Charlie was finally sleeping. Gally stayed beside her the whole time, he finally convinced her to let one nurse come close enough to check her. She was the nurse who Gally meet with each week. She ushered everyone out of the room, except Gally, to give her some privacy. Nurse Connie was an older lady, she had soft green eyes and a gentle smile.

She explained what she was doing the whole time. Charlie freaked out the moment she suggested blood work. It took a long time to bring her down from the panic attack. Gally's heart broke watching the fear take over. Connie added some sleeping pills to the tea she made Charlie drink. The poor girl needed proper sleep and food and rest. Connie insisted she stay in the Med Wing, but allowed a quiet room at the end of the hall. Gally refused to leave. He tried to gently run his hand through her hair but she flinched and whimpered.

"Sorry. I'll stop." He whispered.

"It...it just..hurts." She said as her eyes fluttered closed, "Don't leave me!" She whispered, the sleeping pills took over. Her breathing evened out and for the first time her body relaxed.

There was a quiet knock on the door. Zayn poked his head in, and then indicated for Gally to follow. Gally was reluctant to leave, he didn't want to. The struggle obviously showed.

"Just outside the door, man." Zayn whispered.

Gally sighed and got up, sliding his hand from her grip, and followed him into the hall. Standing in the hall was a small group of people. Sophie, Zayn, Magnus, John, Connie and Dr. Hans and Sarg.

"Okay. We need to know what's going on." Sarg demanded, "And can we not have this meeting in my office?"

"No." Magnus and Gally said together.

"I'm not leaving, you want the meeting fine, have it without me." Gally said as he went to turn back towards the door.

"Fine. Here in the hallway it is." Sarg groaned.

"Okay. Source." He turned towards Magnus, his eyes narrowed, like he was pissed off, "We put a lot on the line for you. We were told there was information. Instead you show up with a half dead tortured child."

Gally could feel his anger bubbling to the surface. Zayn must have noticed, he laid a hand on his arm. Magnus however kept his cool, and looked at Sarg with such an intense stare the Sarg shrunk ever so slightly.

"That half dead girl, is Janson's niece-"

"And Thomas is her brother! Shuck! Janson is their uncle!" Gally muttered.

Magnus nodded.

"They found her bleeding out, took her and patched her up, speed up her recovery. I wasn't directly involved at the time, there was a different Captain at the time. They started using a different...technique to try find a cure. Thy are determined the cure is going to be found in the brains of the Immunes." Magnus explained, his voice was deep and it rumbled in the hall.

"Because that's where the disease takes root. In the brain, eating away at anything and everything in your humanity." Hans nodded.

"Yes. But it's ben how many years and nothing new. Janson and his team of twisted doctors and scientists came up with a new way to test the brain patters in high stress situations. Cheaper than the Maze. He called it the Fear Landscape. They injected her with some kind of poison serum that triggers the fear part of her brain. She hallucinated her worst fears. That cuffed her to the chair every day for six months. Sometimes it would be new fears, most times it repeated. They would collect the hormone that was produced."

"Okay, that's a wonderful sob story, what's the point and why did I risk my men for her. For you?"

"Sarg? Shut up." Zayn snapped.

Gally's muscles had tensed, his hands were opening and closing, forming fists. He felt his heart slamming into his ribs, Charlie endured pure mental torture for half a year while he was safe and sound in The Resistance.

"That's not the only thing, Janson beat her, constantly. He was disappointed in the results? Beat her. Thomas and the others slipped through his fingers? Her fault. He burnt his toast in the morning, his fist would slam into her."

Magnus closed his eyes for a second, collecting his thoughts.

"It wasn't until they captured about 80 new immune kids the day one of them betrayed them, Teresa. They got hold of Minho- another kid from The Maze trials. They used her to break him. Every time he would fight or react Janson would beat Squirt. But. Here's the interesting thing. They mentioned one night- they shared a cell- something in the Maze called the Changing, and Grief Serum."

This caught Gally's attention, he was slowly simmering in anger with everything Charlie had to go through. No wonder she had an irrational fear of doctors and needles and kept asking if he was real. He shook his head and tuned back into the conversation.

"Your saying The Changing is similar to Crank symptoms? And this Grief serum worked like an antidote?" Dr Hans was asking, running his hair through his grizzly hair.

Magnus nodded.

"That's what they claim anyways, Gally?"

Gally blinked.

"What? Oh. Oh yeah, I neve thought about it, but now that you mention it, yeah, its very similar! WICKED must have taken the Flair and some how diluted it, or something...and then made the Grief Serum to counter act it. It took them a while, a lotta guys died because of the Griever poisoning and changing." He nodded, thinking.

"But why would they keep looking in the brains if there isn't any new answers?" Sophie asked.

