Someone was shaking her. Evelyn's head flopped, everything hurt. Everything felt sore and strained. She didn't want to open her eyes.

"Evelyn!"

She groaned.

"Please! Evy! Wake up!"

She groaned again, her head flopped lamly while whoever it was shook her.

"Tes?! What's going on?"

Evelyn tried forcing her eyes open. It took a few times, but her eyes finally opened. Thomas was kneeling down beside her, shaking her shoulders.

"Thom...Thomas?" Evelyn whispered.

"Evelyn! Oh thank shuck!" He cried.

Evelyn could see the relief on his grimy face
She blinked a few more times, taking in her surroundings. It was dark in the small building; only lit by one candle on a table. Frowning Evelyn slowly propped herself up onto her elbows. Teresa was standing by the table, her big blue eyes wide open, tears glazed her eyes, making them sparkle in the flickering candle light.

Evelyn looked around confused, Teresa was standing stuff as a bored and Thomas looked paniced.

"Tommy? What's going on?" Evelyn asked quietly, sitting up fully. Thomas looked back at her, his whiskey brown eyes wide and fearful.

"Were in the scorch, in some kind of shack. You two disappeared...Tessa is acting weird. Like there was a wild screaming that wouldn't stop. We saw Tes standing alone. I came here, the others are waiting. Minho is going wild...you were laying on the ground screaming. Tessa just stood stairing at the wall. Then you suddenly stopped screaming. I don't know what's going on!"

Evelyn struggled to stand up. She felt weak and shaky. Thomas held a hand out to help her, but Evelyn shied away from his touch, scared of her own self. She got unsteadily to her feet. Evelyn slowly turned taking in the building. It was a shack, nothing fancy about it. Teresa still stood stiff as a board.

"Tessa?" Evelyn asked taking a step forward.

"No! Don't touch me!" She yelped. Her head twitched, her eyes cleared for a second. A tear slid down her cheek.

"Janson!" Evelyn hissed, her eyes narrowed. She could almost hear him cackling in her head. "No! Not today! You won't take anymore!" Evelyn spat looking at Teresa, she knew WICKED and Janson could see and hear them.

Teresa stumbled backwards as Evelyn took a menacing step towards her. It was WICKED controling her.

"No! Go!" Her head twitched. Her eyes went void for a moment, then cleared, "Go! They'll kill you!"

"I'm already dying!"

Evelyn sprung at her friend with a wild yell. Evelyn tackled Teresa and they tumbled backwards over the table. Teresa threw her hands up trying to catch hold of Evelyn.

"I can't let you do this!" Teresa yelled.

"Janson! I'm going to kill you!" Evelyn screamed back.

"I can't let you do this!"

"Evelyn! What the shuck is going on?" Thomas yelled, trying to scramble around the table.

The girls were rolling on the ground, both yelling and screaming. Teresa rolled ontop of Evelyn and held her down. Teresa's hands wrapped around Evelyn's neck.

"I can't let you do that!"

"Shuck you Janson!"

Evelyn closed her eyes and let her power explode. The entire shack lit up in a bright icy white light, it shot out and hit Teresa in the chest, sending her flying backwards. The temperature dropped making their breath visible. She hit the wall and slid down. Thomas stood rooted to the spot his mouth wide open in shock. Evelyn got to her feet huffing and puffing hard and marched over to Teresa. Kneeling down she took her friends head in her hands and consented.

She could hear the voices cackling and whispering.

"Enough!" Evelyn demanded. She sent a shock wave of her healing power into Teresa's head. Teresa went still and her eyes fluttered open. With a small cry she threw her arms around Evelyn.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry Evy! I'm sorry!"

Evelyn hesitated, scared to touch her now; she didn't have control over which power just shot out of her, her cold death power or her warm healing powers. She sighed in relief when Teresa was alright.

"You're okay. I'm sorry for everything!"

"You? What did you do?" Teresa asked.

"All the tourture that they put you through to make me comply. I'm so sorry Tessa!"

"What are you talking about?" Teresa asked, pulling away. Her eyebrows pulled together and a frown.

Evelyn opened her mouth and then closed it, utterly confused. She looked at Thomas he looked just as confused as she felt.

"What the shuck is going on?"

Thomas shrugged. Evelyn looked back at Teresa.

"Thomas? Where is everyone else?"

"Outside. Waiting." He turned to look at Teresa, "you okay to stand? Come on we need to go."

Teresa nodded and took Thomas's hand and helped her to her feet. Evelyn got to her feet, swaying slightly. The effort to undo the mind control right after she woke up drained her. Thomas held out a hand to stead her and she flinched away.

Giving her a confused look, he turned towards the door and opened it, leading the girls out the door. The shack was at the top of a hill. Evelyn looked around, it was dark out, so she couldn't see much, but everything was covered in sand.

"Come on! We need to go!" Thomas urged already making his way down the hill.

