My Ultimate Bellarke Reading List
(continually updated)
CANON
POST-SEASON 2 (CANON AS OF AUTUMN 2015)
This One's For The Faithless by monroeslittle
Summary: “He couldn’t worry about her, about how she’d fare, and whether she’d find her way home eventually, or make a home with strangers, learning to forget the friends she’d killed for. He needed to worry about those friends, to look after their people like she’d asked him to.“She doesn’t need us to go after her,” Raven said. “She knows how to survive.” They’d trust her to return when she was ready, and to look after herself in the meantime.”
Rating: Mature
Link
You're Not Alone In This by wordsinmylungs
Summary: Bellamy follows Clarke after she leaves because it’s the only reasonable thing to do.
Rating: Teen
Link
We Meet Again by Brennanaphone
Summary: Bellamy and Clarke meet up for the first time Post-Season 2 and finally acknowledge their amazing friggin' chemistry.
Rating: Mature
Link
The Making of Us by PhosphorescentBlue
Summary: Five times Clarke Griffin sleeps next to Bellamy Blake (and one time she stays past sunrise).
Rating: Teen
Link
The Conversation by Jeanie205
Summary: After a few months away, Clarke has returned to Camp Jaha, and Bellamy has so many things he wants to say to her, and to ask her, but he doesn't know where to begin. So they just haven't had that conversation. In fact, they're not talking much at all. But an unexpected journey might give them the opportunity to finally figure it all out.
Rating: Teen
Link
A New Beginning Again by srmiller
Summary: Six months after leaving Camp Jaha, Clarke has returned. She wasn't sure what she'd expected but Bellamy's distance, Octavia's anger, and Raven's revelation that Bellamy had started drinking and not sleeping wasn't it.
Bellamy hadn't known what he would do when Clarke came back--he'd understood her need to leave, to heal, but he also knew by walking away she'd left him to carry the weight of what they'd done in the mountain and he wasn't sure if he could trust her the same again.
But Clarke brings back word from her meeting with the high commander of the Trikru at Polis and it's the kind of news which could change everything and if they're lucky, begin to make things right again.
Rating: Teen
Link
Something To Hold On To by crystalkei
Summary: Clarke has been walking for three days trying to come to terms with her decisions and how to live with the person she’s become after everything that’s happened in Mount Weather. Bellamy finds her and offers a field trip if she wants in. Travel 250 miles to where another section of the Ark fell to collect a part Raven needs.
Rating: Mature
Link
Cinderblock Garden by winterwaters
Summary: "It’s the middle of Season 3. Clarke has left Polis by then and Bellamy is out on some kind of mission and gets separated from his group. They haven’t seen or spoken to each other since their goodbye at Camp Jaha about a month ago. They both get abducted by a grounder clan, neither of them aware that they’re about to be thrown into the same place and used as leverage for some kind of deal.
Then the grounders take the bags off their heads and they find themselves sitting.
Right across from each other.
And then we get a few episodes of them forced to be in the same space. Unable to be separated. In any way. Whatsoever."
Rating: PG
Link
Excuse Me, That's Mr. Princess to You by Frea_O
Summary: The one where things get a little political, a little personal, and a little, uh, rhythmical.
Rating: PG
Link
Carry You WIth Me by kay_emm_gee
Summary: Clarke comes back, and shes finds whatever peace she gained in her time away might not have been worth what (who) she lost in the process.
Clarke leaves, and Bellamy is not longer skin and bones, but fire and ash, a living flame ablaze and angry at being left behind yet again.
They meet again, and it is nothing short of apocalyptic..
Rating: Mature
Link
CANON DIVERGENCE (or once was canon, but no longer is)
Faking It by winterwaters
Summary: Three times Bellamy and Clarke “fake” kiss to help each other escape a situation, and one time they kiss because they wanted to.
