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She didn't sleep for more than an hour when Finn woke her up with kisses all over her back.
It was a weird feeling for her to have someone being physical with her and kissing her like he was. She stood on her elbows and looked at him when he lied down on his back.
She brushed her fingers through his hair and a thought was formed in the back of her mind. His hair is too straight, curlier would be better.
She dismissed the thought as soon as it came and she concentrated on the guy in front of her. She smiled at him. She has been doing a lot of smiling since she came down to earth. After a year of solitary she needed all the company and the smiles that she could get.
He was looking at her, watching her think. She clearly wanted to say something but she wouldn't, so he didn't push, he waited.
"You know, this was a release, a get away from reality, but I wouldn't do it with anybody. I did it because it was you." She wanted to say that he was the only one she wanted to be with but she realized she would be lying. She sure as hell wasn't ready to admit her feelings towards pain-in-the-ass Blake but she couldn't not think of him. And she couldn't lie to Finn.
Finn's eyebrows furrowed for a second and then he relaxed again. He made fun about him wanting to have his first earth sex and that she was plassably cute and she laughed. It was nice that he was funny and she could relax with him, unlike Bellamy who was intense all of the time.
Damn she really needed to stop thinking about Bellamy right now.
"We should get going." She elaborated a little and they were out of the bunker in a little while.
They sat out there for a few minutes. And Finn at some point looked at her and he almost whispered "I wanted it to be you too." And then he was kissing her and she was kissing him back. How did he know, though that she was meaning to tell him exactly that? She would never know.
She looked up and saw a shooting star. They joked around a bit about the star when flame started coming out of it. They soon realised it was a dropship so they quickly grabbed some stuff and they both started running.
Back at the camp, Bellamy was awaken by the sound and the shaking of the earth and he quickly dispatched himself from his two lady companions before exiting and approaching Octavia. There was no need for him to think about it. He knew that he needed to destroy any way of communication if he wanted to live. So he told them to stand by, and he sneaked out alone.
The only thing he didn't know was that from the other side of the camp someone had the same idea as he did.
Bellamy ran towards the dropship only to be stopped midway by his sister. He couldn't keep it a secret anymore, he told her everything, about Jaha, about the communications. And to say that she was shocked would be an understatement. So she left, she turned the other way and left him alone. He wanted to go after her but she knew that it would be better to finish his task first. So he kept running until he reached his destination.
He stopped at the sight of the much smaller dropship, he walked slowly and opened the door. Bellamy hadn't expected to find a person in there. He was a little frightened, not that he would admit, that a tiny woman could cause him fear. A thought crossed his mind. Should he kill her?. He couldn't do it. He wouldn't do the same mistakes, Octavia was already disappointed enough. He still needed to do something though. So he took the radio and started running again. He had to destroy it in all costs. That way he could stay with the rest of the 100.
Meanwhile Clarke and Finn were running towards the camp. They needed to go where the crash happened with a team as soon as possible.
As they were running a body crashed Clarke's and she stumbled backwards not falling only because the other person held her up. It was Wells.
"Where have you been? Do you know what is happening?" he had not wasted even a second.
"Did you see the spacecraft?" she answered with another question.
"Yes, everyone saw. Bellamy told everyone not to go after it and then he sneaked out. I was following him but i lost him because of Octavia." Wells was worried and so was she. But she also knew what was up with him.
"He wants what's in it. We have to go there first." Wells didn't need any further explanation. He knew too well what his friend was talking about. So, once again they rushed to the little dropship.
"Why? What does he want?" Finn was silent all the while the two friends were discussing, but he had to know too.
"Bellamy has tried in every way to avoid communication with the ark. He doesn't want them down." She was breathing heavily by all the running. But her thoughts were running faster.
"Damn it. I should have seen it coming."
"You couldn't have guessed it, Clarke." Finn was trying to reassure her, while Wells was running a little ahead silently shaking his head at what Finn said. Wells had guessed what Finn and Clarke were doing and he knew what Clarke would say after Finn's latest statement.
"I should have. I messed up. I got distracted." Finn slowed down for a moment but then continued on his original rhythm.
Clarke knew she was harsh but she didn't actually mean that he was the distraction.
Clarke had began thinking about Bellamy's good qualities and his body and his hair and his eyes and she was doing it again. But she had to remember.
Bellamy was the bad guy.
Yes he was.
Bellamy is the bad guy.
Wells was stopped in front of her. The spaceship, well it was more like a rocket, was in front of them. Clarke pointed way ahead of them.
"There he is. I think he is holding something." They quickly agreed that the boys were gonna follow him because they were faster and she would check the ship.
They both ran in different directions to cover more ground.
Bellamy was faster though. He went to the river and without thinking it more than two seconds he tossed the radio as farther as he could.
Wells was the first one to arrive.
"Noo" he shouted as Bellamy was throwing the object.
He throwed himself to the older man and they both ended up on the ground.
Bellamy tackled him and now he was on top.
