you met at the mall in the scorch. at first, thomas thought you were a crank. or had the flare, at least. you looked half dead, anyways. but also half alive. woo!!

thomas held up the gun at you, just about to shoot. just to be safe. he obviously wasn't taking any risks of letting a crank approach him and his friends. but then newt talked him out of it, thankfully. newt seemed to be the only one who didn't want to kill you. whatever it was, it shocked you. maybe even more so when you saw random teenagers in the abandoned mall, just as you were looking for supplies.

newt was basically like "bloody hell, what happened to you?" and then quickly helped you, because you were quite literally starving and dying of dehydration. the others didn't seem to have much hope for you, but newt did. he was a sweet soul, really.

once he carried you out of the mall, just barely making it out, he set you down next to him. minho whispered something to him, but he waved him off. newt looked at your for a moment, concern written all over his face. you just met, and somehow, he still seems to care. maybe a bit too much for someone who's friend was just about to shoot you.

he was tending to you and your cuts, trying to distract you from the fact that the others were looking at you as if you were a crank currently chomping on newt by talking to you and asking you random questions that came to mind. he was sweet.

when he was done, he gave you a smile. everyone was asleep by now, it was just you and newt awake. so, he took it as a chance to get to know you better. when he was cleaning up the blood on your face and your wounds, he already told you that he and his friends - frypan, minho, teresa, thomas, aris and winston - have escaped wckd, and were a part of the maze trials. he, teresa, frypan, minho, thomas and winston were from maze a, aris was from maze b - that you knew. he was very chatty when he wanted to be, you learned.

"does it still hurt?" he gestures towards the gash on your nose bridge. "how'd that happen?"