A/N: Hey guys! I'm literally surprised how I even managed to post this. So much has been happening this week. I've barely been writing and oh my gosh, is it killing me! Teen wolf is starting in only a few days and I'm hoping to publish my fic right when it comes out. A type of celebration for it I suppose. Well anyway, if you wanna know what fics I'm working on read the bottom A/N. Enjoy!
Episode 16: The One Where They Watch Old Videos
It happens fast.
Clarke rushing in the coffee shop and he's just about to sit down with Raven when she throws herself on him. Her thighs wrap around his torso, hands flying at the nape of his neck as she pushes herself fiercely into him. She squeals so loudly he winces but his hands scramble to her thighs as he hugs her. "Wow, wow, wow." He manages to say as he collapses into the couch.
"Someone's in a happy mood." Raven smirks.
She grins over to Raven, finally off of Bellamy's lap and nods vigorously. "I'll tell you all about but I'm running late for work." She looks around her, blinking and raising an eyebrow at Bellamy. "Where's the gang?"
"Jasper is with Maya so he's coming later. Monty's at Miller's apartment so it's gonna take him awhile to get here and Octavia and Lincoln are celebrating being that he was discharged." Bellamy explains.
"Oh." Clarke says dubiously, telling a waiter over the counter that she'd have a decaf latte and turning back to them with a smile. "Today has been the best. Bell, I have to tell you everything. Also, look at this!" She pulls out a piece of paper from her back pocket, waving around the dinky crinkled up paper in Bellamy and Raven's face.
"A phone number." Raven notes.
"Very perceptive of you, Reyes." Bellamy notes back.
"Not just any phone number. Hot newspaper stand guy's phone number." Clarke says proudly.
"No. Fuckin'. Way." Raven rips the paper from her grip, looking at the seven digits and smirking at her. "Today must be a damn good day. I thought he was an asexual hot guy."
Clarke shrugs, turning back to grab the coffee the waitress just gave to her and Clarke smiles when the waitress winks at her. She looks down at the cup and sees a phone number written down on it. "Today is just the best." She squeals again.
Bellamy smiles, standing up to his feet to grab the coffee the waitress was about to give him only for Clarke to hug him again. Slower and swaying into it as she continued to squeal. Bellamy wrapped his hands around her back, tangling his fingers in her hair and breathed in her hair as he sighed. She pulled away with a grin, "I'll talk to you 'bout it later. Bye, love you guys." She gives them both a kiss on the cheek before she retreats to outside, yelling over her shoulder, "By the way Octavia found your baby stuff so were having baby Bellamy marathon!"
Bellamy tries to roll his eyes but he stands there for a moment, her fragrance having not moved before he sighs and sits back down finally with his cup of coffee.
He looked over to Raven only to see her unamused face. "What?" He demanded.
"Did you sniff her hair?"
He thinks about it, stumbling for words before he decides, "She has a lot of hair - it got in my nose."
"What did her hair smell like?" Raven asks.
"Strawberries." Bellamy immediately says soon furrowing his eyebrows at just how fast he said that.
Raven sighs, patting his shoulder solemnly. "Clarke's hot, I don't blame you."
He raises an eyebrow for her to explain.
She sighs exasperatedly, rolling her eyes like this was basic knowledge. "You love her again."
"No, of course not! If anything this just means," He rolls his hand for an answer only to squeak out, "how much I like strawberries."
"Okay." Raven rolls out the 'o' and folds her arms.
"Drink your damn coffee, Reyes."
She rolls her eyes but complies, her eyes still watching him before he sighs, "Just...don't tell anyone, alright?"
Having Octavia as a sister never gave him privacy. So he has no idea why he's annoyed when he walks in and sees a box of their old stuff. The gang is all huddled around it, laughing at Bellamy's stuff animal dog that he'd glued on two other dog heads just for it to look like Ceberus and they all tease him when they see Bellamy's drawing of Augustus.
Of course Octavia had brought Bellamy's baby box rather than her own. "I warned you." Clarke mouths.
Bellamy groans, running his hand through his hair as he watches them all go through random baby shirts and photos.
"I'm getting you back, O." Bellamy growls out.
She raises an eyebrow in challenge. "How?"
"I have your baby box too, y'know."
It makes her go pale about to say something when Raven raises a photo in the air. "Naked picture!"
They all shove her hand down, looking at the picture and awing at it which makes him groan.
"His binky!" Clarke squeals, waving around Bellamy's green binky.
"What's this?" Octavia asks, holding up some tapes and Bellamy raised an eyebrow.
