Still Lizzy POV
The firstthing I feel is a dull aching in my left shoulder.
I open my eyes slowly. I am in a stark white room, with only the bed I am laying on and a door.
The door opens slowly, and I see the reassuring blue eyes, that belong to my mother. "Mom?"
She has tears in her eyes. "Elizabeth." She runs up and hugs me. "I need to tell you something, we don't have much time, you're going back into the Maze soon."
She sits down on the bed and I do the same. "You being suicidal wasn't your fault. Janson was the first voice in your head. He was influencing your thoughts."
"Who's the second voice?" I ask.
"Me. The council agreed to not do the Scorch Trials if we didn't communicate to the subjects, but because of Janson we have to do them now. I'm sorry. Also we agreed to save you under one condition." The tears return to her eyes. "We have to wipe your memories again."
"What?" I whispered. I get to go back to Newt, but I won't remember him. Or Chuck, or Alex...
"I tried to have them just remove the memories of the outside world, but they've taken control over the trials. I'm sorry, Elizabeth."
The only things going through my head right now are all the memories that I made in the Maze. All of the moments I would give almost anything to keep. But I wont be able to.
Mom looks at her watch and sighs. "It's time to go. But there is one thing I must tell you first." She looks around the room, then back at me. "There are no cameras in here. Good." She mutters. "You are the best candidate so far, that means you are stronger, smarter, you can get through this." She takes my hands in hers. "I can only help so much. I'll still be with you in your head, but just be careful. You can do this. You can them out. You built it anyway."
Newt POV
Lizzy didn't come back from the Maze that night. Not the next night either.
The Runners found blood on the Cliff's edge. None of the Runners have recently been injured there. It only made sense that it was Lizzy's.
"Gah!" I put my hands to my ears. "Why's the Greenie Alarm ringing? It hasn't been a month!" I yell. It's been about a week.
After a few minutes (which I thought was weird) the alarm stops.
There was a lot of commotion outside. "What's going on?" I ask Jeff, who is currently changing the bandages on my leg.
"Don't know." He replies without looking up.
I sigh. I hate being stuck in this bloody room!
Everything I've ever cared about in the Glade died. It's pretty depressing.
I heard the Greenie made a break for the Maze but that's about all I know about him. No one is telling me anything!
I feel so forgotten. I'm just sitting on my hammock, thinking. The worst part is, most of them involved Lizzy. My life is quite depressing, I know.
Finally, Chuck comes into my room to give me food. Before he can leave I grab his wrist. "Will you please tell me something about the Greenie?" I beg.
Tears threaten to spill over his eye lids. "It's Lizzy. But, she doesn't remember anything."
Lizzy POV
I've been here for two days, and the people here still try to have me remember things. They tell me stuff about themselves, trying to trigger some sort of memory, but each time it ends with me saying : "Sorry, I don't know anything."
Until they introduced me to Newt. I remember him, but nothing about him. All I know is that I have seen him before.
A boy named Minho walks up to him and they have a very heated argument. I catch a few words.
"No! I don't want it to be based off of memories she can't remember! It has to be real! You can't tell her about it!" I hear Newt say. Maybe I had a relationship with one of the boys here. It's more than possible. I mean, with my sarcastically awesome personality, who could resist me? (Imagine I just did a hair flip. It adds to the effect.)
Alby walks up to me. "Well, get ready for a not-so-Greenie Greenie party."
"I'm ready!"
"Good that. C'mon we have a Greenie party to start." I get lead out the door by Chuck (we became best friends almost instantly), but before we leave the room, I throw one last glance at Newt. We lock eyes for a moment, before I walk into the door frame.
"Old habits never die, do they?" I give a confused look. "You were accident prone." Newt explains.
"Oh."
Wow Lizzy, what an intelligent answer.
The last thing I remember was the end of a conversation with a woman who I think is my mom.
Her words keep replaying in my mind. You are the best candidate so far, that means you are stronger, smarter, you can get through this. I can only help so much. I'll still be with you in your head, but just be careful. You can do this. You can them out. You built it anyway.
Candidate for what? Get through what? Get who out? Built what?
God, this is so confusing.
I sit alone during the party. My sleeves are pulled up, and I finger the scars all up and down my arms.
Newt sits next to me, and I yank my sleeves down.
I always get a bubbly feeling in my chest when I'm near him. It scares me. The emotions I get.
"Don't worry, I know about them." He says.
I look down, ashamed that I did that to myself.
He holds my chin, and forces me to look at him. My heart leaps when he touches me. "Don't worry, it's okay. You don't have to be ashamed. They just show how strong you are."
Huh, I never thought about it that way.
I did tryouts the next week. When they tried to get me to to Runner tryouts I was ready to run. But as I walked through the doors I screamed. It felt like the further I entered the Maze the more my skin burned. Finally I started to smoke. Literally. Smoke was curling around the edges of my clothes, and part of my shirt was on fire for a second. I got out of the Maze, and my skin was peeling, and looked like I had really bad sun burn.
"Oh my god. Lizzy what happened!?" Minho asks, coming back to me.
I look at my burnt body. "It burned me." I whisper. "The Maze, it burned me." I say louder.
"What the shuck are you talking about? The Maze doesn't shucking burn." As if to prove his point, he grabbed my wrist, and pulled me into the Maze. It burned, and I screamed.
Minho let go, but I was paralyzed with pain. I screamed, and screamed, and screamed, until the darkness overtook me, and the pain left.
Newt POV
Finally, I could walk without the crutches the Builders made for me - with a limp though. Then I heard her screams. She was in the Maze. Screaming. Her clothes were on fire, and there was smoke rising up from her skin.
Then she collapsed to the ground, the flames continued to engulf her. "Get her out!" I yell.
Gladers stop and look at the Maze in horror. Minho grabs her arms and drags her into the Glade. Immediately the fire extinguished itself.
"What the shuck happened?" I ask limping over. Someone was getting the Med-Jacks as I was doing so.
"I don't know! She just started to burn when she entered the Maze!" Minho tells me.
The Med-Jacks come, and gingerly pick up Lizzy and take her to their hut.
"Bet it's hard having the person you love not even remember you. Has to." Minho says.
"It is."
"Then just tell her!"
"No! No, Minho! I don't want to take advantage of her. It's either real or there's nothing at all." I limp away, tears stinging my eyes.
If only I didn't leave her. She might still be remember me.
Lizzy POV
I wake up with the boy Connor next to me. "Look who's awake."
"Yeah. I'm not asleep. Why are you here?"
"Babe, don't you remember me?"
"I don't know. Should I?"
"Yeah, we were dating." He tells me.
Wow. If he was my boyfriend, I had a really bad taste in men.
Don't listen to him.
What.
He's lying.
What do you mean?
I am limited to few things I can tell you. This is one of them. But I can say that Connor is lying. Don't listen to him.
Connor puts his arm around me, and I stiffen. He smells like sweat. Gross.
"Um. Are you sure? I mean, I don't want to be mean, but I don't think that's true. Are you lying to me?"
He pauses for a second then kisses me. I try to pull away, but he just keeps getting closer to me. His hands find the hem of my burnt top, and he forced his tongue into my mouth.
I struggle to push him away, but he's too strong. Suddenly it goes black. Memories come flooding back. From when I was in the Glade, the memories that I had in their, and from before. My whole life. Everything that has ever happened to me.
Somehow I got Connor off of me.
"Everything is going to change."
AN : Plot twist! Ha ha ha! I put Connor in earlier in the story, but some of you might not remember him. Anyway can I please get 40 comments? Please? If you said yes, thank you. Buh bye!
