"But I think it's time, a kingdom that is mine."

4.

"Deploying landing legs." Emori shouts as the ship continues to shake as we get closer to the ground. I swallow hard and flip another switch to secure the legs.

"Grid fins activated." The communications voice comes through as the rocket continues to shake. We were so close but one wrong move and we could end up dead.

"Two-hundred meters." The voice says.

"Here we go." Emori says. I grab Bellamys gloved hand in mine and he squeezes as we brace for impact. Suddenly there's a thud and we hit the ground.

"Vertical landing, successful."I let out the breath I was holding and can't help but laugh.

"You did it, Emori. Nice job." I tell her and she smiles as we all take off our helmets.

"You helped." She explains and I snort at that. I barely did anything.

"There's no telling how many people saw us. We need to take cover in the trees before they get to us." Echo ruins the mood. As much as I dislike her, I know she's right. We all exit the ship and I almost cry as my feet touch the ground again. It feels like home, the smells, the buzzing of the bugs, the rustle of the leaves. I look to Bellamy and he smiles at me. We all start to walk away from the ship.

"So how do we find them?" Harper asks.

"We don't. They'll find us." Echo answers.

Suddenly we hear guns cocking and three men come out of the woods guns drawn on us.

"They already have." I sigh.

"Everyone on your knees, now!" One of them yells.

"It's okay, we just want to talk." Bellamy tells them.

"Four of ours are dead. It's time to even the score." The same lady we heard back on the ship says through a radio and my eyes widen.

Before they can shoot a spear goes into the neck of the guy leading them, they all scramble to aim at where it came from and start shooting, it seems to not work because a gun is being fired back and kills the other two. A young girl comes out of the woods with the gun in her hands at her side and I'm even more confused.

"She's just a kid." I say and put my hands down from defending myself.

"Bellamy? Taylor?" Me and Bellamy share a look as she says our name.

"Wha- how do you know who we are?" Bellamy asks her as she steps closer to us.

"Clarke knew you guys would come." Her words send a shock to my heart.

"Clarke's alive?" I ask her close to tears. How could that be?

"Yes, but she's in trouble. We have to go." She grabs both me and Bellamy's arms and starts to drag us away.

"What about the people in the bunker?" Bellamy asks her.

"They're still down there. I'll explain on the way." She says as she lets us go when she sees that we'll follow her. She leads us down a pathway till we get to a rover.

"Get in, I don't know how much time she has." She explains and we all get in. Bellamy sits in the driver's seat and I sit in the passenger seat while the girl hovers in the middle of us ready to direct the way.

"These people that have Clarke, what do they want?" I ask her as Bellamy takes off.

"I don't know, they were chasing us until Clarke made me hide to get them off my tail. They had guns, a lot of them." She explains and my blood turns cold. What are we dealing with here?

"Who are you?" I ask next since everyone seems to be in shock with all this information.

"Madi." She states and I nod.

"Well, Madi, we're going to get Clarke back, she's one of ours." I tell her. She smiles at me.

"You're just like she described." She tells me. Bellamy looks over curious.

"And how did she describe me?" I ask her.

"Determined...hopeful." She shrugs and I let out a little laugh.

"You got that right." Bellamy whispers under his breath.

"So what happened to the people in the bunker?" Emori asks from the back.

"They're still there, there's so much debris on the door, we couldn't move it to get it open. We've tried hundreds of times but there's no way to get it open without extra help." She explains. I nod at the information. So they're still down there but they just need help getting out.

"It's just up here." Madi tells us. As we get closer we can see torches lit to provide light to the area surrounding what appears to be houses. Everyone is huddled in a circle and it isn't till Bellamy floors it that they separate when they see the headlights and back up. And there she is, in the middle of them on the floor. Clarke Griffin.

She looks to have something around her neck and she's holding on to it wincing. A shock collar?

The people surrounding her have brown jumpsuits on, guess they only decided to wake a few of their people up. They all aim their guns at us.

