Chapter 29
As promised, here is the first chapter of the month, the second should be out next weekend :) Love you guys!
After her impromptu shower, Clarke went into the kitchen to eat some toast, her head was still bothering her even though she knew the alcohol had long since left her system.
Bellamy joined her a couple minutes later, his jeans hung low on his hips, his black tee tight on his muscles.
"I am sorry." Clarke said around her bite of toast. "Raven's death is hard on all of us and I know me disappearing didn't make the night any easier."
Bellamy nodded, he was still mad but he knew Clarke felt guilty for what happened to Raven like he did. She needed to let out some steam and he couldn't fault her for that, he could on the other hand fault her for letting her phone die and for dancing with the bartender.
"It's done, I was mad last night but I got over it. How are you feeling? You still look a little rough."
Clarke chewed gingerly on her toast, if anything it was just upsetting her stomach more. "How else am I supposed to expect myself to feel after last night?"
Bellamy chuckled, she was pretty out of herself last night.
"Octavia texted me this morning, she wanted you to go shopping with her, I can tell her you're not up for it."
"No, no, some girl time sounds nice. Just tell her to give me a couple hours, okay?"
Bellamy nodded, and pulled out his phone to type a quick message to his sister.
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After pulling herself together enough to not look like someone who'd been out partying until 4AM, Clarke walked half a block to a small cafe, Octavia and her planned to meet and then walk from there.
"You look like you and Krista had fun last night." Octavia smiled plopping down across from her friend.
Clarke spared a small smile, "Yeah I'm still feeling it a little, are you ready to get going?"
The blonde grabbed her to go cup and followed her friend out the door.
During the next couple of hours the pain in Clarke's stomach got worse and worse, after a while she couldn't hide it from Octavia any more.
"Seriously I think we should call it a day."
Clarke shook her head and then realized what a mistake that was when the floor flew up to meet her face. Thankfully her friend was a wolf with fast reflexes and was able to save her face from the hard stone.
"I think I just need to sit for a little while, I'll be fine."
Octavia didn't seem to believe her but followed her friend to one of the couches placed around the mall.
"I'm feeling better already." Clarke assured.
"How much did you have to drink? Maybe you need to go to the hospital?"
"O, you are starting to sound like Bellamy, it's just a little hangover."
Clarke's stomach rolled and she felt her entire body convulse as she get to her feet. Octavia grabbed her are and pulled her toward a garbage can just in time for Clarke to puke up everything that was in her stomach. Sadly that meant, vodka, rum and toast. Let me just say that it tasted worse coming up then it did going down.
The young girl rubbed her friends back as people past by them. Thankfully they were in a strip mall so the smell got washed away by the fresh air.
"We should get you back to the apartment."
Octavia tried to help her friend stand, but as soon as Clarke was vertical all her blood seemed to rush to her head. Clarke's legs went limp as the world went black and she feel to the ground taking Octavia with her.
"Help someone!" Octavia yelled, trying to wake Clarke up.
The blondes body started to shake like she was having a seizer. Octavia protected her head knowing that her concussion wasn't too long ago, another one so soon could really damage her brain.
Luckily for the girl, two paramedics had been grabbing coffee across the street and ran over as soon as they head the commotion.
"What happened?"
"I don't know." The medics took Clarke from Octavia's arms. "She went out drinking last night and she's been really sick all morning."
One of the men nodded and continued to Clarke the blonde over, it wasn't till Clarke coughed and a dark red/black liquid spilt from her lips that the medics started to panic.
One ran to grab a back board, while the other turned Clarke on her side.
"Be careful, she's recently suffered from a concussion."
The guy nodded and yelled for his partner to hurry, at this point many of the passerbyers had come back to see what was drawing such a crowd.
"Are you family ma'am?" One of the guys asked, as they quickly wheeled a seizing Clarke toward their ambulance.
Octavia nodded, "She's my sister."
If the paramedic had taken a second to looking between the girls, they would doubt Octavia's words, but right now their main focus was the blonde.
"You can ride in the back with him, let's move!"
