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
Author's Note: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYONE'S REVIEWS! It makes my day to see them and I'm kind of glad no one can guess Clarke's secret, I thought I was being too obvious.
XOXOX
Two weeks go by since the hundred landed on Earth and to say things have changed drastically since their first day would be an understatement. Since Bellamy and Clarke established order, things have been running a lot smoother than either of them expected.
They assigned jobs to everyone; finding out their strengths and giving them something that would not only benefit everyone, but something that they would enjoy doing. The less pleasant jobs, like cleaning out their bathroom buckets or skinning the animals they hunted were rotated or used as a punishment if someone did something out of line like start a fight or steal something from someone. Also, Clarke and Bellamy were no exception to the rotation; while they may be in charge they both expressed they were not above any rule. They only wanted the same respect they gave everyone else.
They also came up with the rule that they wouldn't punish anyone by death. The Ark was known to take lives without hesitation but that didn't mean they had to follow their elders' footsteps. If someone did anything unforgettable like murder, not counting the circumstance on what happened with Atom and the acid fog, they would get banished and would receive no help what's so ever from the rest of the camp. Thankfully no one has committed that kind of crime yet.
Clarke can honestly say things have been pretty good. After the incident in the car, Clarke finally found the courage to confront Wells about who really turned her father in. He didn't even have to admit it, the look on his face was proof enough. Her mother, her own flesh and blood betrayed her and her father. It was HER fault Clarke was rotting in a cell for over a year and yet Wells took the blame to save her pain. She was so ashamed in her past behavior and begged her old friend for forgiveness. He immediately gave it to her but she knew they had a long way to go.
After checking on some kids who fell trying to carry too much water back to camp, she closes the drop ship that's been used as a medical wing and walks towards Wells who was sitting by the bonfire eating whatever animal Bellamy and his crew caught hunting that day.
She sits next to him and smiles in greeting.
"Busy day?" He asks her and she shrugs. To be honest things were almost too good to be true and she was waiting for the other shoe to drop so to speak. She's also been thinking about the winter. It should be arriving in a couple months and the camp was no where near ready for it. They have never felt the cold before...not like it's been described in Earth Studies and to be honest she was worried. She knows if they don't prepare, people could die and she wanted to prevent that at all costs.
"Just thinking about how we need to start preparing for the winter." She explains and he nods in agreement. Wells has been a big help on Earth facts. He helped some creative kids get started on making cabins, and storage for their food and water, he even was trying to teach some kids how to make wooden furniture.
"I agree we need to start hunting a little longer and drying out some more of the meat so we can store it. Once it gets colder, a lot of animals won't be out during the day. The more we do now, the more we will have later on." He explains and she soaks in the information.
"I hope Monty can find a way to contact The Ark soon, they may have other locations where supplies might be. Anything would be helpful at this point, blankets, matches, weapons, anything." She says and he just looks at her. She was so beautiful. Being a leader was a role she was always born to play. She really stepped up and was doing what was right for the group and not just her and he respected that. He just wished he was the one helping her and not Bellamy Blake.
"When we do contact them...will you talk to your mom?" He asks and her eyes suddenly harden that the mention of her mother and Wells immediately wishes he never brought it up.
"No. I have nothing left to say to her. She let you take the blame Wells! Who does that? And you want to know the saddest part of this whole thing?" She asks him looking at him with such devastation that made him just want to hug her or kiss her until she only felt happiness.
"What?" He asks in a small voice.
She gives a hollow laugh. "I'm not even surprised she did something like this. I stopped trusting her a long time ago and I should have known she would sell my dad out for the 'greater good'. Aurora was more of a mother to me than Abby ever was." She admits as her heart starts to hurt at the thought of Aurora. She missed her so much. She was never a big believer in a higher power, but if there is one, she hoped Aurora was looking down on her and her children with pride.
(Flashback)
It's been two days since Clarke met Octavia and she was going insane with confusion! She was always told that a mom could only have one child and yet Miss Aurora has two! She hated being confused and was determined to get answers!
As she eats dinner with her mommy and daddy she looks at the two of them trying to decide if she should ask them. What if they know she was hiding something? Or what if they want to know why SHE wants to know? But if there was anyway Clarke would described herself it would be...creative. She knows how to make people see only what she wants them to see.
"Mommy?" She asks timidly as she plays with her fork looking at her mother with her big blue eyes shinning in naivety.
"Yes honey?" She asks her daughter distractedly. She had to be in a council meeting in fifteen minutes and wanted to get some paper work done before she left.
"Why can a mommy only have one baby? I was reading a story in the library about two siblings named Hansel and Gretel." She looks at her mom who started looking at her daddy worried. Would they tell her the truth? She hopes so.
Her mommy puts her fork down and looks at her daughter before taking a deep breath.
