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 but also because of mature content.
XOXOX
It took about a month, but eventually Raven was able to fix the radio. She was reluctant at first, adjusting to the rules of the camp, but she had to admit it was a lot better than life on The Ark. She was never one of the privileged so it was nice to see that the camp was all about equality. Raven was even starting to become friends with Octavia, Clarke, Jasper, and Monty. Harper, Monroe, and Sterling were slowly becoming people she would talk to as well. She even opened up to Bellamy who apologized repeatedly for giving her more work than necessary. She was even happy for him when a group of kids got into a fight and he got off bathroom rotation even though he never complained about it. It helped her to see how hard he worked; making sure the wall was finished and protecting the rest of the hundred.
He was co-leader so the campers were his responsibility. His and Clarke's and they both took their roles seriously.
With the wall finally finished, the rest of the group have been doing their part to make homes and making sure everything was set for winter. They all agreed that the younger kids would get to move in the cabins first just in case they didn't finish before winter so they would have a stronger chance at surviving. They may be criminals, but they were starting to think of each other as a family, protecting their own from whatever they could.
In the main tent where they usually discuss strategy, Clarke and Bellamy sat together getting ready to talk to Chancellor Jaha. Bellamy kept looking over to Clarke who was sitting down calmly waiting to hear from their ex leader. Her mother already tried speaking with her, but Clarke wouldn't have any of that and just demanded to talk to her leader. Abby let it go for now, but she knew it was far from over.
"Chancellor Jaha here." They snap their attention to the radio where they hear Wells' father's voice. The last time they heard him, he was telling them they were expendable.
Well... just look at them now.
"Chancellor, this is Clarke Griffin and Bellamy Blake." Clarke says professionally and Bellamy just looks at her thankful she spoke first. He was too scared for words, not that he would ever admit it.
"Mr. Blake, I admit I've been waiting a long time to speak with you." Jaha says smoothly over the static of the radio.
"Chancellor, before we go any further, I would like to say something." Clarke interrupts and Jaha gives a hum for her to go on.
"When you sent us down here, you sent us here to die. You were expecting us to die. However, we didn't. We are making a life here, we have food, shelter, protection, and most importantly... we have order. None of that would be possible without Bellamy. You said that if we survived, we would be pardoned for our crimes and that should include him." She says calmly and smiles at Bellamy when she finishes her little speech. He smiles back at her looking at the table embarrassed.
"I'm afraid Miss Griffin, that it is more complicated than that." He says after a moment of silence and Bellamy's heart sinks. Oh no, he's going to pardon him, he was going to die.
"It's not actually. If you pardon him, he will happily tell you who gave him the gun and the order to kill you." She bargains somewhat snippy. She knows his game and she will not back down.
"That's not enough Miss Griffin. We have strict policy on The Ark, as I'm sure you know." He says not backing down. After the news of his son's death, he has been nothing but stone. He was not about to be blackmailed by a bunch delinquents that have only been a pain in his ass since they came into his ship.
Clarke gives a fake laugh. Bellamy looked into her eyes and saw the fire in them that made him almost feel bad for Jaha. Almost.
"Oh I'm very aware of the rules on The Ark, believe me, but here's the thing. On Earth, we have our own rules and the main one being we are all equal here. We like how we've made a life and if you come down here, we don't HAVE to join you and your corrupt policy. In fact, I'm sure many of the other campers would prefer not joining you. We are more than capable surviving without your help. We have our footing here and are on the brink of having peace with the grounders. If you don't pardon our co-leader who has helped us more than you EVER helped any these kids, I'm afraid we will be forced to inform the grounder leaders that our peace doesn't include you. Leaving you defenseless and clueless to the ways of Earth with a target on your heads as soon as you step off that drop ship. You wouldn't want that would you Chancellor?" She says harshly making sure to mock his title at the end as she stood up from her chair in the heat of the moment. She has wanted to say these things to him and more for years and this might be her only chance.
