Sorry for the long wait. this is the last chapter. Depending on the reactions and on the Plot Bunny, I could decide to go for a sequel. Enjoy!
"In this case, can we please go home now?"
It took them another two weeks to go home.
At first Ava insisted to check Newt blood and to take another couple of reading from his brain. After that Newt developed another fever, and to get it down without the tea took five days, a different drug and a lot of iced baths.
At the end of their first week in the WICKED facilities, Newt looked pale but better than before. Minho and Thomas were sitting on Newt bed, keeping him company after lunch, when Newt shyly admitted that probably he just peed on himself.
"Ok, ok, let us take care of you, ok? Minho, lift him, I'm going to take new sheet… don't worry Newt, everything will be fine" Tommy reassured him heading for the door.
Minho mutter in agreement, and lift the slim boy in his arms, only to discover that on the sheet there was no pee, but blood.
For Minho that sight was too much, and he just managed to drop Newt back on the bed before Thomas had to retrieve a fainted asian boy from the floor. ("Really Minho?It's not like you never saw blood in our messed up lives…" "Slim it, shuck face, it was overwhelming!")
That incident, well Newt one, not Minho's, leaded to other five days of test, of prothrombin and other drugs to help the coagulation, and of checks on coagulation factors to avoid thrombosis.
After that it took a good dose of pleading and making puppy eyes to convince Ava to let them go.
She leaded them to another Flat Trans, the one that will left them closest to the Paradise buildings.
Before she let them go, she gave to Thomas a little device, with a button on it and a syringe "If he changes his mind, just press the button. If things get nasty, use the sedative. Good luck Tom."
As the three teenagers step out of their transport, their instincts told them something happened there.
Newt, that was leaning against Minho shoulder, straighten and braced himself.
They slowly approached the city, highly strung and ready to fight. When they arrived to the main square, looked obvious to them that a fight had taken place here, but things looked calm now, even too much.
They spotted Harriet and Sonya, whom were hurrying towards the building that usually hosted the Gatherings.
When the leaders of the group B saw them, they deviate towards them.
"Where have you been? There was an attack, for God sakes!" Sonya sounded even more worn out than how she looked.
"An attack? From whom?" Thomas asked, even if the three of them were already guessing the answer.
"Cranks, people we believed friends, just turn out being infected!" Harriet harsh words confirmed the boys suspects.
"We killed 31 people, our people, where did you hide yourselves? Why weren't you here?" Sonya now looked teary but ready to fight. Harriet placed an hand on her forearm and stopped her "We have no time for this, we shall all keep looking for injured companions and infected enemies.
Sonya, you are coming with me to the south part of Paradise, the three of you guys, you are taking weapon from the main building armory and after you are going to north.
If you find injured uninfected people you will bring them in the Gathering building, if you find infected scum, you will finish them. Copy that?"
Minho was ready to snap back, "Who died and put you in charge", but Thomas and Newt elbows in his ribs stopped him.
Tommy was the first one to spot them. The wounded man was lying on the pavement, and a little light blu bundle was wrapped around the man's neck.
Tommy was the first one to spot them, but Newt was the first one to kneeled before them. The blonde placed a comforting hand on the bundle's back and started to whisper "It's ok, Daisy… let him go, I got you, let him go so that we can help him, and everything will be fine, sweetheart"
The Brit gently pulled her face away from the man's neck, Jorge's neck. As Thomas kneeled to check on the Hispanic, Newt turned the girl in his arms, checking for injuries.
What he saw steal the air from his lungs. Before him there wasn't his sweet Daisy. The child, not Daisy, not anymore, had blood around her mouth, and her eyes were deranged and insane. The blonde realized, and that almost made him sick, that the blood came from Jorge, as she bit off part of the man's right ear. No, that wasn't Daisy anymore, in front of him there was a fully passed-the-gone Crank.
Before he could alert the others, the little girl sprinted into action aiming for Newt ear.
Minho took a look to the wounded form of Jorge, of his ear bitted off, and started to realize that something was off. The last clue was Newt screaming in pain.
By the time he took everything in, Thomas had already stabbed the girl's arm with his syringe, giving her a third of the dose, and Minho hoped it was enough and not too much.
It wasn't enough, and the girl woke up before they arrive in the Gathering building.
Newt was holding her, as Thomas and Minho help Jorge, who was awake but shocked.
Before they can enter in the building, she was acting up and screaming, and Harriet was pointing a gun to the girl's head.
And after everyone was screaming.
Newt was trying to place himself between Daisy and Harriet, and to hold the first and face the other. "Please, Harriet, there is a cure, there will be a cure, please"
Thomas droped Jorge, hoping that Minho could handle him, and place himself between Newt and the Group B leader.
"Harriet, let's talk about that"
"WHAT PART OF KILL THE INFECTED YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND?"
"She is just a child" Sonya tryed to reason.
"Still a Crank, we cannot help her, she is just dangerous for us" Harriet rioted back, without hide the betrayed tone from her friend for her stance.
Minho handled the wounded man to Cliff, before he stepped alongside Thomas.
"WICKED is still working on the cure, they still observing are close to a solution. You already knew that Newt is not immune, but cured! Allow us bring her to them" Minho was pleading, and he didn't like it, but he'd started to be affectionated to the little girl and evenmore he knew that Newt couldn't loose the child, not without going over the edge again.
"They have a cure? Because blondie there is not looking so well, with the fevers and the hallucinations!" Harriet was all nasty remarks and hits below the belt.
"We are finalizing the cure, we will finish it...I swear! Minho, tell her how close we were..." when Newt entreaty went unheeded, the Brit took a deep breath.
As he let it go, Newt lifted his weapon and aim it to Harriet "Tommy, please, press the bloody button, we are going back, to finish the cure, and we are taking Daisy with us. And no one is going to stop us"
Thomas admired the unexpected change of mood. the Newt in front of him was the same that had leaded the Gladers to the last battle in the Maze /Great, we're all bloody inspired/.
And as he lifted his weapon, with the corner of his eye he saw Minho point is gun to Harriet as well.
"Ok, let's do that" Minho said, and Thomas press the button.
So, that for me is the end.
maybe i will make a sequel, but by now that's it. Maybe is sort of suspended, but I feel that that is in line with the books style (even if this klunk is far from the book level).
I hope you enjoyed it, thank you for follow it till here.
