Marooned | Maze Runner | Minho

36. 𝒜𝒷𝒶𝓃𝒹𝑜𝓃𝑒𝒹.

Viya was alone in a room again. Only the bunkroom was much bigger than Viya's room in the maze. She didn't mind not having Teresa there, if anything she liked it. The previous night had been unbearably awkward. Viya felt at home when she was alone, it felt normal to her, and truthfully, she was exhausted from being around people all day.

She laid on her bed, staring up at the ceiling. Watcher was resting next to her head, his rusty body slightly staining the pristine white pillow.

"I have no clue where she went," Viya admitted to Watcher, "Maybe she got switched rooms or something? Now that I think about it, maybe she had something wrong on her health check, she could just be sick." She thought. "Do you think the gladers actually like me?"

"I don't think I care if they do or don't, well, I know some of them don't. I think innho's the only one who likes me, maybe Thomas does too, but Thomas..." Viya's voice trailed off, "I don't know what to think of the guy, he seems fine I guess, but something about him is just...off."
Viya stared up at the grey cement ceiling, it was similar to the one in the maze, only it was cleaner and had aggressive fluorescent lights placed onto it.

"You want to know another weird thing? In the cafeteria today, they called out kid's names again, which I still can't get over, if they can take some of us, they should be able to take all of us. But anyways, Thomas decided that he wanted to follow the group and he got into a fight with a guard! Minho literally had to pull him away! It was crazy! I could see them talking, but I was still at the table so I couldn't hear what they were saying..." Viya said.

Viya opened her mouth to talk, but before she could utter a word, alarms started screeching, their noise dominating every other sound around her.

Viya instinctively covered her ears and jumped down from her bunk. The same orange alarms flashed their colors on the walls, creating shadows that Viya could see out of the corner of her eye.

Viya crept towards the small window in her door, maybe she'd be able to see something and understand what was going on.

At first the hallway in front of her door was completely empty. Viya waited, she hoped that something would happen, that something would give her answers.

Boy did she get answers.

A boy whipped past her door, Viya jumped at the sight of him, a hoard of boys followed behind him, it took Viya a moment, but she soon started to recognize the faces.

It was the gladers.

Why were they running?

Viya wished she had more time to question what was going on, but when she spotted Minho in the crowd, she knew she'd just have to trust him.

She pounded her fist against the glass, trying to get their attention. She yelled for them to turn around and notice her, but with the heavy metal door mixed with the blaring alarms, she knew that they'd never notice her.

She watched as more and more of the boys turned the corner, each boy passing making her less and less hopeful. Soon, there was one last brunette boy left. Viya was already defeated, she didn't even try to get his attention.
The one-eyed boy glanced behind him briefly, his gaze meeting Viya's. It lasted less than a second, by the time the guilt formed in Viya's stomach, he was already gone.

She was abandoned.

Abandoned for the second time.

How stupid she had been for thinking they'd look for her.

Maybe some people were destined to be alone.

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The hallways all looked identical to Minho as he ran through them. The WCKD facility was a different type of maze—luckily, Minho knew mazes. Thomas was leading the pack, and Minho knew that when Thomas leads, you follow. From the way he was looking, Minho knew that Thomas was looking for something, someone.

As the sounds of chaos got louder, Minho only became more focused. He kept his eyes straight and his breathing steady. He wasn't going his max speed, as he didn't want to pass Thomas, but compared to the pace of the others, he was going quite fast.

Thomas rounded the corner with the kidnapped doctor that they had run into. He forced the woman to use her keycard to open the door, Minho held it open as the gladers piled into the room.

Minho closed the door and turned back around, Thomas was bent down looking at Teresa—who laid on a white cot.

Thomas shoved the launcher into Minho's chest, it took him a moment before he processed what happened.

As hectic noise from outside got louder, the group only got more anxious. Newt pushed a shelf in front of the door, but it was only a matter of time before they got inside.

"We gotta go find Viya!" Minho yelled back to Thomas.

"We don't have time Minho!" Thomas yelled back just as a man body-slammed into the door, trying to force it open.

"We have to go find her! We got Teresa, we can't leave Viya behind!" Minho argued.

"Minho, we legit don't have time, we have to go!"
"I can't leave her, not again." Minho stated.

Thomas stepped up to Minho, "She'll be fine. If she can survive alone in the maze, she'll be fine on her own again." Thomas told Minho.

Minho wanted to argue more, but as he looked back to the door, he saw that the guards were almost in, and he knew Thomas was right.

Minho held the launcher up, prepared to fire the second the guards entered the room.

Guilt started to build in his stomach, He was really going to leave Viya behind. He didn't have much of a choice, but he knew it was the wrong choice.

Was she going to be okay? What if WCKD got to her first? Or worse, they tortured her. It would be all his fault.

A sudden realization hit Minho like a gunshot.

Would he ever see her again? Was he leaving her for good?

Thomas yelled for Minho to follow, and like a sheep, he did.

He followed Thomas out of the room, he followed him through the hallways, he followed him out of the building.

Thomas led Minho away from Viya.

And it would eat Minho from the inside out.

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