Disclaimer: I unfortunately do not own the Maze Runner or anything involved with it, that sadly belongs to James Dashner.
{Week 3, Day 1}
"NEWT!" I shout as I sprint forward and tackle him to the ground, saving him from Frankie's arrow. Minho then comes up behind Frankie with a knife, making it quick and mostly painless. More than he deserves.
"Thanks for that," Newt tells me as he pulls me up.
"Anytime," I mutter as Minho joins us.
"You're welcome, lovebirds..." Minho grumbles and both Newt and I sigh, going to protest that we aren't dating. "Yeah, yeah. You aren't dating. First stage is denial."
"Kat!" Nick's voice breaks us out of our little bubble, said person running towards us and putting his hand on my shoulder. "You alright?"
"We're fine," I nod before looking back at Frankie's limp body. "How many more?"
"Hard to tell. Archie was with them but we dealt with him, not before he took out Marty and Watt," Nick says as we make our way to the Homestead. "And we know that Carl and Joey are with them."
"Unfortunately, Frankie killed Tom before we got to him," Newt says and I can't help but sigh. How did things get like this?
"Who do we know is on our side?" I ask as we enter the Homestead, only a handful of people inside. Clint, who is tending to the wounded, Frypan, Leo, Alby, Graham, Copper, Alex, Eddie, and Hawke. Thirteen out of thirty-one.
"Everyone in here," Nick says before taking a look at my arm. "You should get this looked at, Kat."
"I'm fine. Other people are worse off," I pull my arm out of his grip and make my way over to where Minho and Newt have taken a seat. "Frypan, Alex, glad you're alright."
"Back at ya," Frypan mumbles as he hands me a blanket.
"This is ridiculous," Newt states and we all look at him. "How could they possibly think that this is the correct way to go about things?"
"I'm not sure what's going on. I got back and all I heard was that people started killing each other," I mention and Newt looks at me apologetically.
When I came into the Glade, I saw lots of fire and everything looked abandoned, that's when I found Chris' body. It didn't have an arm and was... hardly recognizable. Then Newt was right next to me telling me about how he thought I was dead. I almost thought he was going to kiss me. But then the screams started and Newt was dragging me away, saying we needed to find someplace safe from the people trying to kill everyone.
"Carl, Joey, and Frankie are wanting a change in leadership," Nick says from behind me, causing me to turn and look at him, the gash down his face more noticeable now.
"And not everyone agrees, so they think they'll just kill everyone and start new, brainwashing the new Greenies that come up," Newt adds on and I just shake my head. "If new Greenies come up."
"What's that supposed to mean?" I sigh as I run my head slightly. Nothing ever makes sense in the shucking place.
"The supplies came up today with no Greenie," Frypan mentions and I glance at him.
"I've only been here two weeks," I state and they all just shake their heads. "You said that a new Greenbean comes up once a month."
"You came up two weeks early for some reason," Nick says and I just shake my head.
"We need to be alive to worry about that, so that can wait till later... What about Archie and all the others who are killing? If it was just those main three, why are we unsure who is on our side?" I ask and the boys just shift uncomfortably.
"Those slintheads want to live, figure if they kill us that they'll be allowed to be apart of the new regime," Nick shrugs and Alby speaks up.
"It doesn't matter. We need to end this before more people die," Alby says as the door flies open and Nico stumbles in, clutching his side. Everyone has their weapons drawn, not moving an inch.
"Help..." Nico mutters before collapsing.
"He's bleeding!" Eddie rushes to Nico's side, trying to get a better look at the wound. "Clint, get some bandages!"
But before Clint makes it there, Nico springs up with a knife in his hand, slicing Eddie's throat and stabbing Leo, who was standing nearby, before rushing at an unarmed Alex, spurring me into action. I rush forward and kick the knife out of Nico's hand, putting my machete at his throat.
"Don't do anything stupid," I growl as Nico just smirks.
"Just kill him, Kat!"
"You won't kill me, you're just a scared little girl," Nico says, looking at Nick before looking me up and down. "You're lucky someone has a little crush on you, otherwise you'd be entertainment for the boys."
"You shucking slinthead!" I hear Newt growl as he goes to move forward but is held back by Frypan and Minho.
"Ohh! Looks like another little crush," Nico smirks before looking around at everyone. "Surrender now and we'll show you mercy."
"You don't know the meaning of the word," I say as I look at Eddie and Leo. "You slaughter innocent people and feel nothing!"
