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Chapter 12

Bellamy had text me his address as soon as he made it home and got comfortable. He still wasn't fully recovered and wasn't cleared to go back to work yet so he needed to make the most of his time back at his house. As soon as he was gone I found Maya and told her about him being discharged, she obviously knew me better than anyone and knew I was going to have a hard time with him not being here anymore.

It's not like I really knew Bellamy but the last few weeks I had been with him every day for most part of the day. Knowing that I would have to fill my day in on someone who is not him was kind of depressing. I was nervous going to his house after work but at least we wouldn't be alone, Octavia had agreed to stay with him for a while until he was fully back on his feet. Looking at the relationship that he and his sister had really made me wish I would have had a sibling. Siblings seem to have a bond that no one else could.

Maya walked me out to my car, which was something she did every day, she was protective of me and said that anything could happen walking out to my car. I wasn't sure what could happen in the 10 minutes it took to walk from the hospital to the employee parking but I loved her for caring. We stood there talking for a few minutes before I got in my car and headed to the address that Bellamy gave me.

I set my phone to take me to his address then started driving, I noticed that we lived a lot closer than I thought possible. I just assumed that he must have lived out of town since we hadn't run into each other before his accident. As I pulled onto his street, it was hard to not see that it was a very nice neighborhood. The houses weren't huge by any means but they weren't tiny either. I just assumed a single 30 year old police officer would have lived in some kind of apartment building or something, I know I shouldn't have assumed anything.

I sent Bellamy a quick text as I pulled up in his driveway. As I was opening my car door he was opening the front door to the house.

"You find the place easy enough?" He asked me as I was walking toward him.

"Yep actually your only about 10 minutes from me." I told him as I walked inside his house.

I followed him to the living room, he sat in the chair, I sat on the couch.

"Nice house." I wasn't really sure why I blurted that out.

He chuckled, "thanks."

"I gotta say with you living this close I can't believe we hadn't run into each other sooner." I told him my thoughts earlier.

"Actually I've only been here a few months and I've spend the last in the hospital, I was actually transferred it's why I had to move here." As soon as he told me that it made a lot more sense.

"Well I guess everything happened for a reason, even you getting shot." I said behind a smile, letting him know I was teasing.

"Yea and I'd get shot all over again." He played along.

Getting back to a serious note I said, "I know I didn't need you to do this but I have to say knowing that you'll be here makes things a lot better."

"I'm actually glad you said that because there was something I wanted to ask." He paused "Can she have my last name?"

I haven't ever seen Bellamy as nervous as he was right then, I actually hadn't even thought about the last name until then. I just assumed that she would take mine until the DNA test came back and then talk about it then. "Are you sure you want to do that?"

Bellamy's face lit up "Of course I do, Clarke I don't care what anyone else thinks I know this is my child, my mom doesn't agree with my decision but I'd really like for her to be born a Blake."

I couldn't help but smile at the thought that he really had thought this though and had even talked to his mom about it. "I wouldn't want it any other way."

The smile that crossed Bellamy's face at that moment was worth any doubt that I could have had about her not having my last name. If he hadn't shown any interest in being a father than I would have given her my last name but because he has shown how much a part of her life he wanted to be, I would give this to him.

"Alright so are we ready to start throwing around idea's about her first name now?" Bellamy asked.

"I think so." I couldn't help but laugh a little.

He gave a sheepish look, "honestly I don't have much but I was hoping once we started talking things might come up."

I laughed again pulling the list out of my purse. I sat the paper on the table and looked up at Bellamy, I had a whole sheet of paper with names scribbled on the front and back. They weren't all names that I really really liked or anything they were just names that I didn't hate.

"Wow well I guess you've had awhile to think about this." He finally said looking over the many names.

He handed me a sheet of paper that had only about five names written on it, I couldn't help but notice that all five of his names were also on my list.

"Can I mark out the ones that I really don't like?" He said obviously not caring for a few of my names.

"Sure."

As he started marking names out I walked behind him and watched over his shoulder to see what he was marking out. Name after name kept getting eliminated. When he was finished going over it the first time it was down to about ten names and after looking at what was left I was alright with the decision. I took the pad of paper his list was in and ripped out a piece of paper then rewrote the names we had so far.

I separated the names into two separate columns "This row is what I like for first names and this one for middle names?"

He skimmed through them again and nodded in agreement.

"Alright there is one name that I want to ask about." He said as he pointed to one that I honestly hadn't expected him to keep to begin with.

"What about it?" I asked.

"What does it mean exactly?" He looked curious.

"Well it's actually a flower, it kind of resembles a lily." I continued "It means fresh and sparkle in Greek, that's kind of how the flower got the name and I just figured it's like a fresh beginning."

"I actually really like it." Bellamy admitted "It's different."

"I thought you might appreciate the different part." I laughed "Bellamy and Octavia both pretty different names."

He laughed "What you don't like our names?"

Since I was still standing behind him I wrapped my arms him and said "Actually I really like both of your names."

He lifted his hands and took mine in his. "So we have a name?"

"Almost still need a middle name." I told him trying to not let my voice show how nervous I just became.

He turned so we were face to face. "How about Amaryllis Dawn Blake?"

"I love it." I said as I wrapped my arms around Bellamy in a hug this time.


Soooo it took me awhile to find a name that I felt fit, I was really trying to go with something that meant new beginning or something like that but couldn't really find what I was looking for. Butttt I came across Amaryllis and for some reason really liked it and its so different... So I hope you all don't hate the name!