Author's Note: It's been an age. I'm so sorry. Here's another quickie to tide you over. Working on the next bit presently.


Clarke

"Bell we should talk about this."

"Yeah." He nodded emphatically.

"Oh."

"Oh, what?" He asked, brow suddenly furrowed.

"No! I just thought... I thought you were going to fight me I'm this."

"On what, talking about our baby?" His lips twisted a bit and if I didn't know any better if have sworn he was smiling.

Clarke I am always going to want to talk about our baby." Holy shit, he was smiling. "Now I know you didn't plan this and it's probably hard for you to see it, but just give this a chance okay?"

"Bell..." I wasn't really sure where I was going with that sentence, so I kind of just trailed off.

"So you have the baby, right. And then we raise it, the first member of Skikru born on Earth. But we teach her about the sky, and the planets, and why we were there, but we also teach her about the Earth, and we can get Octavia's help because she's brilliant about Earth stuff. And then she'll be like, this little genius. But she's OUR kid, so she'll also be a badass. And she's going to make us go crazy, but we're going to love her so much. And I'm going to build us a cabin. Or a special tent, if you decide you want Skikru to migrate like some of the other factions, whatever you want, but she'll be warm, and I'll provide for us and we can do this Clarke, we can raise this baby to be freaking awesome!"

"She?"

"In my head she's a she. Oh. And I guess I skipped over the part where I ask you to move in with me. But I want you to. I want you to move in with me. It's sudden. I know that. And you're stubborn and probably want to do this on your own or have your own ideas about her, but I want in. I want to fight with you about when she's allowed to go on her first hunting trip, and I want to cry with you when she falls in love for the first time, and I want to be with you, every step of the way and Octavia told me not to freak you out and say this but she was raised under some floor boards so what does she know? Clarke I want to be with you every step of the way and not just because we're having a baby together. I love you. I want to be with you. Regardless of our baby. I want it to be you and me against the world forever." I took a shuddering breath, and glanced around the little cave. Lincoln had just returned but was kindly looking very occupied with something I knew wasn't actually important right now. Wells and Octavia had gone out to let everyone else know I was okay, but I'd told them in no uncertain terms that they weren't to tell anyone else yet, not until we had a plan and knew what we were doing.

"Bell-"

"It's a lot to take in. I know that. So don't feel rushed, and don't feel like just because I said I loved you that you have to say-"

"I love you too." He took a deep, shuddering breath, and in an instant, his lips had found mine and we were kissing. After a pointed cough from Lincoln, we pulled apart and he grinned down at me.

"We're going to have a baby." He said softly.

"Maybe." I said, my anxiety back in an instant.

"We wont know for weeks if taking out the device hurt the baby, or worse. My pregnancy might not progress and then we'll know that it's..." I trailed off, unable to say the word dead.

"She's not. She's a fighter, like her mom." He smiled softly. "Besides, we can always try again."

"Try again insinuates that we tried the first time. It's an accident baby, Bell. I want to be with you too but if I miscarried, then we are waiting to try at all." He shrugged.

"I'd say we'll discuss it later, but we wont need to. She's fine."

"She is."

"Yup. She is." His confidence was contagious and I rolled my eyes with a smile.

"Lincoln, thanks." I said, reaching out to hug him. Bell looked on, steely eyed, still not fully accepting the man.

"We should go back, now Clarke." Bellamy said, in lieu of a goodbye to the grounder.

"Yeah." I said, "I'm coming." I winced as my nether regions roared in pain for the first few steps. Without a word, Bellamy swept me off my feet - quite literally this time - and carried me out of the cave. I'd have protested, but it felt like a white hot knife had just been wreaking havoc on my vagina. Finn instantly rushed to my side the moment we were out.

"Clarke!" He called out, "Oh my God, we could hear you screaming!"

"Yeah. I'm fine now. Just sore." I wrapped my arms around Bellamy's neck as he carried me forward, his long strides forcing Finn to jog to keep up. I was also tired as hell. I closed my eyes and nestled into Bellamy's chest. He shifted me in his embrace and kept walking forward.

"She's fine, Spacewalker." He said simply. "Let's get her back to camp. And maybe some food when we get there?" Happy to have a job that helped me, Finn raced off toward our little village and had some meat cooked and ready for me by the time we arrived back. Miller kept almost everyone from crowding me, but Monty and Jasper were by my side in a minute.

"Dude. You snuck out. That. Was. Epic."

"Yeah, you gotta show us how to do that sometime."

"You all talk like I'm keeping you locked in here." Bellamy scoffed. "You aren't prisoners. You're all allowed to come and go as you please... so long as you don't mind foregoing the protection of our walls when there are radiation soaked predetors waiting for you. And so long as you aren't my baby sister off to see some grounder boy."

"He's older than you Bell," Octavia chimed in cheerfully. "I don't think you can reasonably call him a 'boy', you know?"

"I can call him what I like, and I'd like to point out that you are not helping your case here."

"He just saved Clarke, and you're still being like that?!" She asked indignantly.

"I believe the agreement was that if you don't bring him up, I wont openly display my wrath to or about him. But you brought him up. So that's on you, O."

"You're impossible."

"I will be really happy if I don't ever see him again."

"Impossible, I say!" She called out loudly as she stalked away, back towards our tent. "Clarke I'm getting your bed ready! The girls and I are gonna watch out for you tonight, make sure you're still okay!"

"Thanks, O." I replied, quietly. I don't know if she actually heard me. I was exhausted. A few bites into my food I looked up at Bell.

"I think I just want to go to sleep."

"Are you sure you don't want to eat anymore?"

"Yeah." I nodded. "I just want to rest."

"In-"

"Octavia will be pissed if I don't stay with her." He nodded, but I could see the disappointment in his eyes.

"Tomorrow though I can probably move out from under my nursemaid..." I trailed of with a small smile. He nodded, sweeping me up again to carry me off towards O's tent.

"Tomorrow then."


A/N: So? Please review! Tell me what you want to see happen next!