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Go Ahead and Cry Little Boy by runerose777
Fandoms: The Maze Runner Series - James Dashner, The Maze Runner (Movies)
29 Sep 2025
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When Thomas is 4 years old he learns really quickly what being smart means. It doesn’t mean being able to do multiplication despite his young age, oh no, being smart means knowing when your mother's high again so you don’t set her off, and it means knowing when your father's drinking so you don’t set him off. But when Chuck or Brenda, his siblings, are in the line of fire, Thomas knows he will always choose to be dumb for them. Things begin to change when he is 6, when his mother begins bringing home shady men who stare at him with lingering eyes that make his skin crawl and hungry eyes directed at Brenda that make his blood boil. Things change again when on his 7th birthday, his mother forces Thomas to serve said shady men, which only gives them opportunities to reach out and touch him. And things change for the last time on his 8th birthday when he sees his mother receive a hefty stack of bills from two of those men, who stare at Thomas like they just hit the lottery. That night in the basement of his family's home will always be burned into his brain, a beginning to what Brenda called "Hell" and Thomas called "Life". At 14, the world decided that Thomas needed a break.