Newt is by far my favorite character in the Maze Runner series and i just had to write about him. Please excuse any accidents, this is my first fanfiction so I know there will be some _
Disclaimer: The Maze Runner series and Newt belong to James Dashner.
This takes place in the beginning when there were only about twenty to twenty five Gladers
It was cold, oh so cold. Rattling noises invaded my ears as conciseness came to me. It was so loud, gears were grinding, metal was screeching, and worst of all, it was completely dark. Everything around me was shaking and I tried to sit up, when my body didn't respond I thought, where am I? Why is it so cold? I tried to think back, tried to think of what happened before this, but nothing came. Panic enveloped me and I tried to yell for help, but my mouth wouldn't obey. Why can't I move? The thing I was in stopped, along with the noise, but sadly only for a few seconds. Screeching metal came from above me, or was it below? I couldn't tell, but soon after voices fallowed. A boy with a British accent said "I-It's a bloody girl." More voices responded saying "A girl?" "You shank, don't joke like that!" "Is she cute?" "I call her!" "No I call her!" "No I do!" A booming voice quieted the crowd "No one is calling her! Now calm down you slintheads!" Slintheads?
Newt
I look down at the girl in the box. Her long blonde hair was sprawled around her body, she looked like an angel. I jumped down and picked her up, she was light, but I realized that she had quite a bit a muscle, maybe even more than me. Alby helps me out of the box and as soon as I get up the boys gasp and stare at the girl. Gally smiles "Yea, she's definitely mine." This causes an argument and soon Alby yells "Slim it!" They quiet down again and look at the girl in, what I presume to be, hunger. I glare at them and Alby says "Let's get her to the Med-Jacks." I nod and walk over with him.
Angel
Someone lays me down on something soft, which I'm guessing is a bed, I hear mumbling voices and someone touches my neck. I try to jerk away, but again my body doesn't respond. A boy says "She has a steady pulse, she'll be ok." Someone sighs and the British accent says, "What should we do when she wakes up?" "I don't know, but it's odd, why did we get a shucking girl?" What? Does he mean that there are only boys here? That I'm the only girl? The thought scared me; I didn't want to be completely helpless around a bunch of boys! Why is it so dark? Why can't I move? Freaking body! Someone talks, "It's getting late and we can't leave her here alone or those slintheads will do something stupid." The boy with the British accent says "I'll stay here with her and someone can guard the doors in case anyone gets any ideas." I hear shuffling and someone says "I'll sit out front, Clint, Jeff, you can go." I hear shuffling and then it's quiet.
Newt
I look at the girl as candle light dances of her skin; she really did look like an angel. Her long hair catches my eye and I grab a strand. I look at it closely, it's so blond, I wonder what color her eyes are. For the next week I sit there, keeping watch as the beautiful angel slept. The Gladers had actually started to call her Angel and several of those bloody shanks have tried to get into the homestead to take a look at her; that causing them to get thrown in the slammer for the night. I don't know how she will react to all the boys, when she wakes they'll swarm to her like bugs to a light.
Girl
My mind had been swirling with thoughts that made no sense for god knows how long. I stopped hearing the boy's voices, and had been lost in thought; but every time I tried to think of my past I drew a complete blank, it was terrifying.
As I was thinking about grass, it's greenness, and somewhat softens, I started to hear shuffling around me. Terror filled my every thought and I tried to move, and surprisingly, my hand moved. Once that got going the rest of my body fallowed and I opened my eyes to darkness. I sat up strait and looked around the dark. It was even more terrifying when I had my eyes open.
More shuffling sounds came from my left and I quickly ducked under the covers. Tears streamed down my face as I thought about what could be out there. Something touched my back and I jumped up. When I only saw darkness I started to cry and whispered "P-please, don't hurt me." Light enveloped the room and I looked around. Eventually my eyes fell on a tall, blonde boy and I jumped back, falling off the bed. More tears stream down my face and they boy jumps over the bed and kneels in front of me, looking at me worriedly "Are you ok love?" I cock my head, love? British? All I could think about was that he was a boy, and that was bad. I scooted away from him, drying my tears and stuttering out "G-get away." He looked hurt "Don't worry, I won't hurt you." He stands up and holds out his hand. I look from his hand, to his face and back "Y-you promise you won't hurt me?" He nods, smiling warmly "I would never hurt you love."
