It's the first Christmas since college student Clarke Griffin's dad passed away, and her mother is dead-set on pulling off the perfect Christmas regardless. However, to pull off said "perfect" Christmas, Clarke finds herself trapped in a lie and is forced to ask her scrooge-like, bar-tending co-worker, Bellamy Blake, home for the holidays- posing as her fake boyfriend. Bellarke.

"Now she was RA to a bunch of ungrateful, ill mannered, asshole freshmen who disregarded everything she said, her best friend from home who had betrayed her trust was suddenly living down the hall, and she had to interact with Bellamy Blake on a daily basis. It was all just too much." Or, the one in which Clarke and Bellamy are RAs, and just barely in control.

college is a rite of passage. its where new friendships are formed (over vodka and old movies), relationships begin and end, and the occasional class is taken. its the best time of your life, and the arkoses university students try and make it just that. but parties and fun can only hide the cracks in a world on the brink of all out war for so long. [college AU, pre-cataclysm]