𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏;
❛ 𝑺𝑻𝑨𝒀 𝑯𝑰𝑮𝑯 ❜ ↷ 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒅
❝ 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒆'𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒐𝒘𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 ❞

Ever since Clarke's public announcement made the entire camp of Arkadia start working on repeating the damage around the piece of The Ark they needed to survive Praimfaya, Gabriella worked every day until she was completely out of energy.

There was a day or two when she would ditch engineering and work all together to hang out with Jasper but other than that, her head was pretty much always focused on survival and work.

"Two meals a day for people working as hard as us," Bellamy said as they entered the workshop and sighed, "we won't make any friends."

"Well, if there's one thing our people understand; it's rationing. Besides, once we close those doors, it will be one meal a day for the next five years." Clarke shot back.

"Try one meal a day every other day. Hunting parties are coming back with less and less." Raven retorted and Gabriella nodded in agreement as she placed different things on the shelves. Honestly, she wouldn't be eating even that if it wasn't Bellamy being the one to drag her ass out to the cafeteria or bring her lunch while she was busy working.

"So much for not being on The Ark anymore." she quipped sarcastically and saw Wells give her a look out of the corner of her eyes so she stopped him before he could even open his mouth to say anything, "I know, I know. We're trying to get as many people as we can to survive. Trust me this isn't me complaining. It's just me stating the irony of us saying we don't want to be around parents." she looked between Wells and Clarke with a tight-lipped smile, "Yet, here we are; literally taking their places."

Raven cleared her throat, trying to cut through the tension by changing the subject, "Thanks to your friend Niylah, we're preserving more meat than ever but it's still not enough. Without a way to make water, growing our own protein like we did on The Ark is not an option." she raised an eyebrow and gave Wells a knowing look that probably had a double meaning that Gabriella couldn't care enough about to try to figure out, "Remember that when we're starving."

Bellamy shook his head, "Well, I won't be starving cause I won't be inside."

"Like hell you won't." Gabriella scoffed immediately, turning up to give him a glare of disbelief, "You told me you'll be dragging me inside if you have to and that goes both ways."

Raven perked up at her words, "Does that mean you and Clarke made the list?"

Gabriella shook her head and nervously fidgeted in her spot. She hated that she got the task of making the list with Clarke. She didn't want to be the person who decides who lives and who dies. She wasn't a fucking god and she never wanted to be one.

"No." Clarke shook her head too, clearly also feeling uneasy about the topic of the list, "What about drinking water?"

"Don't change the subject." Raven scowled in annoyance, "We need to know who's gonna be on the inside of these doors when the radiation comes."

Gabriella swallowed and raised her chin, "We have six months. We'll figure it out soon."

"𝘞𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵 𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦." the news rang through the room and all five of them immediately made their way outside.

-

When they arrived at the front gate, there were a couple of guards blocking it and aiming their guns at someone Gabriella couldn't see.

"Do not come any closer." she heard someone yell as she and Bellamy pushed people that were creating the small crowd away so they could get through.

Gabriella's eyes widened at the sight of Nyko, Luna and a couple of other grounders from her rig next to her. All of them looked sick and two of them were vomiting on the ground.

"Nyko." Clarke called while taking a slow and reluctant step closer to them.

Miller leaned between Gabriella and Bellamy and whispered, "What if it's a grounder attack? Like what they did with Murphy?"

At his words, Gabriella got instant flashbacks of Murphy coming back to the dropship after getting banished and then escaping the grounders. She remembered how she got sick and the fact that she felt like she was literally dying. She also faintly remembered almost fainting in the middle of camp and then Bellamy catching her.

Her eyes connected with Bellamy's and she knew he was thinking the same thing. They were both suspicious and it was probably pretty obvious to anyone that knew that even a little bit.

"What happened to them?" they heard Clarke ask as they followed her outside with Wells next to them.

"The sickness." Nyko stated, "We lost more than forty on the way."

"Fuck." Gabriella cursed and put a hand to her lips in disbelief, noting the little girl he was carrying and putting together the fact that there was a high chance that there were kids with them.

Luna's coughing made her shift her attention to her and she took another step closer, "Luna? You okay?"

The nightblood looked a mix of ashamed and pleading when she looked up to her, "Please don't turn us away because of what I did to you."

Gabriella let out a shaky breath and shared a skeptical look with Wells and Bellamy. Could they really afford to bring them in and possibly get a lot of their own people infected and possibly make them die?

But, hell, it was the fucking end of the world so who had time to be selfish right?

