I gave Thomas a cheeky smile. His face was so twisted in confusion. I turned to Newt and grinned, jumping into his arms and gave him a big hug.

"Hey Love! It's good to see you!" I squeezed him tight.

"You too!"

He let go and I turned to Frypan and I launched into his arms. He squeezed me tight.

"I missed your hugs!" I laughed against his shoulder.

"I missed you, kiddo!"

He let me go and I stepped back and slid my arms around Gally's waist, his snacking his way around mine. He smiled down at me.

I looked back at the three of the Gladers in front of me, not believing they were actually here. I saw Thomas narrow his eyes and growl when he saw Gally's hand on my hip. Gally looked up at him and rubbed his jaw.

"Kind of had that coming, hey? Anybody else? Fry? Newt?" He raised an eyebrow at the other two, who still looked shocked.

"Do you know this guy?" The man who held me at knife point, asked. I narrowed my eyes at him and did my own growl.

"He was...is... an old friend." Newt stammered, still staring wide eyed at Gally, and his eyes flicking between me and him.

"How?" He asked finally,  "How is this possible?" Pointing a finger back and forth between us, and then stopped at Gally, "We watched you die."

"No, you left me to die." Gally said flatly. I saw the guys all flinch. They had also left me, still technically alive.

"And if we hadn't found you when we did,
you'd be dead right now." Gally added.

"What the shuck are you doing here?"

"Minho." Thomas said, folding his arms, still glaring at Gally.

"WICKED has him here." Newt added.

"I shucken knew it!" I muttered.

"We're looking for a way in." Thomas said begrudgingly.

"We can help with that." I grinned cheekily, "Follow Gally. I unfortunately gotta be somewhere."

"I'm not going anywhere with him." Thomas stomped his foot.

"Oh come on ya big baby." I rolled my eyes.

He glared at me. I rolled my eyes and shrugged. "Suit yourself. But we can get you through those walls."

I could see him caving.

"Tommy please. It's all good." I smiled at him, then turned to face Gally, looking up at him we had a quick quiet conversation.

"Hans asked to see me when we got back. Something about the serum stuff he's working on. You're good to take them to Laurence? I'll bring Soph just in case."

He nodded, "Ya Magnus and Zayn can come."

"Don't go through the tunnel without saying goodbye."

"Deal. These guys need those chips removed asap."

I went up on my tippy toes and kissed him, wishing I could kiss him longer. But we had things to do and people to see. I broke the kiss first and lowered down.

"Come find me." I winked.

"Always Pipsqueak."

I reluctantly turned away, "Soph, we got a doctor to see." I linked her arm and we started to walk away, I glanced over my shoulder and saw the astonished look on Thomas's face, "be good!" I called.

And chuckled as it grew even more.

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Gally

"Okay, so what bloody happened?" Newt asked.

The guys all watched Charlie walk away laughing with another girl. Both had guns strapped to their backs, knives and hand guns on their legs. She had definitely changed since they saw her nine months ago. For one, she looked healthy, she had muscle, and a glow back in her skin. Her hair now had a shin to it, yeah it was dyed a light pink, but it looked healthy. There was no blood or bruising, no tears. Her eyes though, her eyes still had a haunted look.

"Long story man. But after the maze, I got picked up by a group. That blond," Gally indicated with his head, "Sophie, and Zayn, here," he clapped Zayn on the shoulder, "found me. They realized I was immune, patched me up. Kept me sane and gave me a purpose in life when I hit rock bottom. I joined their group, The Resistance. Worked my way up the ranks. This group's been at war with WICKED for ever."

"But what about Charlie? How the shuck did you get her? How the hell did she get away from RatMan? And how has she forgiven you? You shucken shot my sister!" Thomas snarled.

Gally sighed and rubbed the back of his neck. "I didn't get her out. Magnus did. And Minho."

That made the guys double take and all their eyes went wide.

"Wanna pick up the story?"  He turned to Magnus who was having a quiet conversation with Jasmine.

"Wait! I know you! You were there! You were there that day! The day WICKED attacked." Newt gasped.

"Wholly shuck, your right!" Fry cried and smacked his forehead.

Magnus had removed his bandana and had pulled his hair into a bun. He turned from Jasmine. His eyes watched each Glader for a second and then came back to rest on Thomas. He finally noded.

"Yeah. That's right. After the previous captain was killed in the warehouse explosion" he nodded at the middle aged man with them, "I became Captain. Working directly for Janson. I was incharge of Charlie. I watched that twist piece of sh-"

"Launguage please Captain!" Newt snapped.

Magnus raised an eyebrow at him. Everyone rolled their eyes and groaned.

"-it torture and beat your sister. They used her to break Minho. Every time he spoke or protested or did something, Janson would beat her. They put her through new methods of extracting the results they think they need."

"What? Methods of what?" Thomas asked, he had gone white, Newt had placed a hand on his back to steady him.

"Basically it's a fear halusanagin. It caused her to see all her fears, over and over. From your grousum deaths, to the killing of her child, to Grievers, to the previous captain who was inappropriate with her, to Janson himself- mainly Janson and yours and Gally's death."

Thomas opened and closed his mouth a few times. For once at a loss for words.

"How did Minho and you get her out?" Fry asked for him.

"Took a while. She had lost the will to live, if it wasn't for Minho she wouldn't have made it. They shared a cell, he kept her held together." Magnus said sadly, you could hear the despair in his voice.

"As for getting her out...Lots of messages. Got word to one guy who I found out worked here, he talked to Sarg. They were moving us from one facility to this one here, the Resistance was going to ambush us, get us out. Minho was supposed to be with us..." He paused then continued, "Resistance did their job and here we are."

"But...but...how....?" Thomas asked again, looking in the direction Charlie had gone.

