This is how I think the season two finale should have gone...
Bellamy keeps watch from the gate as everyone returns. He watches with a soft smile as the remaining delinquents reunite with their families.
Clark brings up the back of the group, making sure everyone makes it into camp safely. She stops just before reaching the gates. Monty comes up and engulfs her in a tight hug before letting go and retreating into the safety of the camp.
"I think we deserve a drink." Bellamy says, coming to stand beside to Clark. They watch the camp in silence for a moment. People tending to the injured, families embracing their loved ones and others realizing that theirs will never return.
"Have one for me" her voice is even as she observes the scene before her.
"Hey, we can get through this." Bellamy replies, turning to her. The guilt she feels is written on her face, clear as day.
"I'm not going in." Clark says, her voice breaking a bit with pent up emotions.
"Look, if you need forgiveness I'll give that to you. You're forgiven, please come inside." He repeats the words that she told him so long ago. The words that kept him going and had brought him home. Can't she see that they need her? That he needs her...
"It's not that" she replied softly, finally meeting his eyes. And she can see it on his face, the words he won't say. But it's too soon after Finn and they've been through too much.
"Then what Clark?"
"I'm going to return to the mountain." Her voice is stronger now, and he knows she's spent the journey back to camp trying to figure out how to tell him this.
"You want to bury our friends" he realizes. And of course she does. She probably decided it the moment they pulled the lever.
"I'm going to bury them all, I owe them that much." But he knew what she wouldn't say. She was beating herself up over what they had done. And maybe in doing this that she could atone for her sins.
"We owe them" he corrects her, placing a hand on her arm. "You don't have to do this alone." They're in this together. Can't she see that? This is on him too. He won't let her punish herself for this, won't let her bear it alone.
"Bellamy..." She knows what he's doing. Trying to save her, trying to protect her. From herself and the guilt she feels she has to shoulder. Wallace's words echo in her mind. I bear it so they don't have to.
"First we rest, gather some supplies, then we'll leave in the morning. But I'm coming with you Clark, we're gonna do this like we do everything else, together." He won't let her go alone. Won't let her drown herself in the guilt. He won't give up on her, like she didn't give up on him.
"Okay" she whispers, letting him lead her by the hand through the gates of Camp Jaha.
Working on the next chapter, hopefully will have it up within the week.
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