"Out of my way." Abby's voice was heard from behind as she brushed through the crowd, "Please let me through." her eyes widened at the sight once she reached them and she made a point of placing a paper towel over her lips and nose before she eventually took it off at the sight of the child that was slowly dying.

"Mom, what is this?" Clarke asked her mother hesitantly.

"Fever, lesions, vomiting." Abby listed, "It's ARS."

Bellamy furrowed his eyebrows, "What's ARS?"

"Acute radiation sickness."

Abby words made Gabriella's eyebrows wide in panic, "Fuck, it's already here isn't it? The radiation."

The former Chancellor looked at her and slowly nodded before looking back at the grounders, "When did the symptoms start?"

"Not sure. Right before the fish started dying?" Luna responded and Wells blinked in surprise.

"I'm sorry what?"

"They're floating on the sea to the horizon." Nyko told him, "In every direction."

They all shared more worried looks as Abby kept checking up on the young girl.

"It's not contagious." she informed them, "Let's get them to medbay."

Nyko and Luna slowly lifted the child up and and what was left of their people followed Abby and Raven inside, leaving the four of them outside alone, watching them and the crowd leave.

"It's already here."

-

Walking into the medbay to be greeted by the sight of sick grounders was something past Gabriella would be enjoying a few months ago.

But this Gabriella? She felt like she was going to throw up if she saw another person vomiting blood.

"They're getting worse." Clarke told her and Bellamy the second they entered the room, "There's got to be something we can do."

"Delactivene might help, but Raven's got the meds on lockdown." Jackson stated and Abby immediately shook her head dismissively.

"Leave Raven to me." those were the last words Gabriella heard the oldest Griffin say before she turned on her heel and walked in between the filled beds, only stopping when she reached Luna, throwing up.

She resisted the urge to gag and helped gather her hair from her face, patting her back with the other hand and giving her an awkward smile when she looked up at her in surprise.

"You think I deserve this for refusing the flame?" she asked her in genuine curiosity.

Gabriella shook her head and let out a humorless chuckle, "Trust me, I've been here and I can easily say that no one deserves to choke on their own blood over and over again. And this would have happened either way. It's radiation, not karma."

"This is all that's left of my people." Luna noted as Bellamy and Clarke walked up to them, "Can you save them?"

"We can try."

Clarke nodded at Gabriella's words, "You have our word."

The former leading trio backed away from the grounder to have a hushed conversation. Clarke looked between the two of them, "Tell me something good."

"Nope, nothing good." Gabriella grimaced, getting flashbacks of Raven and Wells glaring at each other when they entered the workshop after the former radioed them to come, "But Raven and Charming are looking for us. So hurry up."

-

"So Luna's rig is here and if the fish in these waters are dying . . . " Raven pursed her lips as she stared at the map on the screen, "well, basically, we're screwed."

"I don't understand." Bellamy shook his head with his hand on his hips, "ALIE said we had six months."

Gabriella let out a sigh and leaned in her chair next to Raven's "Well it looks like he definitely has less so I can say goodbye to spending my second birthday breathing oxygen that comes from actual trees."

"How long do we have?" Clarke asked the mechanic who let out a heavy sigh.

"It's hard to say. Radiation is dispersed by jet streams and carried by ocean currents so it's not an exact science, but the leading indicators are small species die-offs ─ fish, insects ─ based on the new data I'd say we have two months of survivability . . . maybe less."

Gabriella blinked in shock, "So you want to tell me I'm gonna die like a week or so before I turn nineteen?"

"Hey, don't kill the messenger." Raven shot back and Gabriella didn't bother to hide her blunt remark.

"Yeah, radiation will probably do it for me."

Surprisingly, Bellamy nodded, "The Ark won't be ready."

Wells shook his head, "It will be close. We can triple the man hours and make everyone work until they drop. We should be able to get more than half the work done before the black rain comes."

"Jaha Junior you know how much I adore your persistent positivity but there's like a fifteen percent chance we can pull this off." Gabriella stated.

Raven clearly chose to brush past the argument she had with Wells, "He's right, Ella. We just have to decide who gets to live here."

"You mean 𝘸𝘦 have to decide." Gabriella raised her eyebrows, "Clarke and I are the ones that have to decide which four hundred people we're gonna kill so we're gonna do it on our terms. We aren't gonna talk about the list again like this."

"Ella, we are running out of time." Raven stated, "We have to make a plan for the day we close the doors, drill for it, make sure only the survivors have guns, agree on protocol for dealing with the people who are pissed off they're not chosen." she narrowed her eyes at Clarke, "You asked me to be in charge of rationing, and I am doing it, but choosing who gets to live or die is your specialty."

