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Asterin was dragged by a guard but instead of sitting beside the gladers  she was thrown in front of Janson who stared down ta her with a smirk watching as she lolled her head back mocking him, "well, well. The Ratman has finally decided to come out of his sewers." She said with a dry laugh, Janson towered over her trying to look intimidating but it didn't work and Asterin stared back at him with emotionless eyes. "I never thought you would be like that, you know like slutty?" he said earning a laugh from the guards, "well at least I have bitches not like you. But thank you." She snapped back, she has been called worse and him slut-shaming her didn't affect her.

The gladers, Harriet, Sonya and Vince smiled proudly at the girl's words but Minho was furious, how dare he call her slutty? If he wasn't tied down he could've killed Janson by now. His muscles were tensed; heart rate increased and he could feel the rage bubbling in his body. "Since when do you have a boyfriend?" asked Janson the girl once again, "since you're mom found out that her son was a mistake." She replied shrugging softly, 'ohh roasted' yelled the survivors while laughing at the man who stared at the girl with wide eyes.

A harsh slap cut the cheering short

Asterin looked to her side with a clenched jaw, her cheek was stinging so bad that she swore the slap will leave a mark, she looked up her eyes deadly, and brows curl over dark brown eyes and a harsh sigh left her lips, her body was shaking in anger and a scowl was on her face and in a blink of an eye she threw herself on Janson, a kick to his stomach and a punch straight in the jaw she watched as he fell to the ground with a loud groan, his nose was bleeding heavily and she grabbed his collar slamming his head violently against the ground a punch thrown to his face one after the other without even stopping for a second after. "I'LL KILL YOU!" she screamed at him.

A guard grabbed her harshly from their leader and pulled her away violently as if she was an animal and grabbed by the wrist tightly, she struggled against his hold kicking and punching but the guard was stronger and her head was slammed against the car beside and she was on her knees once again in pain away from the others, "where's Thomas?" asked Janson after gaining his consciousness and could feel the pain in his head as if he was hit with a hammer, his nose didn't stop from bleeding and he could tell she broke it since he couldn't even touch it. She didn't reply but stared at him with eyes that screamed 'murder', she didn't know where Thomas was and hoped that he would be safe but of course, he wasn't, the boy replied as if nothing was happening and stood with his hand up in surrender but she read him like an open book.

He had a plan in that smart mind of his, and as he was dragged by the guards towards Janson he shot her a wink which he always did whenever he had a plan. She nodded quietly and watched as he stood in front of the Ratman with pure hatred, the man placed his hand on the boy's shoulder with a wicked grin and in a blink of an eye he punched him in the stomach, she tried to reach him but couldn't not when the man holding her clenched her shoulders pressing her firmly to the ground, "get him in line." He sat beside Minho.

"Why didn't you run?" asked Minho in annoyance, Thomas looked at Asterin who was held captive on the other side, she was already looking at him planning on how to attack, I'm tired of running." Minho turned to look at the stubborn boy shaking his head softly, his eyes meeting Asterin's for a brief second and his eyes that were full of annoyance softened at the girl, "are you okay?" she mouthed stealing the words that were about to leave his lips, he nodded also mouthing the same thing, with a small smile she nodded in response.

A quinjet suddenly appeared on top of them and started lowering to the ground sending the sand everywhere, especially to their eyes, she closed her eyes shut and tilted her eyes to the side to avoid getting blind by the sand, the quinjet came to a stop and the door opened revealing more guards and a woman wearing all white appeared out of now here and made her way out, Ava Paige made her way towards Janson and looked around the place seeing every person on the ground surrounded by guards, her eyes met Asterin's who was already staring dead at her, she didn't hear what she was saying but the only word "start loading them in." she gestured Asterin to come towards her along with Thomas in which they did as told the duo stood in front of her with hatred. "Hello, Thomas and Asterin." Greeted Ava with a calm voice, Teresa suddenly appeared by Ava's side and stared at the gladers with not even a single look of regret.

