Chapter 7

It didn't take long before they heard footsteps coming thru the hallway. The corridor was quite narrow and so far there had been no doors or turns along the way. After a couple of minutes they started meeting people who met them with prying eyes. Clarke didn't recognize a single one of them.

'Wanheda' One spoke.

Whispers flew across the group of people that were know standing in front of them.

Clarke spoke in grounder language. 'Do you know were I can find my mother?'

There was a second of silence before a woman spoke. 'I can show you to her.'

The woman started to lead them further in to the bunker while the group of grounders started moving out of it, towards the surface.

As they moved further in the got looked upon by more people and doors to what they guesses were apartments started to appear. Along the way they lost Echo who had found some of her friends behind a turn. Madi took Clarke hand and walked closed to her. Clarke had almost forgot her presence in the anticipation of seeing her mother again. She understood that Madi was scared of seeing so many people after 6 years with only Clarke.

When they turned around a corner they were met by what they guessed were guards judging by their uniform. They had their guns raised at them.

'Stop were you are. Hands above your head'

They all raised their hands except for Bellamy. Clarke looked up at him and saw that his eyes were wide open while staring at something past the guards. She lifted her head to see her mom, followed by Octavia and what looked to be other clan officials of some sort.

'MOM!' Clarke started to fight the guards, trying together past them to her mother. Beside her, Bellamy was doing the same thing.

'Stop!' Abby yelled 'That's my daughter'

The guards let them get past and Clarke ran into the arms of her mom. The both ended up on the pit knees, crying into each others shoulders. Clarke could hear that next to her the same thing happened between Bellamy and Octavia.

'My beautiful baby girl' Abby whispered into her ear. Clarke didn't want to let go and it must have taken several minutes before she loosened her grip and Abby took a look at her face. Weak from tears she managed to cry out some words.

'You've grown so much, become much older..'

Clarke let out a cry and a laugh at the same time. 'I missed you so much..'

The next 24 hours were a blur to Clarke. She got reunited with the rest of the people from the bunker and they got to get up to the surface. The look on their faces as they got to feel the sun on their faces again, were priceless. Clarke also got to introduce Madi to her mother. Madi was scared at the beginning. There was so much new stuff happening and she got a bit terrifie by it. But after a while she got used to it and she got along with everyone. She was so happy and really thrived with the lots of people she met in the bunker. Abby was mostly proud of her daughter. How she survived Praimfaya and living 6 years alone on earth. Or almost alone.

Happiest in the bunker was Bellamy. He had finally found his sister and he couldn't be happier. He was so proud of her. She had led 13 clans thru 6 years of isolation and starvation in a claustrophobic inviroment. She was the true commander. He spent the first hours with her talking about what happened in bunker and sharing stories from their space trip. He told her everything from how they got there I the last minute to how they almost ran out of oxygen after 4 years to him and Echo. Clarke also shared stories with Octavia and the other leaders. She mostly told them about the new sky people, the mining people.

Octavia decided that they would send a group of ambassadors to their camp and try to figure out what they want. If they come in peace or not. But their first priority was to build a new home above ground. They found a place to build a new camp for all the survivors from the bunker. All 1000* of them. After just a couple of hours after their release, the people in the bunker had started to work on building shelters for them on the ground. When the night came, most of them chose to sleep on the ground under the night sky rather than spend another minute down under ground.

In less than a week the grounders had been able to build shelters for everyone above ground. Now they moved everything they had in the bunker up to the surface and into their new camp. Bellamy moved into a hut together with Octavia who got, as the leader got the house in the middle of the camp. Clarke moved into a house with Madi who didn't use it for anything else than sleeping since she spent every awake moment running around camp or playing with other kids from the bunker. They had also been able to get some parts of the rocket moved so that Raven could use it to build tech. When Bellamy visited it he noticed that it had been search by someone else before them, information he shared with Octavia and the leaders of the 13 clans.

One night when he was having a conversation with Kane about their trip to space Octavia came up to them. She used her deep, leader voice when she spoke to them. Bellamy smiled out of pride for his baby sister.

'Our people have noticed that they are being watched by whoever these new arrivals are. We need to know their intentions. I'm sending you two, Slin and Clarke to talk to them toworrow.'

Bellamy didn't think it was the best idea for him and Clarke to go on a mission together. From what he understood from their last conversation she wanted nothing to do weird him. But before he could say anything Octavia had already wandered off.

*I pretend its 1000 even though i know its not ;)