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

It took about three hours before the three were able to get out of the tiny car. After Clarke's blow out, the car was deadly quiet. Wells was too busy trying to make eye contact with Clarke; trying and make amends for what he supposedly did. She was right, it wasn't hard keeping a secret for someone you loved and Wells knew the secret he was keeping was the best thing he can do for the girl he loved more than she will ever know.

Clarke was pulled out of the car by Bellamy who was also busy thinking about what Clarke said to her old friend. She was right, keeping secrets for someone you loved wasn't hard in the slightest. He never once regretted keeping his sister a secret from the world. His sister meant everything to him; he killed the most powerful man on The Ark so he could come here and protect her. Maybe he's being a little cruel to the princess of The Ark, but it hurt him to think that his mom and Octavia kept something from him as well.

He never once lied to those two but they were constantly lying to him. Was it because they didn't trust him or they loved him so much they wanted to protect him? It was something he wanted to talk to O about but was too afraid of the answer.

They walked in silence for a little, Wells ahead with a sad look on his face and Bellamy with Clarke a couple feet back. He didn't want to come with them but he admits his sister was right about them needing protection. He hasn't seen any grounders but he figures they were hiding from the fog or keeping themselves hidden from them. He needed to know the area better so they would have some sort of advantage.

"You know you were a little harsh with him right?" Bellamy asks casually as he breaks the silence and Clarke looks at him sharply.

"He deserves it. He's the reason my father is dead." She comments and he just looks at her and sees how much Wells' betrayal hurt her. He wouldn't admit it to anyone else, but the look made his heart tug a little. He hated seeing that look and it wasn't even the first time he's seen it.

"I may not know the guy, but Wells seems pretty straight up. But whenever you bring up your dad, he suddenly get vague. Seems like he's hiding something." He offers shrugging. He doesn't know why he's even being civil to her but now that he said it he may as well follow through. Maybe it would keep his sister off his back after that comment about Jasper.

"So you think it wasn't him? Impossible he's the only one I told." She denies and Bell thinks for a minute.

"Yeah but was he the only one who knew?" He asks and she looks at him confused for a moment before her eyes go wide.

No...no he wasn't the only one who knew.

She looks over at him thinking of a way to thank him, but instead she says nothing.

XOXOXOX

When they get back to camp, Bellamy immediately breaks from them to check with Miller how everything was when they were gone. Miller tells him about the two kids that didn't make it into their tents in time, one of them being a girl that passed away just before they got back and the other being Atom who was suffering bad radiation burns.

"Go get Clarke, maybe she can do something. Get her whatever she needs." He orders Murphy who rolls his eyes but follows the older man's order.

Bellamy crouches down and looks at Atom who was burned badly. His eyes were all messed up and he looked like he was in a lot of pain. Now he didn't know Atom very well but the guy seemed nice enough, someone Bellamy thought he could trust to help him get everything organized for the group.

Atom coughs and looks him in the eyes.

"Kill me." The boy guy whispers and Bellamy's eyes go wide at the thought. Yeah, he may say he could kill someone with no problem but the only person he intentionally killed was Jaha and that was to protect his sister.

Before he could say or do anything, Clarke runs up to Atom and quickly looks him over. When Murphy called her over, she quickly gave the seaweed to O and had her make it into a tea to give to Jasper before making her way over to the injured boy.

There was nothing she could do for him. Even if they were on The Ark, the burns were too bad and the radiation wouldn't let him heal properly for him to be the same. She looks Bellamy in the eyes sadly and shakes her head softly. His face falls and she knows he can't do what needs to be done. She remembers him saying she can't make these kinds of decisions and he can, but it seems like that wasn't the case and she knows she would never hold it against him.

She starts humming to him and picks up Atom's falling knife. As she continues a sweet song, she fixes his hair and presses a kiss to the top of his head. Bellamy looks at her in shock and...pride as she gently stabs Atom in his neck, bursting his carotid artery making him dead in seconds. Even when he stops moving, Clarke keeps humming as a tear slowly falls down her cheek. He might not have thought she couldn't make the tough choices for the group, but he was seriously proven wrong.

After the camp comes out and sees what happened, the rest of the hundred look on in complete silence until Clarke stands up and makes Bellamy does the same.

"Okay, we've been here a couple days and we already know we are not alone." She starts and she hears people freak out a little but she holds up her hand up for quiet. Surprisingly, everyone commands.

"We also know, Mount Weather, which was supposed to have all we needed to survive, is under the grounder's territory. So we are on our own." She stops and sees people look defeated but when she looks at Bellamy he is just staring at her waiting to see where the hell she was going with this.

"Now The Ark may or may not follow us down here, but if they don't, we are on our own and we WILL survive this. But we need order, we need rules." Finally the catch. Some of the people in the group, mostly Bellamy's lackeys, start to look annoyed.

"And who makes those rules? You?" Murphy interrupts and looks at her with plain disgust but she just looks at him calmly. She turns to Bellamy and motions to him as well as herself.

"For now...we both do. Bellamy is the oldest here and most have already noticed he has an influence on us. He can help us with hunting and protection, and I can help with medical and keeping us all peaceful. We both don't do anything without discussing it with each other and if it is something really important we can put it to a vote. Anyone disagree?" She asks the crowd and again, surprisingly no one does. Not even Bellamy who has been silent her whole speech.

He finally clears his throat and steps next to Clarke.

