𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐇 - TMR AU, thomas

𝟎𝟎𝟗, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐬

*THOMAS' POV*

i knew that issy would be excited to find out about what the man had said. i mean, i still don't even know his name, which is weird. i kind of thought that he would tell me.

"he said that he has a friend that knows where the right arm is and maybe he can help us but we just need to find him." i said.

"really? that's so good." she said looking extremely happy.

i could tell she was thinking about something as she stopped smiling and stared into space for a minute. it must be about everyone else because i thought about that as well and i need to ask brenda if we can wait for them.

"what's up?" i asked.

"what about everyone else, can we wait for them?" she said.

brenda walked in at that moment and i turned around to look at her. she looked happy, and i don't know why.

"brenda? can we wait for our friends to get here before we leave for marcus?" i said.

"yes, but we'll need to catch them, otherwise they won't make it in time." she paused. "how many is there?"

"around 10" i replied slowly after because i was counting them in my head.

"okay, i'll get my men to find them." she said and walked out of the room.

i was relieved, i don't know what we'd do without them. we really needed them. i just hoped that brenda could find them out in the scorch, otherwise i have no idea what we'd do.

brenda got back and said that she has sent a couple of people to go and get them. thank god.

"how are you feeling?" brenda asked issy.

"i feel a lot better thank you." she said smiling.

"good, so what is life like at wckd?" brenda asked.

"it's shit when you grow up, but when your just a kid it's amazing." issy said.

i thought back to when issy told me about janson and how he was ab*sing her and that's why her life was so horrible when she grew up. janson didn't do that to ben or cam, so why would he do it to her?

brenda smiled at that but she probably wondered why it was so horrible when she grew up but realistically, she didn't want to know.

i hate janson for that. and i can never forgive him, i never really liked him or trusted him at all but he was nice when he was with us. but that was just because he didn't want us to leave.

a couple of hours passed and the man came into the room, which we were in. he sat down on the chair next to the wall and stared at us for a couple of seconds.

"who are you?" i asked, hoping to find out his name.

"i'm jorge." he said.

"jorge, do you know where marcus is?" issy asked him.

"maybe, he's always had this club that he runs and it's not too far from here." he said.

i thought about this, if he said maybe, he doesn't actually know where he would be if he wasn't at this club. so there was a chance that we could not find him and we wouldn't be able to get to the right arm.

i left that thought and decided to think about it at the time, if the time even comes. but now, we had to just wait for brenda's men to get back from finding our friends.

then, i heard a big bang coming from downstairs. i don't know what it was but i needed to find out because if wckd had found us before everyone got back, i don't know what i'd do.

i looked over to brenda to see if she had any clue about what was going on. but when i looked over, she was already gone. so that's not good.

i heard shouts and screams coming from downstairs so me and issy ran down, hoping we didn't just run into a death trap.

we ran the way we could remember, and i was hoping that i got it right otherwise i'd have no idea where i was. but we only knew the way to the room that we were in, not anywhere else in the building.

i heard a door creak from behind me and i saw four men and our friends. i ran straight to them and hugged them immediately. issy ran to her brother and millie, but brenda came back and didn't look happy.

"we have to go, now!" she said.

"where are we going?" newt asked.

"to the right arm." i said and they all followed.

brenda seemed to know where to go. i wanted to ask her to tell us what had happened, but brenda seemed really stressed and i didn't want to make things worse.

"wckd is here and we need to get you kids out of here before they take you back." brenda said without me even asking. shit.

"how do we get out without them noticing?" minho asked.

"you'll see." brenda said.

i hoped that wherever we were escaping from, that wckd wasn't there, waiting for us to come out. i just hoped that she had done something like this before, or by the end of the night, we could be back at wckd.

i can't let that happen, especially when janson would be there, but i cant imagine how much worse he'd be once we've escaped.

we followed brenda to this small opening in the wall. i looked outside and it looked like there was a wire going across to the other side, i couldn't tell what the other side was yet.

brenda grabbed something from the ceiling that looked like a harness, but i really couldn't tell.

everyone looked confused, wondering what we were gonna do once we've got to the other side. but right now, we just had to trust brenda, and i knew i could since she helped with our friends.

"so who's going first?" she asked.