Together

Chapters 11

Clarke POV

Lexa, Sion and I leave the throne room. After the meeting everything became pretty silent, a bit too quiet for my taste. I should probably stop being so negative all the time.

Just a few second after I said this to myself Raven comes around the corner breathless. She has to take a few breaths before she starts to speak.

"Kane radioed, Clarke. He has some news." She tells me with a sheaky voice.

Lexa and I look at each other for a moment and then quickly go to Raven's room. I sit down on the chair at the radio and take the speaking device in my hand.

"Kane, can you hear me?" I say into the device. The radio crackles but it's not Kane's voice that comes out of it.

"Clarke, is that you?"

My eyes widen when I hear my mum's voice. "Mum, are you ok, is everything alright?" I haven't heard her in a long time now.

"I am fine, Clarke and I have got good news. More and more people are against Pike. He still has got the guns so they don't dare to do anything, but we are becoming more and more." She tells me.

A smile appears on my face and I sigh relieved after I have heard the news. Finally there is some progress. I look around in the room and everyone seems just as relieved as me.

"That's great news, mum. Very great news." I answer.

"Maybe we should give them some time for themselves?" Raven looks at Lexa and Sion and both nod. I give Raven a thankful glance before the three of them leave the room.

I once again make sure if the door is closed, before I start to speak. "Mum, are you still here?"

"Yes honey, I am." She responds just a few seconds later.

"It's so good to hear your voice, mum."

"It's so good to hear yours too. How are you? How is Polis?" She answers.

"I am fine and Polis is incredible. I haven't seen too much yet, but as soon you can come I will show you around." I reply. I don't intend to tell her that I nearly got killed today in the morning.

The radio crackles before her voice comes out of the device. "Yeah, we will do that."

Some sort of uncomfortable silence comes up. We both feel that this conversation either already reached an end or that we finally talk about the bad topics we tried to prevent. I finally break the silence. "What about Bellamy is he still...you know..."

She doesn't answer like she is thinking about what to say, but at one point the radio crackles again. "Yeah he is still one of Pike's supporters, Clarke. I am sorry."

I don't respond. I was hoping for a different answer, even though I wasn't expecting a different one.

"Clarke, it's not your fault, Bellamy alone is responsible for his actions." My mum says to me after I didn't answer.

"I know, mum, but it just feels like if I stayed after Mount Weather, none of this would have happened." I reply.

"Maybe, but we don't know it for sure." says mum.

Silence spreads. We both know that if I had stayed, probably none of this would have happened, she just wants me to feel better. The thought that if I had stayed, things would have been better, came up a lot lately. Every time it came up I told myself I hadn't changed anything even though I knew I would have.

The silence gets longer and longer until I can't stand it anymore. As good it was to hear my mum's voice now is the time to end this conversation.

"I have to go, mum. Please look out for yourself and stay safe."