19. Showers

Whoo!" Sam shouted

"All right!" Winston exclaimed

"Oh man!" Frypan called out.

"This is great!" Winston declared again.

"Frypan, how do you feel over there?" Minho asked, amused.

As the boys cheered harmonized with the sounds of fresh clean water hitting the floor, Thomas looked down to see drip off his body. The blood of Chuck. The blood of a young innocent boy. Who didn't deserve anything bad in the world.

One by one the boys cleaned up and wrapped a towel round them. They walked to the changing rooms to find benches with folded clothes on top and a paper name tag on each set of clothes and shoes. Walking up to their names, Frypan walked up to him and looked to the left to see girls clothes, seeing Athena's name he looked round the group to see her nowhere in sight. "Hey guys," Fry spoke up and the rest looked at him, none of them had even had the chance to dress yet. "You guys see Thea yet?"

"No, don't think she's back yet why?" Minho asked as him and Newt walked up to him.

"Well her clothes are here so i'm going to guess she's most likely in the showers still since we were all there for like half an hour."

"I'll go look for her." Newt said, "And take her clothes to her so you shanks don't stare." he said, eyeing mainly Minho and Frypan and walking off.

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play - They Don't Know About Us by One Direction - now

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As he walked out of the changing room and back into the steam full shower room, he could hear a single shower cubicle still running. Turning the corner he could see steam flowing out of the top of it, laying the clothes and shoes on the bench outside the cubicle. Newt walked up to the curtain and knocked on the wall beside it. "Thea, love is that you?" Hearing sniffles along with the flowing water his concern only grew. "Thea?"

"Yeah, i- i'm fine" her voice strained.

"What happened?" he asked, still stood outside the curtain and one arm leaning against the wall.

"Nothing, it's fine."

"Thea just tell me."

As he said that her head poked out of the other side of the shower curtain, her cheeks puffed and tear stained. "You saw the video back at the lab, you have a brain, you can guess what they talked about." she said trying not to let her eyes trail downwards, but ultimately failing.

Forgetting he just had a towel around his waist he tried not to chuckle at her staring, "Want to explain a bit further?"

"Can we talk about it later?" she said looking down at the ground.

Nodding his head and not wanting to push her any further his eyes fell onto a chain he hadn't seen before. Walking closer to her his hand lightly grabbed the necklace to inspect it, "Haven't seen this before." he said then looking back up at her.

"Yeah, I kind of kept it hidden from everyone. I was wearing it when I arrived in the box. The ring was already attached to it."

As he hummed in reply he looked back down at it to inspect the ring as well, Athena just stared at his face watching the drops of water from his damp now brown hair fall down his body. Feeling her stare on him, he looked back at her ace and into her eyes. As amber eyes met chocolate ones, the only sounds throughout the room were the light sounds of water hitting the solid ground behind her, both unknowingly leaning in they learned their foreheads together, their breaths becoming heavier. When their lips finally connected and their eyes fluttered shut, Athena started to walk backwards and back into the shower slightly pulling Newt with her. Dropping his towel without breaking the kiss, he joined her under the water and the kiss suddenly becoming more passionate. More desperate.

As one arm went round his neck tangling her fingers in his hair the other on his bare chest. His hands fell straight to her waist gripping it tightly pulling her closer so chest was touching chest. Tongues danced as the kiss became more and more hungry, Newt bent down slightly and his hands gripped the back of the brunette thighs and pulled her up onto his hips.

Wrapping her legs around his waist, her back came into contact with the cold wall. Gasping at the temperature change Newt started to kiss down her neck and a hand started to travel up her thigh.

Starting to become more and more heated they heard a door from round the corner open, but neither had the urge to stop. "Hey Newt did you find Thea?" the voice of Winston sounded through the room.

"Yeah." He replied quickly then instantly went back to kissing the girl in his arms.

"Well hurry up they are rounding us up for something you got 5 minutes apparently." As he said that the door behind him closed.

