The Maze Runner (Newt x Reader Fanfic)

Chapter 4

Newt woke up to the sound of the Maze doors opening. He stood up, alarmed that Kaya had stopped screaming. He ran over to the Med Jacks and opened the door to find Clint and Jeff. "What happened? Is she okay?"

Clint looked at him with sorrow in his eyes. "She didn't make it through the night."

"What?" Newt couldn't believe it. She didn't last for three days. How could he do this to her? This was all his fault.

"I'm kidding, shuck-face, she's in her room. Oh, man, your face. You must really care about her, don't you?"

"I'd die for her."

"You looked like you were about to go try to kill yourself again." Clint said. "She's gotta mean a lot to you."

"She's my everything. She is the reason I'm still here. We were together before the Maze. I love her. So, which room?"

"What, you think we moved her last night? Third room down, same spot." Newt walked over and opened the door. Kaya was sitting, playing the guitar quietly and singing softly. She looked up at Newt and stopped. She ran into his arms and started crying. Newt kissed her lightly on the cheek. They sat down, Newt's arms around Kaya. Her sobs soon turned to silent tears. Newt tried his best to calm her.

"It's okay. I'm here. What happened?"

"It was horrible. I was a child, and these people would hurt me every day, over and over. Newt, my parents abused me as a kid. I never got a childhood. Mine was taken away from me. Then they came. People in green suits came and took me away from them. This one man kept telling me about how I was going to be used for something. Something that the others wouldn't have. My name used to be Angie. But they wanted me to be named after Marie Curie. So they renamed me Kaya. And then I met you. We used to have so much fun together. But one day, they took you. I had to sit there and watch them brainwash you. They put you in the Box, and I knew I might not see you again. It killed me on the inside to know that we wouldn't remember each other. I had to live for three years without you, knowing that you were in the Maze, not remembering who I was or that I even existed. Newt, I saw you try to kill yourself in the Maze. And what I said earlier about Thomas and Teresa, it was all true. They did this to us. And then their plan backfired. Now they're stuck in here with us, no memory of how to get out."

Newt was speechless. Things were swarming around in his head, memories, feelings, flashbacks. He pushed them to the side. "Are you gonna be okay?"

"Yeah. I'll be fine. That hurt, though." She lifted up her shirt to reveal two scars on her stomach where the Grievers stung her.

"I promise, nothing will hurt you again. Now, how about you and me go check and see if Alby, Minho, and Thomas are out there." Kaya knew he was trying to change the subject, but she didn't say anything. She followed Newt outside to the doors of the Maze. A crowd of boys were already there, waiting anxiously for them to return. Gally looked over and saw Kaya.

"Guys, look who decided to join the party. Two Griever stings. Ouch. That had to hurt." Newt glared at him. "Close your mouth, slinthead. While you still have your teeth." Kaya ignored them and made her the way to the front of the group. Suddenly, three figures started to make their way to the doors. The boys started yelling for them to hurry. Kaya ran into the Maze, the boys screaming her name. She got a hold of Alby and helped carry him back to the Glade. Once they were safe, Minho looked at Kaya in disbelief. "You're okay."

"Did you think I wasn't going to make it?"

"No. Most people who get stung go crazy, so I thought that since you got stung twice, that might kill you. But apparently not."

"Minho, what were you thinking, going into the Maze at night?"

"I couldn't leave Alby behind. Especially not in the middle of the Maze at night with the Grievers."