❝People can only take so much until they rebel back.❞
Humanity was on the brink of extinction.
First came the solar flares. Then, the fires. The fear. The famine. What came after, was almost unimaginable. A virus. A virus that attacked the brain. T...
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06 → "BREAK FREE"
[age 15 — a week later]
February
1924 hrs
Guards stand before my door, limiting my freedom. If I leave, they follow. They switch shifts at certain points in the day, and ensure that the only places I can go include the observation labs, to the cafeteria or my dorm. They ensure I'm following my schedule for the day. But, despite this outcome, I don't regret forming any relationship with those boys from Group A. Ava Paige thinks this is best for me, for the outcome of these trials and tests, but a doctor can be wrong. Stuck inside my dorm, with its bland walls and bland furniture, I swivel around on my desk chair in boredom. It's been a week since I'd last talked to the boys of Group A. Since I defied the rule and saved them from WCKD's simulation inside that room. Since the guards pried Newt and I apart from one another.
Since all this, Thomas and Teresa have seemed to also be keeping a watchful eye on my whereabouts, but they don't mention anything about it. At least, not around me. I wouldn't be surprised if they did without me around, and I honestly don't blame them. Here they have listened to this rule and haven't defied the rule like I had. For a year and a half, I really thought that Ava Paige had little idea of it all, but I'm also not surprised that she had known. For whatever reason, much of anything WCKD does now doesn't shock me. They've upped their methods for this cure greatly in the last year, in the last week. The group having to endure that simulation of the rising water was only just the beginning of what WCKD had in store for them. I've been stuck behind more observation windows this week, studying their brain patterns. Forced to put them through more tests.
My thoughts are soon interrupted, when pain - filled screams emit outside my dorm room door, and alarms begin to wail outside, casting flickering red light under the small fraction between the floor and the door. Jumping to my feet in alarm, I hesitantly move toward my door, my shaky hands slowly reaching up to touch the door handle. Twisting the handle almost reluctantly, the door slowly creaks open. Outside, the hallway is lit up red, lights flickering against the walls. The wailing of the alarms echoes down the halls. Opening the door just a tad more, my eyes fall to two spasming bodies on the ground, screaming in pain. My heart is racing in my chest.
What the hell is going on?
I step back into my room, hesitant of on what is going on. There's hollers as guards rush by like a herd of sheep, weapons in hand. One orders me to stay put in my dorm, and I'm only able to nod before they're gone from view.
"Adeline!" The voice — the one I wouldn't wish to forget — comes so quick and unexpectedly, that I jump. A figure comes into view, his face contorted in a look of relief. He rushes toward me, grabbing both of my hands. Relief courses through my body as I realise who is standing before me, but then I realise that he's standing before me, and my guards are down.
