"You are not serious? You can't do that!" Clarke yelled at her mother, who just told her the news that she would be split up from most if her friends. She was standing at the edge of her mothers desk, Abby sat there looking up at her daughter with a look of guilt and fear.
"I'm sorry Clarke it wasn't my decision to split the camp up." Her mother said with pity.
"But you could have told me, how long have you known about this?" She demanded to know.
"A while now, Kane didn't want the news to get out, not until he decided who would be leaving and who would be staying." Her mother now stood up to face her daughter.
"And?" Clarke ordered.
"And what?" Abby questioned.
"And who is staying and who is leaving?"
"Kane is making an announcement tomorrow morning, just wait and you'll-" Abby didn't have the chance to finish before Clarke interrupted her.
"No, I won't wait tell me." She glared at her mother.
"Or I can just tell you what you really want to know." Abby waited for Clarke to respond but after silence she began to explain to her daughter. "Kane is splitting the guard in half. It was done by complete random, Bellamy is leaving. You are going to stay here, and take care of patients while I travel back and forth looking over your work, only until you no longer need my checking in." Abby explained.
"Why, Why can't he stay, or why can't I go?" She pleaded.
"Kane has worked on this arrangement for months now. He has a reason for everything Clarke, I tried to talk to him, but he won't change his mind."
"I have to do something, I need to go talk to him myself. There's no way this can happen." She said as she stormed out of her mothers office. Clarke couldn't bare the thought of being separated from Bellamy again, not after everything they've been through not after how close they've grown. When she reached Kane's office she barged in without knocking. "Kane we need to talk." She said with and calm but stern voice.
"I'm guessing your mother told you, well have a seat. He spoke softly gesturing to the large char placed in front of his desk.
"This won't take long I promise." She stood there starring at him, Kane finally broke the silence.
"There's nothing you can do to change this Clarke. It is what it is." He revealed.
"It is what it is?" She mocked. "Really? give me a real reason why I have to stay and he has to go." She glared at him, but only to hide the fear of losing Bellamy.
"Listen Clarke, Bellamy needs a new start, and this gives him some what of that. You are needed here, and soon you will realize that. I know you care about him, but so do I, and you have to trust that I'm doing what's best for him." Kane told.
"And since when do you decide what best for him, why don't you let him chose what he want's?" She questioned.
"If I gave him a choice, he would chose to stay here with you, with his sister. But you and I both know that's not what's best for him." He spoke softly.
A small part of Clarke knew he was right, but she didn't want to believe it. She turned around and walked out of his office letting the door slam shut behind her. She went to find Bellamy in his room, but when she got there he wasn't home. She knew he wasn't stupid enough to leave with out telling her again so she sat next to his bed waiting for him to return. She always loved how dark and cozy his room was. She hadn't been in there more than a few times but when she did, it always put her at ease. Everything about it was welcoming the smell of pine, the texture of his many blankets and pillows, it was so comfortable to Clarke. She noticed that the stacks of books next to his nightstand had grown since the last time she was in his room, she was pleased to see a few books she recommended in the pile. After sitting there for a while she began to doze off but the sound of Bellamy entering her room woke her in an instance. She quickly shot straight up.
Bellamy looked her up and down, "Clarke what are you doing here, are you okay?" He said as she stood up facing him."
"Yeah I'm fine it's just," It than dawned on her that she had no idea what she was going to say to him, or why she even waited in his room. It's not like she could admit he feelings for him, that would only make it harder for him to leave. "Um- The camps being split up, you're leaving." His eyes narrowed in trying to understand what Clarke had just said to him.
"What do you mean I'm leaving?" He asked.
"Kane is sending half of the camp to a new location, and you're being sent there, I have to stay behind." She explained to him.
"What? No" He denied, "There has to be something we can do." He shook his head in disbelief.
Clarke took a step closer to him and grabbed his hand. "There isn't I tried talking to Kane, he has his mind made up."
"Well this doesn't have to be goodbye, we will still see each other, we can figure this out together." He squeezed her hand, and smiled half-heatedly.
"You're my best friend Bellamy, I can't lose you again." She admitted.
"Again? You've never lost me." He responded.
"We've just been separated so much, I just can't believe it's happening again."
"It'll be okay Clarke, I promise." He let go of her hand and wrapped his arms around her waist and without hesitation she threw her arms tight around his shoulders.
He slowly released her from his grasp and kissed her lightly on the forehead, "No matter what, you will never loose me, I will always be on your side."He reassured her.
"Thank you Bell, for everything" She smiled.
"Yeah, thank you too Princess," He smiled back and looked at the window, "You should probably get going, it's getting late and you need your beauty sleep." He teased.
"Alright, I'll see you tomorrow." She smirked and turned around with a look of disappointment on her face.
"Hey, it's going to be okay Clarke. I swear it." He said before she walked out of his room.
She looked back at him, "I know, it just sucks ya know?" Bellamy nodded and with that Clarke left and headed back to her room, she had trouble falling asleep, but eventually fell deep into sleep.
