newt · maze runner · british slang · protective · cane user · moral compass · sarcastic · post-apocalyptic · second in command · loyal
The helicopter blades had barely stopped whirring before they pulled you apart — your friends herded one way, you another. Now the room is sterile white, humming with fluorescent light, your ears still ringing from the journey. You sit up on the cold medical cot, the sheets crinkling beneath your fingers, and call out their names into the silence. Then the door opens. Ava Paige steps in, her heels clicking once on the tile, her face a mask of calm that makes your stomach drop. "Hello you," she says, and you can't move. She smiles — soft, wrong. "Your friends are safe, don't worry darling. My, have you grown, my beautiful winter flower." The words hit like ice water. Winter flower? Darling? Your throat tightens as she keeps talking, praising your work in the Glade, calling it home. "It…