"I'm breathing in the chemicals."

-Radioactive

18.

"Clarke's not getting enough blood, Ontari's heart rate is decreasing." Abby explains as she checks Ontari's pulse. I swallow hard and rush over to her.

"I'll start compressions." I say and quickly put my hand over the other and start to press down on her chest. Abby goes to check on Clarke who is now shaking.

"If the blood stops flowing her brain will liquify." She says as I continue compressions.

Clarke seizes even more and her nose starts to bleed.

"I don't think it's working." Murphy says at my side. I sigh and look to Abby who runs over to her med kit.

"Make an incision, Taylor. Deep enough to get to her heart." Abby tells me. I nod right away and have Murphy hand me the pack that has all the tools I need. He hands me the scalpel and I quickly cut her open. Abby comes over and puts a metal device in her chest and starts turning a knob making her chest open up. I've never seen something like this done before, on the ark my dad never did a procedure this intense.

Once Abby has her chest open enough she sticks her hand in and grabs her heart. Oh my god, she's trying to massage the heart to start the blood flow again.

"Take over, Taylor." She tells me and I trade places with her. I slip my hand under and around her heart. It's hard to get a grip on from the blood but I finally do and start to gently squeeze. It processes through my head after a couple of seconds that I'm holding a human heart in my hand. The thought freaks me out but I continue. Clarke is still seizing and for a second I think that it's done, that it's not going to work but finally she stops. Abby sighs in relief.

"She's stabilizing." She explains.

Bellamy and the others quickly come flooding in the room and start setting things in front of the door. I can only imagine that Alie's people are here.

"Murphy, I need you to take over." I tell say to him.

His eyes widen, "what? No."

"Murphy, now." I state and he sighs and gets closer to me and puts his hand by mine. I slowly take my hand away as he puts his hand in and grabs her heart.

"Keep the squeezes gentle but firm. Keep a rhythm." I explain to him and he nods. I quickly start to grab things and set them in front of the door with everyone. Eventually there's nothing left to place in front of the door so we all wait. We then start to hear shouts and the doors are getting rammed alerting us that they are trying to get in. I swallow hard. After a few more more attempts they finally get through and come straight at us. A guy comes running toward me and I punch him in the face, he tries to punch me but I block his hit and kick him in the stomach making him fall to the ground. Once he's on his knees I punch him again making him knockout. Someone else tries to get past me and I quickly swipe my feet making her fall to the ground. She tries to get up and I grab her by her collar and punch her twice before she knocks out as well. I turn to make sure Murphy is still doing his damn job and he nods to me as he continues to keep Ontari's blood flowing.

"Look out!" He yells and I turn but it's too late and I'm getting pushed to the floor. I recognize the face. It's Alex.I had wondered if he got chipped or somehow disappeared like my father. He wraps his hands around my neck and starts to squeeze tight. I start gasping for any air that I can but he keeps his hold. I try pushing his hands away but the lack of air makes my attempts a fail as I no longer have enough strength. A tear escapes my eyes as I look into his. This isn't Alex anymore, this is Alie controlling someone who is good. Someone who is pure. My heart aches for him and it aches for my baby. A baby that won't get to see the light of day if Alie isn't stopped. I feel even more light headed and my vision starts to go out. My hands slowly fall to the side but before darkness overcomes me the pressure on my neck is released and I'm taking a huge breath of air and sitting up. Alex gets off of me and I turn on my front keeping myself up with my hands as I start to cough.

"I...I'm so sorry...Taylor..." Alex looks shocked at his actions and he has tears in his eyes. I don't have time to respond to him as arms are pulling me off the ground and into a chest. His chest. Bellamy. I wrap my arms around his waist and press my head into his shoulder.

"It's okay, we're okay. Alie is gone." He whispers to me and a few tears escape my eyes in relief. I pull away and nod my head at him. His face is dirty and bloody and I can assume I look the same. I turn to Clarke who untangles herself from the tubes. Abby no longer at her side but rather pulling Kane in a hug as he cries. I can't imagine how he feels right now, how any of them feel.

I hear a grunt and we turn to see Octavia who just plunged a sword into Pike. My eyes widen. She sticks it all the way through and then pulls out. Pike falls to the floor and slowly stops breathing. I hated him too and I did want him dead at one point but seeing it like this shocked me. Octavia turns around and walks out. I look to Bellamy and he shakes his head as if not knowing what to do. I take a deep breath and grab his hand and squeeze. We walk over to Clarke as we try to forget what just happened.

"Hey." I pull her into a hug without letting go of Bellamys hand. She squeezes back and then pulls away. She looks distraught and almost sad, like she didn't just shut Alie down and save everyone.

"Clarke, why don't you look like a person who just saved the world?" Bellamy questions her and she sighs.

"Because we didn't." Her words cause goosebumps to rise on my flesh.

"What are you talking about?" I question her looking to Bellamy for reassurance that we're still in fact okay. He squeezes my hand.

"The reason Alie made the city of light. Radiation levels will rise and black rain will come. She told me we have six months." My breath hitches at this new information. We overcame all of this just to die in six months from radiation? I don't want to believe it. I can't believe it. I'm supposed to be having my baby in 7 months.

"What...what are we suppose to do? What are we going to do? How is this possible? Maybe she wasn't telling the truth." I ramble. This can't be happening.

"Hey, princess. Come here." He leads me away from Clarke to the corner of the room and cups my face into his hands.

"Listen to me, I told you everything will be okay and it will be. You hear me? We're going to find a way to beat this thing. Okay? I need you to take some deep breaths." I nod and he nods with me as I calm my breathing down.