"She's right, if we are stuck here alone, we need order. I'd love for us to do whatever the hell we want, but if we all want to survive for real, we need to become a little more civilized. We don't need to follow in The Ark's footsteps but we will take care of each are all going to need to pitch our own weight. Starting with a wall to protect us from the grounders..."He says as he pulls some of the older, stronger looking guys and talk to them about getting trees cut as as well as metal to make a wall. Clarke looks at him take control and resists the urge to smile with pride.

They can make this work. She knows it.

(Flashback)

Nine year old Clarke knocks on room 517 and waits patiently for Miss Aurora to open the door. Usually people don't stop by her house unexpected but she never wants to take the chance and makes Octavia hide in the closet until she knows it's safe.

When she opens the door she smiles and Clarke runs to the closet to pull her friend out before crushing her in a hug; careful not to drop what she's holding in her hand.

"I borrowed my dad's tablet so I can show you some of the people on The Ark." Clarke informs her friend who smiles brightly at the thought of seeing other people. She may never be able to actually meet them but Clarke will tell her all about them.

They both sit on her and her mom's bed before Clarke shows her The Chancellor first.

"This is Chancellor Jaha. His real name is Thelonious, he's known my mom and dad forever. He is really serious because he's in charge and all but I think it must be hard on him. His wife, Wells' mom had cancer and he could have bent the rules and gave her more medicine to save her, but he didn't. Wells said it wouldn't be fair to all the other parents that couldn't get more." Clarke tells her friend who looks at the dark colored man and examines his face. He looks so sad; like he had the weight of the world on his shoulders. Bell always told her Jaha was an evil man but she didn't think so...he was just a man who had so much power but at the same time had none.

Clarke starts swiping through more pictures, telling her all about her parents, Wells, and her teachers, but when it came time to show her kids their own age, Clarke didn't know what to tell her. She didn't really have any friends besides her and Wells. However, she didn't want to disappoint her friend so she made up stories.

"This girl...Harper is so funny! She tells me jokes everyday and tries to outsmart the teachers. They usually know more but her versions are always hysterical." Clarke's hands are moving dramatically trying to get Octavia as excited but her friend was just smiling at her.

"Clarke it's okay...you don't need to make up stories about people. I know you don't really talk to kids our age." She says softly and Clarke's eyes drop in sadness.

It was one thing for people not to know you exist but it was another thing for them to know who you are and chose to ignore you for no reason.

"I'm sorry. I just want you to have the chance to see what everything is like outside this place." She whispers sadly pulling her into a hug.

"Do you ever feel sad that you don't have more friends?" Octavia asks boldly but softly. She knows Clarke loves her but maybe she wishes she had actual public friends. It'd kill her to lose her best friend but at the same times she thinks it might be better for Clarke.

Clarke shakes her head immediately.

"No. I have you, your mom, and Wells. Even Bellamy indirectly. I don't need anyone else." She says truthfully before hugging her friend again.

Miss Aurora looks at her girls with a sweet smile on her face as they continue looking at the kids' pictures, trying to guess what they were really like.

(End Flashback)

When everything is settled down, Clarke goes and sits next to Octavia who was sitting alone on a log. After Jasper woke up, Octavia stepped out to give Monty a chance to talk to his friend. She looks up to the stars and can't believe how much has happened since they landed on Earth. She feels Clarke as she wraps her arm around her friend and rests her head on her tiny shoulders.

"Did you ever think we would end up here?" Clarke asks tiredly and Octavia laughs.

"Never. I thought I'd be in prison till I turned eighteen then get floated immediately. I figured you'd become a hot shot doctor, beating even your mom's skills and Bell...he'd end up back as a guard and try and make a life without my mom or me." She answers honestly and peers her head at Clarke who was closing her eyes trying to picture what she said. When she was in prison, she always hoped Clarke could somehow do something to make Bellamy feel less lonely about them all being gone, but she knew Clarke was arrested before she could.

"I'm glad we're here. We can make a life here O. Even if The Ark does come down here, we don't have to join them. I know Bellamy is going to want to run if they come down here and I know he's gonna want you with him but I don't think I can do this all without you." She says and Octavia moves her shoulder making Clarke sit up straight.

"How did you know about Bellamy wanting to run?" She asks curiously. The night they came down, he came up to her and told her that if The Ark came down, they would need to run or else they would kill him on the spot. He wouldn't tell her what he did though.

"Please. He had to of done something to get down here to protect you. That's why he wanted the bracelets off and make them all think we were dead." She replies shrugging making O laugh softly.

"I forget how well you know him sometimes. Even without speaking to him more than a handful of times, you always knew him as well as I did." She comments smiling sadly when Clarke just shrugs and thinks about the rare times her and Bellamy did run into each other in space. They were less than pleasant memories.

They sit in silence for a minute looking at the stars.

"Now that we're down here...do you ever think about telling Bellamy the whole truth? You know...everything you did?" She asks her best friend hesitantly knowing how hard it was for her to even think about it. Clarke takes a deep breath but smiles reassuringly at her.

"No...it's better for him to hate me than find out what I did for him. It's the best thing for him." She answers simply before putting her head back on Octavia's shoulder and looking at the stars.

Behind a tree Bellamy looks at the two girls in complete confusion. Just what were they talking about? How could there be more secrets?

TBC

I'm sure some people can figure out just what Clarke did but it's going to be awhile before I reveal it. Sorry guys.