The girl from the scorch

11

"So what's the plan?" I ask, wondering where we go from here. As we slowly walk up to the building, music blaring out any doorways or windows, Jorge comes to a stop in front of us, staring at the man situated out front of the building.

"Okay hermanos, here's the plan. Marcus is at the door so I'll get him and we'll take him to one of the rooms in the building. Hopefully Brenda and the boy will have come here so if they have Marcus should know where they are. I'll get it out of him" Jorge explained. The plan sounded simple on paper yet I knew this wasn't going to be as easy as it sounded.

We came to the front of Marcus' place, the music so deafening I could barely hear a thing. A strong whiff of alcohol hit me as we came closer to the entrance and the obviously drunken man guarding it.

"My I help yo-" Marcus begins but stops talking abruptly as he recognises Jorge at the front of our group. Without warning, Jorge grabs him by his shirt pulling him closer to his face.

"Where's Brenda! I know she came here" he spits at Marcus.

"Oh Brenda..." Marcus begins. "Well she's inside with her lover boy, their having the party of their lives" he slurs out, his words barely recognisable.

"Okay I'll take him upstairs, you hermanos, get Brenda and... Thomas?" He says, as I give him a nod to confirm Thomas is the right name. "Go off in at least twos, don't loose each other and don't drink anything"

"Ok fry you go with Aris, Teresa come with me, Newt go with Y/n" Minho explains as he grabs Teresa's arm and makes his way in the building, still carrying Mollie. Frypan follows next with Aris close behind him then Newt steps forwards to go in. He looks behind him beckoning me to follow which I reluctantly do as we both step through the old, ripped tarp into the building.

The second we enter, the smell of alcohol gets even stronger if that was possible, the music so loud I struggle to hear anyone's voice. People around me seem to be in a daze, mindless drones dancing around without a care in the world, obviously drunk out of their minds.

Newt looks back at me, checking I'm still there before grabbing my writs and walking off through another doorway. Less people were in the room we had entered yet the smell and noise surroundings remained constant, so bad I felt my brain was succumbing to the alcohol without even drinking any.

People stumbled past us, screaming and shouting, desperate to be hears over the noise of the music. Looking through a passageway I say a small room, crowded to the bring with people. I'm the middle was a crank, way past the gone tied up by chains on the floor, desperately biting at anyone who dared come near it. The sight was utterly terrifying and sickening. The crank looked in all directions, trying to find its next meal to eat when suddenly it looked towards me and started making an awful noise, like a combination of a scream and a roar, whatever it was it wasn't human. The crank tried to jump towards me, biting at the air infront of it as if I was there. Causing me to step back and grab Newts hand, giving it a squeeze as I pushed him forwards, hoping to never see anything that horrible again.

As we came back into the first room, Newt noticed Minho and Teresa going up the stairs carrying and unconscious Thomas between the two, with Minho still trying to carry Mollie. Newt and I made our way towards the stairs and up to meet the two and help get Thomas to wherever Jorge and Marcus were. I took Mollie from Minho's arms at Newt took the arm Teresa was holding, putting it round his shoulders.

"Where's Brenda?" I shout at Minho who just gives me a look telling me he doesn't know. With this I quickly turn on my heels and begin to rush down the stairs, ignoring the calls from Newt. I see Fry and Aris at the bottom of them noticing they also haven't found Brenda either.

I quickly give Mollie to Aris without an explanation and continue walking in search of Brenda, hoping she won't be too far.

Newt's POV

"Y/n come back! You can't go off by yourself" I try yelling to her as she makes her way back down the stairs.

"Here take Thomas" I look to Teresa and say. Without a second thought I quickly give Teresa Thomas' arm and rush down the stairs after Y/n.

As I get to the bottom I see Fry and Aris staring off into the crowd, Mollie in Aris' arms. They're obviously looking off in the direction Y/n went in. Without any convocation, I follow their line of sight and speed off in hopes of catching up.

Pushing my way though the large crowd, I see the back of her head as she goes off into the next room. I continue to push my way through everyone as I reach the doorway to the next room. It appears to be less crowded so I rush over to Y/n as fast as I can and grab hold of her good arm, turning her body to face mine.

Y/n's POV

"What the bloody hell are you doing?" Newt suddenly yells at me as he spins me around to face him. " you thought you could just walk away from everyone huh?"

"I'm looking for Brenda" I counter, my voice stern at he just stares at me. Suddenly I see a woman walking towards the two of us, carrying shots of alcohol with her.

"Act drunk" I quickly whisper to Newt. He gives me a confused look as he peers behind him to see what I was looking at.

"If you don't seem drunk she will make you drink the alcohol now act drunk" I tell him.

The woman approaches us, her breath reeking of alcohol and begins talking to Newt. The look on Newts face shows how uncomfortable he is as he starts to try and back away and come towards me again but the woman is blocking him from doing so.

"Here just have a drink" she says as she thrusts the shot into Newts hand.

"Oh no I'm fine-" Newt stories to say as the woman tries to bring the drink to his lips. I know I need it intervene so acting drunk I stumble towards Newt, purposely bumping into the girl causing her to spill any remaining shots she was holding.

She looks at me with fire in her eyes as I walk up towards Newt.

"Lucky you still have your shot, just drink it!" The woman repeats to Newt, slowly bringing his hand with the drink up to his lips.

"You know I think he's had enough drinks for now. I however have not" I quickly say as I grab the shot glass from Newt.

The woman tries to grab it back but without second thought, I pour the awful substance into my mouth...
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