Clarke's P.O.V.

Clarke felt a sudden wetness on her cheek, then on her nose, then on her eyelid.

She groggily opened her eyes, and blinked a couple of times in the harsh light before fully awaking. When she finally did, she realized that she had slept completely exposed. The Grounders could've easily attacked them in this vulnerable state. As she thought back at last night, she couldn't believe that she had actually fallen asleep, they were supposed to go search refuge for the night.

A sudden burst of anger flowed through her.

Why the hell hadn't Bellamy woken her up? He knew damn well that they had to be careful. Speaking of the devil, where was he?

She rubbed her eyes and sat up to have a better view. It was raining. There was nobody in sight. A terrible thought popped into her head. No, he couldn't have. Could it really be that he had abandoned her, alone, in the middle of nowhere? No, she dismissed that thought as quickly as it came. He wouldn't do that to her. Perhaps he would've done that at the very beginning, but not anymore, not now that they had developed a mutual respect for each other. The anger quickly gave way to concern. Had something happened to him while she was sleeping? Is that why he didn't wake her? She should've stayed awake until they found a safe place to rest.

She quickly got up.

''Bellamy!'' She shouted.

Silence ensued.

This couldn't be happening, he more than likely was just fine. There probably was a perfectly logical explanation for why he didn't wake her up, and was now nowhere to be seen.

She began pacing.

''Bellamy''

Once again her cry went unanswered.

Alright, let's not panic, she thought. If the Grounders took him, only him and not her, that surely meant that they knew of his importance to the camp, and were going to use him as leverage in a trade for the Grounder, who was currently being held at the camp. That would mean that he was still alive, she would just have to-

''Good morning, princess, you sure took your time getting up.''

She practically jumped at the sound of his voice, then rapidly turned around to look at him.

The first thing she noticed was that he was carrying a bunch of apples. Apples, really? So he hadn't been in danger after all.

Her anger quickly surged up, and she shoved him, which caused the apples to fall to the ground.

He gave her an incredulous look. ''What the hell was that for?''

He bowed down, and started picking up the scattered apples.

She shoved him again, making him stumble.

''Where the hell have you been? I was beginning to think that the Grounders took you! Never do that again!''

She had closed her eyes to calm down. As she opened them again, she found him staring at her with a stunned expression on his face.

''I just went looking for something other than berries, I didn't go far and you were still asleep.''

She suddenly remembered how he hadn't woken her up the night before, and left her completely exposed.

She attempted to shove him once more, but he had seen it coming and grabbed both her arms.

He looked pissed now. ''Look, I get it. I shouldn't have left you alone, but I figured that I wouldn't stay gone for very long. Just calm down, nothing happened to you.''

She stared at him for a moment.

''That's not even what I'm really angry about, you made me worry myself sick about you, when you were just picking apples.''

At hearing this, the annoyance vanished from his expression. He smirked and cocked an eyebrow. ''You were worried sick about me?''

She sighed. He could really twist the most innocent things and make them sound suggestive. Instead of responding, she decided to change the subject.

''Why didn't you wake me last night? It wasn't safe to sleep out there, in the open.''

He gave her a pointed look, letting her know that he knew exactly what she was doing, then cleared his throat, and suddenly looked uncomfortable.

''You were fast asleep, and I didn't want to wake you because you looked exhausted. I slept beside you, and I'm a pretty light sleeper so I figured that if anyone were to come that I would've heard them.''

The last traces of anger evaporated at hearing this.

He didn't want to wake her.

She experienced a feeling of guilt at having thought that he would abandon her.

In a silent attempt at an apology, she kneeled down, aiding him at picking up the remaining apples.

After they picked all of them up, he quickly straightened and looked at her with an amused expression on his face.

''Now, if you're done ranting, we should really get going. It's late already, and we still have a long way to go.''

He threw her an apple.

''Take it, we'll eat while walking.''

Just as he was about to turn around, she grabbed his hand.

His gaze dropped to her hand in his.

''I just wanted to thank you. For a moment there, I actually thought that you had left me. So, thanks..'' She squeezed his hand and smiled warmly at him.

He stared at her for a long time, before turning around and resuming their journey.

Bellamy's P.O.V.

''We should head over there.'' Clarke pointed at a spot on the map.

Bellamy came up behind her, to get a better look at what she was pointing at, which turned out to be a place to their far right.

It looked complicated to him, why did she always have to pick the more difficult way?

''Wouldn't we get there faster if we just kept going straight, and then take a right instead of heading there now?''

She threw him an annoyed glance.

''My way is much safer, the trees are thickly grown over there, offering a constant cover.''

She had a point. He frowned, was she ever wrong?

He looked at her and noticed that she was staring back at him. Since that morning, something had changed between them. She had been worried about him, nobody ever worried about him, except for Octavia. He had tried to downplay it as not being a big deal, but it had meant a lot to him knowing she cared that much.

He nodded to himself.

''We'll do it your way and head to the right.''

She looked surprised at his giving in to the argument so easily.

They headed off and walked in silence for a while, Clarke looked deep in thought.

Something flew right beside Clarke's head, causing her to scream and stumble backwards, into him.

They fell down to the ground, she on top of him.

He looked at her. ''Are you alright?''

''I'm fine, I was just startled by that thing.'' She looked behind her. ''What was that?''

He shrugged, and by doing so noticed that she was still lying on top of him.

She seemed to have also realized this because she quickly scrambled off of him.

''Uhh, Bellamy.''

He looked up at her, she seemed panicked.

He immediately got up. ''What's wrong?''

''I think I know what that thing was.''

He followed her gaze and found that they were surrounded by Grounders.