"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud."

-1 Corinthians 13

1.

I've gone through many trials and tribulations. Up in the Ark, down on earth. Through many hardships I've felt pain and sadness, love and loss. I've experienced a plethora of emotions not just through the hard times but the good times, the rarity of them at least. I made it out alive through every problem I have faced. I found a solution to every problem handed to me. Sometimes they weren't problems sometimes they were just questions that were hard to answer. Harder than most. I want to say I see things black and white, but I've come to realize everything down here is just grey. And sometimes problems aren't going to have a black or white solution. Sometimes questions aren't going to have a black or white answer. There is going to be grey areas as evil as it may seem.

Which is where I found myself, in a grey area. I knew what I wanted but I also knew the uselessness of what I wanted. I couldn't bring myself to a yes or no. Because it was neither. Okay so maybe it was mostly a yes, but there was something telling me that it's not that simple. And I could give a black or white answer to the question but it would just lead to a grey problem later on.

My emotions were all over the place and I couldn't think straight.
So I said the only thing I could think of.

"I think I'm going to faint." It was true, I was feeling woozy already and then Bellamy drops the single most important question in someones life. It's a lot to take in.

"What?" Bellamy looks worried but also slightly confused. Hell, if he was confused then I was out of my mind.

"I...I think I need some water." I quickly get up from the crate and walk away. I curse myself as I'm leaving because Bellamy just asked me to marry him and I just walked off. Either he's hurt or confused, my guess, a mixture of both. But it was a lot to take in. I know I want to spend the rest of my life with Bellamy, well at least what's left of it. But after finding out the news that radiation is going to kill us, is there a point? Wouldn't it just hurt worse thinking about the what ifs? Because what if we do get married? We only have so little time left, and then what? We just die? It's tragic.

I want to go back to him so badly and say yes but I don't know if it's the right thing to do. Then again, it's not a black or white situation. There's no wrong or right.

I need someone to help me. I don't know what to do, I wish my mom was here. She would know what to do. Even my dad, now that Alie is gone my priority is to find him.

"Hey, is everyone leaving now?" Murphy comes up to me, Emori at his side.

I shake my head, "I...uh, I don't know." I can barely speak right now after that.

"Uh, are you okay?" Murphy questions me curiously.

"I was looking for someone to talk to and you both stumbled into my hands." My breathing is shaky.

"Um, okay? What's up?" Murphy is obviously not good with talking to people.

"Bellamy just asked me to marry him. Isn't it wonderful?" I smile nervously. I think I'm going crazy. Murphy looks at me with wide eyes.

"He asked you to marry him? And what did you say? Why do you need someone to talk to?" He asks confused.

"I didn't say anything. I just walked away."

"Well shit, no wonder you're freaking out." He shakes his head.

"This is wild." He adds.

"Okay, Murphy." Emori places her hand on his shoulder and gives him a look. She then looks back to me. "Do you not want to marry him?"

"I do."

"Then what's the problem here exactly?" Murphy questions. I sigh.

"We're going to die in six months. What's the point?"

"Isn't that the first reason to say yes?" Murphy asks me.

"Um, no?"

"Look, you love him, he loves you. You are having a baby together. Marriage is just a title, a big title yes, but just a title nonetheless. Plus if you want to marry him you should do it now. We don't have much time left and I think you would enjoy your time with Bellamy as a husband much more than if he was just your boyfriend. Yes, I said Marriage is just a title but it does makes the bond and love stronger." John fucking Murphy is smart as hell.

"Well shit, Murphy, when you put it like that you make me want to run back to him right now and say yes a hundred times over."

"Well then do it." He says with a smirk.

"But..." I try to speak again but I get cut off with Murphy sighing.

"Listen, I'm not going to be one of those people who say, I can't tell you what to do. Because I'm about to tell you exactly what to do because I know it's what you want to do." He steps forward and grabs my shoulders.

"Go tell that son of a bitch yes because you're in love with him." He nods his head at me and I nod back.

"I'm going to go tell him yes." I state and he nods again.

"I'm going to marry Bellamy fucking Blake!" I yell but not loud enough to where many people can hear me.

"Go!" They both laugh and urge me to run along. I walk away but I don't see him at the same place I left him at. I look around and still can't seem to find him. Where did he go? I only just left him a few minutes ago. Granted, he's probably upset right now and went off somewhere but I need to find him. I don't know what I was thinking. I think at this point I can just blame everything on the pregnancy.

I looked around for him for a bit before entering the sky scraper that belonged to the commanders. I walked around inside until I finally found him. He was sitting down at a table in a small room looking down almost lost in space. I walked in, not as confident as I was before. I was going to say yes but right now he's hurt because of me.

I sigh and figure the best way to do this is to just come out with it.

"Yes. I'll marry you, Bellamy." I say as I step closer to him with tears in my eyes. He looks up confused and he stands up.

"Why'd you walk away from me?" The pain laced in his voice makes me feel ten times worse.

"Because you scared me. Marriage is a big thing and we're going to die in six months."

"Raven is already looking up ways we can survive the radiation. We're not going to fucking die and I wish you'd stop saying that." He's angry too, I get it.

"I'm sorry, okay? It's the pregnancy-"

"Don't blame it on the pregnancy. Look, if you don't want to get married, that's fine." He sighs. I shake my head in confusion.

