꧁★ act one — chapter five ★꧂

Madelyn was limping, she'd been wandering around for what felt like forever, trying to find her way back to camp with no luck, she was walking and fell when she tripped over something, she looked back and noticed she had tripped over someone.

"Madelyn?" The voice asked, Madelyn squinted her eyes, but she couldn't make out who it was, she was getting dizzier by the second from the blood loss and the intense pain she was in, her eyes were blurred making it even harder to see. "Madelyn!" She heard the voice yell as she fell back down on the ground as she passed out.

Madelyn groaned as she woke up, she was lying down, she opened her eyes and saw someone sitting beside her, covered in blood, she looked up and saw Murphy, he was looking down at her already. Madelyn furrowed her brows and tried to move but immediately stopped as pain shot through her body. "Don't move." Murphy whispered.

"Where is he?" Bellamy's voice was heard as he walked into what Madelyn had guessed was the drop ship by the looks of it. "Madelyn?" Bellamy asked, Madelyn turned her head the best she could and saw Bellamy, Clarke and Cameron all looking at her with wide eyes. Madelyn tried to speak but was immidieatly in pain, Clarke went forward and sat down in front of her, Clarke helped her sit up, Madelyn winching from the pain.

"Alright, everyone but Conner and Derek out...now!" Bellamy yelled as Finn walked up beside him. "He claims he was with the grounders." Derek spoke. "we caught him trying to sneak back into camp."

"I wasn't sneaking. I was running from the grounders. I saw Madelyn on the way, she passed out and I brought her here." Murphy explained as Madelyn stated to loose consciousness again.

"Anyone see grounders?" Bellamy asked, but no one had so Bellamy pointed his gun toward Murphy. "Well, in that case--"

"Hey, what the hell is wrong with you?" Finn asked as he hit the gun Bellamy was pointing at Murphy. "We were clear what would happen if he came back." Bellamy spoke, as he pointed the gun back up put Finn stepped infant of it.

"No. If he was with the grounders, then he knows things that can help us." Finn spoke, Madelyn's head rested against the wall as Clarke was now standing back where she was before. "Help us? We hanged him. We banished him, and now we're gonna kill him. Get the hell out of my way." Bellamy spoke not putting the gun down, Madelyn could feel the pain that had calmed for a second starting back up as she groaned, Murphy looked at her for a split second before he turned back toward the others.

"No. Finn is right." Clarke said as she walked back toward Murphy and Madelyn, this time bending down infant of Murphy. "Like hell, he is. Clarke, think about Charlotte. I mean look at Madelyn, if he hadn't--"

"I am thinking about them, but what happened to them was as much our fault as his." Clarke said as she studied some on Murphy's wounds. "He's not lying. His fingernails were torn off. They tortured him." Clarke spoke, Madelyn could  slightly hear Bellamy yelling and some more talking but Madelyn slipped back out of consciousness.

Madelyn woke up in an intense pain, she groaned as she moved, Madelyn let out a gagging sound, making Murphy look at her, but before he could ask if she was okay, he turned the other  way and coughed out blood, making Madelyn's eyes widen, Madelyn looked toward the entrance when Clarke walked in, blood coming out of her eyes.

"Murphy, hey, look at me. I need you to tell me exactly how you escaped from the grounders." Clarke said as she sat down in front of him. "I don't know, I woke up, and they forgot to lock my cage. There was no one there, so I took off." Murphy replied.

"They let him go." Madelyn barely whispered as she groaned trying to sit up straighter as Clarke looked at her, Madelyn gasped as she all of a sudden could get air into her lungs and barely a second later she coughed up blood, she couldn't move so the blood ran down her chin and onto her clothes going down her shirt and on her pants.

Bellamy walked into the drop ship his eyes widened as he saw Madelyn coucghing blood and Clarke sat in front of her, holding her face, she turned around and Bellamy could see her eyes.

"Bellamy, stay back." Clarke said as she held up a hand to make him stay away. "Did he do something to you?" Bellamy asked and his eyes looked at Madelyn with concern for a second before returning to Clarke who shook her head. "What the hell is this?"

"Biological warfare. You were waiting for the grounders to retaliate for the bridge? This is it." Clarke spoke as she looked at Bellamy then turned her head to Murphy. "Murphy is the weapon.

