Into The Woods- Bellamy Blake

Chapter 88

"Can you see it? Is it beautiful? It is in my dreams. I hope we do better there. I hope Jasper was wrong and we aren't the problem. I hope your lives there will be as happy as mine has been. Be the good guys. May we meet again."

Ember clutched onto Bellamy's hand tightly as the video ended, and she blinked before addressing all their friends that they'd woken up. "I know this is a lot to process. Take an hour and meet in the mess. We need to game this out."

Nobody said anything, so from beside Ember, Clarke added, "Guys, we survived. Monty made sure of it."

"Now we get our humanity back," Abby whispered.

"Some of us never lost it," Raven said, turning and walking out quickly with Shaw following her.

Ember sighed, leaning into Bellamy. "How are you doing?" She asked quietly. He'd been on the ring with Monty, and she knew he wasn't as okay as he was letting on.

He brought her hand up, kissing the back of it. "I'm okay."

"As soon as we get down onto the new planet, we can mourn our friends and family." she took another glance at the planet. "I'm gonna go check on the kids, come with me?"

He nodded. "Sure," He turned to Echo, Murphy, and Emori. "We'll meet you guys in the mess in a few minutes?"

"Yeah, see you there."

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"So what do you think is down there?" Murphy asked. Ember stared down at the bowl of algae. She'd taken one bite of it and she knew she couldn't bring herself to eat anymore. She wasn't sure how they'd eaten it up on the ring.

"Well that depends on if we think the eligius three people survived," Emori said. "There could be a whole civilization down there."

"What if they don't take kindly to strangers?" Ember asked, looking up quickly. Bellamy brought his hand over to her leg, running his thumb over the bare skin in an attempt to comfort her. She didn't think she could handle another war, she was so tired of fighting.

"Then we'll talk it out with them, find a way to live peacefully with them," Echo said.

"That's hopeful wishing," Ember muttered in return.

She noticed Clarke walking in and heading over to Jordan. While she loved Clarke, she knew that everyone else at the table with her weren't on good terms with her, which she could understand. "Oh, look who's here," Echo muttered.

Murphy glanced over his shoulder and then turned back to the group. "Can we all agree that she shouldn't be in the group going to the ground first?"

"Give it a break, John," Ember muttered out. "We were all on the same side once."

He raised an eyebrow. "You don't blame her? She is partially responsible for-" He stopped talked as Emori elbowed his side, but they all knew the words that were left unspoken.

Bellamy took Clarke walking by as a distraction. "Hey, you see Raven or Shaw?"

"You know, the people you handed over to our enemy to be tortured?" Emori pitched in.

"Now, for Clarke, we call that a Tuesday."

"John..."

"Easy," Echo said, speaking up before Ember snapped at Murphy. "She did the right thing in the end."

"No," Clarke said. "I haven't seen them."

She continued walking, and Ember glanced over her shoulder, watching Clarke sit down next to her mom. "Why do you have to be such an ass?" She heard Bellamy ask Murphy.