"But, Bellamy, I'm standing here saying yes. I want to marry you, I want to be your wife. I want to be Taylor Blake even though it's not as cool as Queen." I tease to lighten the situation and I see he's trying to hold back a smile. I know he wants to be mad and he doesn't want to give in because I know it hurt when I walked away.

"Are you just telling me what I want to hear?"

"No, I'm being honest. When I walked away I was scared and just needed a second to process it all. It was a lot to take in, Bellamy. But my answer is yes. Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!" I cup his face and he finally smiles.

"Yes?"

"Yes, let's get married." I say and brings his lips down to mine. He pulls me in closer and I sigh into the kiss. It's sweet and slow, but filled with so much passion. I disconnect our lips and he leans his forehead against mine.

"We should probably go see what's going on." I suggest and he shakes his head. He sits down and pulls me down with him so I'm seated on his lap.

"Let's stay here for a bit. Let the fact that we're getting married sink in." I smile at his words but then a question pops into my head.

"Bellamy, you're not asking me to marry you just because we have six months, right?"

He shakes his head, "I've been wanting to ask you. But I figured the right time to ask would be once we shut Alie down , it just so conveniently happens that news was dropped on us today. But I've never been more sure of something in my life. I love you and I could never love someone the way I love you. You are it for me, you're the only woman for me. I want you to be my wife."

Tears spring to my eyes at his little spew. I can't believe he had been wanting to ask me for awhile now, I had only thought about the idea this morning.

I never new a man could love a woman so much but the way Bellamy talks about me it makes me feel on top of the world. The love he shows me is incredible and I'm so grateful for him. I never thought I'd get a love like this, especially when we were sent down here. I thought we will either die or we'll just casually live down here like we had been living up in space. But that wasn't the case, I met Bellamy and my whole world got flipped upside down.

"You know it was the same for me. I never thought I could love someone so deeply and then you came along and I was a goner. I love you more than life itself, Bellamy and I'm sorry I walked away when you asked me even though I knew I wanted to say yes."

"You know when you walked away it reminded me of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. Do you know it?" He questioned me as he moved a stray piece of hair from my face.

"You know I don't. Tell me." I bite my lip waiting for him to zone out in his greek mythology again. I  love when he talks mythology to me.

"Well Opheus was a musician, he played the lyre, no one could resist his music not even Gods. One day he met a woman named Eurydice and fell in love with her and they later on got married.  Well one day she was walking through the forest and a Shepard was so entranced with her beauty he tried to chase her down. When she was trying to flee she got bite by a snake and she died. Opheus was deeply saddened but his father Apollo instructed him to descend to the underworld realm of the dead to seek Eurydice. Anybody else going to the underworld could have died but he was protected by the Gods so he made it. When he was presented in front of Hades, the God of the underworld he started to play the lyre which even Hades cold heart couldn't resist." I was hooked on the story from the beginning and it helped that Bellamy was such a good story teller. The way he told the story showed how passionate he was about mythology and it made me smile.

"So then what happened? Did he get Eurydice back?" I question.

"I'm getting there. Be patient, baby." He says and continues his story.

"Eventually Hades told Orpheus that he could take Eurydice on one condition. She would walk behind him out of the underworld but he would not be allowed to turn around to look at her because if he did then he would lose her forever. He was overjoyed and started walking, but he didn't think she was behind him so he started to lose faith."

I gasp, "he turned around."

He nodded, "he turned around and she was whisked back into the underworld having been so close to getting out."

"As interesting as that was, that's extremely depressing. How they hell did I remind you of that?" I wrap my arms around his neck and play with his hair.

"You walked away and didn't turn around. You knew I'd be upset but you knew in your heart you would say yes, didn't you?"

"I guess I did."

"And knowing that you didn't turn around."

"That wasn't life or death though, Bell." I tease and he smiles.

"No, it wasn't but it reminded me of that story. Everything can be brought back to mythology. I like it." He says bringing a huge smile to my face.

"I like hearing the stories, tell me more." I urge him and he laughs and gives me a quick kiss on the lips.

"I will later, but I think we should see what's going on now." He says patting my thigh so I can get up but I stay seated.

"I just want to stay here with you." I pout and he smiles and wraps his arms around my waist.

"I know, baby but if we're leaving we can rest at camp." He explains. I know he's not gonna let up so to waste some time I lean in and kiss him. He moans into the kiss as I lick his bottom lip and my tongue connects with his. I pull his head closer making the kiss more urgent and he cups my neck with one hand. My stomach does flips each time we kiss and it is not holding back now either. I finally break away and bite his bottom lip before pulling back all the way to see his face. He shakes his head and smirks.

"That was hot." He states and I let out a small laugh.

"I love you, Bellamy."

"I love you. And no matter what, we're going to live through this and we're going to have this baby and we're going to live a long happy life and when we die it will be of old age, not of radiation. We've come to far to let a little radiation get in the way."

I smile.

"Long live the Queen and King."

A/N:

And there you have it! The first chapter to Reign! You have no idea how excited I am for this book (okay, so maybe you do) but still! I loved season 4 so much so I'm so excited to write it and give you more Bellamy and Taylor moments! I loved writing this chapter and I hoped you guys liked it because I'm not going to lie I was iffy about it at first but then again I think I was just over thinking it.

Anyways, I can't believe we're on the fourth book! Taylor and Bellamy have come a long way and I'm so excited to continue their journey!

Please comment and let me know you think of this chapter and even what you hope to see in this book! I love reading your comments and thanks so much for the votes and continuous support!

Much love, xoxo