EVIE SAT DOWN ON THE CHAIR, HER
back turned to Teresa, as the brunette stood behind her. Even though Evie didn't want to admit it, Teresa's presence made her extremely nervous. It could all be a plan of WCKD.
A cunning trap, they planned two steps ahead of Evie and her friends. Armed men could come in at any moment and take them away.
Evie wanted Teresa to remove the chip from her neck without starting to talk. Of course, that wasn't Teresa's plan.

"You've changed, you know." she tried to start a conversation. Evie didn't go for it.

"What about you and Newt?" she tried again.

"None of your business." Evie said, wincing as she felt Teresa's cold fingers on her skin.
She uncovered Evie's neck by gently swiping her hair to the side of her head and cleaned the area of her neck. After that she reached for the scalpel and Evie tensed at the sound of metal. It reminded hair of her months of torture in the WCKD labs, which she was really not eager to be reminded of.

"This will hurt a bit." Teresa said.
She cut into Evie's skin and the blonde drew in a sharp breath and bit her lip.
She closed her eyes and pressed her finger tips into the chair, to not make any sound, because she didn't wanna seem weak.

"Ava's worried about you." Teresa said and the blond girl's stomach seemed to knot as she felt horribly nauseous. The woman's name made the hairs stand up on the back of her neck.

"Ava cares more about herself than anyone," Evie replied. A long silence fell.
Evie couldn't quite tell, what Teresa was doing at her neck, her thoughts wandered to the blonde woman. Evie wondered how Paige could be so cruel and heartless and yet she seemed actually caring, like Evie actually meant something to her.

"Do you remember when I braided your hair? We became friends, when I won against Thomas at racing around the track." said the brunette. She must have been thinking about this memory, when she stood behind Evie like that.

"We were." Evie said, her eyes tired, but her mind concentrated.

"Until you betrayed us."

Teresa exhaled, exhausted and almost disappointed

"You know I had to do it. Evie there's no other-.."

"Will you shut up and get that thing out of my neck?!" Evie interrupted her with a hiss and the brunette fell silent.

A pain shot through the blonde's neck when she gasped in pain and turned around. Teresa had a white particle on her tweezers and Evie was sure she had plucked at it extra hard.
The brunette girl was cleaning her wound afterwards, an awkward silence fell on them, until Teresa broke it.

"Deep down, you know the only right way.." Teresa spoke up, her voice quiet.

"..is WCKD's way."

Evie's hands clenched into fists. She felt mixed emotions bubble up to the surface of her conscience.

How dare was she to mention Ava Paige to her? Saying that the women who faked her death, lied to them and wanted to hang their body's up to steal whatever it is that's inside their blood, would care about Evie, who she put through hell the last 6 months. How dare was she to excuse this woman's actions towards Evie by saying it's the only right way. Since when is torturing and murdering people the right way in saving the world from a disease?

Evie felt Teresa's Hand on her shoulder. Her long fingers laying on her skin, cold and slightly stiff.

"You belong with WCKD Evie." she said calmly.

"You belong with Ava."

The burning of Evie's fuse came to an end

"That's enough." Evie growled and stood up with a jerk. She whirled around and the sound of a punch and a screech from Teresa could be heard.

"DO YOU REALLY THINK IT'S THE RIGHT WAY TO SACRIFICE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE?!! SENDING US THROUGH TERROR, FOR A CURE THAT DOESN'T EXIST??!" She screamed at her.

The brunette sat on the floor, breathing heavily and holding her burning cheek. She looked at Evie dumbfounded and her pale skin seemed even paler.

"SIX MONTHS! SIX MONTHS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TERROR! DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING?" Tears ran down Evie's cheeks.

"THERE'S ONE WAY, AND THAT'S TO GET MINHO OUT OF THERE, TO GET TO THE SAFE HAVEN AND TO EVOLVE! BECAUSE THAT'S HOW HUMANITY IS PRESERVED!" Evie felt her knuckles painfully turn white. Out of the corner of her eyes, she saw the others running towards them.

„BUT KILLING THE PEOPLE WHO COULD SURVIVE ALL OF THIS SHIT, JUST FOR A CURE THAT WON'T BE ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE IN THE END IS INSANE!" she yelled.

Images of Paige's experiments on Evie flashed through the blonde's mind.
Ava's fixed gaze on the monitors. As if Evie had been a rat in the lab. A simple animal.

"TELL THAT TO YOUR FUCKING AVA!"

"You're right, she's getting mad, but I don't think she's ever flipped out this much!" Newt said to Thomas as they stood between her and Teresa, who was still laying in the floor, terrified of Evie.

Gally had his arms wrapped around Evie's torso, keeping her from tearing the brunette girl into pieces.

„I didn't know she had that much fire in her guts!" Frypan commented.

"Get the chip out, I'll calm her down," Gally told the others and dragged Evie out. The girl was breathing heavily but seemed to calm down, once she got fresh air into her lungs.

"Damn it Gally let go of me!" She hissed annoyed and the boy let her down.

"What was that for?!" She then asked

"We still need the girl with all her bones!" he said, smirking slightly.
Evie just snorted and stomped off.

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Thomas was now sitting in the chair by Teresa, which Evie didn't like at all. Gally and Frypan were sitting at the table, holding scarves to their necks.

"Well that was fun!" Gally said, slapping the cloth on the table.

"I guess you're right!" Fry grinned at him.
It was nice to see the two of them together like this. Evie sat down with them and didn't take her eyes off Teresa. She watched her every move suspiciously.

"Here, try these on!" Newt entered the room and handed the boys jackets. Their eyes met as Newt approached one of the chairs and took off his jacket. He averted his eyes and Evie stared at her hands.

"That's enough." she heard Thomas say and immediately tensed up. Thomas stood up from the chair.

"You don't believe me?" Teresa had followed him as he walked away from her. Thomas turned to face her.

"Did you expect me to?" He said, and Teresa seemed shocked at the little space left between them. Evie's hands clenched into fists.

She tried to get up, but Gally held her back. He had put his hand on her shoulder and pushed her back into her seat. He took control of the situation and walked over to the two of them.

"Everything okay over here?" he asked.

„Yeah." Thomas answered.

„Yeah we're done." Her brother said and then walked away to Brenda.
Evie continued to watch Teresa, when the girl turned to the table behind her.

The blonde tensed as the brunette reached for the knife on the table. Evie immediately wanted to jump up and rush to her, but Gally took care of it.
He grabbed her hand and she looked at him in shock.

"Nice try," he said and pulled her away. Evie averted her eyes in relief and relaxed again.

"Can we talk?" she heard Newt behind her. She didn't even turn around and laughed instead.

"Forget it." She then hissed and stood up.
A lump formed in her throat again as she tried to walk past him to Thomas. He grabbed her by the shoulder and spun her around.
Evie was startled for a moment as he was suddenly so close to her.

"I-.." he began, but she stopped him immediately.

"No, stop it." she said, realizing that her voice was starting to shake. Tears gathered in her eyes.
She kept thinking about how he was slowly dying and, above all, how he hadn't felt the need to tell her.

"Please I can't have that right now." she said, not needing any other distractions from Newt.
She walked past him to Brenda and Thomas to get a gun, running a stressed hand through her hair.
The others had seen the whole scenario, so there was an awkward silence in the air.
Evie felt a hand in her shoulder.

"It won't do you any good to ignore him," Thomas said. His voice was gentle and his brown eyes bore into hers.

"It brings me sanity." Evie grabbed one of the guns and loaded it.

Phase 1 began.

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Authors Note:
I love their developing sibling-duo! Screw Ava Paige and kick Janson in the nuts LETS GO!