"If that's what it takes to survive," Nico shrugs and I just narrow my eyes.
"I'd rather die then stoop so low."
"I'm sure that can be arranged, after the boys get what they want," Nico smirks, but that is quickly wiped away with one swing of my machete. His head falling completely off.
I don't look back at the boys, I only move forward and March right past Nico's body. Alby was right. This needs to end soon before more are killed. We can't hide in the Homestead, waiting for something to happen.
Where would Carl and Joey be hiding? The Blood House. Carl's a Slicer, plus they could fashion weapons out of certain materials in there.
"Where do you think you're going?" I hear Nick's voice as the sounds of footsteps follow me.
"I'm going to end this," I say as Newt comes up to my other side.
"Just how to plan on doing that?" Newt asks me as we head into the Woods.
"I'm gonna kill Carl and Joey," I state simply.
"Just like that?"
"Just like that," I nod as we reach the Deadheads, heading for the edges of the Blood House.
"Okay. What's your plan?" Nick asks me as I peer in the window, seeing the two targets prepare weapons.
"Here's what's gonna happen..."
-x-
"Everything ready?" I ask as both Newt and Nick join me on top of the roof of the Blood House.
"I'm ready," Nick says as he holds his molotov cocktail, moving to the far end of the barn.
"Minho, Copper, Graham, and Hawke have laid the traps and are in position," Newt says as I peer through boards.
"Nick, on my mark," I say and he just nods. "One. Two. Three. Mark!"
As I made it to one, I dropped my cocktail right by the door, cutting them off. At mark, Nick drops his and it cuts them off from the storage room built into the wall. All this to funnel them to the windows.
"Where are they?" I ask as I try looking through the cracks.
"They're going for the windows!" Newt whispers and I can't help but smile. All going according to the plan. Two strangled shouts are heard not too long after. Nick, Newt, and I go running for the edge of the roof and look down to see two small nets filled with people. One net being held by Minho and Hawke, the other by Graham and Copper.
"That was bloody amazing, Kat!" Newt says and I can't help but smile.
"Thanks, Newt," I say as it starts to rain. Hopefully it'll put out the fire. Hadn't been sure what we were gonna do about that but... Oh well.
"It's raining..." Nick mutters as he looks at Newt and me in shock.
"So what?" I shrug as the boys just hold their hands out to capture the water.
"It has never rained here, not once," Newt mutters as we all look up at the skies. "What are we gonna do with them?"
"That's not for me to decide," I say with a glance at Nick, who just looks at us uncertainly.
"I don't know what to do," Nick admits as Newt and I glance at each other.
'Nick needs to step up and assert leadership here, otherwise this'll happen again,' I look at Newt, who just bites a part of his tongue, just like he does whenever he's nervous.
'But what he decides here will be used to determine future punishments. This is something that shouldn't be decided by one person,' I think Newt is trying to say.
"Will you two stop that!" Nick says, breaking Newt and I out of our internal conversation.
"What?" Newt asks and Nick just rolls his eyes.
"Nothing," Nick grumbles and I just glance at Newt.
"Maybe we should throw them in the Slammer for now, decide what to do once we get everything under control," I propose and Newt just nods approvingly.
"Sounds good," Nick says briefly before jumping off the roof.
"What's his problem?" I ask Newt softly as we watch Nick go talk to Minho and the others.
"He's just stressed," Newt shrugs and I glance at him.
"And we aren't?" I ask and Newt just shuffles his feet nervously.
"Well, he feels like this whole situation is his fault," Newt amends and I just shrug.
"It is," I say and when Newt just stares at me in shock, I continue. "But that's in the past. We've dealt with it. If he's going to remain our leader, we need him to be able to move past these kind of things."
"Sounds like you should be leader," Newt smiles as we overlook the Glade.
"You do realize the extent of my memories is only two weeks, right?" I ask and Newt just laughs.
"And do you realize that we only have an extra three months?" Newt asks and I just laugh.
"I wonder what we were like before this, were we leaders there?" I ask and Newt just sighs. "Were we students? Normal children? Have we changed?"
"I don't know. I'd like to think we're the same. That I'm still me," Newt shrugs as I just look at him. His short blond hair finally flat from the rain. "What?"
"Nothing," I look away, seeing the others drag Joey and Carl out of their traps and towards the rest of the Glade. "Um, we should get going."
With that we drop down off the roof and work for a few hours to get everything organized and back to normal.
