33.

A year later

Sunlight streamed from the window, hitting her eyes and awaking her from her slumber. She moaned wearily as she turned around in the bed sheets until she felt the warm body lying next to her who wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her closer to him.

"Mmmm…. good morning Princess." Bellamy murmured sleepy into her ear before he reach down and kissed her gently on the cheek. She smiled softly back. "Good morning."

God, I love waking up every morning with him by my side. Clarke thought to herself as she rolled over and leaned in to kiss him senselessly. Who would have known that a year ago we both we just dealing with truth about Pike and Mt. Weather? Only having a tiny hope that our future was meant to be with each other?

He moaned in response of her kiss and seemed pretty determined to continue their make-out session that quickly started to escalate to something more intimate when the sound of a cell phone vibrating on the nightstand next to the bed. She pulled away to retrieve the phone, meanwhile Bellamy leaned back in the bed groaning frustrated over the interruption. "Seriously, can't we have a freaking morning off? I mean the world outside can survive without our presence at times."

She chuckled softly. "Apparently not. And by the way it was your sister, reminding us to get our ass to work because we have already been playing hooky three times this month and I have a shipment arriving at the gallery that I need to deal with today. And besides, I'm sure there is something you have to do at the station as well?"

"Urhg…yeah, I do. Damn it, I'm going to kill Octavia. The only reason she's bugging us with this is because she wants to play hooky with her own boyfriend." No, you won't her because you love her too much and besides, she probably kick your ass if your tried anything. Seriously, haven't you seen her do hand-to-hand combat? She is totally badass.

Bellamy groaned one last time before he reluctantly agreed to get out of bed, which she couldn't help thinking that he reminded her of a six year old not getting their will, but nevertheless she leaned down and gave him one last kiss before she headed towards the bathroom to clean with Bellamy not far behind her.

After Pike and almost the entire police department was removed from office there was only a few officers left that had remained clean and free of any involvement in aiding and hiding Mt. Weather's true intentions, so Bellamy had been given the responsibility by Olympia PD to manage the department until a more suitable replacement was available. Unfortunately there has yet to be found someone suitable for the job, so that left him with dealing with all of the town's crime actions, which was bliss itself since the town was small and the crime life was pretty low key.

Nevertheless he still worked for the law enforcement, even though he did receive help from the infamous PI of a girlfriend on certain occasions, which proved to be quite helpful in repairing their relationship issues. Although it was easy for either one of us in the beginning, hell it took several months for us to reach the point where we trusted each other enough to go off on our own, especially since Clarke was used to working alone until she agreed to bring either Lincoln or a reluctant Octavia with her to assist and me to trust her to accept help and come and talk to me regarding what we were both working on, but

So when he arrived at the station he quickly started on the wretched paperwork that seemed to be never ending, especially ever since he was assigned the job to lead the department, but it would seem that Miller wasn't having much fun either about the extra paperwork in his job description. But what else could they do?

"How is your morning?" Bellamy asked as soon as his partner walked in the door, without moving his gaze away from yet another job application that he wasn't in mood of dealing with even though he had to or else he would only get more workload on his plate, which he really didn't want or need at the moment.

Miller, looking extremely awkward and somewhat guilty, rubbed his neck and refused to look at him directly as he spoke. "Good…Very good."

The date must have been a success. Bellamy grinned as he looked up and waited for his partner to elaborate, but was disappointed when he didn't. So he decided to take a different approach and said nonchalantly, "How's Monty? He finally said yes in moving into your place?"

"How…how did you know?" Miller asked, completely stunned how he managed to guess what happened last night. Come on, Miller. It was written in the cards. You two have been together for a long time now, so it shouldn't come as a shock that you are moving towards the next step in your relationship.

Monty and Miller started dating just a couple of days after Clarke was being released from the hospital and they continued doing strong, even though it was a hard balancing trick to figure out their relationship as well as Monty's close friendship with Jasper into the mix at first. Still they managed to figure things out, hell even Jasper managed to deal with his grief and was doing better each day now. Jasper had a hard time forgiving and accepting Clarke at all, at first avoiding her as much as possible, but somehow they managed to work things out. Although they no longer were as close as they had been in the past, they were still friends who still had a long way to go before they both could really move on from what happened with Maya, but nonetheless he was happier and was now working alongside with Monty and Raven here at the lab and the IT department.

"I'm a detective. Now spill, am I right or not?" Bellamy grinned smugly, waiting impatiently for the answer. Miller quickly gave in and admitted the truth that his boyfriend did indeed agree to move in together, even though the exact time was still yet undetermined. He was honestly happy for his partner and he was quick to congratulate him on that regard, which Miller thanked for and took the courage to ask the one question that has been swirling around his mind these last few months now.

"Since we are on the subject on good news, tell me, when are you going to take the plunge and ask Clarke to marry you?"

Bellamy didn't say anything, quickly pretended to go back to work, but in his mind he already had an answer to the question and was only waiting for the perfect opportunity to present itself.

Strange how everything has changed in a year, especially considering how broken most of her relationships in this town had been. However, Clarke managed to win back everyone's trust somewhat, even though Octavia was still reluctant to allow her completely in and probably wouldn't do it any time soon despite the fact that the truth was revealed. Not that she blamed her, Octavia had been extremely hurt by her poor choices and lack of trust and them talking again wasn't going to erase years of hurt and pain. No matter how much they both wished and wanted to. Still we are doing better than we used to. She no longer avoid or ignore me, which was pretty much what Jasper did in the beginning, in fact she's working with me and Lincoln, both at the gallery and at my recently resurfaced PI agency. And she's in a strong and happy relationship with Lincoln, who I suspect is going to ask her to marry him soon.

