Today was the day. Clarke hated to admit it to herself but she was actually upset that she wouldn't see Bellamy Blake's face everyday anymore. She didn't really want him to leave but he couldn't stay here any longer. Clarke sighed as she grabbed his file off the desk in ICU and stared at it one more time, checking every little bit of it, again and again before she went in to Bellamy's room and told him he was being discharged. Everything was perfect, his brain function, his vital signs, her surgery had gone perfectly so there was no reason he needed to stay here.
"Morning doc, do I get to go home today?" Bellamy grinned at Clarke when she walked into his room.
"Yes, yes you do, before you can I go I have to ask you a few questions." Clarke sat on the edge of Bellamy's bed.
"Ask away Clarke." Bellamy bounced up and down on his bed excitedly.
"Who is coming home with you today, you're strong but you still need to be watched." Clarke looked down at his chart.
"Octavia, and I can guarantee you she wont leave at least until she's at least cooked me dinner." Clarke laughed at Bellamy, what he said was true, Octavia would baby him until he lost his mind.
"Ok, I can agree to that, Octavia will take good care of you. Now I just need to clarify that you know when your next check up is." Clarke said, scribbling down notes on the chart.
"Monday right? four days time." Bellamy said, looking proud of himself.
"Exactly, ok that should be all, I'll be back in a bit with the discharge papers, and I'll find Octavia so she can take you home." Clarke stood up to leave.
"Wait Clarke, before you can go I have to ask you a few questions." Bellamy winked at Clarke, using her own words against her.
"Ok, ask away." Clarke sat back down on his bed cautiously.
"Well first off, will you be doing my checkup on Monday?" Clarke saw a sly grin emerge on Bellamy's face.
"I can if you want me too." Clarke felt her heart flutter with anticipation.
"I do, but my second question is," Bellamy paused for effect. "Do I get to see you before then?" He grinned wickedly, Clarke felt herself blush.
"Saturday, Hyde Park, two o'clock, meet me at marble arch." Bellamy looked at her in a way that meant she would never say no even if she wanted to.
"Hyde Park? It's September!" Clarke argued.
"So what? If we're lucky the weather will be on our side." He winked at her again.
"Fine," Clarke sighed, trying to suppress a grin. "Saturday. Two o'clock. Hyde Park. I'll be there." She said as she left the room, now no longer being able to stop a wide grin spreading across her face. She hugged Bellamy's chart to her chest trying to contain her glee.
"Clarke, I see you're about to discharge Bellamy Blake." Clarke turned around to see her mother staring at her.
"Yes, he's doing very well and I don't see anymore reasons to keep him here." Clarke said to her mother.
"Can we have a chat please Clarke?" Abby said, gesturing to the conference room opposite them.
"Yeh sure I guess." Clarke replied reluctantly, setting Bellamy's chart down on the desk before following her mother into the conference room.
"Clarke, honey, I saw the article on Bellamy Blake and I have to ask, do the two of you have a relationship that is more than just doctor and patient?" Abby looked seriously at Clarke. "If you do, that is a serious breaching of the hospital rules. Another doctor has already expressed concerns."
"Another doctor? It wasn't Finn Collins by any chance was it?" Clarkes temper was rising. Dammit Finn! Clarke cursed.
"Finn is only looking out for your best interests Clarke." Clarke rolled her eyes, she was pretty sure Abby liked Finn more than she liked her own daughter.
"Finn doesn't know what he's talking about, and there is nothing going on between me and Bellamy Blake. Are you happy now?" Clarke practically screened at her mother.
"Clarke calm down, I'm just looking out for you. If your seen with him outside the hospital there is nothing I can do, the likelihood is you'll lose your job. Plus you could barely handle being in your year six school production, how do you think you'll cope being in the limelight constantly? Which you will be if you date this boy." Abby sighed and pulled her daughter into a hug.
"Mum, I really like him." Clarke whispered into Abby's shoulder.
"Oh honey, boys are a pain I know." Abby's voice softened. "You should know that it wasn't just Finn who came to me with the article, lots of people here thought you were being inappropriate, I'm so sorry Clarke." Clarke could feel tears pooling in her eyes.
"I wasn't though…I would never." Clarke said between sobs. How had this day started off so great and ended up like this? All because of a boy who Clarke had known less than a month, maybe her mother was right, maybe he wasn't worth it.
"I believe you Clarke, but I can't protect you from this, you've seen the article, you've got to know what it looks like." Abby said gravely.
"I do, but surely after I discharge him he wont be a patient any longer?" Clarke's heart lifted, of course! This was a simple solution why didn't she think of it sooner?
"No Clarke it's not that simple, he'll still be an patient, you of all people know that he has to come in for weekly check ups for at least another month, and even then, he'll be on our patient list for life." Abby looked sadly at her daughter. "If this wasn't such a public case it would be different, but he's constantly in the spotlight and I can't change that, so for the sake of the hospital this has to be the case. I'm sorry Clarke."
"For the sake of the hospital? What about me? What about my feelings? I'm your daughter for crying out loud." Clarke said angrily, the hospitals image? What kind of bull was that?