Rating: Teen
Link
I've Fallen Out Of Favor (I've Fallen From Grace) by labonsoirfemme
Summary: “So that’s it. You led an army to Mount Weather for our friends and now you’re just gonna sit back let the Council decide everything else without even hearing what they want to do?"
"I’m done deciding who lives and who dies."
[Speculative post-S2-finale fic; canon compliant through "Bodyguard of Lies.”]
Rating: Mature
Link
And All Your Little Things by Elle_Song
Summary: Clarke looked down at her upper thigh.
"Well... shit," she sighed. There was a small, red mark staining the inside leg of her sleep pants.
Pretend that everything went according to plan, Mount Weather was disabled, and the Grounders and Sky People split on amiable terms after de-militarizing their enemy. Now, pretend Clarke’s still leader almost a year after that, and the main Sky People concern is maintaining permanent residence.
Rating: Teen
Link
Hey There Blue Eyes by mk323
Summary: Bellamy Blake was flirting with her. But Clarke knew it was no big deal.
Rating: Teen
Link
Hold Me Closely by winterwaters
Summary: 3+1: Three times Bellamy and Clarke find comfort in each other’s touch, and one time it leads to more.
Rating: Teen
Link
FUTURE FIC
Jupiter by bgonemydear
Summary: Octavia’s always had a special bond with her niece, Jupiter Griffin-Blake.
Rating: PG
Link
Just Because by rashaka
Summary: It’s not the stars or the firelight that make her do it, it’s his hands. (first kiss challenge)
Rating: PG
Link
SAME UNIVERSE AU
Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation by Quentanilien
Summary: The gravitational force of attraction between two bodies in the universe is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
There is no flaw in the oxygen systems for Jake Griffin to find, and life continues on the Ark as normal. A decade later, Clarke Griffin is the youngest Chancellor in Ark history, and Bellamy Blake is a thorn in her side.
Rating: Teen
Link
Love Will Come Through by monroeslittle
Summary: "The vows were short, perfunctory; Clarke was asked to say I do, and she did. There were rings, too: Bellamy’s fingers were warm against her hand when he slipped a ring on her finger, and she put a ring on his. They were instructed to kiss. His lips were dry, pressing against her mouth for a moment, and that was it. They were done.
She was a wife, and her husband was a stranger."
AU. Clarke winds up in an arranged marriage with Bellamy.
Rating: Mature
Link
Show Me What I'm Looking For by bitscrawford
Summary: The surviving delinquents are sitting around the dropship, knees pulled to their chests, heads buried between their knees. Clarke can’t blame them for looking so weary, really. They’re too young to have just fought a battle, too young to know war so personally, too young to live with the fact that they just finished incinerating hundreds of grounders, hundreds of people.
Death is everywhere on the ground; it’s unavoidable. It’s remarkable that so many of them had survived for this long.
--
Canon compliant through Season 1, but Monty never went missing, the Mountain Men never showed up, and the Ark never came down.
Rating: Mature
Link
TOTAL AU
Can't Buy Me Love by kay_emm_gee
Summary: Clarke Griffin’s first introduction to the industrial town of Mechton is the gruff, harsh Bellamy Blake, and from that ill-fated meeting alone, she can’t imagine how she will begin to call this new place home. Soon, though, she finds that places grow on you, and also that people change, but only if you are willing to let yourself change as well.
{ A Bellarke AU based on North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell }
Rating: Teen
Link
One Girl In All The World by kay_emm_gee
Summary: "Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone--"
Yeah, stop right there. Seems the prophecy isn't as ironclad as the Council thought, given that Clarke finds out on her first day of junior year that she isn't the only Slayer in Arkville anymore. Not that she minds Octavia--the girl is dedicated and enthusiastic, if a bit naive about what she is getting into. It's the brother-slash-Watcher that Clarke can't stand, though if Kane, her own Watcher, has his way, she'll be working alongside the pair for a long time.
As if saving the world and not failing out of high school wasn't enough, now she has Bellamy's snark and stubbornness to put up with. Just her luck, but who said being the Slayer was easy?