Gabriella blinked, taken aback by her outbursts but didn't have to think of what to say when she heard the engine of the rover starting.

The engine of 𝘩𝘦𝘳 rover.

"No one's scheduled to take the rover." Raven stated but Gabriella was already making her way towards the exit and rushed outside.

She immediately scowled when she caught sight of Jaha sitting in the driver's seat and she rushed to open the door, glaring up at him, "Get out."

"I need to make a run." he told her but she simply raised an unimpressed eyebrow.

"And I probably need therapy but we can't all get what we want, can we?" Gabriella deadpanned.

Raven sighed from behind her and shot Jaha a glare, "All supply runs go through Ella and me. And shouldn't you be working on the patch to Sector Five?"

Her words made Jaha turn off the engine and finally get out of the rover. He looked between them and settled his gaze on his son, "A patch for a ship that can only save a hundred people?" When they all raised their eyebrows in surprise, he grinned, "Why are you surprised? I am an engineer. We have no way to generate water. The harder number is four hundred. Can you really sentence four hundred more of our own people to death?"

"We don't have a choice." Clarke snapped at him, her voice loud but shaky. Gabriella and Wells raised their eyebrows in unison at the outburst and once the slightly younger girl realized just how loud she actually was, she took a wary look around camp to check if anybody heard her and then looked back at Jaha who didn't seem fazed.

"What if you do? What if I told you there might be a fallout shelter less than a day's drive from here, a fallout shelter built to sustain thousands?"

Gabriella let out a scoff, not believing him one bit, "We looked for all the Chancellor's files. And I mean every single one of them. Multiple times even. So I think we would know if there was a bunker that wasn't compromised or unviable. Plus, Mount Weather has been blown up and trying to repair it would take even longer than a year if it's even possible."

"Those were government bunkers." Jaha told them and turned around to open the rover again, pulling out a laptop and handing it to Wells. Gabriella tilted her head and leaned her head over Wells' shoulder to take a better look, the others doing the same.

𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹𝘆𝗽𝘀𝗲 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵?

𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗮𝘄𝗻

Bellamy raised an unimpressed eyebrow, "A doomsday cult?"

"That's right ── " Jaha nodded as Wells slowly scrolled through the page, "the Second Dawn."

"They built a bunker?" Clarke asked and Jaha nodded once again, seeming confident about his idea. Almost as confident as he was when he told everyone about the City of Light.

But then again, where the hell did that bring them?

"Their whole theology was based on riding out the end of the world."

Raven tilted her head, seeming equally unconvinced as Gabriella, "And why didn't you consider it?"

Jaha shrugged, "We couldn't prove it existed."

"So why are you considering it now?" Bellamy narrowed his eyes.

"Because before now, we didn't need it." Jaha explained and Wells let out a scoff, finally looking up to meet his father's gaze.

"You found it, didn't you?"

"We can't be sure unless we check it out."

Gabriella pursed her lips and shared a look with Bellamy before moving her gaze to look between Raven and Wells. The latter shook his head the second their eyes connected, like he knew exactly what she was thinking.

"No way." Wells rushed out, looking like he couldn't believe she was even considering going with his father, "You can't seriously trust him?"

"I don't trust him." Gabriella rolled her eyes and crossed her arms over her chest, "But if we have the bunker then we don't need the entire Arkadia working on the patch."

Raven clenched her jaw and gave Jaha an annoyed side glare before looking between the former leaders of the hundred, "Can I talk to you guys for a second?"

Gabriella sighed as the four of them moved away from Jaha and the rover to have a more private conversation. Raven gave Bellamy a pointed look and bluntly said, "Can you please remind your girlfriend what happened the last time Jaha went looking for salvation?"

"Raven, if that bunker is real, we can save a lot more than a hundred people." Bellamy told her quietly, avoiding Gabriella's gaze at Raven's words and trying to fight the blush creeping up his neck, not knowing Gabriella was doing the same.

"If it's not, we've lost another day." Raven shot back.

"Hey, look." Clarke started with a serious look on her face, "If it's not, we'll make the list. Okay?"

Raven moved her gaze from Clarke to her best friend and she swallowed but nodded either way, moving her gaze to the ground. The mechanic let out a sigh of defeat and shook her head.

"Oh, do what you want. I've got a ship to seal."

Gabriella squeezed her eyes shut and rubbed her forehead in frustration. She quickly recovered and turned back to them just in time to see Wells' gaze leaving Raven's retreating figure.

"You guys have fun." he huffed under his breath, "I'd rather not spend an entire day going on a road trip with my dad."

"Don't think I'm too excited for it either." Gabriella shot back immediately and Bellamy scoffed.

