Chapter 3

The 100 – solstice

Ok first I want to apologise for it taking me so long to get this chapter posted, sadly there has been a lot going on with my family and I haven't had much time to write. Second thank you again for all the kind words and support people have sent me you really made me want to write more.

Now I want to make clear this is a bellarke fic but I also want to explore the concepts of alpha, beta, omega dynamics and make an actual story so it's not going to just be them. Which is part of why you will be getting an Octavia perspective this chapter but understand that's going to be unusual I only plan to include other perspectives when I think the overall story needs them.

Finally as always please share your thoughts on this chapter because it does help me develop things.

Bellamy

Opening his eye's Bellamy woke up to the smell of lavender, it was a nice smell but in spite of himself he found himself craving the scent of vanilla. Frowning disappointed with himself for that craving he turned over in the bed which was now a mess of scrunched up covers and looked over at Brie. She was still a sleep scrunched up in a ball next to him her blond hair sticking out at odd angles a reminder of one of the many things they had done last night.

Bellamy really did feel like an ass for craving the smell of vanilla right now. Brie was a Beta and she had a very typical Beta lavender smell which wasn't a bad thing, she did actually smell nice. However in spite of himself even after everything Brie had been up to doing last night and not for the first time either it still wasn't enough. She might not know how or why it helped him manage what he was going through right now but it really did help and in spite of that part of him still wanted to be smelling vanilla right now.

Sighing Bellamy sat up in Brie's bed and looked around her room trying to remember where is clothes had ended up last night. Brie lived at a high class sorority so she had her own room which in turn had thankfully meant they had, had a lot of privacy last night when they had decided to come back to hers. Privacy that meant they had been able to do a lot of things last night, however that did also mean that his clothes were now hidden somewhere in her room under the mess they had both made.

Shivering slightly he scanned the room inspecting the piles of various kinds of things that made up the mess that was now Brie's bedroom. Spotting his shirt still shivering Bellamy being careful not to wake Brie manoeuvred himself out of the bed and then made in the direction of his shirt.

When he was little and people had tried to explain various things about Alphas to him he had always had trouble understanding the body temperature thing. He had thought surely if Alphas burned hotter than the average human wouldn't that mean they would be less sensitive to cold not more sensitive. However after he had presented he had soon come to understand if you had a higher average body temperature what was warm for other people was normal for you, so you needed things to be hot for you to be warm so ergo if things were a little bit cold they were really cold for you.

Reaching his grey shirt Bellamy pulled it out from under several of Brie's text books and started putting it on. Thankfully it was summer and was proving to be a hot one so he didn't need to wear as many layers as he did in the winter months, getting his shirt on stopped Bellamy from shivering but he still began looking for the rest of his clothes.

Seeing his boxes close to the bed under Brie's light blue dress he moved over there now picking up his boxes eyeing Brie's dress as he did so. It was a certain kind of colour, a kind of colour that would attract Alphas he couldn't say why he or other Alphas were drawn too light colours like this but standing right here he knew the colour of Brie's dress was really attractive to him.

It took him a few minutes to find the rest of his clothes but he was able to do it and quietly as well but just as he was tying his shoes a voice said good mourning. Looking up from wear he was leaning against the wall in order to tie his shoes he saw Brie sitting up in bed giving him a full on view of her bare chest which was enough to get a certain part of him to pay attention.

'Breakfast,' Bellamy said quickly standing up wanting to stamp down that part of himself right here, things were going to be difficult enough tonight without him letting things start off now.

'Sure,' Brie yawned sleepily getting out of bed seemingly unbothered by the fact she was giving him a full frontal view of her body 'but I think it's more like lunch now.'

'Whatever,' Bellamy sighed leaning down to pick up his jacket his condition really was a pain to manage sometimes.

Typically for Brie it took her sometime to get dressed after that and once she did the two of them ran into some friends as they were walking across campus so it took some time to get where they were going. But eventually with the others trailing behind him Bellamy walked inside his favourite coffee shop and once they were in there he saw Clarke sitting at one of the tables. Surprised he stopped in his tracks, seeing the princess here had been the last thing he would have expected, this place was a little out of the way so it wasn't an obvious spot for students which was part of why he liked it.

