In the End (Newt x reader)

Five

"Brenda! What are you doing? Get back to your post!" Janson seethed. Brenda stepped back from Tommy.

"I'm sorry. I'm just so glad he made it through Phase Three. I forgot myself." Brenda turned back, a look I couldn't decipher on her face, then she quickly walked back to her computer. Janson gave Brenda a shake of his head, but said nothing else, turning back to us.

"After the procedure is finished on everyone, we will have an announcement on who your partner is... or who they were. I'm sure by then you should remember, though." Janson sent us all a smile so wide and sickening it made my stomach churn. He looked at us as if we were all pieces of meat, just waiting for our turn to be used.

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I sat on the top bunk of one of the beds. The guards had taken Minho, Tommy, Newt, and me to a separate bedroom after we had denied the procedure. The guards told us we weren't allowed to see anyone until tomorrow as punishment for our "bad behavior" and rejection of WICKED's good deeds. We were also informed that later, the announcement would be shown on a screen on our wall.

"This is a bunch of klunk." Minho said, kicking at the ground. I shrugged, slightly swinging my legs. Newt was beside me, quiet and holding me close. Tommy was also quiet, sitting on the bed opposite from us.

"You're the one who chose to not get your memory back." Minho turned around and shot me a look.

"Don't look at her like that." I held Newt's hand in mine, drawing designs along his palm. I wanted him to stay calm as Minho stopped his pacing.

"Look at her like what, Newt? As if she has just stabbed us all in the back? As if she is becoming the enemy? Because what of she is?" Newt let out a low growl. I stiffened in surprise beside him.

"Slim it, Minho." Minho scrunched up his nose at me, his eyes briefly flickering to Newt behind me. Minho said nothing and went back to pacing.

"I'm sorry. I don't know what's going on with me." Newt moved to place his head on my shoulder, then buried his face into my neck as he pulled me closer to him. I shook my head.

"It's okay Newt, we'll figure it out." Newt hummed in response.

Behind Minho, the screen flickered on. It made a clicking sound as the numbers counted down, then once the numbers got to "0" the screen faded to show Dr. Ava. Newt sat back up, hands keeping themselves around my waist.

"I thought she was dead. We watched her die." Minho exclaimed. I shook my head, not answering as Dr. Ava smiled.

"I know many of you are confused, especially the ones who just got their memories back, but you will learn more in due time. This facility is where everything all began, where you first began. Many of you have been staying in rooms that have two beds. These rooms are ones you used to share with your partners before the Maze trials. The belongings in there is all of your previous belongings. Sadly, some of you haven't had someone sharing the room with you over the past few weeks. This can only mean that your partner is no longer living. If that was your situation, I apologize. With your memories back, it must be more difficult to comprehend the loss." Minho scoffed.

"Does she really expect us the believe she is sorry?" I shrugged.

"I believe her. She was always trying to be more empathetic to us. Sure she doesn't make the best choices when apart of WICKED, but she's the one who introduced me to Newt, let me stay with him when the Maze trials came."

"No offense, (y/n), but I don't care if she let you stay with Newt. We still got stuck into the Maze, our memories were still wiped." Newt scowled as Minho's tone rose. I ignored both od them as the screen began to show each pairing.

The first was Tommy and Teresa. Their photos faded to show a video of them when they were young, sitting side by side at a computer. Tommy stood, pushing past Minho. The next video was him individually in the Box, but the video panned to show Teresa at a screen, palm against the glass as he rose up. Her face wasn't shown as the next two partners pulled up. It was Newt and I.

The video that was shown was Newt and I on the rooftop. A sick feeling came to my stomach as I recalled the memory. It was after my fight with Samantha. The video quickly changed to one of Newt fighting a boy. The boy punched Newt in the jaw, sending him stumbling back, but Newt quickly recovered when the boy came after him again, yanking him down and putting him in a headlock. The video changed again to my fight with Samantha, just when she had grabbed my foot and yanked me down. I winced at my scream as I watched myself hit the floor, then Samantha grabbed at my hair, pulling me up, then slammed my face down. I watched myself punch Samantha twice, then grab at a bar on the cage. When the bar came undone, Samantha was standing behind me. I shut my eyes, turning away when the bar hit Samantha's head.

It was quiet among us and nausea came to me. I pushed off of the bed, stumbling to the bathroom as the screen switched to Ben and Lea. I shut the door behind me, but someone caught it as I leaned over the toilet, heaving. When hands touched me, I jumped.

"Hey, hey, love, it's just me." I found myself crying as Newt pulled me to him.

"They played that on purpose, they-" Newt nodded, placing a kiss on my forehead, then he put his chin on the top of my head as he held me, rocking me gently.

"I know. They wanted to get to you, but you can't let them. You hear me? You can't let WICKED get to you, or they win. They can't win." I nodded, closing my eyes.

"It was probably Janson." I murmured. "Dr. Ava was fine with us, really good and close with the children until he came along. He thinks he has everything figured out, either let humanity die or do a few terrible things to fix it so he always treated us like klunk. He doesn't understand. Even the few people who are immune will die eventually with the amount of people turning to Cranks."

"Then we should do something about it." I opened my eyes, looking back at the door where Tommy and Minho stood. "WICKED thinks they own us, can play with our emotions with those videos... they chose those specific videos to hurt us because they knew it would possibly hurt enough to get us to cooperate. They're trying to avoid the Flare, but what they don't want to think about is, it's already in the air. Everyone has it. It all just comes down to who is immune and... who isn't." Tommy looked away from us for a moment. "Somehow, in some way, we have to show them that we aren't theirs. We need to show WICKED that we have never belonged to them." 

Original Publish Date: August 4, 2018