𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐑, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗲 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿

9. faith, hope and trust

After a couple more hours, the group (except Minho and Vicky) finally wakes up due to Thomas shouting to a bird.

Vicky had changed Winston's bandages to a new one that morning, continuing their journey.

The rest of the groups step out of the building, meeting the ray of light shining them. Thomas was in the lead, following by Nancy, Aris, Bea, Newt, Thèrèse, Teresa and Minho. Vicky and Frypan stayed back to help Winston, regaining his strength and balance to stand.

Soon enough, they are walking on the street, observing the destroyed earth they were walking on. Thèrèse was walking behind Bea and Aris when she suddenly felt a sharp pain through her head and a buzzing sound coming from her ear. Her father, Carter had been doing some test and programs on her lately, placing her inside a dark room, pulling her into dark visions. Forcing her to see things she doesn't want to see. It was practically ripping her childhood away from her.

The pain started to build inside of her head, the pain have caused her to fall, melting herself on Bea, her eyes are drooling, and her muscles suddenly feel sore. Thèrèse name was yelled out from many mouths, but she can only focus on her best friend, Bea, tough hands of hers, lightly tapping her cheeks, pain suddenly shoot through Thèrèse, feeling an uncontrolled burst of electrical in her brain, jerking through the girl. Thèrèse was shaking on the ground, legs jerking, her whole body was jerking.

She couldn't hear anything. And that's when she started to black out. Unconscious started to take over her, bringing her into a deep pitch black of nothingness.

Back to reality, Bea is on the edge of tears, trying to shake the girl's awake, "What's happening to her?" Newt asked, frantically. "Does anybody knows what happened to her?" He asked again, but nobody knows the answer. Except..

"It was a seizure!" Vicky exclaims, "It was a seizure! Prim have it once back in our maze, so I can tell this is a seizure!" Vicky exclaims, moving herself besides Thèrèse.

"Okay, first I need all of you to move, back up, she needs space," Vicky commands, all of them started moving to the back, Bea staying a few feet away from them. "Next, I need you to bring me something soft, or flat, like a folded jacket for me to put something underneath her head." Vicky orders, adjusting Thèrèse' body to a comfortable position gently.

While she was doing that, everybody searches in their bags for a folded jacket. Nancy quickly and gently put hers underneath the girl's head. Vicky nodded a 'thank you' and began her work.

She moves Thèrèse gently to the side, and started taking off her jacket, allowing Thèrèse to breath.

Eventually, Vicky started to give Thèrèse spaces. One of the girls had taught Vicky how to calm a seizure when she was once a Med-Jack, so this lesson was really helpful for her.

In a few minutes, or so, Thèrèse has stopped shaking, only breathing heavily turning into calming. Vicky sigh in exhaustion as Bea turns and asks, "Is she's gonna be alright?"

"She will be alright. Faith and hope. This was what happened to Prim last year.." Vicky said, adding a sigh. "She's right, Thèrèse will be awake in the matter of time, for now we just have to find shelters to rest." They all nodded agreeing with Nancy's statement.

After building a small hammock using their blankets and stuffs, Aris, Bea, Nancy and Vicky were carrying an unconscious Thèrèse on it. Thomas leading the group again, silently worried for his friend. Even though, Thomas and Thèrèse weren't that close, she is still his friend, after what had happened with Winston, he even got more worried for his friends.

After hours and hours and hours, by some miracle, they have found a place to stay, under a bridge, it's not that big but big enough to have a roof under their heads. The four of them have placed Thèrèse carefully on the ground.

Slumping themselves on eachother, the group let out a huffs, pants and breathing heavily. All of them were tired. Just so tired with all the things that were keep happening.

"At times like this, she should be awake. Just have some hope in her. Seizures are usually likes this, unconscious or unable to hear.. it might as well feel like there's an electric pain shooting through your head.. but let's just hear it from her later.." Vicky explains, while her eyes gaze on her unconscious friend, silently praying for her to be alright and wakes up safely.

They all nodded, taking the informations in, "Faith and hope." Minho randomly said. They all turned to him, "This journey to the mountains might be a long way ahead. So now why don't we just count on faith and hope? Yeah?" He remarked, from his seat, he leaned on his knees, arm throwing downwards to where Thèrèse was laying.

"Trust." Bea deadpanned, from her spot, her knees were near her chest, elbows resting on it as she held her face on her palm, still keeping her eyes on Thèrèse.

All eyes turned to her, who she had avoided, focusing on her best friend instead. "Throughout this trials. We must have trust."

After that everybody have gone quiet, some were resting (waiting for Thèrèse,) some were sleeping, and some are daydreaming.

Bea had keep her hands on Thèrèse the entire time, praying for her friend to be awake. As if her prayers have been answered, Thèrèse slowly squeeze her hand.

Bea flinch at the soft action, but continued to stared at the girl, who still has her eyes closed. "Thèrèse?" Her eyes are now fully awake at the mentioned of her name.

"Thèrèse," Bea tried again, this time the whole group are there, relieved that the girl are finally awake. Thèrèse stares into the space and started crying. Nancy strokes Thèrèse' hair out of her face, whispering soft things to her while Bea held her hand against her cheek, "Oh, Thèrèse," Bea mumbled softly.

"Thèrèse, you're awake!" Aris gleefully said, from besides Newt, the group are all happy again for the girl, but slightly worried. Tears rolling down the girl's cheeks for a second, then she started to relax. It was nearly night so they have no other choice but to spend the night there and continued the journey tomorrow morning.

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(A/N: I hope I'm writing seizures right. 😬 Okay.. so. What happened with Thèrèse was that, the cause and symptoms of her seizures were stress. Thèrèse are stress and even more stress with all the pressure her dad had put on her. So, we already had Vicky's backstory, and we're in the beginning of Thèrèse' story.)