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Pushing, Asterin hated when someone  pushed her or woke her up and when the guard threw her in the room and locked the door she immediately wanted to kick the door open and kill every single person in this suspicious place.

The vent suddenly kicked open and there stood Thomas and Aris in her room, "you got the key?" Asterin smirked as she pulled out the key card before making her way towards the vents and sliding down to the ground gesturing them to follow behind.

She had to find out what is on the other side of that door no matter what.

Thomas on the other hand couldn't help but think about Newt's words every single time until they reached the vents, kicking it open Asterin gestured Thomas to get down fist, his feet landed on the floor with a thud as he looked up at Aris who also did the same and then Asterin who hanged loosely against the vent with one arm before falling to the ground without a sound, Thomas lifted her in his arms so she can close the vent.

Asterin grabbed the key card in her hand before pressing it against the tablet on the wall, the door opened and the trio walked in staring at the place with wide eyes, everything was blue and the first thing that caught her eyes were rows after rows of teenagers, alive but unconscious, hung up on stands with lots of medical devices.

Walking away from the boys she walked around the room, her eyes stopping on the sight of what looks like spiders on huge bottles, "holy shit. Are those grievers?" She asked herself knowing the answer, they were indeed grievers but smaller ones and crawled like balls, stepping away from the window in fear that one might attack the sudden sound of the door opening snapped her out of thoughts as with a swift move she was behind a wall, hiding.

Janson and guy walked in without bothering to look around the place, Thomas was already staring at her in fear, afraid that she might get caught at how close she was to the two men, she placed her finger on her mouth to shush him, Asterin didn't hear the conversation between Janson and Ava but only stared at the screen in disbelief that the woman was still alive. "They want these kids as badly as we do and I CANNOT... I cannot afford another loss, not now when I'm so close to the cure. If you are not up to the task, I'll find someone who is." She ordered the rat man while making her way to her seat.

"That won't be necessary. I suggest we start with the most recent arrivals-" Asterin eyes narrowed, 'most recent arrivals? that's us, THAT'S FUCKING US!' She thought with her eyes wide alertly as she turned to look at Thomas who had the same exact reaction, Ava sat in her chair reading some papers as she ordered him to get it done.

"Janson..." she called one last time, her voice softer than ever, "I don't want them to feel any pain." She said, 'yeah no shit, that's what he'll do.' Thought the black haired girl while waiting for him to get out so she can warm the others. "They won't feel a thing." With that he walked away with the man after turning off the screen.

"Shit. We gotta go warn the others!" Exclaimed Thomas while running towards the door with Asterin following behind as she opened the door.

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This time neither one of the trio seemed to care about the banging they made with each step but it wasn't the moment, kicking the vents open Thomas was greeted by the glader surrounding him and asking what happened, Asterin for the first time ignored them and ran towards the door looking if anyone was coming, "WE GOTTA GO!" the trio yelled without any explanation, Aris was frozen, Asterin was running around the room and trying to block the door while Thomas was helping her.

"She's still alive!" Said thomas in a hurry as he tied the blanket around the door, Asterin kicking the blanket and everything of the bed before trying to push it towards the door, "who? Teresa?!" Just the sound of her name uttered only made her fun in anger as she pushed the bed to the door.

"Thomas could you just calm down and talk to us?!" Newt's accent was thick and deep as he spoke with his hand pressing against the mattress that Thomas pushed, "it's WCKD...it's always been WCKD!" The boy finally yelled as he was left struggling in his spot and frozen especially at the second in command close to him inches away, Thomas was panicking, at the tension between them and the fact that WCKD is making their way towards them.

"What did you see?" Asked Newt his voice ordering as he asked Thomas who was left stuttering, Asterin seemed to notice the way he stared at Newt and kept stuttering and eventually decided to speak, "i saw grievers, small ones in what seems to be tubes and they were alive, this place created the grievers. We should go now, they're getting closer." She said gesturing Aris to lead the way in the vents.

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Asterin slammed the door of the vent open along with Thomas as she looked around hoping no one was here, "come on, come on." Hurried the black haired girl the boys out of the vent, Aris was of behind as he spoke "you guys go, I have some things to take care off." Asterin made her way back to Aris and stared at him weirdly, "what are you talking about? We're not leaving without you."

Aris rolled his eyes at the girl, "trust me, it's important, now go!" Exclaimed the brown haired boy while making his way back in the vents leaving a speechless Asterin, "I-I'll go with him" stuttered Winston before following Aris back in the vents leaving the rest, Asterin's hand reached out to grab Minho's as they ran down the corridor, "you sure we can trust this kid?" Minho finally spoke as he looked at Thomas waiting for an answer.

"You don't wanna know where we would be without him." A yelp kept his lips as the group suddenly were met by a doctor who was already staring at the teenagers weirdly, "what are you kids doing out?" The alarm went on startling everyone and Asterin turned to look at Minho who was already staring at her, "you should do the thing you did to Gally." Nodding at him she reached over to grab the pocket knife she stole from the guard that walked past her this morning in the canteen.

In a blink of an eye, Asterin stood behind the woman and had her knife pressed against her neck feeling the doctor shake in her hold, "take us to Teresa." Asterin and Newt rolled their eyes in unison at the mention of the girl who they both disliked, following Asterin down the corridor turning to the right, a guard suddenly caught her eyes as she was suddenly pulled back by the collar by Newt once the gunshot echoed around the corridor.

Throwing the doctor towards Thomas Asterin handed him her pocket knife as it was his turn to threaten and hold the doctor captive.

Minho slowing down stopped her dead in her track as she turned to look at the runner who was staring at the wall in front of him, "Minho!" She yelled at the boy who ignored her and only seemed to think about something, trying to grab his hand and pull him back she suddenly watched as the guard was thrown to the wall harshly that his mask fell off and was left unconscious on the ground.

Asterin stood beside Minho and stared at the now knocked out man under them, "that was hot." she said not quite noticing the words that left her lips as Newt stood beside her doing the same thing, "shit, Minho." Thomas grabbed the gun from the man as he immediately walked away along with the other, leaving the runners alone.

"Please tell me I didn't say that out loud." She said with red cheeks once she noticed what she just said, "you did. I like it coming from you." Asterin could hear the smirk in his lips and the cockiness in his tone but everything seemed to freeze ince she felt his breaths on the back of her neck especially when his lips were suddenly on her skin as shivers ran down her back, cheeks so red, and her knees weak like jello or ice under the sun.

She loved it.

She wanted it to happen over and over again, not once, not twice, and not only her neck, but every part of her body. But not now, not when they're in a life and death situation.

Not yet at least.