She knows she stunned him because it takes him a good three minutes and multiple coughs later for him to agree. He pardons Bellamy's crimes and Bellamy informs him that his guard Shumway was the one who wants him dead. Jaha took the information without pause or surprise.
Bellamy mouths a thanks to Clarke before she sits down and they continue talking to their old leader about their plans for winter and Jaha informs them about a bunker not too far from them that should have survived the war.
All in all it was a good morning for the two leaders.
XOXOX
Later that day, the two agree to head to the bunker Jaha told them about to see if there was anything there. They leave Miller and Finn in charge before packing up what they would need for their trip.
"You ready?" Clarke asks casually and he nods at her before putting a backpack around his shoulders. Octavia walks up to hug them both goodbye.
"You both be careful and try not to kill each other okay?" O jokes at the two who grin back at her. The past month the two leaders have come to a some what understanding, not wanting to rip the other one's throat out every time they spoke but not close enough where they go out of their way to spend time with the other.
"We will.. Try to be careful and if anything happens, you know where to go." Clarke says giving her best friend a look. The only person they told about the ancient car to was her, that way if trouble happened, the three would meet up there.
Octavia nods seriously before giving a mock salute to her two favorite people. Bellamy smirks at his sister before ruffling her hair.
"Be careful." He echos Clarke's words before the two walk towards the wall.
Their journey wasn't a long one. It was only three hours before they reached the space Jaha claimed should have survived. However, they didn't see anything yet.
"Let's split up and look around." Bellamy suggests and she nods before going into the opposite direction as him. She sees him take out his machete they took from a grounder after an attack and start looking for any clues.
After a couple minutes she calls him over when she sees a door. He rushes up to her and sees her struggling to get the door open.
"I think it's rusted shut." She grits out and he moves closer to her and helps her open the door. The first thing they notice is a horrible smell coming from the bunker.
"What is that?" Bellamy lets out in a pained voice. Shit it smelled like the dead.
They slowly walk down and notice a decomposed body at the bottom of the stairs. Shit is was actually the smell of death.
"Well I think if this place is survivable, we need to bring people with us to clean and air this place out." Clarke says swallowing the smell before moving around. The bunker was dark so she pulls out her light and turns it on. There was water all on the ground and all around them were boxes and containers. Hopefully they weren't empty.
She opens the first container she sees bright orange blankets. She smiles happily. It wasn't much, but it was something.
"Bell, come here! We have blankets." She calls out happily and he rushes over to her almost rolling his eyes at how happy she is about a container of blankets. And why did she just call him Bell?!
"Well that solves all our problems." He mutters sarcastically and she glares at him and punches him in the arm.
"We can use these for the winter. Plus, I doubt every container here contains blankets." She points out and he admits she had a point. There most be about fifty containers in this room and he thinks there might be more rooms down here.
They open up more containers and find flares, flashlights with batteries, hard liquor, cloths in all sizes, and even a whole box of Dove soap although they don't know what doves have to do with soap. All this stuff would help them in some way or another and it was such a great feeling to know they had more supplies to use.
"This is great! We have things to use now! We have so many more boxes to go through and I think there's more space over there!" Clarke says so excitedly as she rips open another box hoping to find medical supplies. It wasn't medical supplies but food!
"Look! Pure Honey, Vanilla extract, sugar, salt, white rice and even more! All things that never expire!" She is so happy when she opens up more boxes and finds more of food.
"Now we can finally cook something with a little flavor." Bellamy says smiling at her and she just grins back at him. This was so great.
"Look I found your medical shit." Bellamy says and she runs up to him and sees three large containers containing medical first aid kits filled to the top.
"I wonder how the guy at the stairs died. With everything here, he should have survived." Clarke points out some what sadly looking over to the dead body crouched in the corner. He was clutching something in his hand but neither of them wanted to examine him to find out what it was.
