It Wasn't Over

Chapter 1

Minho walked over to Newt's door. It was well into breakfast and he had yet to come to the cafeteria. Which worrying the Gladers, who sent Minho to check on him.

Minho knocked on the door. "Newt? Wake up, it's breakfast time." Getting no response, he knocked harder. "Come on Newt. Get out here before I go in there and kick you out myself." He growled when he still didn't hear so much a movement. "Fine." He huffed, opening the door. "You asked for it."

He stomped over to the bed, pulling the sheets off. His anger turned to shock when he saw there was no one in the bed. "Newt?" He asked, looking around.

He saw a piece of paper on the nightstand. He picked it up and began to read it once, then twice, refusing to believe what was written. "No. No, no no."

He turned toward the door and took off down the hallways to Arthur's office. He slammed the door open startling Arthur, Thomas, and his father.

"Minho? What's wrong?" Shiwoo asked.

Minho ignored him and handed Arthur the paper. "A-Arthur." He said close to tears. "It's Newt."

Arthur's eyes widened and he collapsed in the chair when he finished the note. "No." He whispered. "No. Not again." Thomas ran over and took the letter as Shiwoo attempted to calm Minho.

"Hello Mr. Lanchester." Thomas began out loud. "As you have more than likely noticed, your precious nephew, Samuel, is missing. Don't worry, he's fine, he is with us now. We gave him a little medicine to knock him out for a bit. We wouldn't want our test subject to get hurt. That would alter the result. Now wouldn't it?" Thomas took in a deep, shaky breath. "You should have never rebelled against the government, we really liked the way things were. Oh, and don't even try to find us. You never will. Don't worry about poor Sammy either, we will return him to you once the tests have been completed. Goodbye for now."

Thomas looked up, his eyes alight with anger. "Minho, take this letter to the agents downstairs. See if they can find fingerprints." Minho nodded and took off down the halls again.

Arthur shot up out of the chair. "The Guard!" They all looked at him confused. "I said to double the guard."

"Which I did." Shiwoo said.

"Then how did they get in undetected?"

Shiwoo's face hardened. "I'll find out right now sir." He quickly left.

Arthur turned to Thomas. "I'm going with you."

Thomas looked hesitant. "Are you sure? You look pale, maybe we should have a Med Jack check you."

Arthur shook his head. "I'm fine. I have to see for myself that he's gone." Thomas nodded. "And Thomas, here they are called Doctors."

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The walk to Newt's room was silent. An air of dread followed them through the hallways, silencing anyone they passed.

After what felt like the longest walk of their life, they finally made it to the dreaded room. The door was still wide open from when Minho left hurriedly.

"Are you ready?" Thomas asked.

"No." Arthur sighed as he walked into the room, Thomas following behind.

The bed sheets were on the floor from what they knew was Minho waking Newt. It wasn't the first time this had happened as Newt had a tendency to overwork himself then randomly crash whenever and wherever he pleased and someone would have to wake him. Gally and Minho were the meanest, because when Newt finally crashed he was exteamily hard to wake and they had very little patience. Other than the sheets, everything looked like Newt's normal pristine bedroom.