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Charlie was feeling good, lying next to Bellamy. Their new "relationship" was strange, not named, and totally making her lost, but it was amazing. She had all the good sides, without the bad ones. She wasn't forced to always find him nice, she could totally say he was a jerk when he was being one. But she could still have some sweet moments of happiness and complicity with him. Plus, they were like king and queen, ruling the hundred... That was awesome. Just as she was contemplating her perfect situation, she heard people talking loudly outside and someone calling them.
"Hey, come see this!"
She turned to Bellamy, who looked as lost as her. They got up fast and got out of the tent, just in time to see what looked like a shooting star or a meteor in the sky.
"What is that?" asked Charlie, intrigued.
"It's a pod from the Ark!" said someone on an excited tone.
They saw a parachute open and the pod continued his way slowly to the ground. A pod from the Ark? That could be good... or maybe not. One thing was sure, they had to find it before the Grounders. It could be full of medication or food.
"That's not good..." she heard Bellamy whispered next to her.
She looked at him, asking with her eyes what he meant. But he ignored her. He avoided her look and just continued to look in the sky, following the pod with his eyes. Ugh. That was Bellamy-the-jerk. The one she wasn't fond of. She wanted to ask him for more, but he just turned his back to her before she could even talk. He then walked away, with no more explications. Charlie just stood there, totally shocked.
"What?" she whispered. Did he just walked away like that?
As she was going to follow him, Octavia blocked her, planting herself in front of Charlie.
"Excuse me, what's your name again?
She had a challenging look on her face. She was definitely Bellamy's sister. Same expression. The resemblance was abit frightening.
"Charlie..."
Octavia crossed her arms, apparently waiting for more infos. Charlie just stood there, not knowing what Octavia was after.
"Ok, so now that I've answered, aren't you supposed to ask me something else or to just get out of my way?"
What? Charlie had better things to do than a bitch-fight with the little sister of the guy she was in a not-named-relationship with. Wow. That was weird. To that, Octavia answered with a loud sight and rolling eyes. She turned back, walking away just like her brother. What was with this family?
"What just happened?" said Charlie out loud, still shocked.
"So, you and Bellamy?" she heard next to her.
She turned to find Jasper, apparently amused. Was everyone talking to her and then just walking away? Was that a new thing? Was he going to to the same?
"I think Octavia is a bit annoyed by that." he added, laughing.
"How do you even know there is something between me and her brother?" asked Charlie, intrigued.
He shrugged. "Well, you went out the same tent, both lightly dress. No need to be Sherlock here!"
In front of her confused look he specified: "Sherlock Holmes was a famous detective in books that were famous before the war. It's an old expression saying that everyone could come to this conclusion."
Charlie nodded, looking at how she was dressed. Yeah. She had her leggings and just her sport top, showing her belly. Lightly dressed. She could understand why Octavia was annoyed and bitchy.
"Well, you know it's really nothing... well it's something but not a big official thing, you know?" she said, confused, trying to defended herself.
Jasper laughed. "Not my place to judge!"
And he walked away (again!), still laughing at this strange situation.
One hour later, Charlie was in her tent, getting ready to go to the pod. Whatever was in there, they should go find it. She knew the word spread that Bellamy was saying to wait until the sun was fully up to go, but she couldn't wait. And, after all, she was chief now as much as him. But just as she was getting out of her tent, she bumped in Clarke and Finn.
"Have you seen Bellamy?" asked Clarke, not wasting a second.
"Hello to you too." answered Charlie, finding everyone a bit nervous today.
Clarke sighed heavily, she was in a bad mood. "We heard he was maybe here..."
Charlie raised her eyebrow. Bellamy was not in camp?
"He told everyone to wait until the sun is fully up to go for the pod. He should be in camp."
"Well, he's not." said Finn, passing a hand trough his hairs.
Wait. So Bellamy went to the pod alone, asking everyone to stay behind? What was in the pod that was so important to him that he had to get there first?
