"You are going to keep on making stupid mistakes leaving others to rescue you until it will be your last and you will find no one there to save you! "
You awaken in the glade, surrounded by guys... though your gaze rests on one boy alone. You make a...
"Am I going to die? Minho, Winston I don't wanna die!"
Gally shouts as his eyes become darker. He is starting to change and he stands up, looking at them when Minho aims the gun at him. "No don't shoot!" Chuck sobs. Minho looks at the kid and back at Gally as he runs towards him, he hesitates to pull the trigger so Thomas grabs it and shoots him. Gally's body drops right in front of them and Chuck and Teresa look away. Thomas stands there frozen, gripping the gun while shaking before dropping it.
"Holy shit," says Aris.
"You just killed him," Brenda remarks.
Thomas steps back and fights back his tears, looking at them. The sun is setting and the wind causes the sand to blow onto the dead body. "We can't stay here, it's getting late," Jorge says. He picks up the gun and they walk around the body, "Thomas? You coming?" Newt asks.
"He-he-I-this is all my fault!"
"Don't blame yourself, you did what you had to."
"No, this wouldn't have happened if I didn't decide to attack the guards. He was only trying to help me, it should have happened to me and now he is dead!" He starts to hyperventilate and he becomes dizzy, his head aches, and his legs feel weak. "D-did I just shoot him? Newt, please tell me that I didn't just kill someone."
"Thomas, just breathe...calm down." Newt kneels in front of him and grips his shoulders, they are both on the ground as he tries to catch his breath.
"Yeah that's it, we need to keep going for Y/N. She needs you."
"She thinks I'm dead!"
"Exactly, imagine how happy she'll be to see you again."
"She probably hates me..."
"Is that what you think? If anything, she would risk all of us for you."
"What are you talking about?"
"When you got left behind, she begged us to go back to save you. "
They stand up and he grins at Thomas, following the others. They continue to walk until the sun sets, they eat some of the bread they had packed even though they are dry. As everyone places their head on their bags and lay down, Thomas looks up,
"Hey, Newt? Do you think she meant what she said?"
"Hm?"
"The last thing she said to me was that she hates me."
"Oh right, I saw the look on her face. When she turned away, she looked like she regretted it but instead, she kept going. I'm sure she didn't mean it, she probably didn't know how to show that she liked you because she was still mad at you. But what you did was right, even though it didn't stop her."
Thomas sighs and the others pass out, "Is anyone else cold? Guys?"
Noone replies.
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Sunrise
Thomas' POV
We all get up when I realise that we are closer than I thought. Glancing up at the WICKED tower, I look back,
"Ok, change of plans. Newt, you go inside with me and Aris alright?"
"Here Winston, wear the suit in case they need our help on the inside," Minho says.
"I guess we are here," Teresa states.
They head over to the back of the building as Newt, Aris and I stand in front of the opening. I see Aris hiding the keycards inside his shoe and I hide the radio in my pants. A woman opens the door and greets us, "I see you young boys are back."
"We realized we made a mistake, here is safer," Aris replies.
She smirks and lets us in. After she makes us change and get settled into our room, we get taken to another. "This is where we eat, Y/N should be here," Newt tells me. We look around and after finding nothing, we find each other again. She is nowhere to be found, "No, no, no, what if she found a way out? God knows where she could be right now!"
"Hold on, before you jump to conclusions, she might have been taken as a subject," Aris whispers.
That means she is in danger and we have to find her before they test on her. If they didn't already. We eat the food given to us and before I know it, it is curfew and they lock us into our room. I feel my radio buzz and I grab it, "Psst, Tommy do you copy?"
"Yeah I, I copy. We are gonna need to go and look for her."
"Ok we found the exit, when you guys need help, we will be waiting."
Aris opens a vent from under the bed, "I should be able to spot her through these vents that show the other rooms, I might be a while."
Newt and I lay in silence just waiting for him to return with hopefully some good news. I hear a few people outside the room and I lean upside down to try and warn Aris through the vent.
"Aris!" I try whispering but it comes out louder than I intended. I look up at Newt with a worried face, "What if they come in here? I need to go after him." I then hear someone shushing me, I look back and see Aris crawling out.
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He climbs up onto the top of the bunk bed and I ask if he saw anything.
"I caught a glimpse of her before they took her into another room. It looked like they were forcing her to work with them."
"Working for them? No, she wouldn't-"
"She probably has no choice," Newt reassures me.
"I just don't know which room they went to, there could be hundreds!" Aris claims.
He swipes the keycard on the door and peaks out to make sure no one is out there. We follow him out and we take the hall where it is empty. At least that's what we thought. There are two guards walking in front of us and we are silently right behind them trying to not even breathe. That's when my radio makes noise and grabs their attention.
"Thomas! There are a bunch of Cranks here, we need to go-"
