Six Years and 7 days After Praimfaya.
Bellamy's POV
I woke up from my night sleep staring at the ceiling in the room I had come to call my own in the last six years and seven days.
I turned to my side and stared at Echo's relaxed features and wondered. If Clarke were alive what would have become of our relationship.
After I decided to move forward for Clarke, I made the conscious decision to stop thinking about the latest developments that had happened in our relationship. Starting with the night we had slept together a few weeks before Praimfaya. Of course, we had barely been conscious when it occurred otherwise it would have never happened. I hated waking up after a night of intimacy because staring at Echo sleeping beneath the blanket brought back those memories of my little blonde spitfire sleeping in a similar situation at my side that morning when we agreed that when Praimfaya passed we would discuss our relationship.
Now I had to live knowing I'd never fully told her how much I really loved her.
I felt Echo shift beside me, and I smiled at her waking state. "Hey, beautiful."
"Flattery will get you nowhere Blake." She replied opening her eyes with a smile.
"I don't need flattery when I've already got you right where I want you." I replied hugging her to me.
"KNOCK KNOCK love birds, wake up we need to have a meeting in the mess hall in five," Raven screamed from outside their door.
"Shh stay quiet, maybe then she'll go away," I said as a joke.
Echo sat up and glared at me, "I am going to get stuck doing some stupid task like cleaning the bathrooms, because of you Blake."
I laughed and stood up, quickly finding my clothes for the day.
Walking into the mess hall didn't hold the same meaning as it had six years prior, whereas before we would sit in silence and eat the disgusting algae Monty had created, now everyone was full of jokes and laughter as we ate the new experimental recipes Monty and Harper made every day, which mostly consisted of goop he liked to call soup and juice.
"So, tell me, chef, what do we have for breakfast today?" I asked smiling at Monty.
"Well, we had some leftover algae soup from yesterday so that with some algae juice and we're set for breakfast." He said smiling.
"Okay Emori, eat fast we need to meet in the hangar in ten to try and make radio contact again," Raven said as she stuffed her face with the green soup and gagged. "Six years of eating this and cannot get over how bad it tastes still."
We all laughed and went back to eating. I gulped my soup and juice and gave a container to Monty.
"Seconds?" He asked smiling.
"Yeah right, I choose Murphy," I said grabbing the goop and walking away.
As I walked to Murphy's side of the ship, I was tackled by him and dropped his container.
"This is my side of the ship, remember? What's the matter? You wanted me to train, right, so let's do it." I fought to get him off me and when that failed, I decided it best to slam him against the wall.
We panted for a bit and then I spoke. "All right, but I win, you come back to the group."
Murphey sat on the floor and shook his head, "No deal." He stood up and continued, "you have too many rules, besides, there's no one to disappoint over here."
I shook my head, "Mur-." I was stopped as he slammed his fist into my face. We kept fighting and talking for a bit and then I had him pressed against a window, "You're not worthless Murphy."
"Wait, wait. Bellamy, look. Oh!" He said as I pressed my knee into his stomach.
"Say you're not worthless, and I'll let you go."
"Not kidding! Will you look? Look!" I turned my face towards the window and couldn't believe what I was watching. Another ship had just entered the space surrounding Earth's atmosphere.
"Let's go." I said walking away. When I turned around and found him still staring, I repeated, "Come on!"
After we observed and discussed the best course of action as a team, we saw them deploy a dropship heading for Earth and decided to try and land our capsule with the little gas it had to their docking area. We discovered a way to refuel and radio coms of what they were discussing back on Earth.
While listening to them we heard "Movement to the Northwest, McCreary, do you see it?"
McCreary then responded, "I have something better than movement; I've got tracks."
I couldn't believe it, our people were alive and well, and if we didn't hurry up they would soon be prisoners.
Raven turned around with a worried, yet angered face, "they're hunting our people."
"We don't know that," Murphy responded.
"We know there was no one else left on the ground." I answered worried sick.
"Whatever this is, Octavia can handle it." Echo said as a response to my worry.
"Move over," Raven said lightly pushing Monty.
"Wait, what are you doing," I asked worriedly.
"Finding out who we're dealing with."
Clarke's POV
"Aurora and Madi are doing okay Bell. Aurora is five already and well she loves to hear stories of the great Bellamy and Octavia Blake. On that note, it's been six years and seven days since Praimfaya and I've told myself a million times that the reason why you're not here is because Raven hasn't been able to figure out a way to get down safely, but I am starting to lose hope. I hope to see you guys soon."
"Clarke!" Madi screamed.
"What is it?" I asked she would have never interrupted my time talking to the radio unless it was something important.
"Look." She said pointing with one hand to the sky and holding Aurora's hand tightly with the other.
"It can't be," I whispered into the radio. "Never mind Bell, I'll see you soon." I said as tears of happiness rolled down my face.
Then I realized that the ship coming down was much too big for it to be them.
"Madi, stay hidden with Aurora. That ship is too big to be them. I'm going to go check it out, if it's them I'll come to get you guys to meet them. Stay hidden no matter what you hear me." I said turning to them.
Madi nodded, and Aurora just stared. "Mommy, are going to get to meet aunty Raven and Uncle Monty?"
"Maybe Sweetie," I whispered.
"What about Bellamy?" She continued. I had never allowed Aurora to call Bellamy, her uncle. No matter how much she wanted to. I had also not really explained that he was her dad. I felt that was a conversation for when she was older and able to better understand.
"I can't say for sure. Now be good for your sister ok?" When they both nodded at me, I went and found a fallen tree with a whole nearby where they would have air supply and not be visible.
"Stay safe." I finally told them walking to where the drop the ship had landed.
