The Flame Within MAZE RUNNER FANFIC

Chapter 15

Just letting everyone know, never follow my plans cause they suck.

Even though my plan was to escape, I honestly think I'd be better off sleeping in a room with air conditioning, instead of an old bed with a potato sack for a blanket.

Delilah and I will have to find a better place other that this old barn.

"Ok, what's so important Minho." Delilah asked from her place next to the car.

"Did you forget about Charlie, who's kinda missing in action right now." Minho sassed, not even noticing how close her and Thomas had just been standing.

Delilah was shocked with herself, she actually had forgotten about Charlie for a moment, only focusing on Thomas.

"Yeah, yeah, we're coming." Thomas yelled back, breaking her out of her little trance. They walked towards the house, Minho, looking satisfied, also turned around. As soon as he did, Thomas looked at Delilah for a split second, took her hand in his, and squeezed, as if to say that everything would be ok. He would have left it there if they didn't walk into the house, where the whole group of boys would be watching.

Once the pair got inside, they found everyone else sitting on a group of chairs and couches in a room to the right of the front door. There were only two seats left, so Delilah ended up on a couch between Newt and Thomas.

"Please tell me Charlie's ok." Delilah begged Newt as soon as she had sat down. She had calmed down since almost pouring her whole heart to Thomas, but she was about to start crying again at just the thought of never seeing her best, and for a while only, friend again.

"I-I don't know." Newt stuttered.

"What do you mean you don't know?!" Delilah screamed. "I need you to know. I need.." She broke off noticing that both her and Newt were already crying. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to take that out on you. I just hoped that you knew something."

She studied his face, it was full of genuine pain. "I wonder what they talked about that he cares this much about her, I mean to him it's like they just met." She thought about this, maybe he had gotten to know her a little. Or maybe she had dropped hints about what they had been.

"I do." Newt whimpered quietly through his tears.

"Wait, what?" Delilah suddenly broke out of her thoughts.

"I do know something. I think we can still get her back." Newt said, louder this time.

Minho stood up from his seat, suddenly everyone stopped whispering, and they all went quiet. "So I know most of you have heard of Charlie being missing. And we don't actually know her too well. But, she's a friend and we're going to help her."

Delilah smiled, listening in more on their plan. She wanted to know what Newt had on his mind, but Minho seemed like he didn't have any clue on what to do, nor did he know where Charlie was.

By this time, Newt had calmed down a little. He was able to slowly tell what happened, started from when he and Charlie ran off to find the gunman in the Dollar General.

"Basically, when I woke up, I was in a hospital in what I think was WICKED. Then this guy came in and he introduced himself, but I can't remember his name. He looked older than us, and he looked like he worked there, at WICKED." He paused, trying to picture the scene in his mind. "He didn't say much, but he claimed to be Charlie's boyfriend."

At this, Delilah's eyes went wide, "Charlie hasn't had a boyfriend since-" She stopped herself before she said anymore, "What did he looked like." But in her mind, she already knew who it was, though she prayed she was wrong.

Newt thought for a minute, "He had both sides of his hair shaved off and it was spiked. He was wearing a bandana around his neck. I can't remember much else. Sorry" He looked ashamed, as if he were a failure because he couldn't remember.

Delilah thought about his description and her fears were pretty much confirmed. "Was his name Cash?"

Newt thought a second, then nodded. "Yeah, I think that was it."

Delilah widened her eyes, shocked to hear the news. "We need to find her, now."