Stepbrother - Bellarke fanfic

Chapter 7

~ S U R P R I S E ~

Clarke's POV

"I'm Lexa," she said holding out her hand. I took it and proceeded to shake it lightly.

"Clarke" I said, not able to look into her eyes. She sat next to me on the small uncomfortable bed and sighed.

"I know it's hard. It's pretty hard in the beginning but I guess you could say that I'm used to it now." She said looking at her dirty bare feet.

"What do you mean? How much time have you been here?" I asked worryingly. I was still crying but I felt safer without Finn around.

"We don't really get a hold of time here. But I know I've been here for more than 2 years already. I met Finn a long time ago. He was so sweet and romantic. But months later, he started to get abusive, and I was scared. I tried to run away from him, but he found me and locked me in the bunker. Some girls have been here for longer than I have..." Lexa said.

"2 years?!? I can't stay here for that much time! I have a life, parents, friends, even step-siblings!!" I said panicked. She turned her gaze at me. She smiled slightly. She knew what I meant.

"Trust me, there's nothing I want more than to leave this bunker but Finn would kill us if we tried anything. I've seen it happen before." I was in shock at what she just said. Not only was he the worst people to walk on this earth he was also a murderer.

"Well I can't just sit here and do nothing for the rest of my life!" I snapped back. I was angry, not at the sweet girl but at myself and at Finn.

"For now, you have to. But, let me show you around this place and you can meet some of the girls." She said, holding out her hand. I took it and she guided me around the bunker. Explained the very strict rules. When we got to the piece they called the kitchen there were about ten women staring at me. The room went silent as we both entered the small room. There were 4 round wooden tables and a counter as well. The kitchen was probably the biggest room in the entire bunker.

"Guys this is Clarke. Clarke this is Harper, Gina, Emori, Monroe, Ontari, Indra, Luna, Hope and Anya." She said while pointing out different girls with each name. They all nodded and waved at me. I wondered how much time they had passed here. They didn't look that older, not much more than 5 years older, in my guess.

After talking a while and getting 'sorry that happened to you' by every single girl, I went back to my dorm with Lexa. I just wanted to wake up from this nightmare already. But I needed answers.

"I know. I can't give you many answers but what I do know is that Indra has been here the longest, around 4 years already. Finn brings us an amount of food for the whole week, that means we can't eat everything in a day. Oh and be careful with your showers, 3 max for the whole week, he's strict on the water bill." Lexa said. I didn't even ask her any questions. I guess she just knew exactly what was going through my mind.

"What is he not strict about?" I asked more to myself but I was surprised to see Lexa heard it too. She chuckled in response, nodding at my comment. After a little while of comfortable silence, I couldn't stop myself from asking the question that was burning on my lips ever since I arrived there.

"Do you think we're going to die down here?" I asked her, holding back my tears. She turned to look at me dead in the eyes.

"I wish I could tell you otherwise, but honestly at this point I don't even know anything..." She said before leaving my room and closing the door behind her. I walked over to my closet and saw that I had 2 pairs of underwear, a bra, a pair of sweatpants, a pair of leggings, a jacket, 3 t-shirts and 2 pairs of socks. I also had a pair of old running shoes slightly used and a brand new toothbrush. I couldn't help but wonder if those shoes already belonged to some other girl. Who died here, wearing those. I shook my head to get the horrible thoughts out of my mind. Now was not the time to worry about that. Like my old friend once said to me, Stedaunon don gon we, kikon ste enti... It means, the dead are gone, the living are hungry. I can't change the past and thinking about it only makes it worse. A warrior doesn't mourn the dead until the war is over, and the war is sure as hell not over, not yet.

A few days had past, I was getting along pretty well with Harper, Luna and Lexa while the other girls were still shy around me. Which I understood, I was too, to be honest. Finn didn't come everyday, when he would come, he wouldn't stay long to my great pleasure. I couldn't help but think about my mother. Even if we didn't have the perfect relationship these times I knew she was worried sick, and I couldn't do anything to tell her I wasn't dead. That I needed her not to give up and to find me, but I couldn't. There was no way we could escape, even all of us united can't disarm Finn of his guns. And we can definitely not get us to the surface considering he's the one who has all the keys and the way back home. None of us had any idea where we might be. We were lost.

1 years later:

Clarke's POV

I woke up to cries, it wasn't anything I wasn't used to obviously. Piper didn't make her nights, she was still a 3 month old child. I might hate Finn like I never hated anyone in this world, but he gave me the most precious thing I had. Piper, was the only thing that kept me going. Now I understood what Lexa meant by being used to this, we had our own little routine with the girls. Since I birthed Piper, everyone has been really nice to me, always offering help. Finn still grabbed us food once a week and came for visits, to visit his daughter and the girls he kidnapped. Piper might have only been three months old but she looked a lot like me. She had big beautiful blue eyes and curly blond hair (very short hair, of course). To my big surprise, Finn actually bought some clothes and toys for Piper. It didn't excuse anything but at least it helped me get through the "being pregnant by my kidnapper" whole thing. It made it a little bit easier for me. Luna has offered to babysit several times but I didn't want to put that burden on her. Piper was not a burden far from that don't get me wrong but she wasn't exactly an easy baby let's say. So yeah at this point I had lost hope. I thought I was never going to see the grass again, or feel the cold breeze against my clean skin. I thought I'd never see my mother again. I just hoped Piper could see the world one day. The life we had in the bunker was not something I wanted for her, poor child. All I could hope for was that she wouldn't remember about this when she grew up and left this hellhole. Piper was my motivation to keep going. If it wasn't for her, I probably would have died trying to escape or kill myself at some point. So even if she kept waking me up at early hours, all I could do was smile while hugging her close to my chest. Slowly watching her falling back asleep, her face at peace. I had lost a lot of weight since I got in the bunker. We ate one meal a day, and sometimes I would keep some of mine for Piper later. I had baby food for her and milk of course. I was unhealthy, my bones were seeing as I practically starved myself everyday. There were big dark bags under my eyes from the lack of sleeping. I didn't feel good. Nothing felt good. We had to get out of here. But how????

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A/N

Sooooooo this chapter I know there is a time jump but there will be some flash back in the future to really get to know the 'bunker life'. I got this whole chapter inspiration by a movie on Netflix called 'Room' pretty good movie.

Yup so thanks for reading and if you liked it please vote. Help me out in the comment and tell me what you'd like to see in the next chapters. I need ideas.

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