Madi starts to cock her gun but I put my hand out and put her arms down.

"Madi, no. Let us do this." I tell her, she goes to argue but I shake my head.

"I promise we'll get her back. I know we just met but you have to trust us. Clarke is family, we won't let her die." Not again, is what I want to say but I refrain from doing so.

"What are you going to do?" She asks.

"Me and Bellamy are going to have a little talk with them." I sigh.

"Guys, drive the rover away from here. We'll handle this." Bellamy explains to them and they nod.

"Be careful." Monty tells us and we nod.

"Come out with your hands high." The woman shouts and we look at each other before getting out of the rover, closing the door and then putting our hands up. I see Madi hop into the drivers seat and suddenly she's backing up the rover and turning around, and then she speeds off till we can't see her anymore.

"We're unarmed, we just want to talk." Bellamy explains as we step to them closer. Clarke squints and then when we get closer to her she looks surprised.

"Talk. Give me one good reason not to kill you both right here right now." She says.

"How about we give you two-hundred and eighty-three? Because that's how many of your people are gonna die if we can't make a deal." Bellamy tells her. She looks worried now but more pissed off than anything. I hold up the mug we found on their ship so she can see we're not lying.

"Two-hundred and eighty-three lives for one. She must be pretty important." The woman states.

"She is." I say and look to Clarke. She looks close to crying but she tries to smile at me. She saved our lives six years ago and we thought she was dead, I'll be damned if anything happens to her again.

"Inside, now." She points to the house and we follow after her and so does three of her men. They lead Clarke off but I nod at her to let her know we're taking care of it.

"Shaw, run analytics on the ship, if they're lying I'll shoot them where they stand." She says into the radio as we step into the house.

She holds our stare until the guy whose name is Shaw speaks through the radio. I can only imagine this guy is on their transport ship checking.

"Diyoza, I can't access the cryopods, our signal is blocked. They're telling the truth."

"We have your attention now?" I ask her.

"I don't know how you got on my ship but if anything happens to my people-"

"Nothing will happen to them as long as we make a deal." Bellamy cuts her off.

"What do you want?"

"We need your help opening a bunker. You're miners so that shouldn't be too hard for you. Once that's done you get your people back." I explain as I cross my arms. I may have been weary before but we're in control, we have the upper hand here.

"And then what? We live happily ever after?"

"Then we split this valley down the middle, find a way to coexist." I speak again before Bellamy does. Part of me missed the thrill of negotiating and part of me also missed being on the winning side of a fight.

"Do we have a deal?" Bellamy asks her. She looks between us two and then she looks down, I can't tell what she's looking at as she smirks.

"Married, huh? Is this foreplay for you guys?" She crosses her arms. I roll my eyes.

"Do we have a deal or not?" I repeat Bellamy's question.

"Fine." She still looks pissed but I can tell she's somehow amused by all this, why? I don't know.

"Where did you take Clarke?" I ask her.

"McCreary, show them the way." She says and one of the guys huffs but starts to walk out the house so we follow.

"We'll also need a radio so we can tell our people up there to stand down." I tell her before we get outside. She rolls her eyes but unclips the one on her waist and tosses it to me. I catch it and nod.

The man leads us to what I can assume is their transport ship and we walk in. It looks similar to their ship we were on in space, he leads us down a few halls till we get to an entrance. He presses a button and the doors open. Clarke sits up from laying down and she looks over at us.

"Taylor...Bellamy." Her voice comes out rough probably from the shocking. I rush to her and pull her into a hug and she squeezes me tight. Tears start to form in my eyes. We break away so Bellamy could hug her.

"Madi?" She asks.

"She's safe." I tell her. She smiles.

"How...you guys are all still alive." She says shocked.

"Yes, because you saved us, Clarke." I tell her as we hold hands.

"And now you're home." She looks at both of us with tears in her eyes.