"He knew it, from the beginning, he's doing everything he can so that we can't contact the Ark and so they can't come down." said Clarke, storming out of Charlie's tent.
Charlie followed her, running to catch her.
"Let me go after him. If we do this the good way, we could stop him without having to race and fight to get there."
Clarke stopped turning to her. "Look, if you want to go after your boyfriend by your own, your free to go. But I will go and I will stop him from destroying what is inside this pod."
And she turned her back to Charlie, walking away. Why everyone was doing that today? Finn passed next to her, a sorry look on his face. Well. If they wanted to play it like this, she was going to play. She was going to find her so-called boyfriend before them.
She was walking in the woods, on the trail of Bellamy, when she heard voices on her left. Slowly, she came closer, soon seeing Bellamy and Octavia speaking. Well, she wasn't the first to have found Bellamy.
"You're just a selfish dick." said Octavia, apparently a bit angry at her brother. Charlie couldn't have said it better.
"I did this for you. To protect you." answered Bellamy on an aggressive tone. "If the Ark finds out we're alive, they'll come down. And when they do... I'm dead."
Charlie felt her stomach jump to her throat. What? What was he talking about? Still hiding, she grabbed the tree that was near her to find balance. As much as Bellamy could be a jerk, she wasn't liking the idea of him being dead. She had to admit she was attached to him. In love? Ugh. No. no.
"What did you do?" asked Octavia, as shocked as Charlie.
"I shot him. I shot Jaha."
"What?" said Charlie, louder that she wanted to. Octavia and Bellamy turned to her, surprised. She came out of the woods and walk to them.
"You did what?" she asked again, looking at Bellamy, incredulous.
"I killed Jaha," he repeated. "Someone came to me with a deal. I shot the Chancellor and I got a spot on the ship to earth."
He turned to Octavia, looking sorry.
"I did this to protect you, so I could look up on you."
Octavia looked at him, disgusted. "I never asked for this..."
She turned back and walked away, letting Bellamy and Charlie alone in the middle of the woods.
"She's right." he said on a low tone.
Charlie turned to him, trying to understand.
"I did this, I should deal with the consequences."
He started to walk in the direction of the pod, but Charlie stopped him.
"Wait! Is this why you wanted so bad that the Ark think we are dead?"
He was avoiding her eyes. Not good.
"This is my problem. I did what I had to do to survive."
He tried again to continue his way, but Charlie put a hand on his chest.
"Hey, I'm not judging you. I'm just saying maybe there's another way to get out with this."
He finally looked at her straight in the eyes. He took her face in his hands, taking her closer to him.
"There is no other way. Either you follow me to help me, or you stay behind, out of my way." he said, frowning and clearly nervous.
"You know I can't do that." she whispered.
She saw the disappointment in his eyes, but she had her principles. Maybe there was a radio in the pod. As much as she hated the Ark, some help could keep them alive a bit longer. She wanted with all her heart to help Bellamy, but her reason was saying it was a bad idea. He would clearly destroy the radio, not giving them their best chance to survive. Even more with the winter coming.
"I'm sorry then..." he said before kissing her.
Sorry for what? Just as their lips came apart, she felt an intense pain on the back of her head and the world went black. Oh the bastard.
When Charlie woke up she had an excruciating headache. Bellamy was going to pay for that. She stood up with difficulties, still dizzy. He had knocked her hard, because the sun was now high in the sky, meaning in was near noon. She leaned on her knees, breathing slowly to wake herself up entirely. Once done, she stood completely, looking around for a clue on where Bellamy went. She found a hint and she followed it through the forest, soon arriving to the site of the crash. The pod was there, but no one was around. She was probably too late. A lot can happen in few hours. Just as she was looking closely to the engine, she heard some distant voice on her left. That was worth a try. She walked in that direction and after a few minutes she found a river, where some of the hundred where searching for something. She saw Clarke, Finn, and a girl she didn't knew standing on the bank of the river, looking worried.
