It felt like everything was pretty much okay. They started again. They always did. Well, they were descended to the great folks who made twelve space stations to come together and to forsake all other languages besides English, it was pretty much a guaranty they would.
They changed the camp's name to Arcadia, began to work on their everyday lives. They began to build houses, to grow food, they returned to operate a school, they were getting used to a life where you don't need to go through drastic measures in order to survive.
Abby found her well suited place as the head of the clinic, and nothing more. They began to teach chosen personal how to become doctors as well. Kane took over the chancellor duties with some help from Clarke and Bellamy. Raven was doing just fine with the help of Wick, and you can even say that they were a pretty cheesy couple. Of course, not everything was perfect, Lincoln and Octavia disappeared after helping free their people from inside the mountain, but the sky people never lost the hope that they are okay together, and there was Jasper, Jasper, who has never totally processed the death of Maya.
It was about three months after Mount Weather. Clarke was starting to get back to her old self, trying to deal with the fact that on one hand her people were safe and sound behind the electrified walls of their camp, and on the other, that there wasn't a signed, sealed, delivered agreement between them and the grounders, and that they were left wondering everyday if today would be the day they will be attacked.
The blonde girl was going towards Kane's office, for a meeting about spreading the camp further to the north. Now that people can have as much unprotected sex as they please, and raise families of ten if that is what their heart desires, they needed to come up with a plan to enlarge their territory without making any grounders pissed, resulting in a spear through the heart.
"Nice of you to join us princess." The black haired boy said with a sharp edge to his tone. Bellamy hasn't soften in the months passing, and was still on edge each time he heard any suspicious sound. Clarke felt for him, lord knows she was waking up each night with cold sweat to her body, seeing Jasper's hurt face when Maya died in his arms, seeing dead kids, seeing what she has caused.
The girl just shot him a small smile of sympathy, knowing it will only make him more upset, and sat next to Monty, waiting for Kane to start.
"Clarke, thank you for joining us." Kane began. He stood taller, looking less concern and more confident. "I want to send a few of you to install an antenna further north, so we will be able to talk to each other while exploring." He explained.
The kids looked at each other with strange looks, they thought the camp would spread to a place nearby, not somewhere with no reception.
Raven spoke first "Why?" She asked simply. "I believe there are like a hundred of more important things for us to do."
"Yes, like training more soldiers so we can protect ourselves." Bellamy added.
Clarke was the only one that understood. She knew what it means to be the commander, she knew Kane was thinking of the possibility that they would have to leave, that things with the grounders would go south, and that the best solution would be to leave and not to fight. She looked at the older guy with an understanding look and said. "Okay. Tell when and we'll be out the door."
Clarke's words was enough to make the other kids to not protest any further. They all respected the badass girl who not only kept them alive for so long, but saved them countless of times.
"Tomorrow, with first light." He said. "Take weapons, but don't use the unless it's absolutely needed."
With that, the meeting was over, and they left the room. Clarke was planning to go see her mother, talk to her before she leaves. As she was headed to the medical, she felt the presence of another person walking behind her, she waited for him to catch up with her, and was not surprised when she was pulled inside the storage room she just walked passed. Before the sky princess knew it, she was pressed against the closed door with his strong body pressed against her.
"Hey."
"Hey there."
"You look good all serious." He whispered and pressed his hips stronger, making a small moan to escape Clarke's mouth. "But don't you think tha.."
Clarke cut him off, connecting their lips together. After a heated kiss she added, "Bell, you talk too much." She stopped to take off his shirt, "shut up." she added.
It seemed like he didn't need any more convincing. He lifted her to the stand in the room and connected their bodies easily.
In the mean time, Raven went back to engineering, looking for Wick. She felt her heart beat a little faster after cutting the last corner and entering the room.
Inside, she found Wick with his head on the table, eyes closed and a look of defeat on his face.
"What's wrong? Can't you make due for five minutes without me?" She teased.
Without opening his eyes, the blonde boy let a small smile creep to his face, he lifted his arm, expecting to find the girl, and pulled her to sit on him. "Oh yes." He said, raising from the table and looking at her with his playful smirk. "I was contemplating different ways to take my own life, but here you, a mechanic and not just a lousy engineer, I am placing that important task in your ends."
