I'd Follow You Anywhere / Newt Fanfic / Maze Runner Series

Chapter 8 - Her Tear

"Gally? GALLY!"

"You good greenie?"

Zoe had gone over and fixed the hole no problem, but as she was walking back towards the edge, she'd heard a crack when she set her right foot down.

"I- I don't think the roof is very stable."

"What do you mean?" He asked hesitantly

"I heard cracking when I put my foot down, and it feels like it's about to give way."

Zoe was scared now, if the roof broke, she'd fall through to the ground. Not only that, but the roof could collapse on top of her, plus the fact that this was the weapons shed, that housed practically everything sharp in the glade.

"Don't. Move."

Gally looked around before shouting so that all the builders could hear him.

"EVERYONE BACK AWAY FROM THE BUILDING, DO NOT TOUCH IT, DO NOT MOVE ANYTHING. AND SOMEBODY GO GET ME A ROPE."

"Gally?"

"It's alright greenie, we're gonna get you out of this mess. I pro-"

His sentence was cut short by more cracking, and Zoe slowly looked down. She watched as the tiles splintered, the cracks under her feet slowly growing larger.

Zoe was absolutely terrified, and she looked up at Gally, seeing the same fear in his eyes right before there was a final crack, and the roof gave way.

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Newt heard the crack, and the sound of a building collapsing. Then the scream and the shouts that came afterwards.

He stopped in his tracks and turned to look at Thomas, seeing that he'd heard it too. Without so much as a second thought, the boys turned around, sprinting back to the glade and the commotion within.

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"ZOE!"

Gally's throat was raw from yelling her name as the boys pulled at the remnants of the shed, searching for a small figure underneath.

When the roof collapsed, she'd screamed, but it had been cut short, and they hadn't heard anything from her since.

Zoe lay under the rubble, vaguely aware of everyone calling for her, she tried to move, but couldn't, and there was a tremendous pain in her right arm.

Gally kept tugging at the wood and nails, trying to find his friend, the one person who saw him. But he was starting to lose hope. What if she was dead? This was the weapons shack after all.

Zoe groaned as a board was lifted off of her, and she could move a small bit.

"What bloody happened?!"

"The roof collapsed!" 

"And she was on it?!"

"Hey. HEY! I FOUND HER"

Zoe looked up to see Thomas, Minho and Gally all turn around to look at the boy who'd just shouted at them.

"Zoe, oh my god Zoe I'm so sorry, if I'd know it was that unstable-"

"It's fine Gally, I know you didn't mean for it to happen, but can we get to the medjack hut please, my arm is killing me."

Gally paled and looked her up and down for a moment.

"You're arm? That's what hurts right now?"

"Yeah, what else would be hurting?"

"Nothing." He replied, much quicker than she would've liked.