Madness//Book 1 in the Calliope Kane series

Chapter 2

The rain, as much as nice as it was to see, convinced Callie that they need to start getting things ready for shelter and trying to stay alive. She stayed up most of the night trying to come up with some kind of plan..ANY plan that would help them survive.

It was nearing morning when Callie finally fell asleep. Something that wasn't an easy act to come by. What Callie didn't know was that through out the night someone was inside the drop ship keeping an eye on her, keeping her safe. Making sure that she wouldn't be harmed by someones stupid antics. She felt his hand brush across her cheek as she leaned into the warmth. It was all just a dream though, there was no way that he would be there with her.

Waking up to the loud yelling outside, Callie rubbed her eyes and looked down at the parachute that was across her. She didn't remember grabbing it to keep warm, but she figured Wells had given it to her so she wouldn't freeze.

Getting up, the girl took her hair out of the bun it was in and walked outside. Running her hands through her hair she looked around at everyone gathered around fighting over what looked like clothes. Going down the ramp, Callie grabbed Wells arm as he stalked by in a bad mood. "Hey where did they get the clothes?" She asked him quietly not taking her eyes off the group that was fighting.

"We buried the boys that died coming down here." He said before leaving. Callie saw the fighting that was getting worse and stomped over to where Bellamy was watching with a smile on his face.

"Is this what you want? Chaos?" Callie hissed moving up to him. She glared at him hoping that maybe he would snap out of it and be the level headed person that she had known. Instead he lolled his head to the side like he was placating her by answering her.

"What's wrong with a little chaos Red?" He asked with that smirk that made her heart stop.

"Bellamy, listen to me. If you keep doing this then we are going to die. We are defenseless, the kids are fighting over clothes like it's some kind of teenage fight club. Murphy and his goons are stomping around the camp like they own the place and quite frankly getting on my nerves." Callie said glancing around at everything. "We need a system in place.." Trailing off, Callie heard screaming from the fire and turned around. Seeing Murphy holding a girls arm over the fire as she screamed in pain, the redheads heart almost stopped beating.

"Hey Bellamy, you know how they want us to think we died? What about torturing them a little bit first" Murphy said with a manic gleam in his eyes. Callie looked at Bellamy thinking he was going to put a stop to it. That he was going to stop the girl from being hurt. When all he did was smile, Callie felt her heart break.

"You need to stop this!" She yelled at him hoping that he would listen to her. Finally turning to face her for the first time, Bellamy had a look in his eyes that Callie didn't recognize.

"Stop it? Oh Red, I'm just getting started." Callie shook her head as she ran over to Murphy and shoved him off the girl, pulling her away from the fire and checking her for burns. She had a small one but other than that her wrist was just red.

"Shh, it's okay." Callie said holding her while the girl sobbed into her chest.

"Oh look, little Miss Perfect here to save the day." Murphy said getting up from the ground that he was shoved to. Callie stood up slowly as she put the other girl behind her.

"If you want to take your bracelets off then thats your choice. You don't get to make that choice for everyone else." She spat at him. She could see him try and pull himself up to his full height to intimidate her. It wasn't working.

Bellamy watched the interaction with narrowed eyes. He knew that if Murphy tried anything he would be laying flat on his back. Callie knew how to protect herself, that wasn't what he was worried about. He was more worried about her getting herself into trouble because she thought she could handle it.