Writers Note: Tired. And should probably go to sleep, but I'm gonna finish this part first. The day is October 21, meaning you should be reading this on the 27th. I probably forgot to mention that someone dies in this chapter too, (if I didn't then that means I went back and wrote it somewhere on my writers note for the previous chapter). Today (21) I came up with the title for the story and it seems to fit the concept of the story. This story for me is a whole lot different. I've never started writing a story a month before I post it. Keep in mind that I first began planning for this on the 21 of July. I've waited FOUR months for this. I hope ya'll really enjoy this story and review.

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Lucas didn't know how long he'd been out but it seemed to be a while. He looked around him, his vision still blurry.

He brought himself up and looked around, at first he didn't know where he was. He didn't know how he got there, but it all seemed to come crashing back when he heard Maya scream.

Lucas stood on his two feet, "Maya?"

She was chained up and looked bruised. "Are you okay? What happened?"

Lucas hadn't noticed the person next to Maya until she turned to it.

"Riley?"

"Get us out of here," she whispered loud enough for him to hear.

He nodded, but before he could move the lights in the room turned on.

Lucas could hear a faint static in the back before it made out to be a man's voice. "Thank you for joining me," he began. "Tonight we will conduct an expirement. For this expirement we will need both subjects..."

"Lucas!" her voice held the force of a shout. "Get me out!"

Just then Riley seemed to wake up, her facial expression was completely confused and judging by the way she stood, she wasn't doing fine either. "What's going on?"

"HELP ME!" the blonde yelled.

"I'm gonna get you out of here," Lucas reassured.

"We are going to need one more brave participant to help us. The participant will help us decide which test subject will live... and which subject will die."

"Lucas you have to get us out of here," Maya stated.

Riley slowly realized that she was chained up and trapped in some sort of room with Maya.

"What...? What happened?"

"Participant?" the man's voice called out. "You should see a lever placed directly in front of you, all you must do is choose who you'll save."

A light soon turned on for both sides as Riley and Maya both began to cry. "What is it?"

"We're gonna die," Maya cried.

"Why? What is it?"

"It's a saw blade! Lucas you need to get us out of here!"

"I don't know what to do," he gulped. "I don't..."

The saw blade turned on, only making the problem worse.

"Lucas," Riley began. "Please..."

"I just...I need to think," the noise coming from the blade distracted him. "Shit! Fuck! FUCK!"

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|FRESHMAN YEAR|

"You came," Lucas said, relieved to see Riley.

"You have ten minutes," she stated. "Make it quick."

"Ten minutes?!"

"Five...!" her voice was firm, "If you keep complaining."

"Okay..." he sighed. "I know you're mad. I know that i'm probably the last person you want to see or talk to, but I just need you to know i'm sorry."

The Texan observed no change in her demeanor. "I overreacted Riley...I turned into Texas Lucas and I know that. Still working on it," his hands went down to hers and to his surprise she didn't pull away. "But what hurt the most was seeing the fear in your eyes."

Lucas noticed she blinked back a tear. "I've done worse than just punch a wall, you know."

She immediately withdrew her hand from his. Riley didn't appreaciate him making a joke out of this, "You think this is funny, Lucas?"

"What? No, I just -"

"You make it harder and harder to see the good in you now..."

"Riley, that's not - "

"It's not what?" she interrupted. "Joe showed me the messages, he showed me the DM's, the group chat...!"

His green eyes didn't meet hers.

"When Sam asked you 'who'd you'd rather see naked', I didn't expect you to answer..." she took a step forward, unil their lips were inches away. "Choose me just because I have an ass one more time and I swear..."

She took three steps back still facing him, "You make me wonder what my life would've been if I never met you that day on the subway...remember that."

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His eyes turned to Riley then back at Maya.

And just like that...he already made his choice.

His hands went down to the lever as he took a deep breath. "I'm sorry Maya..."

"No," she cried. "Please. Lucas. I don't want to die like this."

"If it was what I said i'm sorry. I was just mad and broken, I don't want to die," her crying only broke his heart. "Please Lucas!"

The saw blade approaced her, "NO! NO! LUCAAAASSS."

"OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD. We're all gonna die," Riley cried as she felt Maya's blood land on her.

"I'm so sorry Maya," Lucas sreamed as he closed his eyes and covered his ears. "I'm sorry."

"Don't look Riley," he told her once it ended.

"Please tell me she's okay. Tell me this never happened."

The door to his right opened. He was quick to run in and help her out of the leather cuffs.

"It's okay," he said once Riley fell onto him.

"She's dead..." Riley cried. "My sisters dead..."

He kissed her head, "Let's get you back to the lodge..."

Pain.

That's all Zay felt.

His back had landed on something hard, he didn't know what it was and he didn't want to know. All he knew was that he was alive and maybe not for long. He watched as the remainings of the tower fell into a pit of darkness.

It all happened. One minute he was dangling from the tower, the other he let go. Seconds passed before he landed on ground.

"Help!" he heard someone call.

"Someone. Zay...?"

He grunted as he tried to pull himself up. "Where are you, Farkle?"

