[She steps back, but Bellamy doesn't. He keeps his hands on her, shifting to her shoulders to keep her close for now, to keep her from leaving just yet. The look he gives her is soft and stubborn, almost aggressively reassuring.] Hey. Don't ever apologize for that. I'll always come home.

[There is very little - next to nothing - that would stop him from coming the moment she called. It's never a burden.] You don't have to be okay right now, you got that? You're allowed to take more time.

[Because he knows Clarke, and he knows she's already thinking about going off into the world, both because she fatally cares and because it'll be a good distraction. She's lost so many people, and Lauralae might not be dead, but the cut off as it was undoubtedly feels like a kind of death. He refuses to lose her to that.]