Clarke stared at the boy in the bed in front of her. Had she met him before? Maybe that was why she felt so connected to this case, or maybe Octavia had talked about her before and he recognised her from Octavias' descriptions? Clarkes mind was whirling at a hundred miles an hour, but she couldn't find a way to put any one of those thoughts into words.
"Dr. Griffin, I'm so sorry, I don't know what came over me." Clarkes stared open mouthed at Bellamy Blake as he looked nervously from her to her mother. Clarke and her mother both began to stammer an apology back, but both women cutting off when they realised he could have been talking to anyone of them.
"Let me start, Bellamy Blake, this is my daughter Clarke Griffin, now I have no idea how you knew her name, but that was probably something you overheard whilst you were in your coma, nothing that you or Clarke should be worried about." Abby Griffin looked reassuringly between her daughter and her patient. "Now I've got some work to do so I'll leave you two to talk, I'm sure you want to thank Clarke for saving your life." Clarke rolled her eyes at her mother.
"Bye Dr. Griffin." Abby smiled at Bellamy as she left the room.
"I'm gonna leave too, I think you two have some things to talk about, I'm Raven by the way." Clarke had completely forgotten Raven was there and she almost laughed as her best friend popped out from behind her.
"Bye Raven, it was nice to meet you." Bellamy on the other hand, couldn't keep his laughter in.
"So…." Bellamy started.
"Where's Octavia?" Clarke interrupted.
"Oh, she's gone home to get some rest. Look Clarke I'm sorry I freaked you out, I know you have no idea who I am or how I know your name, but to be honest neither do I, so can we just forget that I said anything at all and start over." Bellamy was rambling, and he was embarrassed. He was cute when he was embarrassed Clarke thought, his mouth did this thing where the left side turned up into a kind of half smile and his eyes stared at his feet.
"No no, Mr. Blake, it doesn't matter, people react to comas in very different ways, none of us can ever be sure how a patient will react." Mr. Blake? What the hell was wrong with her! Clarke slapped herself mentally.
"Bellamys fine really, Mr. Blake makes me feel old." He smiled at her, making her blush.
Sorry Bellamy, you know you have a lot of fans you do, it's been very hard getting to work everyday with the constant blockade of hardcore The Grounders fans wanting an update of your condition every ten seconds." Clarke joked with him, making Bellamy laugh.
"Well Dr. Griffin, I'm very sorry for the inconvenience, but I have to keep up appearances you know, and I bet Kanes' been feeding them some great sob story." He was so easy to talk to, Clarke smiled at herself, and then internally cursed her brain, what was she thinking? She hated emotions, if she could she would shut them off, and Bellamy Blake of all people to give her butterflies? He was a bloody rockstar so he probably had a girlfriend, and if not he definitely had thousands of hardcore teenage girl fans who would happily be his significant other.
"Oh he has been, you should see some of the ones he's come up with, I know they've been giving your bandmates some laughs." Clarke raised her arms in the air. "The courageous lead singer of world famous band The Grounders is fighting for his life in the hands of doctors at Ark hospital."
"Now that's an impressive story!" Bellamy said, in fits of laughter. Clarke began to laugh as well, boy was his laugh infectious. Clarke spent another half an hour in Bellamys' room, to be honest within the next five minutes she'd done everything medical that she needed to do but she didn't feel like leaving just yet. Bellamy made her laugh, and feel like a carefree teenager again, or well not really again, as Clarke had never really been carefree in her life, like, ever. So she stayed, and she talked, and they laughed, Clarke didn't even know what they were talking about, mostly things to do with Jasper and Monty and all the pranks they played on each other she thought, but there was no way she would have been able to tell anyone any details about their conversations, she was too busy trying to figure out what was wrong with her and why she couldn't leave the bedside of Bellamy Blake.
"Ok, I really have to go now." Clarke stood up from where she had been perched on the end of Bellamys' bed.
"Aw really? I was enjoying talking to you!" Bellamy stuck his bottom lip out, making Clarke giggle.
"Trust me, you're not getting out of this hospital anytime soon, you'll be seeing a lot more of me." She waved at him as she left the room, she'd never felt like this before, not even with Finn whom although she told everyone was a little crush, the truth was that she believed in the few short weeks that she'd known him, Clarke thought she was falling in love with him. Clarke walked down the ICU corridor and straight away went to find Raven, she really needed to talk to that girl. She found her in the cafeteria having lunch with Finn.
"Raven! Hi, I need to talk to you, like now." Clarke looked intensely at her best friend. "Oh and hi Finn, congrats on your engagement!" Clarke smiled at Finn.
"You told her Raven? I thought we were going to wait and tell everybody together." Finn looked at Raven, obviously annoyed, probably angry that he couldn't control everything, he was a bit of a control freak, Clarke thought.
