Chapter 10

The 100 – solstice

Clarke Griffin

Walking through the doors into the lecture hall cast bio was held in and seeing all the people setting up Professor Cartwig included Clarke was struck by how strange it felt that things didn't look any different. Slowly Clarke walked up the low steps to the seat she liked to sit in and sat down but she didn't get anything out of her bag to prepare for this cast bio lesson, instead Clarke just sat there letting everything that had happened go through her head again like it kept doing.

When she had started at Polaris college Clarke had thought things had been good in her life, she'd had this great boyfriend, she had a mother who she loved and she was finally going to get some independence. She didn't really have friends, friendship had been a difficult thing for Clarke since Wells but she had thought being here would give her chances to make friends and in truth that had actually happened so there had been good changes but sadly there had also been bad ones. Coming to Polaris was always going to change things Clarke had understood that, it was just she really hadn't thought things would change for her in the way they had done a few days ago.

It was like the moment Clarke had seen Finn with Raven her whole world had shattered and now everything was in pieces and she just didn't know how to react to everything. When she had come face to face with Finn she hadn't actually said anything at first she had been too shocked and hurt to really speak but people had soon made connections. The question had been asked which Clarke had answered and after that the shit really hit the fan, there hadn't been any violence but things had come close to getting violent and a lot of words had been said.

Some of the goings on Clarke had only heard about dew to the fact she had left rather quickly with Harper who had given her a ride, they sounded bad though from what she had heard and nothing had been especially good since. Clarke had only really seen Octavia since count of the fact she had been spending a lot of time hauled up in the dorm but that hadn't helped, a lot of people were ghosting her somewhat but people where still talking to Octavia so she had heard everything. For a day or so there a lot of questions were being thrown around there about what she knew or didn't know which Octavia had shown her, that had stopped now, people believed her that she didn't know but that had been no fun dealing with and then there was her mum.

At first with Octavia's encouragement Clarke had called her mum with the idea of telling her who it turned out Finn was, however as it had turned out Finn had beaten her to it. He had admitted to her mum he had been two timing her but he had also told her mum everything about the friends she had been making at Polaris college Bellamy included which had meant the call had not gone well. As it turned out in Clarke's mums mind cheating wasn't as bad as what she was doing making friends with cock Alphas and slut Omegas, which was how her mum had put it when they were screaming down the phone at each other.

So the past few days Clarke had really only had Octavia to talk to which she didn't mind, she was used to arguing with her mum and a bit of ghosting from everyone was ok but Bellamy, now that bothered her. Octavia had said he had asked about her when she had talked to him but Clarke didn't understand why he hadn't come to see her since the party, Octavia said he believed that she didn't know what had been going on with Finn but that didn't stop her feeling this anxiety. Bellamy had always said he thought she was a good girl but she didn't think he thought that any more, Clarke couldn't help but wonder if Bellamy was thinking that maybe she wasn't this virgin princess he had thought she was and that was really getting to her.

Clarke understood that it was probably just an Omega thing but that past week she had been feeling this intense longing for Bellamy and it was only getting worse. She had this irrational idea in her head that she had disappointed him and it didn't matter how much her inner Alpha yelled it wasn't true it just refused to go away, Clarke needed to know her and Bellamy were ok but that wasn't happening. She had been forgetting to be as diligent with her meds the past week so that might be why this felt bad but Clarke had a feeling it would only get better when she was able to see Bellamy again.

Thinking about her meds now Clarke looked down at what she was wearing and frowned, she didn't own many short sleeve t-shirts but she owned one or two and she had ended up putting one on which was a nice lilac, she really was losing it right now. This wasn't her, Clarke was careful, she was an ordered person so how was she failing like this, if she didn't keep up with her meds and everything the protection they gave her would disappear. It was just so hard after everything with Finn and the aftermath of that to stick to the routine and do all the things she would normally do so as a result she now looked less like the Beta she told people she was.