"I don't wanna hurt you Wells." With that he moved over and started walking away. Before Wells was even up Finn arrived.
He and Bellamy exchanged some words before Bellamy was out of sight. Finn rushed towards Clarke.
All the while Clarke hadn't expected to find a person and especially not a girl around their age in that ship. She helped the girl out was ninety nine per cent sure that the unknown girl had a concussion.
She removed her helmet and she tried to wake her. She had to make sure she was okay. Clarke had removed the girl's suit and her gloves and had seated her head on her own laps.
At least a minute passed before she woke up.
"Hi" Clarke greeted her with a smile.
The girl seemed a little confused but she soon smiled.
"I made it." She winced and touched her head.
"Yeah, you pumped your head but you'll live."
The girl was distracted by everything that she was seeing and she was sensing.
"Is that rain?" she asked while she slowly sat up.
"Welcome home." Was Clarke's only answer.
Before anyone had anytime to speak Finn's voice was heard.
"Clarke he is escaping." Clarke looked up to see Bellamy to the other way. He was walking rather fast and he had this really hot smolder on his face.
"Damn his…everything." She muttered before she stood up and ran up to him.
"Hey where is it?" she told him when she caught up to him.
"Taking a walk in the forest princess?" he gave her his malicious smirk that he knew always pisses her off, and kept walking.
She caught his arm and spinned him. They both stopped and they were face to face. They didn't talk though, they were inches apart, they both knew it and they were barely breathing but a scene behind them and a shout stopped them.
"Raven" it was Finn's voice.
The girl ,whose name Clarke realised didn't know, ran up to Finn and hugged him and they talked in low voices so Bellamy and Clarke couldn't hear them. And then they were kissing. And Clarke's breath sharpened, her face lost its color and her eyes widened.
Bellamy became more intense beside her his whole posture was resembling a soldier ready to protect her.
And he realised that as much as he wanted to protect her from this he couldn't. So all he wanted to do was beat up Finn. Not only because he was hurting his princess (again when did she became his) but because she had looked him, she chose him to show her affection and Bellamy… couldn't handle it. But he would because Clarke was more important now.
He wanted more than anything to comfort her as best as he could, he wanted to put her in his arms and not let her go till all her pain and sorrow had vanished. But they weren't in a place in their relationship to even touch.
So he just leaned closer to her. And he thought she did too.
They stood there watching the scene in front of them. He had to protect her from this as best as he could.
"Hey lover boy. Maybe you should help your friend instead of sucking that poor girl's face." He had pointed to a soaked Wells who was holding the radio on his hand.
It probably wasn't a thing he would normally say nor the gentlest but it did break them up and his princess definitely didn't need to witness it anymore.
Clarke gave him a look of gratitude, of pain, of something?
He couldn't tell. That girl was a mystery and he couldn't solve it. One moment he knows exactly what she will do, the other she is unpredictable and unreadable.
So now she walked to the couple in front of them as Wells approached.
"You threw away the radio. What's wrong with you man?" Wells pointed at Bellamy and the older guy clenched his fists.
"You will freeze. take off your shirt." Clarke was on full mom and doctor mode.
But Wells wasn't listening to her. He kept accusing Bellamy. And then Raven was looking at Bellamy.
"Oh my god you are Bellamy Blake, everyone is looking for you." Bellamy was ready to murder anyone who was closer to him than they should after that statement. After only a week on earth and everyone would know what he did.
"Why?" it was Clarke who asked the question in everyone's minds.
Bellamy told Raven to shut up but she wasn't having it.
"He shot chancellor Jaha." He pushed her to the spaceship and had his hand around her neck. But she was ready for an attack and she had a knife to his neck.
Wells couldn't believe it and for the second time in less than an hour he pinned Bellamy to the ground and he punched him in the face a couple times.
It was Clarke that took him away from Bellamy. And put herself in front of Bellamy to discourage Wells from attacking him again. She spinned around to face him and she had her hands holding him by his jacket.
"Now it's time to talk Bellamy." She was angry with him, but she didn't want him dead. And she wanted explanations.
"I had to come down to protect Octavia, they told me to kill him to come so I did. He wasnt a great person we all know he deser..."
Wells tried to attack Bellamy again but was stoped by Finn who was physically holding him down.
"Surprise, you didn't kill him. He survived. You're a lousy shooter."
Wells was immediately relieved. But Clarke only cared for the man in front of her in her hands.
"Do you hear that? You're not a murderer Bellamy. We can still turn this around." Bellamy felt a little lighter after this. He took a step back and waited.
"You shot my father, you son of a bitch." Finn was struggling to hold Wells. And then Bellamy talked to him, loudly and desperately in a tone that Clarke hadn't hurt from him before.
"Not on the heart, not on the head and not because i am lousy shooter as this one suggests." Wells fought a little less. "Your father took everything from me. He floated my mother, kept me away from my sister. I wasn't aloud to see her, Wells. But I hurt him where he had a chance of surviving." He calmed his voice after that.