"Is this your revenge, helping the grounders kill us?" Bellamy asked. Madelyn wasn't coughing ip blood anymore, as much as Clarke pleaded for her to look after her wounds from falling of that cliff, Madelyn didn't let her touch her, not yet she had said, so Clarke was cleaning Murphy's wounds.

"I didn't know about this, ok, I swear." Murphy said, Madelyn jumped when Bellamy yelled. "Stop lying! When are they coming?"

"Murphy, think, all right? What can you tell us that's useful? Did you hear anything?" Clarke asked, Madelyn turned her head to look at Murphy, all she could think about at that moment was that dumb statement she had made before everything happened, it wasn't right, it was her feel pretty bad.

I can tell.

"They are vicious, cruel." Murphy spoke, Bellamy very quickly answered to that has he stepped forward. "You want to see vicious?"

"Please." Madelyn barely got out making Bellamy stop in his tracks and look at her. "please just don't." Madelyn spoke, she had figured out it spread through contact, she didn't want Bellamy to get infected.

"Whatever this thing is, it spreads through contact." Clarke spoke taking the words straight out of Madelyn's head, Finn ran in. "Finn, you shouldn't be in here. No one should."

"I heard you were sick." Finn spoke. "Clarke, what is this?" He asked.

"I don't know, some kind of hemorrhagic fever. We just need to contain it before--" Clarke didn't get to finish her sentence before someone started retching, they all look over. He was shaking and Clarke got up.

He was groaning in pain, and blood came out of his mouth, he kept coughing and groaning in pain until, nothing.

He was dead.

Madelyn started panicking. She didn't want to die, she didn't look up at what the others were doing and what they were saying as she panicked, tear slipped out from her eyes.

"I don't want to die." Madelyn whispered as a sob caught in her throat. A Hand grabbed Madelyn's and she looked to see Murphy's she did her best to turn her head to look up at him.

"You won't."

Madelyn was laying against Murphy's shoulder, she hadn't been able to sleep like she wanted, Madelyn started coughing a only a little blood came out, she wasn't in the right position so the blood got stuck in her throat causing her to start choking.

Murphy quickly reacted and helped her onto her hands and knees, he sat beside her rubbing her back at she finally got the blood unstuck form her throat and she breathed deep and heavily after as tears welled up in her eyes and a sob escaped.

"Hey, hey, you're okay." Murphy said, he left her side for a minute and got back and helped her stand, he helped her to a little makeshift bed he'd made so she'd be more comfortable, he helped her lay down and sat down beside her, he rolled her on her side so she wouldn't have to move too much if more blood came.

"Go to sleep." Murphy said, this time no emotion in his voice, Madelyn furrowed her brows and looked at him as he stood, this time she didn't she the Murphy who'd taken her hand and helped her to be more comfortable, or saved her from dying, no this Murphy looked at her with pure hatred.

Madelyn decided to ignore it and closed her eyes falling asleep.

Madelyn was sitting up on her bed, she was feeling a lot better, she wasn't coughing up blood, but her wounds and the pain from falling down the cliffs hadn't been traded meaning they were still hurting, Madelyn looked up as two guys carried Bellamy in, making Octavia instantly panic.

"Hey, Octavia." Madelyn said and Octavia looked at the girl who scooted closer to the wall and pointed to her bed, the two guys and Octavia helped Bellamy lay down beside Madelyn, Octavia said down on the floor beside Bellamy as Madelyn's 'bed' wasn't exactly king sized.

Blood came out of Bellamy's mouth, Madelyn and Octavia rolled him toward the edge of the 'bed' so he didn't choke on it.

"Hey, big brother." Octavia said as they rolled him back onto his back. "I'm scared." Bellamy whispered and Madelyn's eyes softened knowing exactly what he meant. "I won't let anything happen to you, I promise." Octavia spoke as she held a cloth to his forehead.

"That's what I said to you the day you were born." Bellamy said and a small smile made it's way onto both Octavia and Madelyn's faces. "I know. You told me that, like, 1,000 times." Octavia said as the sibling held each others hand.

"I'm glad you're here." Bellamy spoke. "Just get some rest now, ok?" Octavia spoke, Bellamy nodded and turned his head toward Madelyn, with closed eyes as he fell asleep.

Bellamy was lucky to sleep for long, when he woke up he looked up and saw Madelyn, she had moved her her legs were straight out in front of her, she had laid Bellamy's head in her lap, her legs acting as a pillow since there wasn't one, one hand was going through Bellamy's hair to give him a little more comfort, the other hand was holding his, she had given his hand a squeeze even once in a while not only reminding him but also herself that everything would be okay.

