2199 Day's - Bellarke Fanfic | ✔️

Chapter 5 - Let It Begin

~Clarke's POV~

We both stare out at what seems like the rest of the earth until I'm convinced it's the 1300th day. I tape Bellamy lightly on the shoulder and sit up.

"Come on, we should head back." I say trying to hold in a yawn.

He stands up with me and we both walk down to the tree line behind us, the darkness of the forest like a blanket for the sky above us. What's left of the Ark still in orbit.

Our footsteps crunch as we make our way back to the quiet glow of the fire, I walk over to the fire and sit down on a log staring at the flames deciding whether to join Madi or the others under the stars.

I watch out of the corner of my eye as Bellamy walks up beside me, blankets from the rover in his large hands, he holds out a spare hand to me and I take it.

"Come on." He says pulling me up from the log and over to a vacant space near the fire. I sit down on the ground, the soil pressing against my pants and finding its way between my finger nails.

Bellamy hands me a blanket and I take it happily and watch as he lays his own over himself. I lay down, my head on the earth and my eyes wondering to the stars where I used to look every night but find no need to anymore.

I roll over and face Bellamy. "Good night." I say smiling, happy that he's finally here.

"Good night Princess." He says back. That one word makes my smile even bigger. I close my eyes with my smile still plastered to my face and don't face the stars but instead the man lying across from me.

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I wake up to the morning sun piercing my eye lids and a warm feeling covering my body. I slide the blanket off and look up to see Madi loading logs onto the fire.

"Morning my little Nightblood." I say getting up and walking over to the fire, the others still asleep including Bellamy.

"Morning." She says placing the last log on the fire. "No lessons today, I want to show them around." She says gesturing to the others. I nod and I watch her smile and race off to the rover. She comes back with my sketch book and I blush, not even Madi knows what's in that book.

"Not today, put it back in the rover." I say quickly not wanting the others to hear.

"But you draw every morning." She sates a little confused as to why I'm not wanting to draw.

"Today is different, everything is going to change." I say back not wanting to complicate things. I earn a small nod from Madi and I watch her walk back to the rover and place the sketch book back under the fur pillows then wonder back.

"What are we making the visitors for breakfast?" She asks and I correct her.

"They aren't visitors, their family." I say looking down to Bellamy and the others.

Well some of them are...

I want to say, but don't. I watch her smile become bigger and I smile myself. "How about, berries and bread?" I say standing up from the log and getting to my feet. I watch her nod, her smile bigger and we walk off towards the rover, breakfast waiting.

Soon Madi and I have breakfast completely ready and have spare berries for later. I pull the bread out from the fire just as Raven wakes up and gives us both a smile.

"Morning." I say giving her a berry. I watch her place it in her mouth and see her smile grow bigger if that's even possible.

"It feels like years since I have had one of them." She says reaching for another. I hand her four more and watch out of the corner of my eye as she walks over to the fire and sits down on a log.

Soon everyone is awake and eating away at their own berries and bread. I hear several groans and moans from Monty as he eats away and can't help but show another smile. I look to Bellamy next to me and see him talking to Madi.

"See if you do this, it's like jam." I hear him say before Madi answers. The mushed berries spread over the bread.

"Jam?" she asks a little confused.

"It's like a paste that you spread over stuff, making it taste better." I watch in awe as Bellamy talks to Madi about other things he's eaten while answering all her questions.

"What was the Ark like?" I hear her ask next. I look to Bellamy and I can tell he knows I'm listening.

"Some parts where better than others, the view of earth was the best." He says not mentioning the "other" parts.

The next question I hear makes my breath hitch.

"What about Mount Weather?" Says Madi so innocently it almost makes it ok, almost.

Bellamy turns around and looks at me, I give him a small shake of my head and I see his eyes wonder to Monty before looking back to mine.

"You mean the Mount Weather food, right?" I hear him ask Madi and I watch her nod.

"Ask Monty about the pie later, he will tell you all about it." He says with a smile. I watch Madi give him a nod back and I feel grateful for the way he handled it, it could have gotten ugly really quickly.

I gather up everyone's plates and set them over near the rover before walking back to the fire pit to see Madi sitting between Harper and Monty, all three with smiles covering their faces.

I walk over and sit down next to Bellamy, wanting to talk to him about the Bunker, now that Madi is distracted. I sit down next to Bellamy and look over next to Harper and the rest of the others.

"Nicely handled." I say watching Madi talk to Harper and Monty, probably about the pie. I watch him nod beside me and I know he wants to talk about it as well.

"I will call a meeting later tonight, that way Madi won't hear." I say stiffening about the topic. I feel him nod beside me and I feel the need to reassure him, knowing he's doubting himself.

"Bellamy we will get them out." I say looking into the flames of the fire before us, consuming the logs like Pramifaya consumed earth.

He just nods again, and I leave it at that, deciding to sit beside him in silence once again.

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I watch the first star appear in the sky and put Madi to bed telling her it will be a big day tomorrow. I sneak out of the rover after making sure she's asleep and meet everyone by the fire taking the maps form my rover and laying them out of the soil in front of the fire for everyone to see.

We all peer down at the map and the first thing I think everyone's eye lands on is the large red circle to the left of the map.

DROPSHIP

I cough and bob down on my knees and point to the site where the bunker is. "Ok so here's the bunker, and here's us." I say dragging my finger across the map and to a spot marked with a small red X.

"That's a lot of radioactive land between us and the bunker." Says Murphy sitting down next to Emori.

"The bunker is on radioactive land." Says Monty pointing to the bunker.

"What about the dropship? Is that radioactive?" Asks Harper standing up and looking down on the map.

Everyone looks to me and I feel their eyes looking me over. "I don't know." I say simply looking to the map.

"So, can we get to the bunker?" Asks Bellamy from next to me.

"Yes, but let's not make it an overnight trip." I say folding up the map and looking to the others.

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