Meant to be / Book 2 / A maze runner story

Chapter 10 - The Broken City

We finally reach outside. It is pitch black. We run down this thing and I see a place to hide.
- "Over there!" I say.
I run towards it and everyone follows. We are under this type of platform thing. We are all curled up onto each other. I am next to Thomas and I grab his hand and squeeze it. We're all panting and I hear the things get further and further away. A few minutes later I can't hear them anymore.
- "I think we're good now." I say.
- "We should get some rest." Says Thomas.
We all slowly lie down. I lay my head onto Thomas's chest. He wraps his arm around me and I fall asleep.

DREAM
I am in this dark room. I cant quite tell what I am doing, but it seems as if I'm in a hurry.
- "Come on." I say.
I stop doing whatever I was doing and I seem happy and relieved. I sigh. It worked. I slowly get up and run away. I cant quite tell where I am or where I'm going, but I enter this little room. Thomas is there. It seems as if he's waiting for me.
- "Finally." He says. "Did it work? Did anyone see you? Are you ok?"
I kiss him.
- "Yes. No. And yes."
He smiles.
- "What about you?" I ask. "Anyone see you?"
- "No."
He kisses me again and suddenly a bunch of people in black suits, enter the room. They have guns in their hands.
- "FREEZE!" They say, pointing their guns to us.
Thomas and I pull away and look at them.

I immediately wake up. I am completely drenched and I am sweating. That dream felt real. I look to my right and see Thomas waking up, pushing a bird away.
- "Get out of here!" Says Thomas.
Others slowly start to wake up. I look at Minho and he sighs.
- "Rough night?" I ask.
- "I bet yours wasn't as bad considering you were sleeping on Thomas."
I punch him in the arm and I think of the dream I just had. I look at Thomas who is standing.
- "Are they gone?" Asks Newt.
- "Yeah. I think we're safe now." Answers Thomas. "We should get moving."
He bends down and grabs his backpack. He is looking at me with a weird expression on his face. I get up and yawn.
- "Let's pack it up. Aris come on. Fry. Winston. Let's go."
We all get up. I turn to Winston and he is struggling to get up.
- "Hey man." Says Fry. "You ok?"
He hands his arm to Winston and helps him bring him up. Winston gets up and we all slowly follow Thomas. I walk next to Fry, who is at the back of the group.
- "How's he doing?" I ask.
- "Not well."
I reach the top and see the group has stopped. I wonder why and push through them. Wow. My jaw drops to the ground when I see all of the broken down buildings. There used to be a city here before. I walk up next to Thomas.
- "This is crazy isn't it. All this time we've been in the maze, the world was crumbling apart." I say.
- "I was thinking the same thing." He answers, still looking at me with a weird expression.
- "What?" I ask.
- "You woke up completely drenched and you seem panicked."
I think of the dream, that felt more like a flashback.
- "What happened?"
- "Just a weird dream."
- "Are you sure it was just a dream?"
I look at him not really knowing what to say. We continue on walking through the city and there are debris everywhere. I keep on looking around, trying to find if there might be people here, but I don't think there will be.
- "What the hell happened to this place?" Asks Fry.
- "I don't know." Answers Newt. "It doesn't look like anyone's been here in a long time."
- "I hope the whole world is not like this." Says Aris.
- "I don't want to be a party pooper, but I'm pretty sure it is." I say.
Thomas stops walking. I think he can hear something.
- "Hang on. Stop." He says.
Everyone stops and looks at us. I hear a little faint noise coming from the sky.
- "You hear that?" He asks.
- "Yeah I did." I say.
The group looks at us confused; they didn't hear anything. I hear another noise from the sky and this time it is much closer. It's a helicopter.
- "Get down!" Thomas and I both say.
- "Everybody, hide! Hide! Hide!"
I turn to the left and see this little passageway thing.
- "In here! In here!" I scream, going under.
The noise is getting louder and louder. Once everyone is under, this big plane flies over us. There is also two helicopters as well.
- "Oh shit." Says Newt.
- "That was close." I say, while the aircrafts leave.
- "They're never gonna stop looking for us, are they?" Asks Winston.
Thomas gets up and I do the same.
- "Come on. Let's continue."
We continue on walking and all I can think of is what happened ever since we left the maze. From lying to us about leaving WICKED, knowing the truth about the world, seeing what WICKED has been doing to other kids, and then finding out that I'm a big threat to them. Janson's words keep on replaying in my mind; "We need to kill her". I also think of what Thomas had told us when he gained his memories back. I remember him telling us that him and I did something when I found out that Newt had been placed in the maze. Maybe what we did was what Janson was talking about. The dream I had, also comes in my mind. If this really wasn't a dream, then maybe this was when Thomas and I got caught by WICKED on whatever we were doing.
- "You're quiet." Says Newt, bringing me back to reality.
- "I'm thinking and I'm dying of heat."
He giggles, but immediately stops. He has a worried look on his face.
- "Ever since we left last night, you've been acting strange, are you sure you're alright?"
- "Well it's not everyday that you learn that people want to kill you."
Newt sighs.
- "I know you don't want to talk about it, but do you even have the slightest idea of what you might of done."
- "No, but I think I might have an idea of why I did what I did."
- "What do you mean?"
- "Do you remember when Thomas told us that I did something with his help? And then made a deal with WICKED to send me into the maze and never send Thomas and Teresa?"
- "Uh yes?"
- "Yeah well Thomas told me that the reason I did something in the first place is because they had send you up into the maze."
- "So you think that those two things are connected? That whatever you did that almost destroyed WICKED, you did it for me?"
- "I think so. Yeah." I say looking at the ground.
- "Wow."
We both walk next to each other in silence.
- "Up here." Says Thomas, climbing up a little mountain.
We all follow him and I hear Winston coughing.
- "Everyone good?" Asks Thomas.
I turn to look at Winston to make sure he's ok. He's grabbing his chest. He doesn't look to good. We finally reach the outside of the city.
- "Where do we go now?" Asks Fry.
Thomas looks around and he sees this mountain made of sand.
- "There." He says, pointing to it.
We walks in direction of it and we all follow him. Winston is at the back and he is struggling to walk. I go next to him.
- "Do you need some help?" I ask him.
- "No I think I'm good."
- "A little further guys!" Says Thomas.
- "Are you sure?" I ask.
- "Yeah." He says, squinting his eyes.
He's hurt. Really hurt.
- "Let me know if you ever need anything ok?"
He nods. I stay next to him, to make sure that he's going to get to the top safely. I don't have a good feeling about him and every time I look at him, he seems to be getting worse. Thomas gets to the top and the others join him very quickly.
- "Those mountains. That's gotta be it." I hear Thomas say.
Winston and I join the others and I see the mountains Thomas was talking about.
- "That's where we're going."
- "Thats a long way off." Says Newt.
- "Then we better get moving."
I turn to look at Winston and he seems as if he's going to faint.
- "Winston? You ok?"
He takes off his bag around his shoulder and a second later completely falls onto the ground.
- "Winston!" Thomas and I both say.
We quickly all usher next to him.