For seventeen year old Newt, the number ten is everything. Ten steps. Ten times you must snap your fingers. Ten nods of your head. Ten. When he's put in a mental institution for his extreme OCD, depression and anxiety, he meets some unlikely friends. And possibly the boy he's been looking for his whole life. But can he trust him? (also on AO3 under ava_kay) WARNING: content may be TRIGGERING for some (deals with various mental illnesses) most characters from The Maze Runner by James Dashner, I do not own them. p.s.- if newt says anything that seems ignorant towards mental illnesses, please know I'm trying to portray a teenager who doesn't understand yet, and that he eventually will understand!

❝But now I know that wherever we are, or whatever we're doing, we'll always have each other.❞ You woke up in the Maze two years ago with no memories, except your name. With your close friends, Newt, Minho and Gally, you continued to search for a way out. But one day another boy arrives in the Box, could he be the answer you were all looking for? On top of it all, there is one boy who you are feeling something stronger than friendship, but with everything happening, can anything become of it? All you could do was hope as everything was about to change. . . [newt x reader] [the maze runner] [completed]