The 100 Healing Hearts chapter 1 Clarke
She left him and walked away from everything. Clarke didn't know where to go, but she knew she couldn't stay. Telling Bellamy was the hardest thing she had done. He was strong and could handle it, but the look in his eyes almost made her question if she was doing the right thing. She could still feel his cheek under her lips as she kissed him goodbye. Clarke wished she was stronger, but she needed to step back and deal with the decisions she made that took so many lives. She knew Bellamy would be fine taking care of everyone.
She began walking north. She had no plans, no destination; it just felt like the best choice, it was the opposite direction of Lexa's village and the drop ship. She needed to find something new, but she didn't know who or what. Clarke needed to disappear and reinvent herself.
She knew she needed food and water, but she hadn't had time to prepare for this journey, it wasn't planned. Clarke realized when she spotted a small campfire, and smelled meat cooking, it was worth the risk to approach. She quietly crept forward; she needed to know whose camp it was.
The darkness gave her cover, but her blonde hair was like a beacon in the moonlight. It almost had a glow. Clarke could only see two people, a woman and a young man.
Clarke stepped out into the open with her arms raised. "Hello" she said, hoping it would not be her last words.
The two jumped up, the woman grabbing her spear in defense.
The woman was small. She had dark blonde hair with streaks on brown. She looked thin and had dark circles under her eyes as did the young man. Clarke thought she would be beautiful, if she was healthy, but she looked weak, yet fierce. The young man looked similar, thin, weak those same dark circles. They were dressed in leather and fur.
"Who laik yu "shouted the woman.
"I'm sorry, I don't understand" said Clarke.
"You are sky person" asked the woman.
"Yes" said Clarke.
The woman looked her over. She nodded towards the young man. He walked cautiously over to Clarke and reached over, taking her knife from the sheath in her belt. Then he stepped back and looked back towards the woman.
"Why are you here? The grounder woman asked. "Where are your people?"
"I have no people anymore" said Clarke.
"It's not wise to be alone," said the woman. "What makes you think I won't slit your throat?"
"I don't know that you won't," said Clarke, "so if you're going to kill me, then do it, but I'm hungry and cold so I took the chance."
"Sit," she said, while she nodded towards the log by the fire.
Clarke lowered her arms and moved towards the fire. She sat down.
"Thank you" she said.
The two grounders sat back down. The woman reached towards the fire and took the rabbit she was cooking. She quickly pulled off a leg and handed it to Clarke; who took it and quickly began devouring the meat. She pulled off a breast piece of the rabbit before handing the rest to her male companion.
"What happened to your people" asked the woman. "Did they die in the mountain?"
"No, not all of them," said Clarke. Talking about it made her sick to her stomach. She wanted to forget it. But how could she, when the woman that was sharing her food asked.
"Did Bellamy get out?" asked the grounder woman.
Clarke stopped eating and looked at her. Tears sprang to Clarke's eyes; she was surprised at herself for her weakness. "Yes," she said. "Bellamy made it out." Clarke said. "You know Bellamy?" asked Clarke.
The woman smiled in relief. "He freed me from my cage. He freed us all." She said. "I wanted to thank him, but we got out when they took the sky people from the harvest chamber, I didn't see Bellamy, I was afraid he had been killed," she said" I'm happy he survived, I owe him my life, he sacrificed himself so I wouldn't be bled. He asked us to wait for them, but the mountain men released us, and I never saw him again."
Clarke smiled; she remembered when Bellamy wanted to kill all the grounders, now this woman was telling her how he sacrificed himself to save her.
"How did your people get away from the mountain men?" asked Echo.
"The mountain men are dead." Clarke said.
"Bellamy said he was going to kill the mountain men, "she said "He must have done what he said" she smiled.
"My name is Echo. This is Serge. We were both in the harvest chamber when Bellamy escaped. We are going back home. "
"I'm Clarke," she said. "I have no plans. I just want to see what I can find. I've spent my whole life in space, now I just want to see earth, and meet new people."
"Your welcome to travel with us to Polis," said Echo. "Were from the Ice nation, but Polis is on the way home."
"Polis" said Clarke,"I've heard of Polis."
Echo stretched out on the ground. "Sleep, Clarke of the sky people. Tomorrow we will travel towards Polis."
Clarke stretched out. The ground was hard, but the fire was warm. She lay there looking up towards the sky. The blackness was dotted with stars. She could see just parts of the sky as the shadowy black trees hung overhead and blocked parts of her view. She wondered if Bellamy had told her mother that she left yet. She knew Abby would be upset about her leaving, and she wondered how her mother was doing, she was in bad shape, but at least she was alive, unlike Fox and some of the other kids. Then her mind shifted to Bellamy. What was he doing? Was he angry that she left? He looked so tired, on the way back from Mt Weather, they didn't talk, nobody did, everyone's silence was deafening, but no one really knew what to say, no words could describe what everyone had witnessed in the awful place. Echo said Bellamy sacrificed himself to save her, what did that mean? She wondered what he went thru and how he escaped, she had so many questions, but she wanted to block out everything and erase what she did. She lay there, her mind picturing his expression, and the sadness in his brown eyes before finally drifting off to sleep.