in which gabriella k. hastings struggles to hang onto her humanity
&& bellamy blake is there to be her lifeline
BELLAMY BLAKE &&. JOHN MURPHY
book two of "rules of survival"
season three ── season four
cover by -voidlegends
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Clarke and Wells were doing it again.
And in all honesty? The whole third-wheeling thing Gabriella had to do once a week when she and her childhood best 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 actually hung out was starting to get on her last nerve.
Her eyes twitched when she saw the puppy-dog eyes Wells was sending to an oblivious Clarke, who was too busy to notice it because she was doodling in her third drawing book that month.
"Hey, Clarke." Gabriella spoke up, making Wells snap out of his love-doves daze and made Clarke's wide eyes look up from her drawing notebook. They were both met with the fourteen year old who was giving them a small innocent smile that only Wells realised was fake, "What are you drawing?"
Clarke's eyes widened further at her question and heat crawled up to her pale cheeks, "Um..." She stuttered and looked down at the notebook, hesitantly lifting it up and turning it in Gabriella's direction, "You."
The Kane girl felt her entire face soften at the sight of the sketch of her unfinished face on the thin white paper, "Oh..." she looked back up at the blushing Clarke and gave her a big grin, "that looks amazing, Clarke. You should really try and do something with it instead of continuing to go to medical classes you don't like."
"My mom would kill me." the youngest Griffin scoffed bitterly, her lips curling in distaste at the memory of her strict mother and expectant father as she absent-mindedly glared at the radiation filled planet Earth through the glass window.
"Your mom isn't your keeper." Gabriella reminded her softly but firmly, "You're allowed to make your own decisions. We're not our parents." She gave Wells a short but bitter look and then looked back at Clarke, "Well, you and I don't have to be. Charming is already halfway there."
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The entire hour it took them to officially arrive back on The Ark was a complete blur for Gabriella.
