●| DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN MAZE RUNNER AND/OR PERCY JACKSON |●
●| ANNABETH #11|●
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As Big-Nose Wonder disappeared around the corner, I thought about the dark infirmary back at camp. I remembered the amount of times I watched Will go around the curtain and come rushing back with a wounded demigod. So many in a day, I wondered if it was the curtain that inflicted the injuries. The curtain shutting, signalling the end of the show, of a life.
I sat on the thin mattress. The amount of time I used to sit on the Camp's sick bay bed, waiting, with my butt getting sore, realising and regretting how bony my butt was. I wondered if people who became anorexic regretted not having the fat to sit comfortably. I certainly would. But usually, after the fighting, the wars, the running (retreating), I'd come to appreciate my sitting time. It gave me time to reflect.
Curses spat from behind the Curtain, and Big-Nose Wonder came jogging out, holding a ridiculously large syringe. What would you use that syringe for anyway? It seemed to be able to hold double the amount of blood I had! Okay... that was an exaggeration... But clearly it would be useful if I found myself dying of blood loss.
He tilted Percy's chin, which exposed a long sweaty neck. Big-Nose-Wonder started preparing the patch of skin the needle was going to enter.
My knuckles blended in with the white of the sheets as I dug my fingers into the bed, holding myself down, trying not to leap at Big Nose,fearing that he was doing something awful to Percy.
I almost shot through the roof when a hand landed heavily on my shoulder. I swivelled my head to see Thomas.
He cautiously lowered himself onto the space next to me. "I must warn you before he presses the plunger... When the serum is introduced into his system, it isn't going to be a get-and-go-on thing. It's going to change him, and it's going to hurt. A lot," he whispered to me gravely.
I felt like strangling him, but I remained as stoic as I could. "I know. You already told me. He's going to scream," I winced, "And he's not going to be himself until he recovers." I forced the words out, but I was talking more to myself than to him.
A silence settled momentarily in their air, and Big Nose emptied the syringe into Percy's neck.
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