I Promise | The Maze Runner

Chapter 31: The Cure ✔️

We carefully look over the short wall where WICKED guards are standing at a road block with all their vehicles. They all have their guns trained farther down the road.

"What are they waiting for?" Minho asks, confused.

BANG!

An explosion erupts behind us, setting a building on fire. A huge group of people come running towards the WICKED guards, all carrying guns, other weapons, and various objects they happened to find.

"Stay down!" Thomas yells, laying on the ground behind the wall.

"We gotta go! We gotta go, now!" Gally yells, looking at us.

We all get up, Thomas and I still helping Newt, before rushing into a building near us.

"Brenda! Brenda!" Thomas yells into his walkie.

There's a pause. "Thomas?! Where are you?!" Brenda's voice comes through. She sounds worried. 

"We're not going to make it! Just take the others, get everybody out while you still can." Thomas says, ignoring her question.

There's another pause from Brenda's side. "No."

"Brenda!?" Thomas asks, confused.

"I'm not leaving you, okay? So forget it." Brenda replies.

"Even though you should?" Thomas asks.

There's another pause where Thomas sighs. "Thomas! Don't worry! I'm coming to you!"

"What are you talking about?!" Thomas yells.

There's a whirring sound from the other side of the walkie and we all look at each other confused. "Just look for us near the tunnels!" Brenda replies. That wasn't much of an explanation!

"Come on, let's just go." Thomas says, standing up. With his help, we get Newt up and start running again.

"We're almost there, Newt!" Gally yells, running in front of us with Theo.

"Just leave me." Newt whispers.

"Nope, not possible." I reply.

"Whoa! Whoa! Back up!" Gally yells as a truck set on fire goes flying past us.

We hide behind another walls. Thomas and I lean Newt up against the wall. A berg starts flying over us.

"That's them! We gotta go!" Thomas yells, looking back at Newt.

"Go without me." Newt whispers. He starts coughing up black blood...just like Winston.

"Minho, you gotta run ahead, grab the serum, and get back to us as soon as you can." Thomas says before looking at Minho. "Minho, go."

"You too, Kat." I say, looking at her.

"Spenc-"

"Go." She stays quiet, not wanting to obey me.

"They're right. I can cover." Gally says, looking at the two.

"Thank you." Newt whispers, looking at Minho. "Thank you, Minho."

"Just hang on, you hear me?!" Minho asks. The three stand up and run away, going towards where the berg flew off to.

"What are we gonna do?" I ask Thomas.

He looks around, trying to decide. "We should try getting outta here." Thomas says before looking back at Newt. Newt looks like he's zoning out, not seeing Thomas and I both looking at him. "Newt! Newt!!" Newt looks at Thomas, back to reality.  "We're gonna try this. Get you up-"

"Take it." Newt says, pulling a necklace off his neck. He holds it out to Thomas. "Just take it!" He yells, unable to control himself. Thomas stays quiet. "Please, Tommy." Thomas takes it and stuffs it in his pocket.

"We're gonna get you up, but you gotta give us everything you got." Thomas says as the two of us pull Newt up. We start dragging Newt, him being unable to control himself anymore. We get to a small clearance and collapse, unable to get Newt any further.

"Thomas?" 

Teresa's voice echos through the city. Thomas and I carefully lay Newt on the ground before standing up and looking around.

"Can you hear me? I need you to listen to me. I know you have no reason to trust me, but I need you to come back. Thomas, you can save Newt. There's still time for him. There's a reason Brenda isn't sick anymore. It's your blood. Do you understand?" I can hear the hope in Teresa's voice. She really thinks she can still find a cure. The cure. "She isn't sick because...because you cured her. She doesn't have to be the only one. All you have to do is come back. And all of this can be over. Please, just come back to me. I know you know the right-" Teresa's voice is cut off as some of the lights around us go out.

"What?" Thomas asks, confused. "I'm...I'm the cure?"

"Our blood." I say in disbelief. "It all makes sense!"

"What makes sense?! What are you talking about?" Thomas asks, confused.

"Mary used your blood to save Brenda. She's now fine. I got bit by a crank and the crank got uncranked, I don't know if that's a word, but that's it! Our blood! We're siblings so it would make sense!" I yell, happily, putting all the pieces together.

"We're siblings?" Thomas asks, gesturing between us.

"Yeah, I recognized you from my memory that first time I saw you. You were telling me that they were sending me into the maze." I say. "Anyway, from there I recognized Newt, Sonya, Luna, and even Ava Paige!"

"I recognized you too." Thomas says. "But I didn't know how, I just...felt like I knew you."

"Okay, but right now, we're focusing on Newt!" I say, looking down to try and find the syringe I put in my pocket.

"Newt?"

I look up at Thomas' voice. Newt is now standing, facing away from us. Newt slowly turns to face us. He looks like all of his sanity has shattered, leaving death behind. The black veins are coming into his cheeks, no smile left behind.

"Got it!" I yell, pulling the syringe out of my pocket. "No, no, no!" I yell, finding the syringe broken into tiny pieces of glass.

"Ahhh!"