Clarity

Chapter 27

            Bellamy followed Clarke down the halls as she walked in at a normal pace. He would have thought she would have been walking more frantically trying to get where ever she was going fast. She seemed to be in no rush. She was calm and collected as she walked down the hall with a bag full of drugs and stolen medical supplies. Bellamy could not help but wonder how many times she had done this before. How many times she walked up and down these halls doing something illegal. He would have never thought she was the type but obviously he was wrong.

            “Were are we going?” Bellamy asked finally breaking the silence.

            “Where heading to the nearest trash shoot.” She answered as he stepped up next to her.

            “And why are we going there?”

            She looked over to him in surprise.

            “Sometimes I wonder about you Bellamy.” She told him.

            How was it he was so smart but so clueless at the same time. She leaned in closer to him so that he was the only one who could hear her speak.

            “Step one in committing a crime, get rid of the evidence. If there’s no evidence the guards can’t prove a crime was committed.” She told him.

            “You should know that. What are they teaching you guards anyway?” She asked him jokingly as she went back to walking and talking normally.

            “I’m sorry that I’m not a criminal mastermind like you. But I can say you’re giving me some good advice. Your just making it all that more easier for me to catch people like you.” He told her.

            She stopped walking and started at him.

            “People like me are just trying to help.” She snapped at him.

            “Calm down, I was just kidding.” He told her.

            “It’s not funny Bellamy. I have told you stuff about me and my friends that could get us all floated. I need to know that I can trust you not to screw us over to further your carrier.” She told him.

            “Clarke you can trust me.” He told her.

            He never really thought about this. He was just thinking about how bad it would look if his charge got in trouble under his watch. That was his only motivation for keeping all of her extracurricular activity a secret. That’s what he told himself. Now that Clarke was questioning his motives he realized that he would never betray her because could not even stand the thought about it.

            This unfortunately meant that Bellamy had somehow taken on the responsibility of not only protecting Clarkes secret but Jaspers and Monty’s also. Clarke would be devastated if anything happened to them and he would not let that happen.

            “I hope so.” She replied then turned to walk away from him.

            Clarke wanted to get this drop over with. She was starting to wonder about Bellamy and where his alliances truly lied. She wanted nothing but to trust him but she could not get the comment out of her head. Even if he was just kidding he still had thought about it. She wondered how much temptation he would be able to fight before he gave in and turned them all in. She was starting to regret telling him about Jasper and Monty. It was not her place to bring them into this. If he turned them in it would be her fault.

            They finally reached the trash shoot. Clarke was happy to be able to focus on anything other than all of the thoughts that were running in her head.

            She opened up her bag and pulled out the trash bag that held everything she used to work on Bellamy. She shoved it down the shoot knowing that in the morning it would be incinerated and all the evidence would be gone forever after they dumped the remains out of the Ark.

            “Now what?” Bellamy asked.

            “To visit a friend.” She told him.

            Again she turned and walked away from him forcing him to follow after her. He could not stand the fact that she was making him follow her around without a clue as to where they were going or what they were doing. At the same time he knew that he would follow her to the ends of the earth. Weather he wanted to or not.