"Now we're home." We both pull her into a hug and we don't let go for awhile.

I grab the radio from my waist as we pull away.

"Raven, come in. Raven." I talk into it as I stand up. Bellamy keeps an arm around Clarke comforting her, I can only imagine what is was like being alone down here.

"Taylor? What's going on?" She sounds through the radio. Clarke smiles at her voice.

"We made a deal with them. And by the way, they can hear everything we're saying." I explain to her.

"Nice to meet you, we're not bad people." Murphy's voice comes through.

"Raven, keep him away from the radio." I shake my head but can't help but let out a smile.

"Copy that."

"Anyways, they know the rules but just to be safe, Colonel Diyoza, here they are again. If anyone tries to get around your security, you pull the plug. If anyone does anything that wasn't agreed upon, you pull the plug, and if you don't hear from me every hour on the hour, you pull the plug." I finish. Clarke looks at me with a smile and shakes her head. I shrug.

"Is that all?" She asks.

"No. Someone wants to say hello." I say as I look at Clarke. She sits up straighter and I hand her the radio.

"Raven, Murphy? It's really good to hear your voices." She says. I share a look with Bellamy and he places his hand on my shoulder.

"Clarke? I don't believe it." Raven talks first and then Murphy speaks, "and they call me the cockroach." We all laugh at that.

"I miss you guys." She says.

"Guys, we have to go." Bellamy says and we both nod. The ship starts to rumble and suddenly I can just tell we're off the ground.

"Where are we going?" Clarke asks frantically.

"The deal was that they're going to open the bunker for us in exchange for their people. So that's where we're going." I say as we walk down the halls. One of the prisoners leads us to the main control room where Diyoza is at.

"The coordinates of the bunker, Raven." I say into the radio as I look at Diyoza.

Raven comes through to tell them and the guy controlling the ship seems to be typing them in.

"Isn't this fun?" She smiles but it's not sincere in any way. I can't help but feel like she has something up her sleeve, people like her always do.

"Talk to you soon, Raven." I tell her.

"I guess I can appreciate another woman running the show." Diyoza shrugs as she keeps eye contact with me.

"Once you open that bunker for us, we'll start talking about the split of the valley." I say to get off whatever topic she was trying to get at.

"We're here." The guy flying this thing says. He lands and we file out while him and a few others stay on board. Once we're off, the ship goes back to hovering in the air, metal claws come out of the ships sides and they start to take off the slabs of concrete that had fallen. This place was in ruins, what remains of polis was a wasteland, a desert filled with concrete. The sun is harsh here as it has fully risen, it's been a long night and morning.

Once they pulled everything off that's when they start to make a hole, apparently it won't do too much damage from the inside so no one should get hurt but I have no reason to trust their word. Eventually they are able to punch through and then they drop two cords. We all walk up to them and me and Bellamy clip them on.

"We're following you down." Diyoza says referring to herself and the man named McCreary. I nod.

Me and Bellamy step off into the hole as the rope slowly starts to lower us. I can hardly see with the sun shining in so harshly but once we hit the ground my view becomes a bit more clear. I look around me. We were in the middle of a tall cage like structure, people were gathered all around and high up watching us through the fences. We both unhook ourselves and the ropes go sliding back up.

"Bellamy? Taylor?" We turn to our right to see the outline of a person walking towards us. I don't have to see to recognize that voice and when she steps into the light I'm a little shocked. She looks completely different. Her hair is short and clumped together in twists and red paint adorns her forehead and eyes. A thought crosses my mind, I don't think that's paint.

She throws herself into Bellamy's arms and he hugs her back tight. I watch the interaction and can't help but be happy for Bellamy, all that grief and separation, he finally reunites with his sister. They finally let each other go and she comes to me slowly before pulling me into a tight hug. I hug her back but as I look around us I can't help but think everything has changed. And not in a good way. Diyoza and McCreary finally follow down and look around.