As Clarke started to think about her cast a sudden intense smell of vanilla appeared in her nostrils distracting her, a little thankful for this distraction Clarke looked up just in time to see Harper sitting down next to her looking concerned. 'How've you been Clarke,' Harper who was wearing a lose vest top asked starting to get her stuff out 'I've been meaning to come see how you are.'

'Not good,' Clarke said bluntly not seeing any point in sugar coating it looking to the front of the lecture hall at professor Cartwig who was still setting up and then back to Harper managing to smile slightly. It was nice having another Omega in her life, only 10% of the population were Omegas so they were few and far between and because of her mum Clarke was only now getting to know Omegas like Harper which was good. Because of her sub cast condition Clarke and Harper weren't exactly the same but they were the same on some level and just knowing there was someone at least a little bit like her made Clarke feel not alone which was something she needed right now.

'I can imagine,' Harper frowned clear disapproval at what had happen written on her face 'it's not your fault though, you know that right?' Clarke was a little slow with the answer here as she was unsure what to say which apparently spired Harper on 'it's on him Clarke not you,' Harper said in a surprisingly for her firm voice 'he was the one who decided to try and have two girlfriends.'

'I know,' Clarke began slowly trying to show Harper she agreed but knowing she was skirting the issue though which was why she wasn't really surprised when Harper cut across her.

'You can't eat your cake and have it too,' Harper snapped really pushing this point 'he should have known that, besides you didn't cheat, even though,' Harper trailed off here not wanting to say it but they both knew what she was getting at now.

Clarke straightened up ready to address this she didn't know how but she had every intention of saying something however in that moment there was the sound of Callie clearing her voice at the front of the class meaning the point had to be dropped. It was probably for the best Clarke thought looking up front things might be bad between her and Bellamy but she didn't want to talk about it with anyone other than Bellamy, she still had some privacy and she wanted to keep that.

'Well,' Callie began drawing in a deep breath 'let's begin, today I would like to cover a topic I'm sure you all know at least a little something about, mating.' There was an immediate reaction to this statement of Callie's, the babble of talk that was still going on disappeared right away as everyone began paying attention to what was about to be said.

Clarke for her part felt herself blush slightly, her mum did not like this stuff but her mum was also a doctor so Clarke had been given something of a low down on this kind of thing when she was in her mums mind old enough. However it had always been treated as something that was very private and not to be talked about so this was a subject that very much embarrassed Clarke but she was already feeling a lot of that really, so what was a little more she thought giving Callie her attention.

'Settle down,' Callie scowled rolling her eyes clearly exasperated at the classes reaction to her statement 'we are mostly going to be talking about anatomy.' As she said this Callie brought up several images on the presentation she had set up at the front of the class that Clarke recognised as anatomical diagrams of different cast body parts, more precisely the different casts mating organs. 'Now,' Callie continued moving things forward 'quick show of hands, who thinks Omegas are the only ones with mating organs?'

Clarke knew this wasn't the case but to her surprise looking around she saw that a bunch of people had put their hands up, 'typical,' Harper hissed next to Clarke seeing this as well and apparently not being pleased by it. 'If you can't touch it or bite it must not be there,' Harper added still signalling her disapproval while Clarke was just confused, she had thought this was the kind of thing everyone would know but apparently that was not the case.

'Wrong,' Callie said in a rather pointed voice 'every single one of you has a mating gland, they just formed differently when you presented.' She let a moment pass for this information to sink in for those it was knew to but then Callie started in on a description of cast mating gland anatomy, Clarke knew most of this so sitting there she only half listened.

The biggest of the three kinds of mating gland was the kind she and Harper had, when they had both presented the thing would have started growing at the base of their neck branching out of their spines. Interestingly Alphas actually had the smallest of the three and there's was in the groined, it wouldn't really be noticeable but Clarke would guess Bellamy could probably point out where his was. Like with most things Beta's were between Alphas and Omegas, there mating gland was between there other two in size and location as well actually coming to form when a beta presented below the heart.

