NOTE: I'M GOING TO SAY THIS NOW, I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE MAZE RUNNER, I AM TRYING AND IF I MAKE ANY MISTAKES, PLEASE LET ME KNOW! I LOVE YOU ALL!

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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Katri was sitting there while everyone was sleeping, she didn't trust the guy in front of them to do anything. They had flown for hours, but with how tired she actually was – Katri couldn't sleep.

"You know you can go to sleep for a little while, girl." The man spoke making her glare at him. "It's gonna be a while before we make it to where we need to go."

"I'm good, thanks." snaps Katri as she looks away from him and keeps Thomas's head on her lap while Newt was on her shoulder, Minho was on Newt's shoulder as they slept. Katri frowns deeply as she watches the sky fly by.

"I don't know why you're not sleeping," The man spoke, and she doesn't look at him. "Your friends are sleeping peacefully."

Katri scoffs and glares at the man and shrugs. "You may call it 'peaceful' but remember – you don't know what we've done, what we've been through or what we've lost. So don't act like you know us when you don't"

Katri leans back against her seat and glances back outside seeing the sun going down in the distance. It definitely wasn't the Maze, but the sun was just as beautiful as ever. Pinching her lips tightly, silent tears went down her cheeks.

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"Thomas! Thomas!" She shakes him awake while he groans and slowly opens his eyes. "Come on, we gotta move!"

Thomas slowly sat up as Katri helped him out of the helicopter while everyone stood there and turned around and started running. Thomas then remembered something and looked around.

"Wait! Wait! Wait!" yelled Thomas running back to the helicopter while Katri looks back at him in shock.

"What are you doing? We don't have time!" The man shouted to him.

Katri didn't see him but was shoved by someone as she started running with Newt. She then heard screeching in the distance as she looks back seeing the man grabbing for his gun and shooting at the things.

"Cranks!" He yells as Katri turns back running after everyone.

Swallowing thickly, Katri questioned what they were in the back of her mind. She continues running quickly behind Newt who gently grabs her hand making sure she was following them and not Thomas who was still a little ways away from the group. They finally made it through the door and panted heavily, Thomas was the last one in when the doors shut as Katri looks around.

"Come on, someone is going to meet you all, but you must follow me." A soldier spoke as everyone nodded following him into a room.

When they all got in there, they're eyes couldn't get any wider. There was food everywhere, really good food. Everyone was shocked, they quickly ran up and began eating the food, moaning with how great it tasted. It took them a good hour to finish the food on the table and they began relaxing before someone came to them. Katri then sighs quietly standing against the wall and crosses her arms. "I don't like this..."

"I don't think anyone does..." Frypan commented looking at Katri. "We don't know what's going on or where we're at or what even those klunks even were."

"I heard them say 'Cranks'..." Teresa spoke to everyone.

Before someone replies, the door opens and everyone stands up and Katri goes beside Thomas, touching his back and grips his shirt. Katri grips her other hand into a fist. He had dark hair with some grey, wearing a suit.

"You kids doing alright?" asks the man glancing at off of them. "Sorry about the fuss. We had ourselves a bit of a swarm."

Gripping tighter against Thomas's shirt, she glares at the man. "Who are you?"

The man looked at the red-headed girl with a smirk making her glare harder at him. "I'm the reason you're all still alive. It's my intention to keep you that way. Now, come with me." Thomas tenses up a little bit while Katri gently let's go of his shirt before she ripped it. "We'll get you squared away."

He began walking off, Thomas glanced at everyone as he followed the man. Katri following behind him with everyone else. Thomas was in front of the group with Newt and Minho beside him while Katri was behind Thomas.

"You can call me Mr. Janson. I run this place." Janson spoke not looking at them. "For us, it is a sanctuary safe from all the horrors of the outside world. You should thing of it as a way station. Kind of home between homes." Janson explains. "Watch yourselves." They look up seeing sparks coming from the ceiling.

"You mean, you're taking us home?" Minho questioned, speaking up.

"A home of sorts." Janson replies. "Sadly, there wouldn't be much left of wherever you came from. But we do have a place for you. A refuge, outside the Scorch, where W.I.C.K.E.D will never find you again. How does that sound?"

"Why are you helping us?" Thomas asks skeptically.

