TILLY'S POV:
I went back inside where the others were still standing around the table discussing Gally's plan to get the girl, what's her name?... Teresa and get her to help us get into WCKD.
"So we got a plan?" I inquired, looking at Gally
"Yeah, and your coming with us, we need your help" I looked back from the blueprints on the table back to him and nodded, "We are going soon as it gets dark so until then we are just going to go over the plan alright?" he said gesturing to the window that showed the sky to still be a fiery orange colour.
I nodded at him, "sounds good, but, what does the girl look like anyway? Should probably know if we are going to kidnap her eh Gally?" I cracked a smile at him, which he reassuringly returned to me and held out a picture of a girl around our age. She was pretty, with very dark brown wavy hair that fell to just below her shoulders and peircing, icy, blue eyes. Teresa was smiling in the picture, but it did not reach her eyes, leaving her with a slightly cold expression. I studied every inch of her face so I could have easily recognised her at a glance when we were going to get her, last thing we need was if I accidentally helped them get the wrong girl, that would definitely catch WCKD's attention.
Gally relayed the plan he and a begrudging Thomas had come up with, he went over it again and again, until it was seared into my brain. This part of the plan was the less dangerous part of getting their friend back, but if we got caught it would still mean certain death, nonetheless, we were ready to take the risk if it meant for them getting a friend back and some serum, and for me, killing WCKD from the head, my dear aunt, Dr Ava Paige, and if I was lucky I would also take out that dick Janson who had been making my life so much more difficult the past few years.
Newt walked in, breaking me out of my murderous plans, I gave him a quick smile, which he returned before going over the plan in my head again. I zoned out as Gally filled him in on the plan, him and I would be distracting and people and making sure they did not stumble upon us while we got Teresa, it was unlikely anyone would since there was a curfew, but we would signal to them if someone was coming. Thomas would be luring her to the spot and Gally would sneak up behind and pull a bag over her head so she couldn't see or hear what was happening. It was simple, we just had to not get caught. Easier said than done.
~TIME SKIP~
Gally made me repeat the plan to him one final time before we headed out. I rolled my eyes, I already knew the plan but his 'brotherly instincts' obviously told him that he needed to double check, jUsT to Be SuRE. I sighed dramatically before relaying the plan in detail whilst grabbing my jacket, I threw it on as I finished the plan, Gally gave an approving nod and we headed to the manhole that lead us to the sewers, Gally and Thomas headed down before me, I looked over at newt before climbing down the ladder, he was flexing his hand, surely the inspection couldn't be spreading that fast that it was now affecting his movements? I shook my head to clear it and scurried down the ladder into the sewers next to Gally, Newt coming down briefly after.
They were disgusting as always but we pushed through, we stumbled through the dank tunnels trying not to gag from the smell, I sighed gratefully when a door I was all to familiar with came into view, on the other side was the last city.
With our hoods up, we all got into our positions, Newt and I making our way to a corner that was before the edge of the tunnel, Gally behind a pillar in said tunnel and Thomas, who would lead Teresa to us. We waited in silence for Thomas to bring Teresa around, I sat against the wall, fiddling with a loose string on my jacket. My thought wandered to the boys standing around me, what had WCKD done to them that they were close enough with this friend to want to rescue him from such a dangerous place. Now probably was not the best time, but when else was I gonna ask, I turned to Newt who had sat down next to me, "Newt, what did WCKD do to you all? What happened before you came to the last city?" He sighed, I knew I had touched a nerve, "shit sorry, forget I said anything" I backtracked but he waved my apologies away."You're working with us now, you should at least know something, WCKD put us in a big maze" My eyes widened
"a maze?""Yeah we were there for three years, Tommy and Teresa came up and everything started changing and we finally found a way out, half the glasses didn't want to come though" he said looking down at his lap,
"And Gally didn't come and tried to stop you leaving, then killed a kid called chuck right?" He nodded, confirming what Gally had told me.
"When we got out these soldiers took us to this facility, we thought we escaped but no, it was just WCKD so we broke out again and we were out in the scorch, we kept running, lost a good kid on the way, his name was winston"
"I'm sorry"
"Thanks, then we eventually ran into Brenda and Jorge, they kinda hung us up"
"Hung you up!" I exclaimed quietly, I almost started laughing, catching myself, remembering where we were.
"They helped us to the right arm and then-" he was cut off from some voices from the tunnel, Newt and I took turns peaking around the corner to see what was happening and eavesdropping on what the two were saying, we watched as Gally snuck up behind her and threw the bag over her head, we both backed round the corner as Thomas came to get us, we did not look like we had been spying. We feigned looking out for people and pretended not to notice Thomas coming around the corner, I think we did rather well as he did not suspect a thing.
"You guys are kinda bad lookouts if you did not notice me coming around it could have been anyone" he said, slightly annoyed. I looked over at Newt and we shared a cheeky smile, unnoticed by Thomas, maybe we had feigned not noticing a little too well.
We snuck back, taking shadowy back alleyways so that none of the patrol cars would see us dragging a girl along the street with us. Gally and Thomas guided Teresa along, Newt was up front making sure the coast was clear and I was making sure nobody had seen us from behind or was following us. We slowly and carefully walked to the door leading to the sewer and travelled along it, climbing out of the ladder. This time round it was a bit more difficult cause we had to find a way to get Teresa up as well, I'm the end we resorted to just guiding her up and hoping she didn't fall. When I reached the top of the ladder I pulled myself up and dusted myself off, I was about to walk off to the place the others were using as an interrogation room, but I spun around, remembering that I had to close the lid to the manhole because the last time I forgot Lawrence yelled at me.
I kneeled down and hauled the heavy cover back over the manhole, I stood up proud that I had done it myself. I stood there for a moment, thinking about how I'm sooooo strong before remembering what I was supposed to be healing with. I jogged out of the room and across base, past a little side alley and then through the doors. The boys had tied her to a chair, in my time elsewhere,
"Oi til, can you run upstairs and grab Fry, Jorge and Brenda" I nodded at Gally's request and turned back out of the room past the small alley to the flight of stairs. I ran upstairs to get Brenda, Fry and Jorge, who had been sitting around the table having another look at the maps, trying to spot some imaginary loophole. In some of my free time I had talked to Fry and had taken a liking to him, we would share cooking tips with each other in the few moments we would have in between making plans.
"They're back, we brought the girl, we've got her downstairs" they stood up and followed me out of the room, to the old building we had the girl. Now we where here we had to wait for her to wake up (Gally, in all his infinite genius had decided to drug her, cause that was definitely going to get her to help us)
We were all there and sat down in wait, ready for the next part of our plan to unfurl.
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The Defender - Chronicles of the runner
Hayran KurguTilly, has been on the run for as long as she can remember, using her skills to try and help as many people in the scorch as possible. This is until she settles for a bit too long at the last city and meets some peculiar guests saying they have come...