She was just sitting there alone at one table her attention moving between a book she had laid out on the table in front of her and several pages of what Bellamy assumed was college work. He smiled as he watched her sitting there letting people move around him she was concentrating on what she was doing so much she clearly hadn't noticed him and his friends come in, she really was a perfect little princess.

She looked really good as well; the blue sweater she was wearing was really her colour even if it probably was a bit too warm for her in this weather. Omegas naturally had a low body temperature like how he burned a bit hotter they burned a bit colder which in turn meant they had the opposite issues around body temperature to him. It was actually somewhat of an evolutionary edge the Omegas had over Alphas, where it took more for him to be warm it took a lot less for an Omega to be warm plus because of the naturally lower body temperature the cold didn't bother them much.

As he understood it there were down sides though like it was easier for Omegas to overheat but that was relatively easy to manage from what he could see. According to classes Bellamy had taken this was probably the reason for Omegas traditionally not covering up as much as other segments of the population. For these reasons Clarke's choice of clothes today was strange but then again maybe it wasn't strange for her Bellamy thought as he continued to watch her.

She was hiding what cast she was he understood the but the idea of rapping up when she didn't need to did seem strange to him was hiding really that important to her. Don't be like that he thought to himself as he thought this, he was calmer than he had been last night so he understood how aggressive he had been which was something he felt bad about. He wanted to respect Clarke's choice and he knew he hadn't really been doing that so far, but she's wrong a certain voice in his head said she's denying who she is. Bellamy took in a deep breath trying to push this voice down his jaw hardening in annoyance this shouldn't be starting again already it normally took longer.

'Bellamy,' Brie called suddenly distracting him from his conflicted thoughts and emotions.

'Yeah,' he said turning to face her and the others hoping he wasn't showing any sign of what seemed to be trying to come out of him in this moment.

'You ok,' she asked looking concerned 'is something wrong.'

Turning back around Bellamy looked over at Clarke who was looking up from her work now she must have heard Brie call his name. A big part of him wanted to go over to her but quite frankly he didn't trust himself to be a gentlemen so he turned back around 'no Brie,' he called walking over to her and the group 'I just got a bit distracted.' That was technically true, maybe it was the time of the year and what his condition meant things were like for him, but there was something about Clarke that seemed to be really distracting.

Octavia

Walking in the main entrance of the library Octavia's suspicion that this would be the place the find Clarke was proved correct right away. From where she was standing she could see Clarke sitting at one of the study desks that stud in front of the entrance, working on what Octavia didn't especially care she was just glad she had found the girl.

'Guess what,' she began cheerfully moving up behind her new roommate in such a way that made the girl jump slightly. This earned Octavia a ssh from somewhere but she ignored it 'were going to go to a party tonight,' she continued deliberately turning up the cheerfulness partly to help her get Clarke to do this but also to mess with whoever had ssh'd her.

'I don't know,' Clarke began sounding unsure turning in her seat to face Octavia.

'You're going,' Octavia said forcefully deliberately turning up her Alpha demeanour 'don't you want to have fun, its solstice after all.' Another ssh was directed at her once she said this so Octavia looked up away from Clarke and finding the older looking guy who had ssh'd her she glared at him and said 'you ssh.'

'Come on please,' Octavia asked pouting her lip looking back down at Clarke now 'its solstice, solstice is a time to have fun. Don't worry about my brother if that's a problem,' she continued 'he was an ass last night but he isn't always like that also if you come I doubt you would even see him.'Clarke opened her mouth to talk but Octavia kept going 'I feel like we are going to be friends Clarke, you and I are going to be seeing a lot of each other after all so why not start things off now,' she laughed deliberately as she said this pushing her Alpha demeanour even more 'do you or do you not like having fun?'

'Yeah, of course I do,' Clarke said defensively smiling slightly now which was all the sign Octavia needed to know she had won this debate.

'Then grab your shit,' she laughed moving Clarke's things in to a pile while she was ssh'd again 'and lets gooo.'

'Okay, okay, okay,' Clarke said laughing herself now moving with Octavia as she stud up and moved towards the entrance.

'Let's get ready to party,' Octavia giggled as they walked out 'it's solstice.'

Back in there room Octavia looked at herself in the mirror hanging on one of the doors of her wardrobe trying to decide which one of her denim jackets she should wear. As she thought about this she looked over at Clarke who was currently looking through her own wardrobe which Octavia could see was arranged extremely neatly.