"Thomas! Wait!" Teresa called.

"Come on! Come on! Let's go!"

The girls followed. Waiting at the base of the hill was a group of guys. Teresa cried and ran the rest of the way, throwing herself into Minho's arms. Evelyn's heart broke. She was terrified of herself now, after seeing what she was capable of she was scared to touch other people. Evelyn slowed down, scared to be too close. What if she lost control of her emotions and hurt someone?

With a cry caught in her throat she turned and ran. She didn't wait for the guys who all called for her. Evelyn started towards the outline of a town in the distant. She sprinted through the sand, running full out for as long as she could. Blocking the yells of the guys behind her. Blocking the whole world out. Trying to run away from her problems, from her fears. She sprinted until she had to slow down to a manageable speed.

Hearing Newt call for her and running away was breaking her heart. Chocked sobs burst from her. She groaned, heard the miserable sound of her voice cracking. Her heart felt a pain that almost made her stop, collapse to the ground and give up. Sorrow consumed her, more than once she was tempted to turn around and fling herself into Newt's arms.

Her exhausted body could only take so much. At some point, maybe two hours after she took off, maybe three, she stopped, sure her heart would explode out of her chest. She turned and saw shadows moving in the distance, the Gladers had followed her. She sunk down into the sand. Her head in her hands, she hunched over and cried.

Scared for everyone she loved. She didn't want to be close to them and have her powers explode and hurt someone. What if she took someone's life? But she was so tired and so sore she couldn't keep going.

Minho being the runner of the group, reached her first. And he wasn't happy. Even in the faint light, dawn was just starting to brighten the sky, Minho visibly fumed as he walked around Evelyn three times before he said something to her.

"What...why... what kind of shuck idiot are you, Pixy?"

Evelyn didn't feel like answering, she sat in the sand, hunched over, still sucking in deep  gulps of dry air, she looked away miserable.

He knelt down next to her, "Pixy!" He paused and took a few breaths, trying to gain his regular breathing back.

"How could you do that? Come outta there after not seeing you for four days, and then just take off? Without any sort of shuck explanation? Since when is that how you work?"

The other Gladers finally caught up,

"NO! Stop! Please!" She cried, throwing a hand out to stop them. She scrambled backwards. Crying even harder. Newt skidded to a stop, a look of hurt on his face. The Gladers slammed into him. Most of them doubling over hands on knees trying to catch their breath. Many of them just collapsed where they stopped.

"I don't want to hurt you! Please."

"Evy...I told you before, you won't hurt me." He said quietly.

"Or us! You would never hurt us Evy!" Nick insisted, breathing hard from running.

"You don't know what I've done! What they made me do! I don't want to hurt you! I can't control it!" She sobbed.

"Lee...I love you. Fully and completely." He knelt down in front of her. "You won't hurt me. I trust you!" He said gently, his big brown eyes softening as he watched her break down.

"Newt...guys...I'm sick...I'm dying." She chocked, "I don't want to get you sick too!"

"What do you mean? Lee, talk to me!"

"Newt...I have the Flair."

There was a gasp behind him from the Gladers.

"Remember when that Crank attacked me when we were running from the helicopter?"

Newt nodded, his eyes wide. Evelyn held her arm out, pulling the bandage away. From the claw marks on her forearm, spider webbing up her arm were slightly swollen veins. But unlike a regular crank that had dark black veins, hers where icy white, and her arm was freezing, like frostbite.

"I'm...I'm not immune. I have... limited time."

She lifted her head, raising her tear filled eyes to Newt, he held her gaze. She slowly looked to the Gladers behind him. They looked shocked and confused.

"I thought we were immune?" Frypan voiced.

"Not all of us..." Teresa whispered, her eyes wide and sad.

"Why would they put none immunes into the maze?" Thomas asked.

"Just so they could tell the difference between Immunes and not. Janson said there are two others still in our group who aren't immune." Evelyn said quietly.

"He told us we all caught it though." Nick spoke up, furrowing his eyebrows.

"It's another lie from WICKED." Sonny growled, "Janson showed up after four days of being locked in that dorm and told us it was WICKED, and this is trial 2."

Evelyn nodded sadly. Newt inched closer, he slowly reached out, Evelyn flinched. Newt didn't stop, his hands grabbed her face, before she could do anything or pull away he pulled her towards him, and kissed her. Evelyn froze, her eyes wide. She tried to pull away, but Newt held her tight.

She gave up her fight pretty quickly, raising her hands and tangled them into his shaggy hair. She melted into his touch. His hands slid from her face into her hair, and around her back, pulling her closer. He kissed her like he was drowning and she was life. It was rough and passionate yet gentle and sweet. Slowly he pulled away, placing his forehead on hers, breathing hard.

"I told you, Lee, you wouldn't buggen' hurt me. I love you. And I trust ya." His chest was heaving. "I woke up in the mornin' and you were gone! I was so scared!"

