Pitch Black But So Beautiful (Two Shot)

125 Years

After watching Monty's videos filling Bellamy and Clarke in on his and Harper's life while they were in cryo, Bellamy walked closer to the window overlooking their soon to be new home - the planet with two suns. He walked up behind Clarke and pulled her into his shoulder, uncertain of what this new planet meant for them, Jordan, and the other 408 people still asleep on the ship. 

"So what do we do now?" Bellamy asked Clarke as he shifted his attention towards her.

Shaking her head, "I don't know." Clarke turned to face Jordan, "Did your parents leave anything else? How do we know this planet can even sustain human life?"

"After getting into the file dad said had some pretty good evidence that Eligius III was able to live on there for several years. But sadly there were no updates since 2129." Jordan half smiled not sure if that was the answer they were looking to hear. 

Bellamy looked over at Clarke questioningly, "That was twenty years before the hundred were even sent to the ground, the odds they are still there and in good health..." He trailed off not wanting to scare the teen standing in front of him. He turned back to Jordan, "Jordan, do you mind if I can talk to Clarke for a little bit, we have a lot of things we need to discuss. 

Clarke's P.O.V.

Jordan exited the main control room leaving me and Bellamy alone. "I think we should wait to wake the others until we know-" Bellamy cut me off mid-sentence. 

"I know about the calls Clarke." I waited for him to continue, not knowing what to say. "Were you ever going to tell me?"

"I didn't think I had to." He looked mad, I never though Madi would say something to him. "Madi shouldn't have told you about them Bellamy."

"Yeah she also mentioned that!" He interrupted again. 

I took a deep breath trying to hold back the tears I could feel building up and sat on the ledge with my back facing the new planet. "After I got out of the bunker and made it back to Arkadia, there wasn't much left of anything, it was a junkyard. And I could never move the rubble in Polis on my own, I lost all hope." I paused. "I guess the radio calls were my way of staying sane the last 6 years." Then I started to get mad, he had no right to be mad at me for not telling him. "You left me behind while you and the others were up in space playing house." Bellamy started turning around, I got up and ran to stop him. I put my hand on his chest and looked up at the tall man in front of me, "But I never resented you for that, I knew if you stayed behind none of you would be here today." 

"Clarke, I-" I cut him off one last time.

"No matter how hurt and alone I felt before Madi found me, those radio calls kept me going." With that I turned around and started looking for Jordan. 

When I found Jordan he was laying in a room that looked like it was his childhood room, he was looking through pictures on a tablet. I walked over to him and hovered over his shoulders, he was swiping through an album filled with pictures of Monty and Harper. He sat up and motioned for me to sit down while he moved over. "Could you tell me more about my parents? They always told me stories, but they were mostly about everyone else." 

I nodded, "Well your mother was brave and had a huge heart. She was always looking out for others. She was incredibly strong, especially in Mount Weather. Also one of the best gunners we had, besides Miller of course." I stopped and laughed thinking back to all of the moments she shared with the delinquents when we first made it to the ground.  "And your father, I don't even know where to start. From the beginning I told him he was so important in keeping us all alive, he grew up in farming and was recruited by engineering. From what you saw growing up and the videos we just watched together, he was so smart. All your parents ever wanted was peace, and I'm glad they finally got that. I'll admit, I'm a little sad I wasn't there to see it but they had a great life Jordan and they loved you so much." I turned towards the door watching Bellamy as he leaned against the door frame. "I'm going to go and see what we can find out before waking the others up."

I could feel Bellamy following me, "What did you think about while we were asleep for 125 years?"

"We don't have time for this Bellamy!" I said turning to him. 

He didn't care and continued, "The last 6 years I thought you were dead and gave up thinking you made it out of Praimfaya alive. I felt that guilt everyday Clarke, to find out you were not only alive but tried to radio us everyday, I felt even worse."

"You Bellamy, not just anyone on the ring. I tried to radio YOU!" I pointed to him and yelled back, getting angry at the entire situation and made a mental note to tell Madi that everything I said on the ground was private. 

"I'm so sorry I couldn't wait for you longer Princess." He said pulling me into his chest, stroking my hair while he nuzzled into my neck. 

I pulled away first and wiped a tear from my eye, "I should go. I don't know about you but I'm ready to see everyone."

"Yeah I've missed our family Clarke." I smiled, thinking back to the moment in the bunker when he mentioned 'his family' and a time when I was no longer apart of that. We walked back to the room with the the pods lined up against the wall. Everything between the two of us seemed to be okay. 

I walked over to Madi's pod first and pressed the 'open chamber' button, smiling when she opened her eyes, "Shopta strik Natblida." I greeted her in Trig, her native language. 

"CLARKE!" She yelled as she sat up quickly, wrapping her arms around my neck. "We landed?" She asked excitedly.

I shook my head, "We ran into some complications. I'm going to be waking Raven in a moment to see if she can shed some light on our problem. Bellamy is about to wake up Octavia if you want to go wait by him." I nudged her in his direction and went to find Raven's pod 2 rows rows down from mine. Her pod light turned out and next thing she was waking up. "Hey Raven." I slightly smiled down at her.

"Clarke!" She looked around a little confused, "Where's Shaw? Why is no one else up yet? I thought they were preprogrammed to all open up."

"There's been a change in plans." I lowered my voice, looking at Madi who I could tell was trying to eves-drop. "We've been asleep for 125 years. Earth isn't coming back and Monty found somewhere else for us to go. You're going to have to land the ship." I finished. 

Raven looked even more confused, "Monty? How did he do all of that and monitor it for the last 125 years?" She asked and realized she knew the answer before I responded. Her brows frowned, "He didn't go into cryo, did he?"

I shook my head, "Harper either. They stayed awake and lived out their lives. There's someone you should meet, I'll take you to the bridge as soon as you freshen up. We're leaving the others in cryo for now until we have some more answers."