She hadn't known Clarke too long yet but she had seen enough to know she was a very ordered person. Her whole side of the room was a collection of bare services and right angles while Octavia's side was a mass of piles and what her brother would call disorder. That's not how she would describe it though she might be a bit messy and not as ordered as Clarke but she did know where everything was in her side of the room, so in her mind she didn't need to sort things out any more than they were already.

'What do you think,' Clarke asked distracting Octavia from her stream of thought holding out a dark blue dress for her to look at. Examining the dress now Octavia couldn't help but frown, it had long sleeves that went right up to the wrists and the bottom went down below the knee so not what she would have expected. 'What,' Clarke said defensively seeing her frowning.

'It's, it's pretty,' Octavia began trying to find something nice to say about the dress. It wasn't that it looked bad it was just Octavia knew it wouldn't really fit in with what other people would be wearing at the party, or lack thereof when it came to certain people. 'Do you think maybe it's just a little, well formal,' Octavia tried thinking maybe this was a good way to say it.

Frowning herself now Clarke turned around and started playing with the dress in the mirror of her wardrobe clearly thinking about what Octavia had just said. Walking up behind her Octavia couldn't help but get a whiff of Clarke's sent, it was a nice typical Beta mix of wood and lavender smells but there was something else that she couldn't quite identify that really added to her overall sent.

'You kind of look like your trying to come across as an alpha,' Octavia observed as she stood behind Clarke, the covering up like this was rather typical of an Alpha trying to remain warm. 'Is that what your trying to do,' she asked 'because if it is you don't want to be doing that Clarke, be yourself, be proud of being a Beta.'

'No,' Clarke said quickly turning around to face her 'of course that's not what I'm doing but what if this is me being myself.'

Octavia didn't think that was true based on the concern and embarrassment she could see in Clarke's face but she also remembered what Clarkes mum had seemed to be like so she could imagine what things might well have been like for her growing up. 'You know what,' she sighed stepping back deciding to let this matter drop 'I love it, I love it,' if Clarke had been appressed by her mum growing up now wasn't the time to push anything.

'I do think it would look better if it was in a lighter colour though,' Octavia added quickly when she saw Clarke send her a sceptical look hoping this observation would get her to except her response. It was actually true as well with the skin tones and hair colour Clarke had she should only be wearing light colours and Octavia didn't think that just because she was an Alpha and she liked light colours.

Clarke gave her a slight nod in response to this so Octavia turned around, moved back to her side of the room and started to sort through her makeup. 'So,' she said as she did this 'I remember you said you had a boyfriend, will he be turning up tonight at some point?'

'Sadly no,' Clarke scowled clearly not pleased by this fact 'he's doing things tonight at the college he's going to instead with his new friends.'

'Really,' Octavia frowned not impressed with that kind of behaviour 'what cast is he?' This sounded like the behaviour that gave Alphas and especially Alphas like Bellamy a bad name so she wanted to know if this was the case.

'He's a Beta,' Clarke sighed rolling her eyes clearly exasperated at being asked this question but Octavia didn't care.

'O,' Octavia nodded she hadn't been expecting that but she guessed it made sense you didn't need to be an Alpha to be an ass, that was the point after all. 'You know my first boyfriend Lincoln and me were the same cast,' she said deciding this was a time to share.

'Really,' Clarke said her eyes widening in surprise 'that's unusual.'

'Yeah I know,' Octavia smiled remembering what things had been like with Lincoln 'it's probably why things didn't last, I have a sort of thing going with a Beta now.' That seemed like a good way to describe what she had with Illian because he wasn't her boyfriend he was just someone she had fun with on occasion. 'Never been with an Omega though,' Octavia added speaking to herself more than anything, wondering not for the first time what that would be like.

However the uneasy look Clarke tried to hide as she said this didn't escape Octavia's attention, she wanted to ask about it but she decided to ignore it. Something was clearly going on with Clarke she was sure of that and she didn't know what it was, but it was solstice and she was just looking to have fun tonight.

Now look I know that chapter was short but please understand this chapter is just meant to build up the next which is going to be about the main solstice party which I'm sure you will all enjoy.

Also just have to say really enjoying season 7 so far and I think Raven learned some good lessons last episode which was some really interesting character development.