"Who are they?" Octavia looks weary.

"It's okay, they're helping us." Bellamy tells her.

"Then why are they armed?" She asks.

"We have an understanding." I say as Diyoza meets my eyes and nods.

"So, if everyone can grab their things, we'll be taking up two at a time." She tells to everyone around us but they make no movement. Octavia looks around and nods and thy all start to file out. Diyoza looks shocked and me and Bellamy share yet another glance knowing that this can't be good.

"How many are we prepping to take up?" Diyoza asks Octavia.

"1,200." Bellamy answers for her.

"814." Octavia answers after him. I feel a lump in my throat. They had 1,200 people when they closed the bunker, 386 people died? How? Why? I look around once again, there's blood on the floor and dried on the fence, there's also weapons on the floor. I swallow hard and look back to Bellamy who seems to have the same revelation as me. These people died at the hands of each other. It seemed to be some sort of fighting pit.

When the ropes come back down we put Octavia onto one of them and Diyoza goes on the other. Once they're up me and Bellamy go up too to help people coming out. One by one we help clip and unclip people coming up and after a good twenty people, Miller is coming up.

Once he's up Bellamy unclips him.

"Miller." I pull him in for a hug and try to stop myself from crying. He hugs me and then Bellamy.

"Thank you." He says. I take all of him in and that's when I notice the gun on his hips.

"The deal was no weapons." I tell octavia as she stands by us.

"Not my deal." She states looking out to the people walking around already.

"Octavia, we need to talk to you. Alone." Bellamy crosses his arms, he looks pissed. Not even an hour of seeing each other again and already sibling rivalry was in full effect.

"You go on. I'm gonna stay here and help." I say. He nods at me an then kisses my forehead and hops down from the rubble. Octavia follows. The next person to come up is Indra and I do the same thing and pull her in for a hug.

"Taylor, of course you made it." She sounds proud and I can't help but smile.

"I-uh, my dad?" Fear starts to sink in when I realize how many people died and if my dad could be one of them. She puts her hand on my shoulder which scares me.

"He should be coming up soon." She says and I let out a laugh while tears form in my eyes again.

Me and Clarke continue to help people up when suddenly my dad is coming up. He looks shocked to see me, his face a bit sunken in and worn out. This time a tear does fall down my cheek but before anyone can see he yanks me into him and squeezes me so tight it hurts.

"Dad." I choke out and hold him tight. I can hear him sniffling and I dig my nails into his back to try to pull him closer.

"My baby." He pulls away slowly and takes me in.

"Look at you, all grown up. So beautiful." He places a kiss on my forehead and I close my eyes.

"I missed you, dad." I say and he pulls me into his chest again.

"We'll talk in a bit but I have to find Octavia and Bellamy." I tell him as I notice another person come up with a gun strapped to his hip like Miller.

"Okay, okay." He nods and lets me go. I climb down to the floor. I would love nothing more to stay with my dad but the threat of Diyoza and her people were still looming, our agreement was no weapons, if Diyoza doesn't like this who knows what she'll do even if we do have her people. Besides, I'm a woman of my word.

I find them in one of the buildings that still had a structure and I walk in closer.

"How many of your people are armed?" I ask her.

"One-hundred." She states.

"No, we can't have that." I shake my head.

"My people, my rules." I look to Bellamy and he looks at Octavia as if she's a stranger. Maybe she is. Six years is a long time.

"Octavia, you have to trust us. We made a deal and so far they've held up their end of the bargain." I step closer to her.

"So far. I don't like this."

"Neither do we. Once all our people are out we'll talk to them about the valley." I explain to her. She looks back and forth between me and Bellamy and she nods and then walks out.

"I think I'm already missing space." I tell Bellamy and he sends me a sad smile. He walks up to me and wraps his hands around my waist.

"We'll get through this too." He hugs me and I sigh into him.

