Ark Kingdom: The Magic Within (Bellarke)

Chapter 22

Bellamy’s POV

“Gotcha!” A boy yells as he jumps onto my back. I lurch forward banging my head into Clarke’s. I pull back and rub my head. Clarke looks just as confused as I do. Before either of us can say a thing Clarke is tackled by a little girl.

“You’ve been gone for forever.” She whines as she climbs over Clarke’s shoulder to sit in her lap. She reaches up to put both of her hands on either side of Clarke’s face. “I missed you.”

“I’m sorry, sweetie?” Clarke gives me a questioning look.

“I missed you too.” The boy who was on my back suddenly leaps off to sit on Clarke’s lap.

“I’m sorry to you too.” She touches the boy’s cheek and he leans into her hand. “Mommy?”

“What?” Clarke asks in a high pitched voice.

“Were you just kissing Daddy?” The boy asks; not noticing that Clarke wasn’t asking for his question.

“No, Daddy was going to kiss Mom.” The little girl says and gets up from Clarke’s lap. She comes to me and looks me in the eye. Her eyes look so familiar that I feel like I’m looking in a mirror. What is going on? I pinch my arm to try and wake up from the dream that I’m clearly having. “Right, Daddy?”

I look at Clarke and see that she is blushing madly. She looks beautiful especially with that little boy sitting in her lap. She is absentmindedly playing with his curly brown hair. She would make a wonderful mother. Control yourself. This is a dream. I shake my head.

“See? He wasn’t.” The boy points at my head and I stop shaking it.

“Na uh.”

“Ya huh.”

“No.”

“Yes.”

“N –”

“Stop. Both of you.” Clarke says in a stern voice.

“Bu- ”

“No more.” She scolds. The children both go silent and look down at their feet.

The little girl grabs my hand and something in me melts. I feel happier then I have in years, including my almost kiss with Clarke. The girl looks up at me and smiles. She then gets up on her knees on my leg so that she can whisper into my ear.

“Daddy, you should give Mommy a kiss. She wants you to. Don’t worry, Jake and I will close our eyes.” She whispers.

“Ew.” The boy complains, but gets up from Clarke’s lap and turns his back to us. Somehow he heard her even when I had a hard time hearing her quiet words. The girl gets up too and stands next to the boy.

“What’s going on?” Clarke asks. Her confusion makes her look so cute.

“Nothing.” I shrug my shoulders.

“Daddy, can you hurry? I’m hungry.”

“Hurry with what?” Clarke looks so innocent. I wish that I could kiss her. I wish this were real. Wait, this is a dream so I can kiss her. It won’t make a difference to her and it’ll get her out of my mind. I get up to be on my knees and slowly scoot forward. Clarke’s eyes widen as she watches me approach. I slide my hand up her arm to the back of her neck. I move my fingers in a slow circle and watch as she leans into my touch.

Her eyes are still big orbs of blue. I lean forward and touch my lips to hers. She doesn’t move and I regretfully start to pull back. That’s when her hands jump up to my hair to pull me back to her.

 “There you two are. I have been looking all over for you. Jake, Aurora I want you to go to the house. I’m going to have a little conversation with your parents.”

I let out a sound that seems very much like a growl as I look up to see Octavia. She looks older and her hair is tied up into very intricate braids. I see the kids run off. Even in my dreams I’m interrupted.

“Don’t act like that, Bell. You’re just lucky I stayed this long. Clarke, what’s with you? You look like you just got caught doing something wrong. As much as it grosses me out, you being with Bell; I’m used to it. It’s been six years, heck you have two kids with another on the way! Clearly you’ve done more than kiss.”

My heart starts pounding. “What?” Then my world starts spinning and not because we’re moving to a different place, because I can’t process the information. That’s when it hits me. This isn’t a dream. This is real. We’re actually in the meadow. I actually kissed Clarke.

“Aurora, Jake? Your kids?” Octavia says in her sarcastic tone but cuts off when she sees our faces.

I look at a blushing Clarke. Her eyes are bright and she looks to be handling this information about the same as I am. I reach forward to lift her chin that is hanging down as far as possible. She snaps her mouth shut when I touch her and she scoots back a bit.

“Wait. This isn’t right.” Octavia looks behind us and gasps. “How?”

“They need to leave now.” I hear a voice that sounds familiar. “Go back and forget about this. You’ve changed enough already.”

A/N I hope you enjoyed the Bellarke moments in this chapter :) AlexandraMorales423 here are the kids.