maze runner alternate ending: the death cure
As I ran into our final resting place, dogging boulders that were raining down from the collapsing building, I saw Theresa, Thomas, and Brenda running not far behind me. Linking arms as they ran, attempting not to leave each other behind. I can still see the terrified look on Brenda’s face as her arm slipped out of Theresa’s arm. The two girls had never gotten a long, in fact they hated each other but neither of them acted upon it. Theresa strained trying to reach Brenda, but Thomas continued pulling her towards the door. Brenda continued stumbling after them as the one boulder that would crush her. Her last moments were spent fighting Theresa. As Thomas and Theresa reached the door Brenda said
“You won, he’s yours.”
Thomas turned at the sound of Brenda’s voice but it was too late, he turned just in time to see one of the larger boulders come crashing down, crushing her under its weight forever. I looked into Thomas’s eyes, I could see the sadness in them, but also the relief. Since Theresa and Thomas had finally started dating, Brenda had been trying to get Thomas back. She had been causing them to believe lies about each other and forcing them apart. But there was one thing that she could never take away from them. They had the ability to talk to each other telepathically, because of this they could talk to each other without Brenda ever knowing what they said. Although Thomas never wished that Brenda would die, this is solve the problem. Theresa looked almost confused, like she had planned on fighting Brenda for the rest of her life. She seemed like she was in shock, like that was the last thing she expected to happen. Brenda wasn’t a bad person, she just had one unhealthy obsession with him. But her obsession caused her death to become much sooner than the rest of the kids. It drove her to defeat.
That night Thomas was finally happy, I could see it in his face. Theresa looked relaxed with him for once, she usually was very alert, searching for Brenda. Theresa didn’t mean to cause her and Brenda to be enemies but it happened. Brenda liked Theresa at first, until she found out about her and Thomas. The second Brenda found out she made it her personal mission to destroy Theresa and Thomas, which was working since Theresa betrayed Thomas. But that wasn’t in fact Theresa, she was being almost brainwashed still so she has no control over what she did or said or thought.
The next morning Thomas, Theresa, and a small group of survivors went to look for Brenda to see if she was still alive. But the giant boulder that had crushed her was gone, like it had never even happened. The group with Thomas and Theresa began to mumble, wondering if Thomas had killed Brenda. It was then that I stepped in and said
“It’s true, the rock fell right here, wicked must have taken it to try and turn us against each other.”
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Most of the group fell silent, thinking about what I said and staring at Thomas waiting for him to back what I said. But Thomas failed to say anything, there were tears building in his eyes.
“I can’t believe that any of you would think I could be capable of this! Brenda was a good friend of mine.” Thomas said
Theresa looked surprised by what Thomas had said, everyone knew that Brenda wasn’t a good friend to him or anyone, everyone apparently except Thomas. Theresa whispered something into his ear and his face showed pure disappointment and then anger, almost like he was glad she was dead or close to death in a wicked headquarters. Nothing can explain the look on Theresa’s face once she had finished telling him, it was a mixture of relief, pain, guilt, and anger. The two of them began walking away from the door and were talking through what had happened. I started walking in the opposite direction from them, back to the door, to give them some privacy. Knowing it was going to take them a while, I laid down in a patch of grass and quickly fell asleep. When I woke up Thomas was talking to the rest of the kids who had survived everything from the maze to the boulders. He explained everything that had happened to Brenda, the crowd seemed rather pleased with the news. Brenda had not had the best reputation with our rather small group, there had to be less than thirty survivors. Thomas stepped down off the stump he was on and the crowd separated and continued what they were doing before Thomas’s explanation. It was over, we were finally safe. We could find some well needed peace. I walked to a stream nearby and washed my face off, it was still covered in dust from when a boulder fell near me. Thomas came up to me and cleared his throat
“Thanks for having my back today, I don’t think I could’ve convinced them without your help.” He said
“No problem” I said
Thomas shook my hand and turned as he heard someone coming, it was Theresa, she smiled at me, as they walked away together she mouthed the words
“Thank you, so much”
Thomas turned to look at me and waved for me to follow, as a sign that he trusted me. I would never want to go through everything again, but I don’t know where I would have been if it didn’t. I’m glad it happened but I wish it on no one, any other group would not have survived. As we walked back into camp I thought about everything Thomas and Theresa had done for me and even the rest of the group, knowing none of us would have lived through everything without them. I didn’t know what was next for us, but it didn’t matter as long as we had Thomas and Theresa we could survive anything.
