Injured Feet & Rickety Hearts {Book 1 Completed}

//Chapter 19//

Newt telling Malaya she needs to go to the Med-jacks
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Minho didn't seem fazed by my snarling, my rabid behaviour, like he was so used to it now. But I guess Minho was the sassy type, he knew how to handle me.

"That sounds like fun, but do we really need to discuss the hottest guy. It's obvious it's me"

I growled and hissed an 'your unbelievable' under my breath before trying once to get past him, but he stopped me once again, I will beat him up if he doesn't move. I don't get what his problem is, I'm just not in the mood. It's been a long day, my first day in the maze and two boys have already died, what did he expect me to do? I was just upset, I needed space. This wasn't helping at all.

I stopped in my tracks, my hands balling at my sides into fists as heat sprang to the sides of my neck. I was furious, I just wanted to get to the deadheads, was that so hard? I was dizzy with anger and I knew for a fact that Minho could tell, he was looking at my fists.

"Seriously Malaya what's up?"

He asked a little less mockingly and his voice hit me like bricks, I was struggling to control myself. I was fighting my anger, this... this isn't right. It was only now that it all started to frighten me, I... I wasn't in control. I never got this angry, and I wasn't angry for any reason at all. I was ticked that no one went after those boys and that Minho wouldn't leave me alone, but this was different. I wasn't in control.

I fought against it, fighting my fists to relax and my mind to follow, it just made me dizzy. What was happening?

Unknown POV

"Increase emotion in subject C9"

I gently pushed the lever on the desk, my palms sweaty as I watched the girl through the monitor, I could see her anger increasing with the touch of the lever, her hands tightening, she still didn't notice it yet. Would she snap at her friends like WICKED wants her too? Or will she figure out somethings wrong?

The plan was simple, record subject A7, A5 and C9's brain activity when C9 gets angry. In human language, they wanted to see what Minho and Newt will do when their friend is bloodthirsty. So far, everything was going to plan.

Subject A7, otherwise known as Minho seemed to be noticing something, the way his eyes drifted to the girl's hands then to subject A5, otherwise Known as Newt. They were picking it up, but she wasn't, everything was going to plan. Sadly.

I never wanted this girl to be treated this way, she had gone through so much, only 16 and suffered a great deal. All because she's the 'Prodigy' she's the only one to survive the horrible torture we put on the group she came here with.

Everything was going smoothly until suddenly, on the monitor above the camera flickered with colour. Subject C9, otherwise known as Malaya's brain was being monitored up there. The brain should have been shinning with colour in her limbic centre where her emotion memories are held, that meant she was angry. But the brain diagram flared up, blotches of colour in the frontal cortex and everywhere else. She had noticed something was wrong.

I watched her levels drop, she was fighting it, she knows someone is controlling her. Subject A5 took a weary step in her direction as if she was about to collapse any second. Which was exactly what happened.

Malaya toppled to the ground and the lab suddenly lit up with an alarm blaring in the air. Doctors were yelling orders and I was stuck in a rut, I couldn't hear single one of them, I could hear her heart rate pick up rapidly, it was too much for her to handle, she was fighting it too hard, her brain can't handle it.