When I got to the landing sight, I stayed where they couldn't see me, and I was surprised to see people I had never seen before. They were scouting and, in that heading, straight for our village. I decided it was best to distract them to chase me. That would keep them away from where Madi and Aurora was hiding.
"Movement to the Northwest, McCreary, do you see it?" A man said as he saw me running. Perfect I would lead him straight into a trap.
"I have something better than movement; I've got tracks." Another man responded.
I decided to be as obvious in which direction I wanted them to go as I could. Then from the corner of my eye, I spotted Madi huddled near where I was leading them. "Madi what the hell are you doing?" I asked worried that they would see her.
"I heard shouting and got scared that something would happen to you Clarke."
"It's okay, I am alright, but I need you and Aurora to be well, hidden right now."
"There she is." I heard a man scream. I turned around and saw that they were coming straight for me and Madi.
"Go! Run!" I yelled at Madi, deciding to gain her time by fighting them off as much as I could.
I was able to kill four, but when I was about to kill the fifth, I saw another about to grab Madi who was hiding behind a tree. Making the decision to attack first the one nearest to Madi was a bad mistake on my part because it meant that the one near me had a clear shot to get me. I immediately grabbed my gun, aimed, and shot.
The guy fell and Madi was able to run, however, I was caught. The guy laughed in a creepy way before he knocked me out.
Bellamy's POV
"Murder, murder, murder, murder, arson resulting in murder, armed robbery resulting in murder. Three hundred inmates, twenty-five guard, and twelve crew." I said as I passed each of the files of the people to whom this ship belongs to.
"Relax, great-great-grandpappy Blake was an astronaut with how many PH.D.S," Raven asked as she typed away on the other computer.
I took a minute to think about her question and sighed, "four."
"And how many do you have?" She smirked, knowing I had none. "Oh, wait shut up. I got it. It's the captain's log."
I looked at the screen in bewilderment. "The last entry was over a hundred years ago. Play that one."
"Aye, aye, captain," Raven said as she followed my instructions.
The video's intel was quite disturbing. It was then that we were attacked by one of the prisoners, as we figured out that the prisoners had been kept un cryo-sleep.
We also realized that the one that had attacked us was awakened as a result of us being here. We decided to use the prisoners as leverage so that we could rescue our people down there. That's when we realized that one would have to stay in order to pull the plug on the prisoners if we needed to.
"It has to be me," Raven said.
"I am not leaving you here," I said looking at her.
"I'll be fine, Emori can get you down. That's what I trained her for." She began to pace, "you need to go and find your sister and make a deal for peace with the prisoners. Once everyone's friends, they'll come back up for their people, and I'll hitch a ride down with them."
"What if the threat doesn't work? You'll be stuck here, Raven. You'll have to kill three hundred people." I took a step back, "have you thought about that?"
"No, no, we'll come up with something else." I closed my eyes remembering Clarke. "I left Clarke behind to die, and I…" I stopped as the tears filled my eyes. "I'm not doing that again." I looked at her seriously.
"There's an escape pod, you idiot." She stared into my eyes intently, "for the captain and the first mate. When this is all over if you fail, I can go down in that."
I took a deep breath. "Hey," she continued. "Six years ago, I promised myself I would find a way to us back down. Bellamy, this is it. Please, let me get you home."
We decided then to go, I would tell Murphy to stay by Raven and if things went South on the ground all they had to do was get in the escape pod and they'd be with us.
Having Emori drive was quite frightening, there were times on our way down that I thought we were doomed. Until finally we landed safely on the ground that we had run away from six years ago.
"Vertical landing successful," the computer said.
"You did it." Harper sighed.
Emori was breathing heavily and so I called out her name, "Emori. Emori?"
"We didn't die." She said smiling at me.
I laughed, "no, no we didn't."
We all begun to laugh, "we'll celebrate once Murphy and Raven are back down, too," Echo said. "There's no telling how many people saw us. We need to take cover in the trees before they get here."
I nodded knowing that Echo was right, "yeah."
Walking on the ground again felt so strange. It was like something you reminisce from your childhood yet can't quite point to what it is exactly.
"How do we find them?" Monty asked me.
"We don't, they'll find us." Echo answered.
That's when we heard a gun reloading and saw a group of men walk towards us, "they already have."
We raised our hands in surrender and decided to let them know we were not threats.
"Four of us are dead… it's time we even the score," the woman on the man's radio said.
He turned to us and smiled, "congratulations of you gets to live."
That's when we heard a set of fast gunshot, one after the other and tensed. Then a girl with a gun in her hand walked forward.
"She's just a kid," I said with wide-open eyes.
"Bellamy?" the girl asked walking towards me. I scrunched my forehead wondering how this girl knew my name.
"Madi did you say, Bellamy," a younger voice said from the trees.
"Aurora stay hidden," the girl replied, "Clarke knew you would come."
We all looked at each other. Clarke? As in the woman I had loved more than anything and then abandoned to die so that I could selfishly live.
"Clarke's alive?" I asked.
"She's in trouble. We have to go."
"What about the others in the bunker?" Monty asked, walking a few steps forward so that he could stand closer to the girl.
"Still there." She replied.
"What? No, no. How can that be?" I said.
"I'll explain on the way." She said grabbing my hand and dragging me towards the place from where the voice had called earlier.
Once we reached the trees, we saw a little girl, she couldn't be more than five or four, with the curly brown hair and sparkling innocent blue eyes, just like Clarke's.
"Who is this?" I asked the girl, whose name we still didn't know.
"I am Madi and this is Aurora, we're Clarke's daughters." She said as she picked up her little sister and placed her on her hip.
"What?" I asked.
A/N
So surprise, literally this chapter was so difficult to write. I promise to start from here on while the story will loosely follow the original story it will mostly be coming from me and my friend Joky0424