Eyes Locked || Maze Runner || Reader x Newt

Saving her || Chapter 3

~Thomas POV~

"Hey..."

"Wake up!"

I bursted my eyes open to see a slim boy leaning over my bed. "Aris?" I mumbled.

"Yeah it's me. Its time to go get Y/N back and get the hell outta here." Aris shook me a bit to get up.  I looked around. It was pitch black. As my eyes adjusted to the darkness I saw the rest of the gladers asleep, except it seemed for Newt, who was staring blankly at the wall.

So strange. He had only known her for, what? Two days and here he is already failing to fall asleep over her. Unless they had some past connection...like me and Teresa.

I look up and see Aris climbing under my bed. He carefully slides the vent door away, making sure not to wake up anyone by the loud screeching. Aris crawled under the bed, signalling me to come. "Don't worry. We will get her Newt." I patted Newts shoulder before crawling underneath my bed. I peered into the vent before shuffling inside, making room for Aris to close the door behind me.

The metal walls were coated with grime and dust. The air felt icy and stale, carrying a dirty stench that lingered in the confined space. A dim, square light appeared every turn in the rickety vent, creating shadows on the rough walls.

"Thomas! This way!" I heard a voice call out and jerked my head up to see Aris in front of me. "Hurry we are going to miss them!" Aris lectured.

He abruptly stops "Whats-" I am silenced as Aris puts his finger to his lips, showing me to be quiet. He points downwards to show a vent that lead to a corridor. The vent latch had lined holes in them, just perfect for me to see through. A faint clicking sound starts to get louder and as my eyes focus on below, I see doctors covering what seemed to be... Bodies?

They were covered up, unable for us to see, but I could figure out a hand poking out. As soon as they entered a room, that still had its door open, I swung open the vent, swinging down and landing down on my feet. Aris followed down afterwards and we quickly slipped through the room, the doors automatically shutting behind us. We slowly stepped deeper and deeper into the room.

"Its Wicked..." I heard Aris mumble, whilst I looked around. Circular tube lay about, holding what seemed to be grievers. "Are those what I think they are?" I say whilst tapping the glass of a curled up griever. "Must be." I look around, noticing something strange. Bodies. Strung up by tubes. They seemed to be extracting something. A blue liquid. "Okay, let's find Y/N and get outta' here!" I hear Aris shout as he looks around in disbelief.

I suddenly see a girl, her face is covered with her hair, raven dark hair, like Teresa. "Teresa?" I rush over, lifting up the girls locks to see her face. Disappointment washes over me. "Its Rachel," Aris begins, appearing behind me, "they took her the first night. Told her everything would be okay." Suddenly, we heard the same 'woosh' of the doors opening. I dive behind one of the pillars obstructing the teenagers, Aris doing the same but opposite me.

Janson walks in, muttering something incoherent as I spot something that distracts me. A girl with, Y/H/C hair that just hung over her face. I waved over to Aris and pointed at the girl, he was right next to her after all and had a better view. Taking a glance at the girl, he quietly moved her hair from her face. It was Y/N. Her beautiful skin still managed to shine in the dim light of the room. She was gorgeous. No denying that. But this isn't about that. I got back to reality once I saw Aris trying to untangle Y/N from the tubes that hung her up.

I managed to hear something whilst Aris was struggling to get Y/N conscious again. She was now laying against a pillar. "Good evening Dr. Paige, Im glad to see you again. Although I admit, I wasn't expecting to hear from you so soon." Janson explained. I turned my head around the corner to see who he was talking to.