O Death//Book 2 in the Calliope Kane Series

Chapter 5

"And the kids cried out please stop you're scaring me; God damn right you should be scared of me."

It took another full day to reach the village. The group barely spoke as they finally came up to the trees surrounding all the huts. The sun was starting to dip signaling late afternoon and Calle was thankful they stopped. Raising her gun she looked through the scope as they all laid in the brush.

"I see 25." Finn whispered as they looked around.

"26. Finn, I don't see any of our guys here." Murphy said shooting a glance at Callie

"Yeah, all I'm seeing are kids and the elderly. There isn't anything big enough to hold all 47 of our people." Callie said lowering the scope and looking at the boy.

"They could be underground. We wait till dark then we go in." Finn said lowly ignoring both of them. Murphy put his gun down and faced him. "Go in? Finn we don't know if everyone is even here."

"They are here. Or they were...when that Grounder took Clarkes watch." Finn said glaring at them.

"Finn what if we are too late?" Callie asked. "They might already be dead..we just need to take it easy right now."

"How much ammo do we have?" He asked ignoring Callie's worries.

"You know, I like you a lot better when you were a peacekeeper." Murphy muttered under his breath.

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Bellamy and the rest of the group had made it back to camp in record time. Thankfully the arrow that hit Monroe wasn't poisoned so she was able to get patched up and ready to go in no time. After showering and changing Bellamy met Clarke and Octavia outside of the council room. He knew that they needed to figure out a plan to go after Murphy, Finn and Callie and it needed to be soon.

"We know nothing about these people in Mount Weather. Their numbers, their capabilities. We need to proceed carefully." Major Bryne said as Bellamy walked in. Clarke was standing next to her mother as Octavia was nowhere to be found and Bellamy wondered where she had slipped off too.

"According to Clarke, the 47 still inside are not being harmed, at least not yet. Now, I hate to leave them there, but if she's right, we have some time." Sinclair said crossing his arms and looking at the map they had in front of them.

Abby nodded as she looked at her daughter then back at the other two adults. "Ok. We gather Intel on Mount Weather and we send a team after Kane. He needs to know that the Grounders don't have those kids."

Major Bryne looked at Clarke and Bellamy before speaking."What about Finn Collins, John Murphy and Calliope Kane?" She asked. Bellamy perked up at that and he noticed Clarke did as well.

"What? No you can't just cut them loose mom." Clarke said going to stand by her.

"Sweetheart, we don't have the manpower to send out two rescue missions and protect the camp. It can't happen." Abby said. Bellamy shot a glare at her and had to stop himself from lashing out.

"Mom. They're in trouble. They're either gonna get themselves killed or they're gonna make things worse with the Grounders, who we need to get our people out of Mount Weather." Clarke said, her voice raising.

"I know you feel this is unfair. But if we want any chance at peace we our priority has to be with Chancellor Kane." Abby said putting a hand on her daughter's shoulders.