"Let's just say the world out there is in a rather precarious situation. We're all hanging on by a very thin thread." Janson replies as they round another corner. "The fact that you guys can survive the Flare virus, makes you the best chance of humanity's continued survival." He walked up to a metal door. "Unfortunately, it also makes you a target, as no doubt by now you've noticed." He stopped at the metal door, turning to face them.

Katri takes a deep breath. "Beyond this door, lies the beginning of your new lives." He swiped a keycard making the door open. "First things first, let's do something about that smell."

Katri blinks, lifting her arms and smells her armpits and frowns.

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They led the boys to the showers before leading Teresa and her to different ones. Katri stripped out of her clothes, seeing the dirt and blood clinging to her body. Katri also took down her hair seeing the dead ends and how dirty it was. Frowning deeply, Katri grabs one of her knives and takes it and grabbing a chunk of her hair and cuts it, throwing the hair away. She then steps into the hot shower, seeing the dirt and blood falling into the drain seeing her hair just above her breasts now.

Turning her head, she sees soap and a travel size container of shampoo and conditioner. She put the shampoo in her hair and began washing it gently, getting all the years of build up out of her scalp. Rinsing off, she does it a second time and rinses off, then conditions her hair, while it sits in her hair Katri grabs the soap and begins washing her body getting all the dirt off her skin.

Finally cleaning her body and rinsing off the conditioner, she stops the water and steps out grabbing the towels they had, and she began drying herself off. Katri finally got a good look at herself in the foggy mirror, olive skin with her upper body covered in scars, scarlet red hair that now touches just above her breasts with bright blue eyes staring right back at her.

Changing into the clean clothes they laid out for her. She puts on her under garments and changes into an off-white half-sleeved shirt that buttons up, faded grey skinny jeans with socks and brown combat boots. She grabbed her fingerless gloves and garter belt. She then puts her hair up in a messy braid.

Teresa walks up to her and Katri looks up at her and smiles lightly at her. Two guards guiding them to a place where they had different doctors checking the Gladers. A guard separated Katri and Teresa, Katri's eyes landed on everyone. Minho was running on a treadmill, Newt and Thomas were getting pricked and prodded by needles. The guard led Katri to a bed and told her to sit and wait.

Katri slowly nodded and sighs while she looks around. When a doctor came in, Katri met the same fate as Newt and Thomas with the poking and prodding of needles. Pinching her lips tightly from the needle entering her body, she winces heavily after the needle leaves her skin. A man came toward them making Katri look at him with a curious look.

"Katri?"

"Yeah?"

"Come with me, please."

She slowly got off the bed and followed the man to wherever he was taking her. Passing by Thomas, she looks at him and he glances back at her making him frown. She slowly shrugs following the man and after a couple of turns, he gestured her to walk through the door to a room with two chairs and a table on the other side. Katri frown.

"Take a seat," And with that, he leaves making Katri frown more as she slowly sits down and crosses her legs and her arms while she sits there patiently.

Suddenly, a buzzing sound was heard before the door opened revealing Janson walking in. "Katri, thank you for seeing me. I'm sorry for the inconvenience." Katri raises a brow at him as he sits down. "I was just hoping we might get a moment to chat in private away from the others."

Katri then leans back into her seat and scoffs. "Really now? Good that."

"Well," Janson tells her with a small smile. "I won't take up much of your time, I really only have one question. What do you remember about W.I.C.K.E.D?"

Janson looks down at her file and sees it.

SUBJECT FILE ON A13 "THE SACRIFICE"

Name: Katri

Age: 16

Age Submitted: 8

Flare Status: Unknown

Blood Type: A Positive

"If I'm being honest, nothing." She answers simply. "Absolutely. Nothing. I'd rather not know cause honestly; I don't really care." Katri keeps her answer simple. "I'm sure you asked this question to the rest of my friends. It won't surprise me. If you wanna know whose side I'm on, I'm on Thomas's side. Newt's side. Minho's side. I'm on my friend's side. I'd rather keep it that way."

"Interesting." Janson spoke to her and leans forward to the chair. "Well, I'll be sure to keep that in mind. Enjoy the rest of your stay."

Katri raises a brow. "That's it?"

"Yeah, you've told me everything I need to know. You and your friends have all been cleared to join the others. Assuming you'll all be moving into cleaner pastors."

"Hold up," Katri raises a hand to stop him from talking more. "What the hell do you mean by 'others'?"