Clarke grinned as she signed off on the shipments she received and began sorting things out between things that was going to the studio and the things that was going inside the gallery. Then once she was finished doing that she went upstairs to the studio to work on some private projects that she had been requested to do for some time now, but never had the opportunity before to work on it. So as she was carefully using her paint brush and coloring the canvas in accord to her own imagination, her cellphone rang and she quickly put the brush away and cleaned her fingers before she answered it.

It was her mother, who she was finally ready to make amends with or at the very least be trying to establish a better relationship than continue with being angry at each other and not speak for three-six years. Of course, her mother still didn't approve of Bellamy, heck she didn't like him at all despite everything he has done and is currently doing for the sake of this town, but she was willing to accept and tolerate him as an important person in her life just as she was willing to accept Marcus Kane as her soon-to-be step-father. Strange, I know. But then again everyone deserves to be happy, including her mother and Kane.

"Hey, mom. What's up?" Clarke answered casually as she slowly maneuvered the phone between her ear and her shoulder in order to continue working on the painting while talking with her mother.

"I was just wondering if you wanted to have lunch today. I mean, I know you are busy with the gallery and helping Bellamy at the station, but I thought that it was a perfect opportunity for us to spend some alone time together. Without Bellamy or Marcus chaperoning us."

Yeah, those two had formed an alliance to act as a go-between in case her or me ever started to venture our recently reformed relationship down a dark path. Which sounds ridiculous that two grown women need their men to protect them from talking. Still I have to admit that it's nice to have someone who cares enough to make sure that I wouldn't lose my relationship with my mother, even though she didn't give him any reason to do it.

She thought about it carefully, whether she should accept her mother's request or not when she heard the door down-stairs opened and she went down to check who it was and to find Bellamy staring at her with his strong yet kind of boyish grin on his face. I wonder what's going on with him. "You know what, mom, I have to decline the offer today. I just had someone walk in the door, requesting me, so rain check on that lunch okay? Talk to you later."

Then she hung up the phone and turned her attention on her man and kissed him gently for a second before she asked both confused and curious over his presence. "What are you doing here?"

"I was hoping to take you away for a couple of hours, just to get some air and having a nice walk in the park. You know, a short impromptu date," Bellamy answered, still with the same grin on his face that literally made her question whether he was being completely honest or trying to yank her tail.

She stared at him suspiciously for a second until she decided to trust him and go along with whatever he had planned for them.

Never has he been this nervous as he was right now. No, that's not completely true. There was one other time he had been this nervous, more exactly had been terrified to ask what he was once again about to do now, but he was more self-assure this time regarding both her answer as well as how this might affect their relationship. We have come this far, conquered every obstacle on our path, even though it hadn't been easy. So man up! And ask the woman that you love to marry you again, and this time actually become man and wife as we both wanted for a long time now.

They walked in comfortable silence, with their arms wrapped around each other as they walked towards the small pond in the park where a single duck was swimming and playing by himself. Then Bellamy escorted them to sit on a single park bench in front that was overlooking the entire pond, while mentally forcing himself to act calm and relaxing despite the fact that he was a nervous-wreck despite his confidence with her response. You can't blame a guy for being nervous. It's like being put on the stand, to defend your case and even though you know it well enough you can't help feeling weak and vulnerable. Come on, Bellamy! Stop worrying and get on with it damn it!

He took one deep breath before he turned his gaze and attention on his princess, who was waiting anxiously for whatever he was about to say, almost expecting the worst. Not that he blamed for that, it was a natural response with them that has been repeated several times in the past and probably would continue several times after, but nevertheless he just jumped on it instead of wasting another second worrying or doubting the outcome.

"Look, there's a reason why I brought you here. And it wasn't to get some fresh air or to look at the scenery," Bellamy began, taking her hands into his for support.

Clarke nodded her head. "Okay, that's cool as long as you aren't going to break up with me. Because if you are then I wouldn't care if you are a police officer or not and I will punch you until you starts seeing stars."

God, I don't know whether to find her extremely scary or incredible sexy when she's threatening me like that. Damn it! Focus! Although a part of him wanted to chuckled over her statement, he quickly pulled himself together and reassured her that under no circumstance was this a break up-occasion, and even if it was then she had every reason to punch him and more since it would have appear he had only been stringing her along, but it ended up going haywire since both his temper and patience just snapped and he exclaimed ferociously, "Oh god damn it, Clarke! I'm trying to propose to you! So will you just shut up and let me do you just that…"

Before he had the chance to continue his frustrated rant she grabbed his jacket collar and pulled his lips on hers in one passionate kiss. It didn't take long for him to realize what had just happened and kissed her back in the same intensity and passion. When they finally pulled away, letting their foreheads resting against each other, she whispered quietly and slightly breathless, "Yes. I would love to marry you. Again."

If he didn't have the biggest grin before then he most certainly did now and leaned back in to kiss her. I love you, Princess. Now and forever.

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That's it, guys. This story is officially done. I want to thank all of you for the love and support I have received during the duration of this story, and I hope that the love and support will continue even now when the story is over. I also want to thank all of you guys so much for the reviews, favorite and followings, and I hope that they wouldn't stop either.

I know that the ending is sort of fluffy, but I couldn't think of a better way to ending the story than this. I didn't want it to be too unrealistic either, because I felt it wouldn't fit in with the story due to the main purpose with the story was to relay the importance of trust and honesty in relationships, and life in general. So that's why I didn't write a wedding or family scene in the end, but hopefully you like it either way.

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