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Chapter 28: Dad's Fear.
Day 25 (Yes still it was a long day)
Dear Aurora,
I know I screw up but Jake told me he saw you yesterday and you're still pregnant. I would really like to provide for you and our baby. You might still be mad at me and I should never have led you on when I knew I wasn't in love with you but I am only 20 year old, in college, I wanted to have fun, that doesn't mean I wouldn't take responsibilities for our son or daughter. It's still my kid.
I still leave with Jake so my number didn't change. Please call me.
Marcus.
Bellamy took another letter.
To my son/or daughter,
I am really sorry I don't even know which it is, I just hope this letter gets to you somehow.
You mother is doing the best she can I am sure, we met when we were very young, she was working in my favorite coffee place just outside off Ark University. Your mother is so beautiful how could any men ever resist her? At first we became friends and then we tried to be more but I realized she was only a friend to me. I liked her very much but I wasn't in love with her. That doesn't mean I wouldn't love you if I ever met you which I really hope I get to do someday.
I am not a bad man, or at least I don't think I am, I am studying international politics, but I don't want to get elected I rather work for someone with a true vision helping the people who needs it.
My mother is a chair woman in a local church, she raised me to be a better man than the one your mother left before you were born.
You're still little, just a baby, but I feel like I miss you already.
If you ever want to find me my name is Marcus Kane.
Love you baby,
Marcus.
There was at least a hundred letters in the folder Abby brought up. Clarke had left him with the letters and asked people to help her cook diner.
"No mom you can't help. You're a bad cook and I want this to be perfect." He heard her say for the fifth time.
Bellamy heard a car coming in the drive way, and got up to look at the window. A dark haired man got off the car and waited a moment clearly trying to get the courage to take the next step. Bellamy could feel Clarke behind him. She was standing away as if she was observing a deer trying to not scare him away, but knowing that she was there gave him the necessary strength to open the door, while Marcus still hadn't move from his car.
Clarke joined Bellamy once the front door was open and the two men were looking at each other. She took his hand and smiled at Marcus leading Bellamy toward him.
"Marcus." She called out, hugging him once he got close enough to them. She coughed when the two men stayed silent. "Bellamy, Marcus, Marcus, Bellamy." Their silence was deafening.
"Wow. So who's hungry?" she joked.
They all went in the house Clarke trying to make small town with her godfather, asking him about his work. But Marcus was completely ignoring her. She was about to leave the both of them to go back to the kitchen but Bellamy tighten his grip on her hand.
"Okay, I am staying here." She took a look at the other all watching at them from the couch. "Someone mind taking care of my diner?" she asked and Lincoln went to the kitchen.
Bellamy and Marcus were still silent looking at each other not moving, Bellamy's hand gripping Clarke's a little tighter with each breath.
"Mom, I might need some help here." She yelled knowing that Abby was still in the kitchen.
Abby came out and took a look at the scene before her.
"Marcus!" she said taking his attention to her. "Hey, did you say hello to Clarke?" She asked as Clarke has seen her do with kids at the hospital. And Marcus nodded his eyes getting back to Clarke and her baby bump.
"Oh my…" he started his mouth falling open. Clarke stared at her mom but she just shrugged her shoulders. "I swear I told him, like months ago."
"It's the 'I am going to be a grand-father' effect" Jasper supplied from behind Clarke. And Marcus looked at him while Clarke and Abby were both chuckling, that sounded like a logical explanation Marcus had already known about Clarke pregnancy but now everything was different.
"Hi, I am Jasper" he put his hand in Marcus' so he had no other option than to shake it. "And this is Monty, Miller, Maya, Wick, Octavia, Murphy, Fox, Raven, Harper, Jackson, and Lincoln" he added has the tall impressive man got out of the kitchen saying that the diner was ready.
"I wouldn't get to close to Clarke or O while he is around." Jasper whispered to Marcus loud enough for Bellamy to hear and make him smile.
"Jasper!" Clarke grunted "Get lost!"
He looked at her taking a fake offense. "But diner."
"Go wash your hands for at least 5 minutes." She told him "and take your accomplices with you."
They all obeyed leaving Abby, Marcus, Bellamy and Clarke alone.
"Wow that was…" Marcus started but Bellamy finished his sentence for him. "Clarke in all her glory."
Abby stood there taken aback by what she just witnessed the last time she was there she was impressed by the way everybody was taking care of her daughter under this roof but she was now realizing that Clarke shared that love she felt from them. And Bellamy was beaming he was so proud of her.
"Hi!" Marcus finally said. "You're all grown up" Clarke wanted to laugh but kept a serious face.
"I mean I knew you would be an adult now, it's just, I missed so much stuff." Marcus mumbled.
"I am a police detective now." Bellamy said out of the blue.
"I know Abby talk about you sometimes. I just didn't know about…" He stopped not knowing what to say "She always calls you Bellamy she never said your last name before."
Clarke looked at her mom, she was talking about them to Marcus? She didn't know about that. But now was not the time
"You have a lot of friends." Marcus stated.
"I am sorry I told you there would be people here, our people, there are a lot of them but they will behave, at some point", she said knowing that they were all back behind her "And they live here with us while they are on vacation." She heard someone chuckle behind her and turned around everybody got quiet instantly.
"That's an impressive trick, honey." Abby told her.
