"Everyone except for the people who had contact with Bellamy get outside. Now!" I demanded. Everyone but Connor, Derek, Octavia, Murphy, and I left the drop ship quickly, afraid after they saw Bellamy puking up blood.
"So what the hell do we do now? If we aren't sick already we're going to be sick now." Murphy spat. Derek and Connor nodded in agreement.
"We need to keep this virus contained. It passes quickly, and most people survive it, but others don't. You all touched Bellamy which means you contracted the virus" I said.
"What about Lincoln? Maybe he has a cure that can stop it?" Octavia asked. I glanced down at Bellamy, who was on his side still puking up blood. I scoot against the wall to hold him in my lap and pat his back as he vomited. Octavia turned away, not wanting to see her brother like this.
"There isn't a cure. I sent you there last time and Lincoln didn't have one. The good news is, you're immune to the disease. Maybe you can go and bring Lincoln here so that we can talk to him?" I asked her. She nodded and grabbed her pack.
"I'll be back later tonight I promise." She said to Bellamy. I thanked her and watched her run off out of the drop ship.
"What about us?" Connor asked. I glanced down at Bellamy and bit my lip.
"We're all going to get sick."
It didn't take long for the blood to rush out of my eyes. Bellamy saw it first, wiping it away with his thumb. I did the best I could to try and clean him up with a damp rag, but I was just getting sicker and weaker.
"Clarke?" He asked faintly. His voice was so quiet that it was almost non-existent.
"Yeah?" I coughed, feeling the nausea coming on.
"I'm scared." He whimpered. I ran my finger through his hair and bent down to plant a soft kiss on his forehead.
"You're going to be alright, I promise." I told him.
He shook his head, "That's not what I'm scared of."
I was about to respond when Derek fell to the floor and began to seize. I crawled over to him, rubbing his back as his seizure came to a close and he took his final breath.
"Clarke!" Finn exclaimed as he ran into the drop ship. I knew Finn was immune too, but that didn't mean I wanted him in here.
"Finn stay back." I said, holding my hand out.
"I heard you were sick." He said, bending down to touch me.
"That's none of your concern." Bellamy snapped. Finn crossed his arms and glared at Bellamy.
"Is this his fault?" Finn asked.
"Yeah it is." Murphy chimed in before he started to cough up blood as well.
"Do you have a problem?" Bellamy asked, finally getting the strength to stand up again. Finn marched over to Bellamy, getting in his face, but Bellamy used all of his strength to push Finn away.
"As a matter a fact I do-" Finn began, but I got up to step in between them, splitting up the possible fight.
"Stop it! Finn if you're going to be in here, it's just to help the sick. If you won't do that then get out of here." I said. Finn groaned and headed over to aid Connor.
A few more teens wandered in showing signs of the virus, but it was hard for me to leave Bellamy's side. I decided to make up a hammock for Bellamy so that he'd be more comfortable and I could get around to the others. With Murphy and Finn's help we lifted Bellamy onto the hammock and covered him with a blanket. He fell asleep instantly and I could tell that he was improving by the minute. There was no doubt in my mind that he'd survive this again.
As the day went on, Murphy became progressively more helpful. We were both just getting sicker, but we pressed on, trying to make the drop ship as comfortable as possible for the others. By the end of the afternoon, Murphy was actually being nice to me, and I was enjoying his company.
Bellamy slept through most of the day, only waking up twice to throw up. I was there both times, at his side through all of it and he was grateful.
Finn left in the middle of the afternoon to check on Raven. She wasn't showing any symptoms yet, but that could change.
"Clarke you should really lie down, you don't look so good." Murphy said. I knew he was right, I had passed out the last time, but I wanted to continue helping everyone for as long as possible.
Octavia burst through the door with a worried look on her face. She instantly ran to me, and it was as if we'd never fought. If she was willing to forget all of that then that meant something bad was happening.
"Lincoln left me a note that the grounders are attacking at first light. He went to go try to stop it but he's not sure if he can" She began. I knew that was coming, I was just waiting until she came back before I sent Finn, Jasper, and Raven to the bridge. A part of me was hoping that Lincoln had this part under control.
"Get Raven, Finn, and Jasper." I told her. She nodded, glancing over at her sleeping brother for a quick moment before bolting right back out the door.
"So we're screwed?" Murphy coughed.
"No, not this time."
"I'd need hydrosene but the Exodus ship crashed like two weeks ago, it all might be duds." She said. I rubbed my forehead.
"Well can you go out there and see if any of it is usable?" I asked.
"Yeah, I got this." She snapped, tugging her ponytail tighter.
"You should go with her." I suggested to Finn. He was standing quietly beside her.
"But you're sick-"
"Clarke's a big girl, she'll be fine." Raven said, glaring at me.
"Yeah...I'll be…"
Everything around me started to blur, I was about to pass out. I saw Finn rush to catch me but before he did, someone elses hands were around me. I blinked as the person hoisted me into their arms, trying to see who my savior was.