My hand slides weakly into his and he pulls me up off the ground. I fall limply into his arms and struggle to stand myself. He laughs a little "The names Newt." I smile up at him and then frown when I can't remember mine. He laughs again "Don't worry; your name will come soon." I nod and try to walk, but fail and end up getting Newt's help. He walks me down the steps and to the door, which he opens to darkness. I take a wobbly step back and Newt looks at me "Are you scared of the dark?" I shake my head quickly and look out into the darkness. He smiles sweetly "I'll protect you love, don't be scared." Newt walks me out with me clinging to him like a scared child, which was exactly what I was.
As we walk, light starts to brighten the sky above the . . . walls? I look at Newt "Why are we inside walls?" He frowns "I'm sorry, I can't exactly tell you that." I nod, feeling his uneasiness. As the sky brightens more, boys start to get up and I hear a horrible grinding noise. I look around to see the walls opening, like big doors. When the grinding stops I look up at Newt but decide to not ask any questions for the look on his face was a bit stern. The other boys see me and come running over yelling "Angel's awake!" Soon, a crowd of about twenty-five is around me and Newt. The boys stare at me and I hear whispers "She's even prettier awake." "Her eyes sparkle." "I call her" "No I do." Someone touches me, making me jump. I grab onto Newt, burying my face in his muscular chest and squeeze my eyes shut, too many people! They boys groan "Newt, you shank, don't hog all the attention." "Yea don't hog the angel." My body shakes as the voices get louder and more people touch me. Newt wraps his arms around me protectively "Get your bloody hands off her you shanks! Can't you see you're scaring the klunk outta her!?" The boys quiet and pull their hands away. Stars invade my vision and I lose conciseness.
Newt
Angel starts to fall to the ground, but I catch her and pull her close. When I see she's un-concise I look around "Now look what you did." The Gladers look at her worriedly. She soon wakes up and Minho comes forward with some water "Are you ok Angel?" She looks at me and back at Minho, then at me again. When I nod she gladly takes the water and says "Angel?" I nod, Minho smiles "Yeah, because you look like an angel." Her ears turn scarlet along with her cheeks. She shakes her head "N-No, I don't." Her stomach growls and she looks down at it blushing even more. I laugh a little, knowing I'm the only one beside her that heard it "Let's go get some breakfast love." She nods and grabs my hand, letting me lead her out of the crowd and to the kitchen.
Angel
I quickly eat up the wonderful tasting food. Newt laughs when he sees I finished "You like it Greenie?" I nod, ignoring the name "Who made it?" He points to a boy "Frypan." I run over to the boy smiling, he smiles back "Morning Angel." I still don't understand the name but I reply happily "Thank you for the wonderful food." His smile widens "Was it really so good that you had to come thank me?" I nod and run nervously back to Newt. Frypan laughs and I hear some boys say "She even acts like an angel!"
A dark boy walks over to Newt and I with a scowl. I slide behind Newt as the boy looks at me. Newt pats my head "It's alright love, it's just Alby." Alby nods "You ready for the tour Greenie?" Again with that name; I ignore it and nod quietly. I step out from behind Newt and Alby starts to walk away, I fallow but when I realize Newt wasn't there I look back. He was standing there smiling "Don't worry, Alby'll take care of you." I cock my head "Why won't you come along?" He laughs "Because I have a job to do." I nod and run back to Alby whose scowl slightly fades "You don't ask very many questions do you?" I shake my head "Why ask when eventually the answers will come?" He smiles "I like you Greenie." I smile awkwardly, not knowing if what he said was bad or good.
After showing me around what he called the Glade and showing me all the jobs, Alby turns to me "Now to find your job." I cock my head and he responds to my silent question "We don't take freeloaders here, you do your part." I nod and fallow him, but stop and look at the walls "One question though." He looks back at me and I shoot "What's with the walls?" He sighs "That's the Maze Greenie." I nod and look at him "Ok, you can proceed showing me what to do around here." He smiles "I think you're the best one out all the Greenies." I smile, not understanding and fallow Alby. He leads me to a boy, who winks at me; I ignore him and listen to Alby "This is Gally, the keeper of the builders. You'll be helping him today." I nod and Alby walks off saying "He'll show you what to do." I look at the makeshift building and turn to Gally "What do I do?" He smiles wickedly "Well you could-" I raise my hand and say sharply "To the building, not to you." His smile doesn't fade "You'll help put up the walls," He hands me a hammer and nails, "don't hurt yourself now." I contemplated smashing his head in with the hammer, but decided against it and instead took my anger out on the nails.
