The 100: Nothing But Time

chapter 18 Snap Decisions

Bellamy POV

I awake feeling warm and rested.

But there is something tickling my nose. Without opening my eyes I brush hair from my face.

My eyes shoot open.

It's blonde hair.

Not just any blonde hair either.

The princess is still asleep snuggled against my chest, with her hair spread all over the two of us.

My heart starts to pound loudly and I am sure she will wake up any minute as a result.

Part of me starts to panic.

The other part of me...well....

Before I become too uncomfortable she starts to stir.

"Good morning princess"

"Mmmmn, Good morning" She slurs, eyes still closed, stretching slightly her legs curled around mine.

Wait for it....

I know the moment she is fully awake when I feel her hand stop moving on my chest and hear her quick intake of breath.

"Did you sleep well princess?"

Clarke sat up quickly, as if she had been burned but before she could say anything, Octavia came rushing in. "Clarke, she's awake!"

Octavia stops short and stares even as the color flooded into Clarke's cheeks. "I'm sorry...I..."

"What is it O?!" I snapped, not pleased with the interruption.

Octavia's eyes dart to mine and she shakes herself. "Tris is awake, Nyko and Anya are asking for you." She finishes quietly.

The sound of Tris' name spurs Clarke into action and she is pulling on her boots and grabbing her bag before I am scarcely out of bed.

I hurry to catch up, grabbing my stuff.

Clarke POV

Stupid, stupid,stupid! I berate myself silently as I follow Octavia to the healing hut.

God, Clarke. This girl is hanging on by a thread and instead of checking on her you wake up snuggled with Bellamy Blake!

Bellamy Blake self proclaimed rebel.

What is wrong with you??? Snap out of it!!!

As I enter the hut Tris has her eyes open and both Anya and Nyko look at me expectantly.

"Sorry, I slept late." I mutter while my hands quickly get to work gently feeling the bump on her head and the wound that had been sewn shut on yesterday.

Tris answers all our questions and I am satisfied that there is will be no permanent brain damage. Bellamy has entered the hut too but I make a point of ignoring him.

"You will need to guard against infection", I say to Nyko, gesturing to the wound in her side, "but she will be fine after a few days."

"Thank you for your help." Nyko smiles, tilting his head. "I would love to learn more from you."

"And I you." I smile in return.

"We have much to learn from each other" Anya breaks in. "You have our respect and our trust. Anything you need, we will do our best to help."

My eyes meet Bellamy for a moment and in a spur of the moment decision I decide to lay all our cards on the table.

"We do need your help Anya. The rest of our people are being attacked by those Reaper creatures, we have to find them before it's too late. Can you help us?"

"There are more of you?" She raises her eyebrows.

"Yes. Can you help us?"

"Come" She walks out signalling for us to follow her.

As I meet Bellamy's gaze I can see his jaw clench for a moment before he drops his eyes. He doesn't trust the grounders yet, no secret there. We both fall into step behind her without a word.

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Bellamy POV

We're almost back at the Dropship and Clarke is clearly avoiding me.

She's walking ahead of me with Finn but then turns to glance back at me. I smirk at her and she quickly turns around.

I shake my head. No matter how cute she is I'm still pissed she told Anya about the others. How do we even know we can trust them?

She heads straight for the radio room. I pause to give Finn and Wells some orders and then I follow her. She's not going to get out of this conversation that easily.

When I get upstairs she and Raven both look startled to see me.

"Did you need something? Raven asks cautiously, while looking nervously between Clarke and I.

I ignore her and grab Clarke's arm forcing her to look at me. "What the hell was that princess? Why did you tell them about the ARK?"

"I made an executive decision."

"Is that what you're calling it? More of a snap decision if you ask me."

" No one asked you Bellamy and I don't answer to you." She responds hotly.

"I don't answer to you either but we're supposed to be making these decisions together! Besides, we both know why you're really mad." I taunt her

Clarke's eyes dart to Raven. "Bellamy! Clarke hisses.

"I'm gonna take that as my que to leave. Try not to kill each other. I don't want to to be in charge." Raven huffs and stomps downstairs leaving us to fight without an audience.

I take a step closer to her and she takes a step back until she bumps into the wall. "What's the matter princess? You seem a little flustered"

She visible gulps. "I hate you!" She replies venomously.

" I don't think that's true." I smirk as I take step closer. " I think you enjoyed waking up next to me more than you want to admit. I'll let you in on a secret" I whisper in her ear. "I enjoyed it too."

She pulls back from me quickly as if she has been burned.

"We have to live with these people Bellamy. We have to trust them." She continues our previous conversation as if I had never interrupted her.

If it wasn't for the slight tremor of her hands I might have believed my words had no effect.

"Allright princess well do it your way for now. Maybe the grounders can help us locate the ARK, but if it backfires..." I let my words trail off.

"Yeah I know. It'll be my fault. Tell me something I don't know."

Before she can say anything else the crackling sound of the radio interrupts us.

"Raven? This is the ARK. Are you there?"