Madness//Book 1 in the Calliope Kane series

Chapter 10

Callie managed to make her way over to Jasper to check the head wound. He was knocked out but slowly waking up and Callie let out a sigh thanking whatever god was out there that Murphy hadn't hit his temple. Murphy stalked back and forth muttering to himself and shooting glances over at Callie. The redhead was cursing the fact that she took her jacket off upstairs. She could probably overtake Murphy, but she would feel better with the knife that was in her pocket.

"Murphy...we need to talk about this." Callie said quietly. This wasn't the first hostile situation that she had been in with him, though she hoped it would be the last.

"SHUT UP." Murphy yelled looking at her. "You know what Callie..I am SO tired of having you be in charge. I'm so tired of thinking I have to take orders from you when I don't. No, we don't need to talk about this, I'm the one running the show." He said waving the gun around.

"Okay fine...then let Jasper go okay..I'll stay here with you and we can figure out what you want to do." Murphy let out a hollow laugh at Callie's words and for the first time she had shivers sent down her spine.

"Murphy, I know you can hear me. All our ammo and food is in the middle level. You know that. You're leaving us vulnerable to an attack. I can't let that happen." Bellamys voice came through the radio and Callie prayed he had a plan.

Bringing the radio to his lips, Callie noticed his eyes never left her as Murphy spoke. "Yeah well in case you haven't noticed, you're not exactly in control right now."

"Come on, Murphy. You don't want to hurt Jasper or Callie. You want to hurt me. So what do you say? How about you trade them for me?"

Callie's eyes went wide when Bellamy said that. Murphy saw the fear in her eyes and smirked. "Seems like little miss perfect doesn't like that plan." He said quietly to her. Callie averted eye contact as Jasper started waking up and helped him sit up.

"How?' Murphy asked into the radio. "You open the door. They walk out and I walk in." Bellamy said. Murphy motioned for Jasper to stand up. Callie went to go with when he pointed the gun at her.

"Not you. Sit." Callie sat down as she nodded to Jasper who had fear in his eyes. "You alone Bellamy. Unarmed. You have 10 seconds before I put a bullet in his leg." Murphy said into the radio as he lowered the door to the ship. Callie closed her eyes as Murphy continued counting and tried to figure out what the hell she was going to do.

"I said both of them Murphy." Bellamy said when she saw the redhead in the corner with her eyes closed. Her eyes snapped open at the sound of his voice and looked panicked when the door shut again.

"See I know what you said. But then I thought, wouldn't it be fun if we all had just a nice little reunion." Murphy said shoving Bellamy into the middle of the room. Callie stood up and tried to move closer to him when Murphy tutted.

"Calliope, I like your face. Don't make me put a bullet through it." He said pointing the gun towards her. Callie's hands went up and stopped where she was. "Okay, fine." She said quietly. Bellamy ignored Murphy and tried to walk over to a visibly shaken Callie when Murphy fired a shot that missed Callie's head by inches.

"What the hell did I JUST say?" He yelled. Bellamy stopped and turned towards him finally realizing that he was serious.

"Bellamy, Bell...are you okay?!" Octavia's voice rang through the ship over the radio and the redhead hoped that they would make it out of this so she could see her brother again.

Murphy threw some seatbelts and rope towards Bellamy and motioned to them. "You want her to know you're okay? Then start tying." Callie tried to figure out what Murphy was getting at but couldn't understand his plan.