|It's the moment of truth and the moment to lie.

|This is war, Thirty seconds to Mars

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Dawn's P.O.V.

Dr. Goonell smiled as me as I entered the hallway and closed the door behind me but I couldn't bring myself to smile back at her. She noticed and instead gave a curt nod before guiding me through many different hallways but I paid almost no attention as to where we were going. All that echoed through my head as we walked was that Janson didn't care about me. He was my father and he didn't care. No matter how painful it was, it was the truth and I had to put it aside for now. If I wanted to safe Thomas and destroy Wicked, I had to put all my emotions aside. Nothing could be more important at this moment. Not my father, not Wicked their lies, not even Newt.

As we turned around a corner my eyes suddenly widened as the halls began to look familiar. 'Why are we walking towards the controlroom?' I asked slowly.

Dr. Goonell stopped walking and turned to face me. 'Listen, we are lucky to have you here. You helped to prep the subjects and study their brainpatterns in the Maze. And with your memories back you remember everything we taught you. And now, we need you to do it again.'

My heart crumbled in my chest, so Teresa was right, they were rounding up Immunes to start the Trials over. 'But didn't you say that Thomas his brain would complete the cure?' I asked slowly. 'Why would you need to start the Trials again?'

Dr. Goonell took a deep breath and suddenly seemed to look a little bit uncomfortable.

I narrowed at her. 'What's going on?'

She gave a slight shake of her head, nodding towards the right corner of the hallway.

Turning on my heels I let my eyes wonder in that direction and noticed a camera hidden in the corner of the wall. Confusion waved through me. Was she hiding something? Was that the reason she couldn't speak freely with me here?

'Follow me,' she said, making turn back to her as she walked down the hallway.

I did as I was told, curiousity getting the better of me. Maybe she could somehow help me out of this situation. She had always been kind to me before I entered the Maze, we used to have long talks about what we would do if the cure would work. Maybe, just maybe, she disagreed with Wicked their methods as well. But I couldn't ask her about it, as she just showed me there were cameras everywhere.

My heart started beating faster as we entered the hall where the controlroom was but I frowned as we walked right passed the door and instead walked through a set of glassdoors at the end of the hallway and then turned right. Finally she stopped walking, taking a card out of her pocket and opening the door, then gestured for me to go inside.

I must have been stupid for listening to her but something inside of me drove me to do it anyway. And so I stepped inside, my eyes widening as I saw who stood behind the white desk placed in the middle of the room.

'Chancellor Paige,' I breathed.

She nodded at me, a smile placed on her thin lips but before she could open her mouth and explain the situation to me, a sudden alarm starting blaring through the building and my heart jumped in my chest, the Right Arm was here!

She looked paniced at me as I turned to run out of the room. 'Wait,' she suddenly spoke and something in her voice made me stop in my movements and turn back to her.

'Let me help you,' she said.

I blinked a few times, afraid that I heard her wrong. 'What?' I finally whispered.

'When you and Thomas showed up we knew something was going to happen,' Dr Goonell said, stepping around me to stand next to Chancellor Paige. 'We both knew you would never come back here voluntarily.' My stomach tumbled inside of me as I watched her take a deep breath before adding. 'And you'd be right to do so.'

'I-I,' I was at loss for words, not sure this was yet another lie or if they truly, finally, saw that Wicked was not good.

'Let us help you,' Chancellor Paige said and it were those words that pulled me out of my confused state.

'We have to get to Thomas,' I said, my voice firm. 'They want his brain, we have to stop them.'

Chancellor Paige straightened her back, her eyes looking down at me with a sudden determination. 'I can do more than that.'

A frown appeared on my feautures as I watched her take a letter out of the drawer of her desk. She held it up for me to see. Thomas his name was written on it with big red letters. 'When you find him, give him this, it contains a map to a Flat Trans I build for an emergency case like this one.'

'You knew something like this would happen?' I whispered, my whole world spinning around me.

She gave a curt nod before adding. 'I believe the Immunes their participance in the Trials to be over.'

A small smile appeared on my lips, and though my heart ached as Newt flashed through my mind as he fell and I felt as if I was betraying him by smiling in a world he didn't live in, I still smiled. 'Thank you,' I said, genuinly meaning it. As I looked at her I could remember the first time I met her, as a young girl and I had wrapped my arms around her in a desperate hug and she let me. Maybe, not all of Wicked was bad, and maybe it had just been the blind hatred for my father that made me believe this entire organisation was bad.

She nodded at me, handing me the envelope and then pointed to a box on the floor. 'I think you might need this.'

I kneeled down by the box, pulling open the lid as a small gasp of pure awe left me. Inside the box, lying on a blanket of black velvet, was a beautiful silver bow and a quiver filled with arrows.

'Now go, Dr. Goonell will take you.'

I didn't ask any more questions as I took the bow and turned on my heels and ran out of the room. I could hear Dr. Goonell following me on her high heels and it impressed me she was able to run in them.

