She's a Runner

Extraction

"If you let me run some tests... I promise I can protect you." she says.

"Yeah? Like you protected Minho? How many more people do they have to round up, torture, kill? Huh? When the hell does it stop?" Thomas yells, pissed.

"It stops when we find a cure." she says, unwaveringly.

"There is no goddamn cure!" I yell out.

"Don't waste your breath, Teresa. They made their choice long ago." says Janson, coming out of nowhere, walking up to us with guards behind him.

I immediately get my gun and put it to Teresa's neck, holding her in a chokehold.

"Tell them to back off!" I yell, referring to the guards coming up to me, from the other hallway.

"Belle, come on. I've known you longer than you can remember. You're not gonna shoot her" he says.

"You don't think so?" I loudly ask, tightening my grip around her neck.

"Okay. Go on then. Shoot her. Prove me wrong. Shoot her."

I look to Teresa, and my hand starts shaking. I don't know if it's the flare or just me not being able to kill her.

She quickly gets out of my grip, pushes us behind the door, and then shuts the door, putting it on lockdown mode.

I stare at her confusingly, not knowing if she was actually trying to help us. And then we run off to find Minho.

Minho's POV:

I hear commotion and gunshots.

"Doctor, he's coming out of it. Get me another sedative." I barely hear someone yell.

My senses are weak, yet overwhelmed. And the slight amount of light I can see through my nearly shut eyes still blinds me.

But I feel for the sharp object that I'd hidden in my hand, and right when the doctor is about to sedate me again, I stab him in the thigh.

"Shit!" he yells out in pain.

And then all the other people in the room try to get me back down and sedated, but I gain the upper hand and even shove that shucking sedative into one of their necks.

Let's see how they like it.

I run out the room and into the hallways, when I see Belle, Newt, and Thomas, with a guard approaching them.

"You three... freeze! Get down on the ground. Now!" he yells at them.

"I said get your—" he starts yelling again, but before he can finish, I run up to him and throw him through glass, instantly knocking him out.

"Minho!" Belle yells, running up to me, Newt and Thomas quickly behind.

"Is this real?" I ask, aloud, hugging them.

We start running off, looking for a way out, when guards see us again.

"You four! Stop!"

We run out of sight and hide in a room, which we lock and put stuff up against the door.

"Somebody get this door open." we hear from outside the door.

There's nothing in this room except for a huge window.

"Any ideas?" Belle asks.

"Maybe." says Thomas.

He then proceeds to throw a rack at the window, breaking through it and landing in a pool below.

"Okay, it's doable. Just need a little running start." he says, while we realize what he's planning.

"Almost through" I hear from outside, meaning we need to do this fast.

"You sure about this?" I ask.

"Not really" he says.

"Nice pep talk." Belle says masking her fear with sarcasm.

"Yeah, we're all bloody inspired" says Newt, following her sarcasm.

Then all of a sudden, the door breaks open, and we all run out of the window, hoping to land in water, which we do.

"Minho, you okay?" Belle asks me, as we get out of the pool.

"Yeah" I say, although that was the worst thing I've ever done.

"You four, don't move." say a bunch of guards, coming up to us.

"Oh, you gotta be kidding me." Belle says, still panting and out of breath. More out of breath than the rest of us for some reason.

"Get on your knees with your hands in the air!" he demands.

But before we can, two of the guards turn to the others and shoot them down.

They come up to us and take their helmets off to reveal a girl and... Gally? How is he alive?

"Gally?" I ask.

"Minho." he acknowledges.

He turns to the others. "You guys are nuts."

Everyone leaves with Gally, while I'm in shock.

Belle pats me on the back. "I'll explain later"