A/N: Drabble
Day 8 – Christmas on the ground
The first Christmas they celebrated was their second on the Ground. The Grounders were finally at peace with the Sky People which was a relief, trying to murder or frame one another would have really killed the holiday mood!
Now that Mount Weather was deserted, they had its resources and facilities at their disposal. It was too tainted for either group to want to use it as a settlement, but it had allowed them all to be cleaner than they had been for months. The Grounders had particularly enjoyed the novelty of a steaming, pressurised shower.
It was at that Christmas that they decided to set up a new settlement. Bellamy and Clarke were to take up their former positions as co-leaders, and were to be joined primarily by the surviving forty-three, plus the majority of their families (what few had also made it down and were still in one-piece), as well as a number of Grounders.
The season of goodwill had eased the tension of the announcement, as the Grounders introduced some Yuletide traditions that had been lost to the Sky People, or that had developed since their ancestors had left the Earth.
Decorating a Christmas Tree had been particularly popular, and Wick and Raven had added to the magic when they introduced a string of electric bulbs into the mix.
On Christmas Day Bellamy and Clarke stood a little way off, watching the merriment unfold. Seeing everyone so relaxed, singing, dancing, having fun – mixing without any regard as to whether they were a delinquent or a Grounder, or what station they'd lived on in The Ark – they couldn't help but smile.
"We did good Bellamy."
He took her hand. "Yeah… we did."