Love in the Maze (Newt x Reader)

4. Survive a night

Y/N just ran into the shuckin' maze, and she wasn't stopping for anything or anyone. She, full on, sprinted to the boys, only concentrating on them. 'Come on, Y/N! Don't you dare let them down!', she pushed herself on, ignoring the other Gladers' protests for her to stop.

Newt collapsed again but continued on knowing that if he gave up, he would have not only let Ben down, but the rest of the boys... And Y/N. So he gritted his teeth, picked up Ben and moved again. But when he started moving, he felt Ben's weight lessen on his exhausted frame. He looked to see who was the stupid shank who decided to get themselves killed, and the sight almost caused him to go to both heaven and hell. Y/N was the stupid shank who had come to help. Was the one who,out everyone, had come to aid him and Ben. He would've argued to her if he wasn't so exhausted and now focused on getting them all to safety. Now that Y/N was here, he sure as hell wasn't going to give up now!

Everything seemed to blur. Sound, sight, touch. It all seemed to fade. Y/N was dragging Ben with Newt as fast as she could but she knew that the chances of making it back safely were highly unlikely. 'But I got to try', she grounded her jaw, grunted with effort, and pulled Ben along with Newt. The walls were just metres from closing, and Newt, Y/N and Ben were just metres away.
"Come on!", shouted Colum, who was about to burst into tears. He and Y/N had gotten quite close over the past 2 weeks and felt like he had an older sister looking out for him. And Newt was everybody's brother. He was always there, in a way, sort of like a mother. But now that Y/N was here, they were practically his siblings or parents. He couldn't lose them. No one could...

The doors were almost closed and both Y/N and Newt knew that. So Y/N looked at Newt for a split second, saying, "Chuck him!". And they did, threw the final gap before the maze doors sealed off the Runner and the Greenie from their Glader family. Newt finally caught his breath and realised what had happened. They were stuck. In the maze. At night!

"What were you thinking!", Newt bellowed at the shocked girl beside him, grabbing ahold of her shoulders and turning her to face him. She was only just registering, herself, what she had done, and only just reacting to her actions. She looked up at Newt, who looked at her with such anger, worry, carefulness and a range of other emotions she couldn't recognise.
"I wasn't going to let you and Ben be trapped in here, not without trying to help you", was her response, so soft that Newt only just heard it. "The thought of you being trapped in here with an unconscious Ben terrified me! Especially after the stories I was told about the Maze at night...", she trailed off as she heard walls moving.

"It's the Maze...", Newt breathed, looking around grimly,"It's changing". Y/N started to panic. Moving walls? What was next?! As if the damned creators heard her fears, a blood-curdling shriek was let out. The poor girl yelped and dove into Newt's arms. He was shocked at first, but soon wrapped his arms around her trying to give her some comfort.
"Hey! It's OK. We are going to do this. And if we don't...we will bloody well try", he said as he stooped down to her eye level, brushing away a stray tear from her beautiful E/C eyes. He pulled a piece of her H/L H/C hair behind her ear and just soothed her down.

Y/N eventually calmed down, realising crying wasn't going to fix this. She wiped away the remaining tears and looked into Newt's deep, brown eyes and asked, "So what's the plan", strongly and confidently.
"OK. The plan is that we first leave here. There is no cover to hide from those shuckin' Grievers here. So let's go find a place to hide, somewhere else", Newt then grabbed her hand and started sprinting off. Every now and then they would hear a few shrieks from the Maze monsters but, fortunately, hadn't run into any.

Unfortunately, they had been running for an hour now and still hadn't found any hiding places, or at least some sort of cover. This worried them both, they couldn't keep running all night. They would soon tire out and if they ran into a Griever...they were definitely shucked.
"Stop!", Y/N yanked Newt to a stop, pulling back to her. This resulted in him being so close together that it caused heat to rise to both of their cheeks. 'Thank the Box it's dark!', Y/N thought gratefully. They both pushed away from each other and stood awkwardly for a few seconds till Y/N remembered what she had seen before Newt around the corner.
"There is something around this corner, I saw it", she whispered to the tall blond as he quickly looked around the corner to what it was.
"That's a shuckin' Griever!", Newt whispered back. "Let's just quietly go back the way we came, OK?. Good, let's go". Newt then grabbed the Greenie's hand and slowly led her back.