A/N: This is like a mini-chapter which is why I posted this in the middle of the week. And also today is Newt day!

Thomas, Newt, and Minho shared a look and then quickly made their way towards the homestead, followed by Gally, Frypan, and Teresa. When they entered the room, they saw Alby sitting upright on his bed with his back towards the door.

"Has he said anything?" Minho asked Teresa.

"No." She replied.

"Alby?" Newt whispered and sat beside him. "Alby, are you all right?" He didn't answer. He had a painful expression on his face.

Thomas crouched down in front of Newt and looked at Alby. "Hey, Alby." Still no reply. "Alby, we might have just found a way out of the maze. Do you hear me? We could be getting out of here."

"We can't." Alby barely whispered. "We can't leave." He said with a little more voice. "They won't let us."

Thomas stole a look at Newt to see his reaction. He looked equally confused. "What are you talking about?" Thomas asked.

"I remember." Alby said.

"What do you remember?" Thomas asked. Not sure if he wanted to know after seeing the pain reflecting through Alby's face.

"You."

All the eyes in the room turned to Thomas. His heart started beating fast. He didn't know what Alby remembered about him, but his reaction was scaring him to find out.

"You were always their favorite, Thomas." Alby continued. "Always. Why did you do this?" He asked him. "Why did you come here?" A tear fell out of Alby's eyes.

Thomas stared at Alby in confusion. Was he not supposed to come here? Who was he talking about? What was he talking about?

Thomas looked at Newt, hoping for some answers or anything which make sense. Newt looked shocked and scared when his eyes met Thomas's.

Suddenly, Alby clutched his head tightly in his hands. As if he was experiencing really high level of pain.

"Alby!" Newt said worriedly.

"What's wrong?" Thomas asked.

"Alby, hey!" Teresa came in front of Alby, pushing Thomas aside, who fell on Newt. Newt steadied him and they both looked at Teresa and Alby. She was telling him to take deep breaths and checking his pulse from his wrist.

After a while, Alby calmed down.

"Okay, Gally?" Newt thought for a moment and asked. "Arrange for a Gathering. Fry, help him." Gally and Fry left after taking one look at Alby.

"You two." Newt said, pointing at Minho and Thomas. "Come with me." They both shared a look and nodded.

"Teresa, you can take care of him. Right?" Newt asked.

"Yeah, go."

And the three of them went to the room where the Gatherings take place. Thomas was scared. He started questioning himself about whether he was a good person before coming here. But what more troubled him was that whether or not Newt trusted him. What if he didn't or worse, what if he did trust Thomas and he turned out to be a bad person? He didn't want to hurt his friends, especially Newt.

Questions were firing up in his brain until Newt's voice pulled him out of his mind. "Minho, when everyone comes here, you'll tell them exactly what you saw outside. Do you really think you found the way out?"

"I'm not sure. We didn't have time to check it. But I'm sure it's a passage to somewhere." Minho said and Thomas nodded in confirmation.

"Alright, listen you two will go there tomorrow and check if it's safe." Newt ordered. "Tommy, you'll sit quietly until the whole gathering is finished. Alright?"

Thomas just nodded slowly, looking down. He thought, Newt doesn't trust me. Maybe it's for the good. I don't even know whether or not to trust myself.

"Make sure Gally doesn't have time to bring up what happened with Alby back there." Newt said and Thomas's head shot up and met with Newt's eyes. "We've to make this gathering completely about what you two found. He already has a thing against you. And now after that, he'll try to turn everyone against you as well." Newt said.

"You trust me?" Thomas murmured, looking at Newt with wide eyes.

"Yeah," Newt said, avoiding Thomas's eye. "Don't make me regret it." He tried to sound threatening.

"You won't." He blurted. He would do anything to never break Newt's trust.

"Good that." Newt said.

"What does he have against me anyway?" Thomas asked, looking at Minho, who shrugged.

"I don't think it's about you. He's just not that motivated to get out of here. The Glade is a safe place from him." Newt told them.

"That's purely stupid." Minho said.

"Yeah, I know. He'll understand once we convince him about that passage you guys found." Newt said.

Thomas's heart filled with relief. Newt did trust him and was trying to protect him.

Suddenly, they heard the noises of other Gladers coming from outside. Thomas followed the noise outside, and the other two boys joined him. They met Teresa on their way out of the homestead.

Once they reached out, they saw everyone in the Glade running and shouting in all directions.

Thomas saw Winston and stopped him. "Winston, what's going on?"

"It's the doors." Winston replied. "They aren't closing."

Thomas felt as if his breath had solidified and lodged itself in his throat. He ran towards the Maze entrance. He realized everyone had followed him there, too. They were all standing there, staring at the entrance.

Suddenly, a really loud sound like a bomb going off came, which made all of them jump. All of them turned around and saw another door opposite to where they were standing, started to open. After that, the walls on their right side and left side opened too.

Thomas felt like he was living his worst nightmare. No walls tonight to protect them from Grievers now.

This is not the time to panic. Thomas thought and gulped.

