Girl In The Maze (Newt X Reader Book 2)

- Letters And Plans -

We stopped for lunch after dead end. "We gotta do this for another 2 days!" Thomas moaned, "Tommy I thought you wanted to be a runner?" I said laughing at him, Minho smirked. "Yeah I do, I mean...yah know!" Thomas shut up and sat down. "You're welcome to go back to the glade kid!" Minho said chewing an apple. "No i'm good!" he said biting into his apple. I sat there staring down the passageway thinking about Newt and what he was doing right now.

Newt's POV

What am I doing?! I ran from the forest to the walls. No one was there, i ran to council hall and burst through the doors, the boys were sat on the steps and Gally and Alby were standing at the front. "Have they gone yet?" I shouted, Gally and Alby, "Yeah about 10 minutes ago, why?" Gally said calmly.

"DAMMIT!!!" I shouted. "Newt we have to come up with a plan. Greenie said that their best bet at getting the code is if they can work at night too and the only way they will be able to do that is if we keep the grievers in the glade as long as possible" Gally said leading me down the stairs to the front of the room. I needed to focus on the task at hand. Keeping the grievers here. I would make things right with greenie when she gets back.

"Okay what do we do?" I said folding my arms. "Greenie said to try fire!" Gally said stepping forward. "Greenie is very smart!" I said smirking and thinking about her beautiful smile, she really was a genius. "Alright boys...fire...We need a big one! Chuck, you're gonna stick with me. We are going to get everyone weapons" Chuck stood up and nodded and we both left the room.

Reader's POV

"I hope to god Gally came up with a plan, otherwise we're screwed and we will have to deal with grievers and running the maze in the dark" I said through short breaths still running. It was getting darker and it was worrying me, what if Gally hadn't thought of something. No Newt would've done something right? Would he? "What you thinking about?" Minho said catching up with me, Thomas was still trailing but i could still see him looking over my shoulder. "Newt. Grievers. Me." He stopped me, "Talk to me. We have to be out here for 2 days at least and we need you on top form greenie. Now talk." I sat against the wall and Minho sat next to me and Thomas was opposite. "What's up guys?" Thomas said seemingly confused about why we stopped. "Greenie here has something on her mind and its bugging her, so she's going to get it off of her mind and then we will carry on!" Minho said, he patted my knee and looked at me waiting for me to say something.

"Newt told me to stay away from him!"

"What did you say?" Minho said seemingly more interested.

"I said no, and he said that he will just stay away from me then. He tried to hit me and now he doesn't want to be around me"

"He's a slinthead!" Minho said sternly.

"Um sorry to kind of change the subject but why does Newt have a limp?" Thomas asked nicely. Me and Minho looked at each other, we both knew why Newt had a limp. "Tommy it's not my place to tell you. He used to be a runner and all that but if you really want to know...you need to ask him" I said feeling that i was right not to give out Newt's personal storied without his permission.

"Did i ever tell you what happened to me Tommy?" I said looking back up at him, he shook his head and had a look as if he was trying to remember something.

I told Thomas the story about Nick and Ben and the other gladers being tied up and me killing 9 boys by blacking out, i told him how Gally comforted me and how Minho was scared. I also told him about when i blacked out with Minho and killed four grievers. Thomas' mouth hung open like he was frozen that way. I clapped my hands in front of his face and he shut it mouth. "Your bad ass Y/N!" he said smiling. I couldn't help but laugh. "That's not it is it? What else are you thinking about?" Minho said edging closer to me. I have been thinking about Teresa said to me a lot recently, about me being designed and how it explains a lot about me and my traits. I wasn't planning on telling anyone about it but Minho was right, it's been on my mind and it's only going to stop me running and concentrating.

"Teresa knew something about me"

"What?"

"I technically don't have a specific set of parents. I was made in a test tube. They took specific genes from people and gave them to me, hence why im so strong and fast and why i black out and have nightmares"

"Whose they?" Minho said putting his hand on my knee again. "And wait? I'm in love with a design?" He laughed, "You aren't in love with me Minho, You love the idea of me but you're not in love with me" i said returning the laugh. "I beg to differ" he said looking into my eyes, i broke the gaze. "Anyway whose they?" He said again.

"Well to be honest i think its WICKED"

"Who?"

"WICKED. look it's getting darker we need to go, and make some progress we have only done a quarter of the maze, we have a long way to go"

Minho and Thomas nodded as we ran off along the ever darkening passageway.

Newt's POV

"You guys ready?" I said as i watched the sky get darker by the minute. The younger boys were in the homestead and the keepers and some of the stronger builders and Teresa were outside with me. We had a big fire behind us and lots of torches on hand. We also filled jars with Frypan's recipe with a few added extras from Gally, we put pieces of cloths in the tops of the lids, once on fire they would explode. We each had a torch and a weapon with the jars at our feet. We stood there and we waited.

"I hope greenie, Minho and Thomas are OK" Gally said as he twitched his head to look around the glade. "She will be fine and will keep them alive" I said looking at Gally sharply. "Y/N is strong Gally! Stronger than all of us put together. We just need to keep those damn grievers busy!" Alby said stepping forward and holding out his spear.

I saw a shining leg creeping out of the maze doors. "All right boys, and Teresa. Here we go!"

Seven grievers came running out of the hole. "Damn, were we expecting that many?" Frypan said stepping back a little but not out of fear. "Alright we can have two people to a griever. Do not get too close, keep it busy as long as possible and please try not to die!" I said, I was starting to sound like Minho.

We started to throw the jars of flaming liquid on the ground and the grass was set on fire, the grievers wouldn't go near the fire! Greenie was right. "Damn she was right!" Gally said smiling.

We managed to keep the grievers distracted for a few hours but one took Aiden and they all left. I couldn't shake the feeling i had failed her, them. I just hope we kept them busy long enough. "Come on Newt. We tried our best, We'll be safe until tomorrow night now." The voice was from Alby. "Yeah i guess."

"Please tell me you're okay. please" I whispered to the sky, who knows what that was going to achieve, maybe i did it because she's under the same sky that i am and i think that comforted me.

Readers POV

We were able to run for a few hours covering another quarter of the maze and collecting even more letters. "Nice one Newt" I said looking up at the sky whilst i ran. Somehow i couldn't see Gally coming up with a plan to keep the grievers at bay. It had to be Newt.

"SHH!" Minho whispered as he pulled us against a wall. I peered around the corner and saw a group of grievers. "Dammit" I whispered. "What do we do now?" Thomas asked. "Well we can either wait until morning or we can fight them. Fighting them is not a good idea" I whispered. "Do your cool black out thing!" Minho said nudging me. "I can't do it on command Minho, i have to feel threatened or something like that, it's like i go into instinct mode. I can;t make it happen automatically!" I said slamming my head back into the wall in the hope it would spring some idea to my head. "Well we are just gonna have to wait it out then aren't we!" I said slumping down on the floor. Minho and Thomas joined me and Thomas fell asleep, typical. Minho stayed awake with me however.

"What's gonna happen when we get out of here?" he asked, looking at me.

"I don't know but i know it wont be sunshine daisies"

"I gathered that. I swear if it's another maze i will kill myself. No way am i doing this again."

"It wont be another maze" i said laughing "this is a test why would they test us with the same thing twice." I looked at Minho and he nodded in agreement.

"Think it'll be easier once we're out?" Minho said propping his legs up.

"No, this is the easy stuff. The maze is just the beginning."