Chapter 15 - Dangling

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Every single one of us is grabbed by one of the men surrounding us and they shove us to walk forward. The one holding me is kicking me in order for me to walk faster. I turn around to look at him. He has brown hair and definitely doesn't know how to style it. He also has brown eyes but not your typical beautiful brown eyes; they are ugly and dark. He's way taller than me and has this scary look. He kicks me again.
- "You made your point asshole. Now stop kicking me. I'm walking." I say.
He kicks me even harder and I let out a scream. I bend over in pain and I hear Thomas scream "Hey!". The guy brings me back up and I see Thomas trying to get away from the guy holding him, but he has no success.
We finally get to this room and there is a big open circle in the middle. I look to the side and see this machine with ropes attached to it and I know exactly what they are going to do to us. They are going to attach us and this is not going to be fun. One by one we are attached by the feet and are dangling above the circle. The guy who had previously looked at Newt pulls up on the machine making us go higher in order to not escape.
- "Have fun." He says with a grin on his face before walking away from us.
I sigh. Out of all of the things that could have happened here this is definitely not what I would have concluded. But the other hand, it does make sense. Even though I don't like to admit it, Janson was right. Everybody wants to find us and they will do whatever it takes to do so.
- "Good plan Thomas." Says Minho, bringing me back to reality. "'Just hear what the man has to say.' Really working out for us."
- "Shut up Minho." Says Thomas.
I giggle.
- "What are you laughing about?" Asks Newt.
- "I think it's funny. No matter where we go and what we do we always end up in a situation like this." I answer.
- "I don't see how that's funny." Says Newt.
- "Cause it's not." Adds Minho.
I roll my eyes.
- "I saw that." Says Newt with a smile.
Thomas bends his body and tries to look up.
- "Maybe I can reach the rope." Says Thomas.
He bends even more screaming in pain trying to reach it, but abandon a few seconds later.
- "Please tell me you didn't actually think that would work." I say.
Thomas sends me an angrily look, which makes me laugh.
-  "Oh he totally thought it would work." Says Minho, which makes him, Newt, and I laugh.
- "Enjoying the view?" A man says.
I swing my body over and see Jorge. He walks up to us with a sort of stick in his hand. What is he doing here.
- "What the hell do you want?" Asks Thomas.
- "That is the question." Answers Jorge while pointing his stick - a cane - to Thomas. "My men want to sell you back to WICKED."
- "Yeah well no shit." I say.
Jorge looks at me and smiles.
- "But life has taught them to think small. I'm not like that." He says staring at me right in the eyes.
Jorge walks up to Thomas to face him.
- "Something tells me you're not either."
- "Is the blood rushing to my head or is this shank not making any sense?" Asks Minho.
- "Definitely not the blood in your head." I answer.
- "Tell me what you know about the Right Arm." Asks Jorge.
The Right Arm? Why does he want to know about them?
- "I thought you said they were ghosts." Says Newt.
I point to Newt in agreement. He did say they were ghosts...unless he was lying in front of his men. Jorge looks at Newt.
-  "I happen to believe in ghosts. Especially when I hear them chattering on the airwaves." He says while touching Thomas with his cane.
Jorge walks up to the machine holding our ropes and holds the handle.
-  "You tell me what you know, and maybe we can make a deal."
I look at Minho and he shrugs his shoulders.
-  "We...we don't know much." Says Thomas.
Jorge pulls down the handle which makes us scream in unison.
- "Okay! Ok all right." Says Thomas in fear.
Jorge smiles.
- "They're hiding in the mountains. And they attacked WICKED. They got out a bunch of kids. That's it. That's all we know." Adds Thomas.
Jorge looks around and I notice the change in his eyes. There is definitely something that he is hiding from us and I'm curious to know what it is. He takes a few steps closer to us and opens his mouth to say something.
-  "Yo Jorge." Says the man who had previously looked at Newt.
He walks up next to Jorge and I gag. I don't like like that man in the slightest.
- "What's going on?"
-  "Me and my new friends were just getting acquainted. We're done now."
Jorge takes a step back.
-  "Hey wait. You're not gonna help us?" Asks Thomas.
The ugly man looks at Jorge with a questioning look. And it clicks in my mind.
- "Don't worry, hermano. Well get you back to where you belong." Answers Jorge, walking away from us. "Hang tight."
The ugly man stands there in silence looking at Jorge walk away. He looks at us one more time and walks away as well. Jorge is hiding something and I think Thomas just blew up his cover.
- "Thomas. I don't think you should have said that." I say.
- "What the hell are you talking about? He said he was going to help us if we have him the information and he lied." Answers Thomas.
- "Yeah well now that ugly man knows that Jorge is going behind his people's backs."
- "What?"
- "Yeah y/n I don't really get where you're going with this." Says Minho.
- "Forget about it."
Newt looks at me. "What are you talking about?" He mouths to me. "I trust him." I mouth back. Newt looks confused. "Jorge." I add.
- "What?" Newt lets out in response to what I just told him.
His eyes double realizing he made a mistake.
