Disclaimer: I do not own The 100 or the characters in it. They are owned by Kass Morgan
Summery: Clarke was always good at keeping secrets. In fact, she's been keeping one since she was six years old and it's about to come out in the open.
Couples: Bellarke eventually
Rating: T probably because of swearing mostly
XOXOX
By the time Clarke and Bellamy made it back to camp, they were practically dragging Jasper on the handmade stretcher they made. Monty quickly took over for Clarke, so happy his friend was back and he was still alive. The two men made their way to the top of the drop ship where they put him down and Clarke took a look at his wound. Bellamy, Octavia, Finn, Monty, and Wells stepped out of her way but were curious as to what she was doing.
"It doesn't make sense. They treated his wound before they strung him up." Clarke muttered looking at the red substance over Jasper's wound.
She looks over to her company fearful but determined.
"We need to find more of this stuff. It must have some antiseptic properties. If I can make this into a tea it will help him even more. I just don't know what it is." She admits ashamed with herself. She can save Jasper, she knows it, she just needs to find whatever this is. She didn't get to finish her internship at the Medical Bay, so her knowledge was very limited.
Before anyone can say anything, Bellamy scoffs at her.
"There's no way he's going to make it. Why don't we just end his suffering now?" He asks looking over at everyone who is looking at him with shock and disgust.
"You're not touching him!" Monty says moving in between Bellamy and Jasper in an effort to protect his friend. Bellamy will have to go through him to get to Jasper.
"No one is hurting Jasper, Monty." Clarke says standing up and putting a hand on Monty's arm. She smiles at him and motioned him to sit next to his friend and he obliges.
"You can't make the tough decisions princess. I can. We can barley take care of ourselves much less someone as injured as him." Bellamy points out in a condescending tone that makes Clarke see red. How dare he!
Octavia tries to say something to defend her best friend but Clarke didn't give her the chance. She pushes Bellamy almost to the point where he would have fallen down to the first floor of the ship.
"Screw you Bellamy. You will NEVER know what I'm capable of." She says this harshly looking at him with such hate in her eyes. He has some nerve to say she couldn't make tough decisions. He hasn't the faintest idea what she's done for him and his family and she'll be damned if she follows his orders to MURDER her new friend just after saving him.
"I'm going to find what that substance is and if you have a problem with that you're going to have to go through us to get to him." She threatened and he looks over at the hard looks on everyone's faces, including his sister's.
"Plus I know what the substance is." Wells finally pipes up before this argument got out of hand. He might not like Bellamy but it was rough being on Clarke's bad side.
Clarke looks at him with a smile for the first time since she realized he was on the drop ship. Hell yeah, this was his chance to get on his best friend's good side again.
"Well? What is it? How do you know what it is?" She asks impatiently and he resists the urge to grin.
"I'm the one who aced Earth Studies class remember? It's seaweed." He says shrugging and Clarke has to hold back the urge to hug him. He was smart and probably saved Jasper's life, but there was still bad blood between them.
"Okay well I'm going to go get some." Clarke says pushing her way past Bellamy to go down to the first level.
"I'm coming with you. I can show you the best places to find them and see if there's other plants that can help him or people who get injured." He says and for once she doesn't disagree just nods her head distractedly.
"Clarke! Bell is going with you!" Octavia calls out to her making her freeze. Bellamy looks at her like he's about to object but Octavia just sends his a glare.
"Those guys are still out there and you need to be protected. Plus there's no way he's staying here with me and Jasper." Octavia reasons and while it sounds like a good idea in theory, he's waiting for Clarke to object.
But she doesn't. She nods the same way she did about Wells saying he was joining her. To be honest Clarke didn't give a shit who came with her just as long as they got their asses moving and didn't slow her down.
"Okay. Stay safe and try to get him to drink some water." Clarke says softly, finally looking at her friend and giving her a smile goodbye
While she didn't want to be in Bellamy's company again, she knew Octavia would be upset at the thought of her going without protection. She just hopes she doesn't need protection from him as well as the grounders.
(Flashback)
Aurora looks at the message on her screen from Clarke, informing her that a surprise inspection was taking place in ten minutes in her section. That girl was an angel sent to her. She smiles to herself before deleting the message and looking at her two children.
