TERESA PICKED EVIE'S ARM FOR THE
sixth time and took her blood. Again she mixed it with the blue liquid that Evie thought was the flare virus and compared it under the microscope.
Evie daggered the brunette girl in the flesh with her eyes, which the girl skillfully ignored. Evie then thought about Thomas and was worried if he was gonna succeed their plan. She also hoped that they're gonna get her out of here.

Then the door flew open and Janson stormed in. He approached Evie and yanked on the straps at her arms.

"Janson what-.." Teresa asked in panic. Janson ignored her and looked at Evie with a grin that could only be described as pure madness.

"They're not gonna get you." He said as he had undone the straps and was ripping the girl off the bed by her collar. At that moment, the door flew open again and the boys, Thomas and Newt came in with Minho. Evie's heart dropped at the sight of the black haired boy.
The next moment, Janson grabbed her by the back of the neck with one hand as if he was holding a rabbit. With the other, he held a gun against her temple.

"Get on your knees or she's dead!" He hissed.

"You wouldn't do that, she's too valuable to you for that." Thomas calm voice made a shiver run down Evie's spine. The girl ran her hand over the table next to her, looking for anything she could use to escape the man's grip.

She found some sharp object, assumed it to be a scalpel and rammed it into Janson's leg. He cried out and Evie quickly bent down to escape the falling shot.
She staggered over to the boys, when Newt caught her and pushed her out of the door the next moment.

They ran down the corridors, their footsteps drumming on the floor. Janson and his men ran after them, while the man was yelling commands into his watch.
Newt pulled her around the corner, clutching her hand tightly as they arrived in an empty room. Thomas closed the door behind them.

"Newt come on." Minho said and they threw a table in front of the door. Evie looked around frantically.

"Shit!" Thomas cursed.

"Thomas, what are we gonna do?!" Evie asked in a panic. Her eyes met Minho's, who was finally back with them.

Minho, however, was far too tense to care about anything or anyone at that moment.
Suddenly, there was a shrill noise and sparks started to flow through the door. Janson's men were trying to saw the door open.
Evie covered her ears and screwed up her face. Newt took her gently in his arms and pulled her close to comfort her.

"Any ideas?" Minho asked. Evie looked at her brother, who was looking at the pane of glass in front of them, black from the night. He looked at them.

"Yeah maybe," he said. Evie looked outside too, but couldn't see anything because of the reflection of the glass.

"Minho grab this."
Minho and Thomas grabbed a capsule and threw it through the glass of the window. It shattered and the capsule flew 60 feet down into a large pool.

"Okay.. we could make that!" said Thomas.

"We could? Thomas, that's a death wish!" Evie shouted.

"Do you have a better idea?" Her brother asked. Evie looked down again.

"No." she said and stepped back.

"Okay, come on! We just need a bit of a run-up," said Thomas and stepped up next to Evie. Newt and Minho did the same.

"Are you sure about this?" asked Minho.

"Not really," said Thomas.

"Great encouragement." Minho commented.

"Yeah, we're all bloody inspired," said Newt. Evie wanted to add something funny too, but the door flying open took away her chance.
Janson came storming in, his gray hair hanging in his face.

"Shit!" Thomas cursed, giving them the command to run. Evie saw Janson's face before arms wrapped themselves around her and Newt pulled her close. He turned his body around and fell backwards.

Evie enjoyed the feeling of weightlessness for that brief moment, then they hit the water.
Newt absorbed the full force so that the girl didn't take a hit. They dived under the ice-cold water. Evie's body was shot through with adrenaline. Newt let go of her and they surfaced.
Evie looked up at the broken window.
Janson was standing at the edge of the room they had jumped from, looking down at them.

Thomas gave him a middle finger, then Evie looked into Newt's brown eyes.
He was right in front of her, looking at her gasping from the cold water.

Then he grabbed her face and she felt his lips on hers.
Evie enjoyed the kiss to the full as her stomach made a whole flip.
She blocked out everything else at that moment.
It was just the two of them.

"I'm so sorry about everything-.." Newt was about to start, but Evue put her finger on his mouth

"Pshhh it's okay." she smiled and kissed him again.
Unfortunately, reality caught up with them too quickly.

"Shit, this is cold, let's get out of here!" Minho shouted.

"Oh my gosh Minho!" Evie grinned and swam to him. She wrapped her arms around the boy.

"This is really cute and all Evie, but get me out of here, I'm freezing my ass off." Said the black-haired. They swam to the edge of the pool and climbed out.
Evie heard the loading of weapons.

"You! Don't move." Uniformed guards approached them.

They didn't even get a minute's peace.

"You've gotta be kidding." Thomas muttered, stressed.

"Take it easy," one of them continued. Thomas reached for the gun on his leg.

"Ah ah ah! Don't even think about it. Get down on your knees and put your hands up." They were about to do as he said when the man was suddenly interrupted by the other guard. She turned to them and fired at the three of them.

"Stupid.. bastard" Their rescuer walked up to the group, pulled off his helmet and Gally appeared. He looked at them all in turn

"Gally?!" Minho asked incredulously, a glowing question mark above his head.
Gally nodded in greeting.

"Minho." he said, looking up at the window they had jumped out of.

The cold gripped Evie now at the thought, she ran her hands through her wet hair and wrapped her arms around her wet, sticky clothes.
The thought of having jumped from so high up made her worry about her sanity again.

The girl's eyes met Gally's and he shook his head.

"You guys are nuts."

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They ran into the park and hid behind a wall. Evie rested her head against the cool rock and tried to think clearly. Newt next to her was breathing heavily, she looked at him and could tell he was in pain.

"How far to the tunnel?" Thomas asked.