'Why do Alpha's have mating glands,' Clarke heard a male voice she didn't recognise call from somewhere drawing her back into things 'we don't need them.'

'Actually you do,' Callie said right away countering the point 'there is more to mating than just sex and an Alpha biting an Omega.' This was new to Clarke so she perked up to attention as Callie moved her presentation forward on to the subject a mating really paying attention now. 'Mating is actually a very long process,' Callie continued giving meaning to her words as she spoke 'and the glands are a big part of that, they continuously produce different enzymes and chemicals that promote the proses at each stage of mating.' Callie took a moment here to change the slides on her presentation but then continued 'mating is a complex long proses, the act of mating is the end of something as well as the beginning.'

Clarke could feel her self-blushing here, the talk of process was knew to her but her mum had made it very clear to her when she was young what mating was and how the act of mating Callie was now talking about worked. There was the sex and how all that worked Clarke knew but with mating there was what her mating gland would do once it was stimulated by a bite and then there was what for example Bellamy's mating gland would do once it was triggered. Both of hers and Bellamy's glands would do things to there's and the person they were withs body, for her part Clarke knew one of the most notable effects would be that she would become violently allergic to all other people she tried to be intimate with apart from the Alpha that did this to her.

If she was to mate Clarke knew that if she was to so much as try and kiss another person she would probably end up being violently ill not that she would even want to because of the other things that Clarke had been told happened after mating. Apparently the glands did things to your mind during mating that changed you on a fundamental level, it was described differently by a lot of different people but Clarke had always seen it as some kind of connection. After mating both mates would have an instinctive knowledge of each other's needs just knowing what the other one needed from them, Clarke's mum had always said this was like slavery and Clarke wasn't sure she disagreed, the idea made Clarke uncomfortable.

Don't go there Clarke thought to herself suddenly cutting that train of thought short knowing herself well enough that the subject of mating was something she best avoid. With this in mind Clarke made to concentrate on the lesson again and thankfully as she was doing this Clarke heard an interesting question get asked about how an Omega request worked which would be a nice distraction.

'Wow,' Clarke heard Harper whisper quickly after this question was asked 'that's a bit out there, you know I've only ever see my mum do that twice in my entire life.'

Clarke wanted to ask about that but Callie had started talking so she concentrated on that instead 'well they are very different from an Alpha command to be clear,' Callie began addressing the student who had asked the question. 'It would be much easier for an Alpha to go against an Omega request than the other way around,' Callie continued shrugging slightly as she spoke 'that said however an Alpha will desire to show strength to an Omega especially one they might be mating with.' Callie paused here for a moment considering her words clearly but then continued 'so if an Omega requested something of an Alpha that didn't in a sense affect their dominance the odds are that they would do what the Omega asked.'

As this was discussed Clarke started to wonder if weather or not the Omega was in heat would effect this dynamic but she didn't ask, such as subject was another thing that was uncomfortable for Clarke. She had only ever had one heat but she remembered it well, the pain had been really intense as well as the other things but she didn't remember those parts as much, there she only really had what her mum had always told her to go on.

With this in mind Clarke stole a glance at Harper who's attention was at the front of the class, she had been put on suppressants as quickly as possible but she would guess Harper wouldn't have been. Growing up Clarke had naturally wondered about other Omegas and a big aspect of that for her had always been the idea of being in heat, the idea that any Omega would choose to go through that had always seemed strange to her.

From what she remembered and what her mum always reminded her of Clarke knew that one's inner self more or less just took over when an Omega was in heat. You became consumed by your instincts and you started doing things you would never normally do, like nesting or trying to attract an Alpha with the idea of them impregnating you. Just thinking about it made Clarke shiver with dread and remember that tangy sweaty smell she still couldn't forget, your body tried to turn you in to a baby factory during heat so why would any Omega choose to go through that when there were other options. Clarke kind of wanted to ask Harper about it but she wasn't going too, talking about anything sex related really made Clarke very uncomfortable so she was going to live with the not knowing.

