Bellamy knew she would be pissed, but it was the only time that she was alone, so he took his chance and started through the forest.
"Where are you going?" Octavia asked, looking up from the kids.
"For a walk."
"Towards the stream?" She raised her eyebrows at him, "I'll keep it quiet."
"I appreciate it."
"She never made up with Lexa," Octavia told him.
"Why would that matter?" Bellamy asked, confused.
Clarke had arguments all the time (mostly with him, but that was normal.
"Bellamy..." Octavia thought he was an idiot, he could tell. She didn't want to explain this to him, but she had to, otherwise he would do something stupid and push Clarke straight off a cliff, "What Heda said they first day we were here? You haven't figured it out?"
"I haven't really had a lot of time to think about it Octavia, so please tell me before Clarke comes back."
Raven walked towards them.
"Clarke and Lexa...what Lexa did to get back on Clarke's good side...how they were always by eachother's side...they were together Bellamy. There were rumors when you were in the Mountain that...the alliance between the Grounders and us would be even stronger in a while, it wasn't until we came here that I realized those were true."
"Octavia, what are you saying."
Raven took control, "Clarke and Lexa were gay for each other."
"Yeah, there you go," Octavia said, scratching her head awkwardly.
"WHAT?!" Bellamy roared.
Raven continued, "When they had that big fight, the thing that Heda said you could do to get on Clarke's good side, the thing that Lexa did, it was having sex. That's what Lexa did after the fight."
"They are a couple?"
"Were a couple," Octavia corrected.
"Yes, it seems that they had another argument that didn't end up the way the other one did," Raven said.
There was an awkward pause.
"Soooo...yeah, Clarke's now single." Raven said smiling at him.
"She's also gay."
"BI, Bellamy. BI as in BISEXUAL," Octavia said.
"Look at it this way: she's not very picky about who's in bed with her." Raven said
"Which is good. I mean, look at you." Bellamy's sister waved her hand in his direction.
"So now..." Bellamy paused, "You want me to be either her."
Raven and Octavia looked at him for a minute, then at each other.
"Jesus, bro," Octavia said, "You're hopeless!"
"Hey! You're the one who doesn't like Clarke!" Bellamy protested.
"Well, yeah! Certainly not as much as you do!"
"WHAT?!"
Raven slammed her hand onto her forehead, "Okay, he's obviously blown a gasket. Class dissmissed for today."
"Bell, just go see Clarke," Octavia said, waving him off.
"Are you bi?" Bellamy asked as an opening. It was already going to be an awkward talk, might as well start it off awkwardly.
"Jesus, Bellamy!" Clarke said, pushing herself further into the creek, "Really?" She screamed.
"I just want to know."
"Bellamy, I'm NAKED! Leave!"
"Are you bi?"
"Yeah, what's it to you?"
"Were you with Lexa?"
"Bellamy, LEAVE!"
"Not until I get my answers."
"Honestly? Just wait 'til I get to the village."
"No."
"Bellamy. I'm standing in the middle of a stream naked, and you want to talk NOW?!"
"I've waited long enough," he said.
She choked on the words he had so mercilessly spat out of his mouth, "Oh?"
"You owe me that much," Bellamy said, "You left and I want answers."
She looked at him, more vulnerable than she had ever been before in front of him. If he looked hard enough (even though she knew he wouldn't) he would be able to see her, not that he didn't see everything about her, in her, already.
"Yeah, I was with Lexa."
"Did you all breakup?"
"Yeah."
"Because of us coming?"
He didn't need an answer, her silence was enough.
"I'm sorry."
"It's not your fault. It's mine for being weak."
Bellamy paused, "Weak because we came?"
She nodded, "You all made me weak. You all are destroying me."
It was different. He had heard it before from the others, her guards, even Heda, but hearing her say it was a stab to the heart.
Clarke shook her head, "I was almost better."
Bellamy thought for a second, "Maybe...maybe if it took so little to break you again...maybe you were trying to heal yourself the wrong way."
She looked at him, so he continued, "Maybe what you were doing was like...putting a small bandage over a bullet wound. It helps for a while, but in the end..."
"It's inadequate to heal the wound." Clarke finished.
"Maybe you ran away from the procedure that would actually heal you because it would hurt. Like Raven with her surgery. It hurt like hell and left her with a couple of scars, but in the end it healed her. Maybe when you left us, you were running away from your surgery."
"Maybe."
"I think you should try the surgery."
"If it goes wrong, it will kill me."
Bellamy thought back to the Delinquents, the ones here and the ones waiting anxiously at home for her to return.
"Your in good hands. We've got the best surgeons in the world."
Clarke stood there in the creek for a second.
"It may cause pain in the beginning, but it will fix you, Clarke. Let's do the surgery. Come home with us after the treaty is signed."
"...Okay."