Hey guys! This is just a quick two-shot of how I think season 4 is going to end. Contains a little Clexa and Bellarke because I like to appeal to the full fandom. I hope you enjoy!
Act 5:
A giant yellow cloud billowed behind Clarke as she ran. Her hazmat suit torn on one side, exposing the giant burn that formed from the radiation when she almost fell off the tower. But it wasn't connecting to the server, so Clarke was forced to climb up the tower and manually connect the tablet. She slipped as she was coming down and her suit caught, tearing along her left side allowing her body to become exposed to the radiation. Now all she could do was hope her efforts worked and the rocket was being prepared to launch as she fought to get back to the lab.
Clarke gasped at the pain, resisting the urge to crumble and let the cloud take her just as Becca's lab was coming into site. Clarke knew there was no way she would make it time, that she wasn't going to be on that rocket to space. But she at least wanted to see it take off, to see everything she's been working towards the last 2 months come together. Hope. Hope for everyone left that a cure was going to be made.
She looked down at her watch and saw there was only a minute left before the lab would lock itself down and the doors would close, with or without her. She was so tired, the instinct to survive the only energy she had left, desperation clawing at her chest as she pumped her arms harder, extended her legs farther.
30 seconds.
She let out a determined cry. The doors insight, beginning to close. Flashes of the ark, ,her father, her father being floated, and then her mother hugging her and telling her she was being sent to Earth filled her head. The beginning.
15 seconds.
Now she was in the dropship. Finn, alive, floating in front of her, smiling in such a familiar way her heart-ached. Then Well's by her side. Telling her he got himself arrested so he would be sent down too despite her hating him at the time. He deserved better.
10 seconds.
Then Well's morphed into his corpse, lying on the ground, dried blood caked against his neck. The scene switched, flashed, and then Finn appeared, his head laying heavily against her shoulder. Clarke's hand shaking, sticky with his blood as she grasped the knife lodged deep in his stomach as tears trailed down her cheeks.
"Thanks princess"
Clarke released a choked sob, the lab doors halfway shut now and the cloud starting to engulf her heels. The radiation literally began melting through the soles of her shoes and her feet screamed as the skin began to burn on contact. Desperation hammered in her chest as her movements grew shakier.
5 seconds
Then Lexa was there, a smile gracing her lips, her hand warm as it caressed Clarke's cheek. The desperation only disappears for a moment as she lets the hallucination take her, the happiness she felt fill her. But then the scene morphed and they were in the City of Light, Clarke preparing to jump through the door to Ally, but not wanting to go. Knowing…
"I'll always be with you."
She shook her head, wanting to scream as Lexa's hand slipped from hers and she was slammed back into reality.
Clarke didn't know if it was because of the radiation, but she found it becoming hard to breath as she took her final steps, jumping in the end, and forcing her aching limps to form a spear as dived through the small gap...
She landed on her back, crashing onto the lab floor just as her watch began to beep zero. A blast of cold air hit her lungs first as the doors locked closed. She coughed and gasped, he effects of radiation visual on her skin as she struggled to move. Through the torn side of her suit, puss oozed from the exposed skin, blisters charred against the skin of her neck.
Her body felt too hot as she struggled to remove her helmet and when she finally did, lesions covered her face.
She was unrecognizable.
Her now cloudy, blue eyes blurry peered at the lab as she made herself go to her feet one more time. She wanted to see the lab, see the last bits of hope she worked so hard to get the others to grasp. Acceptance filled her chest, satisfaction almost, that she was able to pull one more lever to do what's best for her people.
I do it for my people. Echoed in her head, but it wasn't her voice, but Bellamy's. Bellamy.
She wasn't surprised when she looked up at the entrance to where the rocket was held that he appeared in that instant. His eyes filled with relief for only a moment until he saw the shape she was in. His face morphed into horror, regret clouding his eyes as immediately began to move towards her.
Raven appeared behind him, calling out her name with pride until she saw her face. The difference between her and Bellamy's expression were that her horror just turned into sadness. Acceptance.
"Clarke!" Bellamy's voice echoed across the lab as she looked around one more time. Happy to see Raven and the others that appeared behind her one more time and then Bellamy. Rushing forward, denial across his desperate face. Clarke smiled at him, wishing she had more time to tell him thanks or that he deserves a happy life that she'll never forget him, that she loves-...
That's when her legs give out and she collapsed, her body hitting the floor the only sound as everyone watched as the great Clarke Griffin, the one who saved everyone over and over again, met her match.
Smash to black.