"Probably mom video taping us."
And that was how it started. The gang's full on marathon of the little Blake's as children.
The first video is of Bellamy's birth which is horrifying to all of them except Clarke who shrugs and says she sees it almost all the time at the hospital. Then it's of Bellamy with his arms around Frank, their supposed father who is staring at the TV as his son tries to gather his attention.
"Frank!" Aurora growls out from behind the video recorder.
"I'm watching a fuckin' game." He growls out.
Bellamy, even though he's only five or so, slaps him right across the face. There's a stunned period of silence before the recorder shakes and Aurora begins to laugh. Frank pushes Bellamy off of him, storming out of the house and telling her she's a slut but Aurora zooms in the camera on Bellamy who looks at the recorder and grins sheepishly.
Then right after that is Octavia's birth. Bellamy watches it with watery eyes, Clarke smiles and the rest of the gang screams and tries to cover their eyes. It's Bellamy who is recording this time. He balances the camera on the night stand and grins at it. "Hi Octavia!" He waves at the camera. "Mom let me name you. I figured you'll be watching this when your older so I just wanted to say I'm Bellamy, your older brother." It's then that he steps back and shows his full body rather than just his freckled face like it was shown before.
Octavia is a little bundle in his arms and he nods down at her, "This is you. I just wanted to say that I love you. I wont let anything happen to you. Mom told me your my responsibility now and she says responsibility is a duty. So my duty is to protect you. I won't let anything happen to you, Octavia. I swear. I have to go because there isn't a lot of battery but I love you."
After Octavia stops her crying and hugging Bellamy, does it flip to the next scene. This time it's of Octavia taking her first steps then it's her throwing food at Bellamy who is trying to feed her. "Got something on your face." Aurora tells him behind the camera with a giggle once Octavia had sent her whole plate flying into Bellamy's face.
It flips to the next.
It's Octavia sitting down on the couch in front of Bellamy as she cocks her head to the left. She keeps making something that's between a m and a b sound but they cant tell.
"Say it, O!" Bellamy encourages. "Say mama! You can do it!"
"Mmm-M-B-Mb-"
"She's not gonna say it, Bellamy." Aurora sighs from behind the camera.
Bellamy looks at her with a stern face. "Don't say that in front of her."
"Bellamy-" Aurora starts.
"Bell!" Octavia exclaims, grinning at her brother widely.
His eyes are still looking at his mother, as wide as saucers before they turn teary immediately. "Did she?" He asks his mom who makes a sound that sounds between a sob and a whimper.
He lets a tear fall before he turns back to his sister and throws his arms around her, clutching her tightly and she's drooling all over his shoulder. "Bell?" She questions and he continues to cry into his sister's shoulder.
The next is Octavia on Bellamy's back. "Piggy back rides are awesome!" She says to the camera.
"For you." Bellamy grumbles out, panting as he runs around the house for god knows how many times.
Then starts Octavia on her first day of school who is looking exasperatedly into the camera. "Bell, get that thing out of my face. It's embarrassing. Mom told you that you didn't need to walk me to school."
"I filmed your first everything so if you think that I'm not gonna film this your stupid."
"I'm not. Your stupid!" She retorts, sticking her tongue out and retreats into the school.
It cuts to an end and Jasper picks up a random tape from the pile and pops it in.
It starts with a groan as it registers the VHR but then it turns completely bright and it's Clarke's golden blonde hair.
"Your not filming me right?" Clarke asks from in front of him, looking over her shoulder with a raised eyebrow.
"Of course not, I told you I wouldn't film you." Bellamy says from behind the recorder.
She gives a warning look at the camera. "I'm serious Bellamy, if you are I'm gonna be pissed. I'm not wearing make-up and I didn't do my hair; I look terrible."
"I told you I'm not." Bellamy says.
"Then why are you pointing it at me?"
"Because I'm trying to fix it, just continue walking." Bellamy says.
She gives him a raised eyebrow before she continues walking down the street in Bellamy's big black hoodie and some short shorts. "Where do you think you dropped your wallet?"
"Somewhere along this sidewalk, I told you."
She sighs, turning towards him with a frown. "But we've been looking around here for hours."
"It's my wallet, princess." He whines. She throws her hands up in the air before she bends down and continues to look for it. It's then that the camera zooms in on her body, scanning it up and down before it meets her face where their is now a Clarke looking at him skeptically.
"Why did you do that to the camera?"
"Do what?" He asks innocently.
"Scan my body with the camera."
"Did it do that? Huh. Weird."
