Losing Game - Newt [The Maze Runner]

03:04 - BULLET WOUNDS

She did notice, however, when Newt and Minho propped her down against a stone block in some sort of park area. Her mind was starting to slip away from her and was only brought back when Minho slapped her gently on the cheek a couple of times, "just got you back, don't you go dying on me now." She smiled a gentle smile at him, feeling a little defeated as the pain in her side became searing.

"I'll try not to." Alice croaked out, she was so stubborn that she absolutely refused to lose consciousness and be useless if they encountered any danger. Using her voice caused her to cough, and the worried look on everyone's face increased when blood started to seep from the side of her mouth.

Thomas knelt down in front of her and turned to Gally, "we need to get her through the tunnels, or she'll never make it." Alice hummed from where she was keeping shaky but consistent pressure on the wound.

It was hard for her to be aware of what was happening around her as she started to slip more and more, groaning each time that she was jostled too hard or lost placement of pressure. She was definitely aware of the sound of explosions and gunshots though, that was certainly not part of the plan and they moved away from where they were crouched in the street to a side building.

Newt's concerned face broke through the haze, "come on, Allie, we've made it so far you can't give up now."

"Not giving up, just tired." She blinked slowly a couple of times, trying to blink away the fog, "so tired."

Minho shook her arm several times before he placed pressure on the wound himself, "since when did our Allie get tired?"

"Since she started running from ghosts alongside danger." She was starting to lose it then, but she knew deep down that she knew what she was truly talking about, it seemed that she was constantly running into painful memories at every turn and no matter what she did she couldn't seem to avoid them. Mary in the tunnel, Ola looking smaller than she had ever seen her even though she is much older and the memories of who she was before clouding who she was now.

Thomas had been talking to Brenda on the radio and all they needed to do now was to head to the tunnels, but Thomas hesitated, "I want to kill Janson and Ava." The unspoken concern for Teresa was there.

"No, please." Alice's weak voice protested, but she knew that Thomas was going to completely ignore her, and he had already made up his mind. She knew it when he pressed a sad kiss to her forehead and pat her cheek twice in affection, "please, just come back safely." In order to make sure of this, she reached up to her neck and took her locket off before handing it to him, "it deserves to spend some time with you, now."

He looked touched by the action while he slipped the locket over his neck and tucked it under his shirt to keep it safe, "you have to promise me too." He stuck up his pinkie finger and Alice slowly raised hers to his before Thomas shook them.

"Get her back safe or else you'll all die at my hands." Thomas said sternly to all of them, not satisfied until each of them nodded at him.

Newt and Minho picked her up by the arms before they followed Gally towards the tunnel, Alice saw the burg once they rounded the corner, they had crossed a few meters of the hundred that were needed to reach the burg, when the black that had been seeping into her vision pulls her under into unconsciousness.

"Allie!" Newt shouts when he feels Alice's body completely sag between him and Minho, "let me carry her the rest of the way, I can run like that." Minho nods and Newt scoops her up under her legs before he started running the rest of the way with Minho at his side, he knew that his friend would not be able to carry her from his time with W.C.K.D.

"She's been shot!" He shouts when he sees Jorge and Vince stood on the edge of the ramp of the burg, they knew that something was wrong when they saw Alice hanging between them and this was amplified when Newt had to carry her the rest of her way, "she's lost a lot of blood, we didn't know what to do."

Vince ran back into the burg and grabbed the first aid kit; it included a blood transfusion kit which Alice would definitely need. He crouched down next to her and took her pulse, "we're losing her." Jorge was still applying pressure and looking worriedly at Alice's completely slack face, which he had only ever seen in sleep, but this was a much more haunting image with how pale she had become. Vince changed out Alice's bandages after he stitched the wound the best he could.

Newt was gnawing at his fingers while he watched, worried about what was happening, Minho had placed a comforting hand on Newt's shoulder while he worried alongside him too, "she'll be alright, she always is."

Jorge turned to them, "Newt, give me your arm." Newt furrowed his eyebrows but dropped to the ground and held out his arm, Jorge injected something into his arm and looked pleased at the result. "You can give Alice blood." Newt had the universal blood type that could be given to anybody who needed it, which was lucky.

"Take as much as you need." Newt held out his arm while Jorge injected one end of the blood transfuser into his arm and the other into Alice's. They watched as the blood went through the tube and into Alice's arm.

Ever so persistent, Alice came back to consciousness and started to move her eyes around frantically while she was unable to open them as they just felt so heavy. But as the more blood flowed into her body, she found the strength to open them and met the eyes which belonged to the boy with very long sandy hair, "hey Newt." Alice's lips pricked up at the corners when he pressed his lips to hers gently.

"You had us so worried." Alice's eyes drifted slowly to Vince and Jorge, then over to Brenda, Frypan and Gally. She mouthed a sorry before looking back up at Newt while he spoke, "they've given you a painkiller, it'll start to wear in soon."

There was a series of loud bangs and crashes, they all looked up to see the W.C.K.D building now being the main centre of attack. "Thomas, he's up there!" Minho shouted, deathly afraid of losing someone else.

"Alright," Jorge leapt up, "get Alice and you lot inside, we'll head to the roof and see if he's up there." They all moved into action, Minho lifted Alice inside, Newt sticking close as his blood was still moving from him to her, mostly, the machine doing the risky procedure was old and it was possible that some of Alice's blood was moving into Newt's body, too.

Everyone crowded around the cockpit, apart from Alice and Newt who stayed in the back (she wasn't sure where all of the rescued kids had gone but they were likely hiding out somewhere safe.) Someone shouted that Thomas managed to make it onto the burg from the burning building, but Teresa hadn't.

Thomas watched as Teresa fell with just a feeling of resignment, it was what she chose, she chose to betray them but chose to save Thomas as a last act.

Alice still hated her, but she didn't believe that she deserved to die like that.