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Nighttime came and my hope for seeing Sam was starting to weaken. I had expected her to come out that day for I had heard murmuring around the ruins but she hadn't. I just hoped she was alright. Octavia had come out a couple of times with Indra, so I had been waiting for Sam to do the same followed by Roan.
- "Why didn't you tell her?" -Clarke finally questioned me; I knew she had been pondering whether to ask me or not since she saw Echo too- "I understand why you didn't tell Octavia, but Sam? Especially if what you have going on is not serious."
- "Because I'm stupid, Clarke." -I huffed annoyed- "Because I was afraid of how she'd react. Because I was afraid of losing her. For good."
- "What are you going to do?" -Monty questioned next, sat next to Harper.
- "I need to tell her about everything from the beginning, but I'm afraid she won't listen."
- "If Murphy were here he'd make some snarky remark about how you're just turning this on Sam."
- "And?"
- "And he would be right." -Octavia showed up from behind me, taking me by surprise- "Bellamy, it's been six years, Sam's not that 18-year-old you met in the dropship, she's not that girl who would wait around for you to show up; heartbreak gets old, especially for someone so used to it by now."
- "What are you saying."
- "I'm saying your lack of guts has cost you the best thing that ever happened to you; it's cost you the woman Sam's become and that everyone down here would kill for, including me."
I was about to question what she meant with that verb tense choice, for that implied I had already lost her, when we heard voices coming from the main street in the village. I rose from my place, walking up to where the voice came from followed by the rest, soon seeing her: Sam.
- "Scáthach is back!" -someone yelled in the crowd- "She's okay!"
I knew Sam had always been respected by the Grounders but this was something else. The main street of the village was soon flooded by people at both sides who made way for Sam to walk by them; I couldn't see fear in their eyes, only respect and even relief in some. Some even got close to her, interchanging a few words and, when someone was too weak to move, Sam walked up to them and squeezed their hands, talking to them too but I couldn't hear what she was saying. Roan followed her close behind and two other men walked after them. I noticed Roan making a sign to someone at the end of the street, so I moved there, knowing that was where Sam was going to end up anyway, but I wasn't able to get close to her; she didn't seem to have seen me but Roan had, ordering the two men to get me away. I protested but Echo was soon to pull me back, guiding me to the upper floor of the last house in the street so we could see.
