Chapter 286
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With the end in sight, one way or another, Clarke and Bellamy found the Double R Diner, and some new friends. They found another couple, Elena and Damon. Damon and Elena had been vampires in their old world, now they were human again. Soon they would all be reborn, and wouldn't even know each other. For better or worse this would probably be the last night any of them spent together.
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Damon: So, what did you two do to get sent to Hell?
Clarke: Decades before we were born, humanity destroyed itself in nuclear war. Our ancestors were able to escape to space, but they couldn't sustain that Ark forever. So we tried to return to Earth, our time in space had helped us build immunity to the radiation that was still rampant. But the people in Mount Weather, their ancestors never went through that. They kidnapped our people, conducted inhuman experiments on us to develop a way for their people to survive on the ground. It seemed that there was just no way for us to peacefully coexist, so Bellamy and I released radiation into Mount Weather. It killed every man, woman, and child in Mount Weather. We were guilty of genocide. And you two?
Elena: We each killed innocent people as vampires.
Damon: You live long enough you'll do a fair amount of bad, and a fair amount of good. Noone can be expected to behave the same way forever.
Elena: To be honest, we're also guilty of genocide. We killed an original vampire.
Clarke: Original?
Elena: One of the first six vampires. Kill one, and every vampire they ever sired dies, as do every vampire they sired and so on.
Bellamy: Any chance that was to stop them from killing innocent people?
Elena: I wish I could say it was, but it was for entirely selfish reasons.
Damon: And ofcourse we murdered those gypsies, prevented them from having a real home after centuries of persecution. Not hard to see why we're in Hell.
Bellamy: I always liked to think I was doing what was best for my people, but so did the people of Mount Weather, the grounders, and so forth. But there were times I could have avoided bloodshed, and didn't.
Clarke: Truth is, a part of me is looking forward to this new world, a clean slate. Never having to remember all the bad things that we've done.
Bellamy: Down side is we won't remember each other.
Clarke: Or the part where I killed you.
Damon: You killed him?
Clarke: It's complicated.
Damon: Believe me, I can't judge. And call me sentimental, I like to think that Elena and I will find each other again. And that me and my brother will annoy each other in the new world.
Elena: We haven't seen him in Hell Damon.
Damon: True, but he could still be alive, could survive the final battle. We could be his children in the next world.
Elena: Thanks for that image Damon:
Damon: Any time.
Clarke: A toast. May the four of us find each other in the new world, in any form.
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These four friends toasted this thought. They could only hope that they would all see each other in the new world, and that there would be a new world for them to find each other in.