A/N: Chapter ten already, wow! Thank you all so much <3

Should the chapters be longer than these? (I mostly do 900-1400 words).

I have vacation in a few days so expect a LOT of chapters!!

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'Nora?' Thomas asked during breakfast. I sat next to him and it surprised me how quietly he talked.

'Yeah?'

'You, uhm, gave this to me, but I want you to have it.' Thomas showed me Chuck's wooden figure. I got tears in my eyes but also smiled.

'Thank you, Thomas.' He handed me the figure and I put it in my pocket.

'How are you doing?' Thomas questioned.

'Right now I'm okay, thanks.' I replied. 'Are you?'

Thomas chuckled. 'Yes.'
But then our attention got drawn to something else. Rat Man was calling the names.

'Henry. Tim. And lastly, David. Enjoy the rest of your evening everybody.' Rat Man walked away again.

'Aris said they bring in a new batch every night.' Thomas whispered.

'Okay, until we know anything for certain, we should just keep our heads down and try not to draw any attention to ourselves, all right?' Newt ordered, but Thomas got up.

'What is he doing?' Newt frowned.

'I think he's drawing attention to himself.'

Thomas walked over to a guard I definitely recognized. 'Oh, shit.' Logan mumbled.

'It's the same guard.' I realized. 'The same one me and Logan had some... issues with.'

Suddenly Thomas punched the guard. All of us rushed over to the two males and we pulled Thomas away. 'Why won't you let me see her?' Thomas yelled.

'What's happening here?' Rat Man appeared and I rolled my eyes. I don't think I ever hated someone more than him. 'Thomas? I thought we could trust each other. You know we're all on the same team here.'

'Are we?' Thomas muttered.

'Get them to their bunks.'

'No!' Newt yelled when a guard grabbed me and pulled me away from him. 'Don't touch her!'
Newt started to resist but eventually, the guard took over.

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I got pushed into my room and almost fell onto the floor. I didn't hesitate a second to crawl under my bed and climb through the vents. It was dark, but I was able to see things. When I heard a certain British voice, I stopped and look to my right. There was a vent next to me and I assumed it was where the others slept.

I climbed out of the vent. 'Hey, Thomas! That you?' I recognized Minho's voice.

'Sadly not.' I smiled and got on my feet.

'Nora! What the hell are you doing?' Newt raised his voice slightly.

'I'm visiting you.' I casually replied.

'They're going to see you!'

'And you think they didn't see you?'

Newt stopped arguing and sat down on his bed. 'Thomas is with Aris.'

'I'd like to meet him sometime.' I commented. 'How long have they been gone?'

'Ten minutes or so.' Minho replied.

'Okay.' I carefully sat down on Newt's bed too. 'I hope they find something 'cause I don't trust this place either.

'You don't trust anyone.' Minho said.

'Shut up, mean hoe.' I answered. 'And it's not like you trust anyone.'

'Don't call me that.' Minho responded.

'Oh, god.' Logan ran a hand through his hair. 'Are we seriously going to do this right now?'

'Otherwise, I'll call you somethin' too.' Minho grinned and completely ignored Logan.

'This is very childish.' Frypan chuckled under his breath.

'What are you going to call me then?' I raised my eyebrows.

'Nora Dora.'

My smile disappeared and Minho grinned even more. 'Don't call me that, mean hoe.'

'Oh, I'm sorry, Dora the explorer.'

Newt sighed. 'Is this what y'all are-.'

Newt got interrupted by Thomas and Aris climbing out of the vent.

'Thomas!' Frypan yelled when Thomas started running around in the room. Aris just stood there, watching Thomas grab stuff.

'We gotta go.' Thomas panicked. 'We gotta go right now.'

'What the hell are you talking about?' Minho raised his voice.

'They're coming. Come on. We gotta go.' Thomas mumbled.

'What?'

'Paige... she's still alive.' Thomas replied.

'What happened in there?' Newt asked just as confused as everyone.

'Aris, what happened?' Frypan asked, but Aris didn't reply.

'Thomas, can you just calm down and talk to us.' Newt grabbed Thomas' shoulders, but Thomas shook him off.

'She's still alive.' He said as he grabbed a mattress from a bed.

'Who's she? Teresa?' Frypan frowned.

'Ava.'

'Ava?' Newt repeated. 'Will you just turn around and talk to us?' He raised his voice.

'It's WICKED!' Thomas spun around. 'It's always been WICKED!'

I was kind of right. I didn't trust the people here and turned out, they couldn't be trusted. It was WICKED.

'Thomas, what did you see?'

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'You guys go ahead.'
Aris said once we climbed out of the vent, into the hallway.
'There's something I gotta do.'

'What are you talking about?' Thomas wondered.

