Chapter 1 - 125 years
Clarke and Bellamy stared at the planet for a long time, content to be in each other's presence without some of urgent catastrophe breaking around them. It wasn't until Jordan cleared his throat that they both remembered there was someone else in the room.
"I'm sorry guys, dad said that you would know what to do next." Jordan said tentatively. Clarke and Bellamy looked at their friend's kid. Both of them felt a sense of responsibility for this kid, as Harper had asked them to "Take care of our boy". If they could give their life to find the last of humanity a home, then they could at the very least look after him their son.
"So, what do we do next?" asked Bellamy as he turned towards Clarke. "Do we just wake everyone up?"
"We should not do that" interjected Jordan, as he stepped towards them. "We only have enough rations for a few weeks, if we wake anyone else; that supply will dwindle even faster. We shouldn't wake anyone else until we are ready to go down to the planet"
"How long have you been awake?" asked Clarke. "A few days" replied Jordan. "I needed some time, after I found out about my parents. They warned me that this was the way it would go, but I had hoped…"
Both Bellamy and Clarke went to Jordan and one arm hugged him, trying to offer some comfort. "I am so sorry, I can't even begin to understand what this is like for you" said Clarke. "We are all going to need time to adjust" said Bellamy.
Clarke took a step back, and went back to the window, followed closely by the two men.
"We need to do better, like Monty asked us to do. We need to be better." These was a pause, as they all stared at the planet below them. After a few minutes of silence, Clarke broke it "We also need to know more about this planet, did Eligius III ever make it? Is there anyone else down there?"
Jordan went towards one of the screens and said "I can tell you what I know so far. We know that the atmosphere is very similar to Earth's, with Nitrogen, Oxygen, and Carbon Dioxide mix. We should be able to breathe the air. Based on the geological equipment on board, I'd say there was a lot of arable land down there to be farmed, so growing food shouldn't be a problem".
"So we got air and food, which means there's water there too?" asked Clarke. "Yes, there is a lot of water, though we are going to have to go down there to test is to see if it's drinkable for us, and check on salinity and such" replied Jordan.
"What about people? Are there people down there?" asked Bellamy.
"Based on what I can see, I'd say yes, but I can't begin to estimate how many." said Jordan.
"Do we know what stage of evolution they are in?" asked Clarke.
"No idea, though the absence of satellites might be a clue" replied Jordan.
"Is there anything in the Eligius III files that can give us some answers?" asked Bellamy.
"No, if they made it and tried to get back to Earth, it must have been after Apocalypse One, so I don't know if anyone heard anything" replied Jordan.
"So we have to go down there" stated Clarke. There was finality to this statement, and in this one moment, Jordan understood why his dad has asked him to wake up Clarke first. She took charge, and let the way forward.
"Back to my first question then, who do we wake up? Think we should start with spacekru first. They need to know about Monty and Harper." proposed Bellamy. He was unsure how Clarke would take this. But she just replied "Ok, we should wake up Shaw too, when he and Diyosa noticed my blood, they said that it was the same as Eligius III. Do you think only nightbloods can survive down there?" asked Clarke.
"I don't know" replied Jordan. "You made it through Pramfyre because you were made a nightblood, we can send a probe down to see what the radiation levels are, if we need to can you make others a nightblood?"
"Let's do the first, the probe." said Bellamy. "We should get as much information before we start waking people up"
"Ok, this will take a few hours. I'll set it up and send it on its way." Jordan went to an office outside the bridge and started tinkering with equipment, leaving Bellamy and Clarke alone. This was the first time that they were alone since everything went down on in the bunker. Clarke's guilt over leaving him behind kept her silent and timid, and Bellamy just didn't know what to say.
"I guess we'll just wait here" said Bellamy as he broke the silence. "I just want to say something, I think I said something before, and it may have gotten misconstrued."
"Are you taking it back? The not being mad at me?" said Clarke very tenuously. "I mean – I would understand if you were still angry, I betrayed everyone I ever loved to keep Madi safe".
"No, I am not angry, I was, not anymore" Bellamy said. "You once said every stupid thing I ever did was to protect Octavia, and you were right. I did do a lot of stupid things, but I had you to point me in the right direction. No, I betrayed you too. The one thing you asked me to do was the one thing I did. But I did it to try and save my family, but the thing that got lost" Bellamy paused and looked straight into Clarke's eyes, placing his hands on her shoulders "Is that you're also part of that family"
It was what Clarke needed to hear. That she hadn't lost her friend in the madness. "I am so sorry Bellamy, I know I don't deserve forgiveness" and she hugged him.
Jordan came back to find them embracing. "I don't remember my parents telling me you guys were super huggers" they all chuckled at this statement.
"Kid, come here, you get a hug too" after their quick embrace, Jordan said "the probe is already in the atmosphere. It sent back data already. Looks like radiation levels are higher than normal".
"With two suns, it probably expected right? asked Bellamy. "Probably, which is why Eligius III needed nightblood" said Clarke.
"So…can you make others a nightblood?" asked Jordan.
"I don't know if we have the necessary equipment on board, we should wake Raven and Jackson, and then go from there" stated Clarke. "For more information in Eligius we should also wake Shaw".
"Jackson, not Abbey?" asked Bellamy.
"No, my mom was not in a good place when she went into cryo, I'm guessing that won't change. Jackson should be able to tell us if we have the necessary equipment" responded Clarke.
So they make their way to the pods, and Bellamy wakes Raven, Clarke wakes Jackson, Jordan wakes Shaw. "That was ten years? That felt like 10 minutes" said a smiling Raven. All Bellamy can do is smile back as Raven rises and hugs him. She looks around and wonders "Why are we the ones up?" "Because things didn't go as planned" replied Bellamy.
Jordan is waking Shaw when Jackson wakes. "Hey Clarke, is it time to wake already?"
"Yep" said Jackson, and he also notices that they are the ones awake.
"Who are you?" asks Shaw when he sees Jordan, Bellamy and Raven get there. "Seriously, who are you? I don't remember you from anywhere" that's when Raven first noticed Clarke, and the two share a tense moment.
Jordan, ignoring the tension between the women says "My name Jordan Green, I am Monty and Harper's son." This gives Raven whiplash as she turns her neck so quickly from Clarke to Jordan. "Wait, what? Did they wait to go to sleep to have kid, how old are you anyways?"
"I'm 27" replies Jordan.
"They didn't go to sleep for 27 years? Where the hell are they? I need to give them a piece of my mind" said Raven as she walked towards the exit. "They didn't wait, they never went into cryo" replied Bellamy while Clarke pulled Jordan ahead. "There's a video you all need to see, we need to go to the bridge"
Jackson asked "how long were we asleep?"
"125 years" replied Clarke