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A/N: A short chapter but mores to come.

Chapter Fourteen:

"Did you do it?"

"Whatta do you think sweat-pea?"

"I'm not a patient girl. You see this. With this I'll drill a hole into each of you're fingers to you answer me."

"The sweat-pea I knew wasn't the hostile type."

"Stop calling me that! I've always harbor hatred for you Jacob. But I couldn't openly defy you back then.

"Figures. But these answers aren't going to bring you any peace."

"Answer me!"

"You really don't want me to, sweat-pea!"

"Now!"

"Alright alright, if I knew you were this insane, I would of made you higher in rank.

"Don't flatter me, now answer me or the next thing that comes out your mouth with be a cry of pain! Did you or did you not kill Theta?"

"Yes. I did, but not by my hands. I gave him a task no one could of done. But alas he did it for your safety."

"What did you force him to do?"

"I propose to him a way out. If he'd bring me Joanna head, I would let you and him walk out the drone. No strings attached. But after countless combatants I've sent after her, not a single one ever returned. Once Theta hadn't return, I called off the hit on her."

I swing off my bed as the argument got louder. Curie was at the bed across from me forcing answers from Jacob while the others slumber. I didn't even let her conclude her conversation as I lifted her up and carried her out into the larger portion of the dorm, where we all sit during the day, as she protest and kicks. "Stay out of it Ross."

"No! I know to interfere when smart Curie is gone and she acting unreasonable."

"It doesn't concern you. You didn't have to live under his rule and watch your friends slaughter another for food."

"You're absolutely right. But it doesn't mean I haven't been where you are now. You're validating him, he wants to be acknowledge. He's content that you're miserable. People like that only want to be hatred, to be feared and talked about. Don't give him that, kill him with slience and kindness.

"I don't know how..." She spoke rather distressed.

"Believe me, you'll hurt him far worse by not giving him the time of the day." I lecture before putting her down.

"He took so much, just let me have this!" She cried out, my shirt stained by her fresh tears. She was hurting more then she let on.

"Fine do as you wish. But understand you're becoming what you hate most. There's no coming back from that."

"I know, but."

"It's an adjustment period for us all, you've all the right to be mornful to cry yourself dry. Just don't give into the momentary lapse of judgement." I said hugging her tightly before she ran off tinker.

Hours later I found myself spacing in and out, doing whatever I can to not feel hungry. I'm fatigue and starting to get sick. Everyone is slowly getting to the point of breaking down. All I can do is think and drink water. Water and think. Curie is taking apart cameras and random objects from around the area. Nyx is keeping watch over Jacob. It's like watching Thomas and Gally going at it. It's intense and brutal, at least I'll never have to see Gally stupid face ever again.

As time past my bladder can't hold anymore water. I need food. We all do. No one talks it just slience and sounds of Soc and Curie working diligently. Jane is watching over Jacob, I'm next shift. Nyx is laying down as Leon is doing sit ups. It's keeping his mind off food. I can feel my insides fight. It's unbearable. Just something to eat, I'd settle for dirt at this point.

A few more hours pass as I have to watch Jacob. We eye each other off and on. The others are napping."You most think very little of me, outsider?"

"I tend not to think about you at all."

"Nobody understands what true leadership is?"

"I suppose you do?" I said rolling my eyes.

"When the few that solved our Maze, I was in those ranks. I saw what happened, what awaited us. And I ran, ran back into the Maze back into the Grove. That's what our home was originally called. I return without notice and all around me was chaos and madness. Yes I left my friends to their fate as the men with guns chased after us. I don't regret my choice, after all my brother was still there, trying to maintain order."

"Coward!"

"Maybe. Yet what I did was for the greater good of the Grove. Many didn't have a memory or home to return to. This was their lives, there home. I spared them all of this. Or atlest I tried." He went on trying to convince me.

"Yet here we are now. The people crying out for the justice you'd refuse them. I see one way out of here for you, the beheading a tyrant."

"I had to do it. No one else had the will to. So I took over when my brother couldn't handle it. Sure I broke a few bones to assert order. We needed to preserve our rations. I never imagined, the creators would still supply the next shipment arrived, I knew what most been done. When more people arrived, it had to be strict living, but it was living. If some died so be it, but in the long run I had to make sure we didn't outpace our resources."

"You made them struggle for a living hell, how is that justifiable? A true leader leads by example. If you'd trusted people, perhaps surviving wouldn't had be something first and second guess. I had a strict leader, but I understood why. It was to protect not just him, but all of us. You're just a tyrant, Jacob." I said firmly no longer wishing to speak.

"Perhaps, but who can resist the lure of power?"

For the remainder of the watch I stood quiet, I didn't want to give him validation. He wasn't worth the effort. And effort was the only thing left before I snap from not my shift is up I crawl into my bunk but somehow rest avoids my tired body.

I get back up and take a cup of water but I can't keep down as it spews out of my mouth. I'm numb to the world as I crawl under my bunk, trying to evade what was obvious. How much more can my body take?