Stepbrother - Bellarke fanfic

Chapter 8

~ C A L L ~

Octavia's POV

It had been exactly one year since Clarke went missing. Exactly 365 days since the young pretty girl had disappeared. The police didn't find anything, they even told us there was a possibility that she had passed. Finn was still free, because we had nothing to hold against him. No one had proof.

I knew this day was going to be hard, on Abby, on my brother, myself and everybody else. We all thought it was really difficult losing that poor girl. I might have only known Clarke for 2 days or so, but I knew a lot about her. I knew how she used to be like as a kid, I knew all her 'rebel teenagers' stories. I knew how brave and stubborn she was. Abby always used to tell us stories about her daughter. Sometimes to amuse us but sometimes she was asking for help. Perhaps how we saw the situation as teenagers. Anyways, like I said, I knew Clarke a lot more than she thought I did. That day was one hard day, for everyone of course but, Abby and Bellamy took it the hardest. Abby lost her daughter and as for Bellamy, well he always took the blame for what happened to her. In a way, it had broken him, losing her. He kept telling himself that it was his fault, if he would have come with her on her run. If maybe he would have paid attention to the time she was gone she would have realized she didn't come back earlier. He thought that she could be here, laughing as we ate breakfast in the kitchen. He had begun drugs to take all this story out of his mind, alcohol and pretty much slept with every girl he saw. I guess it was his way of forgetting, his attempt at not feeling awful like he always did.

That morning, breakfast was silent. Nobody dared to talk, all of us knowing which day it was. Not that it had been very optimistic around the house since the drama but that day was something else. Even if I knew there were chances he killed her, I couldn't help but hope she would still be alive, somewhere waiting to be saved. Maybe she really was trying to get back at her family, but we just couldn't see the signs. Anyways, I still had hope. I never stopped believing that Clarke was strong, brave and most of all a warrior and a survivor. I knew that if she had too, she would fight till her last breath for her freedom. I just hoped I was right and I wasn't giving myself false expectations. That's when we got the call. That call changed everything.

Clarke's POV

That day was nothing like any other day. You know why? Because it was my kidnapping anniversary. Now you may ask how I knew that, well, I actually kept notes. Ever since I arrived I would write in a notebook Finn had bought after I asked him. He said I had to pay for it, so I gave him what he wanted which then led to Piper. So, I always kept the date, and that's how I knew that piper was exactly 3 months old and 8 days and that I had been captured exactly 365 days from now. I couldn't help but think about how everything's changed. My family probably thinks I'm dead, Finn's still free, obviously... And finally, I was so skinny, unhealthy, unhappy, and I was a 17 year old mother. Most of all, I was weak, I couldn't even try to escape because I was so scared! I was ashamed of myself but I couldn't risk dying and leaving Piper. I couldn't do that to her, because who would take care of her if I wasn't a part of this world anymore??? I knew we had to get out of here, I just didn't know how...

I was doing my laundry in the small bath, cleaning the nasty vomit Piper had stained her pajamas with when I heard a loud thump. I knew it meant Finn was coming. And somehow, I wasn't very comfortable with his nasty ass around my daughter without me around. I had left Luna to take care of her while I was cleaning up our room and cleaning up the mess she did earlier. Of course, Luna accepted, with the kind heart that she has. But as I heard footsteps coming down the long staircase behind the locked iron door, I ran up to Luna's room. I found Luna playing with my beautiful baby girl in her arms. They were so cute together. But what I heard next scared us all. We heard loud noises which never happened before. I looked at Luna worryingly. Maybe it was over, maybe Finn's friends decided to barge in and kill us all. Maybe, it was the last time I was going to see Luna playing with my daughter. Luna seemed to understand my worries because she led Piper to a cabinet under the sink.

"Here, hide her there she's asleep, for now." She said in a whisper. I pressed my forehead against Luna's. It was my way of telling her how much that meant to me. I took my sleeping daughter in my arms one last time, before kissing her soft skin. I laid her on the back of the cabinet and placed a bunch of stuff like toilet paper rolls in front of her small sleeping body. I closed the cabinet's door just as I heard the iron door get knocked down. I shrieked and Luna did the same as we heard the biggest sound we had heard in a long time. We had to be quiet in the bunker, we were not allowed to make that much noise so why would Finn want to draw the attention on him this much. If we dared to make that much noise when the door was open, Finn would beat us to teach us a lesson.

With the door knocked down, we could easily take him out, if he wasn't armed and accompanied. Well, we could get outside because we still didn't know where we were or how to get back, but anywhere far from Finn was better. That's when we heard the screams. For the first time in a year, I felt truly happy and relieved.

"FBI, hands up!" A man shouted. Luna and I made our way to the main room where every girl was looking frightened at the very usual feeling of being pointed at by a gun.

"It's okay, we are here to help." A woman said as she looked at us all. She stepped forward and motioned for the rest of her team to search the bunker.

"I'm going to need your names." She said. Before I could even think about what I was doing, I was in Luna's room grabbing my baby. The woman looked at Piper with wide eyes, but she quickly redirected her gaze back at me.

"Name please." She said.

"Clarke Griffin." I said. She nodded while she wrote down something in her notebook. She asked us some questions until the rest of her team had searched the whole bunker. She led us up the stairs and I could finally feel the sun shine bright across my face. I had missed so much, I almost remember the sweet smell of the air. Indra was the most emotional, even thought we were all crying including Piper. My bare feet were brushing against the grass. I had no idea where I was, but I felt safer than I had for a year.

The cops brought us all down to the nearest station, I learned I was not so far from my hometown. They called our relatives. I couldn't wait to see my mom. I couldn't wait for her to meet my baby girl. After multiple interviews with different police officers, I was finally allowed to take a break. I was sitting on a chair next to Luna, Emori, Lexa and Harper, the others had already left with their relatives. We promised to keep talking, and everything felt so surreal in that moment. I was almost asleep with Piper when I heard the door open aggressively. I forced myself to open my eyes and that when they landed on my mother. She looked so confused, sad, relieved and happy at the same time. Her face looked so different than the last time I had seen her. She had much more wrinkles across her pale face and huge eye bags. She jumped in my arms and so did the rest of the family (by family I mean my grandma, my step bro, my step sis, my step dad and Raven). God I missed them so much and I couldn't wait for them to meet the person who saved my life countless times, the little person who made my days brightest even without the sun, the person who kept me going when everything was falling apart.

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A/N
So next chapter we'll see more of that family reunion. They'll also meet Piper, how will her mother react to meeting the daughter of her daughter's kidnapper?? I guess you'll know if you keep on with the story.

How do you like the story so far? Please vote if you like it and don't forget to give me ideas in the comments for what I should do next.

So I know there is a lot going on with the whole Bob Morley and Aryn Zech thing but I will not let that stop me from writing this book I put so many efforts and time in. I worked so hard to get here and I would be disappointed to stop writing about it now. Just please don't forget that this book is Clarke and Bellamy and not Bob and Eliza.

Very appreciated my loves, 💕💕💕