"I knew, you sneaky little bitch." Said Asterin laughing dryly, the gladers were confused and stared at Teresa with narrowed eyes, "what's going on?" asked Newt, Asterin knew that it would happen in one way or another and the gladers didn't believe her of course, "see, well, this little bitch right here decided to be with them thinking that she'll be a heroic one day because they got her memories back, I fucking knew it, I should've killed you back in that mall." Said Asterin turning to look at the gladers who couldn't believe what was going on, "I told you that she'll betray us all one day but you didn't listen to me." Her voice was cold as she spoke.

Teresa grabbed her wrist with pleading eyes, "I'm sorry, I had no choice, this is the only way, we have to find a cure-"she was cut off by Asterin yelling straight into her face startling her off, "OH SHUT UP WITH THE EXCUSE OF FINDING THE CURE! AND GET YOUR DISGUSTING HAND OFF ME!" she violently took her wrist away from the girl, "YOU BETRAYED US, WE WELCOMED YOU? GAVE YOU CLOTHES A PLACE TO FUCKING SLEEP IN BACK IN THE GLADE, WHY FIND THE CURE WHEN YOU MOTHERFUCKERS CREATED THE FLARE HUH? ANSWER ME SMARTASS?!" she yelled towering over Teresa who looked down trembling in fear, Ava grabbed Asterin's arm in which she snatched away in a rage that none could describe. "Let go off me, woman. Don't get us started on you also. If you're trying to protect poor Teresa who's shaking like a leaf, answer my damn question, why did you create the Flare?" she asked standing in front of Ava who had her mouth open and didn't know what to say except stutter.

"I- I- exactly bitch." She mocked the stuttering woman, "The Flare virus was engineered by the founder of World in Catastrophe Kill-zone Experiment Department known as W.C.KD, you motherfuckers, in an attempt to control the human population because there were so many people dying. Right, Doc? I'm gonna guess what you're gonna say next, 'I'm not a monster, I'm a doctor, I swore an oath to find a cure!'" she mocked the woman knowing exactly what she was going to say, Ava closed her mouth feeling exposed. "You used to tell me this excuse every damn time."

"More blood." A voice suddenly spoke behind earning everyone's attention, Asterin watched as Mary stood staring at Ava, "Hello, Mary. I hoped we'd meet again." She greeted calmly the woman, "I'm sorry it had to be under these circumstances." She said once again as if it was a normal thing to just drag people to the quinjet like animals, I'm sorry about a lot of things, too. But not this. At least my conscience is clear."

"So is mine." She replied.

And with that, a loud gunshot not far from them startled everyone and Asterin hand flew to cover her ears, her eyes flew to the gladers if one was shot but they were already looking over to the other direction where Mary stood, Vince screamed her name and caught her before she could fall to the ground, blood was in her shirt and the wound was probably bleeding from her stomach the same image of Chuck in her mind and Asterin felt her breath hitch in her throat. Her ears were ringing as she stared at the woman who was already staring at her, the warm and kind soul she had leaving her body and turning it cold and dull.

She was dead.

A guard started pushing both Thomas and Asterin and the boy suddenly grabbed her arm nodding at the terrified girl, he punched the guard, handed her the bomb she was about to use when they first met the Right Arm, and she pointed it in front of them screaming and yelling at them to get back along with Thomas, their backs pressed together as they looked around yelling, "let 'em go." She ordered Janson pointing to Sonya and Aris warningly pointing the bomb in front of them and the lighter inches away "calm down, Asterin, and put it down." Asterin raised her eyebrow in anger, "who are you to tell me what to do, rat? LET THEM ALL GO!" she yelled, "you know I can't do that!" yelled back Ava Paige with her hand in front of her, "ohh~ Ava Paige has finally decided to leave her shield and try to be heroic, bitch please, doesn't work for me, you're whole manipulation game, I'm familiar with that." Spoke Asterin.

"Asterin, Thomas stop! I made a deal with them. They promised we'd be safe. All of us." Bullshit, thought the black-haired girl, "and I'm supposed to trust you now?" replied Thomas, she couldn't hear anything, but the same ringing was in her ear and she swore that she felt her head heavy, the same problem she had whenever a bomb or gunshot echoed but now nothing was happening except the muffled yelling, Minho suddenly appeared by her side and everything was back to normal. "we're with you, guys." Said Newt on her side watching as she didn't give up on pointing the bomb threateningly at them. The gladers by their side were the only thing they needed right now.

