匚卄卂卩ㄒ乇尺  ㄒ乇几
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"Who we are and who we need to be to survive are two very different things."
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After the trio had retrieved Alby from the ivy, they ran and headed back towards the glade, knowing that the doors were open since it was bright out. Minho carried Alby while Thomas gave him a hand and Aife simply walked next to them. When they turned the corridor, she heard familiar voices that brought a smirk to dance across her lips.

"—I told you chuck, they're not coming." Newt said in a shaken tone. The girl snorted loudly, causing Thomas and Minho to send her a look.

"No, look!" Chuck pointed towards them, his usual crimson cheeks were chubby and his greasy curls.

"Hey! They made it!" All the gladers shouted and cheered as the three exited the doors.

"We're back, bitches!" She shouted as she threw her arms up in the air, tossing her head back and shaking her head as her eyes clamped shut. Cheers sounded all around. Aife received pats on the back and others nodded their heads in respect. Thomas and Minho received the same.

Clint and Jeff immediately went to aid Alby while Zart nudged the girls side and gave her a loving smile as she returned it. "You saw a griever?" Chuck looked up at Thomas and Aife.

"Yeah, yeah we saw one." Thomas replied as he breathed heavily.

"We didn't just see one. They killed it." Everyone's heads immediately snapped to the girl and boy as she held a calm expression, on the inside she was dying.

Gally held his usual obnoxious resting face as he sent Thomas and Aife a glare. It looks could kill, she'd be way under six feet. . .

"We need to have a gathering, Now. Med-jacks deal with Alby." Gally ordered causing everyone to look at the girl to see what her reaction would be. She only scoffed and gave them an incredulous look with a raised eyebrow.

"Damn, Who put this shank in charge."

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"Things are changing." Gally said with his eyebrows arched as always, he pursed his lips as he stood with his arms crossed as the rest of the gladers sat and watched. They were in the council hall, Aife found this entire situation funny since Gally is trying to call the shots no matter what anyone thinks.

"Yeah, you don't say." She mumbled, Gally sent a glare her way while Frypan pinched the girls side, urging for her to stop making comments.

"There's no denying that. First Ben, gets stung in broad daylight. And now our greenie here, has taken it upon himself, to go into the maze." As he spoke, she subconsciously clenched her fist, so hard her nails created a crescent shape into her palm.

"It is a clear, violation of our rules here."

"Yeah... But they saved Albys life." Frypan spoke up with a confused expression.

"Did he?" Gally challenged, "For three years, we have co-existed with these things, who knows what that could mean for us." He said angrily. It was taking everything in her to not punch him right now. The greenie is smart, he's got guts. He doesn't deserve punishment. The girls nails were still dug so far into her palm she was one hundred percent sure it drew blood. She found it hard to hold her tongue.

"What do you suggest we do?" Newt asked skeptically, his eyebrow cocked and raised as usual.

Gally took a dramatic pause.

"He has to be punished."

The gladers broke out in protest, Thomas rolled his head back in annoyance and groaned.

"Minho, you were with him and Aife. What do you think?"

"I think, in all the time we've been here, no ones ever killed a griever before like Aife and Thomas have. When i turned tail and ran, These dumb shanks," He gestured to Thomas and Aife, "stood behind to help Alby. I don't know if it was brave or stupid of him to run into the maze. But we need more of it. I say we make him a runner, like Aife and i."

Everyone began to protest against it.

"Woah! Let's not jump the gun here, alright?" Frypan said incredulously as he held a hand up.

Chuck began to chant for Thomas, but stopped when no one joined.

"If you wanna throw the newbie and Aife a parade? That's fine!" Gally shouted as he waved his hands around. Aife felt a hand grasp hers and she looked up to see Frypan.

She looked up at him and gave him a thankful smile, which he gladly returned. In all honesty, Aife was feeling hurt at Gallys actions against her.

"But if there is one thing, that i know about the maze, it is that you do not—!"

He was cut off by a loud buzzing sound. The box.
Everyone shared confused glances with one another, Aife stood up and released Frypans hand as she walked out of the council hall, everyone following behind her.

"What is that?" Thomas asked from besides her, he was confused on why everyone looked uneasy.

"The greenie alarm." The girl cocked her head to the side like as if a lost puppy.

She reached the box and nodded towards Gally and Newt, who nodded back and used all their strength to open up the Box. Newt jumped down and looked to see why the box was coming up just three days after the new greenie.

"Newt, what do you see?" Winston asked as everyone peaked their heads over. He looked up at her with an utterly confused expression and gulped, "It's a girl... I think she's dead."

Aife furrowed her eyebrows, "What's in her hand?"

Newt delicately lifted a note that was in the girls hand. He opened up the note, his dirty nails pried the letter open as he opened his mouth and spoke, "Shes the last one, Ever."

That sent chills down everyones spine. Last of what? The last glader they send up? The last run with the box. The last-

"What the hell does that mean?"

The girl gasped awake, her panting was heavy and her ocean blue eyes were wide. She had freckles dotted around her face. Her black frizzy hair was sprawled out all around her.

She said something.

"Thomas...Aife." Her eyes rolled to the back of her head as she smacked her head back onto the floor.

Everyone's heads turned to the two, more specifically, Thomas.

The girl stepped away from Thomas and had her hands up in surrender, "Don't look at me,"

Gally stood with his arms crossed and his nostrils flared as he huffed out dramatically, "You still think i'm over reacting?"