I Promise | The Maze Runner

Chapter 32: I Promise ✔️

"Ahhh!" 

Newt runs at Thomas, but Thomas pushes him to the ground. Newt stumbles up again. 

"Newt, Newt?! It's me!" Thomas yells as Newt runs at him again. Newt hits Thomas to the ground and they roll, Newt rolls away and gets onto his hands and knees. 

"Tommy! Tommy, kill me!" Newt yells, a small bit of sanity left. 

Thomas steps forward as I drop the syringe, running at them. Newt yells, jumping up and running at Thomas again. Newt knocks Thomas over before landing on him. Newt tries to bite at Thomas, but Thomas holds him back. 

I grab Newt from behind, pulling him off Thomas. He tries to bite me and ends up biting my hand. I let go of him and we both fall to the ground. He crawls over and gets on me, trying to bite me again. 

Thomas stumbles up and pushed Newt off of me. Newt stops, looking at us with a small bit of sanity in his eyes. "I'm sorry, Tommy, Spence...I'm sorry." He looks at us for a second before grabbing the gun out of his holster attached to his leg. He puts it up to his forehead, about to pull the trigger.

Thomas kicks the gun away from him. Newt watches it fall to the ground a few feet away before turning to Thomas, the sanity gone again. Newt slowly pulls his knife out of his back pocket and looks up at Thomas. Newt swings the knife at Thomas, which Thomas avoids as Newt falls back to the ground. Newt stumbles up, running at Thomas. 

I get up and run at them, grabbing Newt. He turns, about to stab me when I see the sanity return to his eyes. He stops, looking at me. "Spence...please." He whispers. "You promised." His voice is barely audible, but I didn't need to hear to know what he said. "Please." He looks at me for another second before Thomas grabs him, pushing him to the floor. 

"Where's Minho with the serum?!" Thomas yells, holding Newt to the ground.  

I was about to yell back when Newt rolls over, getting on top of Thomas again. He takes the knife, trying to stab Thomas in the heart, but Thomas holds it back. I try to grab the knife from Newt, but he instead goes for me. He stumbles off Thomas and swings at me. I grab the blade of the knife and pull it out of Newt's grip. Thomas grabs Newt, holding him back as I use the knife and cut along my hand where Newt bit me, making it bigger.   

"What are you doing?!" Thomas yells, trying to push Newt to the ground.  

"Trying to use my blood!" I yell back, stumbling up as I cover the blade of the knife with my blood.  

"Will that work?!" Thomas yells.  

"I hope!" I yell as Newt gets out of Thomas' grip. He stumbles up before trying to attack Thomas again. I grab him from behind, pulling him away from Thomas. He gets out of my grasp and falls to the ground. 

"Please." His voice breaks my heart as he looks up at me, the tiniest bit of sanity left.  "Please...kill me." 

Thomas shakes his head, tears in his eyes. "No...Newt."  

Newt stumbles up again, looking at me, this time his pure dark brown eyes are black. He looks at me for a second before rushing at me. As he gets to me, I put the knife up in self defense which goes into Newt's chest.   

"Spencer!" Thomas yells, running towards me.  

I look at Newt and I can see his lips go into a small smile, barely noticeable. I try to grab him as he starts falling to the ground. "No, no, no, Newt!" I yell, as he lands on the ground. I put my hands on his cheeks. "No, no, no, please!" 

Thomas stops in his tracks, looking at the two of us. His eyes fill with tears as Brenda runs up, cure in hand. She stops, seeing me and Newt on the ground with Newt not moving. Her eyes fill with tears too. 

Thomas walks over to the gun laying on the ground before picking it up. He glances at Brenda before back at me and Newt before turning and running off. 

I can't control the tears now streaming down my cheeks. "I promised." I choke out as Gally, Fry, Minho, and Theo all run up. They stop when they see me and Newt. They don't say anything, but just look at me for a minute. 

Theo slowly walks over and puts her hand on my shoulder. I quickly sit up, pulling my gun out of my holster and pointing it at her. She steps back. I lower the gun once I realise who it is. 

"I'm sorry." I choke out through tears. 

"Come on." Theo says with a soft, kind voice. "We need to leave." 

"No." 

"No?" Theo asks, confused. "Spen, we need to get outta here."  

"Leave me!" I say, looking back up at her. 

"Spencer-" 

I put my gun up towards her. "Leave me." I whisper, tears in my eyes. Theo stays quiet, not wanting to move. "Please." 

She slowly nods before turning and walking away. The rest slowly follow her. 

I look back at Newt and stay there for a short while, trying to calm my breathing. I finally calm down, but I don't get up, not wanting to leave. An explosion has me up and alert. I look towards WICKED tower as it collapses in itself with fire everywhere. A berg flies away from it and I can only hope Thomas and everybody else are on it.

I turn to look at Newt again, tears still slipping down my cheeks. I collapse, laying next to Newt on the hard concrete. I put my hand over his heart, hoping, dreaming, I'd feel a heart beat.

And that's when I do feel a heart beat.