"Because I'm positive Janson has the Flair and is keeping it hidden with the Bliss," Magnus growled, "now the thing that got me thinking. Only so many people are immune, why is that? You three, " he indicated to Gally, Zayne and Sophie, "You're roughly the same age, are you two immune?"

Sophie and Zayn shook their heads.

"See? It's not just the younger generation, it's something else! That Minho had a smart mouth, but he's a quick thinker, he said something about DNA."

Hans snapped his fingers, his eyes going wide, "Yes! Of course! It's a DNA thing, some have it some do not. Why that is? I'm not sure. Why do some people have rare diseases? Why do some unfortunately get cancer? I'm nit sure, it's all the genetic make up! Of course!"

Magnus nodded.

"You kept those crates safe?" Magnus rounded on Zayn and the Sarg. They both nodded.

"Good. Those crates contain left over Grief Serum, some of the Bliss serum, some of Charlies blood, and some other immune blood vials. Some of the paper work WICKED had done back when they did have intentions of finding a cure. Doctor. I'm trusting you know what your doing?" Magnus growled, and rounded on the Doctor.

Hans just smiled, a wild twinkle in his eye. "Yes, my boy! I was a WICKED doctor and scientist. I defected just before the Maze trials happened. I've been here ever since. I thank you for this gift! I will get on it right away!"

He spun away, and hurried down the hall, but scrambled to a stop, turning back to the group, "Sophie, Zayn, Gally and Magnus! If you don't mind, I would like to take some blood samples, Charlies too, if she would let me."

"No." Gally and Magnus said together, both crossing their arms over their chests.

"I already said there is some in the crates." Magnus growled.

"OH, right you did!" Hans snapped his fingers again and hurried off.

"Does that satisfy your accusations?" Magnus rounded on Sarg. "I got you closer to a cure then WICKED has in three years!"

Sarg bowed his head.

"That half dead girl deserved to live a life. Not as a test subject under a twisted tyrant. She was under physical and mental torture and yet her and that other kid used their damn brains and brought this hole idea together."

Sarg bowed his head again. And then left, waving John with him, leaving the other four alone.

"Where is Minho? Why was he left behind?" Gally asked turning to Magnus.

"He was supposed to be with us! Janson loved to have them together, because Minho breathed wrong he would beat her. It was just an excuse. Also, Minho was part of the Maze A group- meaning the Elites, He wanted to keep his three prizes together, Teresa, Charlie and Minho. But for whatever reason last minute on the way down to the trucks, they changed, and sent him to another facility. It was too late to and I couldn't blow my cover or risk Charlie. I'm sorry Gally."

Gally swallowed hard. Minho was one of the original up with him, they butted heads, but he really did like Minho. He would count him a friend. It was hard to hear that Minho was still with WICKED.

"Any idea where Thomas and the others are?" Gally asked.

Magnus shook his head. "I tried finding them when we attacked that camp, but it was too chaotic, Charlie was my main focus, that kid got her claws in me." He chuckled, he looked at Gally, clapping Gally's shoulder, "You picked a good one little brother. She's a feisty little fighter."

Gally smiled, a full actual smile. Which made Magnus grin too. Zayn slipped behind and grabbed Sophie and dragged her down the hall, away from the brothers.

"It's really good to see you. We both thought you were dead. It's been what? 15 years?" Magnus chuckled.

Gally grinned and threw his arms around his brother. He only had the one memory of them, but the familiar feeling, the safe feeling of love and care was there. Magnus hugged him back with his one good arm, his other was in a sling.

"Thank you! Thank you for taking care of her!" Gally chocked his emotions back down. Magnus pulled away and looked Gally in the eye.

"I saw enough of her Fear Landscape to know how much she loves you. Now, go in there and take care of her. She's going to need a lot of love and patience." Magnus's deep voice was quite gentle.

Gally nodded. He turned towards the door when Magnus spoke again, this time it was firmer, more of a scolding. Gally didn't move, keeping his back to him.

"No hanky panky unless you wrap it little brother! I'm not ready to be an uncle!"

Gally's face went pink, he threw his middle finger up and opened the door to Charlie's room, leaving Magnus howling with laughter in the hall.

Gally closed the door and made his way over to Charlie, who looked so small in the bed. She finally looked peaceful, she was banged and bruised, but she looked better after the shower. Gally slipped his shirt and shoes off, changed quickly into a pair of sweat pants and slid into the bed beside Charlie. He turned his body so he curled around her tiny frame. Pulling her close to his chest he sighed in relief. A few tears slid out, but they were grateful tears. He held her tight. He fell asleep with a smile on his face, and his heart lighter than it had been in a very very long time.

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**SHORT FILLER INFO DUMP CHAPTER**

**Question**

Do you want the rest of the book... First person Charlie , Third person Gally? (Like it has been? But now they are together, it doesn't really make sense...) Third person BOTH? Just Charlie's POV?

**I think I'll just do Charlie's POV for the rest**