Everything happened really fast after that, Octavia sat in the back of the ambulance, she wasn't even allowed to hold Clarke's hand because sometime during their ride to the hospital Clarke's pressure bottomed out and they needed to shock her with paddles to bring her back.
Octavia could help the tears that rolled down her cheeks, when she got to the hospital she knew she would have to call her brother and tell him, yet again that his mate was in the hospital.
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"Hey O." Her brother answered on the seventh ring. "How's your girls day."
Octavia moved the phone from her face to take a calming breath. "Listen Bell, you need to get to the hospital, something's happened."
Before her full sentence was even out, Octavia could hear her brother moving around his apartment quickly, and then their call disconnected.
A couple minutes after she got off the phone with her brother a women in scrubs came out calling Clarke's name.
"Anyone here for Clarke Griffin?"
"I am."
The doctor looking at Octavia, sizing her up before she delivered the news.
"Your friend is doing just fine, no one is sure what caused her seizer and we still have her on a couple of monitors and a bag to rehydrate her but, she will be discharged tomorrow morning."
Octavia smiled "That's really good, is she in a room? Can I see her?"
The women nodded and lead Octavia down the bleach smelling hallway. As soon as they arrived outside of the room, Octavia text her brother the number.
"Hey." Clarke sounded good as new, even her color had improved.
"Hey, I'm sorry I scared you back there, I guess I should have taken it easy today." Clarke tried to joke, Octavia's face was way to serious.
"You just passed out on me, and then you started coughing this black blood. I thought you were going to die."
"I'm fine, I obviously drank a little too much last night but-"
"Drinking too much gives you a headache and induced vomiting. It doesn't give you seizers and cough up blood."
"The doctors are saying I'm fine."
"No they don't think you are fine, they told me they didn't know what happened to you but right now you were doing fine. You freaking died in that ambulance Clarke! Do you have any idea what they would have done to my brother?"
"What are you trying to say?"
"Did you and Krista do drugs last night?"
That was the time Bellamy entered the hospital, he had his ears trained since he got out of his car, looking for Clarke and Octavia.
"I haven't done it since that one night freshmen year."
"Really?" Octavia crossed her arms.
Clarke's heart rate monitor spiked, but both the wolves didn't needed it considering they were both listening to her heart.
"Yes!"
"Your nose was bleeding at Raven's funeral."
"That doesn't prove I'm on drugs, you know I use to get stress nose bleeds. What do you think we were behind a tomb stone doing lines?"
"I don't know, but it seems that recently you've been keeping a lot of secrets."
Clarke scoffed. "I'm not the only one."
That got Octavia's attention, she stood frozen as her brother entered the room.
"You two need to quiet down before you attract the whole hospital in here." Bellamy looked over Clarke quickly, she looked way better than he expected. "Now why don't you two tell me what you are talking about."
"Octavia thinks the reason I was sick this morning and had a- ended up in the hospital is because I'm secretly doing drugs."
"You know she's been different since Raven's death Bell, I know you see it."
"Everyone is grieving O." Her brother defended. "Clarke and I have been together since that night, she hasn't been doing drugs."
"Fine." The younger Blake crossed her arms over her chest. "She isn't doing drugs, but alcohol doesn't induce seizers."
Clarke sat up straighter in her bed, "I'm sorry if what happened today scared you, but I'm fine. I think all the stress of the past couple of months have just caught up to me."
Octavia bit her lip, Clarke was looking at her sincerely and she couldn't help but accept what she was telling her.
"Now that you're here." Octavia said turning toward her brother. "I'm going to let the rest of the pack know you won't be coming to the BBQ tonight."
Clarke groaned and covered her face, she forgot that they were starting the traditional BBQ up again tonight.
"Have fun." Clarke told her with a small wave.
Octavia walked over and gave her a tight hug. "I'm glad you are okay, and I'm sorry I jumped to conclusions. After Raven, I guess I just was expecting the worse."
"I get it."
Bellamy waited till his sister was out of the room before taking a seat at the foot of the hospital bed.
