Attitude Adjustment [Book 1 - Season 1]

Chapter 3: Earth Kills

Reigna let out an angry huff as another pained moan escaped the dropship. Grabbing Murphy's discarded jacket she bundled up the material and pressed it over her exposed ears as another loud cry could be heard across the camp.

"At this point I wish he would just hurry up and die." Reigna heard Murphy's muffled voice beside her.

"Honestly, me too." Reigna sighed, uncovering her face but keeping the jacket pressed firmly over her ears.

"Or why don't they just gag him?" Reigna thought out loud.

"They're too nice." Murphy grumbled, covering his own ears with his hands as Jasper let out a pained yell from the dropship once again.

"He's gonna piss off everyone in camp if he hasn't already."
"He's pissed me off already." Murphy replied with a roll of his eyes. Reigna snorted, taking the jacket off her ears when it was finally silent for a moment.

"You think he'll make it?" Reigna questioned, repositioning the jacket to use as a pillow.

"Doubt it." Murphy shrugged, "He's in pretty bad shape, we don't have meds for him. I'm giving him about three days tops."

"Three days might be a bit generous." Reigna thought aloud, "I would bet on it but I don't have anything to gamble." She joked, bringing a rare smile to Murphy's face for a moment.

"I could think of a few things-"
"You're disgusting." Reigna laughed before pulling the blanket her and Murphy borrowed from Bellamy's tent back up.

"We should try to get some sleep now that Jasper's decided to keep him damn mouth shut." Reigna proposed before turning her back to Murphy. She heard him grunt in agreement before moving around to get comfortable, lifting Reigna's head off the bunched up jacket and onto his arm.

"Goodnight, John.

"Night, Reign."

Reigna was just as tired as Murphy looked the next morning. Murphy, Bellamy and herself were out by a cluster of trees to practice throwing knives and axes, and Jasper was still screaming in pain.

"That damn kid is messing with my head," Murphy growled as the knife he threw didn't manage to stick in the tree.

"He's not gonna last much longer. Better think of a new excuse." Bellamy said to him as he threw an axe at the same tree, lodging it deep into the bark. Murphy clenched his jaw and glanced over to Reigna who gave him a subtle shake of her head.

"Are you sure it was really Jasper that kept the two of you up last night anyway?" Bellamy smirked as he made his way to the tree to retrieve his axe. Reigna narrowed her eyes at his back before removing one of her newly sharpened knives from her waistband, throwing the knife and lodging it in the tree a hair away from the tip of Bellamy's nose.

"Positive." Reigna's voice was deadly serious as she responded to Bellamy, making her way to the tree and pulling her knife out with ease before retreating to Murphy's side.

Just as Bellamy made his way back to where Murphy and Reigna were standing, Atom and Mbege and some others Reigna didn't bother to get to know appeared.

"We searched a half-mile in all directions. No sign of Trina or Pascal." Atom reported to Bellamy.

"You visit your special tree while you were out there?" Murphy said to Atom, a hint of humor in his voice.

"Atom took his punishment, let it go." Bellamy quickly responded to Murphy before turning back to Atom, urging him to continue. Both Murphy and Reigna glared over at Bellamy for a moment before looking back to Atom.