"Get on up guys! Surprise inspection about to happen again and we need to make sure everything is out of the way." She informs her kids who quickly get up and start cleaning their tiny home.
"How come it's called a 'surprise inspection' when you always seem to know when they are happening." Fifteen year old Bellamy asks his mother in confusion as he puts away his sister's books and cloths. He puts them in a tiny bag that was going to go under the floor with his sister when the guards come.
Aurora looks over at her ten year old daughter who is smiling at her as well. They both knew that Clarke sneaks into The Chancellor's office when she goes to visit her friend Wells and looks at the inspection schedule.
"I have a friend in high places sweetie." She tells him vaguely as she helps her children clean the room.
By the time they finished, they heard a loud pounding on their door.
"Surprise inspection." They heard the top guard Mr. Dashnaw announce. They all wince before giving Octavia a quick hug as she silently lies down under the floor.
"One day I hope we won't have to do that." Bellamy mutters sadly at the thought of his little sister and Aurora kisses him lightly on top of his head.
She knows the only way that would happen is when she gets floated and Octavia would be arrested; she doesn't tell her son that though, it would just upset him.
She takes a deep breath before opening the door.
"Hello Mr. Dashnaw." She says smiling wide at the perverted man. It was show time.
(End Flashback)
It doesn't take the three long to find a lake that has seaweed in it. Wells, Bellamy, and Clarke crouch over the water to make sure it was the same substance they found covering Jasper's wound.
"This is it." Wells declares and Clarke stands up and looks further ahead to see a whole lot of seaweed further down.
Wells turns to Bellamy, "Maybe we can make a net with something and fish it out..."He starts to say but stops when he hears water slashing.
They turn and see Clarke calmly walking towards the seaweed and grabbing a couple handfuls before putting it in her bag. She clearly wasn't worried about giant sea creatures like Wells was.
"That works too." He comments and she just shrugs.
"Okay let's get going. We can make it back in a half hour." She says before turning.
All of a sudden, they stop when they hear a loud horn go off. A bunch of black birds fly past them, almost as if they were running away from something. It takes them a minute but they start to see a yellow fog make their way towards them.
"It must be poisonous. Acid fog!" Clarke determines before grabbing Bellamy's arm and making both boys run with her towards the old car Finn found on their journey to Mount Weather. She pulls open the door open and motions for them to jump in. They do and close the door just as the fog is about to reach them.
"Shit, cover the corners it's leaking in." Clarke orders and the boys use their jackets to cover up any cracks in the car. When that's done they all breathe in relief...until they realize they are stuck together until the fog clears up.
"Guess we're stuck here." Bellamy mutters in defeat before sitting down and looking around. After a moment or two, Bellamy makes a triumphant noise as he holds up a bottle.
"Guess whoever owned this car had some brains." He smirks before opening the bottle and smelling it. Smelled better than moonshine. He takes a swing and grimaces at the burn. He remembers reading about a drink like this. Whiskey, he thinks it was called. He looks over to Wells and Clarke who are just silently watching him.
"Wanna try?" He asks hesitantly and Wells scoffs.
"We don't want any." He replies and Clarke narrows her eyes at his words. Since when did Wells know what she did and did not want? She turns her head to Bellamy who is looking at her waiting for an answer.
She takes the bottle from him and takes a deep chug. It burned going down her throat but she'll admit it made her feel better at the fact that she was in a car with someone she hated and someone who hated her.
Joy.
Wells looks at her disapprovingly. She used to be so smart, so logical; so it confused him why she was being so resentful.
"Clarke..."He starts to say but she cuts him off.
"No Wells. I don't want to talk to you! Don't you get it? I hate you for what you did! I trusted you with something and you couldn't keep your mouth shut for a day! Had to run to daddy to look like a good boy!" She snaps at him and Wells swallows the hurt and says nothing. That was a low blow for her to say. She knows how sensitive he was about his relationship with his dad was.
"I did what I thought was best for you. That secret was killing you." He points out and Clarke snorts.
"You mean the secret was killing you! It's not difficult keeping a secret for someone you love." She says before looking at Bellamy who was watching the exchange in silence.
Clarke huffs before crossing her arms protectively across her chest. She closes her eyes and can still hear him...whispering in her ear.
She should have taken her chances on the acid fog.
TBC!