THE SOUND OF A SUCTIONED door opening became the only thing that her senses could pick up until brief beams of light poured in through the gap and illuminated the small space in which they were all piled into.
"You okay?" Newt whispered, face close to her ear so no one happened to overhear. She could feel his presence looming over her shoulder and honestly shivers shot down her spine so intensely that she actually had to remember how to breathe.
"Just dandy, you?" she whispered back, voice shaking softly and almost unnoticeably. Almost.
"In pain but okay," he whispered honestly, not wanting to hide anything from her. The two of them stepped through the now open door full of light and began to peer at their peculiar surroundings. A metal tunnel with various tubes and vents around the ceiling.
"Do you need any help walking? My arm is available," she joked softly, trying to add some sort of relief to a tense situation with a joke. He smiled then shook his head, remaining to look around.
Suddenly, the lights flicked on and lit up two opposing directions that looked exactly the same in size and mystery. Eden found this situation to be less frightening than it probably should have been. "Right or left?" someone asked quickly but their voice remained to echo down both corridors, booming then eventually stopping completely. Every head, including Thomas, turned to Eden for an answer. She fought the smile at that action, knowing that despite everything they still saw her as their leader that they would rely on.
"Fifty-fifty..." she muttered under her breath, looking back and forth down both corridors. "I say right," she answered in a usual volume, her voice echoing now. She hated the way her own voice sounded and visibly recoiled at it. The Gladers didn't seem too bothered by it though and they instantly followed her decision, walking down the right corridor. They walked silently all the way as each person was far too busy looking around and being constantly on edge as they did not know what danger loomed around the corner.
After a while of slow progress, to give them a rest of sorts, they came across a green flashing light on the wall. Then next to that lay a door with a flashing green sign above it, reading EXIT.
"Seriously?" Frypan chucked, bringing a sense of relief that she did not know she needed. No one stepped forward t open the door so Eden did the job. She weaved out of the crowd and toward the door and placed her hand on the door handle. She paused for a moment then opened the door, immediately hearing alarms beeping quietly. She opened the door fully and was rather confused by the sight before her, lots of smoke, dozens of dead bodies and an alarm that only seemed to be getting louder. This time, as he walked through the door after her, Eden took Newt's hand into her own. He looked down at their intertwined hands and smiled to himself but did not say a thing.
"What happened here?" Winston broke the silence by saying the one thing on everyone's mind as they walked into the room of complete chaos, shards of glass crunching underneath their feet. Multiple huge and severely broken electronic screens were set up in the middle of the room, surrounded by upturned chairs and various dead bodies. The electronics sparked sporadically and often drew Eden's attention away from whatever confusing horror she had been looking at previously.
She and Newt walked over to one of the screens in particular and she became transfixed by the sight of one of the screens. Next to the screen where it showed a clear view of the fire that enveloped Glade, sat an image of a brain. A brain labelled in the corner as EDEN, followed by various numbers. Her brain. She stared at it peculiarly, wondering how they such an image. Next, it was Newt's turn to speak, "So they were watching us. This whole time."
Silence enveloped them again as their shocked faces looked around various parts of the room. Someone somewhere pressed a button and it began to play a video from someone called Ava Page - whom she did not recognise whatsoever. This message told them all the information they needed to know, rather brutally and ended with a sight that had Eden looking away. The woman, Ava Paige, pulled a gun to her head and shot herself just as Eden looked away. But, the direction that she looked happened to not be so good as her gaze fell upon Ava's literal dead body with blood splattered amongst the glass.
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Little lies - NEWT
Fanfiction❝ I just wish you could see the way that I feel about you.❞ ❝ Show me.❞ - EDEN had spent the whole of her life, that she remembered, trying to find something within the chemicals that she was given every month. She had not found anything until a cer...