"Carry on now or later?" Athena asked, looking at the blonde.

"Oh definitely now" he answered then smashed his lips against her.

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Dressed in blue jeans, a white t-shirt, black knee high lace up boots and a thin green denim shirt unbuttoned and hair up in a ponytail with strands falling down. Athena turned round to look at Newt who was dressed in a blue long sleeved top and black joggers.

As they both joined at the back of the group they all walked out as a doctor led them down a hall. "Sorry about Winston, tried to not get him to interrupt but the lady forced him too." Minho whispered to the Newt. Who just looked at him. "Do not tell me you didn't not do it." he asked, giving the blonde a look.

"We are not talking about this now," Newt said, biting back a smile.

"I didn't hear any disagreement on what you two did though." he said winking at him.

"Slim it", Newt sighed as chuckled. Minho smiled, but before he could tease any more the woman leading them spoke up.

"Now, we are going to check up on your body status for each of you. But due to us finding the files from WCKD we are going to have to ask some of you to perform some of your skills." as she explained, Newt looked to the side of him to see Athena shift uncomfortably still gripping onto her backpack.

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play - Legend by The Score - now

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Around the lab each Glader was sat separate with a different doctor. As Minho was forced to run on a treadmill at a fast pace, Newt's doctor grabbed a large syringe beside him and turned to face the boy. Looking at the large needle nervously "Uh, Wait, what is that?"

"Just a little cocktail. Calcium, folate, vitamins A through Z." he explained grabbing Newt's arm. "Pretty much everything you've been deprived of out there. Try to relax." and with that the needle went through his arm and injected the substance.

Done with her injections a female doctor walked up to Athena, "So, Athena, it's time to test your physical skill so let's just go over here away from the equipment and we will start.

As she walked towards the end of the hall she saw a glass room, just like the one in the videos in the lab. Stepping into the box a man already stood there and spoke up as the doctor waited outside to take notes. "I'm Carl Stevens. I'm head of security for this place and I was in the Military for seven years. Now I've been instructed to test your hand to hand combat abilities. We will have three rounds and that will be your assessment done. I will go attack first and we will go from there."

Nodding at the instructions, they both got in a fight ready position, the man threw the first punch which Athena swiftly dodged and bent down and used her leg to sweep him from under hers. Catching him by surprise he fell onto his back and onto the floor as Athena stood up right.

Once they stood up again they went again, throwing the first punch she swiped it away with her arm and moved slightly to the side, as he threw a kick at her she turned round against the movement of the kick and pulled his leg. Losing his footing he fell onto the ground with a thud.

Last round he stood up with struggle, throwing the starting punch she ducked under it and turned her body and with the turn threw a kick to his groin. Grabbing his groin but still standing her carried on running forward at her she slid through between the tall man's legs and effortlessly standing up meeting the turned round soldier she punched him right in face him to stumble and lean onto the glass wall.

With a nod from the doctor she walked out of the box without uttering a word to the man holding his eye.

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As the doctor took out yet another Blood filled tube from his arm Thomas looked up at the man, "Sure you got enough there?"

Hearing a click of heals a dark skinned woman walked past them with Athena walking beside her "Evening, Dr Crawford." the man welcomed.

"Good evening, how are the rest of the new arrivals holding up?" she asked as she pointed towards the treadmill Minho was on towards Athena, and the girl followed instruction and stood against the machine, with her backpack around one shoulder.

"So far so good." the man replied as the woman carried on walking off.

"All right." Coming to a stop "And you must be Teresa." The woman said looking at the raven haired girl, and closing the curtains round her medical area.

"Thomas?" A guard asked, looking at the boy.

After a glance at the gun the boy looked at the man's face "Yeah?"

"Come with me please."

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A/N - I don't write smut and i'm only comfortable writing it to a certain point sorry about that. Got something  bit different in this chapter. Hope you enjoyed.