She tries to frown but her chin wrinkles showing off her smile, "You butthole! I told you not to record me! Erase it! I look terrible!"
She runs over to the camera, there's a scuffle before the recorder hits the ground but their soon to join it beside them. The grass is mostly in the way of the camera's view but you can still see the outline of their bodies and their faces. Clarke fell on top of Bellamy, her body flush against his and she burst into tears of laughter when he prodded at her sides.
"Stop Bellamy!" She warned seriously only to laugh again. "Your such an asshole!"
He stopped, looking at her seriously only to grab the back of her head and push her into a kiss. She smiled into it, running her hands down his back and grabbing his ass only to stop. She pulls away with a pop and gives him a confused look before she pulls out his wallet from his back pocket.
"Oh. My. God. Your telling me I've been looking for this damn thing the whole day and you had it all along?"
"You looked beautiful, I just wanted-"
"Save it, Blake." She says, pushing off of him and now the camera only can see her ankles.
"Babe," He says a little laughter and amusement in his voice. There's a scuffle and now you can just see Clarke stomping off angrily down the sidewalk with Bellamy and the recorder following after her. "Aw, babe c'mon, I was just teasing!"
"You know how I hold a grudge."
"I'll make you fluffy pancakes?" He teases.
"No."
"I'll put whip cream all over them and make them into a tiara?"
She pauses before she huffs, "No."
"I'll let you use my body?"
She looks over her shoulder, rolling her eyes at what most likely is his grin behind the recorder before she mutters, "I can do that already." and he laughs.
He hums in thought, still recording her through out the whole thing. "Okay I'll buy you something expensive."
"You do that for me already."
"That's right, I'm a damn good boyfriend."
She snorted. "Good boyfriends don't make their girlfriends walk hours to look for the wallet they have just to record her."
"Babe!" He whines, jogging to catch up to her only for them to laugh.
It goes blank as it waits for the next video to scan and the group stays silent not daring to say a word. "What was the name of this tape?" Bellamy asks, his voice squeaking.
"'For the kids', why?" Jasper asks.
Bellamy scrambles up from his seated position on the couch and is about to pop out the video when Octavia throws herself on him to stop him. "Wait, their could be something we wanna watch!"
"Octavia, let go!" He says, trying to get her off of his back but she stays planted on it as she grabs onto his hands. "It has nothing to do with you! This video is different!"
"Why is it called 'for the kids' then?"
The video turns back on to a video of Clarke sleeping. She's curled up into a ball in the middle of Bellamy's old bed, wearing a baggy t-shirt that's obviously his and her lips just being slightly parted. "Decided to do something today." Bellamy whispers to the camera so she wont wake up, "Clarke and I were talking about kids. She was saying how she wished our kids could see us when we were young so here you go guys. A video of your mother."
It goes over to the bed, a slight dip in it where you can see Bellamy take his seat as it watches over her. "I figure I should say some things about her so you all can know her past self, I mean, I don't know how much has changed now. Her favorite color is green. Her favorite subject is history and art. She's the best artist in the universe - scratch that, galaxy. Her best friend is Octavia, which is your aunt. She's stubborn and is apprenticing as a nurse for Ark hospital right now. I think she's gonna be a famous painter when she's older though. Oh, and she's beautiful. Probably kick my ass if I didn't tell you that."
It's then that her eyes flutter open, she rubs them gently before turning towards the camera with a lazy smile. "Hey Bell."
"Hey." He says softly and it's then that Clarke begins to laugh.
"Give me that camera." She demands.
"Why?"
"You got serious bed-head. C'mon. I need to look back at this one day and laugh again."
So he does and after twirling it around does it show young Bellamy with his hair standing lop-sided on one side and not the other as his curls go out at a disarray. He wiggles his eyebrows, "How sexy do I look?"
Clarke giggles. "I could just jump you right now."
"Don't hold back." He grins and the camera shuts off.
The next video is loading to appear on the TV and Clarke turns to Bellamy with such a sad face he cant hold it. Octavia gets off of his back, tears rolling down her cheeks as she stares at her brother who is grimly looking at the floor. "Can we end it now?" He asks gruffly but the next video is already starting.
"Okay baby - babies, whatever. I don't know how many of the kids are watching this. Anyway, we're going to watch as your mother tries to make pancakes." It then that the recorder zooms in on Clarke who has her hair up in a messy puffy bun, is wearing booty shorts and is humming as she flips some pancakes. "How they cookin' babe?" He hollers.
"Good. Look at this one, hurry."
He walks over there, and she points at the pancake and giggles. "Doesn't it look like...?"