"I'm the one that shot the guy and missed."

Gabriella snorted and smiled faintly before nodding towards the rover, "Come on. I'm driving."

-

"He gave this speech two weeks before the bombs." Jaha said from the backseat while handing Bellamy his tablet so he and Gabriella could take a better look at the video.

"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦. 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘶𝘴; 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴. 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯. 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘥, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴. 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘥. 𝘑𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘦. 𝘑𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘶𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦; 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘴, 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦. 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥."

"Wow." Gabriella spoke up blankly, her eyes still set on the road in front of her, "Almost enough to make me become religious."

Clarke rolled her eyes at her words and took the tablet from Bellamy's hand, looking at Jaha and saying, "Please tell me you have more than this."

"Clarke, being locked up in a metal box with the two of you in the back seat isn't exactly a picnic so could you at least stop talking about this bullshit?" Gabriella asked, rolling her eyes.

Jaha ignored her, like he usually did, "In the two years before the bombs, Cadogan sold off most of the Second Dawn's real estate holdings, generating tens of millions of dollars. But there was one thing he didn't sell." He turned his tablet in Clarke's direction, "I found this in his autobiography. It's his childhood home. His father built a bunker there to save his family. I think Cadogan used the church's money to expand it."

"He grew up there. Maybe he kept it for sentimental value." Bellamy chimed in but Jaha shook his head at his words.

"His father beat him almost daily in that house." he explained, "He hated living there."

Gabriella cringed and chose to stay quiet as Clarke spoke, "Why keep it if you're liquidating everything else?"

"Because that bunker is there. I can feel it."

Bellamy scoffed and shared an unimpressed look with Gabriella, "That gut sounds like a religious fanatic to me."

"Maybe." Jaha shrugged, "Or maybe he was just a leader willing to do whatever it took to save his people."

Gabriella furrowed her eyebrows in thought and shared another look with Bellamy, knowing damn well how that felt like.

-

It was already nighttime when they finally arrived at the place the Second Dawn bunker should be. Gabriella felt like her head was gonna fall off her head from the way she was sitting for a good six hours and the second she jumped out of the rover, she took a second to stretch out before she and Bellamy hurried after Clarke and Jaha.

Jaha was leading the way and they followed him with obvious hesitation while listening to him talk, "Cadogan learned how to survive from his father. They hunted in these woods.: He lifted his tablet with the picture of Cadogan's apparent childhood home and smiled in satisfaction, "This is it."

"Well, if anyone's entitled to a lucky break, we are." Bellamy exhaled and nudged his hand with Gabriella's, the action making her smile faintly.

"You hear that?" Jaha spoke up again, narrowing his eyes at the darkness, "No insects."

Well fuck.

The silence was enough to make him look back at the trio, "What?"

Clarke visibly swallowed, "Luna said the fish were dying."

"What are the things that eat the fish and bugs gonna eat now?" Bellamy asked blankly and Gabriella raised an eyebrow at his poor attempt at making a joke.

"What happened to us deserving a lucky break?" Clarke deadpanned, mirroring Gabriella's look and then starting to walk again, calling over her shoulder at Jaha, "So what are we looking for?"

"The bunker would have been at the lowest point."

"Anything structural." Bellamy added, his eyes following Gabriella as she rushed after Clarke with a flashlight in her hand and almost tripped over her own feet before she gripped Clarke's shoulder to keep herself up, "Be careful."

"I'll be fine!" she called over her shoulder and moved farther away from him.

Jaha carefully followed his gaze and a small but knowing smile appeared on his lips, "She's lucky to have you. Leadership is a lonely pursuit, but you, you keep her centered."

Bellamy scoffed and shook his head. He knew damn well Gabriella could hold her own with or without him. She was strong enough for both of them and that he was the one that would have lost his mind if it wasn't for her being his moral compass the entire time, "You got it backwards."

"Still blaming yourself for arming those Farm Station guards?" Jaha asked him and took a few slow steps forward, "You made mistakes, it's true, but your intentions were pure. Every choice you made you made to save your people. Even shooting me. Twice. As long as that's the truth, you don't need redemption."

"You better hope so." Bellamy muttered under his breath but Jaha still managed to hear him.

"What's that?"

Bellamy looked up to meet the gaze of the former Chancellor, "Well, if you're wrong and there is a hell, then I guess I'll see you there."

"How many people do you have to save before you forgive yourself?"

The eldest Blake didn't get a chance to respond because Gabriella's excited and loud voice turned his attention back to her.

"We found it!"

