Mother Earth // Bellamy Blake

Toxin Bomb • 131

My body was put down on some kind of cot while I was throwing an absolute fit. I couldn't see Mason anymore, he seemed to go away as I was being brought into the tent, but that didn't calm my nerves.

"No, no. Bellamy please," I begged through my wailing. "You can't be dead, you can't. I need you. I can't do this alone."

I've officially entered a state of insanity when I saw his face. I would never be able to properly describe the confusion and fear my mind was experiencing. Octavia was able to snap me out of it earlier by touching me, but now touch didn't matter, my brain was going haywire.

"I'm right here. We're all alive. This is real," Bellamy continued to repeat this to me, desperate to get me to believe his words. Octavia and Bellamy were both holding me down on the cot because I kept trying to get up. I wanted to run away from them, I didn't want to feel the overwhelming grief anymore. The two people I love most were right there and I couldn't understand that they weren't actually dead.

"Gabriel, whatever you're doing, do it faster," Octavia urged.

"I'm finished, open her mouth. She needs to drink this," he informed.

I watched with wide eyes as Gabriel came into my view. Bellamy reached his hand to my chin so he could wedge my mouth open. Once he did that, Gabriel hovered a tin container and poured the content out. I had no choice but to swallow it otherwise I'd choke. Bellamy's hand moved from from my chin to my cheek when there was no more liquid in the cup.

My eyes were darting from face to face as they watched me. I instantly started to feel the effects of whatever I just drank. My heart rate was slowing to normal and my breathing began to even out. The dazed confusion in my head was starting to clear.

When my eyes landed on Bellamy again, I shot up and suffocated him in a hug. He returned it instantly with a tight squeeze and a kiss to the side of my head.

"Are you okay?" Bellamy asked me gently, not letting go of the hug just yet.

"I'm okay now," I breathed out my relief that it was over. Our long embrace came to an end by me, I wanted to look at his face again. "I'm so sorry."

"Just never split off from me again. Ever," Bellamy gave me a small grin with his response, but I could also tell that he was being one hundred percent serious.

I turned my head to make eye contact with Gabriel, "so you're really alive."

"I am," he confirmed. "Ditzle pollen is some nasty stuff, the hallucinations are no joke."

"Tell me about it," I agreed. "Thank you for helping me." Gabriel accepted my gratitude before my eyes drifted to another figure in the tent with us.

"Clarke?" I asked while she looked at me. Clarke's shiny hair flopped when she nodded her head. I couldn't help the smile that grew on my face, it only made her return one to me. "Josephine should've known that you're hard to kill."

I got up from the cot I was sitting on as Bellamy stood. I could tell they were talking about something before I got here, Bellamy's face gave it all away. He was noticeable relieved that I was back with him, but he also had that look of guilt in his eyes and I knew exactly what it was about.

"Bellamy, we'll get our friends back. Safe," I told him gently.

Bellamy let out a subtle sigh, "now that you're here, we can come up with a good plan." He paused for a moment before asking me a question. "What did you see with those hallucinations?"

I kept my eyes on him, ignoring the other people in here. I knew they were listening, but this conversation was between the two of us. I raised my hands to tell him, 'another time. First we save our family.'