A15 The Innocent

|5| - The Banishment

/The Glade\

(EMMY POV)

I stayed in my shack in homestead, just like Newt had asked me to. He didn't want me to watch Ben being banished.

And I didn't either.

|THIRD POV|

All the Gladers stood around the entrance of the maze as they awaited the moment they would begin to close. 

Each Glader held a look of sadness in their eyes as they felt a familiar gust of wind, and the sound of the doors closing filled the air. Alby sent a look towards Newt, who in turn lowered his pole. 

With pointed poles on the side of Ben, he was being pushed back into the maze. His face was full of panic as he shuffled back further and further into his doom. Words of useless plead, they all felt guilt as the doors finally shut him inside the maze. a place where no one has survived through the night.

Only once did someone survives. But no one else has had that luck before.

\THE FIELD/

{YOUR POV}

I glared as the doors finally slipped shut, and I was trapped in the maze for the night. 

"Are you fucking SHITTING ME RIGHT NOW LUCY!" I yell as I glare at the younger girl, who glared right back.

"No, I won't let you do this by yourself! I am going to make sure you make it out of here to see them yourself!" 

I shake my head as I step closer to her. "Lucy I'm going to make it out just fine! I was going to be just fine in here until YOU stepped in here with me! Now I'm going to be worried about saving your ass and making sure your shucking safe from the Grievers!"

"I can take care of myself!" She argued.

"Can you? Because, from where I'm standing, you just practically signed your own death certificate!"

Silence fell between us as we stopped yelling, her eyes filled with shock and hurt. I close my eyes with a sigh, turning my head down.

"I wanted you to be safe Lucy, safe in the Field. I didn't want you to come with me because I knew you would try to. So why did you follow me? I had promised you that I would come back, didn't you trust me?"

She steps forward as I look back up at her, her arms wrapping around me tightly. 

"I know you're strong YN. I know you are, and that's why I look up to you. But you're reckless. What would happen if you don't come out of this maze? We would be trapped because you never told us exactly what the key looks like." She pauses, drawing herself back to look up at me. "We need you YN, more than you think. You're our family, our sister. Without you, we'd be lost. So if I have to follow you to the end of the world and back just to make sure you're safe, I'll do it. There's no way I'm letting you do this alone."

I stare down at her before closing my eyes with a small sigh. I lean down slightly so that my forehead touches hers.

"Alright, I'm sorry for being reckless, but I just can't lose anyone else. I can't lose you." I whisper before opening my eyes. 

She smiles at me through her tears and hugs me tightly. "You won't lose me YN. I promise."

I smile down at her as my own tears spill down my cheeks. I close my eyes again and relish in her comfort before I pull back. Wiping the tears away with my hands I chuckle as I see her doing the same.

"Right if we're going to get out of this, we need to get moving. You'll need to listen to me, no arguing alright?" She nods her head as I speak. "I have a plan for the both of us to get out here alive, so we need to do this quickly. And hopefully, it all goes just as planned, and no one gets stung."

She smiles and nods her head. "Alright, let's get that key."

/THE GLADE\

[NEWT POV]

Emmy refused to fall asleep, but so did the rest of the Gladers. 

It had been the first Glader we had lost since YN. 

She was curled up by my side as we swung slowly on my old hammock. Her eyes staying on the stars above her.

"What's going on in the mind of yours darling?" I whisper.

I could tell the Gladers were listening, out of boredom, and wanting to listen to something other than the screams echoing through our bloody brains.

"Momma." 

I felt my bloody heart clench with pain and I sigh softly under my breath. I kiss her forehead and nod my head slightly. 

"What about her Darling?"

Thomas's eyes had focused on us, I knew he wanted to know more about YN. But we never liked to talk about her, given how close we were to her. Her loss was still fresh.

"How she would sing me to sleep." Was the simple answer Emmy had said.

"Would you like me to Darling?" I offer.

She pauses for a moment before shaking her head. I frown slightly before smiling. 

"Not liking my singing voice?"

She giggles slightly and shakes her head. "You're good! But Momma's better."

I nod my head with a sad smile. "Yeah, she was."

"Why don't you sing us a song, Emmy?" Minho yells from a bit further away.

Emmy sits up with a smile before nodding.

"Do you know any songs Darling?" I ask as I sit up with her.

She pauses for a moment and nods her head. I smile down at her and nod to her. 

"Go on and sing it for us then Darling. Then we can all fall asleep." I whisper to her and she nods.

** A Million Dreams (Reprise) Sung by Willow Sage Hart. Please Go listen to it!!**

We softly swing in our hammock as she sings a song for us. Though she didn't sing the whole song as YN would, it was still beautifully done.

Every night I lie in bed

The brightest colors fill my headA million dreams are keeping me awake

I think of what the world could beA vision of the one I seeA million dreams is all it's gonna takeOh, a million dreams for the world we're gonna make

I kiss her forehead as she finishes singing her song, and slowly watch as her eyes drift shut. I spare a glance at the other Gladers and sigh when I see all of them had fallen asleep. 

"Bloody Magic, you are Darling," I whisper before closing my eyes, and drifting to sleep.

**TMR MEME TIME**