Chuck and Gallys body laid their on the cold hard floor.
'You did this Bella, you caused this and your going to end it' a voice whispers into my ear.
"Bella get out of here!" Gallys voice shouts at me.
"Get out of my head!!" I scream.
"Gally!"
I woke up breathing heavily, sweat pouring down my forehead and tears streaming down my face. The light dimming to a dull grey as the sun sank to a horizon.
I could feel someone move alongside me.
"Bella are you ok?" Thomas asks.
"Yeah I'm fine, it was just a nightmare."
"Do you want to talk about it?"
"No I rather forget about it."
But the truth is I couldn't, no matter how hard I tried to keep those thoughts out of my head, they wouldn't leave.
"Hey Bella."I looked up to see Harriet and Sonya walking towards me. Staring strangely at Thomas.
"We want to know what you know" Harriet said quietly. "Bella please we don't know who to trust."
"Well you obviously made it clear you chose Teresa's side."
"Look we've had our doubts about this whole thing from the beginning. Something about it isn't right. So yeah you two better talk. But let us get everybody over here first" Harriet says.
They stood up to go and rouse the others.
"Hurry then," Thomas says. We both exchange looks.
"We better do this before Teresa gets back."
It didn't take long for Harriet and Sonya to gather everyone. The girls stood in a tight group in front of us, I stood alongside Thomas who was tied to an ugly lifeless tree.
"All right" Harriet says. "You talk first, then we will."
Thomas nodded and cleared his throat. "All I know about your group is what I learned from Aris. And if seems like we all went through pretty much the same thing inside the Maze.
But since we escaped, lots of things have been different. And I'm not sure what you know about Wicked."
Sonya cut in. "Not much."
"Well, we've learned a lot about them. All of us are special in some way- we're being tested or something because they have plans for us" Thomas paused then, but no one showed much of a reaction, so he went on.
"Wicked are doing all these trials to test us. I don't understand all of it, not even close, but I think this whole thing about killing me is just another layer. Or another lie. So... I think this is just another variable to see what we'll all do."
"In other words" Harriet says " you want us to risk our lives because of this brilliant deduction."
"Don't you see? Killing me has no point, Maybe it's a test for you, I ding know. But I do know that I can help you if I'm alive, but not if I'm dead."
"Or," Harriet replies we're bring tested to see if we have the guts to kill our competitors leader. Isn't that the whole point? See which group succeeds? Weed out the weak and the strong?'
"I haven't even been the leader- Minho has" Thomas says as he soaked his head adamantly. "No think about this. How are you showing any strength by killing me? We are way outnumbered and you have all these weapons. How does that prove who's stronger?"
"Then what does it have to do with?" A girl at the back called out.
Thomas paused, and looks straight at me, as in telling me, if I tell them they might listen better.
"I think its a test to see if you'll think of yourself, change plans, make rational decisions. And the more of us there are, the better odds we have of making it to safe haven. Killing Thomas makes no sense, does no good. You've proven any power you needed to by capturing Thomas. Show them you won't blindly take it all the way."
"Interesting stuff." Harriet says.
"Harriet you have to believe us, we don't think this is the real test Wicked is throwing at us, please just trust us, if not him, then me, you honestly believe everything Teresa has told you?".
"Look Bella, we need to talk this amongst ourselves, I need to get my head right around this, ok?"
"Ok."
The group of girls leave and Thomas relaxes against the tree.
"Do you think they'll believe us?" Thomas asks me.
"I honestly don't now, they're to blinded by Teresa's lies."
"We'll figure something out Bells, eventually."
"I hope so."
The darkness grew deeper, and Teresa finally appeared from the direction they'd come in earlier that day. She noticed right a way something was different, probably by the way everyone kept looking at her, to me and Thomas.
"What?" She asks, her face looking worn out since the day before.
"We need to talk" Harriet says.
Teresa looks confused but followed Harriet and sometimes others to the far side cliff away from me and Thomas.
Teresa looked so pissed off, on what Harriet and the girls had said to her.
Harriet came over to us soon as Teresa walked off.
"It's your lucky day. We decided not to kill Thomas after all."
"But I tell you what," Harriet says as she stands up, holding a hand out to help him do the same. "Teresa does not like you or Bella, so I'd watch my back around her if I were you."
Thomas let Harriet pull him up. Teresa really did want him dead.
The next day Group B, Thomas and i, prepared to leave. Soon we started making our way through the dark pass of the mountains, heading for the safe haven that's suppose to be on the other side.
Thomas and I kept walking staying close to group B.
The group made their way down the mountain, crisscrossing back and forth on the trail in silence.
I started slowing down due to the pain in my legs, Thomas decided to stay with me.
Suddenly a voice spoke my name, startling me I almost tripped. I turned sharply to see Teresa step out behind a thick knot of white wood, a spear gripped in her right hand, her face hidden in the shadows. The others must not have heard , because they kept walking.
"Teresa" Thomas whispers. "What.....?" He didn't even know what to say.
"Tom, Bells, we need to talk," she responds . "Don't worry about them, just come with me." She gestured to the trees behind her with a quick jerk of her head.
I looked back at group, heading away from us. "Thomas maybe we should-"
"Just come on. The act is over." She turned away without waiting for a response and stepped into the lifeless forest. Thomas followed Teresa and I followed behind Thomas.
Somehow I didn't like how this was gonna go.
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Fanfiction[The Scorch Trials] [Book 2] Bella thought that the Maze was the end of it all, but it wasn't. The death of her brother Gally and her friend Chuck broke her. Burned and baked, the earth is a wasteland, its driven people mad by an infection known as...
