It was the same as it usually was. He woke up early got something to eat, like normal. He looked about the kitchen for her but she was nowhere to be found. He caught site of her usual companion, the small curly-haired boy who sat by himself at the end of the table. He looked nervous and unsettled. He walked over to the boy and took the seat his friend normally did.
"Mornin' Chuck." He said casually.
"Hey, Newt." The boy wouldn't meet his eyes.
"Something wrong?" He asked young Chuck.
"W-what? No, nothing." The boy looked up suddenly then down again.
"Where's (Y/N)?" Newt asked striking the boy like that was the one question he was afraid of.
"S-said she wasn't feeling well." That was it, he was keeping his words short.
"Oh so then she won't be coming to work today?"
"I don't think so." Not having eaten anything Chuck looked ill himself.
"Chuck are you sure everything's alright?"
"I'm fine." He said looking down at his food. "I should get to work." He said stepping up from the counter. Something was wrong. He thought he better go find her. Finishing what little breakfast he was hungry for Newt headed to homestead he woke all those still sleeping for it was the start of the work day. With many compliments he got the boy to work. Heading to the back where he knew (Y/N) typically slept. But there he found the sleeping bag and pillow but no girl. He then headed to see Jeff perhaps she was there. He went into the room where the beds for injured usually were no one was in there. Cursing under his breath Newt walked out to find Jeff. He walked down and stopped as he looked to the door to Nicks room. It was quiet not painful cries or whimpers. He opened the door and there was Jeff standing at the end of Nicks bed. Taking notes over his progress each day like Alby had ordered.
"Newt." Said Jeff with a smile "What are you doing here?" He walked over to his friend and greeted him.
"Looking for you acutely." He said walking into the door looking down at the sick boy.
"What for?" He asked looking confused
"You haven't by chance seen (Y/N) have you?" He asked and the dark haired boy sketched his head.
"She's not been here, I did see her early this morning though heading, somewhere with Minho I think." Newt brought one hand up to his face holding his index finger knuckle to his lip.
"I see. Alright, thank you, Jeff." He then went off to the glade. He felt strange almost angry. But then he realized Minho was in the Maze. And he froze there in the middle of the hall.
Had she gone in the maze?
The sudden fear he felt was amens. Why was he so scared? If she had gone into the maze and broken the rules it was her own stupid choice. But he still felt responsible and afraid. He tried to calm himself down and relaxed, he still didn't know for sure she was in the maze. Slowly he gathered himself and made his way down to the fields. The boys were doing little next to now work that day. He kept barking orders to keep them in line. Newt found he kept looking at the doors as he swung at a large tree stump the one the boys had been trying to get ride of days. Before each swing looking up at the doors. Then suddenly a loud mechanical cry sounded, then a scream. A loud shrill scream, like that of a girl. His heart stopped and for a moment he couldn't breathe.
"Newt?" Someone asked it took a hand on his shoulder to snap him from the fearful daze. He looked at the boy beside him.
"You look like you've seen a ghost." He felt his heart racing in his chest and couldn't bring himself to say anything. He looked around and saw the other all looking to where the noise had come from.
"Get back to work." He said voice horse and he watched the others slowly get back to work. He nailed the hatchet into the stump and walked away, Minho should have been back by now.
He raced around the glade for the rest of the day. She wasn't there not a chance she was, he would have found her by now. The sun was coming down soon to pass behind the walls which would be shutting any minute. That's when he watched Minho jog back inside. Without hesitation, he ran up to his friend.
"What happened? Why did I hear screaming?" He asked firmly
"A scream." The boy rubbed the back of his neck shamefully
"I saw a geriver scared the knuckle out of me." He said laughing as a few more boys came running to find out what had happened.
"We need to talk," Newt told his friend sternly and the boys eyes flash with worry for a split second.
"Alright, let's go then." He said and began walking with his friend away from the doors. Newt felt worse she wasn't anywhere in the glade and hadn't come back with him where was she? There was a tight pain in his chest, as he thought about it. He went with Minho back to his room and pestered him for hours nothing not a thing about her.
"Come on Minho I know you took her in the maze. Just tell me she's alright." He said while his friend just looked at him while he untied his shoes. He frowned ran a hand through his dark hair and looked up at his angry and unsettling friend.
"If I tell you everything you don't tell Alby or throw me in the pit."
"Yes, yes, alright. Talk." He said
"Fine. I took her in the maze." Newt dropped his head into his hand.
"Why would you do that. You know how dangerous it is in there. Especially after everything with Nick."
"I do but she blackmailed me to, but Newt listen. We were attacked by geriver and-"
"No stop. You were attacked? Was she hurt? Where is she?" Newt was almost shouting.
"Yes, she's fine and by now she should be back. But Newt."
"Where is she?" Minho frowned and sighed.
"She should be with Jeff, took s bit of a beating." Without another word he turned around and walked for the door.
"Newt, she killed a geriver." He stopped dead in his tracks, turned around to face his friend.
"She what?"
"You heard me." He said crossing his arms over his chest.
"You might want to acutely listen now."
Newt agreed and heard Minho's whole story starting from when he beat a young glader and that was how (Y/N) got him to take her into the maze. He had finally finished and Newt headed straight to Jeff in the medical area. There in the doorway, he ran straight into Jeff.
"Newt." the boy looked around nervously "What are you doing here?"
"I'm here to see (Y/N)." He said overly eager to get inside.
"She's, uh." Newt raised a hand to quiet the boy.
"I know what happened. I just want to see her." Jeff's eyes filled with fright as he quickly glanced back in the room then to the older boy.
"Okay. She's sleeping, right now but you can go see her." He thanked the boy and stepped in the room. And there just as he was told, she slept peacefully on one of the cots. He walked over to her bedside and pulled up a chair. All the pain and tight feelings that had been brought up in his chest softened and he felt relieved. She looked beautiful even there sleeping. He realized the thought as it passed through his mind. And he quickly tried to shake it off. He liked her and he knew it, but he couldn't, it would make things far too confusing and dramatic. Her lip had a cut and her cheek bruised. Her arm stuck out from the black and was clearly wrapped up Jeff's handy work. The rest of her was hidden beneath a blanket. He felt sorry for her like this was all his fault. He was angry at Minho for taking her in the maze, he knew he was supposed to tell Alby to punish them. He didn't want to get either of his friends thrown in the pit or worse. Perhaps he could just deal with it quietly. Sitting back in the chair he tried to forget about all that. Looking at the sleeping girl he knew she was different, just something about her was different but he didn't know what.