𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐌𝐘 𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐄 | 𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐄

20. bellamy's pov

this is the last chapter/epilogue

i hope you enjoy it!

THREE YEARS LATER

"Daddy?" Aurora asks, her head in my lap. "What was it like? Before Praimfaya?"

"Didn't your mother tell you, darling?" I ask, and look over to a now seventeen-year-old Madi dancing with a boy named Zachariah and Clarke gathering more wood for the bonfire. The night was beautiful, with its clear and starry sky.

Clarke's hair is longer than it had been two years ago when we first arrived. She's a little skinnier, but her smile's wider and her eyes shine brighter.

Aurora, on the other hand, has become chubbier with the years that passed. Her body held more meet and her cheeks were very squishable. "Yes, but I wanna hear your side of the story. I've never heard your side of the story."

"Maybe when you go to bed," I reply, stroking her hair with my hand, my eyes still set on my lovely wife, dancing with our eldest daughter and her boyfriend.

"Aw," she says, her face turning to a frown as I look back down at her, "why not now?"

"Because, right now, we're celebrating!" I respond, picking her up and out of my lap. Her laugh filled my ears, and the joy I felt showed on my face. "Now, go play with Micheal and Lyla. They're waiting for you."

My daughter smiles and runs off to her friends who are waving her over.

"Bellamy!" Octavia yells through the crowd of people dancing. "Come here! Bust a move!"

"No thanks," I respond, shaking my hand and making myself comfortable on the floor again. The people playing the instruments for the bonfire dance were playing a rapid song, too fast for me. "You know I can't dance."

"Come on," Camilla yells. Octavia's girlfriend. Camilla is the type of woman that everyone hates at first but comes to love once they get to know her. Her big blue eyes looked oddly like Octavia's and her flaming red hair came flying across her shoulders with the wind. She and Octavia's relationship started out with fights and hatred, always yelling at each other and throwing things at each other. One night, though no one knows how, something changed. And a week later, I caught them making out behind their cabin. "At least try it."

"No," I reply, shaking my head once again, but laughing anyway. 

"Bellamy," a voice says in front of me, and at the sound of it, I smile, and turn towards the woman walking towards me. "Come dance with me."

Clarke's face lights up when I give in, putting my hand in hers.

;;;

"Can you tell me the story now?" Aurora asks as I tuck her into her cot. "Please?"

"Everything that happened before Praimfaya..." I repeat her words from a few hours ago. "That's a long story, Aurora. How about just what happened before Mount Weather?"

She nods and waits for me to start. The music outside is still audible since the festival will continue until midnight. But I know that Aurora can't sleep without a story or a song, and it'll be even harder for her to fall asleep with all the music outside.

"Alright," I say, a hand passing through my unruly curls. "It all started when Chancellor Jaha thought that the Earth might be inhabitable again."

"What does that mean?" she questions.

"It means that people can live there." My clarification isn't perfect, but it'll have to do. Maybe I'd have to use simpler words to explain this story to her. "So Chancellor Jaha decided to send 100 of the kids in jail to test to see if his thoughts were correct. I knew that Octavia would be with those kids, so I had to do something to stay with her, to protect her. So I ended up sneaking onto the ship, even though I had to shoot the Chancellor to do so."

"Mommy never told me about you shooting the Chancellor," Aurora adds.

"She didn't want to think of me as a bad guy."

"I could never think of you as a bad guy."

I smile. "That's nice to know. So, then, when we finally landed, we started setting up camp. Tents, places for the food, places for the weapons. Everything to survive. We were supposed to land on Mount Weather, but Clarke ended up finding out that they'd sent us to the wrong mountain, and we'd have to go through forests and dangerous lands to get there. But at the time, I didn't very much care about the mountain. I was scared that if the Chancellor came down, I'd be executed for treason. So, do you know what I did?"

"You started making everyone take off their wristbands so that the Ark thought you were all dying down there and that it wasn't safe."

"Exactly," I say. "That's when we started to find the real dangers of the Earth. Like the deadly fog. Anyone who went in and breathed the air got a full face of radiation."

"Like Atom?"

I nodded. "Like Atom. And frankly, that's the moment I started developing feelings for your mother. When she had to kill Atom because he was suffering, she seemed so pure and kind at that moment and I didn't know what to think. She was beautiful and I finally saw through all my hatred of her trying to get the people on Ark to the ground and finally saw that. And not long after that, your auntie Raven landed on Earth, looking for Finn. However, I'm the one who found her and I destroyed her radio of communication with Ark, again not wanting to get the Chancellor down to the Earth.

"Everyone got mad at me later, because Clarke finally explained that the Ark was dying and that all our families would die with it if they didn't come to Earth. So, everyone started listening to her, which, even though it pissed me off, I thought was for the best. And don't you dare tell that to anyone."

She giggles and I know that that will be the first thing she tells her mother in the morning. I sigh but smile, and continue my story; "And then the Grounders stared attacking, killing our people for coming to their land. It wasn't very pretty. So when we heard about the reapers-"

"The enemy of your enemy is your friend," Aurora says, quoting Finn.

"Yes, exactly," I reply. "That's when we killed all the attacking Grounders and then all the Reapers."

"And after that, you and Finn were taken, right?"

"Yeah, we were. And that's also when Clarke and the others were taken by Mount Weather and the Ark landed after successful communication with us."

"The end?" Aurora asks.

"The end."

"Mommy's story was better," she says, making me laugh once more. "Maybe you're good at singing."

"What would I sing?" I ask.

"Anything you know."

I rack my brain for songs I knew and fall upon a song to Octavia back when she was younger and scared. My voice isn't terrible, so maybe she could fall asleep to this instead.

I begin singing; "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy.. when skies are gray. You'll never know dear, how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away."

"You have a pretty voice, daddy," she says, and I can tell that she's tired. "Sing it again."

And I do. 

Over and over again.

Until her eyes finally close.

And she falls asleep.

yes, i gave octavia a gf because in the books, octavia is gay and i wanted to honour that :)

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