"About 12 blocks from here," Gally replied. Newt coughed heavily next to Evie and she opened his jacket. He looked at her smiling weakly, his muscles completely exhausted and weak. Evie was startled to see that veins had already spread across his cheek.

"We've got Minho back," he murmured happily. Evie nodded affirmatively, then took his face in her hands and thought about watching Newt die.

The reason he had wanted to end it between them.

She tried to stifle the tears that were welling up, but she couldn't and the first one rolled down her cheek.

"Hey.." murmured Newt.
He stroked Evie's cheek with his hand and smiled dreamily. She pulled him into her arms.

"Remember no matter what happens. I'll be with you. You get it? I'll be with you." he whispered in her ear. Evie broke away from him.

"Stop it, don't say that." she whispered.

"Just in case-.. before I never tell you." He mumbled, looking away and back at her.
Newt coughed into his fist and slumped against the wall. He was at the end of his rope, the girl could tell.

"Just hang on, okay?" Evie said and sat down next to him again.
Minho joined them.

"Newt, how are you?" he asked worriedly.

"Mh.. terrible." He put his hand onto Minhos shoulder.

"It's good to see you, though!" he then said, smiling. The corners of Minho's mouth twitched upwards as he placed his own hand on Newt's. Then the black-haired boy stood up and went to Thomas.

Evie sat down in front of Newt again and slipped his jacket off his shoulders. He looked at her gratefully. Thomas came towards them.

"Come on, man," he said, putting Newt's arm over his shoulder and helping the blond boy to his feet. Evie walked over to Minho and Gally, who, to her surprise, were talking to each other. She might have expected them to throw themselves at each other at the first opportunity. But that wasn't what happened.

"Why are you helping us Gally? I put a spear in your chest," Minho said.

"Yeah." said Gally, looking at the buildings. He seemed to be searching for words, after all, Gally was never a sentimental person.

"Nobody's perfect man!" He patted Minho amicably on the shoulder. Evie smirked and watched as Gally stood up, leaving a completely irritated Minho behind.

They were walking towards the blocks when an explosion went off. The ground shook beneath their feet and Evie braced herself against the small wall. She looked in horror at the huge jet of flame.

"We wanted to destroy WCKD not the damn city!" Gally hissed angrily. Evie thought of Lorence, who was probably the only one who could be behind this.
They continued to run behind the walls of the houses. Police car sirens sounded everywhere and they could shoot them dead in no time if they spotted Evie's group.

"Shit!" Thomas cursed as they fled behind one of the walls.

"What are they waiting for?" Minho asked as the next explosion was heard.
A huge chaos of falling shots and grenades ensued from there. Hundreds of people were running around and shooting wildly, it was a massacre.

"Stay down!" shouted Thomas. There was another explosion and the first police car blew up.

"Come on, let's go!" They pulled Newt to his feet and kept running.
Thomas spoke to Brenda on the walkie talkie.
Newt was coughing harder and looking worse by the minute.
Minho held Newt to keep him from falling over while Evie talked to him.

"Stay there okay? You have to fight it as long as you can!" she said desperately. They ran along the blocks, Gally covering their fire.

"Okay! We're almost there Newt!" Gally shouted.

"Guys leave me here!" Shouted the blond boy.

"Forget it," contradicted Evie. A car exploded in front of them the next moment and they shrank back.
A roar sounded above them and they saw a big WCKD drone flying above the city.

Jorge! Evie thought, relieved.

Newt was breathing heavily and coughing up black liquid. His wet, sweaty face was covered in fine black veins and his eyes were no longer brown but black. Thomas stared at Newt and seemed to be thinking frantically.

"Minho. You run now, grab the serum and get back as fast as you can!" Her brother commanded.

"He's right. I'll cover you!" Gally said and nodded.

"I'm coming with you. I know how to make the cure!" Evie agreed and Thomas nodded continuing to stare at Newt, who seemed to get worse by the minute.

"Okay Go!" Evie tried to get up, but Newt held her back. She looked at her hand, that he held, almost desperately and then her eyes met his. He looked at her, breathing heavily.

"I love you." he said, panting. Evie looked at him and repeated the words in her head, letting them echo in her ears. She wanted to pinch herself to see if she was really dreaming. Then she took his hand and leaned closer to him.

"You promised me you'd stay by my side. Don't break that now," She said and Newt nodded in response. Evie couldn't help but have an awful feeling in her guts, but she still took off running through the war of gunfire with thick smoke filling the air.

She ran as fast as her legs would carry her, afraid her ears would go deaf from the noise. She saw the orange light of fire everywhere, shattered glass was crunching under her shoes.
Gally lead them through the alleys and gave them a good cover as they worked their way forward.

There were bodies everywhere and everything it was hard to see anything due to the blending fire. The amount of dead body that they came across was horrible to see and Evie didn't even want to look at the chaos as she concentrated on the path.

Eventually they arrived at the giant drone, breathing heavily. The hatch of the drone was opened as Evie saw Brenda standing at the exit of the drone.

"Brenda!" Evie yelled and the girl's head shot up. Evie ran towards her, up the hatch and took the serum from her hands.

"Where are Thomas and Newt?" the brunette girl asked drawing her brows together.

"No time." Evie murmured as she rummaged around in the bag with the different samples of the serum.

"Newt couldn't make it any further so we have to bring the serum to him!" She said, trying to explain their situation as fast as possible.
She smiled triumphantly when she spotted one of the syringes and then ran off, Minho and Gally following her.
Evie ran on and on, all the way back, past the dead bodies and flames everywhere that seemed to get worse by the minute.
Then, as she finally arrived, she stopped abruptly in her steps and slowed down. She recognized Thomas kneeling in front of a person. Evie's heart stopped.

Authors Note:
Please don't kill me!
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