Clarke woke up slowly the next morning and frowned when she realised she was not in her own tent and she was naked. It was then she felt a weight on her stomach and someone's hand in her own by her head. Clarke looked down and saw Bellamy's head resting on her stomach fast asleep, Clarke smiled he looked so peaceful and younger when he slept. He no longer worn the frown that he did when he was awake in fact Clarke swore she saw the hint of a smile on his lips not a smirk but a smile. His whole body looked less tense like he was finally relaxed. Clarke turned her head to gaze at their entwined hands his on top of hers she smile and started to circle her thumb over his. She turned her head back to Bellamy and started to play with his hair. She decided that she loved his curls it made him look freer and less Ark-like. Clarke knew that she could not move without disturbing him but was perfectly fine with lying there for a while forgetting their duties. No one would be up anyway when Clarke and Bellamy had gone back to his tent the party was still in full swing.
It was then Bellamy started to stir he moaned and turned his head so his face was planted in Clarke's stomach. She felt him smile against her skin; "Morning Princess" and he gently kissed her stomach twice before lifting his head meeting her eyes.
"Morning Bell." Bellamy smiled at the nickname and moved up to kiss her good morning. Clarke sighed as he moved away from her lips to her jaws and then down her neck.
Clarke hummed "This is a good start to the morning."
Bellamy stopped and smirked down at Clarke "So I guess that you don't regret it."
Clarke smacked him, "Don't ruin it Bell."
"You know what this means right," Bellamy was still smirking at her.
Clarke raised her eyebrows at him a small smile tugging on her lips.
"Your mine." Bellamy did not give Clarke time to reply before nibbled on her bottom lip and kissing her once more.
They broke apart to the sounds of movement around the camp. Bellamy sighed and laid his head in the crook of her shoulder casually resting his lips against her neck.
"We're going to have to get up aren't we," he mumbled against her skin.
"Yeah," breathed Clarke.
They lay there for another ten minutes in silence which led Clarke to over analyse everything that had happened. Bellamy had kissed her front of the whole camp that was only just sinking in, could he really not help himself or was it more than that. She did not want to be like the other girls, though she has not seen anyone go in or come out of his tent since just before they went to the bunker. It made her feel slightly better.
They dragged themselves out of bed and got dressed though Bellamy could not resist pulling Clarke to him running his hands through her hair while moving it over her shoulder so he could kiss her shoulder lightly. He rested his head on the same spot and run his hands down her body before letting her go to finish dressing. Bellamy was just about to leave the tent when Clarke grabbed his arm and stopped him turning him to face her.
"Bellamy why did you kiss me in front of the whole camp?"
He looked confused and angry at the same time.
"Well you didn't complain last night," he said defensively.
"I'm just curious."
Bellamy's face softened as he understood "Clarke I couldn't help myself. I was completely mesmerised by you I forgot where we were until I heard them cheering. The fact that it also made it clear to everyone that you are mine was just an added bonus," he had a smile on his face now.
Clarke sighed and rose up on her toes to kiss him one last time before they exited the tent.
Exiting the tent Clarke and Bellamy saw that most of the camp was already up and stumbling around with hangovers. They both felt smug as neither had drunk much and did not have hangovers. A couple of people noticed Clarke leaving Bellamy's tent but none of them seemed too surprised except for Finn. Finn was stood on the ramp of the drop ship clearly waiting for Clarke to go into the med-bay glaring in their direction. Clarke nudged Bellamy and brought it to his attention. He simply wound his arm round her waist pulled her in close. It was at that moment that Raven stumbled out of Miller's tent with him close on her heels; they froze where all eyes in the camp went to them. Clarke smirked at Raven but she replied with a quick shrugged of the shoulders and made her way over to her. She did not have many friends in camp but felt like she need girl talk so she wanted to talk to Clarke. That was when Finn lost it he stormed over to Clarke and Bellamy and got there just after Raven.
"Really, your both going to humiliate yourselves like this," he half yelled.
Raven and Clarke shared a look while Bellamy stiffened.
"What!" Raven and Clarke shot back together.
"Raven you clearly slept with Miller just to get back at me," at this Miller, who had come over when Finn stormed over originally to stop Bellamy killing the guy, stiffed and wanted to kill the guy himself. "And Clarke," continued Finn "Bellamy really. He has slept with half the girls in camp do you realise how stupid you look."
Bellamy laughed darkly "You're the one who looks stupid you tried to play two girls of course they were both going to leave you they deserve better than you."
Finn looked madder than anyone had ever seen him. "You're just using Clarke she will figure it out eventually."
At that Bellamy leapt forward punching Finn in the face it knock him down but Bellamy did not stop. Clarke and Raven both looked at Miller expectantly he did not look like he wanted to save Finn but did anyway.
"Bellamy, don't he's not worth it," sighed Miller pulling on Bellamy's shoulders.
Bellamy shrugged Miller off him and pinned Finn to the floor, "Stay away from both of them. Do you hear me? Raven deserves better and Clarke is mine and I'm never letting her go."
