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Previously on Subject A6

"You can spend the rest of your days here in the glade with me" He promised, before he did something incredibly unexpected.

He bent his head down to her level and captured her lips with his. He heard her respond with a gasp and moved her hands to grasp at his neck.

"Hey you two break it up" The teens looked to the right to see Gally standing there a faint look of disgust on his face.

"We need to call a meeting" He said as he looked around at the rest of the gladers. "Right now"

"Gally let's not be rash" Newt reasoned as he kept Em pinned to his side

"Meeting now!" Gally shouted as he led the way to the council hall

"I'll go stay with Alby, watch out for Thomas. Gally seems out to get him, and he saved us in the maze" Em whispered as she squeezed his hand and left the boys to go sit with Alby. She only made it halfway to the homestead when she heard Gally shout from the council hall that it was all Thomas's fault. Shaking her head at Gallys fear of the unknown she slipped into Albys room. He was tied to the bed frame as any glader going through a changing and panting with the effort to not scream. She stood in the doorway for a few minutes just watching him and then she moved towards him and cooled his face with a wet rag that clint or jeff had left in a bowl by the bed. Small tasks could only distract her for so long.

"It's ok Alby" Em whispered as she sat on the floor across the room from him. "I couldn't be there for you when the griever stung you and for that I'm sorry" she continued as she stood up and left the homestead with a sad look in her eyes. She couldn't stand there as Alby lay in pain, it broke her heart. After a few minutes of standing there contemplating going to the meeting she decided it would be chaos that it always was. The gladers were never very good at organized meetings and she knew they would all be talking at once and shouting to make themselves heard. With a glance at the council hall she turned and made her way into the forest and went to go to the creek that the gladers got their water from. She settled down on a rock overlooking the creek and sat contemplating everything that had happened, Thomas could be the key to their escape from the maze or he could be their destruction.

"Em" Newt's voice called through the forest as his footsteps came closer.

"Newt what are you doing here?" Em asked as she turned from her spot by the river.

"Came looking for you."

"You should be with Alby"

"You should be with him too" He countered as she flung a rock into the river.

"I feel horrible I should have been there for him when it happened, it was Minho that found him"

"That wasn't your fault Em, you were just following orders" He said as she stood up and turned to face him.

"Newt, I'm scared, Gally is right. I heard him when I went to go sit with Alby, this all started when Thomas showed up." She looked up at Newt and he did the only thing he could do. He strode up to her and kissed her gently.

"What are you doing?" She whispered as they separated.

"Panicking" He whispered back before going back to kissing her. He backed her up to a tree and she used the roots to give herself a little bit more height. He pulled her further up him and eventually settled on just picking her up. She squealed against his lips when she felt his hands pull her legs and settle them on his hips. As he further backed her into the tree she burrowed her hands into his hair.

"Wait Newt" Em whispered, breathless, as she pulled away for a second.

"What Em?" His voice was lower than normal and looked at her worriedly, thinking he had done something wrong.

"Maybe we shouldn't do this so close to where the other boys get their water. We don't want to give them a show."

"Yeah probably a good idea." He whispered as he set her back down and watched her fix her rumpled hair.

"Em, I don't think i can do this." Newt said quietly

"Do what?"

"I can't lead the gladers." She stepped closer and wound her fingers between his.

"Good thing you don't have to do it alone." she said with finality before standing on tiptoes to lightly kiss his jaw.

"Good that" Newt said with a hitch in his voice before he tugged her hand and they went to return to alby.

The couple made their way towards the homestead when Clint and Jeff walked out of Albys room.

"Hey newt, greenie took some guys into the maze, Gally called a meeting of the keepers." Newt looked at albys room and Em knew the struggle he was facing.

"I'll stay with alby you go to the meeting." She said as clint and jeff began the trek to the council hall.

"it's almost sundown" He whispered as she hugged him.

"I know" She murmured as tears filled her eyes, this meeting would be about thomas but it would also be about alby. They had to decide if they were going to banish him. She sat in the doorway of Albys room as he continued to struggle as the griever venom restored his memories. The minutes ticked by and Em was about to doze off when the alarm for the box began to echo throughout the glade. She took off running from the homestead to see Newt and Gally reach the box first with the rest of the gladers running from all over the glade. She sprinted as fast as she could and made it to the box right as the boys opened it to reveal a girl laying in the box. The gladers watched as Newt jumped down to investigate.

"It's a girl, I think she's dead"

"Newt what's in her hand?" Em asked as she looked at the girls face. She hadn't seen another girl since well she couldn't remember. Newt bent down and pulled the note from the sleeping girls hand.

"She's the last one ever" Newt read the note out loud and the gladers all looked around in confusion.