( how disconcerting, having someone interject with qualities about yourself that you’ve never told them. bellamy doesn’t know what to make of her. she’s approaching him with the kind of familiarity of someone that knows him. it takes him a second, coupled with her insistence that they met recently. since you just made it down from space and he turns his face, profile to madi while he reels all of that in. they go back. raven finds a way back home, to clarke. clarke is alive. not just here, but on earth. he shuts his eyes hard. bellamy needs a second.

and then she says the one word that’s like an oath to him. )

She survived? On Earth, for six years? ( she wasn’t alone. that’s somehow the best part. he abandoned her to the death wave and she lived, and she wasn’t alone for all that time. what he whispers under his breath is completely undetectable from their distance. this is a gift for clarke and for bellamy, who found her answer to be lukewarm at best, before madi filled in the blanks.

but if they’re family, and clarke doesn’t know it yet, that’s less fantastic for the girl. )

Listen to me. Clarke and I, we're from— ( he doesn't even know her name. ) From before the six years after the Death Wave. After Praimfaya, but not by much.