THE NEXT TIME, EVIE OPENED HER
eyes, was even the drone's hatch was closed and the sound of propellers from outside, reached her ears.
She recognized Janson, who was sitting opposite her. He was clinging to the seat with one hand and running his hand through his hair with the other.

Evie's eyes met Sonya's, who now lifted her head from Aris' shoulder and said something to the blonde girl. Evie felt like she had absorbent cotton in her ears. No words from Sonya could reach her.
The last thing she remembered was how they walked down several corridors and into a room, before she lost consciousness over her perception.

Evie was lying on one of the beds when she recovered. She was in the rooms where the WCKD kids were staying and closed her eyes.
Evie let the events flow through her mind. She saw Mary in front of her, heard the shot that had been fired. The blood that had spread across Mary's shirt and Vince's desperate screams.

'You did the right thing.'

Evie couldn't help but let a single tear run down her cheek. In the end, they didn't win like the hero's in the movies. Atleast she didn't.
The right arm was destroyed, the immune kids they had saved were now back with WCKD. Evie wanted to wake up from this nightmare. The girl felt helpless.

The door opened and banged against the bed Evie was lying on. She jerked up from the blow and everyone turned their heads. WCKD soldiers came in. They approached Evie as she sat up abruptly.

"Get up!" one of them ordered and she was grabbed harshly and pulled up.
Evie was handcuffed and dragged through the corridors. She felt the pain in her leg and tried to make out the location, but all she could see were grey walls and several pipes over their heads as they walked down the hallways.
They arrived at a room and on of the guards swiped his card through the slot. The door opened and Evie was pushed roughly inside.
The blonde girl caught herself at the table, cursing because of the pain in her leg.

Damn shanks.

She was placed on one of the chairs and the men went to stay in the corners. It was one of the rooms where the girl had already spoken to Janson in private. But she was sure that this was not the same location in the scorch. The room was empty with only a table and two chairs, like they were in a police office. On the wall was a mirror of which Evie was sure, was a one-way mirror. After a few seconds, Janson came in. On his face was the familiar smirk he wore so often.

"Evelyn, Evelyn." he said, shaking his head, as he walked towards her and sat down opposite her. She looked at him wearily.

"What am I going to do with you?" He asked amused.

"Give me food, fix my leg, let me go, there's a lot of options." The girl answered him and didn't even know where her sudden sarcasm had come from. Janson smiled in a sadistic way.

"What do you want from me?" Evie asked in a serious tone now.

"Wrong question. The right question is, what do you want?" He raised an eyebrow.

„Are you gettin' amnesia?" She replied and pulled one of her eyebrows up.

"Evelyn. Your friends have made their choice about WCKD but something tells me that you did not." he said, his words slow and empathized well.

"You don't know whose side you're on, do you?" Evie processed his words, trying to find a motive.

They lied to then, hunted them down, hanged people up, unconsciously, to get something out of their blood. They kidnapped her and now he was asking her which side she was on?

"I'm not on the side that kills innocent people," the blonde stated, putting as much confidence into her voice as she could.
Janson looked at her with an indefinable look.

"No one gets killed here." He then said simply and tilted his head slightly to the side.

"Really? The hung up teens who were promised freedom look a bit different than that." At that moment, Evie fervently hoped that what Thomas had said about the room with the hanging bodies was true.

"That is necessary," she heard a familiar and almost gentle voice. Even though Evie didn't move around much before, she now completely froze in every fiber of her muscles. The voice made the hair on her neck stand up and made her feel sick in her stomach.

"For the continuation of humankind." Evie looked toward the door behind her and spotted Ava Paige.

The woman's features were soft. Not stern and cold like that night in the mountains. Her hair was still wrapped up in an elegant bun and her ice blue eyes still had their impact when they felt like daggers stabbing through Evies body when she looked at her. 

Evie wondered, how much time had passed, since the events with the right arm happened. The girl had no feeling over time anymore.
Janson stood up now and stepped around the table. Ava took his place instead.

"Evelyn." She pronounced her name that made goosebumps run over the girl's skin.

"You don't understand the broader picture because you don't have the memories of it. The truth is far away from what your picture of us is now. It's not the way it looks to you, you have been manipulated into thinking we're the bad ones but I promise you we are not." Her voice was so convincing. As if she was actually speaking the truth.

"Believe me." Evie said, her voice slightly shaking.

"I know everything I need to know. I betrayed WCKD, so you put me into the maze. Were you hoping I'd die in there?" Evie hissed the words in Ava Paige's face. Hatred seethed in the girl's stomach as she looked at the woman with animosity.

"If she wanted to kill you.. she would have." Janson spoke from behind Evie. He stood behind her back, out of her eyesight like a threat. Like he would attack her any second if she would not be careful about her words. Ava gave him a warning look.

"You didn't betray us. You had the coordinates, but you wouldn't have done it Evelyn." It was like Ava Paige knew what effect it had on Evie, when she spoke her name in every sentence.

