Clarke stood behind Bellamy as he stood and watched the new planet from the window. Jordan excused himself and went to get everything ready for everyone else and to give Clarke and Bellamy some space to grieve their friends, his parents.
"We need to wake them up." Bellamy gruffly announces into the silent room. "Raven, Murphy, Emori and Echo deserve to know about Monty and Harper. And we'll need to plan what to do next anyways. Anyone else you want to wake up?" He turns around to see her looking at him with concern.
"Madi. She's the new commander, she has the right to know what's going on. We'll need Shaw to help Raven with the controls and my mom. It's better to have some extra hands for any injuries, especially since Murphy's shoulder should still be recovering." Clarke mentions. "Should we wake up Octavia?" She suggests, furrowing her eyebrows as she glances at her former co-leader and best friend.
"No. There's only so much we can handle." He murmurs, sighing. "Now let's go wake up our friends." He gives her shoulder a gentle squeeze and leads them to the cryo room.
With everything that happened in the valley, Clarke knew that her friends would not be happy to see her and would want to receive the news about Monty and Harper as a family. Her heart still clenched at the thought of Harper and Monty, one of her closest friends from the drop ship and their absence. She also knew that her friends that went to the ring after Praimfaya had gotten closer without her and became a family, which she respected and acknowledged with a heavy heart.
"I think you should wake them up first and watch the video alone. Give them time to grieve. You guys were a family up there." Clarke says as they enter the room. "I'll wake the others up and catch them up to speed." Bellamy hesitates, noticing Clarke pulling away from him but nods and wakes them up.
"Why are you two the only ones awake?" Raven murmurs, glaring at Clarke as she gets out of her cryo pod. Clarke stiffens and decides to exit the room and wait back until everyone of Spacekru leaves the cryo room and heads to the bridge before she wakes up Madi, Shaw and her mother. She waited for them to wake up full and walked to Madi's pod and watched her eyes flutter open as they adjusted to the lights of the ship.
"Clarke. Where is everyone?" Madi mumbles, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.
"Hey there my little natblida. I missed you so much." Clarke murmurs, pulling Madi into a big hug. Out of the corner of her eye, she sees Shaw and Abby come out of their cryo pods and look around. She hesitates as she meets Shaw's gaze, uncertain whether the pilot was mad at Clarke or not. She sighed in relief as he nodded to her which she replied with a small smile. "They're all still asleep. There was a little problem along the way." She tells them as she and Madi walk towards them.
"Why am I not surprised?" Shaw says, looking around to see the hundreds of people still in cryo-sleep. "What happened?"
"Earth isn't coming back. Monty and Harper decided not to go into cryo-sleep and was watching Earth for years until they found out it isn't coming back. So Monty hacked into the Eligius 4 file and found out that their mission was to found another habitable planet. So they set the ships course to that planet, and here we are." Clarke explained, giving Madi's hand another squeeze for reassurance. "Monty left a video explaining everything. I'll take you to the bridge so you can watch it. Everyone's already there anyway."
"Raven?" Shaw asks expectantly.
"Already there."
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"I can't believe they're gone." Raven whispers into Shaw's shoulder, his arm pulling her into his embrace protectively.
"They died to save us." Emori murmurs, eyes wide in disbelief as she stares out the window and watches the 2 suns orbit the new planet. "And now they're gone."
"I know we all miss Monty and Harper which is why we have to protect their legacy. They wanted us to have this second chance and we can't waste it." Bellamy says, squeezing Jordan's shoulder as he stands in front of the group. "We have to figure out what's happening down there. Raven, can you and Shaw see if anyone's actually living on that planet?"
"Sure, we'll see if we can intercept anything on the radio. The ship has laser comm so any radiation won't be a problem." Shaw says, as he and Raven sit down in front of the monitor and start checking the ships status.
"Okay that's good. We'll give it a few hours and then we'll send an exploratory team out." Bellamy says, his eyes flitting to Clarke's as he searches for assurance from her. She nods from the side and strokes Madi's hair as she blends further into the background. She knew that it was best for her to lay low in the mean time since everyone was angry with her. And she found some relief from it, as she wasn't asked to make any decisions regarding the welfare of the group and was able to pay attention to Madi's safety more.
"That's all peachy but we don't even know if the planet's radiation levels are safe for us? You really want to lead the group to a new planet just to die from radiation?" Raven says, looking at the Eligius files that Monty recovered. "For all we know, the Eligius team could've died from any radiation on the planet."
"Can't you send down a probe or something to check if the radiation levels are safe for us?" Murphy says, raising his eyebrows.
"No."
"Well then why can't we send out Clarke? She's a nightblood isn't she? If she survived Praimfaya then she should be able to survive this." Murphy says.
Bellamy stiffened at Murphy's idea. He knew that someone would suggest Clarke as soon as Raven mentioned the radiation. But could they really send Clarke, who sacrificed her life before Praimfaya for them, to risk her life for this? This was an easy choice for Bellamy. No way in hell was he losing her again, let alone sending her to her potential death. "It's too risky. She could die." Bellamy retorts, catching Murphy rolling his eyes at him.
"She's the reason we can't even go back to Earth in the first place. She should be the one to test this planet." Emori growls, shooting daggers at the young blonde at the back of the room.
"I said no. We don't sacrifice our own people."
"Bellamy, it's fine. I'll do it." Clarke says.
"Clarke, no! You can't." Madi whines, pulling Clarke's hand closer to her.
"Madi…" She sighs, pulling her into a hug.
"If you're going, I'm going too. I have nightblood as well." She says into her adoptive mothers embrace.
"Heda no. We cannot risk your life. You are too important." Echo tries to reason with her.
"No Madi, you have to stay here with them." Clarke says, pulling away from her daughter and raising Madi's chin. "I won't lose you too. I need you to stay here and be safe. If not for me then for your people. You and I both know that the commanders of the past would tell you to stay here." Clarke murmurs, brushing a strand of Madi's dark brown hair behind her ear.
"Clarke, I can't lose you too." She pleads, eyes watering causing Clarke to sigh and pull her into a tight hug. She knew her daughter would be opposed to the idea. She only had Clarke for 6 years after her parents died and she practically raised the dark haired commander. And to think that she might lose Clarke was practically clawing at her insides.
"You won't because Clarke isn't going." Bellamy says, causing Clarke's head to snap up as she catches him glaring at her. She rolls her eyes and shoots another glare of her own, challenging him to argue with her. She and him both knew that Clarke Griffin does not take order from anyone, especially him. That was the reason they both used to butt heads in the drop ship and they challenged each other.
"Bellamy, you can't expect us to risk our lives to check if the radiation is safe when we can just send Clarke to check this out." Echo says, placing her hand on Bellamy's bicep.
"It's fine Bellamy. I said I'll do it. I'll take the probe with me and check out the radiation levels and I'll bring a radio just in case. It's our best option. Shaw or Raven can operate the pod and stay behind the airlock and I'll explore and be back in a few hours." She says, ignoring his scowl. She instead takes a radio off the table and turns to Shaw. "Let me know when we're going, I'm going to pack." And with that, she leads a wary Madi away from her friends in the bridge.