The Maze Runner (Oc x reader)

Chapter 10 - Escape

"Pick your ass up and finish what you started."
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Thomas opens his eyes.

"Hey." Teresa says, looking down at him. "Are you okay?"

"What the hell were you thinking?" Newt asks him and Thomas sit up and turn to see you, Liam, Newt and Minho outside the pit looking down at him.

"What happened?"

"Gally's taken control." Liam tells him.

"He said we had a choice." You say. "Either join him or get banished at sundown with you."

Thomas sigh and groans as he turns his body around and sit up more.

"And the others agreed to that?" He asks.

"Gally has everyone convinced that you're the reason all this has happened." Teresa tells him.

"Well, he's been right so far." Thomas says.

You tilt your head a bit, frowning.

"What are you talking about?" Minho asks.

"This place.. It's not what we thought it was. It's not a prison. It's a test. It all started when we were kids. They'd give us these challenges. They were experimenting on us. And then people started disappearing. Every month, one after the other, like clockwork." Thomas tells you.

"Sending them up into the Maze?" Newt asks.

"Yeah, but not all of us."

"What do you mean?" Newt ask.

"Guys, I'm one of them." Thomas says. "The people that put you here, i worked with them. I watched you guys for years. The entire time you've been here, I.. I was on the other side of it. So were you." He tells Teresa.

"What?" She asks.

"Teresa, we did this to them."

"No." She says, a tear falling down her cheek. "That can't be true."

"It is, i saw it."

You see Liam rubbing his chin looking thoughtful.

"Why would they send us up if we were with them?" Teresa ask.

"It doesn't matter."

"He's right." Liam then says and everyone looks at him. "It doesn't matter. Any of it. Because the people we were before the Maze, they don't even exist anymore. These creators took care of that. But what does matter is who we are now and what we do now." He says taking your hand. "You went into the maze and you found a way out." Liam tells Thomas.

"Yeah, but if I hadn't, Alby would still be alive." Thomas says and you squeeze Liams hand. Liams swallows and clenches his jaw.

"Maybe." Liam says. "But I know that if he were here, he would be telling you the exact same thing." He tells him and you nod making eye contact with Thomas.

Thomas looks between you and Liam.

"Pick your ass up and finish what you started." You say. "Because if we do nothing, then that means Alby and Chuck died for nothing, and we can't have that."

"Okay." Thomas nods. "Okay, but we gotta get through Gally first."

...

Thomas is pretending to still be unconscious while they bring him up to the gate with Teresa.

"This is such a waste." Gally says coming up to the gate.

"Gally." Winston then says. "It doesn't feel right, man."