ATARAXIA • BELLAMY BLAKE

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"All right, I'm off." Bellamy took one last bite of his food before getting up from the dinner table to grab his jacket and pull on his boots, and Octavia was quick to steal his leftovers. He had agreed to take a night shift tonight despite always complaining about how much he hated it.

"Don't make all that noise when you get home, you woke us all up last time," Aurora told him pointedly.

"It's not my fault you're all light sleepers," he said. "Except for Freya, I mean."

Bellamy closed his eyes and tilted his head to the side, mouth open and snoring loudly, to poke fun at her.

"I don't snore," Freya immediately denied with a stunned look on her face.

"Yes, you do," Bellamy softly chuckled as he adjusted the collar of his jacket. "And loudly."

"I have a cold!" She threw her napkin after him, blushing with embarrassment, and missed her target terribly.

"There's nothing wrong with a little snoring," Aurora quickly assured Freya while patting her hand that was rested on the table.

"That's easy for you to say," Bellamy butted in. "You won't have to be subjected to it any more after tonight. Me on the other hand?"

The next day was the official move in day of Bellamy's new private quarters. There weren't many unoccupied quarters on the Ark so Freya hadn't been able to get her own just yet, and Bellamy had been on the waitlist for a ages before finally getting his. They'd all agreed that it would be best if Freya moved in with Bellamy until she got taken off the list herself. That way Aurora and Octavia could finally have some more space to themselves and each get a bed rather than having to share one.

"I wasn't ever gonna say anything, but you do weird things in your sleep too," Freya retaliated in an attempt to drag him down with her.

"Name one," Bellamy confidently called her bluff.

"You speak complete nonsense, for one. And you snap," Freya recollected. "And that's two."

"Snap?" Bellamy skeptically questioned her.

"Your fingers," she sassily clarified, demonstrating with both hands. "You snap in your sleep."

Bellamy looked at Octavia and Aurora for backup, but all Aurora did was nod in confirmation while Octavia shrugged with a knowing look.

Quickly accepting his weird habit, Bellamy plastered on a humorous face. "Well, you can't blame a guy for having rhythm."

"And you can't blame a girl for snoring," Freya countered, though much more self conscious of herself than Bellamy.

"I'm not blaming you for anything," Bellamy said with a fond smile, and he went back over to the table to place a peck on her cheek. "I think it's cute."

Freya pushed him away all flustered when he went in for another and Bellamy offered them all a big smile and a final goodbye before heading out the door.

"You two," Aurora said.

Freya looked up to see Octavia grinning from ear to ear and Aurora looking at her lovingly. "What?" she asked.