- "What what?" Asks Thomas.
- "Forget about it."
- "What the hell are you two talking about behind our backs." Says Minho pointing to Newt and I.
- "Guys I have an idea." Says Teresa, completely changing the subject, and saving both Newt and I's asses. "Let's help us swing each other so one of us gets to the side. I don't know if it's going to work but it's our best shot."
Oh that's actually really smart, I think to myself.
- "Yes! That could work!" Screams Thomas. "Ok Teresa come closer to me."
Teresa tries to swing herself to Thomas as much as she can. Thomas tries to get closer as well in order to make it work. They both extend their arms.
-  "Come on guys you can do it." I say.
They finally grab each other's hands and I sigh in relief.
- "Ok I got it. Minho are you ready? I'll pass her to you." Says Thomas.
- "Yeah." Minho says singing himself closer to Thomas.
Minho extends his arms and Thomas pushes Teresa. Teresa ans Minho grab each other's hands.
-  "Gotcha." Says Minho, with a big smile on his face."
- "On three Minho push Teresa to the side ok?" Says Thomas.
They both nod.
- "Okay. One, two, here we go. Three!"
He pushes Teresa as hard as he can and she swings and almost grabs the side railing.
- "UGH SHIT." Yells Minho.
Teresa swings back to Minho.
- "Hey hey guys it's ok. It's the first time you guys try. You can do it." I say, trying to bring our hopes back up.
I look at Thomas and I'm trying to figure out what he is thinking. I know he feels bad about leading us to this situation and I'm trying to understand what he truly thinks about Jorge.
- "Yeah ok Minho try again." Says Thomas.
- "Ok...Teresa you ready?"
Teresa nods and once again Minho pushes her towards the railing, but it still doesn't work.
- "Come one Minho. Push her harder!" Says Newt.
- "Shit." Let's out Thomas.
I try to smile as much as I can but on the inside I am totally freaking out. I don't have a good feeling about what will happen. I didn't like the look on the ugly man's face before he left and a little voice inside of me is saying that he will go behind Jorge's back and something will happen. Minho grabs Teresa again.
-  "One. Two. Three!" Says Minho pushing Teresa.
Teresa swings incredibly fast and grabs the railing. We all scream in joy and I sigh in relief.
- "Ok. Teresa hurry!" Says Thomas.
Teresa grabs on the handle of the machine and pushes it down, making all of us fall. She sits on the edge and detaches the rope from around her feet. We all grab onto each other and Teresa then grabs Thomas's arm and brings us closer to her. And then I hear it. A faint little noise that sounds like a helicopter noise. My eyes double realizing on who it is. WICKED.
- "Guys! We need to hurry the hell up!" I say.
- "I'm trying!" Answers Teresa.
-  "No no you don't understand! We need to get out of here! Now!"
- "What in the bloody hell you're talking about?" Says Newt.
Teresa brings Thomas to the side, who is still holding my hand, and she unties his rope.
- "They're here!" I say, completely freaking out.
- "Who?" Says Thomas, bringing me to the side.
-  "Good evening!" Says Janson in a faint voice.
He seems as if he's in the helicopter. Everybody turns around looking at me. They all recognized his voice.
- "This is the World Catastrophe Killzone Department."
- "Shit." Says Thomas.
He unties my rope while I'm still holding Newt's hand. We continue on bringing each other one by one as fast as possible while still hearing Janson talk. We all help each other out as much as possible. I am freaking out at the idea of Janson finding me and I can't focus. I take a few steps back.
- "Y/n what are you doing?" Screams Teresa.
I look at her and Thomas. I am panting thinking of what Janson will do to me. Thomas catches on.
- "Y/n it's ok we got this." Says Thomas.
I stand on the side and the moment Newt is free he runs up to me and hugs me.
- "You're going to be ok. I won't let him do anything to you."
I smile, hoping that sentence will always stay true.
- "Ok guys were good. Let's go let's go."
I step away from Newt and realize that all of us are finally free. Thomas goes in front and starts running but is stopped by the ugly man who is holding a gun. The guy walks up to us.
-  "We're not trying to cause any trouble, ok? We just got to get out of here." Says Thomas.
I hit my head with my arm, knowing that this is the man who probably called WICKED letting them know we were here.
- "Is that so?" Says the man. He takes out a walkie talkie and says into it "Janson, I got 'em for ya. I'm bringing 'em down."
My heart drops and Newt grabs my hand. I was right about having a bad feeling about this man.
- "Don't shoot us." Adds the man to the walkie talkie. "Come on. Let's go." Says the man to us.
Thomas puts his hands up and we all don't budge moving.
- "I said let's go."
He walks up closer to Thomas and fires at him but Thomas is able to bring the gun to the side. No one got hurt thank fully but we all panic and try to help Thomas as he is fighting this man. Thomas punches him and the guy steps back. I hear the click of his gun and points it at us. Thomas steps in front of all of us and brings his arms to the side, in order to protect us.
- "You little bastard." Says the man.
Then...I hear a gunshot.

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