MIZPAH, tmr | minho

𝖝𝖎𝖛. runner

RUNNER

"What?" Newt asked, completely stunned at the information that he had just been told. "You're bloody joking, he's not dead — "

Aurora sighed, and grabbed his hand, it still being rather cold but was slowly gaining more life and colour.

"I'm sorry," she said quietly, "but he is. We did the Box hole plan except — "

" — except it didn't go quite to fucking plan." Alex muttered bitterly, twirling a piece of loose bandage around his fingers.

Nobody said anything about Alex's language. There was no point. All the swearing or forgiveness in the world wouldn't bring Jake back which is what everyone desperately wanted.

Aurora looked at Alex with sympathy, her own guilt welling up inside of her like an inflated balloon. Even though Minho and even Alex told her it wasn't her fault, she still believed it was. If she didn't come up with that idea, Jake would still be standing at the Glade.

However, something inside Newt snapped. Perhaps it was grief, pain or jealously that Jake got the ending he wanted. Whatever it was, he snapped like a wildfire cracker exploding in the night sky.

"Get out." Newt said quietly, his eyes cast to the ground. Brown embers now turning to cold stone.

"...what?" Aurora cautiously asked, inching slightly towards him on the makeshift medical bed.

Newt raised his head slowly, tightly clenching his fists. His nails dug into his pale skin, causing crescent moon shaped marks to indent his pale canvas, the occasional splash of red being added.

"I said GET OUT!" he said, screaming the last part. Aurora visibly flinched, jumping back from Newt and off the bed.

"Newt — " Alby began, putting his hands out in front of him. "Mate, it's just us."

"I SAID GET OUT!" Newt screamed. He then picked up his glass of water that was beside him and flung it at Alby. He ducked and dodged it, however the glass smashed against impact with the floor, leaving little shards of glass everywhere.

Aurora jumped off the bed and slowly backed away, fresh tears streaming down her cheeks. Newt picked up a pot of cream for his cast so it wouldn't chaff his skin and launched it at Aurora's head.

Minho jumped in front of Aurora and held his arms behind him to hold onto her waist, they then ducked at the same time from Newt's launch attack.

"What the shuck dude?" Minho shouted, shielding Aurora from the thrown objects.

SMASH!

BANG!

"GET OUT!" Newt screamed, his ashen face now turning red. "LEAVE ME ALONE."

Alby opened the door and waited until Alex had exited and Minho had dragged Aurora out before shutting the door behind him. She turned to go back in but Minho grabbed her wrists and pulled them so their chests were touching. Aurora was forced to look Minho in the eyes.