Wonderwall (The Maze Runner, Newt)

3

The next morning Bree was awoken with someone shaking her.

"Get up, Greenie!"

Her eyes shot open and she jumped up.

"What? What!" She asked.

Newt stood before her.

"After breakfast, we're putting you to work. Let's go."

After a good breakfast from the cook named Frypan, Bree followed Newt over to a couple of small buildings, two of which, weren't finished.

An all too familiar teen walked over. His eyebrow game was too strong.

"You'll be with Gally, today." Newt said.

"You can call me Captain Gally, shankhead." He said.

Just as Newt was about to walk away he muttered, "Sorry."

"Hey I heard that!" Gally shouted at Newt who was already far away.

As Bree was watching Newt walk away, she noticed he had a slight limp.

She wondered what had happened.

Gally turned to Bree.

"First off, no questions. I know how Greenie's are with questions. Next, you do what I tell you when I tell you to do it. We are the builders. We build stuff. I'm the keeper. Finally, if you forgot-you have the privilege of calling me Captain Gally. Got it?"

Bree sighed. "Sure."

Gally lifted an eyebrow.

"Captain Gally." She added, half muttering.

"Good! So let's gets started.."

After learning a lot of things consisting of how sharp a nail is to how to build a giant building, and about hitting her fingers with a hammer a million times, it was time to break for lunch.

Bree followed Gally and the other builders to get lunch.

Bree had noticed that everyone was there except the runners, who stayed out all day.

"Gally not to hard on ya?" Someone asked as they sat down beside her.

Bree looked up.

It was Newt.

"If you think being forced to successfully put nails into a board without hitting your fingers and calling him Captain isn't bad then no, he's not being to hard." She said half-heartily.

The corners of Newt's mouth curled up into a slight smile. Then disappeared as soon as it came.

"You only get him for one day. The others will be better. Then when you get a chance to try all the jobs-"

Bree cut him off. "Then the council decides what job I should get, I know. I know." She sighed.

"You don't seem too happy about it." Newt said.

Bree shrugged. "I don't even get a say in it. What if I don't want that particular job?"

"You get the job you're best at, doesn't matter if you like it. It's the system." Newt replied.

After a few moments of silence Bree decided to ask, "What's your job? Do you even have one? It seems you're just kind of everywhere at once.."

"I'm second in command. That's my job. I look after everyone." Newt replied shortly, without looking at her, as if thinking of something.

Bree had noticed his sudden change in mood and decided not to push it.

"Hey guys!"

Bree looked up at Chuck came over with his lunch and plopped down across from her.

"Thought you guys could use some company!" He said.

"Well, I'll just leave you two to it. I need to do things anyway." Newt got up and left without another word, not even finishing his lunch.

Chuck started laughing.

"What?" Bree asked, confused.

"Is there something on my face?"

Chuck kept laughing.

"Chuck!" Bree said.

"What is it?"

"He totally has a thing for you!" Chuck said, giggling like a school girl.

Bree almost laughed.

"Yeah right." She said.

"Someone like that couldn't like someone like me." She thought.

All too soon, Gally grabbed her shirt and dragged her back to where they worked the whole morning.

"Congratulations, Greenie, you're getting promoted! You get to help George, here, put up a wall! Have fun." Gally left Bree with George and started yelling at some other builder.

George smiled at her and began showing her how to put up a wall.

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After dinner, the gates started to close.

It was amazing how they could close and re-open every single day, without getting stuck or broken.

Thomas had gotten back and was still in the map room by the time the doors were fully closed.

Bree was walking around the glade and stopped to marvel at the sky.

"Nice, right?" Bree turned around to see Alby.

"Yeah." She said.

"It's like this every night. Sorry I never really gave you a tour. Too late now, guess you already know the place." He said.

"Yep.." Bree said.

After a little while she decided to ask a question.

"Alby." She said.

She didn't get a response.

Bree turned around to see Alby gone.

Oh well.

Chuck came over with Thomas and they talked about their day.

It was pretty good to talk to people who actually want to talk to you, Bree thought.

Soon, she lay on the grass and fall asleep, looking at the stars.

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A/N: Yay another chapter done! Vote and comment! Thanks!