O Death//Book 2 in the Calliope Kane Series

Chapter 10

Bellamy slunk through the woods with Lincoln, trying to keep up. The entire time though his mind was still back at the camp with Callie. He knew that it was the best choice leaving her behind. But that still didn't mean that he wasn't worried about her. Lincoln must've noticed because when they stopped for water, he kept looking at the other man. "If you keep your mind back at camp, then you won't be able to focus on what's going on here." Bellamy looked at him and shook his head with a small smile on his face.

"I didn't realize it was that obvious."

"Octavia told me about you guys when you were up on the Ark. About how you became friends and what happened after." Lincoln said quietly. "Why did you leave her?" The question honestly wasn't a surprise to Bellamy. It was just something that most people never asked him, and it was a question that he never really liked the answer to.

"I guess I was blaming her for something that was out of her control. It was easier to blame her for something that was my fault." And that was the truth. Bellamy knew that he was careless that day, he knew that he shouldn't have risked letting Octavia go out with everyone else...but he just wanted to make his sister happy. "Her dad was the one who pushed the button to float my mom, so it made it easier."

"It seems like you had suffered enough and didn't want to lose her too, so you pushed her away." Lincoln said as he looked around, making sure the coast was still clear. "But Callie seems to understand why you did what you did."

Bellamy nodded, knowing that he really didn't have to say much to try and justify his actions with the other man. "Hopefully i'll be able to spend a long time making it up to her." He said before he wiped his hands and stood up. "Okay, I need to know, we make it to the intake door without any of the real reapers seeing us. What happens next?"

Lincoln got up and walked over to where a dead deer carcass was. He started slowly cutting it open and started putting the blood on his face. "I kill everyone and you slip in." He said as he started to put the blood on Bellamy's face. "This needs to be quick though, we don't want to give off any indication that we were there." Bellamy nodded as he watched Lincoln pack up and head towards where they needed to go. As they started into the woods, Bellamy gently grabbed Lincoln's arm.

"Thank you for saving my sister. I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't found her." He said quietly. "I'm sorry for not trusting you before."

"We have all made mistakes since meeting, the difference between us and the enemy is that we learn from them and we work together." Lincoln said before heading off with Bellamy following.

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The tension inside the building was palpable. Callie honestly didn't know what would happen next, but she wouldn't be surprised if someone lunged at someone soon. Lexa's warriors had been less than thrilled that Lexa had wanted to work with them, but at the same time the girl didn't care. Their friends were in there as well as a lot of Lexa's men and if working together meant they all were able to get them all out then so be it. Callie watched Lexa and Clarke go back and forth as they argued over a plan. Though she tried to pay attention the girl's mind kept wandering back to where Bellamy was. She knew that it would be a minute before she actually heard from him, but that didn't help the pit in the bottom of her stomach. They shouldn't have to fight for survival anymore, yet here they were. Callie zoned out so much that she didn't realize Clarke was raising her voice in frustration till she looked up and saw the blonde storm out of the tent. Catching Major Bryne's eye, Callie nodded as she motioned for the woman to follow Clarke. She waited till they were both out of sight when she finally walked over to Lexa.

"What's going on?" Callie asked as people started filing out of the room.

"Clarke is putting too much faith in your friend. She refuses to have a plan that doesn't end up saving everyone in the end." Lexa said looking at Callie as the redhead's eyes were trained on the door. "She could be a great leader...but she needs to learn to make the hard sacrifices."