Trenda • The Maze Runner

Chapter 7

SONG: Awake and Alive by Skillet

THOMAS POV

I try to sit up but i notice I am tied down with rope as a restraint. I see Minho walk in front of me to a box. "Minho.." I stop when I feel a surge of pain shoot through my jaw. "Hello Thomas. Are you calmed down?" He asks with a slight smirk. I feel my muscles tense. Does he see this as some joke? Brenda is all I have left. Without her, I don't think I can go on.

"Where is she?" I ask in a rough tone. "She is safe. Away from you". Safe from me? I didn't do anything! Or did I? "Is she okay?" I ask in a small voice. "She is stable, but unconscious for now. She is being treated but we don't know what it is" he says while pouring a glass of hot water out of a pot. "Drink this, it will calm your nerves" he says walking to the bed. He walks over to untie the restraints over my chest. He unties them and grabs the cup of water and hands it to me. I take a small sip as he unties my legs. As soon as they are free I knee him in the face as I splash the water on his front. He screams out as I sprint out of the tent and head for the medjack tent. I am running but soon feel my legs give out. I can't feel my legs, and soon I loose the feeling in my arms. I start to have spasms as I feel the world get darker. I force my eyes open and see Minho running towards me. Ugh. I'm screwed. He runs over and picks up my arms and drags me back to the tent. I fade in and out until I just here Minho talking to himself. "You idiot Thomas. You slinthead. You are infected too. Gosh you shuckface". I'm infected with what?

MINHO POV

I feel awful seeing Thomas run to Brenda but we need to separate them. They are sick. He grabs her hand and starts to cry. I have to do what is best for him. I tap him on the shoulder just enough to see the tears in his eyes and tear stains on his cheek before I punch him in the jaw knocking him out cold.

I get a few medjacks to help me carry him to another tent. I see he is a pale color and think of the worse. He and Brenda might have infected eachother. I can't lose one of them not alone both of them. I already lost Newt, my best friend.

We place Thomas in a bed where tie rope around him to secure him to the bed. We inject him with Haderol that was left here in a medical box.  He will be unconscious for a while. The medjack and I walk to Brenda's tent where she has a "stinger" in her side. "We have to remove it" I say to a medjack. "We know but it seems to be in there pretty deep", he says lifting up her shirt to show the wound. "Well figure it out" minho says marching off to Thomas's tent, only to be stopped by a name. Thomas. Brenda is saying Thomas over and over again. I feel sick inside. She needs him and he needs her.

I run back to Thomas's tent as fast as I can to try and forget Brenda and her words. I walk in the tent and prepare the serum. It is a numbing agent that you can put in water. I slip it into Thomas's drink so if he wakes up he won't be totally functional. He wakes up about and hour later where I hand him the water. He drinks it slowly but it will work. I begin to untie him so he sees us as equals, so he can trust me. But next thing you know I have burns down my front from the boiling water and a knee to the face. The serum kicks in and he falls to the ground. But he begins to have 'spasm like' jolts. I don't believe that is supposed to happen.... I grab him and pull him back to the tent with the last few ounces of energy I have left. I finally place him back in the bed and lift up his shirt. There is another needle like object in his side. They both have it. They are both infected, but by what?