Rating: Teen
Link
CANON
POST-SEASON 2 (CANON AS OF AUTUMN 2015)
This One's For The Faithless by monroeslittle
Summary: “He couldn’t worry about her, about how she’d fare, and whether she’d find her way home eventually, or make a home with strangers, learning to forget the friends she’d killed for. He needed to worry about those friends, to look after their people like she’d asked him to.“She doesn’t need us to go after her,” Raven said. “She knows how to survive.” They’d trust her to return when she was ready, and to look after herself in the meantime.”
Rating: Mature
Link
You're Not Alone In This by wordsinmylungs
Summary: Bellamy follows Clarke after she leaves because it’s the only reasonable thing to do.
Rating: Teen
Link
We Meet Again by Brennanaphone
Summary: Bellamy and Clarke meet up for the first time Post-Season 2 and finally acknowledge their amazing friggin' chemistry.
Rating: Mature
Link
The Making of Us by PhosphorescentBlue
Summary: Five times Clarke Griffin sleeps next to Bellamy Blake (and one time she stays past sunrise).
Rating: Teen
Link
The Conversation by Jeanie205
Summary: After a few months away, Clarke has returned to Camp Jaha, and Bellamy has so many things he wants to say to her, and to ask her, but he doesn't know where to begin. So they just haven't had that conversation. In fact, they're not talking much at all. But an unexpected journey might give them the opportunity to finally figure it all out.
Rating: Teen
Link
A New Beginning Again by srmiller
Summary: Six months after leaving Camp Jaha, Clarke has returned. She wasn't sure what she'd expected but Bellamy's distance, Octavia's anger, and Raven's revelation that Bellamy had started drinking and not sleeping wasn't it.
Bellamy hadn't known what he would do when Clarke came back--he'd understood her need to leave, to heal, but he also knew by walking away she'd left him to carry the weight of what they'd done in the mountain and he wasn't sure if he could trust her the same again.
But Clarke brings back word from her meeting with the high commander of the Trikru at Polis and it's the kind of news which could change everything and if they're lucky, begin to make things right again.
Rating: Teen
Link
Something To Hold On To by crystalkei
Summary: Clarke has been walking for three days trying to come to terms with her decisions and how to live with the person she’s become after everything that’s happened in Mount Weather. Bellamy finds her and offers a field trip if she wants in. Travel 250 miles to where another section of the Ark fell to collect a part Raven needs.
Rating: Mature
Link
Cinderblock Garden by winterwaters
Summary: "It’s the middle of Season 3. Clarke has left Polis by then and Bellamy is out on some kind of mission and gets separated from his group. They haven’t seen or spoken to each other since their goodbye at Camp Jaha about a month ago. They both get abducted by a grounder clan, neither of them aware that they’re about to be thrown into the same place and used as leverage for some kind of deal.
Then the grounders take the bags off their heads and they find themselves sitting.
Right across from each other.
And then we get a few episodes of them forced to be in the same space. Unable to be separated. In any way. Whatsoever."
Rating: PG
Link
Excuse Me, That's Mr. Princess to You by Frea_O
Summary: The one where things get a little political, a little personal, and a little, uh, rhythmical.
Rating: PG
Link
Carry You WIth Me by kay_emm_gee
Summary: Clarke comes back, and shes finds whatever peace she gained in her time away might not have been worth what (who) she lost in the process.
Clarke leaves, and Bellamy is not longer skin and bones, but fire and ash, a living flame ablaze and angry at being left behind yet again.
They meet again, and it is nothing short of apocalyptic..
Rating: Mature
Link
CANON DIVERGENCE (or once was canon, but no longer is)
Faking It by winterwaters
Summary: Three times Bellamy and Clarke “fake” kiss to help each other escape a situation, and one time they kiss because they wanted to.
Rating: Teen
Link
I've Fallen Out Of Favor (I've Fallen From Grace) by labonsoirfemme
Summary: “So that’s it. You led an army to Mount Weather for our friends and now you’re just gonna sit back let the Council decide everything else without even hearing what they want to do?"
