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“Yes, yes, I promise, Les,” he said, grinning at her. “Like I always do.”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuHf8AJLp4v
“It’s just that I’m sc-” She paused, then hugged him tightly. “Just be careful. You’ll come back, right?”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx9rDy8WxYj
“Of course I’ll come back.”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjiKGI9kfGT
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“What do you mean you won’t send a team out?” She screeched, “They haven’t contacted us in three days! Three days!”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhrRYpVC3ev
“We can’t lose more people. We’ve already lost Mercedes, Jace; and now Az and Caspian! Leslie, don’t you see? This is not about us. There is a limit to how many lives we can sacrifice for a futile cause before it’s unreasonable.”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyo25DxVJH7
“Fine.” She whispered, “I’ll go out there alone.”
Anastasiya shook her head. “The others are trained, but nothing will stop them from tearing all of our secrets from your mind. Jace would have taught you how if he’d been here.”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV190I38bSJ
“And you can’t teach me?” she asked, taking a step forward.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDup3qW9TqI
In response, Ana only shook her head. “I’m sorry, Les.” Agents rushed into the room, grabbing her. “We can’t have you leaving. It’s for your own good.”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBgvB81iqr
“Ana!” She screamed as they started dragging her away, and dug her feet into the ground. “Don’t you remember Jace? Mer? Did you forget all those times that we went out together? Did you forget those times when you used to laugh with Cas? How you teased Az about his stories?”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbkUiHBvKd4
For a second, she thought the girl looked pained. “I’m sorry, Les. I just want you to be safe.”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7v8XstoEtY
“Let me go!”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQGJng8HzQP
“Take her away.”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKX8sIbLnj2
She felt tears slipping down her face. “I hate you.”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Orv8pz7yx
The girl’s face morphed into a sneer. “Wake up.”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡec2Fc9ioqT
“I hate you so much.” She screamed.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPzHzMhV2OA
Ana turned away. “Wake up.”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz2Hzav31yx
“You-”
“WAKE UP!”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYOQF42YY4N
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“WAKE UP!” A hand shook her shoulder and she bolted upright, hands instinctively shooting towards her belt where weapons would have been. But there were none.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRTjlOVCBIW
The Capitol. The lights were dim, but she could make out the face of the guard, a look of pure disgust etched onto it.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrMjZEZyJRT
"Shit Girl, you’ve been writhing in your sleep for thirty minutes now,” he said, retracting his hand and wiping it on his pants. “I was getting annoyed.”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVn8OlvaVJC
“Oh well, I’m sorry,” she sneered. “What time is it?”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTCbqg2kSNr
“Three o’clock in the morning.” He rolled his eyes. “I was supposed to meet my girlfriend a few hours ago.”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb4WMMVNYwt
“Then why are you still here?” she asked, trying to act dignified by straightening the scraps of what had once been a dark leather jacket, a black camisole, and jeans.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡETpOsn6IRL
“You think Akira would leave you here, unguarded, for the whole night?” He scoffed. “You’re crazy. And we agents know better than to disobey him.”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7kTorTUUES
“Fine,” she said, and laid back down. “I’m going back to sleep, so get out.”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpph4lJxMLx
He shook his head and left out of a section in the bullet-proof glass walls, fortified by iron bars and multiple deadbolts. She grinned to herself.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2NuJ5ZIBPf
They must assume that I’m extremely good. She thought with satisfaction, I don’t even have the strength to walk more than a few steps right now, let alone break down a door.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbs5xOD393c
She closed her eyes again and, this time, the darkness welcomed her.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsfSnWvv6rh
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"Fuck it. Nothing again? You've got to be kidding me." 917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSleshHws3h
"The programs don't seem to be working. It looks like she was trained to resist it."917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfM5R4Q6fjW
"She won't answer any of our questions, either."917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡShOSXlCOcB
"It could be, for some reason, her memory was wiped?"917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv0Sq0tSWxK
"How, exactly? You know that the government oversees every medical procedure related to memory tampering."917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcjayJ2350A
"I-I'm not sure, Sir."917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBgq1Vi4tvi
"Well, you better be fucking sure soon, Hex. I'm fed up with your shit already."917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDifToIV4bl
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Leslie woke up to the door closing with a loud slam. Her eyes fluttered open and she glanced at the figure that had entered the room. A Leader. She sat up. They usually didn't come into the cell. But the boy didn't seem to be under orders. The top button of his fleecy shirt was unbuttoned and his hair was tousled like he had just rolled out of bed.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ97gY53Kmgv
"Do I know you?" she suddenly asked, squinting. His face seemed familiar to her.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjULTMj6JVD
"Ah, so your memory has been wiped, after all." He ran a hand through his hair, sweeping it to the side. “Not a surprise, though.”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIfNyW7qNbP
She blinked. "How do you know?"917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe2WxtcZFu7
"Never mind that. I won’t tell anyone, if that’s what you’re worried about. I came here to tell you that tomorrow, you will be given some freedom. You have been classified as an unthreatening prisoner. You will be permitted to join the others at the common room through that door-" He gestured to a door that hadn't been there the night before. "-during meals. But if they find that you are collaborating with them to plot an escape, your permission will be terminated."917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqDD3cNO8q
“Why did you have to come tell me now? I assume you’re not here under another's orders.”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOnrfBAeRTx
The boy paused for a second and just stared at her with a sort of… sadness. He finally sighed and his face immediately relaxed. “You’re right, I shouldn’t be here. I just don’t want you to make a fool of yourself tomorrow. I captured you, after all, and it's already embarrassing for me that you were classified as unthreatening.”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpwFC1Ey9c5
There was a certain air of viciousness around this boyish man. He looked around her age, seventeen, but his eyes looked older than twice his age. “All right,” she said after a second of silence. “What’s your name?” she asked.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzLajLHKs2w
“If I told you, where would the fun be in it?” He slowly turned around and started to do the three-layered unlocking system. The boy scanned his fingertips, then entered his passcode behind his hand. Finally, he let out a breathy laugh. "You asked me before how I knew that your memory had been wiped." A scanner scanned his retinas and the screen in front of him flashed green. "It's because if you remembered anything..." The door clicked open. "... you would have remembered me."917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqBwMYaQZVv
The door closed silently behind him.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡECfHA2UrTK
