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THE MAZE RUNNER STORYLINE AND CHARACTERS BELONGS TO JAMES DASHNER. KATRI, HER STORYLINE AND ANY OTHER CHARACTER BELONG TO ME<3 HAPPY READING!

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The next morning, Katri was in the cafeteria eating her food, feeling well rested. Katri was sitting in between Newt and Thomas once again, her hair was up to keep away from the food in a messy ponytail that touched the bottom of her neck; Something was off with Thomas, he didn't seem talkative like he used too. She was used to that, ever since they've been here. It was something else.

Earlier in the morning, Katri was due for more tests, but she didn't mind. She was pricked again and had more blood drawn with no reason why. Katri didn't care. Thomas then began explaining what he saw last night with Aris, Katri was shocked by the information but – was curious as well now.

"I wanna know what's through that door," Thomas spoke, keeping his gaze on the doors while Janson continued naming people.

"We've been over this," responds Newt. "You said they were covered up, so you don't know what you saw. Could've been anything under there,"

"I know exactly what I saw," Thomas defends himself. "There were bodies. Aris said they bring in a new batch every night."

"Who the hell is Aris?" Minho and Katri question, raising a brow.

Thomas glanced over at the said boy, seeing him examining his food weirdly. Katri and Minho share a quick look and Minho then looks over at Thomas.

"Well," Minho sighs and frowns. "I'm sold."

"And last but not least, David. Thank you for your attention, enjoy the rest of your evening." Janson called to everyone, following the group of people through the doors.

Newt looks at Thomas. "Okay, until we know anything for certain, we should keep our heads down and try not to draw any attention to ourselves, alright?" Newt warned Thomas.

Ignoring the boy, Thomas got up to his feet, making his way to the doors. Aris, who was sitting at his own table watched Thomas walk in a fast pace to the doors. Katri raises a brow.

"What is he doing?" questions Newt, his gaze trained on Thomas.

"I think he's drawing attention to himself." Frypan answers, his eyes also on the boy.

Katri sighs a little bit. "He's got balls, that's for sure."

Katri saw Thomas acting normal as possible, almost making it through the doors until one of the guards stops him. Katri didn't hear what was said, but something didn't sit right with her.

"Something is gonna happen..." Katri whispers, shifting in her seat gently. When she sees Thomas turning around as if walking back to the table, he roughly turns around, trying to charge through the guards as Katri got up quickly with her friends. "...Idiot..."

The guards caught him before he did and was shoved away from them, Thomas shoves him back and then the guard shoves Thomas once again while Newt and Minho caught him as Katri got in front of Thomas and shoves the guard away from the group, glaring at him. The guard shoves her back making her land into Thomas as he caught her around her middle making her grunt quietly as she looks up seeing the guard point his finger at them.

"Control your friends!" The guard shouted, pointing at the boys.

Janson pushed past the guards looking at everyone. "What's happening here?"

He looked to the guards before looking to Thomas, the boys and Katri as Thomas helps her stand while she glares at the guards and Janson. Janson glances at Thomas. "Thomas, you should know, we can trust each other. We're on the same side here."

"Are we, though?" asks Katri, raising a brow.

Janson paused a moment, a smirk growing on his face. "Get them to their bunks." He ordered while the guards began pushing them to their bunks.

They shoved Katri a little too hard while she stumbles as Newt catches her and helps her all the way to the bunks. Katri turns around after hearing the door shut and she turns to Thomas.

"What the hell was that about?" asks Minho

"Call me superstitious, but my gut is always right. Something's up." Katri comments shrugs. "Did you really think they were going to let you through like that?"

Thomas reached into his pocket, "Nah, of course I didn't." He held up a keycard making everyone look at him in shock and then sigh in irritation. "I'm gonna find out what's on the other side of that door."

"Alright," Newt muttered.

"Newt, they're hiding something, okay? These people are not who they say they are."

"No, Thomas, you don't know that!" Newt argues. "The only thing that we do know is that they helped rescue us from W.I.C.K.E.D. They gave us new clothes, they gave us food, they gave us a proper bed. Some of us haven't had that in a long time."

"Yeah, but..." Thomas tries.

"Some of us a lot longer than others." Newt interrupted making Katri sigh.

"Newt –" Before Katri could speak, the vent door opened and was tossed to the bed making everyone look and see Aris showing himself.

"Hey Thomas," Aris greeted.

Katri was confused, blinking rapidly on what just happened. "What just happened?"

"You got it, didn't you?" Aris asks, ignoring the others.

"Yeah," Thomas nodded holding up the keycard. "Let's go."

Aris nodded, looking at everyone glancing at Katri intently making her shift in her spot and look at Thomas while Aris looks at Thomas.

"Thomas?"

"All right, look," Thomas stops her before she could express her concerns with him. "Maybe you guys are right. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I got to find out for sure. Just cover for me. I'll be back as soon as I can."

"But Thomas..."

"Katri, I'll be back, I promise..." Thomas tells her going into the vent after grazing her hand with his and he leaves making her sigh.

"How did you know something was going to happen?" Winston looks at Katri who sighs.

"Listen," Katri spoke. "I just said, 'call me superstitious, but my gut is always right'." Katri snorts. "We just have to trust Thomas about this, I think he's honestly right about this. Janson doesn't sit well with me..."

"Yeah, I agree." Minho spoke up. "I don't know what it is, but something doesn't seem right."

"We need to keep our guard up," Newt spoke up. "We will help Thomas with whatever he needs."

Everyone nods in agreement while Katri sits down on the bed putting her head into her hands. She trusted Thomas, and when he says something is wrong, something is definitely wrong. Sighing a little bit, it was silent in the room as everyone anticipated for Thomas to return. Then, suddenly, the vent flies open and goes across the room making everyone jump and stand when they see Thomas come out of it.

"Thomas!" exclaimed Minho once the boy was out from under the bed.

"We gotta go! We gotta go! We gotta go, right now!" Thomas frantically spoke as he paced around quickly. Katri raises a brow and goes up to him and stops him by touching his shoulder.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Minho questioned.

"What do you mean, 'we gotta go'?" Newt asked, chuckling a little.

"Come on! We gotta go! Come on!" Thomas ushered to everyone ignoring their questions. "They're coming for us."

Not too far from the room walked Janson with two guards behind him and a doctor holding a tray with syringes on them. Back with everyone else, Thomas was tying a sheet around the door handle locking from the outside.

"What happened?"

"Aris, what happened?" Frypan asked the boy, but he didn't say anything.

"Thomas," Katri started and touched his shoulder once more. "Can you just calm down and talk to us, please."

"She's still alive,"

"Who's she?" asks Frypan. "Teresa?" Thomas begins pacing around once more.

"Ava..."

"Ava?"

"Will you just turn around and talk to us?"

"It's W.I.C.K.E.D!" yells Thomas turning around. "It's still W.I.C.K.E.D."

Once everyone heard that, they all froze and stayed quiet. Katri's heart was racing and pounding against her chest that it hurt. If this is still W.I.C.K.E.D, then what were they doing to Teresa and why wasn't she here?

"Thomas..." Newt began, slowly walking to him. "What did you see?"