Clarke knew that these few weeks, as perfect and beneficial as they had been, could not last, but she would have liked these moments to last forever.

From now on, everything was going to change.

Bellamy would no longer be her Bellamy.

Clarke could no longer afford to be his Clarke.

Not when Echo's dark, sharp eyes would land on her, silently asking what kind of rights she thought she had on the heart of a man who obviously belonged to someone else.

Love is weakness.

Clarke had muffled Lexa's words in a corner of her mind. She didn't want to hear them anymore. She wanted Monty's voice to resonate within her, not the old Heda's. She wanted to be better and do better. She could not afford to believe again in this nonsense mantra. Not when she now knew that only love had allowed her to survive all these years on Earth and had given her the strength to fight to save the people close to her.

So, she waited for Bellamy to do what he had to do, to wake up the woman he loved and chose, then vanished with Echo into a corner of the gigantic ship... She had no idea where they were, she just knew she hadn't crossed their path when she finally decided to leave her lair. They were not in the young man's room, nor on the main deck, nor anywhere Clarke had ventured. And she certainly didn't want to think about what they might be doing.

Then, without informing the young man of her decision, without even discussing it with him or asking for his opinion, she went to wake Madi.

It was not something that the old Clarke - the one who thought love was a weakness, that there were no good men, and that you had to do whatever was necessary to survive - would have done. That Clarke - Wanheda - would have done anything to wake Madi last, anything to keep her out of important decisions, responsibilities, life and death dilemmas.

125 years old and Monty's last will later, Clarke was no longer the same. And this Clarke - who thought with her head, but also with her heart - needed her daughter near her, needed the unconditional love that only Madi had known how to offer her.

As Madi opened her pretty blue eyes and jumped into the arms of her foster mother from her glass coffin, Bellamy ended her relationship with Echo on the other side of the ship.


I know it's short, forgive me. Longer parts will come soon and the next part tomorrow morning. And please, leave comments if you like it!