Second Chance//Bellamy Blake

-6-

Violet walked in the direction Muphy had followed after Mbege, she saw her friends sitting in a circle together. The group consisted of Murphy, Mbege, Jones, Atom, and Roma all her closest friends in the Sky Box. They were sat around creating makeshift knives. She grabbed a decent size piece of metal that had clearly fallen off the ship, in their anything-but-graceful landing. She then picked up a rock and sat down next to Murphy.

"Candy-Kane what a lovely surprise!" He teased, nudging her with a grin.

Violet shook her head laughing.

"If that name catches on down here you better hope you can sleep with one eye open."

"I can go days without sleeping, learned how to do that because you snored so damn loud." He remarked sarcastically causing the rest of their friends to erupt in laughter.

"What did Blake want?" Mbege asked from across the circle.

"Just interrogating me about how trustworthy you idiots are."

"Why the fuck does he care about that?"

"He seems to think you guys will be helping him run things."

The group erupted into laughter again, laughter that signified shock over Bellamy proclaiming himself a leader but delight that they would be a part of it. Murphy scoffed at her statement and his eyes fell to her struggling to sharpen the piece of metal into a knife.

"No, no, no. Here give it to me." He said taking her supplies.

She blushed slightly embarrassed by her inability to do it herself. But by now no one was paying attention to her, instead, they were bantering with one another about Bellamy.

Murphy began to sharpen the metal himself, "Why the hell do you need this if you've got a gun?" he said in a lower tone.

"I don't see anywhere to get ammo, so gun is gonna be for emergencies only."

"Ah, I see." He shrugged as he continued to sharpen the metal piece.

Violet sat next to Murphy thinking deeply about what had gone on a few minutes before. That stupid delinquent had to call her a whore right in front of that cocky, but incredibly handsome Bellamy Blake. He must think she is so disgusting, she thought to herself.

The boys talked smack about Wells, Murphy included, as they all sharpened metal into knives. Violet simply leaned her head on Murphy wallowing in her embarrassment. Time passed and Murphy handed Violet her new knife. He had noticed her unhappiness for a while now and felt the need to address it.

"What's the problem?" He asked plainly but with a look of sympathy on his face as he placed his hand under her chin making her turn and face him.

"Do you think I'm a whore?" She replied just as plainly.

"No. The guards just have a thing for you." He scoffed. "Plus, I mean think about it, no one ever had more shit than you or better treatment in the Sky Box. You're a survivor V, you know how to get what you deserve."

"You mean that?"

"Yeah."

"Okay thanks, it's just Conner said I was one earlier, right in front of- and well- it- never mind."

"Who said what to you?" Jones cut in.

"Conner called her a whore." Murphy stated pissed off.

The boy began to stand up as if they were going to find him.

"Woah, Woah. Guys relax, Bellamy took care of it." Violet stated as she tried to grab Murphy's arm and make him sit back down.

"Bellamy huh?" Mbege teased with a smirk.