A/N:Eighth chapter.

Never Give In

Chapter 8

271 (Sev)

"What are you doing?" She asked furiously. Her heart was caught in her throat and that itself was a feat. She had been trained not to flinch or show any emotions. But watching 258 climbing one of the restricted stairways in broad daylight made her chest constrict. Did he really have no sense of self preservation left?

"Shut it Sev," 258 said as he focused on the ceiling above him. She ignored the nickname that 258 gave.

"You know we are both going to get caught," She hissed.

"There is a latch," 258 spoke up. Was he really that reckless?

"And?"

"I always thought that maybe we are somewhere underground and the way out is up. What if it's the opposite? What if it was designed to make you want to escape," 258 began, "What if our way out is from below?"

271 paused. Sometimes 258 says things that make her remember that he was here longer. That as long as she felt she had been here he had to experience things that made him the way he is. Calculative but when it came down to it willing to do anything to escape. Desperate.

"Huh how humane of them," she said cynically. There was this second skin outside of her telling her not to hope because that in itself can be her ruin here. She would like to think that once upon a time ago she was believer, that when she finally got out she could still believe. But she doesn't know if she could be that tomorrow when it feels like tomorrow never comes. Don't get her wrong she was just like 258. But his mentality was always to escape, she held back a little of her reservations even if she was just as desperate to leave.

"We are going to get out of here you know," 258 said to her. It feels like the roles were somehow reversed. She was the one that needs to keep him in check. She was the one that would amuse his idea that they could escape and be free. She wondered if before she was the reckless or the reserved type.

"One day at a time. We need to get stronger," Riley reminded him.

"They are making us their soldiers," 258 fired at her. It was true; there was no reason to hide it. All of them here had held, aimed and shot guns before. None of them were that stupid to shoot their captors. Their captors were making lethal weapons out of them. Making them think that attacking and spreading hurt was alright. That being physical was alright. She wondered if she had any values anymore, if she would even know what is wrong or right when it is just right in front of her.

"Soldiers get to choose which sides they are on," 271 fired back. She was about to tell him that it was his own grave he was digging and that she was walking away when someone else's voice came into hearing range.

"Hey what are you doing?"

The fridge, that was their punishment for getting caught or in her case being there at the wrong moment. It was this metal containment with white fluorescent lights where the inside temperature would be similar to those in a frozen tundra. She doesn't know which one she prefers the scorching fire of the other punishment or the ice cold almost freezing glaze of the fridge. The pressure was lower and she could feel her body weaken. She had been here before and she had always hated it. It was a game to her captors to test how strong her body was and before she could be at the mercy of eternal slumber they brought her back to life. And the cycle repeats wrecking havoc on her insides.

"Sorry," 258 whispered. They had been here a while. She could see the frostbite on his lips. His skin an olive-tan type of color looked unhealthy and parched. She was sure hers was exactly the same.

"It's okay," 271 whispered back.

The lights flickered. She looked up. That has never happened before. Looking at her companion she saw him studying the flickering lights as well.

"They lost communication with us. There is a power outage. We are going to be stuck here for a while," he said hoarsely. How does he know that she wondered and apparently that thought she vocalized out loud, "It happened once before…"

"They used to call me Aiden I have a brother; his name is Ethan." he spoke after a while. She looked at 258, Aiden. It had been a while since she heard anyone's name. She felt a strange surge of happiness and jealousy, It has been a while that she had let her emotions come to surface. Maybe it wasn't happiness more like a at-least-you-know-something-about-yourself-and-for-that-good-on-you type of feeling and the jealousy was from the fact that not only did he know his name but he remembered someone from before.

"I used to remember the first letter of my name." Once upon go she did and she also knew that she had a life before. She is reminded of the number 8 and of the month august. A flash of brown eyes and curly hair appeared in the front of her mind before she was faced back in the cold.

"I'm not sure anymore."

"You'll figure it out"

"I guess" She said dismissively. 25-Aiden, she was going to start calling him Aiden she thought. Aiden was looking at her as if he wanted to say something but thought better. Instead he said something else.

"We are going to get out of here, just so you know," He said. She looked at him, he looked at her urgently and something came to her mind.

"There's something going on isn't there…" She mouthed. She watched her companion shift his eyes up and down as if signaling a nod She didn't even have time to process or ask more when the lights came back up.

"How much did they grill you?" Aiden said in a louder voice playing the part of someone terrified. The power was up, so must any video or sound recorder.

"Shut up you know they can hear you" she replied playing the part. The fake snub worked and there was no silence. They didn't know how long they waited but the door opened for the first time since they had been in the metal containment.

"Both of you out of here."

As she stepped outside she could feel the change in temperatures again. Her body cried with sweet relief. They went separate ways not looking or speaking to one another. She moved to the direction of her bunk. There was no one around which meant two things; either the curfew was set up or they were all forced to stay at their bunks. When she reached her bunk her defenses went up someone was here. A quick movement on her shoulder was all it took for her start hitting the darkness. She fought to keep the upper hand; but she had just gone out of the Fridge and her body was weaken. It was so easy for her attacker to place her on a choke hold. She looked at her attacker's face.

Auburn hair and green eyes. 265. Immediately she relaxed her stance. If 265 wanted to hurt her she would have done it by now "What are you doing?".

"Reaching out, " there was a bit of humor in her voice and taunting in 265's eyes, but her eyes were solely focused on hers as she spoke the next few words. "258 can be reckless but when it comes down to it that idiot gets things done."

She paused at that; she didn't know that 265 and Aiden were working together. She wondered if 265 knew that his name was Aiden. She wondered if 265 remembered her name. 265 released her from the choke hold and started pacing, "While you were both stuck in the fridge and power went out, I managed to find an entry point. We need to study it."

This could be considered suicidal to some extent, "You want my help?"

271 looked at her dead in the eye and said, "Yes."

A/N: So that's the end of chapter 8. Something is coming into play and you'll find out straight away the next chapter because you know, it's still Riley's POV. A quick update my laptop is sort of fixed (I say sort of because it has minor issues right now) and it makes updating so much easier. I have also learned my lesson in backing up my stories so there won't be that much of a delay in terms of chapters anymore. So yay! I also would like to say that I have heard that you guys want a Lucas POV, and well I was going to put it as chapter 11 but I think I will move it forward to chapter 10. So straight after Riley's POV. I'm still working on both chapters right now and I'm really excited for all of you to read it.

So just to summarize everything; my laptop is sorta better, next chapter is Riley's POV and then straight after is Lucas' POV. So that's it. See you guys at the next chapter :)