"Thomas did betray us. And he is on the wrong side. He made his choice and now it's your turn." she said, looking at Evie with a softening but also stern look. Evie looked at her hands that were slightly trembling. She wished the room could be a bit warmer, so she would feel less uncomfortable.

"What's my choice? I go against my brother or I get hung up and sucked out of my blood?" Evie almost spat her words into the blonde woman's face.

"You work for us again. You save the world or you give it up." Paige didn't let herself get irritated by the girls words.

"We can restore your memories so that you see the whole picture. You'll see the truth or you continue to live in a lie. The choice is all yours." She said.
A long silence fell in the room.
Evie thought of Newt, how much she wanted to see him again. But she would probably never see him nor Thomas ever again.

"What happens if I choose not to?" she asked.

"You'll end up like all the other immune kids, believe me Evelyn, you don't want that!" said Janson. Evie turned to face him. He was standing right beside her, his hands now on her shoulder. Evie felt herself getting nervous under his touch. They were building up the pressure on her.

"You're not stupid, are you, Evelyn?"
Janson asked, a smirk on his face.

What if they were right? What if she lived to believe a lie? But then what was the truth supposed to be? That WCKD was good after using them to cure a disease?

Evie turned back to Ava.

"Do you really think I'm a traitor like Teresa? I did what I did for a reason. I gave Thomas the coordinates. It was me! I was tired of watching my friends die. Watching you slaughter them for nothing at all." She spoke up, her voice shaking and tears gathering in her eyes. Her face was filled with anger but behind the facade, the girl was terrified of her own words.

They're gonna kill you. They're gonna torture and kill you. The thought flew around her head again and again as she looked at Ava Paige while Jansons grip on her shoulder hardened.

"You can erase and manipulate my memories all you want. Again and again but the truth never dies. " said Evie.

The mood in the room changed completely. The girl felt like the temperature had dropped a few degrees and her stomach turned when she saw Ava's tense face. It wasn't soft anymore, not even strict. She couldn't describe it, it was just pure coldness that made the girls heart sink at the same time as it raced in her chest. Her brain screamed at her to jump up and run away but she knew she wouldn't get out of this room.

"What do you mean by that?" Ava Paige asked and Evie's leg began to shake in panic. She tried to keep her voice steady.

"I can remember! I can remember everything. I even could remember in the maze. Maybe not everything, but the most important things, and I'm not going to join you to kill more people for a cure that doesn't exist." Ava was silent.
Then she gave the men at the door a quick wave of her hand.
Evie's heart skipped a beat as they moved towards her. She was grabbed roughly and dragged out of the room.

The girl was pushed back into the room with the other kids and hissed as she landed on her injured leg. Sonya came to her aid quickly and helped her to her bed.

"What's happened? What did they do?" she asked. Evie's facade finally fell, as tears started running over her cheeks from all the pressure.

"They're gonna kill me now." She murmured, as Sonya pulled her into a hug. She felt all the eyes of the kids in the room, on her.

"They're gonna kill me."

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The next morning, while the other teenagers in the room were still asleep, Evie was torn from her slumber. She was grabbed and pulled up, adrenaline shooting through her veins and the urge to run for her life. She got handcuffed, just like the day before and saw a few others startled out of their sleep. They watched Evie as she was pulled out of the room.
Her heart began to race as she was
being led down the same corridors again.

They're gonna kill me.

When she arrived in a room that turned out to be a laboratory, the first thing she saw was a large screen. She was placed on a couch and her shoulders were held firmly as something sharp pricked her neck. A syringe.
She realized she was losing control of her body.

It was like seeing everything from the outside. Evie was pulled up, with barely feeling the touch of the people around her, that were holding her. She saw a device next to the screen, which looked like some deformed cabin-chair on which you couldn't sit. It came closer to her and the next moment she was placed inside of it.
Her head felt as if it was filled with absorbent cotton, everything seemed heavier and she had a fervent desire to close her eyes. She saw the small white straps on her wrists, which she could no longer feel.

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The blonde girl's head hung limply from her shoulder as Ava entered the room. She walked towards Evelyn and gently took her head in her hand. A knot of emotion spread through the woman as she thought back to the girl a few years ago.
Her easy way of taking things. The nice smile on her face when she had taken all the tests and raced with the other children.
Now she looked at the almost grown-up girl in front of her. Her face so serious and tired, adorned with cuts and dark circles under her eyes.
Not the cheerful girl she had been for a long time.

Ava knew how much she would destroy Evelyn when she sent her into the maze.
Still she did it.

She attached the wires to either side of the girl's temple, then took the helmet and pulled it down onto her head until the rim almost covered her eyes.
On the screen next to it, all sorts of diagrams of what was going on in the girl's body appeared.

"Now." Ava spoke to the other doctors.

"Send her in."

Authors note:
And with that, welcome to Act III hehe:)
My poor babes. Ava Paige I'm coming for you!

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