"My sister is all I have. And if I had to I would do it all over again, to be honest. But not only for her. For all of you." He muttered the last part of his sentence but everyone heard him. And this time it was Clarke who moved as close to him as she could without touching him. Finn saw it and he tensed up but he couldn't do anything. They hadn't talked, he knew he had hurt her but what else could he do know? So he just clenched his teeth and waited.
Wells stopped fighting and he looked at Bellamy with a near death glare. "Just because he is alive, doesn't mean you are forgiven." And he walked the other way.
Clarke wanted to go after him but she knew he needed to be alone. She turned once again to Bellamy.
"Take off your jacket."
Everyone looked at her oblivious and shocked.
"He is soaking wet. Give me your jacket to give it to him. I don't want to take care of pneumonia too." He smirked at her momentarily, although it didnt quite reach his eyed and gave her his jacket. Before anyone could say anything she took off after her friend and soon he was stripped from his wet shirt and jacket and was wearing Bellamy's jacket. He told her he would go back to the camp and calm down and she was back with Finn, Raven and Bellamy in less than two minutes.
When she approached Raven had already explained to the two guys how they needed to contact the ark or they would kill 300 people.
And how they couldn't do that, because of Bellamy. They were all arguing and Bellamy wasn't having any of it. At the end he turned to Clarke.
«Look, Clarke. You wanted my help, to make the difference. I gave it to you. I cannot change what I did though.»
Clarke wanted to reply to him but she didn't know how she was supposed to. It wasn't clear at this point if she should be hostile to him, friendly or indifferent.
He did indeed a horrible thing by throwing the radio, and by shooting Jaha, but he had a reason. He was protecting his sister. And sincerely, he was right without him a lot more would be dead by now.
he was starting to warm up to her. She didn't mind his snarky comments or that irritating smirk he so often got around her.
Also, it seemed to her that he was comforting to her before with the whole Raven and Finn thing and he was definitely trying to make her feel better yesterday at the river.
He wasn't a bad guy. She concluded with hesitation and irritation.
At this point she could tell that Bellamy was just a man making the best choices he could at any given moment.
So the question remained how was she supposed to talk to him?
She didn't get the chance to decide because Raven spoke.
«Clarke? Griffin?» Raven seemed happy.
«Your mom is the reason I am here. We were supposed to come down together but she had to stall the guards. She organised this whole thing. She would do anything to make sure you are good."
Clarke almost replied about her mother's doings but she was cut off by Bellamy.
"Is there anyway we can contact them now?"
The answer was already known to all of them but he had to change the subject. The princess should be concentrating now. But Finn hadn't the same idea.
Raven had suggested firing rockets so they could make their presence known to the ark, and while everyone was working Finn approached Clarke.
"Clarke, I am sorry."
"We cannot talk about this now, Finn." She tried to put an end on it. But he wasn't done.
"If I had known, I would…"
"Princess, can you give me a hand?"
Bellamy once again put some distance between Clarke and Finn. She came over to him and looked at what he was doing.
"It seems like you got it covered. What do you need me to do?" she questioned a little distracted by her previous attempt of conversation.
"Nothing. It just… You don't need to be distracted right now. Or hurting for him. I don't want you to." He never looked at her once but it was clear that he was meaning what he was saying.
After this statement Clarke finally realised something. Bellamy has been protecting her all day today. He has been trying to spare her the heartbreak.
He had figured out what had happened between her, Finn and Raven and he was there for her.
When they first saw them kiss, he was the one to break them up by talking.
When Raven mentioned her mom, Bellamy changed the subject.
Bellamy was standing by her side since they met this morning closer than ever. He was always there for support yet never touching her, never crossing his boundaries.
Bellamy Blake was most certainly not the bad guy.
He was her solid rock, there when she needed him.
"Thank you." She gave him a sad but full of gratitude smile. "For everything you did for me today." She finished her sentence and he smiled.
Later at night they had to launch the flares and they all gathered to look at them.
Clarke stood next to Bellamy. He asked her if she thought the Ark would see their signal and she told him she didn't know.
"Can you wish in this kind of shooting star?" Clarke was looking high up and her eyes were full of awe, a little smile on her lips.
She was breathtaking.
That was all Bellamy could think. She was perfect. He missed her question. Or rather he delayed understanding her.
"Never mind"
"I would wish to anything but I think I have to earn it." He couldn't look up, all he wanted to look was her.
He had been angry with himself about liking her, he had denied it but it was true.
He wanted, he needed Clarke Griffin.
She had looked at Finn's side and she was smiling at Raven.
"What would you wish for?"
Clarke looked at him and this time it was different. He didn't know how but she looked conflicted.
"Clarity." She told him and she looked back up in the sky.
Bellamy looked at the sky too, and then he felt it.
Her hand was touching his, hesitatingly asking for permission to stay there.
And he smiled and opened his hand to take hers, not crossing fingers, but holding hands.
Just to reassure each other that they were there. They both needed this contact.
Just for that one moment.
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