"But the baby..." I sigh.

"Our baby will be fine. I promise." He reassures me and I shake my head.

"How do you know that? You shouldn't make promises you can't keep, Bell." I bite my lip.

"I can keep this one. I will protect you and this baby. Always."

I sigh, "what are we going to do now?"

"What we always do. Survive."

"The grounders aren't happy with us. They think we created Alie." Clarke explains to me and Bellamy as we're finally back on the ground. As I look around I see bodies sprawled across the floor and weeping loved ones.

"I don't blame them." I sigh and head over to a man who is trying to help a woman stand up off the ground. She seems to have a large gash in her head.

"I can help stitch that up." I say. The guy glares at me but his eyes look to my neck and I can tell he sees the necklace. Thinking he will let me help now I try to grab the lady to help but he pulls her back with him.

"You don't deserve that token. You sky people brought this here, you caused this. We don't need your help." I'm taken back by his harsh tone. The lady doesn't say anything as he walks away with her. I bite my lip and look around, are any of these people willing to let me help? Do they all hate us now? I see a man trying to help his child out, the boy can't walk, he keeps one leg lifted. I walk over to them.

"I can check his leg." I tell the man and he shakes his head. "No. We don't need your help." I sigh in defeat and walk over to a crate and sit down. I just want to help. I know they hate us and for good reason but we aren't all bad and some of us actually want to help. I had hoped the necklace Lexa gave me would allow me to heal people but all it's doing is making me look like a phony for wearing it. I tug it off my neck and hold the wooden token in my hand. It holds so much power but only if people respected the person wearing it. It's powerless if no one respects me. I get it, they blame us for everything. But I don't want it to be like that anymore.

"We shut down, Alie yet you're sulking in the corner." Murphy walks up to me with a girl behind him. She has a cool face tattoo and her head is wrapped but her long black hair is down. She's pretty.

"The world is still going to end, Murphy. And these people won't let me help them."

"You just helped save their asses, regardless if they know it or not. You don't owe them anything." Murphy explains. I don't owe anyone anything, I know this, but I still want to help.

"Who is this?" I ask gesturing towards the girl. My guess is she is Murphy's girlfriend.

"I'm Emori," she introduces herself. I can tell she's guarded by the way she speaks.

"I'm Taylor, so you and Murphy?" I smirk. She smiles obviously not embarrassed by them being together.

"He begged me to stay with him." She says and I let out a genuine laugh. Murphy glares at her.

"Holy shit, Murphy. I love her." I stand up.

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever." Murphy rolls his eyes.

"So what is going to happen with skaikru?" Emori asks me.

"I don't know, no one wants our help here so it might be better to leave." I hate saying it but if they don't want us here then we should leave.

"Back to Arkadia?" Murphy questions.

"Yeah, and you both should come back with us." I smile at Emori and she actually smiles back at me.

"You know I don't mix well with Arkadia." Murphy states.

"It's a new dawn, Murphy." I pat his shoulder.

"Well we're going to gather some things then before everyone heads out." I nod at Murphy words and they both walk away. I sit back down on the crate and look back down at the necklace I was still holding. Part of me wants to toss it but I know it could possibly be of some use even if the grounders here didn't care.

"You doing okay, princess? How's the baby?" I look up to see Bellamy. I smile lightly.

"As okay as I can be. The baby is fine, I'm having some back cramps but they're not too serious. My head also hurts but that could just be from something totally unrelated." I sigh.

"I'm sorry, hopefully we can get going soon so you can rest." He sits down beside me and rubs my back. I nod and continue to fiddle with the token.

"Why'd you take it off?"

"Because I don't think it means anything anymore. Lexa is dead and so are her ideals and rules. These people don't care that I have some token the dead commander gave me."

"I think it still means something. It means there is hope. Lexa gave it to you for a reason and although some people choose not to see the reason, the reason is still there." Bellamy explains and I take in his words. He's right, he's always right.

"Either way it means nothing now. We're all going to die in six months." I'm usually not a negative person but I didn't see a way out of this one. I also blame the hormones and my lack of sleep.

"Don't say that. We're going to fight this too."

"What's the point, Bellamy? What is there to look forward to?"

"Our baby."

I shake my head, "our baby won't be born before then."

"Fine, then marriage." I finally meet his eyes confused.

"What?"

"I love you and if we're going to die like you think we are then there is no better time."

"Bellamy, what are you saying?" I bite my lip, I know what he means and what he's going to say but I wanted to hear it. I needed to hear it.

"Marry me."

A/N:

OMG!!! DID THAT JUST HAPPEN??

Did anyone see that coming? What do you think she will say? Let me know what you all think!

Short chapter for the final chapter because the ending was sooo epic. Plus I had split the final episode in to two parts, the last chapter was the first part and this is the second.

Anyway, I can't believe this is the end for this book. Thank you all so much for continuing to stick with me, your support means the world. I loved writing each chapter and I've got to say some of my favorite chapters in the whole series are in this book. I never liked Alie as the enemy in season 3 but I did enjoy writing it. Let me know what your favorite parts or chapters were in this book!

Also I'd just like to say really quick, if you guys want to message me for any reason please don't be scared to! Whether it's about the books or something else, I'm always here to listen!!

Of course most of you know if you read my authors note last chapter there will be a fourth book!!! Go to my page for it! It is called.......Reign!!!!!!

I'm so excited for this, guys. You have no idea, I love love love season 4. I hope you guys are just as hyped about it as me and will continue to come along on this journey with me, Bellamy Blake, and Taylor Queen (Blake?). (;

Much love, xoxo.