"Well sweetie, that story was a fairy tale, it wasn't real children. But really, when a mother has a baby, their body goes through a lot; so much that the mom can only handle that kind of exertion once." Her mother lies smoothly before picking her fork up and starting to eat again, thinking the conversation was over with.
Clarke's eyes go dark with rage as she slams her fork down making her parents looks at her once again, this time in shock.
"Mommy I love you, but don't you DARE lie to me again." She says seriously before getting up from the table and storming into her room.
Abby looks at her husband appalled and Jake just holds up his hand in a signal that he will handle this.
He slowly walks towards his daughter's room and knocks softly. No answer. He thinks it might be worse than he thought. Clarke was not one of those children that plays the silent treatment when something was bothering her; she prefers to talk it out rationally. Now, however, she was completely silent.
He steps into her room slowly and notices she is sitting on her bed just looking out her window towards the beautiful stars.
"Clarke, honey, please don't be mad at your mother." He pleas and she looks at him with the same anger she looked at Abby with. Shit, his daughter can be scary at times. She still wasn't speaking and he knew the only way to get her happy was to give her the information she wants. What could it hurt, she was going to find out sooner or later right?
"If I tell you the complete truth, completely uncensored, will you talk to me?" He tries to bargain and she finally looks at him and nods.
He takes a deep breath and sits on her bed before he tells her about The Ark and the laws it has to make sure they can live up in space until it's safe to go back on Earth. He tells her that The Ark has to give women a chip once they are physically able to have a child and it typically works ten years until the chancellor either makes them get another chip or allows them to have a child. In extreme times, when there is a problem with the system, the chancellor has to ban all births from happening temporarily, even when a woman is already with child or in labor. Also, the price of having another child is punishable by floating.
"So a mom can have more than one child...they could have two?" She finally asks timidly and he smiles at his baby girl. She was too smart for her own good. She was a sponge, ready to absorb any information given to her.
" They can have two or three at the same time! I've read history books about mommy's who have had ten to fourteen children!" He says with wide eyes and Clarke's eyes widen too. Two children at once!
"Your mom wasn't lying when she said it is a lot on a woman's body, but that's the thing about moms, they are a lot stronger than men give them credit for." He winks at her and she giggles before wrapping her arms around him.
"Thank you for telling me the truth. I think it would have been nice to have a sister or a brother." She admits and her dad just holds her tighter.
Sometimes he also wishes The Ark didn't have the power to tell a mother they couldn't have more children.
(End Flashback)
She smiles sadly at Wells.
"My mother is the type of person that would agree to send a hundred children to Earth to die to save the 'important' ones in space. My mother and your father are so eager to kill off the ones they don't deem worthy and it kills me." She shakes her head in anger just thinking of her mother and even Jaha. While they didn't die on Earth, the thought remains the same. They were willing to take the chance since their lives were...expendable.
Wells says nothing at the jab to his father, knowing Clarke has her own issues with the man. His father was a powerful and powerless man. He's made choices he was expected to make and that includes sending them here. However, he knew if he defended him, they would just argue and he really didn't want that.
Clarke stands up and looks at her friend.
"I'm going to go to sleep. I'll see you tomorrow." She says and he gets up and gives her a tight hug.
"Okay. Goodnight Clarke. Sleep well." He whispers into her ear and she just smiles at him before walking towards her tent.
That was the last thing he ever said to her
XOXOX
It was Monty and Jasper that found him in the morning. A large cut across his neck, dried with blood and his eyes open and glassy, a scared look in his dead eyes.
Monty immediately runs towards Bellamy's tent and Jasper stays to make sure no younger kid spots the body. He is horrified but can't turn away. Who would do this? Wells may not have been the most popular, but he was harmless, friendly even. He was good for the camp and someone murdered him in cold blood.
By the time Monty comes back, Bellamy and Clarke are by his side and Clarke lets out a pained sob.
"No, oh God no!" She whispers before lunging herself to his body. She doesn't feel for a pulse, knowing there would be none. She just takes his cold hand in hers and lets the tears fall. Over a year she hated him for what she thought he did. But all during that time...he never stopped caring about her, loving her. It was her fault he came down here.
Her fault.
It seemed like hours went by before she felt Octavia's hand pull her up and pull her into a hug.
"Clarke, they need to move him before the kids wake up. They shouldn't have to see this." She whispers and Clarke nods knowing her friend was right. She looks over to Bellamy who is watching her with a solemn expression on his face. He doesn't say anything, but she knows he is sorry this happened to Wells, and to her.
"I want guards watching this camp around the clock. I don't know if it was grounders or even a camp member that did this. This will NEVER happen again." She says to him in a low haunted voice and all he does is nod to her knowing she was right.
When he sees Clarke go into Octavia's tent, he goes to the back of the camp, where Atom and Diana's graves were and starts digging.
He needs to do something to get Clarke's pained expression out of his mind.
TBC