-

Gabriella ducked into the basement in the middle of the forest, shining her flashlight on the spider covered walls and almost bumping into Bellamy while doing so. She heard him huff as he brushed away the spider nets so he could get farther inside.

"Who knows how long this place was empty." Gabriella noted, her eyes lingering on the dust flying around. Her lips tugged into an amused smile when some net stuck in Bellamy's curls but she didn't get a chance to tease him about it because her eyes found the doors of the bunker the second they moved away from the tall brunette.

She and Bellamy scrunched down in front of the skeleton lying in front of the doors and the latter picked up the dusty medal next to the skeleton.

"𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦." he read and pursed his lips, his eyes moving from the thing in his hand to the skeleton, "Not this guy."

Jaha took the object from his hands and turned it around, "The eleventh seal. Their faith was based on the twelve seals. Followers could level up by unlocking them one at a time. Only those who reached level twelve could achieve salvation."

Clarke tilted her head curiously, "Maybe that's why they didn't let him in."

"Or maybe he was just late." Gabriella shrugged while she and Bellamy got up and examined the doors with Jaha and Clarke.

Jaha gasped, "I was right."

"What if they're still in here?" Clarke asked and Gabriella scrunched her face up.

"Well if they are, they're probably dead."

Bellamy sighed and then started knocking on the metal doors, "Hey! Is anyone there?"

Jaha started looking around the doors and then said, "It's still sealed."

"There's no locks, no handles."

Gabriella squinted at the doors, "It probably looks from the inside."

"Exactly."

Bellamy gave the Hastings a knowing look, "Or from the outside with somebody with a rover."

-

Gabriella drove the rover away from the bunker while it was tied to the bunker doors with a rope, excitement bubbling inside her as the rope pulled. She bit her lip and went back further, a grin appearing on her face when the doors flew open.

"Yes!" she yelled and opened the rover to jump out.

Clarke furrowed her eyebrows, "What happened?"

"Let's find out." Bellamy sighed and followed Gabriella back into the basement.

"It worked." Jaha's words only made Gabriella more satisfied and she immediately brushed past him to get into the bunker.

Her excitement was cut short however, when the red light in Bellamy's hand lit up the room to reveal hundreds and hundreds of skeletons spread all over the bunker.

"It wasn't sealed." Bellamy realized, "The radiation would have killed them in days. This won't save anyone."

Oh, they were so fucked.

-

Gabriella and Clarke were sitting next to each other, each of them taking turns on going over files and then writing a few names on the list, discussing them together after every ten or so they wrote down.

Wells and Bellamy were going to help them but Wells ended up going to check up on Raven and Bellamy fell asleep on the couch before 1 a.m even came around and now it was 4 a.m.

There were exactly four more spots there and Gabriella didn't hesitate to write down Wells' and Bellamy's name, sharing a skeptical look with Clarke once there were only two spots remaining. She looked back at the list, looking for the names of the people she cared about.

03 Raven Reyes

10 Monty Green

26 Octavia Blake

58 Nathan Miller

But no Jasper.

She swallowed and didn't think twice before starting to write.

99 Clarke Griffin

100 Jasper Jordan.

"Ella . . . " Clarke started as tears started gathering in her eyes, "Ella, you can't."

"Wells needs you." was all she stated, refusing to meet her eyes.

"But, Bellamy ── "

"He can't find out." she cut Clarke off before she could finish her sentence, "You'll hide the list and not tell him anything until Praimfaya comes, it that clear?" tears were filling in her eyes as she finally look at Clarke, "After everything we've been through you owe me that."

Clarke put a hand to her lips to muffle her sob and surprised Gabriella by pulling her into a hug. The Hastings girl wrapped one of her arms around her and hugged back shortly, refusing to let her tears fall.

She pulled away and gave Bellamy one last teary look and then got to her feet and looked down at Clarke, "Hide the list before he wakes up. I'll see you in the morning."

Clarke gave her a curt nod and watched her leave the room. She only realised a sob when she heard her footsteps fade away. Unknown to her, Bellamy was listening in to the entire conversation.

He got to his feet and approached the table, surprising Clarke by tearing the pencil from her grasp. He didn't spare the Griffin one glance as he crossed the ninety-fifth name and wrote down Gabriella's next to it.

95 D̶u̶s̶t̶i̶n̶ ̶A̶l̶l̶e̶n̶ Gabriella Hastings.

"If I'm on that list, she's on that list." he said, his words leaving zero room for argument.

There was no way he was surviving the end of the world without the girl he loved by his side and both him and Clarke knew it.

That was why she did not say a single word and folded the lips, putting it into the drawer and just silently praying that they were never going to have to use it.

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