"Clarke, this will be better for you, you've got to trust me, I love you." Abby put her hands on Clarkes shoulders reassuringly.
"Mum, I don't know what to do, help me." Clarke was debating whether or not to tell her mum about Saturday, but she wanted to go so maybe keeping it secret from her mother was better.
"I'll take you off his case, you can discharge him today, but then you never have to see him again and this whole incident can be forgotten, ok sweetie?" Abby gave Clarke a week smile.
"Ok mum, I should go now, I love you." Clarke gave Abby a quick hug before leaving the conference room. She ran into the nearest supply closet and locked the door behind her, sitting on the floor with her head held in her hands she tried to make sense of what had just happened. So she wasn't allowed to be seen with Bellamy, surely that didn't mean that she couldn't see him, just that they couldn't be spotted alone together. Ok she could do that, Clarke laughed at herself, she never had been very good at following rules. Although breaking this rule could cost Clarke her job, and possibly her reputation as a surgeon, and her relationship with her mother. Well hopefully it was worth the risk, Clarke thought. She had a plan for Saturday, all she had to do now was find Raven.
Raven was in the cafeteria when Clarke found her, luckily without Finn for once, Clarke couldn't deal with more Finn Collins drama today. She walked up to Raven and sat down. "Raven, I need your help with something."
Raven barely even looked up from her book before saying, "spill Griffin, what have you done now?"
"Well, basically Bellamy asked me out and I said yes but my mum said no." Clarke rambled, it made sense in her head but apparently not to Raven.
"What." Raven put her book down and stared at Clarke, dumbfounded.
"Ok well basically Mum said I'm not allowed to date a patient or I'll get fired and all the press is bad for the hospital or something." Clarke continued, trying to get her thoughts straight.
"Shit man really? That's harsh, normally they turn a blind eye to things like this, and your mum of all people can't stop you from being happy." Raven looked at Clarke, obviously still trying to wrap her around what Clarke was saying.
"Yes but the point is because so many people know who he is and cameras basically follow him around twenty four seven, seeing me with him makes gives the hospital a bad image." Clarke sighed in annoyance at this whole stupid situation.
"So what do you want me to do about it Clarke? Tell you that he's not worth it? Or tell you to break the rules and then possibly get fired?" Raven asked Clarke.
"No I've got a plan, but I need your help and your friendship with Monty and Jasper." Clarke grinned wickedly at Raven. "I'm going on this date, but you're coming with me."
"Clarke that's a bad plan." Raven shook her head after listen to Clarke ramble on for five minutes about her plan for tomorrow.
"No it's not, it'll work, and Bellamy will understand I'm sure." Clarke said, trying to convince Raven.
"Fine, I'll try Clarke but I can't promise Monty and Jasper will be down for this." Raven said wearily.
"Thank you!" Clarke squealed. "Oh look I see Octavia, don't tell her anything. I don't even know if she knows that I'm going on a date with my brother let alone this so just don't say anything." Clarke's eyes gleamed with excitement as if she was on some sort of secret mission or something.
"Obviously." Raven just rolled her eyes at Clarke.
"Hi Clarke, Dr. Reyes, how are you?" Octavia sat in the spare seat next to Clarke.
"Raven please, we're fine thanks, how are you?" Raven grinned, looking between Clarke and Octavia.
"Good, listen Clarke I need to talk to you about something." Octavia turned awkwardly to Clarke.
"Ok Octavia what's up?" Clarke asked gingerly.
"Well I know Bellamy wants to ask you out, or at least I'm pretty sure he does he hasn't actually spoken to me about it" Octavia started.
"Oh he already has." Raven cut in, laughing. Clarke sighed and put he head in her hands.
"Oh, ok well I just want you to know that you should totally go for it because I haven't seen him this happy with anyone, ever. So I think you should know that he is perfect, I mean he practically raised me and I turned out alright, so just give him a chance, this whole rockstar thing is just an image I promise." Octavia looked sincerely at Clarke.
"Octavia I said yes, and I really like your brother, things are just complicated ok? Please trust me." Clarke wished things were different because everything anybody said about Bellamy Blake just made her want to date him even more. "Look I've got to go and discharge him now but feel free to stay and have lunch with Raven, talk about her wedding or something, oh and Octavia I'll page you when he's ready to be taken home." Clarke smirked at Raven and walked away, she stood outside Bellamy's door for a few minutes to compose herself before she walked in.
"Hiya Bellamy, how you feeling?" She grinned as she walked in and grabbed the discharge papers in his file. "So before I can let you go I need you to sign here, just so we know that you'll remember to come back for your checkups." Clarke handed him the papers and a pen and watched him sign.
"Great, so back Monday but I get to see you tomorrow right?" Bellamy winked at her and Clarke tried to keep her face looking happy.
"Yep, ok so Octavia should be here now I just paged her, and I'll see you when I see you." Clarke smiled at Bellamy just as Octavia was walking through the door to collect Bellamy. The three of them walked to the entrance of the building together where Clarke waved the two of them off and felt slightly sad that now she wouldn't see Bellamy Blake everyday.