The Glade 8

"I'm surprised you remembered me," smirked Justin, "You were the news of the Glade."

"I thought you were dead?" asked Gemma, she thought that they had sent the boy into the Maze for trying to drown a boy.

"Do I look dead to you?" asked Justin sarcastically.

Gemma ignored the question and got down to help Minho who was in pain. When she saw his thigh Gemma knew that she couldn't do anything but apply pressure. So she cut a piece of her shirt and wrapped it around Minho's thigh while he screamed. Justin was just standing there watching Gemma trying to cure Minho. When Gemma finished she tried to get Minho on his feet but Justin got in the way.

"Can you move?" asked Gemma.

"Do you want to know why I stabbed Minho and not you?" asked Justin.

"No I don't want to know, I just want to get Minho to the Glade," said Gemma pushing Justin out of the way, but Justin stood in the same spot.

"Well I'm going to tell you anyway," said Justin smiling, "well my fellow Glader, Minho voted against me Minho wanted me gone from the Glade, and the truth is that nobody like the other Shank. I was doing a favor for everyone, I was the one who tried to drown him. Minho found me and turned me in, then Newt came up with the decision to throw me into the Maze." Said Justin with a quiver in his voice.

"If I had the chance, I would stab Newt too," said Justin. What Justin had just said ticked Gemma off, really bad. Gemma put Minho down on the floor and got back up and punched Justin in the face. Justin was not expecting the punch, but he reacted fast and grab his knife and cut Gemma in the arm. Gemma flinched in pain but grab her machete and gave Justin another punch to the stomach and Justin landed on the floor. Minho was far from getting hurt again. Gemma sat on top of Justin and had her machete close to his throat.

"If you move, I will kill you," said Gemma.

"I don't believe you," said Justin getting his knife closer to Gemma's arm. Justin did the unthinkable and stabbed Gemma again in her arm and the cut was deeper than the other one. Gemma warned him and pushed her machete into his throat. She saw the blood oozing out of his throat, she got off of Justin and went to Minho. Minho saw everything.

"Are you okay?" asked Gemma.

"Yeah, are you?" asked Minho.

"I'm fine, we have to go now," said Gemma lifting Minho up.

"Okay…" said Minho. They walked past Justin's lifeless body and Gemma picked up her machete from Justin's throat.

"I'm sorry you had to see that," said Gemma lifting up Minho.

"You shouldn't be, he could have killed us both," said Minho.

"Yeah… how long until the doors close?" asked Gemma.

"We have 30 minutes and were about 10 minutes away," said Minho.

"Do you think we'll make it in time?" asked Gemma getting worried.

"Maybe," said Minho. They tried to go fast but with Minho's thigh cut and Gemma's arm cut's, they were slowed down.

With 15 minutes left, the north door was filled with Gladers outside. Newt was there and he looked worried. We she saw him his face lit up.

"Hey I see someone!" screamed out one of the Gladers. Everyone looked up, they got closer and saw that Gemma was carrying Minho. Someone called the Med-jacks. When they got to the Glade Gemma gave Minho to one of the Med-jacks and went to Newt. Newt saw her and hugged her.

"You're bleeding," said Newt.

"Yeah, we saw Justin in the Maze and he stabbed Minho then he fought with me and I killed him…" said Gemma starting to cry.

"Hey look at me," said Newt, "you had to do what you had to do." Said Newt hugging Gemma. Newt walked her to the hospital and they fixed her cuts, but told her that she would have to spend the night in the hospital with Minho. They put Minho on medication so he was sleeping but they said that he would be okay.

"I'm going to go so you can get some sleep," said Newt giving Gemma a kiss on her head.

"You're not going to stay?" asked Gemma.

"You should get some sleep and if I sleep here tonight you won't fall asleep," said Newt getting up from the chair next to Gemma's bed.

"I promise that I will fall asleep," begged Gemma.

"You promise?" asked Newt.

"Yes."

"Okay, I'm going to go get a sleeping bag," said Newt. Newt came back a couple of minutes later and found Gemma sleeping. He looked over to Minho who was asleep as well. Newt went over to Gemma and gave her a kiss on her head. He put his sleeping bag down on the floor, and he slowly fell asleep.

Later that night, Gemma woke Newt up. Gemma was crying and Newt couldn't understand why she was crying.

"Why are you crying?" asked Newt, he was hugging her while she sobbed.

"I remember them," said Gemma in between sobs.

"What do you mean?" asked Newt.

"They're going to kill me," Gemma said finally.