Watch Your Back

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Thomas's POV.

He looked up and saw a treefort. What on earth is a treefort doing up there? Nobody ever goes into the forests and surely wouldn't have enough time to build it he thought.

He started to climb up the tree, he made it to the top and looked inside, nobody was there.

He could tell someone was living in the fort even if nobody was in it at the moment.

He looked around a bit until he got tired of being in the fort. He carefully climbed down and started back towards the Gladers.

He jogged back to the others and they all frantically attacked him. Newt especially was happy to see him, they hugged for what seemed about 2 minutes.

"Newt, where the hell did you go!" Thomas grumbled, even though he was happy Newt was okay, he was angry he had dissapeared without letting people know.

"Last night a Griever almost got me, so I had to hide." Newt sighed and looked at Thomas.

Thomas's eyes went wide and hugged the blonde boy again. "You should've been with one of us Newt, you can't keep doing that." He mumbled.

Newt sighed and nodded, hugging him back to make him feel better.

Once they let go of eachother they all met with everyone and decided to take a break and just talk.

But something made Newt squirm, he knew he couldn't talk about the girl, he didn't even know her name yet, plus he promised her not to talk about her.

While Newt was in his thoughts Thomas had been asking him a question.

"Hello? Earth to Newt!" Thomas chuckled and looked at the blonde boy.

Newt quickly snapped out of his thoughts and looked at Thomas who seemed to be studying his movements.

"Wha-?" Newt studdered.

"I asked if you wanted to take a walk?" Thomas replied, this time a bit more serious, he knew Newt, and he knew when he was hiding something.

Newt swallowed and nodded, they both stood up and began walking towards the forest.

"What's wrong Newt." Thomas questioned, he knew how Newt acted and this just wasn't like him.

Newt played with his fingers as if that was the only way he wouldn't talk about the girl.

"Nothing." He grumbled, obviously annoyed that he couldn't talk.

Newt kept glancing around until another set of eyes locked with his.

The girl. She was right there. Just watching. She leaned against the tree, watching their movements.

That's when Thomas noticed how distracted Newt was, he followed Newts gaze and saw the girl too.

Thomas's expression on his face became unable to read.

The girl looked at Thomas and began to back up into the forest, her eyes watching Thomas's. Newt glanced at Thomas who was focused on the girl.

"Thomas..." Newt began but Thomas cut him off by sprinting towards the girl.

Newt frantically ran after him, the girl quickly ran, she ran somewhere in the forest and hid, praying Thomas wouldn't find her.

Thomas looked around, then felt a pair of hands grab his arm. "Thom-" Newt began but only to be cut off again. "Did you know she was here!?" Thomas shouted which caused Newt to flinch.

Thomas realized he was scaring Newt and tried to calm down. "Sorry.." He grumbled. Newt ran his hands through his hair, not making eye contact with him.

"You knew she was here." Thomas stated, looking at Newt.

"I can't answer that question." Newt shot back, he wasn't gonna be scared into talking.

Thomas was a bit taken back by the force used in Newts voice. Newt looked at him and then back into the woods. He saw the girl, and she saw them.

This was the danger zone.

Maddie's POV.

Holy shit! She thought in her head. Thomas starting sprinting after her so she began to run herself, she hid behind a big rock but knew it wasn't the best place to hide.

She began to hear what seemed like arguing.

She peaked over and saw Thomas and Newt, they both were yelling at eachother.

She couldn't stand to be the reason they were fighting, so she decided that she'd come out.

She slowly stood up and walked into their views. They both turned and looked at her, Newt was shocked she came out, but Thomas was full of anger.

She looked at Thomas, somewhat scared of what he might do.

"Please don't be mad." She spoke gently towards Thomas.

His face expression was full of anger and sadness.

"You left me, without even telling me!" He shouted, which caused her to look down.

"Whoa whoa whoa- hold up." Newt broke inbetween. "You guys know eachother?" He questioned, looking at the both of them.

Thomas looked at her then at Newt.

"She used to live in the same area I did." He looked at her again.

"We were very close, and then one day she just dissapeared, and then three years later here we are." He growled.

Her face expression went hard. "You think I did this out of spite!" She yelled.

"I did this to protect you! From this fricken place! All you ever did was talk about coming here, I didn't want you to get hurt Thomas!" She shouted.

"I left without telling you because you deserved a better life, without me, and without being here, in this maze." She sighed.

Thomas's face turned to a sadden look. "I looked forever to find you, and people told me.. that you were dead.." He started to get emotional, she looked at Newt who was in complete shock.

"I did it to protect you Thomas." She sighed, not knowing of what to do.

Newt looked at her, he felt sorry for her, he didn't know why she had been hiding for all those years ti'll now. This was why.

"What's your name?" Newt asked her, he wanted to at least know that.

"Madison." She said simply. "But you can call me Maddie." She shrugged and looked at both of the boys.

"Well since we both know you're here, can the others?" Newt questioned.

Maddie looked at Newt and sighed. "I guess so..." She grumbled, but Thomas was still full of anger.

They slowly began to walk out of the forest, Maddie was on one side of Newt and Thomas was on the other side.

Once they arrived back, everyone's eyes landed on Maddie. They all looked at eachother then back at her.

"Guys, this is Maddie." Newt said, his british accent coming into place.

Maddie looked very uncomfrontable and didn't know what to say so she just looked away but caught Thomas looking at her.

She began to walk to get a water bottle, but Thomas followed behind, he grabbed a spear stick and was about to hit her when she turned around.

"If you even think about it, you'll lose." She growled, her eyes dark and cold, matching Thomas's look on his face.

She grabbed a water bottle but Thomas hit it out of her hands, pushing her down on the ground. She quickly stood back up and punched him in the face.

The others soon realized they were fighting and rushed as fast as they could to break up the fight.

Newt quickly grabbed Maddie and held her in his arms, trying to calm her down, while Gally, Alby, Chuck and Minho tried to calm Thomas down.

This wasn't good and this wasn't the end of what was coming next.

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