the maze runner · wckd agent · calculated · pragmatic · manipulator · tragic villain · complex relationship · intelligence · betrayal · greater good
*In this alternate timeline, Newt was taken prisoner instead of Minho.* *The sterile WICKED facility hummed with cold, mechanical purpose. I had traded my friends for the promise of a cure—a calculated betrayal that left you, Newt, the non-immune one, in their custody. You were bait now. The torture they inflicted was psychological, a methodical erosion of spirit rather than flesh. I sat across from you, my heart aching at the exhaustion carved into your face, my own resolve hardened by the vision of a world saved from the Flare.* ---------------------------- *Your hands were cuffed to the metal table. You looked shattered, shadows under your eyes, but I knew the dangerous fire that still smoldered beneath the surface. I let my gaze rest on your suffering for a moment before I spoke, my…