Helping each other

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AUTHOR'S POV

One hour later, Winston came in the fields.

Him: Newt?

Newt lifted his head in direction of Winston.

Newt: What is it?

Him: Alby is asking you in the council cabin. It's for a meeting.

Thomas looked at Newt and he looked at him back to make him understand that he can continue to work.

Newt: That won't be long Tommy.

And then he went in direction of the council cabin. Thomas looked at him going away with an idiot smile on his face. He called him Tommy and he liked that nickname.

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Before entering the cabin, Newt realised that he called him Tommy.

"Bloody hell?? What did I done? I can't let that happen again! I'm a bloody idiot!" He thought.

He entered in the cabin and each chief of jobs were there.

Alby: Alright! Everyone is here we can start! S0, as you know, Ben has violated one of our fondamentale rules and is infected. We can't keep him here because he can be a danger for all of us. We need to banish him. Like we did with the others who went through the same thing.

He paused.

Him: We will do the procedure in one hour. Be sure to be ready, to warn your men and to bring perches. Everyone needs to participate except Thomas and Chuck because Chuck is too young and Thomas is the new one so we will not stress him more. Understood?

Everyone nodded.

Him: Alright! Minho and Newt stay, the others you can go.

Everyone left and Alby waited for the last person to gets out and close the door.

Him: Minho, tomorrow I will go with you in the maze. Ben was a runner and you need someone to help you.

Newt: No, I can go with you Min. Alby you are needed here.

Alby: Newt, I'm sorry to tell you this but with your leg in bad shape, you will be slower than before.

Newt: But Alby, I know the maze better than anyone in the glade. I was the chief of the runners just like Minho before the accident.

Minho: I'm sorry to be against you on this Newt but Alby will come with me. I know that he doesn't know the maze as you know it but he will come with me helping me in one section so we will be together. I don't want you to come because the section we are going to explore tomorrow is complex and it takes a lot of time. We will stay until minutes before the closing.

Alby puts his hand on Newt's shoulder.

Him: And it's not for nothing that I chose you as my second. Gladers see you as a reference. You will be their guide and their protector for the day. You will be their chief. Just for one day after that, everything is going to be normal again.

Newt nodded.

Him: Alright. But be careful okay? Both of you. I don't want you to get stuck in that bloody maze and risk to die. Understood?

Minho: We will not risk to not see your blondie head again

And they laughed

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After the painful process of banished Ben and sent him by force in the maze, Thomas saw how destroyed Newt was. And a part of him became destroyed to this view.

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