Author's Note: Releasing 2 chapters on 2 different stories on the same day = exhausting. I do hope you guys enjoy my hard work! Again, had to make cuts and changes here and there but I think that it worked out okay. Did you guys think this chapter turned okay? Also, don't forget to check out the newest chapter to The Thin Line Between Love and Hate!

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(BELLAMY)

Wishing he could stay with Clarke but knowing he had to take care of the camp, he went in search of Raven.

They needed a way to stop the Grounders from attacking them to allow everyone to recover from the virus.

When he arrived at the weapons tent, she was working on making more bullets but there was only enough gunpowder to allot for 5 bullets to a clip. Jasper, Monty and Harper, a girl Bellamy vaguely remembered as being part of the camps guard, were all helping her.

Bellamy started to help to load up the weapons and get them on the wall when Finn burst into the tent.

"What do we need to build a bomb?"

That was unexpected as Finn was anti-violence, it was why he had gone to the Grounders for a peace treaty in the first place. Bellamy wondered where he was going with this.

"Depends on what you're trying to blow up." Raven apparently was also intrigued by Finn's train of thought as well.

"How about a bridge?"

Bellamy was getting tired of the run-around. "What are you talking about?"

"Murphy says he crossed a bridge on his way back here from the Grounders' camp. Sound familiar?" Finn gave him a pointed look and Bellamy knew he was referring to the bridge where everything had gone to hell just a few days before.

"Yeah, so what?"

"So the virus is fast. He's already getting better. Blowing the bridge won't stop the attack, but the longer we can delay it, the more of us will be able to fight."

The idea was starting to take root but Bellamy was unsure of how they were going to accomplish what Finn was suggesting.

"Even if Murphy is telling the truth, and that's a big if, that bridge has survived a nuclear war and 97 years of weather."

Raven got a thoughtful look on her face, "It won't survive me."

Everyone looked at her in question and she was quick to explain that they might be able to find rocket fuel at the wreckage now that the fire seemed to have dissipated from last night. Raven said it was a long shot but worth a try.

Bellamy sent her to run to the site to get what they needed. They didn't have a lot of time so he told her to take what she needed with her to set it off. Finn and Jasper volunteered to go with to help her, which made sense since they were the only ones not sick that would be of use.

He would have gone as well but he knew he couldn't.

His nose had started to bleed.

"Hey, big brother."

He was turned on his side, coughing up blood which spewed on the floor. When he was rolled onto his back again, he realized his sister there, wiping his face of the blood and sweat.

He didn't remember being brought to the ship.

Octavia looked worried about him, which couldn't be a good sign. First Clarke and now him. Everyone was getting sick and dying. The Grounders were coming to kill them. Hope was lost.

"I'm scared."

"I won't let anything happen to you, I promise."

"That's what I said to you the day you were born." If he didn't feel so awful, he would have smiled at her attempt to comfort him.

"I know. You told me that, like...a thousand times."

He clutched her hand to his chest, not wanting to let go. Afraid to lose this fragile connection to life as he battled for his.

"I'm glad you're here."

"Just get some rest now, okay?"

Bellamy battled back tears but nodded, he didn't want to upset Octavia more than he had to. He closed his eyes and tried to rest for her sake.

(CLARKE)

She woke up when she heard Bellamy tell someone to get away from him. Clarke had seen him earlier but was still too weak to go to him, drifting in and out of consciousness.

Looking over, she saw Murphy trying to give Bellamy some water but he was refusing it.

Clarke was feeling better already and knew that she was on the mend. She pulled herself out of the hammock and walked over before things got ugly.

Bellamy still hadn't forgiven Murphy for what happened to Charlotte.

"When I get better, if you're still here-" Bellamy was starting to threaten Murphy when she came up.

"Hey, I got this one."

Murphy looked at her for a moment then handed her the cup of water he had been trying to offer. She took it and sat beside Bellamy on the floor; he looked like death.

