A15 The Innocent

|9| - Close call

/THE GLADE\

\THOMAS POV\

I could hear Emmy call my name as the walls closed behind me, around the griever. I had taunted it, making it come after me. And then I ran towards the closing walls, and now it's dead. I think it's dead at least.

"Tommy! Are you okay?" Emmy asked as she looked down at me.

I slowly nod my head, sparing a glance back at the gap between the walls, where the Griever was.

"That was shucking stupid ya shank. But you did it." Minho said, grimacing at the Griever. "We should get moving before another one of them shows up."

I nod and Emmy gives me a quick hug as I try to sit up. I smile down at her, before hugging her back quickly.

"I'm alright Ems, don't worry."

\THE SCORCH/

{YOUR POV}

"Lucy, I'm fine! It's just been sprung! It'll be fine in a few weeks!" I exclaim as the short girl pushes me into a tent.

"You need rest!"

"Luce." I stop walking and turn around to face her. "I'm fine, trust me. I've already been cleared by Mary, so I'm going to able to walk around and stuff. But I promise I won't do anything stupid-"

When she raises her brow I sigh and roll my eyes. "I'll try to not doing anything stupid I swear! Just let me walk around!"

She stares at me for a moment before sighing and nodding her head.

"Alright, fine. But I'll be with you everywhere you go!" 

I nod and shrug with one arm. "I figured you'd say that, but I'm willing to sacrifice my privacy."

Immediately, I walk around her into the tent where Vince, Harriet, and Sonya were. Brushing the tent flap open with my left arm I smile at Sonya who looked over at me. She gave a silent questioning look as she looks at Lucy. I shrug and move my head to my right side and she chuckles with a silent understanding.

"So, when's the next plan of attack?" I ask.

"YN!" Lucy exclaims and I smile at her.

"I'm just asking, calm down Luce." I smile, patting her head before looking at Vince.

I could hear her huff and I couldn't help but smirk.

Vince shakes his head with a sigh before he looks back at me.

"It'll be another few months before we will be ready for another attack. Our last attack cost a lot of lives, and we don't have a ton of people left."

I stay silent as I stare at him, my shoulders stiffening as I hear his words.

"Even we don't know where their second facility is. And our last attack was pure luck that we managed to find them in mid transportation-"

"You're telling me, we won't be doing anything for the next few months. We won't be causing any harm to WICKED, for the next few months-"

"We don't have enough manpower for that YN! We'll be busy trying to get our supplies back up, which is expensive as it is!"

I felt a raging pulse in me, and I glared at the man who I thought could help me.

"They have my daughter Vince!" I screamed. "They have my daughter, my brother, and the man I love! You just want me to be patient and just wait for Wicked to be done with them?"

I felt Lucy place her hand on my arm, trying to calm me down, but I couldn't.

"I need to get them out! I can't just sit by and do nothing while they are trapped with WICKED! While they don't know that I'm still alive! I didn't jump off that helicopter to sit around and wait for them to come to me. I jumped out to be able to go and save them myself. I jumped out to fight against WICKED and what they're doing." I slam my left hand down on the table, leaning over towards him. "And I'll be damned if anyone tells me to sit down and do nothing."