"Hope I'm not interrupting." I turn to see my dad at the entryway.

"Mr. Queen, no you're not." Bellamy says and my dad smiles at him.

"Good to see you, Blake. Well, I figured I'd round up a few people to say hi." I'm confused by his words until he steps into the room and steps aside. In walks Jack and then Alex, I'm already in shock and then come three other people. Liza, Mikel, and Noah.

"Taylor!" Liza comes at me first and buries her head in my neck. I clutch onto her and squeeze my eyes shut trying to stay calm. She finally pulls away and that's when Mikel and Noah come over. Mikel takes me by surprise as he hugs me first and I squeeze back. Although me and Noah weren't the closest of friends I pull him in for a hug too. Once we pull away I look to Jack and Alex. The last interaction I had with Jack was when we were trying to get everyone out of Arkadia to get to the bunker before radiation hit. The last interaction where he confessed he still loved me. He was still my friend either way and that never changed. My last interaction with Alex was that night too. It feels like a lifetime ago, six years long. They all looked the same with some deep facial lines here and there but there wasn't that much of a difference. They were the same people from six years ago.

"Alex...Jack..." I say before I walk up to them and pull them into a hug. They squish me in between each other and I let out a little laugh. Each of them greets Bellamy, even Jack who just nods.

"Thanks, dad." I say to him and he nods.

"So, what did we miss in these six years?" Liza asks, still her peppy self.

"Lot's of Monty's algae, lots of boredom, lots of fights, and a marriage or two." Bellamy shrugs as he explains it and when he finishes Liza gasps.

"Marriage? Did you guys..." She asks with a smile. This wasn't the time or place to announce it but seeing as everyone was okay for now and our people were being pulled out of the bunker, I allowed myself to relax for just a minute.

Bellamy holds up his hand showing his ring and my dad smiles big at me seeing that it is his.

"You couldn't fucking wait?" Liza asks as she grabs his hand to inspect it.

"Couldn't stand not being married to her for one more second." Bellamy says and I roll my eyes.

"See you guys are still as gross as ever." Alex states and we laugh. I can't help but glance at Jack, he seems fine, he seems happy for me. I didn't expect him to stay in love with me for six years but I also didn't know how he would react to this, our last conversation was awkward.

"Our love is forever, you'll understand eventually. Five years of marriage and going strong." I tease him. Bellamy laughs and moves to stand next to me.

I look down at the radio and realize I need to check in.

"One second, guys."

"Raven, come in. This is my check in. Almost everyone is out of the bunker."

"Good to hear." She comes through.

"Also, Diyoza, I overheard you talking to Shaw earlier. I would like to remind you if you try anything, Raven pulls the plug."

"We heard you loud and clear the first time." Diyoza comes through, I knew she was listening in.

"Talk to you later, Raven." I clip the radio back on my waist.

"Looks like the queen is back."

A/N:

The queen is back!!!! Taylor is not messing around anymore! Six years of nothing and now she's back in action! What's a queen without a little chaos?

Anyways, how are we feeling about this chapter? I loved writing it because of the reuniting and of course we'll get more conversations between all of them later on, six years is a lot to catch up on. Bellamy and Taylor can finally say they're husband and wife to everyone who saw them last when they were only engaged, I think that's so cute! How are we feeling knowing everyone is alive?? She got lucky! But it's also not for no reason, Taylor's friends are not stupid and Taylor knows how to pick her friends, they all are similar to Taylor in the aspect that they know how to survive and they aren't going to go out so easily which is why they are all alive.

Anyways, I love Taylor taking charge again. The title of this book is Crown and only one person can wear it... or can they?? First Bloodreina...but now Queen is back. Guess we'll have to see what happens.

I would just like to say I'm sorry for the late update again, summer has been busy for me and I ran out of creativity there for awhile. But I hope you love this chapter, let me know what you think! I can't thank you all enough for your continuous support, it really means a lot.

Much love, xoxo.