Bellamy looked at her with a small smile, her own eyes were closed and her head was against the wall, he gave her hand a little squeeze and she opened her eyes and looked down at him, Murphy had walked over a couple minutes before, Madelyn still didn't know why he'd changed so quickly because this time he'd given her smile and handed her two cups of water, Madelyn was so confused.

When he thought she wasn't looking our couldn't see him, he was basically death staring her, but when she was looking he was being all nice and helping her.

"Do you want some water?" Madelyn asked with a small smile. Bellamy nodded his head and he sat up, he sat up and looked around the drop ship, Madelyn scooted forward and sat beside him, she reached over and handed him the cup getting a thanks from him.

"How are you doing?" He asked her as he turned to her. "I'm doing okay. Sickness wise, I'm fine. However my body is still hurting from my little tumble down a cliff." She spoke as she laughed a little, it wasn't funny at all but she was just trying to lighten the mood.

"I thought you were dead." Bellamy spoke and Madelyn looked at the ground. "I thought we'd just lost two little kids."

"Yeah well you only lost one." Madelyn spoke as she looked back up with tears In her eyes. "I fell different and a lot slower, I tumbled down the cliff, I got stuck on a branch and had a hold on a stone which kind of slowed my fall, so less injuries.." Madelyn trailed off.

"But Charlotte wasn't as lucky, she jumped, so she fell directly to the ground." Madelyn said as she looked at Bellamy, tears were blurring her vision. "She wasn't even dead. She was alive but barely.. I had to.." Madelyn trailed off as she couldn't finish her sentence as a sob got caught in her throat, Bellamy pulled her into a hug and she sobbed in his arms.

Apparently they had blown up something, Madelyn didn't hear what but they had blown up something so that they could slow down the grounders attack, Madelyn was better, Clarke had looked at her wounds and told her all she could do was just for Madelyn to take it easy and rest, give her body time to heal.

Madelyn was sitting in the drop ship, Bellamy had made sure to get Madelyn a new kind of bed, seeing as she was gonna spend most of her time in the drop ship anyway.

Cameron was sitting in front of her, he was immune like they believed Finn and Octavia to be, so as soon as this thing calmed down he didn't care anymore and went into the drop ship, he hadn't left her side.

"So.." Madelyn said as she looked up at Cameron, breaking the silence who raised a brow. "I gotta ask, why did you get locked up, I mean I really didn't expect to see other kids my age, but then there was Charlotte and now you."

"Well, my mother got sick, she needed more medicine that she already had been given, so I broke in and stole some, then when guards came to arrest me, I punched one of them in the face." Cameron laughed and Madelyn laughed with him. "Guess he didn't like that." They both laughed again.

Not too long after that Madelyn fell asleep, Cameron fell sleep not long after, sitting up against the wall.

AUTHOR'S NOTE!

Yayyy! I've been going crazy with writing and updating lately, I mean it's only this book but whatever, I'm honestly very happy that I've been writing this much lately, however I do have other books I really want to write, so I will most likely finish act one of this book and then start working on some on my others so then there might not be as many updates, but I'll try my best.

Any opinions so far?

Don't worry, I have great things planned for Murphy and Madelyn, they're gonna have rough start, all I can say right now is, him hating her is not over. You know what's coming next with the Murphy hanging Bellamy and shooting Raven, something not that great is gonna happen then just so you're prepared and yeah, they're not exactly gonna be the bests test of friend.

However right now, Murphy is pretty pissed over the whole Madelyn kind of joking about his family trauma thing, Madelyn sometimes jokes about family trauma because of her own family trauma, sometimes she jokes about it in her head sometimes she says it out loud.

So, Murphy's pretty pissed at the moment but, I have a sibling like bond in mind for them.

I also know this chapter wasn't the longest but I wanted to fit her into more episode's of season one, instead of just starting in season two or something, and I didn't feel like writing the rest of the season with Cameron mainly because, Madelyn is the main person in this book, Cameron is technically a side character and her love interest. But don't worry I love him, and I love them I wanted more scenes of them.

Which is also why I decided not to write the rest of the season with just Cameron, so that we could get more Cadelyn (or Mameron, which one do we like best, or does someone have anything better?)