"What is that?" she asked, walking to them.
"Oh, you finally decided to show up. Where were you?" said Clarke, apparently a bit angry for some reason.
Charlie looked at the new girl and saw how she was standing close to Finn. Closer than the normal distance of friends.
Not answering to Clarke's question, Charlie turned to this girl. "Never seen you down here. Who are you?"
"Raven." said the girl, offering her her hand.
Charlie took it, shaking hands. "I'm Charlie."
"I was in the pod. I came down with the help of Clarke's mother to prove that you were still alive." added Raven for explanation.
"Well, here we are." said Charlie with a chuckle.
This was interesting. But still not explaining what was going on here. Raven probably understood her intrigued look, continuing to explain what Charlie had missed.
"The Ark is dying. They need to reduce the population and they are going to kill 320 people today if they don't hear about us. I was suppose to radio back as soon as I was sure we can live down here but..."
"But Bellamy decided to be selfish and to throw the radio in the river." cut Clarke, with anger.
"One more reason to hit him." said Charlie with a fake smile.
Oh yeah. After what he did to her, he was going to pay. Raven laughed at her remark.
"You seem to have a grudge!"
Charlie nodded, crossing her arms and looking into the distance. "He hit me on the head because I was going to stop him. And the bastard did that while kissing me. Such a jerk."
Raven laughed even harder. "Well at least it wasn't completely unpleasant!"
Charlie laughed with her. She was nice. She was starting to like her. Finally someone not always so serious. They stood in silence for a moment, watching the progress of the search. No one was finding anything. And even if they did, the radio would be totally soaked. Even if Raven could arrange that, it would probably be too late. Charlie sighed, this situation was depressing. People were going to die because they were thinking it wasn't safe down here. They had to do something to show the Ark they were there. If only they could just wave and they could see them. Or just make a sign for them to understand...
"What if we could launch small rockets?" suddenly said Charlie, thinking out loud.
Finn, Clarke and Raven turned to her.
"Brilliant..." said Finn. "Raven, do you think this could work?"
Raven nodded slowly, thinking hard. "Yeah, I think we could make that work. We just need to be lucky: they have to watch to see them!"
"I think it's our only choice..." said Clarke, looking a bit more cheerful.
"Ok, gather everyone, we will need help!" said Raven to Finn, running in the direction of the pod.
Hey! Charlie had a good idea! This was awesome. She was hoping with all her heart it was going to work. Even if she hated the Ark and that nobody counted for her up there, she was still human and wanted to save those lives. They didn't deserve to die. Just as she was feeling hopeful for the first time of the day, she saw Bellamy sitting on the ground a bit further. Well. Time for revenge. She walked to him, planting herself in front of him.
"Look who's there. A bloody bastard that probably feels really bad right now."
Ok, it wasn't fair to rub it in his face, but hey, he hit her earlier that day. She deserved revenge.
"Are you also going to blame me for this? I didn't knew they were going to kill these people. And by the way, I didn't kill Jaha. I missed my shot." he said, not even looking at her, looking depressed.
Maybe she had been a bit hard on him. He really looked sorry and confused. Charlie sighed heavily, closing her eyes a moment.
"I hate myself." she whispered before opening her eyes again.
She offered her hand to Bellamy, to help him stand up.
"Ok, we get it, you're not a bad guy. Now stop crying on your mistakes and come help us to build rockets."
He looked at her hand and then at her face. Ugh, his eyes were so beautiful. It wasn't fair, she really wanted revenge. He took her hand standing up really close to her. She wanted to take a step back to let him some place, but he grabbed her arm, keeping her close.
"I'm sorry for earlier. I did hit you hard. But hey, you're a tough girl. Hopefully I can find a way to make that up to you." he whispered in her ear.
He looked at her with his predator look, a malicious smile on his face. Was he really hitting (good choice of word, no?) on her right now?
"You are always the same..." she sighed, not being able to refrain a smile.
