𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐌𝐄, newt vs. teresa

pre-tmr → four

pre-the maze runner
chapter four

❛❛ i'm still half asleep and it feels like this is all just a bad dream ❜❜

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An hour before the door reopens for the day, Poe was awoken by Nick with a shake on a shoulder. Poe barely opened his eyes, the blurry figure of a boy standing over him, different shades of blue in the sky mixed with orange and reds hinting it was early dawn. Poe couldn't fall to sleep until late, to sleep on a hammock was mildly uncomfortable, to adjust his brand new life yesterday and meeting strange people.

"Get up, sleeping beauty" Nick whispered, "and follow me"

Poe rubbed his eyes, sat up groggily, his bare foot touched the ground, his back ached from sleeping on the hammock all night and he was rather slow while putting on his shoes. His hammock was connected to Anton's where they shared a tree, the little boy was still sleeping heavily, snoring, his leg and arm dangling down. Poe only wanted to go back to sleep. Nick did mentioned Poe has an early start and he wanted to show him something. Poe was curious to see what it is.

Nick was squatting by the pond, washing his hands and splashing his face. Poe came closer and he let out a loud sigh, "It better be a good reason why you woke me up, otherwise I'm heading back to sleep"

Nick stood up straight as he chuckled, "Trust me, I think you're going to love it" the leader began walking toward the Homestead, "Come on"

Poe followed the leader toward the Homestead, but when they got there, Nick passed it and was heading toward the giant wall. Poe had seen the two Runners, Ben and Minho at the picnic tables, having breakfast, seems that those two, Nick and Poe are the only Gladers up at this hour. Everyone else were still sleeping, Poe's body seemed to be half-asleep as he was almost stumbling while walking, his body needs more rest. Besides Poe, Nick and the Runners being awake, there were birds chirping somewhere in the trees, a cow mooing faintly from the Bloodhouse and a dog barking.

Nick stopped at the wall, he pulled the ivies to the sides and revealed to an old small rusted window. Nick held the ivies against the wall and kept them aside from the window. He gestured at the window for Poe to take a look. "This is how we knew what's on the other side"

Poe looked at Nick suspiciously for a moment. He then stepped close to the window, leaned his face forward until he was inches from the window. It took a moment for his eyes to focus what's in the other side. It was almost dark but the early dawn's light dimmed the Maze.

Something was moving in there, Poe thought it was some sort of ugly giant beetle on the other side of a glass until his eyes cleared and focused. Something big was definitely moving in there. It was large, bulbous, and wet, multiple large, metallic tentacles connecting to it's body, walking like a spider.