Bellamy stood and let Finn go, he scrambled away. Clarke put her hand on Bellamy's arm and he turned into her touch before yelling at everyone who was staring to get to work. They cleared away but this revealed Lincoln and Octavia stood outside the tent she had been sharing with Raven the one that they would have had to themselves last night. Bellamy tensed up again and his eyes narrowed on the Grounder. Octavia seeing this pulled Lincoln away and into the drop ship. Clarke ran a soothing hand down Bellamy's arm.
It was a good thing that at that point a yell from gate came that the Grounders had arrived and everyone parted ways to get on with their day.
Clarke was in the med-bay with Faith, Octavia and Lincoln who was still hiding out though Bellamy had left on a hunting trip. Raven walked in and collapsed on the bed Clarke was sat on taking a break. She needed girl talk about what had happened and who better than Clarke and Octavia. She earned grins off Clarke and Octavia.
"So Miller huh," teased Octavia.
Raven groaned "I don't know. Finn was right I did it to get back at him but he was so nice and sweet this morning."
"Oh dear how completely terrible that he is a nice guy," said Octavia sarcastically receiving a violent look off Raven.
"Do you like him?" asked Clarke "You know as more than a rebound," she added.
"I don't know," repeated Raven dropping her head in her hands.
"I think he likes you. He looked ready to kill Finn this morning," Octavia said trying to be helpful.
"Okay can we change the subject like the fact that Lincoln is still hiding in drop ship when Bellamy is hunting," Raven pleaded but her tone got happier as she went on to tease Lincoln.
From across the room Faith raised her eyebrows looking between Octavia and Lincoln then rolling her eyes.
"Well Clarke can keep him calm," Octavia shot back attempting to keep Lincoln from being the topic of the conversation.
"Oh is there some new gossip on that front," Faith looked far too excited.
"They are together now," Octavia said evilly and Faith giggled.
"God you sound like those two last night," groaned Clarke.
"This has been building for weeks the camp can finally breathe a sigh of relief," explained Octavia.
"And the winners of the bet can collect their winnings," added Raven.
"Wait what bet!" exclaimed Clarke.
It was that moment that the hunters came back and Bellamy made his way into the drop ship. He looked around as everyone just stared back at him.
"What's go…" he started but Monty ran in behind him.
"I had a brilliant idea last night and just remembered it!" Monty exclaimed.
"While you were drunk?" questioned Bellamy.
"Yes, I'm a genius it is possible. Look we could make radios. We all know how hard it is to keep track of all the groups going out of camp and this will make it easier."
"You do realise we would have to take apart the radio," asked Raven.
Monty's face fell he clearly had not thought this "We could look for parts."
It was at that moment everyone began to think of the ark and if they were even still there. No one in camp that had family on the Ark wanted to think they were dead. Raven and Monty started to debate the radios and whether they would need to dismantle the radio or if it was possible to have both. Clarke crossed over to Bellamy stepping up to his side.
"We need to talk to the camp about the Ark." Bellamy nodded in reply sliding his arm around Clarke's waist and pulling more into his side. "Oh and there was a bet on us getting together."
Bellamy hummed loving how Clarke felt against him until it sunk in what she had said. "Wait What!?"
The conversation in the drop ship stopped as everyone turned to look at the couple guiltily.
It took them ten minutes to get everything about the bet out of Octavia, Raven and Monty. They found out that Jasper and Monty had been the ringleaders, Monty had paled when that had come out. It turned out that nearly everyone in the camp had had some sort of bet. Raven had won along with Jasper and Monroe. After Clarke had managed to calm Bellamy and convince him to let the camp have some fun he went to call a camp meeting to discuss the Ark.
Clarke and Bellamy were stood in front of everyone in the camp by the fire.
"We have not been able to contact the Ark in over a week and we can't tell whether they are still alive up there. It is time to start living like they will not be following us down as that maybe what happens and we always need to be prepared. Winter is just around the corner and we need to prepare start finding ways to keep warmer. I'm sure we can do it as look at how far we have already come," at that Bellamy spread his arms out gesturing to the camp. "If the Ark does come down we want to show them what we have achieved. Do we want them to come down and take over like we were nothing?" There was a chorus of 'no' that came from everyone in the camp very enthusiastically. "We can make a stand against the Ark and show them that we are permanent, we are important everyone one of you matters here. Do we want to go back to the Ark system?" again there was a chorus of 'no's'. "Then we can do this our own way," finished Bellamy to a loud cheer.
"What about our parents?" came a voice from the back of the crowd.
"They can join us or if you want to you can go back to the Ark camp if they come down," answer Clarke reasonably. From the murmurs around the crowd no one wanted to go back to the ways things were on the Ark. Clarke and Bellamy smiled at each other as it became clear the camp agreed and wanted independence just as much as they did.
"See I told you no one would leave us," Clarke had a smirk on her face that she had definitely picked up from Bellamy.
"Now we just need a way to show the Ark we are permanent."
I hope you all like this. I had to go with Miller as it fit better in the end and sorry for the late update I knew how I wanted this chapter to end but no idea how to get there. Also I will try and update before Saturday as that is when I go back to Uni and I'm not sure if the wifi in my house has been sorted yet.
