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Chapter 2
Rescue
Clarke watches Captain Gale get ready to launch into space. Anticipation and fear course through her. She knows that there's a chance that this rescue mission could backfire and that she still could lose her friends. The thought of losing her friends and Bellamy makes her blood run cold. "Are you ready?" Her head is telling her yes, but her heart is telling her no. What if the Captain is bluffing and their already dead? Then what? She couldn't just leave Maddi to survive on her own forever, no matter how well she had trained her over the years. Besides Maddi was her responsibility now.
She takes a breath, making a choice she knows Bellamy wouldn't approve of. He'd been steadfast to his devotion to his sister and his responsibility to her. "Yes."says Clarke hesitantly. She feels a wave of guilt wash over her, but she knows that she's not as emotionally strong as Bellamy, never has been. Captain Gale starts the launch and Clarke grips tightly to the chair. She tries desperately to imagine what Bellamy would say right now if he was with her. He'd probably crack a joke or call her Princess to make her feel better. He always somehow knew how to make her feel better, even when the world was going to hell. She remembers fondly the time that he made light of her almost shooting him. He had that sexy smile on his face when he had teased her that she had made the right choice in not shooting him. She had been so damn mesmerized when he had flashed her that smile, that Bellamy had ended up hitting someone in the road. Clarke would be lying if she said that she hadn't been completely entranced by Bellamy in every way at that moment. He had a way of inching himself inside of her heart like no one else. It had scared her at first to know that someone could breakdown her walls and really love her for all she was. Even more frightening, he could love her despite all that she had done.
Clarke can feel the gravity shift immediately and she turns to Captain Gale who's settling them into space. "We've made it, you can breathe easy." Clarke nods at the Captain and prays that he doesn't see her weakness. Her mother had been right when she was chipped and said that her friends were her greatness weakness. They had all been through so much together and she considered them more like family at that point. However, when her mother had ordered Bellamy to be the first, she knew that her friends were one of her greatest weaknesses, not her greatest. If she had to watch Bellamy suffer, there'd be no going back for her. That's why she couldn't sacrifice him to Roan or shoot him that awful day in the bunker.
She looks out the window and sees the Ark. It looks the same as it did before, a mere object floating in space with nothing other than blackness enveloping it. She always hated that there wasn't sunlight warming her skin or wind flowing through her hair. Clarke had heard a lot about the Earth's history when they had studied it on the Ark. She had been amazed by a world that held so much promise, yet ended in such a tragic way.
As they stop the ship a short distance away from the Ark, Clarke takes a breath and readies herself for what's ahead. She knows that Bellamy is finally within reach and it makes her heart palpitate. Once again, her people are relying on her to save them and she won't fail. Bellamy had taught her how to hope and that's what she'll rely on to rescue them. To rescue him.
Bellamy doesn't know how long he's been sitting in the desolate cell. He could have minutes or seconds, it's all relative at this point anyway. Time has become blurred, but his memories of her haven't stopped running rampant through his mind. There's one moment in time that is more vibrant than the others. The moment when Clarke came crashing into him and nearly knocked him over. He remembers her arms tight around him and that beautiful rare smile appearing on her face afterwards. That moment had made him question what they exactly meant to each other. At the time, he had no knowledge that they would be so inexplicably intertwined that he'd feel incomplete without her. Someone clears their throat and he looks up to see Raven standing there. She walks over to him and sits down. "Why are you giving up Bellamy?" He shakes his head. "What's the point in fighting when we're dead anyways? Captain Gale made sure there was no way out." Bellamy feels hopelessness completely overcome him and its somewhat foreign to him. He'd always had a little bit of hope in things and he had often inspired others to follow him. Clarke had told him that. She had admired that about him and it had warmed his heart at the time. "Well, as your co-captain on this ship, I'm ordering you to at least try." He stares at his hands. Bellamy's glad that Captain idiot had enough brains to let them roam the ship free, instead of handcuffed.
He sighs to himself in frustration. "I don't need a pep talk Reyes, just leave me here." Raven shakes her head and stands-up. He looks up to see her giving him that damn look that she has given him so many times over the last few years. The look that says, move your ass if you know what's good for you. Despite her being a pain in the ass over the years, he's thankful that they had saved Raven and that she had chosen to help him keep the peace on the Ark. He needed someone that could understand what it was like to be separated from their soulmate. Someone who had a similar ache in their chest that wouldn't go away, until they were reunited with their other-half. "What would Clarke want you to do?" Bellamy glares at Raven and she gives him a smile. She reaches her hand out towards him. "Come on Blake, Clarke would kill me if I let you die here in this depressing cell." He stares at her hand for a moment more before grabbing it. Bellamy lifts himself up from the floor and shakes his head. He's happy that he has his family with him for the end. They have all become so close over the last few years, albeit some fights here and there, but they still have each other. Bellamy turns to look back at the cell feeling thankful that Clarke isn't about to face certain death along with him.