Minho wakes up before the sun, he has a weird feeling in his gut, but pushes it away blaming Frypan. Minho prepares his backpack with essentials, like tons of water, some paper and pens, and a few protein bars. Minho also grabs a knife just incase. Minho is the first runner awake, like usual, so he takes a warm up lap around the glade, and by the time he's finishes the other runners are there.

Nik looks like he's going to fall asleep standing up, Ben has his usual scowl on his face, Ander looks scared, Stephen is yawning, Arch and Max are talking, and Newt looks excited. Minho looks at Newt for a moment longer, for the past few days Newt has been apathetic, Minho decides not to over think it, he's just glad his friends appears to be feeling better. But his gut thinks otherwise.

Newt used to be Minho's running partner, but since Ander is the newest runner he goes with Minho, "Alright, Arch and Max South Gate, Ben and Nik West Gate, Stephen and Newt East Gate, and Ander and I will take the North Gate."

Everyone nod's in affirmation before they all head off to their respected gates. Everything was going fine, and Minho and Ander were taking a lunch break when Stephen runs up to them. Minho wants to immediately start questioning Stephen, but it looks like the poor boy sprinted all the way over here, so instead of interrogating him Minho hands his water bottle over. Stephen takes two greedy gulps before sucking in air, after a moment he says. "I can't find Newt?"

Minho raises an eyebrow, nonverbally asking for him to elaborate. His stomach clenches, knowing something bads about to happen.

"We got separated, and I tired to track him, but I couldn't pick up his trail." Stephen explains.

That's all Minho needed to hear, "Give me your map and show me the last place you saw him."

Stephen pulls out his creased map and points to the last place he saw Newt, Minho circles it and instructs, "Go find the other runners and inform them of this, take Ander with you." Minho takes off before he even see's both boys nods of confirmation.

Minho tears through the Maze he knows by heart, he picks up the pace when he enters the 'East' section makes his way to the last spot Stephen saw Newt.

Minho frantically looks around, but doesn't see a trace of Newt, he forces himself to calm down and then refocuses on the task at hand. He spots a shoeprint, it's blurry at best but he knows it's Newts since Stephen runs barefoot for some reason. Minho takes off into that direction, he loses the trace and starts looking around when he hears an agonizing scream, it causes the hair on the back of his neck to stand up, his heart to stop beating, and the feeling of dread in his stomach to seep into his blood. Minho takes off sprinting toward the sound, running as fast as his long legs will take him. Minho turns the corner and sees a still figure in the distance, Minho doesn't know where he gets the extra burst of speed but he is soon kneeling by Newts side.

Minho glance at Newts leg, there is a bone sticking out and blood everywhere, Minho looks back at his friend. "Newt, what happened?"

Newt has his eyes closed and doesn't answer, the only reason Minho knows he's alive is the shallow breaths.

"I'm going to set your leg Newt, this is going to hurt." Minho warns as he positions himself near the break.

"Don't bother." Newt rasps.

Minho's head snaps to Newts face, Newt's blue eyes are empty as they stare at Minho. "What?" Minho asks, though he means why.

"You're just wasting your time." Newt says, his voice flat.

Minho crawls beck to Newts head, "What are you talking about?" He asks even though he knows the answer.

Newt sighs, "I'm so tired, just leave me alone."

Minho's blood pressures rises, how could his friend ask him to leave him here to die? "No." Minho says.

Newt starts to protest but Minho graphs Newt's leg and pushes the bone back in, trusting the bone finds its right place.

Newt's deafening screams makes Minho flinch, but he quickly recovers and takes the first aid kit out of his pack. He wraps Newt's leg to the best of his ability, and he ignores Newt's tears. Once Minho is done he puts his arms Newts armpits and drags Newts body up and wraps Newt arm around his shoulder.

"Leave me, please." Newt begs, tears streaming down his face.

"No." Minho replies, leaving no room for arguing.

Newt doesn't help Minho, he is just dead weight, so Minho throws Newt over his shoulders. Minho feels Newt's ribs digging into his back, realizing how much weight his friend lost.

"Please Minho, please." Newt begs, his voice cracks on Minho's name. Minho feels Newts tears soak his shirt, and he hopes that those are tears of pain and not tears of hopelessness.

"Newt I will not leave you here to die. Do you understand? You. Will. Not. Die." Minho articulates each word with a period, hoping Newt will get the message.

Newt starts fighting against Minho, but he's to weak from lack of nutrition and his injury, plus he's always been smaller than Minho.

Minho starts jogging back to The Glade, hoping they will make it back before the gates close. Minho hears Newt's groans of pain, but he doesn't slow down.

Minho sees everyone waiting at the entrance of the East Gate, and he breaks out into a sprint. Newt begins struggling again, the pain in his leg is becoming unbearable with the jostling caused by the running.

Minho sprints past the Gladers and only slows down when he sees the Med-Jacks in view. Minho stops completely and hand Newt over, he then collapses on the ground and ravenously forces air into his burning lungs. After a few moments his breathing slows down and he sits up, Alby and some of the runners probably forced everyone to give him some space.

Minho locks eyes with Alby, Alby hold his hand out and hoists Minho to his feet.

Alby glances at Ander, who looks terrified, "Go get Minho some water." Ander nods and immediately takes off in search of water. The rest of the runners and Alby follow Minho as he brings them to the map room so they can talk quietly.

Minho glares at the other runners and they quickly leave the room. Minho's face transforms to one full of despair once they are gone, "He tried to kill himself."

Alby is usually calm and collected, but he looks as if he's been hit by a Griever when he hears the news.

Minho swallows the lump in his throat before making eye contact, "I heard his scream and found him lying next to a wall, the bone of leg sticking out and his bottom half lying in a pool of his own blood."

Alby winces at the explanation.

Minho looks away for the next part, "But the worse part is him begging me to leave him there to die."

Minho pauses to collecting knew his thoughts; "I knew he was acting weird for the past 6 weeks, and deep down why, but instead of being there for him I just pretended everything was alright. And this morning I knew there was something wrong, but instead of forcing him to stay behind I let him go."

"This isn't your fault." Alby says,

"I'm his friend and Keeper, this is my fault, I should have done something." Minho says, all of the sudden getting extremely angry.

Alby sighs, "I'm his friend and leader, I should have known."

Minho deflates, all of the anger leaving his body, "We just have to be there for him right now, we can't leave him alone."

Alby shakes his head in agreement.

"What if he tries again?" Minho asks.

"He won't, Newt's strong." Alby says.

Minho believes him.

Some of the characters are OC's, since we didn't get all the name of the runners, but I did stick with the scientist theme.

Nik – after Nikola Tesla

Ander – after Alexander Graham Bell

Stephen – after Stephen Hawking

Max – after James Clerk Maxwell

Arch - after Archimedes

This was a very hard chapter to write, I wanted to show how lost and empty Newt was.

Thank you for reading.