Blank Spaces (A Maze Runner fanfic)

Chapter 18 (Lizzy's P.O.V)

I jump off the counter and pull Alice with me.

"Shit," I mumble."not again." I have to spend another night running from Grievers and Alice is drunk. I hurry over to Newt, pulling Alice behind me, with Gladers running around all around me. He seems to know what I'm thinking and picks her up. She seems kinda dazed but is with it enough to talk.

"What's happening?" She asks. I talk to her telepathically.

(Lizzy:) The Grievers are coming. Go with Newt and try your best to stay safe... in case one of us doesn't make it... I love you, sister.

She doesn't answer, just nods as Newt runs off. I spot Minho running towards me and I join him. My mind races, thinking of what we should do. People are yelling commands and there's a lot of confusion. We run to the Deadheads. Some people are running to the fields, some are in the Box which we consider but a boy gets chased away by a Griever as he tries to get in, and some are barricaded in the Homestead. We run into the forests and go deep into it. We make it to where the two walls meet and find a tree to climb and hide in. We sit quietly, exchanging glances when we hear a Griever roar in the distance.

"Isn't this farmiliar?" I whisper. Minho grins but his expression instantly when we hear a long drawn-out scream. Then everything is silent and I hear ringing in my ears. We sit there, everything silent, for awhile. We're not sure what to expect. Then we hear twigs breaking and something moving in the forest. Then a wave of relief rolls over me when someone calls out our names.

"Minho? Lizzy?" It says. "I think I saw them go this way." I look at Minho and he nods.

"Over here!" I yell over. They run over and look up at is in the tree. We climb down and what the boy says makes me freeze in fear, confusion, and anger.

"Alice," he says. "She got stung." I instantly call out to her in my mind.

(Lizzy:) Alice?!?! Are you okay?!?!

I can't feel her presence like before when we would talk telepathically.

"What happened? Is she okay?" I demand for answers. Minho puts his hand on my shoulder. I relax slightly.

"I'm not sure, she's still alive though," he says. I sigh in relief. No one says anything. "What are we standin' around for? Let's go!" We hurry out of the Deadheads and I see the destruction the Grievers caused. When I walk into the room in the infirmary that Alice is in I see Newt in a chair next to the bed Alice is in. His head is in his hands and I think he crying. He doesn't even look up when I walk in, but he knows it's me followed by Minho.

"I could have saved her," he mumbles and sniffs."I could have bloody saved her!!" He yells and slams his fists down on the arms of his chair, still not bothering to look up. He starts to sob as he moves his hands back to his head.

"Newt..." I start but he cuts me off.

"No. Don't even say it wasn't my bloody fault. Because it is. I was the only one that could have saved her from this bloody mess," he yells. I don't say anything, I know not to. I walk over to the side of Alice's bed and hold her hand in mine. She hasn't started the changing yet. I try to talk to her again.

(Lizzy:) Alice? You're going to make it out of this. You're going to be okay.

She doesn't answer but I know she's there. I can feel her presence in my mind. I hold on to it, as if mentally hugging her. I look up at Minho, standing in the doorway. He looks worried. For both Alice and Newt. I know that whatever happened, Newt tried his best to do everything he could for her. I know that she would have done the same for him and she would be in the same state as him, possibly worse, if this happened to him. I sit down and feel Alice's presence in my mind for several hours until I fall asleep, and I know she's still there. I think she's trying to push the memories she's getting to me also. Her screams wake me up now and then, but I fall back asleep quickly. In my dreams I faintly see a woman saying three words to Alice and I. It seems important. "WICKED is good." the image comes several times during my sleep with Alice pushing memories to me when she gets them. There's also memories of us with other Gladers. The memories are in her point of view though. Then I get a memory that's more clear then the others.

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Alice is sobbing, her face buried in a pillow and laying on a bed. A door opens and she doesn't look up to know who it is. She sees me standing in the doorway, tears covering my face and my eyes red as if I've been crying for hours. I just stand there as we look at each other. Alice looks away and I sit beside her on the bed.

"He won't remember me. Everything we've been through will have meant nothing. It won't matter though, will it? Nothing will matter. Once we're sent up we won't remember anything," I say. Alice nods. Why did he have to be first? I won't see him for 3 years. Are Alice's thoughts.

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I wake up, at first confused about the memory I got. Then I remember it all clearly. That was the day the first group of Gladers was sent up. Including Minho and Newt. I look over at Newt, he's still awake. He can't sleep, and not just because of Alice's screams. Minho opens the door to the room Alice is in. He looks tired and worried. He motions me to follow him. I stand up and follow him with one last glance at Alice. We get outside the door.

"You need to get some rest. I'm not sure what craziness will come tomorrow, and I don't want anything to happen to you," he says. I nod as one of Alice's screams tears through the night. I hope Newt will be okay. I follow Minho and I fall asleep as soon as we lay down in the Homestead. My sleep is dreamless.