This is Chapter 2! Also, special thanks to Just One More Troubled Soul for the first review :)

Disclaimer: The Maze Runner Trilogy belongs to James Dashner. Only the OCs that appears later in the story are mine.

Newt heard faint whispers through his ears. But that didn't make sense. He was dead, and dead people can't hear anything, unless he was in heaven. Second thought, after all the things he'd done, hell would be more accessible to him.

The whispers continued on, faint but real. "You think he can make it?" A male voice asked. "He must. He's one of our only hopes." A female voice answered. "You think the Flare is really… gone?" "Looks like it. His brain isn't responding to any of the Flare tests" It took Newt a moment to realize that they were talking about him.

The Flare… What did they mean it was gone from him? He knew that the Flare was incurable. And what was this entire bloody thing about him waking up? Dead people couldn't wake up.

You think he can make it? The man's voice echoed in his mind. Make it? The man's words gave him a slight possibility. He doubted it, but he decided to try it anyway.

Newt moved his fingers slowly. It brushed the tip of something metal. It was cold and hard on touch, and the sensation nearly made Newt jump.

"He moved his fingers!"

A realization crept over him. He was surprised that he calmly accepted, even liked, the idea that he lived. If the Flare was gone… perhaps he can meet his friends again. The image of Thomas and Minho flickered in front of him. Something burned inside his veins. It was painful, but it also gave him the energy to move on.

Newt opened his eyes slowly, and the bright light nearly blinded him. He blinked as he tried to adjust to the light.

He stared at the two people standing over him. It was a man and a woman. They both wore identical clothes, with a familiar name stamped on their right chest. The name filled Newt with dread.

"Subject A5, it's a pleasure to see you awake" The man said. His eyes were cold, like Rat Man's. His gaze pierced Newt like needles as his eyes traveled to his head to his feet. When His eyes met his eyes, he felt a jolt of fear. In the man's eyes, he saw himself reflected as some kind of a testing animal.

"Subject A5, we know that you must be confused right now" Newt nodded. He had many things that he wanted to say to the two scientists that trapped them in the maze for two entire years, but he guessed saying them out loud can bring him some serious damage.

"Subject A2 shot you." The woman spoke without any emotions. It sounded like she was a robot, not a person. If only she wasn't breathing, Newt would have believed that she was carefully constructed machinery. "But you didn't die immediately. After Subject A2 left, we brought you to this WICKED headquarter. Your friends destroyed the biggest one, but there are many headquarters left in this world still. This is one of them." She smiled a little, but that didn't assure him. Her smile was like a smile of an innocent child. An innocent child that would come to you and say in a bright voice, 'I killed somebody'. "Your friends were mistaken about one thing. WICKED never dies"

Newt's head spun. Did the woman mean that his friends tried to destroy WICKED? And successfully destroyed the biggest headquarter? How did they do that? And if they did, where were they now?

"So what's your bloody reason for saving me?" Newt tried to keep his voice still, but his heart felt like it was going to pop out of his chest.

The man scowled at him. He looked annoyed. "It's a surprise that you survived two years in the first trials." Newt felt anger burning inside his chest. This man had no right to tell him that. He never wanted to survive two entire years in the maze, anyway. "Well, I must be useful if you saved my bloody life" Newt spat.

The woman nodded. "Before we explain anything, there's something that you need to see" She gestured at him to follow, and then walked out of the room. Newt glanced at the man and found out that he was still scowling at Newt. He had no choices but to follow, which he did.

Once he was out of the door, he saw a long vast corridor. Newt looked back, and saw what he thought of a wall was actually a glass, see-through from the outside but opaque from the inside. "So you guys have been watching me for the entire time?" Newt muttered as he followed the woman. She was silent.

The woman walked to a room position right next to his room. He peered inside the glass, and saw that a man and a woman were standing over a figure in a bed. Newt took a step back to see the entire room, and saw words etched on the top of the glass. Words that he was familiar with, words that chilled him to the bones.

Teresa Agnes. Group A, Subject A1

Chapter 2 finished! (Seriously, I don't have many things to say) Please leave a comment/reply at the bottom! They make authors keep going! Thanks for reading and hope to see you guys soon!