Running

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After getting Newt to his feet Thomas moved back to the front beside Gally, leaving Minho and I to help Newt walk. 

Apparently Lawrence, the half-crank guy. He was planing on taking over WICKED. But instead, him and his army just broke through one section of the giant wall with a large explosion. Then now, there is a full our war going on in the streets. WICKED guards are running around everywhere shooting at the outsiders, both human and crank or on there way to being one. Even the civilians are getting caught in the crossfire.

"Come on this way, hurry" Gally yelled while waving his arm over his head for us to follow.

Minho and I both hoisted Newt a little higher between our arms because he was starting to fall behind a bit. 

"Newt. How you doing?" I questioned. I got a garbled hacking cough in return. He was getting way worse. I don't know how much time he has left. I looked to Minho with a worried look that he returned. "Its okay shank, we'll get you that serum" Minho reassured with a sad smile. Newt gave a weak nod.
As we ran through the horrid streets full of fighting and fire I could feel Newt slowly losing his strength. He was still moving both his legs, but slowly. Minho and I kept having to readjust him so we can keep moving at a decent pace.

"In here" Thomas yelled and we ran into a broken abandoned building. To rest for a moment. 

We walked in and the building had little to no windows left in the front, the inside was littered with large stones and some of the ceiling tiles. Looks like it used to be some kind of office before the wall broke. There are overturned desks everywhere. 

Minho and I carefully set Newt down of the floor with his back against the wall. Newt had a glazed look in his eyes. His eyes aren't a beautiful deep brown anymore, they are black, his pupils still there but no color around them. The whites of his eyes are bloodshot and red. All around his eyes in fact looks very red.
His hair is very dirty now, coated in ash, sweat and whatever else has been flying around the air. His hair is also still a little damp from jumping twenty stories into a man made pond.
Black veins traced all around Newts face, coming up from his neck, to around his ears and to his chin, which is now covered in the black liquid that is filling his lungs. Every so often Newt has to cough and hack just to try and get some of it out, it sounds painful to hear him cough. I can almost feel how he is ripping apart his throat.

Newt is still in a daze mumbling random things. They aren't going to make it. She could never love me. Help. This is crazy. I'm going to kill them. I don't want to kill them. It was an accident.

His breathing was becoming more rapid and shallow. I gently lent forward and shook his shoulders "Newt" I shook more "Newt Hey Come on. Stay With Me." nothing. "NEWT!" I yelled right in his face. 

He jerked his head to face me, his eyes alert. His breathing steadied. He flashed a faint weak smile. My heart breaks for him.

"Brenda!?" I hear Thomas say and I turn my head to see him talking on the walkie talkie that Gally had. Minho and Gally walk over to me and Newt and sit down beside us, they are all around Newt seeing how he is, even though we already know. Not good. I decided while Minho and Gally were with Newt I could move closer to Tommy and see what he is talking about with Brenda.

"You guys have to leave, get out of here. I don't think we're gonna make it" Thomas said. I couldn't hear Brenda on the other side, only bits and pieces of what Tommy is saying.

"No! You have to go"

"I know and I'm sorry. I don't want to leave either"

"Even though you should."

"Wait, what!?"

Then he lowered the walkie talkie from his face. I made a quick dash back to the other boys. Thomas turned around to us. "Okay, we have to keep moving. Towards where Jorge is"

Then almost as if on cue a large Burg flew overhead. We could see it through a large hold in the roof of the building. "Well, there's our ride, lets get moving" Gally said patting Newt on the shoulder then rising to his feet to stand beside Thomas.

Then from the street right outside there was an explosion. It broke all the remaining windows causing Tommy and Gally to fall to there knees. "Shuck" I heard Minho say under his breath as he covered his head in his hands. I felt a hand grab mine. Newt. He was trying to pull me closer to him, even when he has little strength and is dying he is still trying to protect me. I move closer to him, burying my face in the crook of his neck, I used the sides of my unzipped sweater that I'm wearing to try and cover both me and Newt. 

More rocks and rubble are thrown around the outside street and the inside of this building.

"We Need To Move, NOW!" I heard Gally yell them felt more tugging at my arm. I lowered the sweater to see Minho there. He is urging me to help him with Newt. I comply and we quickly but carefully get Newt to his feet We have to go to the back of the building and run out the back doors. Because if we go out the doors we came in we would be on the front street. Where gunshots and explosions of erupting.

Gally and Tommy stayed very close to Minho, Newt and I as we quickly moved to the back of the building. 

I hears yelling and snarling from behind us. I turned my head to see behind me, it was hard to see through the dust, smoke and ash but I could see figures moving, running. They were coming into the office through both the doors and broken windows. 

They were cranks.



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