"Some say, she's as fast as a bullet, but only when she has something to run from."
{Thomas x OC}
{Part 1, 2 & 3}
{𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝟏 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝘽𝙚𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙙 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙨 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬}
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"I'm going to keep you safe."
•••
THE BUILDING IS dark. Sand has piled into the building, and it smells of something rotting. Outside, boys give in and run down the sand hill into the building to stand next to the girls.
With his flashlight, Minho looks around at the room around them. It looks big, with piles of rubble laying around. "Where the hell are we?"
"A mall, it looks like." Leanne exhales, memories of going shopping with her mother and sister coming back to her. Minho frowns at her, not understanding. "A place where people would go shopping, to get clothes, and other objects."
"We gotta go." Thomas breathes heavily.
Teresa's hand shakes in Leanne's. "Thomas, stop." She says sternly.
He turns to look at her. "We gotta keep moving."
"Teresa deserves an explanation about what's going on."
"It's WICKED." He says calmly. "It's WICKED. They lied to us... We never escaped." Teresa's hand slips out of Leanne's. "Me and Aris, we found bodies. Too many to count."
"What do you mean?" Minho asks, more confused by the newfound information. "Dead bodies?"
"No, but they weren't alive either." He looks down. "They had them strung up. With tubes coming out of them. They were being... they were being drained." Juno's face pales. Noticing this, Leanne makes a mental note to talk to her later. "There's something inside of us that WICKED wants. Something in our blood. So we have to get as far away from them as possible."
"Okay. So, what's the plan?" Newt says, seemingly the only person thinking strait. "You do have a plan, right?"
"Yeah. I don't know."
"Well, we followed you out here, Thomas... and now you're saying that you have no idea where we're going... or what we're doing." Newt exclaims.
"Wait. Janson said something about people hiding in the mountains." Aris says slowly. "Some kind of resistance or army."
"The Right Arm." Thomas confirms. "The Right Arm. If they're really against WICKED, maybe they can help us."
"People. In the mountains. Mountain people. That's your plan?" Newt questions, unconvinced.
