Alive

Chapter 1

"Okay I've looked through the entire ring and everything seems to be working fine, for now at least. Monty started working on the algae farm five days ago. Murphy and Emori are looking for anything salvageable that was left behind and Echo is well, somewhere."

Raven's mind has been in overdrive since they landed on the ring seven days ago. She welcomed the feeling though, because everyday spent in overdrive has shown her the ring was even more survivable than she originally thought.

"Did you even hear me Bellamy?"

Bellamy had been looking out the ring's window not paying attention to anything Raven was telling him. It's been seven days and he still hadn't come to terms with the fact that he left Clarke on Earth to die. It has been the only thing he could think about since the second they took off.

"What no sorry Raven I wasn't listening."

Raven let out a sigh. She knew Bellamy was taking Clarke's death harder than any of the others could even begin to imagine. All he felt was guilt for leaving her.

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"What is there even to talk about Raven? I left her behind." Every time he said it was a like a punch to his gut. He felt like he couldn't breathe thinking about it, and it hadn't gotten even a tiny bit better in the past seven days. He left one of the only people he's ever truly care about on a planet about to be leveled by radiation.

"I swear the only words I've heard you say since we got here is 'I left her behind'. You know I'm not one to show emotions but I think it would be good."

"What else do you want me to say! I left her behind Raven and nothing else I say will bring her back." Bellamy was cut off from saying anything else by static noise coming from the radio that was already on the ring. They both shared a look not expecting to hear anything coming from the radio.

"Raven, I thought you said the radio wouldn't be able to work at all?"

"I did."

"Then why-" but before he could finish is sentence they both heard a voice.

"...Hello?...." It was only one word, covered in static, but that voice. He would recognize that voice no matter where he heard it. It was the voice that had been haunting his sleep for the past seven days. He squeezed his eyes shut, willing himself to wake up, but he wasn't asleep and this wasn't a dream

"Bell... Ra..ven. Can anyone hear me?" The static lessened and the voice became clearer.

"That can't be, is that Clarke?" Raven couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"It's been seven days since the death wave hit and I somehow barely made it back into the lab, but not before cracking my helmet. I was never very graceful. I haven't tried contacting you before now because I was in and out of consciousness. It hurts Bell, everywhere hurts."

Clarke was actually alive. She survived the death wave and Bellamy couldn't process anything except the fact the she was alive. "She's alive." Before he could even finish those two words Raven was running, screaming for the other five to come here. Bellamy couldn't hear her though, he couldn't hear anything except the sound of Clarke's voice coming through the radio.

"For the first three days I thought I was dying and it scared me. The dying part didn't scare me, it was the thought of dying alone. I've realized though that the nightblood solution is working! I'm not getting better yet but I'm not getting any worse."

Bellamy faintly heard the sound of running and voices getting louder as they got closer.

"I'm probably crazy for talking to myself but someone once told as long as I'm breathing then I should have hope. I'll try this again tomorrow and everyday as long as I'm alive."

He just stood there staring at the radio, trying to process what just happened. It took him a few seconds before he reached out and grabbed the radio.

With shaky hands he pressed the button to reply. "Clarke?" he let out no louder than a whisper. When he didn't get a reply he tried again. "Clarke it's Bellamy I can hear you." The only response he got was more static.

"If you're listening, I miss you already."

"NO!" he pushed the button so hard he thought he might break the radio. "Clarke it's me. I can hear you, you're not crazy. I can hear you, why can't you hear me?!" He yelled the last part, his voice breaking in the process. He only now realized he was crying as the tears were rolling off his cheeks.

And that's when it hit him. His legs buckled and he fell to the floor, his knees slamming into the hard metal ground. Clarke thinks she's completely alone. She thinks she'll be completely alone for the next five years and there wasn't a damn thing Bellamy could do about it.

"I miss you too princess" he whispered into the radio right as he heard one of this friends speak.

"What's happening?"

He turned his head, not even bothering to get up off his knees, to see the six others waiting on an explanation. They could tell he had been crying by his red, puffy eyes and the fresh tears that stained his cheek.

He just stared at them for a second, taking in a deep breath before he spoke. "She's alive. Clarke is alive." He could see the hope fill their eyes. He looked down at the floor, because it killed him to know that what he was about to say was going to take a bit of that hope away.

He raised his head looking back at all his friends. Clarke's friends."But she can't hear us. She doesn't know that we're alive."

Monty walked over to Bellamy and crouched down beside him, setting his hand on Bellamy's shoulder. "We might not be able to talk to her, but at least we know she's alive. She might not be okay right now either, but we know her nightblood will heal her. And you know what that means?" Bellamy looked at Monty waiting for him to continue. "We have a friendly face to look forward to in five years."

Bellamy didn't say anything but he knew Monty was right. He turned the other way looking out at the now orange, radiation covered, earth. As he stared out the window he couldn't help saying those two simple words one more time. "She's alive."