You have a mental battle. Go after Thomas and risk getting stuck here over night or run back safely to the maze? For some unknown reason, you chase after him. "Thomas! Come back please!" You see him peering around a corner. "What are you-" "shhhh! What's that?" Thomas asks, cutting you off. You join him at the corner and see a griever collapses in the ground. Your blood turns cold, and your palms start to sweat. "That's a griever! We need to get out of here now!" you whisper urgently. "But it's not moving," Thomas responds. He carefully makes his way over to it "Thomas come back!" you hiss. You trail behind him. "Do you think it's dead?" Thomas asks. "No clue," you reply. Thomas proceeds to lightly kick it with his foot. "What are you doing? That seems like a bad idea!" Just as you say that, you hear the Griever power up. "Great job, Thomas! Now it's turning on!" The griever stands up on its metal, spider-like legs. "Run!" you yell. You both sprint away, but the griever chases after you. It starts gaining on you. You try to push yourself to go faster, but you're too tired from today's work. Now the griever is right behind you. "Watch out, (y/n)!" Thomas yells. You look behind you to see the griever's claw about to grab you. Thomas leaps at you, pushing you out of the way. The griever picks Thomas up and throws him far ahead of you, hitting a nearby walk before landing on the ground. You run as fast as you can over to Thomas, who is on the ground, unconscious. You try to carry him, but he's too heavy for you. The griever comes over and tries to sting Thomas. You take out your sword and fight it. Its instruments deeply cutting you all of your body, but you manage to hold it off until Thomas comes to by repeatedly stabbing it's bulbous body. "Thomas!" you scream, while fighting off this piece of machinery. "You need to wake up!" Soon, you hear moaning, and Thomas is awake. "(Y/n)!" Thomas yells just as he sees the griever knock your sword out if your hands. He grabs the fallen sword, and as you distract the griever, he deeply stabs it in the body. The monster screeches and scurries away. "Thank you so much for saving me, Thomas!" "It was nothing really," he says, smiling. You return the smile and check your watch. Your smile drops as you see the time. Only 10 mins before the doors close! You tell Thomas, and you both sprint back to the Glade, returning just in the knick of time. Minho approaches you, "(y/n)! Cutting it a little close today, don't ya think? A minute later and you could've been chopped into little (y/n) pieces by the Grievers." You roll your eyes, "Speaking of grievers," you say, "Thomas and I ran into one on our run, and I almost got caught! Luckily he pushed me out of the way. We got pretty beat up, but at least we're not dead." "Isn't that right, Thomas?" You turn to look for him, and that's when you see him collapse by the closed maze doors. "Thomas!" You dash over to the passed out boy. "Someone get the med-jacks!" You crouch down next Thomas and stroke his head while repeatedly saying "You're gonna be ok, Thomas. Stay with me." When the med-jacks come and carry Thomas off to take a look at him, you look down at your hands and notice that they're covered in Thomas' blood...