"I don't know. It seems like there's enough here for us but this guy is the only one here. Maybe whoever was suppose to join him didn't make it and he didn't want to survive alone." Bellamy guesses and she looks over to him and gives him a sad smile. She knows he's thinking about the time after Octavia was arrested and his mom was gone. He probably didn't want to survive either.
"Maybe." She says softly before moving over to the far end of the bunker. She finds three other rooms. One containing a dozen or so cots with more blankets and foam pillows that were broken beyond repair, the other room was a washroom stacks of tubs of water that could be useful with what looks to be a shower, and the last being another room with larger containers.
"Bellamy, come here!" She calls out to him as she makes her way to the last room. She hesitantly opens up a container and notices it was filled with oil.
She hears him come into the room and she looks at him with confusion.
"They have so many useful things here, why would they keep containers of oil, there's no generators here." She points out and he thinks carefully for a second before moving next to her. He pulls the sleeve of his jacket up and reaches his hand inside. Clarke looks even more confused when he pulls out instantly.
"There's something in there." He says before kicking the container over. A loud crash echos and Bellamy and Clarke look at each other before breaking out in huge smiles.
Guns. Guns and lots of them with lose ammo all around them.
"Looks like we have weapons we can use to our advantage." Bellamy says and she jumps up and squeals in delight. She was so happy she could hug him.
"Best day trip EVER!" She grins at him and he found himself grinning back.
XOXOX
They both decide to take a little of whatever they needed most to bring back to camp. A bag filled with a first aid kit, blankets, bottle of vodka, matches, and a large bag of rice. On their shoulders they each held two rifles. They both checked the guns and noticed some bullets didn't work so they were going to need to fix that before they put them to use. They took a handful of extra ammo each and hoped Raven could fix it.
"I think we should come back another day and get a couple cots and bring them to the med bay. We need to make sure all this stuff last as long as possible." Clarke says rationally and he nods in agreement.
"I agree. If everyone knows all we have here it will only bring chaos." He says making sure he had enough arm room to carry his machete in case of an attack.
"That's why I think we should tell The Ark this was all that was here." Clarke says and he looks at her shocked and she smiles sheepishly.
"If they knew all that was down here they would immediately take it for themselves, giving it to the privileged and powerful or using it for their own gain it and that's not how things work here. If they come down, we go right back to being delinquents, pardon or no pardon." She explains and his face softens.
"I agree. We can tell Miller, Raven, and our most trusted. That way if something were to happen to us, they would have this place for protection." He replies and she nods in agreement.
"We need to clean this place up though. If something happens in winter like a storm or even an attack that makes us leave camp, there is enough room here for us to stay if need be. It'd be tight, but we already lost privacy when we got arrested." She jokes and he shakes his head at her smirking.
"Very true princess. We should come back tomorrow and start working. The less people who know about this place the better for now." The way he says princess is less hostile than it was since they first met and she was starting to like the little nickname, not that she would admit it.
She nods in agreement as they walk back.
"So tell me something, how did you manage it? I could barley keep the secret about O." He asks with genuine interest and she holds in a smile.
"Well at first I was lucky. I was young enough to pull off an 'imaginary friend' even though in my defense, I never said she was imaginary, I just said no one could see her." She tells him giving him an innocent smile and he laughs. She must have loved fooling everyone.
"And then?" He asked softly and she lost her smile.
"By then, I only had my parents and Wells in my life that didn't know and they were busy with their own stuff. Your mom and Octavia were my whole world. O still is and not a day goes by where I don't miss Aurora." She says softly and his heart tightens at the mention of his mother.
"She really was the best." He whispers and she laughs softly.
"That she was." She agrees and smiles at him.
They walk back to camp thinking about the amazing Aurora Blake and how much she influenced their lives. They walk through the gates with tiny smiles thinking how amazing the day as been for them both.
Until they find out from Monty that Octavia is missing.
TBC