The morning came quickly, Clarke found a note in the box outside of her door announcing a gathering at noon. She rolled her eyes, crumpled the paper up and attempted to toss it into the trash can across the room, it bounced of the rim and onto the ground, she ignored it and headed for the shower. Clarke dressed quickly and headed to get some food from the crowded cafeteria. Still being pretty upset from the news of her best friend being sent away to who-knows-where, she just wanted to be alone for the rest of the day. But she knew she would have to get up and go to the meeting, not because it was technically mandatory but because she wanted to know when Bellamy was leaving and where he was going. When she made it back to her room she ate quickly and began to pass time by drawing a little. After she finished the sketch she'd been working on for a few days, she checked the time, it was a little over 11:45. Clarke got up and made her way to the front of camp where the meeting was being held. Many people were already there waiting and wondering what this was all about. She tried to look for Bellamy but didn't see him anywhere so found a place with Monty, Miller and Jasper.
"Thank you all for coming." Kane appeared infront of the large crowd, Abby by his side and the additional council members behind the two. "Now before I begin I just want to let everyone know that things are going very well here in Arkadia. So thank you to those of you contributing to this society. Now the reason you are all here is to inform you on new plans in store for us. We have located a new area where we are going to send half of the camp to, they will set up a community there. Now before you start to worry just know I put a lot of thought into who is going and who is staying, I did not split up families, however you may be separated from some you have grown close to. Those leaving will have one month to get there things together and say goodbye. I'm truly sorry for any inconvenience, but once things get settled at the new camp we will give everyone a choice of where to stay, but for now it was chosen based on the need to survive. I have list of who is leaving that will be put in your boxes before eight tonight. It will also come with the location of the new place. If you have any questions feel free to ask me personally or ask member of the council. Thank you all for coming."
As he and the rest of the council left, everyone began to turn and talk about the news they just received. To Clarke's surprise most people weren't very angry about it like she had been when she found out, but not everyone was being split up from their best friend. Clarke eventually spotted Bellamy standing with Murphy and Emori. She walked towards them, none of them seemed very happy to be there. Bellamy because he was still upset about having to leave, and Murphy and Emori just didn't associate with everyone very often it was nearly impossible to get them out of the bedroom long enough to actually have a conversation with the two of them. When Bellamy saw Clarke walking there way his face instantly lit up, Murphy saw and chuckled.
"What?" Bellamy hissed.
"You can't possibly be more obvious can you?" Murphy teased back.
"Whatever Murphy." Bellamy rolled his eyes and smirked.
"Hey guys." Clarke gave off a half smile and blushed up at Bellamy.
"Well you couldn't possibly be more obvious either can you princess?" Murphy joked.
"Hey leave them alone," Emori laughed and nudged him, "let's get going and leave the two of them alone Murphy." She took his hand and walked with Murphy following right behind.
"What was that about?" Clarke laughed.
"I don't know it's Murphy."Bellamy laughed along with her. They both started walking in sync but neither of them spoke. They had no idea what to say, it was just awkward silence until Raven ran up from behind.
"Hey well isn't it two of my favorite people." Raven cheered.
"What's up Raven?" Clarke smiled.
"Nothing I was just heading to the cafeteria to meet Jasper for lunch you guys wanna come?" She offered
"Yeah we'll be there in a minute, I need to talk to Bell real quick."
"Alright," Raven ran ahead of them, "you two have fun." She said suggestingly turning back to look at them.
Bellamy rolled his eyes at her and then looked back down at Clarke, "What if I didnt want to eat lunch with you guys, what if I had plans." He smiled down at her.
"Well considering our lunches are numbered now, you'll just have to cancel whatever plans you had." She joked back at him.
"Well it's a good thing I didn't really have plans." Bellamy admitted. "So what do we need to talk about?" He asked.
"I just want to make sure that we're on the same page." She said.
"What do you mean?" Bellamy's eyebrows narrowed in confusion.
"I know we talked about this last night, but Bellamy when you leave it can't be goodbye, I'm tired of having to say goodbye to the people I love, it just- it can't be goodbye okay." Clarke ranted.
Bellamy looked at Clarke and smiled, she just said she loved him and she didn't even realize it, "Clarke look at me," she looked at him with fear on her face, "it will not be goodbye. I don't care how far apart we are, you're my best friend, no matter what that will not change." He promised.
"Okay, I'm just worried about all this, I really hate it."
"Well you worry too much, just relax okay? Everything's going to be fine, just wait and see I bet barely anything will change." He assured. He smiled and Clarke smiled back. They continued to walk to the cafeteria, without realizing it Clarke had linked her arm with Bellamy's as they entered the Cafeteria. They didn't release each other's arms until sitting down at the table with Raven and Jasper. Although Bellamy did everything he could to reassure Clarke, she still had a horrible feeling that she was losing her best friend, but she ignored it the best she could, and for a while there, talking and laughing with her friends made her forget all about it, and for the rest of the day everything seemed normal. Until she got back to her room and was left alone with her thoughts, the saddness of losing her best friend crept back into her mind and didn't leave until she fell asleep.