𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍, thomas ³

𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆, family reunion

REDEMPTION.
[ chapter three ]

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

WITH HER HAND ENCASED IN THOMAS' Evelyn pushes through the wandering crowd outside the walls. Just like the abandoned place where the group found Marcus, the outskirts of the main city are dirty and overcrowded and you can't look one way without someone staring right back at you.

"This place has really gone through hell," Jorge calls, barging past a civilian so he's able to walk beside Thomas.

"We just gotta stay together," Thomas squeezes Eve's hand tighter as a man bumps harshly into his shoulder while passing.

She knows this place is making him anxious. The fact that Minho is over the other side of the wall, this amount of real living humans so bunched together and the fact he has no actual weapons on him to protect anyone is building up in his already overworked mind.

"We are the voice of the voiceless!" A voice booms over a speaker, causing the group to come to a stand still and turn around.

"They hide behind their walls thinking they can keep the cure for themselves. . ." A vehicle rolls closer, parting the crowd while men sit on top the car, shouting through the microphone. Other man hang off the side, masks covering their faces and their guns held in the air, ". . .while they watch the rest of us either and rot!"

Evelyn drags Thomas away from the road, allowing the car to pass while the man's voice continues to boom over the roaring crowd. She narrows her eyes at the vehicle, not enjoying how the occupants stare down at the group.

"But there are more of us than there are of them!" He yells, the crowd cheering, "And I say . . . we rise up and take back what is ours! Let's bring back victory."

Evelyn slips her hand out of Thomas', wandering back into the road as her eyes follow the main car. Overhead, droids litter the sky and she squints up at them, cursing lowly.

The crowd carries the group further up the road, swerving under collapsed buildings and over rocks in the way. Ahead is the main door of the walls, blockades preventing anyone from getting too close.

From behind Evelyn, Thomas shouts, "That's it! That's our way in!"

The surrounding crowd shouts and cheers in protest loudly, but Evelyn ignores them, squeezing through and shoving people out of her way. Thomas keeps his eye on her body, peering over the audience's heads to keep track of her as she heads towards the front of the crowd.

"Thomas!" Jorge yells, "This is not what we're looking for. All these people trying to find their way in, you think you're gonna find something they can't?"