radioactive ➸ thomas || the maze runner [1]

02| another girl

the gladers were having a discssion about a boys fate, his name was thomas. he broke the first rule, never go into the maze. during the meeting, a loud alarm echoed throughout the so called glade. a look of confussion eched upon most gladers faces as they started to run towards a space, where the box would come up. each month, a box would come up, bringing supplies with it and also a new glader. 

just the day before, a new glader arrived, leaving the gladers in confusion, why another box would be coming up. slowly but surely, many gladers - who are only boys - arrived at the box. the top lid opened up and revealed the metal grid of the box. two boys ran fowards to open the metal lid, as another one jumped into the box. 

the boys above asked the boy who jumped down questions like, "newt, what do you see?". the boy in the box - presumably called newt, looked up at them with a look of suprise upon his face and said: "it's a girl." his answer shocked the boys, as they have never had a girl in the glade. slowly, they moved towards the edge of the box, trying the get a look at the girl. 

her hair was a beautiful black colour, glistening in the sunlight. she layed on the floor, in the middle of the box, like a fragile doll, seemingly lifeless. a murmer of questions arose as many asked "is she dead?" while looking at the girl. "what's in her hand?" asked a boy with weirdly shaped eyebrows and very short brownish hair. slowly, newt lowered himself down into an almost kneeling postion and carefully took the piece of paper out of the girls hand. 

newt unfolded the paper and loudly read out "She's the last one ever" and looked at his fellow gladers. he scrunched up his eyebrows and asked, "what the hell does that mean?" voicing what many boys questioned. suddenly, the girl shot up and opened her icy blue eyes, gasping out "thomas" and taking a few heavy breaths before she slipped into unconsciousness again. 

the gladers looked at a boy with black hair and brown eyes named thomas with questioning looks, asking if he knows anything, meanwhile others shot him distrusting glances. one of them was the boy with weirdly shaped eyebrows as he asked, "do you still think i am overreacting?" while clearly looking at thomas. 

the boys brought the unknown girl to a hut, which they called the med-jack hut. in one of the beds layed a dark skinned boy who was shacking in pain, breathing hard as he layed there. one of the med-jacks, named jeff, took care of the girl. he didn't know much about the situation of the girl either, leaving him clueless and unable to answer newts question. with newt and jeff was also thomas and an asian looking boy called minho, who had a backpack on his back.

he glanced at the unconscious girl quietly, as if he was asking for an explanation or any information at all. meanwhile newt turned to thomas, who stood in the middle of both of them asking, "do you recognise her?" making thomas shake his head saying a short "no". 

his answer didn't seem to satisfy newt as he said, "really, but she seemed to recognise you." it was clear that the boys were confused by the unknown girl, making it extra hard for them as she wasn't even conscious. they were worried about her and didn't know what to do or how to react. newt and thomas talked about the situation back and forth, landing on the topic the box, making jeff chime into their conversation "he's right newt, if the box isn't coming back up, how long do you think we can last?"

newt became unsure of his previous statement after he heard jeff's question, a clear look of worry flashed across his face as he answered unsurely "no one said that, let's not jump into conclusions, we are just - we just wait until she wakes up and see what she knows." continuing "somebodys gotta have some answers here"
thomas turned around giving a short "okay" from him as he went for the door. the other boys turned around to look at him as newt asked "where are you going?" with a confused undertone. with one swift motion thomas turned around saying, "back into the maze" before jogging out of the door. newt glanced at minho, giving him a small nod, telling minho to follow thomas. 

outside the hut, thomas told minho about his plan of going back into the maze, thinking that he could take a look at the griever - a mechanical robot which looked like a bug kind of creature - to find out more. he send a questioning glance towards minho asking, "are the other runners out yet?" making minho sigh, he informed thomas about how the other runners quit because of the fact that the darked skinned boy who layed upon the table, who's name is alby, got stung by one of the grievers. before minho left thomas he said quietly "meet me in the woods in half an hour" and with that, he jogged away leaving thomas alone with his thoughts. 

thomas walked around the glade, seeing a few other gladers as he passed them. somehow, he found himeself near the box which was still open. his curiosity got the best of him as he slowly peeked into the box. in the box was only a blanket left, which was hidden in the darkest corner, almost invisble. carefully, he lowered himself into the box and walked towards the blanket until he was right in front of it. he bend over to grasp the soft material with his finger tips and pulled it up in one swift motion. 

what was underneath the blanket shocked him, a girl layed there, curled up in a ball. she looked peacefull and calm, her breath was steady, meaning she was alive. thomas looked at her for a moment, seeing her long brown hair sprawled across her body and her dark skin shining in the light. without realising it, he moved closer to her, staring at her light brownish plumed lips and her closed eyes. 

thomas' eyes were still widened at shock of the sight of another girl, making him look like quite a creep staring at her like that. it took him a while to realise what he just found, making him panic a bit. he didn't really now what to do, the only thing that came to his mind was the bring her to the med-jack's hut so they could take care of her there. slowly he snaked his arms under her waist and lifted her up in a way how a husband would hold his wife, but thomas didn't know that of course.

he lifted her out of the box, even though it was very tiring for him, then he lifted himself out of the box. yet again, he took her into his arms and moved to the med-jacks hut, where they would take care of her.