After that the lesson moved into less uncomfortable places so Clarke just allowed herself to turn off slightly and silently take the lesson in which proved to be a good idea because after what felt like no time a tall the lesson was over. Getting up Clarke packed her stuff away and started moving towards the doors that led out of the lecture hall, she was still moving on autopilot really so when Harper appeared next to her smiling brightly she jumped slightly.

'What do you think about forgetting about next lesson,' Harper asked as Clarke masked her jumping at this question by pretending to make a large stride as they got close to the doors. 'We could go somewhere just the two of us,' Harper added smiling a hopeful imploring smile 'and just chat about stuff, we could talk about anything you want to talk about Clarke.'

Clarke knew what that meant, Harper was asking her if she wanted to go somewhere with her and talk about Finn, Harper was trying to be that kind of friend for her. Seeing this as her and Harper both began moving through the doors that led out of the lecture hall Clarke couldn't help but smile, it was really sweet of Harper to offer this. It was such a kind offer in fact that as the two of them moved in to the corridor on the other side of the lecture halls door which had glass walls on one side Clarke was about to take Harper up on her offer, however she saw someone who distracted her away from Harper.

Finn was here, he was actually here standing in the middle of the shining partly glass corridor with other students moving around him, clearly waiting for her. Clarke didn't say anything she was to surprised to find words not that she would have known what to say anyway, that wasn't the case for Harper however who Clarke heard say 'fuck,' rather loudly actually.

Bellamy Blake

Trying his best to breathe at a normal rate and not run Bellamy walked steadily across campus in the direction of the spot he knew Clarke should be right now, he really needed to see her finally. She's free now, you can claim her Bellamy's inner Alpha whispered as he thought about Clarke also treating him to a few mental images of Clarke spread out in his bed that made Bellamy's already half hard dick even harder. Bellamy tried to push those images away but it wasn't any use they persisted and his inner Alpha kept pushing at him to give in to his instincts.

Bellamy knew what this was, it was his rut he was in it now and his inner Alpha was only going to get louder as his rut got closer and closer to the peak. He should be seeing to his rut Bellamy knew but he hadn't seen Clarke since everything had blown up and if he was going to be gone for a few days he would need to see her first, he wouldn't be able to manage without. She's an Omega Bellamy's inner Alpha hissed in Bellamy's head as he thought about this she should do her duty and help you through your rut like an Omega should, it is what destiny decided for her.

Gritting his teeth Bellamy continued to ignore his inner Alpha and kept moving forward in the direction of Clarke, he should have known it was going to be getting bad. Back at the party when Bellamy had realised the truth about Finn he'd had to force himself to walk away because if he didn't he knew things would have gotten bad, he had just seen red but he had managed to step away. He should have died screaming Bellamy's inner Alpha roared in his head as he thought about this conjuring up images in his mind of Finn dead and broken.

This sort of thing was actually a bit easier for Bellamy to deal with so as his inner Alpha went on about Finn he was able to take a little bit of a breath. Being the sort of Alpha Bellamy was really did come with a lot of problems but it was actually manageable if he was careful when it came to his rut, having a rut was kind of like taking enhancers so some of the rules were actually kind of easy. Avoiding stuff like alcohol was doable as well as the other things and even the hard stuff like the mental discipline he needed to have might be tricky but Bellamy could more or less do it, it had been a really long time since he had lost control in a big way.

Things could be hard Bellamy freely admitted that but it really was doable so he would never take the medication he could get if he asked for it, the kind of stuff he knew Clarke was on. There were a lot of reasons why Bellamy didn't approve of the use of medications but one of them was definitely that he just didn't see the need. Things might be difficult right now but Bellamy could do it so he didn't see why people didn't just learn to manage with things like ruts or heats.