'Turn right,' she yelled from behind me and I did so without questioning. The building was huge and even with my memories it was hard to find the way, especially when I didn't know where they had brought Thomas to in the first place.

'Left!' She yelled again.

And I listened, pushing my body to run even faster as the sudden sound of a bomb going off echoed through the building. A paniced gasp left my lips as I ran on with Dr. Goonell's instructions in my mind.

After what felt like hours we finally made it and without hesitating I pushed the door open, my eyes widening as I scanned the room. Three doctors, including Dr. Christensen stood in a circle around a bed with a sedated Thomas on it. They looked up at me but had barely any time to react as I ran into the room, raising my bow and letting the first arrow fly, straight into the back of one of the doctors. He let out a scream as he fell but it didn't touch me. All I could see was Newt his body falling down, and feeling like if he didn't get to live...these people most certainely wouldn't. And so I took a second arrow, placed it on my bow and let the arrow fly into the other doctor his head.

Then my eyes widened when I saw Dr. Goonell had pulled a gun from under her lab coat and had it pointed at Dr. Christensen but her hand was trembling and I knew she would never be able to pull the trigger. So I walked up to her, took the gun from her hand and shot him, right through his head, his blood leaving a pattern on the white wall behind him as his body fell.

My heart beated painfully in my empty chest as I watched the bodies. People I just killed. But then Newt flashed through my mind and I almost felt a certain satisfaction by seeing their dead bodies.

Dr. Goonell stood behind me, slightly shaking but I ignored her as I walked up to Thomas. My eyes scanned his body and I honestly had no idea how to wake him. Turning around sharply to the doctor I snapped at her. 'Wake him up! We don't have a lot of time!'

She looked at me with wide eyes before nodding slowly and walking towards the bed. I watched her skilled hands work as she pulled the drip out of his arm and detached him from the machines that surrounded the bed. Then she took a step back. 'All we can now is wait.'

Letting out a small breath I started walking up and down the room, avoiding to look at the bodies as guilt treatened to overwhelm me. My eyes stung and my throat hurt from trying to keep my tears at bay.

Suddenly the boy on the bed let out a loud groan, making me turn to him and walk up to the bed. Thomas tried to sit up and Dr. Goonell took him by his shoulders as she helped him. He threw her a paniced glare but I shook my head at him. 'It's okay, she's with us.' He looked at me and seemed to relax.

'You came,' he breathed out with relief.

I found myself smirking slightly at him. 'I couldn't let you die, now, could I.'

He nodded slowly and then I remembered the letter that Ava Paige had given me. Reaching for it in my pocket I stepped forwards and handed it to him, making him look up at me with a frown.

'Chancellor Paige helped me escape, she said she's with us,' I explained to him, then gestured for him to read it.

Frowning slightly he opened the envelope and held it so I could what the letter said as well.

Dear Thomas,

It's my belief that the Trials are over. We have more than enough dats to create a blueprint. My associates disagree with me on this matter, but if you're reading this your friend has stopped the procedure and saved your life. It's now our task to work with the data we already have and build a cure for the Flare. Your participation and that of the other subjects, is no longer necessary.
You now have a great task ahead of you. When I became chancellor I realised the importance of creating a back door of sorts in this building. I placed this back door in an unused maintance room. I'm asking you to remove yourself, your friends, and the considerable number of Immunes we've gathered. Time is of the essence, as I'm sure you're aware.
There are three paths marked on the map I've enclosed. The first shows you how to leave this building through a tunnel, once outside, you'll be able to find where the Right Arm has made their entrance to another building. There you can join them. The second route will take you to the Immunes. The third shows you how to find the back door. It's a Flat Trans that will transport you to what I hope will be a new life. Take them all and leave.

Ava Paige, Chancellor

Thomas looked up at me and I gave him a curt nod. I knew he doubted if he could trust her, but I did and that seemed to be enough for him as he folded the letter and the map and put them into his back pocket.

'I'm going to have to leave you two here,' Dr. Goonell suddenly spoke.

I turned to her, frowning. 'Why?'

'Chancellor Paige has gathered all those loyal to her and promised us a way out of here,' Dr. Goonell said. 'I'm going with her to try and find a cure with the data we have gathered so far. I'm not giving up.'

Nodding I put my hand on her shoulder, making her wince, which made my heart ache but I decided to ignore it. 'Thank you,' I said.

She nodded at me, before smiling at the both of us and turning around to leave the room. I stared at the door as I watched her leave.

'Dawn?' Thomas asked, making me jump and turn to him. He stood up from the bed, seeming to have a lot of his energy back but his eyes were focused on the map in his hand. 'The other Immunes, they're in the Maze.'

I nodded. 'I know, that's what Janson wanted me to do. Analyse their brainpatterns while they would go through the same Variables we had.'

'We have to go,' he said, suddenly determined, making me nod. Then we walked towards the door and started jogging towards the tunnel.