Reckless ~ Sequel to Shameless {Bellamy Blake}

35~ It's All Over

Bellamy stands, just as shocked as I am, before running forward towards a moss covered door and throwing it open. 

"Bellamy!" Octavia cries, jumping into his arms as she and Clarke enter through the door. Shock still overtakes me as Clarke embraces me. 

"Where are the Grounders?" I ask, my voice stiff. 

"Lexa made a deal with Mount Weather. They let their people go if they would surrender." Clarke answers, slowly pulling away from me. 

"Say you have a plan." I mumble, looking over at Clarke.

"Not really." Octavia answers.

"We need to talk to Dante." Bellamy says, shining some kind of hope upon the situation.

"Maya says he's in quarantine." Jasper answers.

"How is she?" I ask Jasper.

"I'm right here." Maya answers. "And I'm fine." She says, her eyes shooting downwards. A beeping noise comes from the yellow oxygen suit Maya's wearing. "30 minutes."

"We just changed it. That shouldn't be right.." Jasper trails off, checking her suit. He looks up, fear floating in his eyes. "It's her last tank."

"Then we have to get her to level five." I say.

"Five isn't safe for any of us." Bellamy interjects.

"We'll take the trash chute again." Jasper argue. I see the doubt in Bellamy's eyes. "It will work."

"We'll never make it out." I mumble, glancing over at Bellamy.

"Then we'll split up." Octavia says. "We can do this."

"Ok." I say. "You guys go for Dante." I say nodding towards Clarke, Bellamy and Monty.

"Hell no." Bellamy argues walking towards me. 

"Bellamy." I say grabbing his hand in mine. "We've split up plenty of times and we always find our way back to each other." I look up into his eyes, which are glossed over. "We'll be fine."

"No. I'm not letting you walk onto a level with a target on your head alone." 

"Bellamy, you have to." I say. I stand on my tie toes and kiss him on the cheek. "I'll be fine."

Just as I'm back away from the kiss I gave him, he grabs my face and slams his lips to mine. It wasn't quick. He made it last. Slow. Meaningful. It made me sad, because I knew it was his way of saying goodbye. 

Our lips parted and I stared at his face for a while before whispering, "I love you."

"I love you too, Tatum."

***

I push the end of the trash chute out and climb out, pulling my gun up to make sure everything's clear before Octavia, Jasper and Maya climb out.

They climb out and we rip the oxygen suit off of Maya. She gasps for air as she had run out over thirty seconds ago. 

"She's alive," I say. "But she's not safe." I look over at Jasper.

"Cage knows I helped you guys." Maya says.

"So what do we do?" Octavia asks.

"We kill Cage." Jasper answers.

"Heard you guys needed some help." A smiling Lee walks in. 

"Lee!" Maya smiles, embracing him in a hug. 

"Cage is in the bunk room." Lee says. "They brought another group in from the Ark, more bone marrow."

"How many soldiers with Cage?" I ask.

"Uh, six." Lee says. "Why?"

"Just get me close." Jasper answers. Jasper turns. "I need a.."

Octavia steps forward and hands him a knife. "Aim for the throat." Jasper grabs the end of the knife and takes it from her. "Slash. Don't stab. Make it deep."

"You got this, Jasper." I nod.

Jasper walks over and says a final goodbye to Maya. Something that included a lot of kisses and "I love you"'s which only reminds me of Bellamy. Jasper then turns and walks out with Lee in pursuit of Cage.

"What do we do now?" Maya asks. 

"We wait for all clear." I say walking over to the doors and watching hesitantly as a few guards walk by. 

"And.." Octavia starts. "we're..." She pauses. "...clear." 

We burst through the doors hanging a right. We run down the hallway, Maya pulling the rear. Two kids run around the corner, lips locked. The guy pushes the girl against the wall, kissing her neck as we try to sneak around them. The girl opens her eyes for a split second and begins screaming. The guy turns around and yells for the guards. Two guards come running for us from the opposite end of the hallway. Octavia runs after the first one, sliding into his legs, pulling his chest up and slitting his throat. I cock my gun and bury three bullets in the second ones chest. 

Five more guards round the corner. 

"Shit." I mumble, cocking my gun but no bullet coming out. "I'm out." I yell. "Run!" 

We all three take off running the opposite way. The five guards barreling after us, shooting aimlessly. They chase us all the way into the mess hall. We run in, disrupting the, what seems to be, pretty calm atmosphere of the Mount Weather civilians. We run through the pieces of furniture, sometimes shoving people and kids out of the way. But then six or seven more guards come out of the other end of the mess hall, surrounding us. 

"Not so cocky now, huh?" One of them smiles and I realize it to be the one that Bellamy knocked out when we were trying to get into the acid fog room. "You're going first." He says, grabbing me by the vest and slamming me against the wall.

His face is inches away from me as I feel the cool metal against my head as he places his gun at my temple. I feel his hot breath on my face as he says, "Any last words?" He cocks his gun, making me slightly flinch. 

I feel the tears coming, but I hold them back. I bite my bottom lip, a tear dropping down my face. "Screw. You." I mumble. I squeeze my eyes shut, preparing myself for the gun shot and the immense pain that followed it, but it never does. I open my eyes and see the guard in front of me succumbing. His skin burning and large blisters forming all over his body. He drops the gun and it lands onto the floor with a clang. His knees give way as he slowly burns. I look around and see all the other Mount Weather residents following. 

Large, heavy footsteps echo through the mess hall as Bellamy turns into it. He stops in his tracks as he sees me, tears streaming down my face, before running towards me faster than ever. He pulls me into his chest and I let out a loud sob, clinging to him. I grip his shirt and bury my face into his chest as everything hits me all at once. I was just facing death. We overcame Mount Weather. We killed all of their residents. We killed Maya. The Grounders are now our enemies. Our people are okay.

"Oh my god, I love you." Bellamy whispers stroking my hair. 

I pull back and laugh slightly, cupping his face with my hands. "I love you too." I whisper slamming my lips on his just as he has done to me so many times before. 

"I choose you." I say.

"What?" Bellamy's eyebrows furrow.

"Every time you left. Every time you wanted to protect me by leaving. You crushed me. So I found a way to come with you. I choose you, Bellamy. And I'll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I'll keep choosing you."

And that's when I received the most meaningful kiss I've ever in my life had. His lips met mine like two lost puzzle pieces finally coming together. The world felt like it stopped. For the briefest moment, it was just us. The only thing between us is the anticipation of his lips on mine. A moment, so intense, it hangs in the air. As it pulls us closer...a moment, so perfect, that when it comes to an end, we realize...it's only just the beginning.