Getting close to the building now Bellamy again started thinking about Clarke, after the party he hadn't meant to ghost her but he'd been dealing with his rut just starting and then there was Raven who was in a bad way and he had needed to try and help. Also if that wasn't enough Cage had decided to make a bit more trouble so Bellamy had ended up with a lot on his plate so quite by accident he'd ended up doing what he hadn't wanted to do with Clarke.

Bellamy didn't like to think of himself as a pack Alpha but he did end up acting like one sometimes and because of that he hadn't been there for Clarke in recent days which was something he felt bad about. Every pack Alpha needs a mate Bellamy's inner Alpha whispered covertly in his mind as Bellamy thought about this but he ignored the suggestion not really paying it much attention at the current moment.

Bellamy hated his grandfather for so many reasons but he especially hated him for creating the situation he and the family now had to deal with, he could have done something about Cage when he was alive but the man had refused to do so. The bastard had, had his own idea about what he wanted to happen when he was finally dead and he had made sure it would play out that way in spite of all the pain it would cause the rest of the family.

Bellamy hated having to deal with all this stuff with Cage but he had to be there, Bellamy didn't have a choice on that matter so he'd asked Octavia to be there for Clarke. Which he was under the impression she had been however Octavia had today made it very clear he had been ghosting Clarke and he needed to stop which was part of why he was going to see Clarke now. Bellamy's sister had also laid in to him about what Octavia had referred to as an ass fucked stupid bet that he should forget about but he didn't really have the head space to think about that right now.

Getting inside the correct building now Bellamy started moving in the direction he hoped he would be able to find Clarke, your Omega needs you Bellamy's inner Alpha whispered in his mind insistently as he started looking around for Clarke. Bellamy let out a rather large frustrated sigh at this thought, things were getting bad, he really needed to be going somewhere so he could see to his rut effectively but Bellamy needed to see that things were ok with Clarke first. Once Bellamy had done that, once he knew things were ok with Clarke he'd do that, he'd go to the clinic for once and sort things out that way.

Bellamy normally liked to ovoid the sex clinic on campus because he wasn't a fan of some of the kinds of meds they handed out as well as some of the attitudes such a places tended to have. However the clinic was there to help Omegas with heats or Alphas like him with their ruts so the clinic was an option and however much Bellamy didn't like the place he was starting to think this time he was going to need to go there.

Getting into a glass corridor that was just level with the court yard outside Bellamy was distracted away from his thoughts of the clinic by the crowd he could see gathered in the narrow space. His curiosity peaked Bellamy moved into the space that was well lit with natural light because of the glass interested to see what was going on however as he got closer Bellamy got a hint of a particular vanilla scent, it was Clarke, Clarke was here. Concern for Clarke took over right away the moment he caught her sent so Bellamy quickly started pushing his way through the crowd looking for Clarke.

Getting through the crowd Bellamy saw that Clarke was at its centre and so was Finn, they were arguing, quite loudly in fact and everyone was watching. Spired on by his Alpha nature Bellamy made a move to step forward but before he could a hand started pulling at him, distracted Bellamy turned and saw it was Harper and she was shaking her head. A big part of Bellamy wanted to just ignore Harper but his common sense won out and he stayed where he was and Harper let go, it wasn't what he wanted but he knew Clarke wouldn't want him fighting her battles for her so he just watched.

Which for a minute there seemed to be the right call, Clarke seemed just fine she was saying all the things to Finn a girl in Clarke's position was expected to say. After a bit of this Clarke said in a very definitive way that it was over and moved to move away from Finn, Finn should have ended things there but he didn't. As Clarke made to move away from Finn the Beta shouted that she didn't get to decide that grabbing Clarke's arm roughly as he spoke pulling her back and that was it there was no way Bellamy was going to ignore that.

In a single stride Bellamy moved forward and grabbing Finn he through the ass whole Beta at the glass wall which broke sending Finn flying through the glass to the ground on the other side. Bellamy's self-control was gone now so growling he moved forward with every intention of showing Finn what happened when someone touched his Omega like that.

