You're not Him

Unraveling the Past

I couldn't wait to post this chapter.

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The group parked the car and walked into the rundown city. They saw people protesting. Thomas saw a car coming to them with people on it driving through the crowd. He noticed that one guy looked at their group. Thomas followed his group. They saw walls and people protesting.

Aris walked behind his group. He noticed that a man was following them. He slightly frowned as he looked around. He saw another man, looking and following his group. They made it to the front and saw that the crowd stopped. Aris turned to see the men coming closer. He looked behind him and saw another one. Aris went to Thomas and Jorge.

"Not to make life more stressful but, there are men who are following us." Aris said, making the two look at him. "We should go." They all went to move when they heard a noise. They saw the guns moving. They started to fire, and everyone started to run back. Aris kept on running until he felt someone grabbing his arm." Get off me!" Aris yelled. He was shoved into the back of the van. Frypan and Jorge were followed and then they shut the door of the van.

"Brenda!" Jorge said. Aris and Frypan tried to calm him down. The car stopped and Jorge opened the door, beating up a guard." Where is she?!" Brenda ran over to the scene.

"Hey, I'm right here." Brenda said, causing Jorge to stop beating up the man and hugging the girl.

"Everyone relax. We are on the same side." A guard said.

"Same side? Who are you guys?" Thomas asked. The guard sighed and took off his mask. He turned around.

"Hey Greenie." Frypan froze. Aris looked at him, slightly frowning. He looked so familiar, and that voice sounded familiar as well. His thoughts were interrupted when Thomas punched the young man. Guards went to stop him. Frypan went through them and grabbed Thomas's arm.

"Dude!" Frypan said. He pulled Thomas off Gally, placing a hand on his chest, making sure he wouldn't attack Gally again. "Calm down."

"He killed Chuck." Thomas said, glaring at Gally, who was slowly standing up, holding his jaw.

"I know, I was there too. But I also know that he was stung so he wasn't right in the mind. Just calm down, okay?"

"Guess I had that coming. Anyone else? Fry?" Gally asked.

"Do you know this guy?" Jorge asked, finally asking what others were wondering.

"An old friend." Frypan said, finally getting a good look at Gally." "How? You had a spear through your chest. We watched you die."

"No, you left me to die." Gally said." And if we didn't help you, you guys would've been dead." Gally looked at them." What are you guys doing here?"

"Minho and Newt. Wicked has them here. We are looking for a way in." Thomas softly said, still glaring at the boy.

"I can help you with that." Gally took them to see Lawrence. They got there." Let me do the talking." Gally said, mostly looking at Thomas.

"Good luck with that." Frypan mumbled.

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The door slammed shut and Newt heard it being locked, leaving him in a metal room, with the room dimly lit. He groaned in pain as he sat up. He could feel a bruise forming on his face. He reached up to touch it and he hissed in pain when his fingers softly brushed the bruise. His bad leg was in pain, covered with blood. Of course it had to be that leg. Janson knew how to hurt the teen, making Newt wonder if Janson watched what happened in the maze or if he was told what happened. He scooted over to the wall and gasped in pain. He then looked at his arm. WCKD was carved into his arm, and it was still bleeding. Newt's voice was slightly horse, having yelled in pain for about an hour. It felt longer than that to Newt. Janson tried to make Newt tell him where Thomas and the others were. Newt was stubborn so he got nothing from the blonde boy.

"Please don't come back Tommy." Newt softly said. But Newt knew that Thomas was coming back and that worried him. Thomas wouldn't leave without Minho or him. He was falling into a trap, and Newt couldn't do anything about it.

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Aris, Thomas and Gally got into the sewers.

"This smells delightful." Aris said as they started to walk.

"How did you guys meet?" Gally asked the two.

"In a Wicked facility, where Wicked took us after we escaped the mazes, pretending to be good." Gally stopped, looking at the two.

"There were other mazes?" The other two nodded. "All boys?" Aris shook his head.

"My maze was all girls. I was the only boy." Gally started to walk again.

"Must've been heaven for you." Aris shrugged.

"Eh, if I was attracted to girls, I guess it would've been." Gally stumbled, making Thomas look over at him with his eyebrows raised.

"It was slippery there." Gally quickly said, red in the face.

"Anyways, I met Thomas, and he thought something was up, I helped him, we got out and we went through the Scorch together. Got to the right arm, Wicked came, took me and tested on me, got saved and now I came back to get revenge." Gally nodded.

"Revenge. I like that." Aris smiled. The three finally got to the city. "Let's go. And I know it's hard but pretend, you've been here before." Gally said. Gally led them to a wall, and they got to a place with a telescope. "If Minho and Newt are here, that is where they will be keeping them. It might get you in."

"What do you mean might?" Thomas asked. Gally motioned to the telescope and Thomas looked through it. He then looked at Aris." It's Teresa." Aris sighed and nodded. They got back to the other side of the wall." There has to be another way."

"We've seen the building. There is no other way." Gally said.

"You really think she is going to help us?"

"I wasn't going to ask her." Gally said.

"Am I missing something here? This is the same girl who betrayed us. Same dick?" Aris asked. Gally softly smiled.

"I like him." Aris raised his eyebrows but smiled back. Thomas left, and everyone left, leaving the two boys. "I'm Aris." Aris softly said, making Gally look at him. "Realized that I didn't really introduce myself to you." Gally softly nodded.

"I'm Gally, but you already know that." Aris nodded.

"Yeah, I heard about you."

"About how I killed Chuck? I feel horrible and so guilty about it. Never in my right mind, I would hurt, or even kill him." Gally said quickly.

"I know. I believe you. I also heard good things about you." Gally raised his eyebrows.

"Really?"

"Yeah. In the scorch, Frypan and Winston would talk about the Gladers. They talked about how you were in the Glade. That you were a good person before everything happened. That you always had a good time and made this secret drink." Gally softly smiled. "You have to make it for me sometime."

"Yeah." It was quiet.

"Minho told me that you became more serious when Thomas and Teresa came up. " Gally sat down.

"I was scared. Everything was changing and I wasn't ready for it. The Glade was my home for 3 years and all I remembered. I was scared that I couldn't protect the others." Aris walked over and sat next to him.

"Well, you are allowed to be scared. You are human." Gally softly smiled.

"Thanks." The two boys looked at each other.

"Did we know each other before the maze?" Aris asked."I just feel like I know you."

"We did." Gally said, making Aris give him a look." When I got stung, some memories came back."

"Were we friends?" Gally shrugged.

"We were close."

"Close?" Gally nodded.

"Yeah. You were the first person outside of Wicked that I met." Gally stopped. Aris looked at him, waiting for Gally to tell him more." I remember telling you that I was going in the maze and..."

"I have an idea." Thomas said, coming in. Gally nodded and left. Aris looked at Gally as he walked away. Aris was going to punch Thomas.