"She looks fine." The dark haired girl, apparently named Brenda said.

Magnus, Zayn and Gally all growled at the same time. All of their faces darkened. Even Jasmine scoffed and fold her arms.

"You have no clue...none. That man has messed her up for life." Zayn said quietly,
"You didn't see her when Magnus brought her...it was rough man. Awful."

He shuddered.

"Didn't you see how wide her eyes were when he held her at knife point? How her hands were shaking, the wild hyperventilating? " Gally spat at the man, who was standing at the back.

"Janson did horrible shit like that to her." Magnus growled, "And worse.. unimaginable things."

"She may be physically fine. But...she struggles daily. Watch her. You'll see the signs of mental trauma." Gally said quietly, watching Thomas and Newt's face.

"And she forgave you?" Thomas finally asked.

Gally nodded.

"He's the only one who can bring her out of her trauma induced spirals." Zayn said quietly, his dark eyes also watching Thomas.

Thomas's eyes went wide and his mouth moved like he was chewithis tongue.

"Look, I know we didn't get off on the right foot. I was a jackass in the Maze-"

"Not your bloody fault!" Newt cut in.

"I know. But I still take accountability for how I acted....most of it. And I am truly sorry. But that night when the Grievers took me...until I woke up from surgery, I have very little recollection of what happened. But I remember...I remember pulling the trigger. But I also remember voices in my head and a feeling like bugs crawling in my head, the voices were loud and wild. There was...and I know it's gonna sound crazy....but there was some kind of monster beside you...it.. it...I tried to shoot it. No way would I have ever shot her."

Gally took a shuddering breath, and rubbed his face.

"Look, I love her. Simple as that. And I would do absolutely anything for her. So, like me or not shank, I'm sticking with her, I'm gonna be around."

Gally could see Thomas's brain malfunction slightly. Newt and Frypan both smiled at him and it made him feel slightly better.

"Don't expect hugs and smiles everytime I see you." He finally grumbled.

"I can live with that." Gally gave him a small half smile. "Now let's go see Laurence quick, and then Hans in the Med Wing."

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Charlie

Sophie and I dropped off our weapons and made our way to the Med Wing. We knocked on the door to the lab and pushed the door open. Dr Hans was standing by a counter full of vials and test tubes. Papers everywhere and science and medical equipment everywhere.

"'Sup Doc?" Sophie called.

She skipped over to the counter. I followed slowly behind. The Med Lab still made me uncomfortable. Sure I could come to my apartments alone, but it still made me uncomfortable, especially after already have had a small attack, I was feeling jumpy.

"Ahh Charlie, just the girl I wanted to see!" He waved me over, "come come, I want to show you something."

I slid up to the counter. Hans looked at me quick.

"Can you explain in detail how the Griever poisoning worked and the this Grief Serum, what did it do?"

He had his notebook and pen ready.

I explained in as much detail as I possibly could. He asked more questions, details of what they looked like, how the person acted, extra.

"And you came out of the Changing process with little to no side effects?"

I thought about it. And slowly nodded my head.

"Yeah, I guess so. Like I didn't go crazy, or anything, Gally had a harder time. He had worse memories come back and they say he was angry, and moody."

"And you weren't?"

"Well...I was always closed off, but I was the only girl surrounded by guys who were not the kindest."

"But afterwards...did your behavior change or was it relatively the same.?"

"Uhh...I guess about the same. I mean I was umm also pregnant and had lost a friend. So.."

"Interesting! Your body was capable of pregnancy immediately after..."

Dr Hans had a dreamy look on his face, as he stared at the wall opposite. Sophie and I glanced at each other, trying to his our giggles. Dr Hans was a little exsentric and a little scatter brained, but he knew what he was doing.

"Uhh Doctor?" Sophie asked, waving a hand.

He blinked a few times and looked around at us. I huge smile broke over his face.

"I think, my dear girls...I may have got it!"

"Got what?"

"A cure! Or well...more like an immunization or vaccination...meaning, the act of introducing a vaccine," he held up a vial of green serum, "Into the body to produce protection from a specific disease, in our case the Flair. It's a process by which a person becomes protected against a disease through vaccination."

He explained this as he added something else to the green serum. He turned and looked at me. His wildy excited face became serious. It made me slightly nervous.

"Now when Captain Magnus brought you in he also had a crate of samples from WICKED's labs. This Grief Serum - which I have been working on recreating. And the Bliss. I have been following the notes that were also smuggled out. There was also blood samples from other immunes and your self."

I nodded, I already knew this, I wasn't sure what was going on. Hans continued.

"I have been taking a look, all of the immune blood has the same thing, a twisted strand in their DNA. It is not, as WICKED suspects, produced in the brain, it is in fact produced when the child is developing in the womb, there is something that, for lack of a better word, deforms in the genetic make up of your DNA. Which causes you to be immune. I unfortunately can not recreate an immune strand of DNA. BUT...we can make a vaccination. I have seen immune DNA destroy the Flair viruses in the microscope. Each immune individual to varying degrees of immunity. Hence why some of your colleagues in the maze had a drastically different reactions to the Grief Serum."

Sophie and I just blinked a few times.

"Holly shit!" Sophie gasped.

"What she said." I whispered, "but...why did you need me?"

"I... unfortunately need...a blood sample Charlie, from you." He said quietly, "if my theory is correct...your blood, and possibly your brother's as well, have the highest rate of killing the desiese. That's why you both had little to none reaction to the Griever poisoning after the Grief Serum after the Grief serum."

I had pailed and stepped backwards. He needed a blood sample...which ment needles...which I knew was a trigger. But this could save lives...so many lives!

I slowly nodded, "okay." I squeaked. Already feeling my hands get hot and itchy.