Will to Survive

Interrogation

Will, Keelan, and Delilah walked into the prison area and looked into each of the cells. They finally found Quinn's cell, who was sitting on the bed and smirking. She turned to look at the three party members and stood up. She walked up to the bars of her cell and continued to smirk as the others had serious looks on their faces.

"What brings you here?" Quinn said. "You want to know if there's a way to stop this?"

"No shit, you psycho bitch," Keelan said, rolling her eyes. "You better tell us something because Delilah can read your mind. Either way, we're getting the truth. Might as well give it to us the easy way."

Quinn chuckled and rolled her eyes at the three party members. "I know what Delilah can do. She used to work for me before you guys manipulated her to join your side," she said. "Why did you let them do this to you, Delilah? You could've had it all, but instead you join a band of nerds that do nothing but cause trouble."

"Maybe because I actually care about people, Quinn," Delilah shot back. "I never agreed with what you were doing anyway. I wish the others thought the same. They may be clones, but two of them are kids. You manipulated them, Shawn, Ezra, and me to destroy the world and for what? Because you hate it so much? You just doomed us all, including yourself."

"Oh I'll be fine and you all know that you will be fine as well," Quinn replied. "You're all going to space. But you don't want to? So you came here to find out if there's a way to cure everyone. Hate to break it to you, but there is none."

"Is there a way to make one, or did you destroy those files?" Will asked as calm as he could. He didn't want to be as enraged as his two companions were. He kept his anger at Quinn under control and waited for her response.

"You think I'm going to tell you all that?" Quinn said. "You guys are stupid."

"She's lying," Delilah announced, causing for the others in the room to look over at her. Her eyes were closed and her nose was bleeding. "There is a way. But it hasn't been perfected. Apparently, Ezra and Shawn were working on a cure just in case they all got infected by the rats. But it's been causing a lot of complications."

"Shit," Quinn muttered.

Keelan and Will gave each other smiles in excitement. The blonde girl then walked up to Quinn's cell with her own smirk on her face. "Told you to not underestimate Delilah's abilities," she said.

"We should go to Shawn and Ezra's cells. They can tell us more," Will suggested. 

The others nodded at him and they walked down the cell block. As they were walking, Will was in the back of the group before he heard a noise that was nearby. He looked inside one of the cells and saw Grayson, who was groaning in pain. Will walked up closer to the cell and peered in closer. The clone had a wound on his leg that he was grasping. He guessed that it was from the battle at Starcourt.

"You need help with that?" Will asked him. Grayson jumped and looked over at him. "I know some first aid that can help with that wound."

"Why the hell would you want to help me?" Grayson asked with a glare. "I nearly killed you and your friends."

Will simply shrugged and grabbed some keys that were nearby. He unlocked the cell and entered inside, slowly walking up to Grayson. "I'm not going to attack. I just want to help you," he said, cautiously.

Grayson sat still, not sure what was happening in that moment. Will took a look at the wound on the clone's leg and grabbed a towel to cleanse the wound. The two boys were silent as Will helped Grayson, neither of them sure what to say.

"You never answered my question," Grayson said, breaking the silence. "Why are you helping me with my injury?"

Will shrugged again. "I'm not someone who would let another die," he said. "I've faced death so many times, so I know what it's like. I don't want anyone to go through that, even if they are trying to kill me and my friends."

Grayson looked down when he had said that. "I heard what Delilah said to Quinn," he said. "I was manipulated, wasn't I? I helped unleash something that can't be stopped. I thought that what we were doing was right, but when I saw that gate... I knew that something was wrong."

"That's good that you realized that," Will replied. "I was stuck in that place for a week and later possessed by a monster. Wasn't fun at all. I had always wanted a game like Dungeons and Dragons to come to life, but now that I've basically experienced it, I wish things could get back to normal. I wish I could've have a better childhood."

"I wish I could've have a normal life too," Grayson said. "I wish I didn't listen to Quinn's lies. I helped to make sure that Evelyn would bring you guys to Starcourt. I helped to set loose poisonous rats. I helped create the venom in them. I wish I wasn't ever cloned. I wish I could've just been a normal kid."

Will gave him a sympathetic smile and put a hand on his shoulder. "There might be a way to stop this. But we still might have to go to space," he said.

Meanwhile, Keelan and Delilah didn't notice that Will had gone away from the group. Instead, they focused on finding Shawn and Ezra's cells. Sure enough, they had found them in cells next to each other.

"Boys, look over here, why don't you," Delilah shouted, getting their attention. "Quinn told us, or rather I read her mind, that you were working on a cure in case any of you got infected. Where is it?"

Keelan crossed her arms at the two clones. "Tell us, or Delilah will tell us," she hissed, angry at them both.

Shawn scoffed at the two women and turned towards them. "You think we're going to tell you that?" He said in response.

"It's in Hawkins Lab," Delilah said, wiping the blood away from her nose. "Thanks Ezra for having it in the front of your mind."

"EZRA!"

"I'M SORRY!"

Keelan and Delilah smiled at each other before leaving their cells. They ended up bumping into Will, holding the hand of Grayson. Their eyes widened when they saw the clone outside of his cell. 

"Will, what are you doing?!" Keelan scolded. "Why are you with him? He's dangerous!"

"He regrets what he has done," Will protested. "He also wants to help us get into space and find that cure, if there even is one."

"It's true," Grayson said, staring at the ground in shame. "I'm really sorry for letting that bitch manipulate me. I want to do whatever I can to help."

Delilah closed her eyes and read Grayson's mind. She opened her eyes after a few moments and wiped the blood from her nose. "He's being genuine. Huh, guess I'm not the only clone with some sense in here," she remarked.

"I want to help you guys as well," a voice said inside a cell. The four turned and saw Evelyn at the entrance of her cell. "You can read my mind as well and see I'm being honest. I'm with Grayson. We were manipulated and forced to do this. Everything you heard come out of my mouth was bullshit. Please let me make it up to you as well."

After reading her mind to make sure she was honest, Delilah opened the door to the cell to let her go. "Alright, three out of six clones aren't too bad," she said.

"Let's go back to the others."