Chapter 8

I know there isn't a lot of Bellarke right now, and I promise you Clarke will not be with anyone else in this story/Neither will Bellamy! But I just need a little more time to get there! PS I've decided this will be a 40 chapter fic :) Happy reading. Reviews always welcome!

After a good couple hours at the beach they all went back to their cars with a promise to meet at Mirrors later that night. Apparently not just the girls liked going there, like the dinner it was one of their packs main places they likes to hang out.

Clarke was done getting ready at least an hour before her two roommate, she didn't put as much time and effort into her look at they did. Leaving her with a hour to kills Clarke was suddenly very happy to have Jared to talk to.

"Blondie ready first as usual." He joked as she flopped belly first onto his bed.

"You know me. A little shake of the hair a pair of shorts and a cute top later I'm all ready to party."

"It's good to know some things haven't changed." He smiled join her on the bed.

Jared was always simple like her, a pair of jeans and t-shirt later he was ready. Most wolves were like that though, at least the male ones were. Their muscles alone were enough to attract any girl.

"The only thing that's changed about me is my area code." Clarke said, again focused in on her hair elastic.

It was a new habit she'd picked up after the accident, she always had one on her.

"That's not true, or maybe it's more like how you use to be. Not just before Seth but before me." Clarke shot him a warning glare and he backed off. "You seem happy and not that fake happy you put on back home, a genuine happy. It's nice to see, I was afraid bats were going to start thinking your mouth was a cave they could hide in."

Clarke laughed. "What the hell are you even talking about right now."

Jared shrugged smiling back. "I'm happy I came."

"You mean you're happy you messed up at home and were forced to come stay with me?" Jared didn't reply, he just looked at her. "For the record? I'm happy your annoying ass got dropped here."

Clarke cuddled into Jared's side, allowing him to put his hand around her shoulder and hold her closer. They laid like that for a while before Jared broke the silence, he'd wanted to bring something up ever since the beach.

"Have you dated anyone since you've been here?"

"Not that it's any of your business nosey but no I haven't"

"Really? Not even flirted a little?"

"Why the sudden interest in my love life?" Clarke turned her head to look him in the eye.

Shrugging he answered. "I was just trying to unravel the mystery that is new old Clarke."

Clarke eyed him suspiciously smelling some serious bullshit. After a minute she dropped her eyes letting it go, she found during the course of their relationship that Jared was horrible at keeping secrets. The truth would spill out of him sooner or later.

Jared internally sighed, silently thanking Clarke for dropping the subject he didn't even mean to bring up in the first place. He'd noticed the alpha staring during their game on the beach today, at first Jared thought he was just watching but when he kept looking up her noticed Bellamy's eyes were always glued to either Clarke or himself.

There was a shuffle and a squeal from down the hall that drew both Clarke and Jared's attention .

"I think your friends are about ready."

"Finally!" Clarke sighed climbing off the bed.

"I heard that!" Raven called loud enough for human ears to hear.

"You were supposed to." Clarke called back, moving into the hall with Jared behind her.

"Clarke what am I going to do with you, I swear this is the last time I am letting you dress yourself."

The blonde laughed. "You say that every time O."

"This time I really mean it."

Other than their behaviour it was obvious from the vodka on their breath that there had been some pre drinking going on in the bedroom. Raven better off than Octavia just decided to give her a piggy back down the stairs, which resulted in Monty and Jasper doing the same.

The club wasn't that far so they just walked it, but after the first 20 minutes Octavia thought there was an injustice that needed to be righted.

"Clarke I'm sorry what do you think you are doing!"

Clarke looked down at herself, not sure if Octavia was going to take another shot at her wardrobe.

"Jared pick that lady up, she should not be walking, you're making us look weird."

"O, that's but I'm okay walking, and the only reason you look weird is because you have one fake eye lash on."

"What!"The girl squealed, feeling her face. "Oh no you're right!"

"Here." Clarke chuckled walking up to her friend and talking off the fake lash she'd manage to put on. "Now you're even."

"Thank's Clarkey." She squealed followed by a snap of her fingers. "Now Jared pick her up."

"What the hell." Clarke gave in, letting Jared squat in front of her, she grabbed his shoulders and hopped on for the ride.

It only took another ten minutes for the club to come into sight. Octavia groaned spotting her brother Miller, Fox and Monroe and Murphy leaning against the clubs wall.

"How do they keep beating us?" Octavia asked waving a hand at them.

"Because we're better than you." Murphy answered grinning.

Fox rolled her eyes. "We drove."

Everyone slide of the backs of their rides and came to stand together.

"Murphy." He held out his hand to Jared introducing himself. "Also part of the pack, even though they let me sleep through lunch."

"Jared." He nodded back politely, returning the hand shake.

"Shall we go inside? It's cold as balls out here." Raven said as a shiver ripped through her.

"Maybe if you were wearing some clothes." Miller mocked.

Raven put her hands on her hips. "Do you see nipple? I don't think so." Was the last they heard of her before she opened the door.

The loud music of the club spilled out onto the street, the rest of the group made their way in. Clarke got lost in the shuffle while handing her coat to the coat check ladies.

"Damn it." She muttered to herself trying to see which way her friends went.

"Lost?"

Turning on her heals Clarke came eye to eye with Bellamy Blake, she'd had a stair down with him the first day they met, that was the extent of their interactions.

"Yeah, it's easy to do when you're too short."

He shrugged. "You could always try heels."

Bellamy had heard the thumping sounds of Clarke's heart and when he'd looked around the group and didn't see her, he followed the sound until his eyes landed on her.