"Thanks!" Clarke turned back toward the 'real adults' as Bellamy had called them and smiled genuinely. "So who's ready for diner?" she asked and showed everybody to the dining table getting Miller and Lincoln to bring the food out since Bellamy still wouldn't give her her hand back.
They all asked question to Abby and Marcus about Clarke when she was little and as blushing as she was at some of the stories they were telling she was only focusing on the sad glances Marcus and Bellamy were exchanging.
"So Marcus, where did you meet my mom?" Octavia finally asked.
"At Grounders, it's a bar near ArkU." Everybody laughed loudly and Marcus looked at them confused.
"We all went to ArkU some of us as student, some of us to seduce young impressionable women, and some of us are still working there." Wick said his mouth full for which Clarke looked at him severally and he swallowed before he continued. "I was a TA, in engineering, I'll be a teacher next year and Monty is giving a course on alternative medicine each semester for a month."
"Oh!" Marcus said "Well that's where I met Aurora, she was working there, and Jake introduced me to her after I forced him to go there for a month just to look at her working." He stopped when he realized that everybody was looking at him not eating anymore. "You look a lot like her." He told O before picking up his fork.
"Why did you left Bellamy?" Raven asked a little aggressively.
"Raven!" Bellamy turned to her.
"What someone has to ask." Raven was calming down a little.
"That's okay, I was waiting for you to ask but after watching all of you together I guess it would be easier that way." Marcus stated putting his hand on Bellamy's shoulder as Bellamy squeezed Clarke's hand again.
"We went out for a while and I just realized that I liked her a lot but I wasn't in love with her and I told her, that's the day she told me she was pregnant. I am not proud of myself but I thought she was making it up so I would stick around, and we argued about it badly then she left and I tried to talk to her later to know if she was really pregnant or not but she had quit her job and Jake saw her a few months later pregnant, I tried to contact her but…"
Bellamy interrupted him. "I read some of the letters." He said in a low voice. "My mom send him back all the letters he wrote and he thought maybe she had moved but he kept writing anyway." Bellamy told the others standing up and hesitating before releasing Clarke's hand. He came back with the folder and put the letters on the table.
"Do you know who my father is?" O asked bluntly.
"I can try to find out if you want." Abby answered her.
"I am sorry Octavia but I haven't seen Aurora since the day she told me she was pregnant with Bellamy." O smiled and looked at Abby.
"I think I want to know." She told her.
Murphy seemed to wake up suddenly, "How do you know Clarke and Abby?", he wasn't there in the afternoon when they explained everything and he was very surprised when his question earned him death glares from Bellamy and Lincoln, watching as Clarke and O simultaneously put a hand on their man's arm to calm them down.
"Jake was Marcus best friend." Abby told him.
"Yeah I got that I am a cop too." Clarke nodded for him to shut up.
"Jake was Clarke's father." Abby continued and Murphy put his head in his hands on the table.
"I am an idiot." He stated and everybody laughed.
Everybody kept asking question to Marcus and some to Abby too. They went from diner to the camp fire in the back yard, showing the property to Marcus and explaining to him how they ended up living here.
"Sorry, it's getting late." Clarke said yawning once again.
"I should leave you to go to sleep." Marcus said shyly. "Maybe I could come back…soon."
"I'd like that." Bellamy told him and Clarke saw the sincerity in his eyes.
"You tell me if you need anything." He said first to Bellamy and Clarke and then looked around to see the family they created for themselves. "Any of you really. I know Abby is already helping with the medical bills, and from what she told me the hospital is like a second home to you all, but I want to help too." Seeing the look on Clarke's face he realized that he just said something she didn't know about, while Bellamy didn't look confused at all.
"It's okay but if I were you I'll go away quickly." Bellamy told him. "I'll call you tomorrow."
"Marcus…" he said stopping him before he entered the house. "Take Abby with you before her sleepy brain catches up." He pointed out to a still haphazard Clarke.
Bellamy hold Clarke in his arms until he saw her eyes widen.
"Abby did what?" she yelled looking around her for Marcus and Abby.
"She covers for us, all of us, for whatever our insurances don't cover." Bellamy said still holding Clarke tightly.
"But why? When?" She asked confused.
"Jasper and Monty. I went to pick them up once and when I asked how much it costs them this time they looked at me like I was speaking about aliens or something so I sat down with them and they told me they never paid for anything." Bellamy explained.
"But you never told me."
"I didn't tell anybody, you were not talking to your mother and you probably would have ask us to go to another hospital." Clarke didn't say anything because he was probably right to her it would have just be Dr Griffin meddling with her life not Abby helping out her friends.
"How long has this been going on?" She asked relaxing in his arms.
"Since Atom, I think." Bellamy told her.
"So did you like Marcus?" she decided that her mother did nothing wrong after all but she will still need to talk to her about all the things she learned this month.
"He is nice. He seemed to like everyone." He sighed.
"And did you notice?" Clarke asked playfully.
"Notice what?" Bellamy said confused.
"No one punched him." She said laughing.
"I guess it's a good sign." Bellamy laughed back leaning in to kiss her.
Bellamy didn't feel scared anymore, Marcus didn't love Aurora, and she kept him from being hurt like she was by Marcus it all made sense to him somehow, but Bellamy loved Clarke and their little unborn baby, and Clarke knew it. But just in case he was going to keep making it clear to her he thought to himself while falling asleep next to her their hands entwined over her belly protecting their baby.
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