Raven looked at the complete moron with adoring eyes, she wanted to vomit from how cheesy they had become, but for now she just leaned her head against his forehead and whispered. "I have much more important things to do with my skills, I think you will be able to handle this, I am rubbing off on you."
He just laughed and closed the gap between their lips.
After he left Kane's office, Monty went to look for Jasper. He knew exactly where to find him, but first he walked to the kitchen to grab some dry bread and cold water.
Like charm, Jasper was sitting under the big tree just outside the camp, with a bottle of scotch to his feet, and an angry look to his face. He heard steps coming in his direction and he knew it was Monty. All the rest has given up on him, he needed to do this in his own way, and they couldn't understand why he can't just bounce back to his feet, everyone thought that if Clarke and Bellamy can be okay, after single handedly being responsible for the deaths of 300 people, then he surely can, but he wasn't a leader, he knew he wasn't cut out to make those hard decisions, and so he gave himself the benefit of the doubt to feel, everything. He knew that his people didn't required his expertise, but he didn't believe they would give up on him so easily.
"Hey man." Monty was used for the silence treatment. He laid the bread and the water next to Jasper, and added. "I'm here, if you ever need to speak." Then he walked away, back to camp. He was still in a hearing distance from his best friend, and so when he whispered "I know", a small smile crept his way to Monty's face.
A little while later Clarke found herself again, heading towards medical. She didn't mind the pleasant break, she actually welcomed it. It began about two weeks after they did the unthinkable. It brought them closer, to carry the load together, it got to the point where they could look at each other and understand what the other thought without speaking. The girl wasn't sure how it started exactly, but they were there for each other, whenever they needed a warm body or a distraction.
"Hey mom." She said. Abby was sitting on one of the exam beds looking through a book.
"Hey honey." She said, her eyes shining with joy.
"I'm sure Kane told you we are going north." Clarke said, she was sensing that Kane and her Mother had became a bit close as of late.
"He did." She agreed with a knowing smile.
"He is scared of the grounders, isn't he?"
"He fears the moment there will be less peace and more war, yes." The doctor answered. "He thinks of going to Polis, to talk to Lexa."
Just the mere saying of her name shakes Clarke's all body. Her face shows a look of total hurt, but only for a second. Her face returned to the light smile she displayed earlier, and she continues, "I think that would be wise."
"Clarke," Abby began, not being fooled by her daughter. "Let's talk about this, about her."
"Mom."
"Come on, humor me."
Clarke knew she couldn't run away from this conversation, and besides, she needed to talk about this, she was tired of suppressing her emotions. "I am not mad at her." She began, understanding that her mom won't interrupt her. "I would have done the same. This was always the deal, our own people come first. But, she knows we killed the mountain man, she knows her people are to be save forever, I don't understand why she's not trying to form some sort of peace with us, I don't understand why isn't she coming here to talk to us, to talk to me." It felt great saying all those stuff, and so she continued, "I don't want to think about those things, I don't want my face to cringe each time I hear her name. I just, I, I thought she cared about me, no, I know she cared about me, and I just can't understand why she's leaving us in this state of uncertainty, when she can.. she can clear it all up."
Abby was grateful that her daughter was finally sharing. She didn't say a word when Clarke spend the week after the war in her room not talking to anyone, and when she began sleeping with Bellamy, but she needed to know that the blonde was as happy as can be in this difficult situation. "Clarke, maybe she is sitting in her room and thinking the same thing. Maybe it's not about building peace, maybe it's about rebuilding trust between our people, between you two. They can't know that we won't shoot them if they walk to our gate, same way with us, we don't have the guarantee that they would let us wonder around to their city. This things usually take time, and now, when we didn't kill any of their people and they didn't kill any of ours, there is an uncertainty about how to proceed. From your point of you, and I assume that from hers to.
The blue eyed girl thanked her mother. She left the clinic, going to get a few hours of sleep before they would leave tomorrow.
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