"You can go too you know, both of us don't have to miss out on pack fun."
Bellamy shook his head with a sad smile, "You really need to stop getting put in here."
His voice was vulnerable, she could see the impact her actions were taking on him.
"Do you ever thing about how things were before I came into your lives?" Clarke asked.
"Stop! I don't regret finding you and what we have."
"Life would be so much easier for you if you had a mate who was like you."
"You're better." He said picking up and intertwining their hands.
"For what it's worth, I'm sorry I scared you too, again."
Bellamy nodded and leaned down to give Clarke a kiss, he could smell the iron on her breath. It concerned him but if the doctors say she was fine he wasn't going to question it, by trying to find something from nothing.
"The doctors say I'll be out of here tomorrow morning."
"That's good, I hate you being in here."
"Me too, You know I've been thinking about taking a couple med classes."
"really?"
Clarke nodded, "I've been thinking a lot about how I could be helping people who need it, beside's you guys get hurt an awful lot while training, I could stitch you up."
Bellamy smirked, "You going to wear a sexy nurse dress while you do it?"
"Only if Murphy can keep his hands to himself."
Bellamy growled. "Why do you have to ruin my fantasy?"
Clarke just shrugged, pulling Bellamy up the bed until he lay stretched out beside her.
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Thankfully Clarke had got set free from the hospital early the next morning and promised to lay off the alcohol for a while.
The pack had spent a week, hanging out at the beach and the movies and each other's apartments, but it was the weekend and they all had plans to meet up at Mirrors that night.
Bellamy, Miller and Bryan were all handing out in Bellamy's kitchen while his sister and girlfriend were getting dressed, each on their second beer of the night.
"The night is going to such without drunk Clarke." Octavia moaned, zipping up her tight dress.
Clarke laughed, "I think you can do without, besides, I am plenty of fun without a high blood alcohol level!"
Octavia just looked away from her friend trying to hide her smile.
"Whatever, just finish getting dressed so we can go."
The blonde ran from the room before her friend could retaliate with the pillow she was grabbing off the bed.
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The club was packed with people, everyone dancing and spilling drinks on the already sticky floor, Clarke groaned, coming to clubs sober was the worst idea she'd ever had.
If the start she had planned to stay home, but realized Bellamy probably would have stayed with her, yet again missing out on an opportunity to hang with his friends.
Clarke and Harper had been shaking their asses on the dance floor for the last 7 songs, but when a song they didn't now came on, they made their way back toward the bar.
Lexa was serving a group of people when Clarke caught her eye, right away she put down the bottle of rum and started clapping, along with the other servers.
Everyone around the bar turned to see what the big deal was, most of them turned back to their drinks when all they saw was a blonde.
"There she is, the prodigal daughter." Clarke's face paled and her heart beat faster in her chest. "Bosses orders, you drink free for the rest of your life."
The pack looked between the bartender and their friend wondering what the hell was going on.
"It's really no big deal, I'm actually not drinking tonight so, you can give my drinks to them."
Lexa nodded, passing a full shot into Murphy's waiting hand.
"Not that I am complaining but what is with the free alcohol?" Murphy asked, throwing down the lime he'd been sucking on.
"Of course you wouldn't tell them." Lexa rolled her eyes at Clarke. "Did you guys here about the man who survived an OD in our bathroom last week."
Most of them nodded, it had been on the news and on social media the previous weekend.
"He was dead when we found him, but Clarke gave him CPR and saved his life."
Clarke shook her head, "He wasn't dead-" she tried to down play Lexa's words but Bellamy cut her off.
"What?" His voice dangerously low.
Lexa smiled, "yeah I don't know how she did it but she totally save his life. One minute he was without a pulse and the next he was coherent. When the medics were leaving I heard one of them said they should have been taking the kid away in a body bag and that he was lucky."
Bellamy couldn't even begin to comprehend what he was being told, but he had no choice but to believe it when he tried to meet Clarke's eyes and she avoided his.
Without a word the Alpha stood from the stool and grabbed Clarke's arm, pulling her toward the back entrance of the club.