"Oh Finn, of course I was going to tell Clarke, she's my best friend and now my maid of honour!" Raven beamed, looking from Finn to Clarke and back again. Clarke laughed at her and Finn just shook his head and rolled his eyes. This was why they were so good together Clarke thought, Raven let Finn have just the right amount of control in their relationship so that he didn't go crazy but Raven was still going to do exactly what she wanted, because that was the strong women she was. "Anyway, Clarke what did you want to talk to me about? Is it Bellamy, what's he like, does he seem cocky? I mean, I'm sure he is, he's a rockstar for goodness sake?" Raven bombarded her with questions.
"Um, not exactly, if you're busy we can talk later." Clarke looked at Finn.
"Oh, no we were just finishing up here, Finn, honey I'll see you at home later right?" Raven smiled at Finn and gave him a quick kiss, almost like she was dismissing him. Clarke suppressed a laugh.
"Alright, love you Raven, Clarke it's good to see you." Finn sighed and shook his head as he got up from the table.
"So, tell me! What's he like, you guys seemed pretty flustered with each other when I left, how on earth did he know your name?" Clarke plonked herself down in the chair recently vacated by Finn and sighed as she thought about how to answer Ravens' budding questions.
"Yeh, well we were, I mean, it was pretty odd, him knowing my name and all, but mum attributes it down to his state when he was in the coma, so he probably just heard me talking to Octavia or something." Clarke tried to explain the situation, as much to herself as to Raven.
"You were with him for a pretty long time though weren't you?" Raven smiled at her and raised her eyebrows suggestively at Clarke. "I mean it must have been about forty five minutes since I left you."
"Well, we just ended up talking loads, and I had to check all of his vitals which took a while." Clarke blushed and smiled at the ground.
"Clarke Griffin you are lying to me, it does not take a doctor of your skill level forty five minutes to take a patients vitals." Raven stared her best friend in the eyes.
"Raven! We were just talking I promise, we just get on well, he makes me laugh and it was just nice to be around him." Clarke felt those unwanted butterflies flutter in her stomach again.
"You like him!" Wow Raven was on the ball today.
"No! I hardly know the boy, and he probably has a girlfriend, he is a rockstar after all, and even if he didn't all those Bellamy Blake fan girls would eat me alive if they thought there was anything at all between us." Clarke slapped her friend on the wrist playfully.
"Well, he'll be in the hospital at least for a week longer, so you can get to know him plenty then!" Raven laughed at Clarke.
"Hi Dr. Griffin, Dr. Reyes, can we sit with you please?" Clarke turned around to see Lincoln, Jasper and Monty standing behind them.
"Of course you can, and please call me Raven, and this is Clarke." The three boys pulled chairs up to Clarke and Ravens already to small for two people table, with the five of them around it, it was a miracle they could all fit.
"Thanks Raven, we just wanted to say thank you for taking such good care of Bellamy, we know that there has been lots of press and fans trying to come in and see him and we've had cases in the past where doctors have taken bribes to let people come and get a story on him, so thanks for being so professional." Lincoln said to the two girls, looking very seriously.
"What Lincoln really means is," Jasper rolled his eyes at Lincoln, "thank you for not letting out friend die on us, that means a lot." Jasper beamed at Clarke and Raven.
"No worries guys, we we're just doing our jobs." Clarke laughed at Jasper, she could tell that he was the joker of the band and that Lincoln was the serious one, however she hadn't quite worked out Monty and Bellamy yet.
"So what do you think about Bellamy, how's he doing? When will he be able to leave?" Monty asked Clarke eagerly, causing Raven to laugh at them.
"Well at the moment, Bellamys' vital signs look good, however he will need to stay here for at least a few more days so that we can make sure he really is one hundred percent better and recovered from his surgery." Clarke smiled reassuringly at Monty.
"That's good! Please take you're time, we want to make sure Bellamy is perfectly put back together before he starts his life again." Lincoln said, finally cracking a smile.
"Yeh no worries guys, Bellamy is in great hands, Clarke is the lead surgeon on Bellamys' case and I can assure you, she'll take great care of him." Raven winked at Clarke, causing Clarke to roll her eyes at her best friend.
"Wow Clarke that's so great! Not that that comes as a surprise to us, you seem like a really good doctor!" Jasper said excitedly to Clarke.
"Well, we're going to go and see Bellamy now, Kane said visiting hours were about now." Monty said, looking at his watch. "But we'll see you soon right?" He said looking from Raven to Clarke.
"Yes of course, the likelihood is that whenever you go and visit Bellamy Clarke will be there too." Raven said, grinning evilly at Clarke.
"Sweet, see you soon guys, thanks for your help!" The three boys got up from the table leaving Clarke and Raven alone again.
"Raven! Why do you make things so awkward?" Clarke said when they were out of earshot.
"I didn't make it awkward, I just told the truth!" Raven cackled at her best friend. "Look, you've just met the guy, and he's your patient, so just be careful and don't get yourself to involved until he's out of the hospital, then see what happens." Raven smiled reassuringly at Clarke and Clarke sighed, oh why now? And why Bellamy Blake? Her mother was going to kill her if her feelings went anywhere.