Several hours later it starts gets really hot and I look down at what I was wearing, a dark blue quarter-sleeve shirt, skinny jeans, and combat boots. When seeing I have a sports bra on, I quickly slide the sweaty shirt over my head and tie my waist length hair into a bun with a hair tie that was around my wrist. Why did my hair have to be so long? I get back to work and soon hear "Oooh look at Angel boys!" I hear cat calls, but ignore them. After a few rude comments I sigh and, continuing to work, say, "Shouldn't you be working?" I could hear Gally's smile in his tone "Hard to work when you're looking that fine." I roll my eyes and get back to work.
After a few minutes someone grabs onto my butt and I turn slowly around to see Gally smiling widely at me. I sigh and look at his hand, which was still attached to my butt, "Would you kindly remove your hand?" His smile grows wider and he squeezes. That was where I drew the line. I grab Gally's hand, twist it until he bent over, and then kneed him in the stomach a couple times. People yelled as I got on top of him and started punching him.
My storm of punches was soon blown away when someone slipped their hands under my arms and lifted me off the bleeding boy. I struggle in the air for a few minutes before I realize it's useless. A British accent reveals itself, saying "You done now love?" I huff and slump down so that I was hanging in the air like a ragdoll. Newt turns me around, still in the air, and looks at me sternly. I give him puppy eyes and his expression softens a little. He sets me down as Alby stalks over and I shrink down as he gets closer.
He looks at Gally "Shuck it!" he turns to me, his scowl loosening a little "I forgot to tell you the rules didn't I?" I cock my head "Rules?" Alby groans "We have three rules Greenie, do your part, we don't take any freeloaders, never hurt another Glader, and never go outside the walls. I didn't think I would have a problem with you doing this so it must have slipped my shucking mind." I look down "I'm sorry." A hand pats my head and I look up at Alby "It's good Greenie; just fallow them from now on." One of the builders speaks up "Alby! You can't just let her off the hook! She beat the klunk out of Gally!" Alby shrugs "She didn't know the rules, plus, the slinthead probably deserved it." With that, Alby walked away. Newt sighs "Come on Angel." I fallow Newt past Gally, and just for the heck of it I give him a swift kick in the stomach, causing him to groan and cough. Before I know it, I'm slung over Newts shoulder. He walks off with me and says "You are quite a problem causer love." I sigh and let my arms dangle down his back "It's not my fault; he's the one who touched my butt." A growl rumbled through his chest "Next time, call for Alby." I sigh again and look around "Where are we going?" Just then I notice all the boys staring at me and my face starts to get hot.
Soon Newt sets me down on a picnic table bench "Stay here." I slump my shoulders "What for?" He smiles "Aren't you hungry love?" Just then my stomach growls, making Newt smile and walk off towards the kitchen. I scoot off the bench and lay down on the grass then look up at the bright sky, so pretty. My eyes close and as soon as I'm about to doze off I hear a voice "So you beat the klunk out of Gally eh?" I open one eye to see a boy with dark hair looking down at me. A groan escapes my lips and I roll over, sticking my face in the grass and mumble "I didn't mean to." The kid pats me on the back "Don't worry about it, the shank had it coming." I remove my face from the grass and look at the kid "What's your name?" He smiles "Minho, what about yours?" I look at him confused "Isn't it Angel?" He laughs "No, your real name." My eyebrows knit together and I frown "I thought that was my name." Someone sets something in front of my face that makes my stomach growl, so I roll over onto Newts feet. He smiles down at me and I look up at him "You look like a giant." He smiles even wider "And you look like an angel." Minho sighs "Flirt." Newt glares at him "Shut your bloody hole."
Newt
I sit beside Angel on a picnic table as she happily eats the sandwich I gave her. I notice now, with her shirt being off, how muscular her arms were, and that she was strikingly fit. Minho throws a stick at me and glares, secretly telling me to stop staring at her. Angel turns to me and narrows her eyes "What do you do?" I smile "I'm a runner." She perks up at the word runner and smiles sweetly "Runner?" Minho nods "You'll have to wait to know about it though." Her shoulders slump and she looks at Minho with puppy eyes "Do I have to go back and work with Gally?" I laugh "No love, Alby'll find you someone else to work with." She smiles and looks around "Where can I find him?" Minho narrows his eyes "Why?" She smiles at him "So I can get back to work." I scrunch my face up "Why would you want to do that?" She continues to look around "So I can make up for what I did to Gally, and so I can become a runner soon." Minho and I give her looks like she's crazy and I ask "Why the bloody hell would you want to do that?" She gets this confused look on her face "I don't know."
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