"Dangling," he informed. "I was falling and I grabbed onto something. Hurry, I don't think I can hold on for long."

Zay stood up. Everything was dark; only the moonlight brought in decent light.

"Here, take my hand," he extended his hand and Farkle took it. The genius had never been good at pull-ups, but when his life depended on it; apparently he could do more than fly.

"Where are we?" he asked when he reached ground.

"I don't know. We just need to get out of here..." Zay looked around him. All he could see was a dark opening and a large pit filled with darkness. "Do you have a flashlight on you...?"

Farkle checked his pockets and pulled out a small one.

"C'mon..." he began. "Maybe we can find a way out."

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The two walked for many minutes. They'd never seen this place before in their life and they wished they could keep it that way.

All they wanted to do was ask for help. And along the way they lost someone so important to them.

As Farkle limped his way through rocks and broken piles of signs, all he could do was concetrate on Smackle. Without her at this time felt like he was dead with fatigue.

"Zay?" he called as they continued to walk.

"Yeah...?" he replied not turning to face him.

"Can I ask you something?"

He nodded.

"When did it began?"

He didn't need an explination as to why he was asking. He already knew, "Happened right after you guys broke up for the second time."

"We broke up for less than a month," he mumbled.

"It's not your fault, Farkle..."

He shook his head as tears began to surfacce. "I told her parents i'd protect her this weekend...I told them i'd keep her safe."

Farkle kicked the pile of dirt on the ground and sat himself on the floor.

Zay joined him and patted his back for reassurance. "Breaking a promise is common. For you it's different. You loved Smackle, Farkle - "

"But she never loved me..."

"It's not the time to sit here and feel sorry because we were never loved," Zay pondered. "Maya, Riley and Lucas have been in the same situation. Hell, they still are...all we can do right now is make it through and seek help."

He nodded.

They made many turns from there until they reached a wooden structure with a surface elevator. Farkle and Zay were quick to walk in, a lever was placed right in front of them. "Here goes nothing," Zay said as he pulled it.

Nothing happened, "Shit!"

"Okay. How do we get this thing on?"

"I don't know. There has to be another way, right?"

Zay shook his head no, completely giving up on hope. But just then he noticed a ladder from the corner of his eye.

"There's a ladder. I doubt it'll get us far, but anywhere for higher ground, right?"

Farkle agreed.

They walked towards the ladder and Zay climbed in first. Farkle followed second.

"Hey I think I see something..." Zay informed.

"What is it?" Farkle continued to climb, "Hey something's wrong with the - "

Before he could finish his sentence, the ladder unhinged from its place sending him down. His back made contact with what seemed wood, but that didn't hold him; Farkle fell through.

"Fuck!" he whined in pain.

"Farkle? Are you okay?"

"I'm fine," he made out. "Uhh..."

Farkle managed to pick himself up.

"Is there another way back up...?" Zay asked.

"Yeah," he breathed. "There is."

Zay could see nothing from where Farkle fell. Just darkness.

He stared at the cave and walked through the empty, cold passage with his flashlight out.

Farkle was sure his back was bruised and he was sure it would leave a lifelong scar. He aimed the flashlight on the ground and noticed that there was weird footprints. Farkle kneeled down and examined them. "Weird as fuck."

It'd be easy for Farkle to give up then and there; he was in excruciating pain and in no desire to move anymore. That would've lasted for a while if he hadn't had heard a noise. It made out to be a loud screech.

Farkle continued to walk more and more until he finally found himself on an upper level. Zay was no where in sight but Farkle walked towards a lever placed directly infront of himself. After he pulled it the lights turned on.

"Farkle?"

Farkle turned around and saw Zay. "Where were you?"

"I went to go looking for you, but I ended up finding a way out. C'mon, it's just this way."

He nodded and followed Zay out the way.

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"You turned on the power so the elevator should work," Zay inormed. "We can give it a go and get the fuck out of here."

He pulled the lever and smiled. "It works. Fuck yeah!"

"C'mon, let's go...let's go-" he pessured.

The elevator seemed to stop when it reaced it's next floor. "No!"

"You gotta be kidding me," Zay clenched his jaw. "C'mon we just need to -"

He stopped. "Farkle..."

"What is it?"

"RUN!" he pulled on him and Farkle was quick to understand.

"HEY!" A man yelled from behind them. "COME BACK!"

"Jump," Zay told Farkle as they crossed a wodden walk way with missing planks. "C'mon, we just need to hurry up."

Farkle stopped Zay and pulled him, "Here. We can hide behind this rock."

Zay wished he had time to argue. He wished they could just run away from whoever was following them, but they couldn't.

He nodded.

"Let's just hope he doesn't find us..."

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Writers Note: Thank you guys so much for the reviews. They make my day and you have no idea how I much I need it. Let me know what you think. Thank you guys for making Chapter 5: I'd Rather See You Leave, the most reviewd chapter so far. Much love.

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jaleftwich02: Many ideas of my own influenced the passed chapter. Originally I wanted Lucas to be the first to die, but something changed my focus and somehow landed on Smackle. I killed Maya off the story to let people know I don't fuck around and it should be taken seriously. But once again; there will be more of Maya in the future. ;)

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