'Trust me, it's important. You guys wanna get outta here, right? Just go.' Aris replied.

'I'll go with him.' Winston walked over to Aris.

Okay, Winston! Go! Come on.' Thomas started running and we followed.

'You sure we can trust this kid?' Minho asked as we turned a corner.

'You don't want to know where we'd be without him.'

We stopped in our tracks when a doctor appeared in front of us.

'What are you kids doing out?' The woman asked carefully. Suddenly an alarm went off, making the woman realize we weren't supposed to be out of our rooms.

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Thomas and Frypan held the woman, who lead us to Teresa. When we turned another corner, a man with a gun appeared. All of us turned around and ran away, except for Minho, who ran towards the man.

'Minho!' I shouted.

'What the hell are you doing?'

Minho let out a yell and kicked the man in his stomach. The man fell to the ground. 'Holy shit, Minho.' I ran over to him

Thomas grabbed the man's gun and we started running again. Thomas grabbed the woman again and pointed the gun at her.

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The woman opened a door, which I guessed was where Teresa lay.

'Wait, wait! Woah!' The doctors held their hands in the air once they saw Thomas holding a gun.

'Where is she?' Thomas yelled. 'Where is she!' He raised his voice when the doctor didn't reply. Then Thomas' attention got drawn to a curtain in the corner of the room. He handed Minho the gun and ran over to Teresa.

'Guys! They're coming, what do we do?' Fry yelled after a few seconds.

Overwhelmed by everything that was going on, I and Newt pushed a table in front of the door.

'Get back!' Minho shouted once Rat Man tried to open the door. He pointed the gun at them as we stepped back from the door. 'Where do we go?' Minho shouted.

Thomas turned around and looked at the glass window behind us. He grabbed a chair and started smashing the glass, trying to break it. 'Newt! Help!' He shouted. Newt grabbed a chair too and together they smashed the window, making the glass break into hundreds of pieces.

'Come on, love!' Newt grabbed my waist and smoothly lifted me over the window. Butterflies formed in my stomach at his touch. Not the time, I thought.

Minho threw the gun toward Thomas, who caught it perfectly. The rest of us climbed through the big, broken window too and we opened a door but immediately stopped when a man with a mask, stood in front of us.

Thomas didn't hesitate to pull the trigger of the gun and shot the man. Some kind of electric thing hit the man and he fell onto the floor, getting shocks of electricity. I guessed it was something like a Taser.

Shocked Thomas looked at the gun before we started moving again. We ran through a long hallway, towards the door. Once we arrived, Thomas swiped a card on the device, but the door didn't open.

'Shit.' I muttered.

'Come on. No, no, no.' Thomas panicked.

'Thomas!'

'Yay, it's Rat Man again.' I sighed as we turned around. Thomas tightened his grip on the gun and walked closer to Rat Man. Newt grabbed me by the waist again and protectively moved me behind him. Immediately my cheeks heat up.

'Open this door, Janson!' Thomas threatened.

'You really don't want me to.' Rat Man held his hands in the air and walked towards Thomas.

'Open the damn door!'

'I'm trying to save your life. The maze is one thing, but you kids wouldn't last one day out in the Scorch.' Rat Man said, very calm. 'If the elements don't kill you, the Cranks will. Thomas, you have to believe me. I only want what's best for you.'

'Yeah, let me guess. WICKED is good?'

Rat Man's face darkened. 'You're not getting through that door, Thomas.'

Suddenly the door behind us opened and Aris and Winston appeared. 'Hey, guys.' Quickly we walked over to them.

'Thomas! Come on, let's go!' Newt yelled at the boy. Thomas fired some bullets at Rat Man and his guards until he ran out of bullets. Frustrated he threw the gun on the floor and started running.

'Shut the main vault door.' Rat Man said through his radiophone. The door in front of us started to slide back down again, while Thomas was still on the other side.

'Come on, Thomas!' I yelled.

Just before the door closed, Thomas slid under it. Relieved we helped him get up. Aris broke the device on the wall, so Rat Man couldn't open it with his keycard.

Rat Man looked through the small window as Thomas gave him the middle finger.

'You little shit!' Janson yelled. I chuckled lightly before we started running again. Thomas opened the giant door. A cold breeze flew in my face and I noticed it was dark outside. Sand was flying around everywhere and I could barely see a thing. There was a storm.

'Come on!' Thomas started running.

Newt grabbed my hand and we ran into the desert.

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Guards were following us as we climbed a sand mountain. I almost fell multiple times because of the heavy floor, but I made it to the top. All of us did.

'Teresa wait!' Thomas shouted when she climbed into a broken window. It looked like a building that fell. Without thinking for a second, I followed Teresa, since I rather didn't want to be tortured again.

'Get down here!' Teresa yelled at the others. Soon they all followed.