"Chuck, go to the Council Hall and start barricading the doors." Thomas told Chuck.

"Winston, you go with him." Newt commanded.

"Got it." Winston said and left with Chuck.

"Get the others. Tell them to go to the forest. Go hide, now!" Gally told the builders who were standing there with them.

"Minho, I want you to grab every weapon you can find. I'll meet you at Council Hall." Thomas said.

"Frypan, Zart, you come with us," Newt said and looked at Thomas. He nodded back in confirmation.

"Let's go." Minho said and the four boys went running to get the weapons.

"Teresa, you and I are gonna go get Alby, all right?" Thomas asked, and she nodded silently. "Come on."

They were about to go when boys standing at the west door started running and shouting. Before he could figure out what they were running from, he saw Grievers coming towards the Glade from the entrance in front of him.

"All right, everybody hide!" Thomas yelled.

This was it. This was how he was going to die. Standing in front of a Griever with a tiny sword he used to cut trees with. "Come on!" Thomas shouted at the Griever in front of him.

It was about to attack Thomas but two spears went through it from the right side, stopping it from moving. Thomas looked at his side and saw that it was Newt and Minho who threw that spear on that Griever.

"Over here, let's go!" someone shouted and pointed towards the homestead. Everyone ran inside one room in the homestead. It was the one where they had their Gatherings.

"Lock down the doors!" someone yelled and silence filled inside the room. There was no noise except the mechanic sounds coming from the Griever outside.

Minho, Thomas, and Newt were standing together in front of the door with their weapons ready in their hands. The sounds coming from outside told them the griever was slowly moving towards the other side of the room.

"Careful." Newt whispered. "Stay back, guys."

Suddenly the Griever's tale came in through the top and broke their ceiling, making everyone fall.

"Is everyone all right?" Newt asked after he got up and helped Thomas up.

"Help!" A boy Thomas didn't know was trapped under the broken ceiling.

Newt and Thomas reached out to pull him. But in an instant, the Griever pulled him outside. "Help-"

"Watch out!" Minho yelled and pulled Thomas and Newt back. All three of them fell to the ground and suddenly another Griever attacked from their right side. Thomas pulled Newt towards him and away from that side.

The Griever's tail again came in the view and grabbed Chuck.

"Chuck!" Thomas pushed himself up and grabbed Chuck.

"Grab him!" Minho yelled, and Teresa helped to pull Chuck.

"Chuck, don't let go!" Thomas shouted.

"No shit!" Chuck shouted back.

"Don't let him go!" Newt yelled.

They were trying to pull him when Alby attacked its tail with all his force. It let go of Chuck.

"Chuck, are you okay?" Thomas asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine." It relieved Thomas to hear that his friend was alright. He noticed Chuck had the syringe from which the Grievers used to sting them in his hands. "Thanks, Alby."

Thomas looked at Alby and saw the Griever behind him. "Alby! Watch out!" he yelled, but it had got him.

"Grab him!" Newt yelled, and Thomas grabbed Alby's arm.

"Thomas, get them out." Alby said, and the Griever pulled him.

"Alby!" Minho and Newt shouted.

"No!" Thomas cried out, still trying to hold him down, but Alby was not there.

Thomas ran outside the room.

"Thomas!" Chuck exclaimed from behind him

"Tommy! Don't go out there!" Newt warned.

"No, Thomas, wait!" Minho followed him, trying to stop him.

"Thomas, wait!"

He couldn't listen to anything anyone said right now. He simply walked out of the room, but the view he saw made him stuck to his place. Everything was burning, someone was shouting at a distance and then all the voices stopped. It was complete silence.

"Where is everybody?" Chuck asked.

Thomas saw someone coming towards them and found out it was Gally. "Gally."

Gally didn't stop and just as he reached him, he punched him right across his face.

"Whoa! whoa!" Winston and Frypan held Gally, preventing him from hitting Thoms again.

"This is all you, Thomas!" Gally's rage outbursts. "Look around!"

Minho and Newt stood in front of Thomas to keep Gally away from me.

"Back off, Gally! It's not Thomas' fault!" Minho said with fury in his voice.

"You heard what Alby said! He's one of them!"

"One of who?" Newt asked.

"He's one of them," Gally repeated, struggling to get out of Winston's and Frypan's hold. "And they sent him here to destroy everything, and now he has!"

Zart is dead.

"Look around, Thomas! Look around This is your fault!"

Alby is dead.

"Back off, Gally!" Minho shouted. "This is not Thomas' fault!"

I can't be one of them.

"What are you talking about? Calm down." Newt said.

But what if I am?

"They sent him here, and now he's destroyed everything that we've built!"

What if I am one of them?

"Maybe he's right." Thomas whispered.

"Thomas?" Teresa gave him a questioning look.

"I need to remember, Teresa." He said and pulled the Griever's needle out of Chuck's hand.

"Thomas!" Teresa shrieked, concerned.

"Thomas! No, don't!" Chuck yelled.

But he stung himself with the needle in his right thigh.

"Tommy!" Newt's voice was the last one heard before falling into his memories.

A/N: See you after three days :)