However before Bellamy had chance to do that Clarke was in front of him shouting at him to stop trying to pull him back saying things like he couldn't do this and Finn isn't a problem. It wasn't an Omegas place to tell an Alpha what to do though so he kept moving thoughts of violence and what he would do to his Omega after this was done brightening up his vision. Bellamy would have done just that but before he could Bellamy heard the only thing that would make him pause 'Alpha please,' Clarke shouted 'I'm begging you, he's down I'm not in danger you don't need to do this please don't.'

Screaming a scream full of rage Bellamy stepped away from Finn and from Clarke, his Omega was asking something of him he couldn't not give her that. It wasn't easy though, Bellamy was in a full on Rut now so he was a hairs breath away from violence sexual or otherwise but he had to give his Omega this. Bellamy wasn't capable of much in the way of rational thought right now but the clinic came to mind so he started in the direction of that building screaming in rage as he went.

Clarke Griffin

Feeling a kind of stunned shock Clarke watched as Bellamy ran away snarling yells of rage as he went looking half feral with really no idea what she should be doing now. Everything had just gone south so fast, one moment Clarke had been arguing with Finn and then Bellamy was there all of a sudden throwing Finn through the glass. Clarke had gone out after Bellamy so standing outside now Clarke looked back at the hole in the glass and then down at Finn who was still lying on the ground seemingly stunned but mostly ok from what she could see, not that she cared though.

This had all just happened so fast one moment she had been chatting with Harper and then, thinking of Harper Clarke looked away from Finn who was sitting up now and back the way she had come. Clarke hadn't really noticed but there was a crowd on the other side of the hole but seeing them staring at her Clarke thought she should have seen this coming, her professor Callie was there too staring at her so Clarke knew she should say something. As much as she might like to run away herself Clarke knew she couldn't, Bellamy had just thrown a guy through glass defending her so she would need to give everyone some kind of explanation.

Thinking Harper could help with this Clarke started looking around for her friend in the crowd but spotting Harper as she moved her way out the hole in the wall Clarke paused, Harper was looking at her in a really strange way. In fact everyone was Callie included, the expressions on everyone's faces was a mix of shock and embarrassment which Clarke would say made sense but Clarke also saw curiosity there for some reason. This struck Clarke as odd, they would have all sadly heard her and Finns argument so they could probably all guess what had been going on here so what was it that everyone seemed to be curious about.

'O my god,' Harper said getting close to Clarke her mouth wide and open in a massive show of shock 'o my god Clarke, how have I not seen it?'

That last statement of Harpers got things to click in Clarkes mind 'o no,' she whispered in a small voice shielding her face in her hands looking down at the ground 'no, no, no,' she continued shouting now. As she did this Clarke started to hear the whispers coming from the crowd, isn't she a Beta she hears someone say, well she isn't another voice says if she could do that she could only be an Omega. Hearing this Clarke screamed rage filling her body now, her secret was out now and there was nothing she could do, soon everyone she knew would know she was an Omega.

When Bellamy had gone after Finn Clarke had just acted on instinct she could feel that Bellamy was going to do something he would regret so she had wanted him to stop so she had asked him to stop. Clarke had started to panic as well when Bellamy had ignored her at first so she had ended up just saying stuff anything that would get him to stop she had been acting on instinct, the words Clarke had used had just been instinct. None of that mattered though and Clarke knew it weather she had known what she was doing or not she had used an Omega request on Bellamy which was something only Omegas could do and everyone had seen her do it. The secret Clarke had been working so hard to keep was out now and soon everyone in her life would know she was in fact an Omega and not a Beta, things had just gotten really bad.

Shorter than the last chapter I know but I only really wanted this one thing to happen in this chapter and that didn't take as much space. I hope everyone enjoyed what you read and will be looking forward to next chapter which I already have a layout for.