DEFENCE SYSTEM | NEWT; THE MAZE RUNNER

chapter eight | argument

THOMAS POV

it's after dinner and i'm going to find minho. i hope he lets us bring the device with us because i truly believe y/n can help us get outta here, and i trust that she has the right idea. finally i find him, sitting on his hammock, nearly falling asleep. i shake him roughly right before he was about to fall into a slumber. minho groans in annoyance.

"what?!" he whisper-shouted, clearly pissed off.

"y/n has a good idea," i said to him.

"what is it?" he replied back, now sitting up.

"she thinks we should take the device me and her found in the griever, just in case we find something," i say to him, hoping he agrees with us. he thinks about it for a second.

"i think we should, as you said just in case," he said. i sighed in relief.

"and i trust my bestie," he continued.

"and i trust my sister" i said, eyes widened because i spilled our secret. he shot up quickly and looked at me in shock.

"WHAT!" he shouted.

"shh! shut up minho," i said, pushing him down.

"y/n's your sister?!" he whisper-shouted to me.

"yes, don't tell anyone or i will shove you into a griever," i said, eyebrows narrowed in seriousness.

"okay okay," he said, reassuring me to not hit him in the face. i nodded and left him to sleep.

THE NEXT DAY

YOUR POV

it was the day where we are gonna bring the device in the hole for running. i do have hope that we'll find something. i mean, there's gotta be something out there. anything. i'm walking towards the kitchen for some breakfast and i can see minho and thomas already packing.

'where's newt?' i think.
'maybe he's gardening or with alby in the meeting hut' i just brush it off.

i'm gonna see him later anyways. finally i reach the kitchen and grab my belongings to start running.

"have we got everything?" thomas asks me and minho. we both nod in unison, but i feel like we're forgetting something.

'omg, we're so dumb' i think.

"we forgot the device!" i shout, smacking my palm onto my forehead in stupidity.

"ohh yeah!" thomas and minho say together. we all laugh a little.

"i'm gonna go and grab the device, wait here," i say and walk off towards the main, meeting hut where we kept it safe last time.

as soon as i reach the hut, i see newt sitting on a wooden chair. it looks like he was waiting for me to come to get the device.

"oh, hi" i said, shocked to see him here.

"hey y/n," newt said, worry in his voice.

"are you okay, you seem a bit off," i say, walking closer to him and placing my rucksack on a spare chair.

"yeah..." newt says.

"i'm just kinda worried," he continues in the same tone.

"why?" i ask, concerned.

"when you three go out there with this thing," he takes the device from the top shelf and hold it high above, in the air.

"why are you so worried about it?" i asked, stepping closer to him.

"its just... we have no idea what it is and what it can do. i mean, what if it traps you three out there, what if something bad happens, i cant loose you guys. i've lost too many people, i cant loose anyone else," newt says, looking down. i step even closer to him and cup his cheeks.