Love in the Maze (Newt x Reader)

12. She's alive...

"But you have me, Minho, Zart, every Glader! Why didn't you tell us?", Alby thought he was about to cry himself thinking about all the times Newt wasn't really smiling, wasn't really laughing, but pretending. Pretending for the boys' sake, creating some hope within the inevitable hopelessness.
"Because I didn't want to talk to you. I wanted Y/N". Alby just stared at his broken friend as his heart stopped. Of course Y/N was part of this, of course!
"I wanted to talk to her, hear her sweet voice, see her E/C eyes light up, hug her body within my arms. But I couldn't not since that day... I just wanted to see her again, Alby. I just wanted her... I loved her", Newt broke down as he recalled the events from nearly a year ago. 'A year that Newt suffered from heartache', Alby realised as Newt continued to sob into his calloused hands.

Alby sat there, for another hour, listening to his best mate sob uncontrollably into his hands. Nobody came to visit or interrupt or say that it was dinner time. Alby wasn't leaving Newt's side for anything, not even if the klunk Grievers attacked them. Newt had finished crying and now sat red-eyed in bed, Alby watching over him. "Jeff said that my ankle won't ever heal properly. Meaning I will always be limping, reminding me of my failure...", Newt finally spoke up after a long time of silence. Alby nodded, replying, "When the Med-jacks clear you, you start working in the Gardens with Zart. I'm sorry but with a limp you can't remain a Runner". Newt only shrugged and nodded, staring at the wall in front of him. Alby sighed and decided to leave, getting up and heading for the door. But before he left, Newt spoke one last time, "Don't tell them, don't tell them how weak I am...please?". Alby looked at his friend, seeing the pleading look in his eyes was enough. He nodded and closed the door before tears rolled down his dark cheeks.

~Time Skip~
~Elsewhere~

"Hey Harriet! Come here!"
The girl in question came over to her friend and asked, "What is it?".
"Look here", Sonya pointed to the wall in front of her and traced a huge circle in the wall. "It look likes some sort of door to me". The two girls were just in the midst of their maze run when Sonya stumbled upon the little alleyway she didn't remember was there. Harriet just stared at the huge circle in the wall, it did look like it opened up to something...but what? "Look!", Harriet pointed down to the floor where she had spotted something. Although it was covered with a year's worth of grime and moss, there was no denying that that was blood stained into the floor of the Maze. "It's blood!", Sonya exclaimed, "From the looks of it, it isn't from anything recent, but not from when we first started. Could it... Could it be from that girl?".

Harriet was also contemplating that thought. They found the girl outside the Maze doors bleeding, it could be possible. The girl was strange, she woke up and just started rambling about some random people (Boys or girls, she didn't know) and started saying it wasn't her maze. 'What did she mean by that', Harriet had thought when they placed her back onto the medical bed. And that's where the girl had been for the past year, in a coma on that bed. "It's possible, Sonya...", the girl with dreadlocks replied. "Maybe we can get it open", Sonya suggested, getting up and trying to find something to open the latch with.

"Maybe we should ju-", Harriet started telling her Second-in-Command when suddenly Sonya stood on a stone in the ground and a loud screeching sound emitted from the door. The circle popped forward from it's position in the wall and slid slowly to the left, revealing a long tunnel that was so long, it faded into darkness, not showing the end. The two girls stood in bewilderment as the circle door clicked into it's place on the wall. "Well...?", Sonya was waiting for a response when Harriet stepped forward.
"It's only lunch time, we can make it back before nightfall", Harriet said as she started to climbed into the whole. "We need to see where this leads, possibly to where that girl came from", after a year with no explanation of the mystery girl's arrival, something was finally happening, they couldn't waste the opportunity. So Harriet crawled into the tunnel, with Sonya hot on her heels, heading for whatever lay ahead of them.