"And break my neck? No thanks, I'll leave the heel wearing to your sister."

Bellamy chuckled, Octavia did always like to rock her heels. Even when she was a little girl she'd always steel their moms, it didn't matter that he feet were 8 sizes too small.

After realizing they'd just been staring at each other for the past two minutes Bellamy directed Clarke towards the pack. When she started in the wrong direction Bellamy's hand, as if on auto pilot, went to the small of her back.

They found the group at the bar ordering a couple rounds of drinks.

"Clarke I thought you'd gone to the dance floor without me!" Octavia slurred falling towards her friend.

"O, I think that's enough for now." Bellamy's stern voice was right in Clarke's ear as he reprimanded his sister.

The warmth of his body head made Clarke shiver as she righted her friend. She would have fallen herself if a solid chest hadn't been behind her.

"Come on O why don't we find a booth." Clarke suggested, wrapped her arm around her friends waist and started into the crowd of people.

Everyone else seemed to follow behind them and either got sucked into the dance floor like Monty, Raven and Harper or made it to one of the back booths. They had a view of the dance floor and had wound up in an area where there was another bar close by. After some chatting and a big glass of water Octavia seemed to sober enough to dance. Everyone but Bellamy and Fox made their way to the dance floor.

They danced sexy when the sexy songs came on and jumped around like crazy people when the hip hop songs came on. After a little time Jared and Monty took a break and went back to the booth while the others carried on.

Jared struck up a conversation with Fox.

"You guys were close back home?"

"Clarke and I?" She nodded. "We were always friends and I'll always watch out for her, With her brother being part of the pack back home she was always around us."

"That must have been interesting dating a pack mates sibling."

"It was a little, but he was adopted by Clarke's parents when he was 13 and she was 11, it took them a couple years to get close and by then I was already dating her."

Fox nodded. "I've dated a human before, the end result wasn't even close to what you and Clarke have. I never told him my- our secret, lying everyday like that was just too hard." Jared nodded, he understood where she was coming from.

Unlike most of the pack Jared's parts weren't wolves, it had skipped a generation and landed on him. Keeping half his life from them was more work than he ever thought it would be.

Fox and Jared traded chit chat for a while, she was easy to talk to, but he really wanted to talk to Bellamy. Jared didn't know if the alpha was only quiet now that he was here or if that was the norm. By this time everyone had made it back to their table, drinks in hand.

"Bellamy. Being an alpha to your sister that must be interesting." Jared said, looking across the table at him.

Octavia was the one to speak though. "Plleeaase, he has it easy. I'm the one you should be feeling sorry for!"

Murphy choked on his drink. "Do you even hear yourself, your bratty. You're lucky you're blood, if you weren't he'd probably have hung you from a tree by now."

Everyone in the pack laughed at that. After it being said a couple of times when she'd first moved in Clarke had to ask Raven to find out it was an inside joke. Because one Halloween when they were little the pack decided they'd hang Bellamy by his feet from a tree. Ever since he'd been threatening to get them back, thought it never happened.

Trying to bring the conversation back Jared directed another question at the alpha. Jared had watched Bellamy when he found Clarke at the beginning of the night and how he stood a little too close to her. He also heard the conversation on the beach earlier in the day and it confused him. He wanted to know why everyone kept making weird hints and looking at Bellamy and Clarke the way they were.

"You guys are a pretty large pack, I was surprised I didn't run into any of you out at the conflict this past year." Everyone's eyes shifted to Bellamy who'd been nursing his drink for the past 15 minutes watching his friends dance with each other.

"We don't talk about business in places like this." He said with finality in his tone.

"We aren't. I was just asking a simple question, it's not like everyone at the table isn't in on it." Jared challenged.

"Some shouldn't be."

"You mean her?" Jared asked squinting his eyes, with the music pumping there wasn't a chance that any other human around them would be able to hear.

Clarke turned on him then, why the hell was he bringing her into this. "What are you doing?"

Bellamy straightened up too, his eyes glued to Clarke's hand that had disappeared under the table to rest of Jared's thigh.

"Yeah I mean in front of her, I don't know how your pack is run, but here we don't involve humans-"

"Bell." Octavia tried to interrupt everyone had a lot to drink that night, now wasn't a good time to have some kind of wolf showdown.

"Oh really?" Jared fired back. "That's not what I heard."

"Jared!" Clarke said louder but it didn't distract from the testosterone filled pissing match going on.

"What was that?" Bellamy was fuming.

"There have been at least 12 accounts of humans being murder on your territory in the past two years alone."

"That wasn't us!" Murphy snapped, he was sensitive on the topic.

When the killings had started everyone was quick to blame Murphy, he'd been acting weird and disappearing alone. Little did they know it was to see his little sister, when his parents slip his dad and sister who are both human left and his mom and him stayed.

"Who gives a shit, it's on your territory, you're supposed to shut shit like this down when it comes up."

"What the hell has gotten into you!" Clarke snapped pushing on his chest.

"At least our pack didn't get away with murder."

Murphy's words seemed to freeze everybody.

"What did he say? What did he say!" Clarke shouted louder when no one had answered her.

"He doesn't know what he's talking about." Jared spoke directly to her, his heart pounding.

"Like fuck I don't-"

"Stop!" Raven yelled.

She'd been sitting quietly during the fight, but once she saw the tears and horror of Clarke's face she had to step in.

"You killed somebody?" Clarke whispered, looking up into the eyes of someone she thought she knew.