"I’m done deciding who lives and who dies."
[Speculative post-S2-finale fic; canon compliant through "Bodyguard of Lies.”]
Rating: Mature
Link
And All Your Little Things by Elle_Song
Summary: Clarke looked down at her upper thigh.
"Well... shit," she sighed. There was a small, red mark staining the inside leg of her sleep pants.
Pretend that everything went according to plan, Mount Weather was disabled, and the Grounders and Sky People split on amiable terms after de-militarizing their enemy. Now, pretend Clarke’s still leader almost a year after that, and the main Sky People concern is maintaining permanent residence.
Rating: Teen
Link
Hey There Blue Eyes by mk323
Summary: Bellamy Blake was flirting with her. But Clarke knew it was no big deal.
Rating: Teen
Link
Hold Me Closely by winterwaters
Summary: 3+1: Three times Bellamy and Clarke find comfort in each other’s touch, and one time it leads to more.
Rating: Teen
Link
FUTURE FIC
Jupiter by bgonemydear
Summary: Octavia’s always had a special bond with her niece, Jupiter Griffin-Blake.
Rating: PG
Link
Just Because by rashaka
Summary: It’s not the stars or the firelight that make her do it, it’s his hands. (first kiss challenge)
Rating: PG
Link
SAME UNIVERSE AU
Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation by Quentanilien
Summary: The gravitational force of attraction between two bodies in the universe is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
There is no flaw in the oxygen systems for Jake Griffin to find, and life continues on the Ark as normal. A decade later, Clarke Griffin is the youngest Chancellor in Ark history, and Bellamy Blake is a thorn in her side.
Rating: Teen
Link
Love Will Come Through by monroeslittle
Summary: "The vows were short, perfunctory; Clarke was asked to say I do, and she did. There were rings, too: Bellamy’s fingers were warm against her hand when he slipped a ring on her finger, and she put a ring on his. They were instructed to kiss. His lips were dry, pressing against her mouth for a moment, and that was it. They were done.
She was a wife, and her husband was a stranger."
AU. Clarke winds up in an arranged marriage with Bellamy.
Rating: Mature
Link
Show Me What I'm Looking For by bitscrawford
Summary: The surviving delinquents are sitting around the dropship, knees pulled to their chests, heads buried between their knees. Clarke can’t blame them for looking so weary, really. They’re too young to have just fought a battle, too young to know war so personally, too young to live with the fact that they just finished incinerating hundreds of grounders, hundreds of people.
Death is everywhere on the ground; it’s unavoidable. It’s remarkable that so many of them had survived for this long.
--
Canon compliant through Season 1, but Monty never went missing, the Mountain Men never showed up, and the Ark never came down.
Rating: Mature
Link
TOTAL AU
Can't Buy Me Love by kay_emm_gee
Summary: Clarke Griffin’s first introduction to the industrial town of Mechton is the gruff, harsh Bellamy Blake, and from that ill-fated meeting alone, she can’t imagine how she will begin to call this new place home. Soon, though, she finds that places grow on you, and also that people change, but only if you are willing to let yourself change as well.
{ A Bellarke AU based on North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell }
Rating: Teen
Link
One Girl In All The World by kay_emm_gee
Summary: "Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone--"
Yeah, stop right there. Seems the prophecy isn't as ironclad as the Council thought, given that Clarke finds out on her first day of junior year that she isn't the only Slayer in Arkville anymore. Not that she minds Octavia--the girl is dedicated and enthusiastic, if a bit naive about what she is getting into. It's the brother-slash-Watcher that Clarke can't stand, though if Kane, her own Watcher, has his way, she'll be working alongside the pair for a long time.
As if saving the world and not failing out of high school wasn't enough, now she has Bellamy's snark and stubbornness to put up with. Just her luck, but who said being the Slayer was easy?
Rating: Teen
Link