"A penis, yes." He laughs at her giggle before he walks back and looks at the camera. He looks young with a wide grin and sparkles in his eyes and fluffy hair. "Your mother is young kids. Penises are a type of chair that looks very odd. Penis bad. Okay, sorry. I'll film it when she's not acting like a kid herself."
"Hey!" Hollers Clarke from the kitchen. "This one looks like a boob!"
It shuts off.
Bellamy pops out the movie before more can turn on, throwing it back in his box of old memories as he fixes his shirt from the wrinkles in it. "Bellamy," Clarke whimpers, standing up to get beside him before he laughs it off and swats a hand to dismiss her.
"It was awhile ago. We were stupid and young."
He looks over to catch Octavia and Clarke's tear stained faces, the rest of the gang looking guilty as they hang their head. "You didn't tell me you did that." Clarke says, her voice hoarse and cracking and feeling like its burning.
"It was suppose to be a surprise when we had - if we did - look, it was awhile ago. Let's drop this."
"Bellamy, what you did-" Octavia starts but her brother gives her one look and she has her mouth closed.
Clarke goes to stand in front of him, reaching for his face only for him to bend down and grab the box of old memories. "I have a date with Roma so I'll catch you all later."
"Roma? The waitress?" Jasper asked.
"Yeah, she asked and we get along enough so it sounds good." Bellamy replies, stuffing in his binky and old clothes and photos inside the box as he balances it on his hip. He gives a wave over his shoulder, saying a, "Bye kids, be good" and is about to close the door only for Clarke to follow him.
He tries to ignore her, tries to not wince at the stomp in her foot or how he can hear the sadness and anger all in her body but that would be impossible for him. Clarke was like him; well, she wasn't anything like him, the two were beyond opposite but they were two sides of the same coin. They weren't necessarily the same thing but they were the same, or rather together and always backing each other up if it made any sense.
She could read his expression; like when he's licking his lips he's thinking and when he's looking down its when he's really happy and when his veins pop from his neck he's angry and when he starts looking at random places he's feeling hopeless and when his jaw tightened some shit is about to go down. To him she was like an open book; she tilted her head when she was trying to get her point across and when she looked down it meant she was flirting and when she scanned their faces it meant she was trying to understand what they were saying and when she chewed on her lip it meant she was in deep thought.
Bellamy and Clarke knew each other like you knew yourself. Deeper than anyone could ever know.
"Bellamy," She warns and he stops in his tracks with a sigh.
"Clarke," He says back.
"Can you look at me?" She asks.
It takes him a second to answer. Probably because he cant. But he manages to turn to look at her because he cant disobey her and he smiles lightly. "What's wrong?"
She scowls at him. "Don't pretend like what we watched wasn't anything."
"It wasn't though...not anymore."
She scans his face, as she always did when she was trying to understand what they were saying before her eyes darted to his lips and she took a step forward. Her hand reached behind his head, lacing her fingers through his curls and she kissed the side of his cheek right before she turned her face towards the side of his lips and brushed hers gently against his. It was barely anything to call a kiss but it made his eyes close and wish she wouldn't stop.
"Go catch that date. Roma's lucky to have someone like you." Clarke says against the side of his lips before she pulls away.
"What?" He asks, rubbing his forehead before looking at her with desperate eyes. "Why did you-?"
"I just wanted to." She answers before shrugging helplessly.
He was gonna ask why she stopped kissing him but thinks better of it. She doesn't like him like that anymore. She just did it because she pitied him, he keeps telling himself but how she keeps glancing at his lips is making him think.
Her eyes dart back to his eyes where they stay (their watery, he notes) before she smiles, "I love you."
Platonically, he has to say to himself.
"I love you too."
A/N: Hope you enjoyed that! Sorry it's been taking me so long I adopted some puppies and my aunt is staying over and OITNB just came out and we're cleaning and I'm going to a party so as I said before, it's been hard to post/write anything. I'm going to be starting tomorrow though. So much so my fingers are gonna hurt from typing but it's worth it. Skins AU is getting close. Already got three chapters done for it, but so much has to be done for it. Teen Wolf AU is not very close to being finished but I'm in progress and it'll get there. Royalty AU is one of the hardest for me because there is so many scenes I want to add but the first chapter is done. Brooklyn 99 the second chapter will most likely be posted soon being that I already have it done and this fic I'm actually almost done writing. I mean, for all of you there is A LOT more chapters but I'm getting close to mapping everything out and writing. Anyway hopefully you'll be seeing all those fics soon. Have a good day! Reviews are appreciated! -Phantom474
