𝙼𝚢 𝚂𝚞𝚗𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚎

♡ chapter seventeen - 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪?! ♡

i stood back up, holding out my hand. "WAIT! this has just happened. she's not dangerous yet!"
vince yelled towards me with his finger, fearing for his life. "you shouldn't have brought her here! if we let cranks in here now safe haven doesn't last a week!"

i pace my breath, trying to find common sense within him. "i know.. i know. just listen to-"
thomas spoke up, pulling me back slowly. "i told her that you could help her. please."
"no." he sniffles, still having his gun pointing directly at her.
"there has to be something you can do." he pleads. "yeah, there is."

vince clocks his gun. "i can put her out of her misery." jorge yells. "NO! NO! LET ME GO!" we tries to resist the soldiers holding him back.

a woman comes from the crowd, almost telling vince off. "vince, that's enough! let him go."
the soldiers released jorge, he fell to brenda's aid quickly.

"she's infected, doc." vince gulped. the woman approached him, a smile approached her face.
her eyes met mine quickly. "no, but she can."

everyone stares at me. i stand helplessly so lost. "hello, olivia."

i was took aback from how the hell she knew my name.
vince looked back to the doctor, confused. "what?" he pants.

my chest moved quickly up and down. "you know me?" i query. "of course." her smile almost brightens before she moves swiftly to brenda.

vince lowered his gun to glance at me.
"i was worried you weren't caught after what you did." she said, holding brenda's wound.

my stomach flips around. does she know about what i've done?
her eyes turn away only to look back when i reply. "so.. you know?"
she looks to the floor. "i know."

the gladers glare at me, waiting for me to say something. i didn't want to admit who i was earlier, i was afraid that they would become scared of me.

"i remember meeting you for the first time. you were only a baby. your father is the meanest man i think i've ever met. you know your parents right?" she queries.
i stumble backwards slightly, nervously spitting. "i know my father. my mothers dead."

she stopped to look at me flabbergasted, turning quickly back to brenda's aid.
"take her to the tent." she demanded. "and get these guys some warm clothes."

everyone eyes still laid onto mine as i nervously follow the soldiers. the doctor called my name is follow her, i look back towards the gladers before following her.

there was two separate beds, brenda was laying taking short breaths and i was watching her. it felt like torture watching somebody die like this.

she rambles on about WCKD and the maze. i look over to jorge, who was almost sobbing over brenda's suffering.
she pointed the needle towards me as i lifted my shirt arm.
"you're a sweet girl olivia. you never did deserve what janson did to you."
she punctured the needle into my arm and quickly walked over to a blue liquid, injecting it and moving towards brenda swiftly.

she poked the needle into brenda's arm as well and quickly brenda took a big sigh of breath and relief. i glance confused.
i gulped. "how long will that give her?"

she shrugged in disappointment. "it's different for everyone. a few months maybe."

the woman helped jorge outside, leaving me to stay with brenda. my eyes jolt to her almost lifeless body. "i know you probably can't hear me but if this doesn't work i wanted to say thank for saving our lives. it means everything and we would be dead if it weren't for you."
i tap her hand gently.

eventually i walk out of the tent to be greeted immediately with jorge, who gave me the biggest hug ever. "thank you senorità."
i chuckle softly, tapping his back as he pulls away.
"she's awake. you can go talk to her." he spoke, he returned a nod.

i join newt, thomas, frypan and minho on the edge of the canyon cliff side.
newt said, with his hair brushing in the wind. "i wish alby could've seen this."
i look to the floor, almost praying for the people we've lost.

i really miss teddy right now. he would probably be cracking up jokes, trying to make me laugh.

the gladers repeat the past gladers name.

"and winston.." frypan replies.
thomas almost starts to cry. "and chuck."

we sat in silence for a minute. i notice teresa on the edge of the canyon, staring off into the distance, so i quickly climb up the rocks to meet her.

"hey." i spoke softly toned. she didn't say a single word.
she turned to face me. "hey."
"what are you doing up here?"
"just thinking." she replied.

i slowly walk towards her. my stomach churns again.

i keep getting the same feeling. over and over again.

she blurts out unexpectedly. "do you remember your parents?" i glance at her eyes as she stared at me with her furrowed brows.
i nodded my head hesitantly. i had built up the courage to admit. "yes.. janson is my father and apparently my mother is dead."

her face turned pale and her eyes become blood shot red.

teresa talks about how she remembers her mother, almost on the edge of crying. "she took her eyes out, olivia."

my mouth parts as i moved forward. "i'm sor-"

she gasped, wiping her tears. "there are millions of people suffering out there. millions of stories just like mine. we can't turn our backs on them. i won't."

i feel the urge to vomit.

my head starts to spin like it's going to implode.

i stutter, finally realizing what she's getting at. "what are you saying?!"

she murmurs along her words, trying to convince me of something. "i'm saying, i want you to understand."

"understand what?" i moved closer, fear swelling up my heart.
"..why i did it."

her words shook something inside of me instantly.

i hear the distance sound of a helicopter rattling quickly towards us.
i begin to hyperventilate.
"what have you done?"