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“Yes, yes, I promise, Les,” he said, grinning at her. “Like I always do.”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxIxVXBHRv3
“It’s just that I’m sc-” She paused, then hugged him tightly. “Just be careful. You’ll come back, right?”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8UUC4BpKmv
“Of course I’ll come back.”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUKAHCYbTtL
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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!”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv2pldSvry0
“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.”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPIfwbG0Wjs
“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.”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpK16SVGPwI
“And you can’t teach me?” she asked, taking a step forward.968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9BG2Iudept
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.”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ30wlvPwzHf
“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?”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNi8M5xLWIk
For a second, she thought the girl looked pained. “I’m sorry, Les. I just want you to be safe.”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsrt1IPW93p
“Let me go!”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIhQaZQF9r4
“Take her away.”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTK6nAvqGbp
She felt tears slipping down her face. “I hate you.”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTPcMINdFSM
The girl’s face morphed into a sneer. “Wake up.”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp4B650m3Sr
“I hate you so much.” She screamed.968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmchLaDeBw6
Ana turned away. “Wake up.”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWLrN8WN4ly
“You-”
“WAKE UP!”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡod5FMP6zZx
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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.968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrWBVTkNaB4
The Capitol. The lights were dim, but she could make out the face of the guard, a look of pure disgust etched onto it.968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo633vAjYSD
"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.”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy9I4CFJoaw
“Oh well, I’m sorry,” she sneered. “What time is it?”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNMUtsXpfOi
“Three o’clock in the morning.” He rolled his eyes. “I was supposed to meet my girlfriend a few hours ago.”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIZtgOgBGsQ
“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.968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE1662noBq9
“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.”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3qcOQSXNUI
“Fine,” she said, and laid back down. “I’m going back to sleep, so get out.”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyjfbrtpRBV
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.968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaEwPJGGMMe
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.968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJh6Mnd88l
She closed her eyes again and, this time, the darkness welcomed her.968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGNKnSsJ5zO
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"Fuck it. Nothing again? You've got to be kidding me." 968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwupjaJHiRf
"The programs don't seem to be working. It looks like she was trained to resist it."968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlLX5IWyMfw
"She won't answer any of our questions, either."968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ96r6NWMZcF
"It could be, for some reason, her memory was wiped?"968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ63uJpEWrjE
"How, exactly? You know that the government oversees every medical procedure related to memory tampering."968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMjbDyftMzj
"I-I'm not sure, Sir."968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXVM24atXuU
"Well, you better be fucking sure soon, Hex. I'm fed up with your shit already."968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsjig6rw5WN
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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.968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0IbYsQCdPg
"Do I know you?" she suddenly asked, squinting. His face seemed familiar to her.968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlSHIKS499a
"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.”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUo6ArEszKX
She blinked. "How do you know?"968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYHt3gdSAGd
"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."968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyvoYg3zbUu
“Why did you have to come tell me now? I assume you’re not here under another's orders.”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOU9eXCKlsZ
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.”968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdlNAYbW2u8
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.968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9A9UncDe1
“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."968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBheo9yn9eb
The door closed silently behind him.968Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmbv4d3rUwt