"No." muttered Teresa in disbelief, she really thought that she will get them to be with W.C.K.D If they weren't in a situation of life and death Asterin would've laughed. "Do it, Asterin." Muttered Minho in her ear, "we're ready.." replied Fry by her side. "We're not going back there." Said the black-haired girl not feeling the tears rushing down her cheek, "Asterin?" called the blonde woman in front of her. The girl lifted the bomb in the air ready to throw it, her hand slid to grab Minho's.

As she was about to blow this place up, the sudden sound of a truck horn blaring snapped her out of her thoughts and there was Jorge shouting maniacally while driving the truck completely destroying one of the helicopters, Asterin threw herself to the ground, and stood back up looking around for the gladers, survivors started running for their lives and fought the guards on their way, "you good?" asked Minho looking at the girl still holding the bomb, a guard suddenly yelled at her to freeze and drop it, Asterin shrugged her shoulders, "you told me to drop it. Darling, I will need you to get down with the rest" she said gesturing for Minho to do as told, she cupped his cheek stood on her tiptoes kissing his lips with a smile, with that she pushed him away to the others, she lit the bomb and softly slid it to the ground like bowling watching as it landed on the guard shoes.

She ran and threw herself to the ground while screaming for the rest to get down.

the explosion startled everyone and Asterin stared proudly at the mess she did until a man popped out of nowhere and punched her straight into the face sending her back to the ground, he grabbed his gun aiming straight into her head and Asterin took her knife slicing his knee open earning a groan from him and her boots flew straight into his balls.

He fell to the ground and watched as she ran to help Vince kill the guards, his gun was aimed straight into her back as she ran, and as he was about to pull the trigger someone already shot him in the shoulder. Brenda.

Making her way towards the loaded guns she stood beside Vince, shooting at the guards straight into the chest-killing them.

She could hear how angry he was, bullets fell and rolled down the car like rain as she looked at Minho who stood between them and W.C.K.D her eyes widened as she jamp of the car once she notice the guard behind him shooting with an electric gun, electricity rushed through his veins as he looked over at Asterin who began to run towards them screaming for his name, but he couldn't hear her calls as his eyes fluttered shut.

Her scream raw and echoing around the mountains, their blood running cold, "Minho! Let him go please just take me instead of him!" She begged as she tried to make her way towards her lover but stopped once arms were hooked around her pulling her back, "Minho please wake up!" She screamed with tears running down her cheeks as she struggled against Thomas hold.

"Please! Minho!" She screamed struggling an punching Thomas to let her go, watching the quinjet close with an unconscious Minho inside, then he was gone, the love of her life was gone, turning towards Thomas with fury in her eyes she yelled, "why did you stop me?! They could have taken me instead of Minho!" Making her way towards the car she grabbed a bag before placing the guns inside.

"And where are you going?!" Asked Newt the girl following behind watching as tears clouded her vision, "to save Minho." She replied coldly before grabbing a bottle of water, "what?! Nah Asterin we can't lose you too!" Said her brother stopping her from moving any further, he also lost his best friend that was his soulmate and like a brother to him, Winston, and he didn't want to lose his sister also.

"And I lost the love of my life, Fry, you think that I'm just gonna let it pass?!" She asked her brother, the rest of the survivors surrounding them as Jorge placed his hand on her shoulder comforting her, he wasn't good at it, but she was like Brenda to him. "And I lost a hermano, Asterin, I'm sorry but you can't go, we can't just let you leave like that.."

Jorge nodded as he looked at Brenda who has guilt in her eyes, "you can't do it without us, hermana." He said watching as tears clouded her vision once again, she blinked, and tears finally rolled down her cheeks. Newt made his way towards the girl before pulling her towards his embrace brushing her hair like Minho used to do.

A sob left her lips as she felt Frypan, Harriet and Brenda also hugging the girl, wiping her tears she pulled away before staring at the sky where the quinjet was moments ago, "I promised Minho that he'll be safe, but-" she cut herself off as she cleared her throat, "we'll save Minho and if you don't want too, I'll do it myself."

Newt rolled his eyes, the obliviousness of her feelings to him astounded him and it was and he knew at that moment, Asterin won't be the same.

She will save Minho, no matter what, with or without them.