Wonderwall (The Maze Runner, Newt)

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For the next few days, as creepy as it sounded, Bree watched Newt.

It wasn't in a stalkerish kind of way, it's just how he did things, like he says the word 'bloody' almost five hundred times a day.

She didn't think anyone knew why he did, and she didn't understand why he was the only one in the glade with an accent.

Maybe other people did. She didn't talk to other people much beside her friends, but from what she heard, he was the only one with an accent.

Today was a big day for Bree.

She was supposed to do everything by herself.

Minho was just going to run behind her and evaluate how well she did.

If she did well enough, she'd get her own section of the maze to cover, which is pretty good timing since one of the runners went missing.

Not that that was good, it just gave her an opportunity.

As the small group was waiting for the doors to open, Newt walked over and they did their little morning routine.

"Be careful?" He asked her.

Bree then nodded. "Always."

The doors opened and she ran off into the maze with Minho close behind.

~

She ran the route she remembered, which is the same route she had been doing since she started.

Along the way, Bree occasionally took out her knife and cut some vines along the wall.

She kept running, only slowing down when she needed to.

It was mostly silent, except for the sound of their heavy breathing and loud footsteps on the hard stone ground.

Bree realized that most of the gladers probably couldn't do this.

She came here, and she was in shape.

Maybe the creators wanted her to be a runner before she came here.

Maybe that's what she was supposed to be.

Bree kept on running and by the time she ran to the end of the route, it was time for lunch.

She plopped on the ground and then decided she wouldn't plop down again.

That really hurt..

She took out her lunch and began eating with Minho.

"I would've made you wait longer to take a section on your own, but we're down a runner and you're actually pretty good." Minho said.

"Thanks." Bree replied.

~

Bree took her time coming back to the glade.

It's not that she didn't want to go back, sometimes she just liked to clear her head, and running was a good way to do that.

She took out her notepad and scribbled down some notes about the changing of the walls, then put it back in her bag.

She kept running and then, something on the wall caught her eye.

She stopped immediately and Minho ran past her a few steps.

"What is it, shank?" He asked.

Bree walked over to a big plaque on the wall and moved some of the vines away.

It read: World In Catastrophe: Killzone Experiment Department

She turned to Minho.

"What's this?" She asked him.