"Are you okay, Princess?" Bellamy said. A huge smile spread across my face when I realized that he was the one holding me. I rested my head against his chest and instantly felt at home.
"I'm perfect now." I whispered. He carried me away from Finn and Raven, to the hammock he'd been sleeping on all day.
"Don't scare me like that." He said as he grabbed a cup of water from Murphy. I drank it quickly and then handed it back to Murphy.
"I need to make sure everyone else is alright. Plus with the bridge and-"
"Clarke, you need to rest. I got this." Bellamy said, leaning down to kiss my forehead. I closed my eyes when his lips touched me and reached out for his hand. He took it, squeezing it.
"How do you feel?" I asked him.
He smiled, "I feel almost normal."
We stayed there in silence for a moment, both just happy to be with each other again. He was still weak and much thinner than he had been before but he was back and he was happy.
"I should probably go check on everyone and make sure Finn, Raven, and Jasper don't mess this up." Bellamy said kissing my hand. "Get some sleep, princess."
I glanced over at Murphy, who was cleaning the vomit off of Fox's face and smiled at him. I knew I had nothing to worry about from him anymore. Connor, Miles, and Bellamy were safe from him because they never hanged him. It was nice knowing that some lives were saved. Atom was still here, Wells was alive, Charlotte was alive somewhere on the Ark, and the 300 souls were never sacrificed for the culling. The only reason we'd lost Diggs, Roma, and Mbege was because I didn't go looking for Octavia the first time around.
I watched as Bellamy fell right back into his place as my co-leader. He made sure that everyone inside of the dropship was taken care of before heading off to prepare the kids on the wall for war. His body was still in rough shape, but he pushed through the pain to take care of everyone else. I closed my eyes, happy to finally fall asleep and know he'd be there when I woke up.
When I woke up again, I wasn't in the drop ship. Bellamy had carried me into our tent and tucked me into bed next to him at some point in the evening. I curled up closer to him, kissing the tip of his nose to wake him up.
"Hey there, how are you feeling?" He asked sleepily.
"A lot better. How long was I asleep?" I asked. Bellamy shrugged and sat up.
"It's probably almost dawn now." He said as he walked over to the bin with his stuff on it. He grabbed his gun from the bin and put his jacket on.
"How are the sick?" I asked.
"Last I checked they were all starting to get better. We only lost two which is pretty good and we were able to contain the virus much better than the last time. I'd say it was a success." He said.
"Did Raven, Jasper, and Finn blow up the bridge?" I asked.
Bellamy shook his head, "They should be almost done setting it up now. Raven ran off with the bomb because she got in a fight with Finn about you."
I looked away from Bellamy, feeling awful that he had to come back to all of this.
"Bellamy I promise nothing happened between Finn and I-"
"Clarke, I trust you and I love you." He said. My body instantly relaxed.
"But what is the deal with him?" He asked as he laced up his boots.
"He's in love with me again but he doesn't understand it. It's like all of his feelings for me during the previous life are still there but he doesn't remember it." I explained.
"So it's still just you and me huh?" He asked.
"Actually it's not. Lincoln remembers too." I revealed. Bellamy's jaw dropped at the new information.
"You're serious?" He gasped, coming back over to the bed with me. I nodded.
"Octavia ran off to go find you and he took her again. When we found him in the cave, he was surprised because he knew that you were supposed to be there, not me. We haven't really had a chance to talk about it, but I asked Octavia to bring him here soon so we can. We need to figure out why the hell this is happening to us." I explained.
"We can send Octavia to him today. The grounders will be so preoccupied by the bridge that they won't take her." Bellamy said. I agreed.
"Just try to rest for today, okay princess?" He asked.
"I can't just lay around while-"
"Clarke…" He scolded me. I crawled back under the covers and pouted.
"Okay, fine, but only for a few more hours." I said. Bellamy crossed his arms and looked like he wanted to argue with me about it, but the explosion from the bridge interrupted our conversation. I followed Bellamy outside, stumbling in my barefeet as the entire camp met in the center and looked to the sky. A giant puff of smoke rose over the treeline; Raven did it.
"I am become death." Bellamy said next to me.
"Destroyer of worlds." I finished. We glanced at each other, both sad that it had to come to this but relieved that we avoided the grounder attack for now. How long did we have to live like this because I didn't want to go to war again.
A/N: So I had an idea, and I'd love to hear what you guys think about it in the comments below. I'm thinking of wrapping this story up but I want to publish another story that's exactly this but from Bellamy's point of view. Would you guys like me to publish the entire thing again but with Bellamy's thoughts on everything or just make a story of moments from Bellamy's point of view (Ex. How he made the deal with Anya, what his time with the grounders was like, how he fell in love with Clarke, when he told Octavia about coming back from the past, and his time working with Jake Griffin to try and stop his execution. Let me know what you'd be interested in so I can start writing it as soon as this is done :)