"Newt...what if you're sick now?!" Evelyn whispered, her voice thin and strained.

"Then we'll bloody go down together. I'd rather Crank out with you, Love, then go through life without you!"

"..but Newt...you could have a life!"

"There is no life without you!"

She stifle a sob. She loved Newt so much her chest ached. She held onto him, like it was the last time she would ever get to. Her tears mixed with his, he pulled her back for another kiss. They stayed connected until something slammed into her, making them rip apart as she fell onto her side.

"What the-"

"MOM!"

"CHUCK?"

"MOM!"

"CHUCK!"

Evelyn yelped, and wiggled around and wrapped Chuck up into a hug so tight he wiggled and whined.

Evelyn couldn't stop the hysterical crying. She was now hyperventilating, she couldn't get herself under control. Chuck tried to push away, but Evelyn was holding onto him too tightly.

"You died! Chuck! You died!" She sobbed between her hyperventilating.

"Ya well, it didn't stick. Clearly. Get a grip on yourself woman! You brought me back!"  Chuck whined, finally pushing her away enough to slip out of her death grip. Newt helped by prying her away gently, and pulled her up to stand.

"Yeah, we need to hear that story!" Sonny rumbled

"Jeff?!" She gasped looking up and trying to find him in the crowd.

"Present!" From the back of the group, Jeff pushed forward.

"Jeff!" She shreaked and dove at him.

"Tell me what the shuck happened!" He demanded.

"We would all like to know." Sonny repeated.

"Sonny!" Evelyn cried. She let go of Jeff and hugged Sonny tight.

"Uhh, Pixy? Where the shuck is mine? I just chased you full out for like three shucken hours, come here and give your shucken bestie a shucken hug!"

Evelyn laughed between her hiccups. She turned and Minho was holding his arms wide. She rushed into his arms, hugging her best friend. He squeezed her tight with a satisfied humm. There was a throat clear beside them. Evelyn peeked her eyes open, Nick was standing beside them his arms folded, and an eyebrow raised.

Evelyn pulled away from Minho and pulled Nick into a tight hug. Burying her face into his shoulder. After going through all the Gladers she came to a new boy.

"Who are you?"

"Names Aris. I'm from Group B."

"Group B?" Evelyn frowned, turning to Newt.

"We need to hear what happened and we'll tell you our story."

"Ya, might as well rest here for a bit, Miss Desert Runner here, we ran ourselves ragged till the freaking sun came back up." Minho shrugged. He turned to the rest of the Gladers. "We rest here!"

Everyone spread out, but still in hearing range.

"Okay, Love. What happened?"

"I woke up and Janson was there...he talked a lot about the Flair and trying to find a cure. He said I had a chip in my head that surpressed my power. He said they took it out...and umm" she glanced at Chuck. "Brought Chuck into the room...said if I didn't do something they would torture you." She looked guilty at the guys around her. Tears filled her eyes again. "I'm so sorry!"

Sonny was frowning, "For what?"

"For the pain and fear... The torture! I could only resist so long...I couldn't stand the sound of you in pain!"

"Again..what are ya talking about Love?"

Evelyn opened and closed herouth a few times. Then lowering her head into her hands she explained everything. Stopping a few times to chock out the next sentence or sniffle, telling them about the guards she killed was awful, but they remained quiet the whole time.

"After the crank...I blacked out again and woke up with Thomas shaking me."

There was silence for a full minute.

"I definitely heard screams." Jeff nodded, "after I woke up. But they rushed me out of the room to a medical exam and then to a room to shower change and eat. I went to sleep and woke up in a different room with Chuck and the new kid Aris."

"None of us left that dorm area, Evy." Nick frowned.

"Another shucken WICKED lie!" Sonny growled.

"Tes?" Minho turned his head to look at her, "what happened with you?"

Teresa frowned, her eyebrows knitting together, she rubbed her temples trying to think.

"Fell asleep with you," she nodded at Minho, "I...I remember bright lights..masked people...a sharp pinch. And weird dreams. Woke up in the shack, Evy screaming by my feet, but I couldn't do anything, my body was stuck. Stood for a long time and then like a robot my body moved outside for a while. Then back into the building. And then all of a sudden it was like waking up from a dream."

Evelyn was so confused, her head was hurting and her body was shivering.

"What happened with you?" Evelyn whispered.

"Woke up and you girls were bloody gone. Cranks were screamin' at the windows, the guys who rescued us were hangin' from the buggen' ceiling, dead as could be!"

"Minho and Newt were going out of their minds, they smashed the door to the girls room open..only to find Jeff Aris and Chuck."

"What the shuck?"

Evelyn was so confused and lost. What kind of game was WICKED playing?

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**This is for my Book lovers- if you've read the Scorch Trials book, you'll understand this chapter. 😊**