stopped texting her by now, that they would've realised she doesn't want to speak to anyone. Not Clarke's friends, even her parents didn't get the hint. Wells would've gotten the hint, Wells would have left her on her own to grieve. That's one of the reasons why she misses him so much, he knew her. Clarke felt as though she couldn't breathe anymore; her injuries were beginning to heal but everything still hurt.
Clarke remembered seeing the flashing blue lights and desperately trying to look to her right to attempt to meet Wells' calm eyes to reassure her that they were going to be fine. She couldn't move, she was trapped. Panic filed her body and screams filled the air, but they weren't hers. The sounds of Wells squirming in his seat are still etched in her mind along with his blood curdling screams. He was so helpless and so was she. It had felt like an eternity before she was freed from the car, she had been covered in blood, but she was used to it, she was training to be a doctor after all, but seeing her own blood leaving her body was a different feeling. That particular feeling made her pass out.
She'd woken up in a white room, to begin with, she'd thought she was dead, then she heard their voices. At first, no one would tell her where Wells was, they had to once her heart monitor started to beep uncontrollably. Clarke wasn't the type of person who cried, no matter what happened, she refused to cry. The accident was the exception.
To her friends, Clarke was privileged, if she wanted anything her parent would get her it. Abby was the best heart surgeon Ark had ever seen, and Jake was the Captain of the local precinct, which meant that the Griffins had slightly more money than most families in the town. However, that didn't mean that they didn't have their problems. People believed that her childhood was perfect, that she had a perfect home, perfect parents and no problems whatsoever. That's why Clarke and Bellamy had argued since the first moment they had met.
Octavia and Clarke had met on their first day of freshman year in high school, and shortly after, Bellamy and Clarke met. Immediately, Bellamy had recognised which family she was from and had tried to keep Octavia away from her, he had said that they didn't need her charity. Bellamy failed miserably and the two girls had been inseparable since.
Bellamy was always teasing Clarke about her family's money and how perfect her life was, Clarke had learnt to laugh about after a few years. What Clarke always failed to mention was how many nights she had fallen asleep to the sound of her parents arguing. It wasn't until Clarke had come home from school early and found her mother in bed with Marcus Kane, that she realised her life really wasn't perfect.
Shortly after the incident, Clarke's parents had gotten a divorce. Clarke chose to stay with her dad, they had always been close. Bellamy stopped calling her privileged and the pair had finally started to become friends. A lot of things changed the year Clarke turned eighteen, her parents divorced, her mother moved in with Marcus and their mother daughter relationship seemed non-existent. Clarke hated that everything was changing, but the one thing that was constant in her life was Wells.
As much as Clarke loved Octavia, Wells would always be her best friend. Jake Griffin and Thelonious Jaha had been friends since their first day at kindergarten which led to their children, Clarke Griffin and Wells Jaha, being friends since birth. When Wells' mother died when they were ten, Clarke had refused to leave his side until he stopped needing her. So when Clarke's mother left, Wells had stayed by her side until she stopped needing him. Now, when she needed him most wasn't there and it broke Clarke's heart.
Clarke was still thinking about how much she needed him when she realised, as much as she needed him, he still needed her. Even if it meant that she had to go to the place she was attempting to avoid, she needed to do this for Wells.
Abby's text was right, at 2 o'clock there was a car waiting outside for her, to take her to the place. Clarke stared at herself in the mirror, her golden hair was sitting loosely in bun on the top of her hair, she had attempted to cover up her red face but she had failed miserably. The black dressed that Octavia had bought her clung to her body and her black pumps looked slightly worn, but she didn't care. Clarke took a deep breath and stepped out of her bedroom. It was going to be a long afternoon.