After the Death Cure 2 ( The Maze Runner )

Chapter 12

I repeatedly wake up. All. Night. Long. No dreams, just darkness. I sit straight up every time. It's as if I sense a threat, but there are none.

It's finally six o'clock when I decide to officially get up, and dressed. By the time I'm done preparing myself for the day, it's six fourty-five. I decide to lie on my bed until the door unlocks.

Longest fifteen minutes of my life.

When I hear the click of the locks, I shoot up out of bed. I race out the door to the elevators, and head to the computer room. "Joshua," I say as I swift walk towards him. "Joshua, where's my necklace?"

"The dream catcher?"

"Yes. I haven't had it since...Oh! My clothes! When I changed into that white body suit."

"Um, yes. I am not positive of where those are," he scans the room behind me, "Barbara, Barbara! Would you come here?" I turn around and watch her walk towards us. "Find the clothes she wore before the latest experiment, please. Her dream catcher necklace, I assume, is with them."

She nods at him, and randomly types on the glass pad she holds. Kind of like the one I have for the t.v. in my room. "Follow me," she says as she turns around, not even glancing up at me. We exit the room, and head up the elevators to the laboratory room. "Good morning, Chancellor Paige. Sorry to disturb you, but McKenzie has miss placed her dream catcher necklace."

We make eye contact for a few seconds before she responds with her irritatingly calm, expressionless voice, "Why, your clothes have been disposed of; and I sent the dream catcher down to Newt immediately after he was restrained."

I just look at her for a minute. "Ok, well...I'll just go...and get it back..." I slowly turn around, and walk to the elevator. Barbara doesn't follow. I press Below Ground Level, and patiently wait as my hands shake uncontrollably.