So, we all know what a hot mess Season 7 of The 100 was, yeah? Yeah. I mean- don’t misunderstand, it had some spectacular moments. And the problem is, when you mess up two of the main characters (both their independent arcs and their relationship arc), it makes everything else seem bittersweet at best.

From the moment the finale aired, I sought to correct the one looming, awful thing that destroyed the series for so many of us. Because it could have been done so easily, frankly. And so, I present you the version that is now canon in my head. Maybe one day we can get some technically savvy person to help us edit at least the first part into existence!

This picks up when Clarke sees her friends on the beach, and runs to them, hugging.

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CLARKE, hugging Octavia, sees someone else standing off to the side, coming into view. It’s BELLAMY, and the shock is written all over her face. OCTAVIA, with a knowing smile, gestures with her head for the others to give them space.

CLARKE
But. How?

BELLAMY (with a half grin):
Please, you think they’d rescue Sheidheda and leave their favorite new disciple to die?

CLARKE, now crying:
And you… chose to stay? Even after everything?

BELLAMY
Clarke, all I ever wanted was peace for us all. Cadogan’s plan offered that. (pause) But I think this does, too.

CLARKE:
(Nods, then grabs Bellamy into a hug.) It does. It will.

PAN OUT TO VIEW OF BEACH, TO BLACK. We think it’s over, but THEN:

WE HEAR, as we FADE BACK IN TO THE BEACH, VOICEOVERS:

KANE
You turn the page. You turn the page and you don’t look back. You do better today than you did yesterday. You understand? Before you know it, we’ll deserve to survive.

LINCOLN
Ge smak daun, gyon op nodotaim.

LEXA
Life is about more than just surviving.

FINN
This is our world now, and I think we can do better than the first time around.

JASPER
I don’t want us to survive. I want us to live.

MONTY:
I hope your lives there will be as happy as mine has been. Be the good guys.

As we ZOOM fully the beach, now with several modest structures, we now hear the sounds of chatter all around. A small area decorated with flowers, benches, a hut where NIYLAH serves a drink to MURPHY, while JAE and BLYTHE ANN work behind her. MURPHY walks over to a bench, where EMORI is sitting, hands the drink to her, sits next to her, watching two young dark haired children, looking to be around preschool age. They shriek and laugh as they run out of frame.

RAVEN hands a sign up to NIKKI who is on the roof with a hammer. The sign reads “GRIFFIN-SANTIAGO MEDICAL CENTER”. MILLER and ECHO are putting a beam in place. ECHO wipes sweat from her brow as she gives a knowing look to RAVEN, who glances back up at NIKKI, smiling.

JACKSON walks by, calling:
No more broken bones!

We follow Jackson, as he waves to GAIA and INDRA exiting another building, this one finished, displaying the name MARCUS KANE SCHOOLHOUSE. GAIA dismisses her students, and joins INDRA, who is taking a drink from NIYLAH. They turn to chat with JORDAN and HOPE who are now sitting on barstools.

INDRA calls out to OCTAVIA, who we see walking back to the camp from the woods with a large animal, perhaps a panther. She waves to LEVITT, who is running to meet her with a baby in a carrier on his chest.

BELLAMY follows behind, also carrying an animal, a smile breaking out on his face. He heads straight to her. A visibly pregnant CLARKE, smiling back at him, sitting on the beach with MADI, braiding her hair.

We pan out, over the whole camp, to black. 

THE END.

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I decided, as I said in my finale post, that there is no way this group wouldn’t find a way to continue the human race. And the alien species didn’t really care enough to stop them, since so many humans had defected, which was unprecedented. Gabriel and Bardo had bananas tech, and between Raven, Emori, and Jackson, they’d have it solved in no time.  Anyway, I hope this brings at least some of you some peace about the ending. It has been looping in my head since I wrote it, and couldn’t not share it. It’s what we deserved, anyway.

Thanks for joining me, and stay tuned for my Superlatives of The 100 series- first post is almost finished!