Clarke handed Bellamy the cup and this time he took it without complaint. She put a hand on his back, missing his touch. Missing him.

Bellamy looked her over and she could tell that he was still worried for her. Even when he was sick, he still looked to make sure she was okay.

Clarke leaned over and pressed a gentle kiss on his lips. It was over quickly so she pressed her forehead against his, just needing the contact.

"You feeling better?"

She smiled, wanting to reassure him and knowing he needed it, "Yeah."

"That's good."

They sat like that for another minute before Bellamy pulled back and looked around again.

"You seen Octavia?"

"She was up all night helping people. Murphy gave her a break."

Bellamy looked at her in disbelief, "Don't tell me you trust him now."

"Trust? No." she shook her head. "I do believe in second chances, though."

At that, she gave Bellamy a long look. Clarke wanted him to remember that if she hadn't given him a second chance, they wouldn't be together, let alone getting along enough to lead the Hundred.

Bellamy looked off to the side. She had a feeling that he was remembering why he needed that second chance. When he looked back, he had his leader face on again.

"It's almost dawn. Better get everyone inside. If we lock the doors, maybe the Grounders will think we're not home."

Clarke noticed the change in subject but didn't press it. She had made her point. "Not everyone's sick."

"Sick is better than dead."

"You don't think Finn and Jasper are gonna pull it off." She had been aware enough the last few hours to know what was going on.

Bellamy just looked at her, "Do you?"

After thinking about the last encounter with the Grounders, she realized that she was hesitant to trust that the two boys would be able to pull it off. Raven was with them so that gave her hope but she needed to be cautious about the lives that were counting on them.

"I'll get everyone inside."

(BELLAMY)

The sun was just coming up over the skyline and there was a scent of fear in the air at camp.

Clarke and he were rushing to get everyone inside before the attack came. There was still no sign that the bomb had been successful.

There was a loud rumble and the ground shook slightly beneath his feet. Everyone turned to the sky and saw a mushroom cloud appear overhead. It looked like the pictures of an atomic bomb that they had all studied in class.

"They did it."

He heard Clarke whisper, almost to herself, "I am become death, destroyer of worlds."

Bellamy turned his attention away from the explosion to look at her. She sounded so lost.

"It's Oppenheimer, the man who built the first-"

"I know who Oppenheimer is."

Clarke looked at him in surprise and he smirked. Princess wasn't the only one who knew things.

It was dark when Bellamy finally tracked down Clarke again.

He had looked all over camp for her and couldn't find her. The scare with the virus still had him on edge and he wanted her with him at all times until he knew for sure that the danger had passed.

Bellamy breathed a sigh of relief when he saw her and walked over.

"You're outside of the wall without a gun."

He felt like this was a conversation that they'd had before. Clarke just gave him a look before turning to look at the newly dug graves in the ground.

"14 graves."

Bellamy could see the heartbreak in her eyes at all the death before them. They had lost so many, so soon. He pulled her into a hug and tried to change the subject.

"We need to talk about Murphy."

"He was right about the bridge."

"We'll see. Octavia says the mountain men are pissed, whatever that means."

Octavia had disappeared again some time during the day to see her Grounder but had returned early afternoon to relay more information that she had gotten.

"I'd say it means we need as many soldiers as we can get."

Bellamy raised an eyebrow at her, skeptical, "So, what, we have pardon power now?"

"It's hard running things." she threw his words back at him with a smirk. It would be Clarke to remember what he had said when he was trying to make a point and use it against him.

Clarke glanced back at the graves, "14."

He kept an arm around her shoulder and tugged her towards the gate.

"Come on Princess, let's go home to our tent. We'll save the day again tomorrow."

I wished there was a way I could've included the scene with Raven and Finn at the end but since he didn't catch Clarke in my story and I cut the part where he hesitated at the bomb, it wouldn't have made sense. But honestly, that scene freaking broke my heart. Poor Raven!

P.S. I'm sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes that you find. I re-read it like twice but I'm sure I missed some.