ᵗʷᵒ 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒 ⁿᵉʷᵗᵐᵃˢ (ᶜᵒᵐᵖˡᵉᵗᵉᵈ)

Games People Play

NEWT POV

I fall against Thomas as the scream rattles through the building. He wraps his arms around me protectively. 

"What was that?" I ask.

"The girl." He says. 

I remove myself from his arms and grab his hand. "Come on."

We walk back to the room with the girl. Minho, Brenda, Aris, and Fry hold her limbs down. 

"LET ME GO!" She screams. 

"Hey, whoa!" I cry, releasing Thomas's hand and running over to her. "What's going on?"

The girl stops thrashing at the sight of someone not holding her down. "These people won't let me go!"

"Let her go." I tell them.

"But-"

"LET HER GO!" I shout. 

They do and the girl sits up.

"You're not going to go anywhere, okay?" I say, kneeling in front of her. 

She nods.

"Who are you?" I ask.

"Elizabeth." She says. 

"Okay, Elizabeth, I'm Newt. Where did you come from?" I ask gently.

She shakes her head. "I can't-I don't-"

"Okay, it's okay." I say. "Do you remember anything?"

She nods. "I remember...almost everything." She says. "But I can't remember where I came from." 

"Well, what do you remember?" I ask.

"I came here for a reason." Elizabeth says. "But I can't remember the reason."

"Great, that's real helpful!" Thomas says. 

I turn to him. "Tommy, calm down. She's not Teresa." 

He glares at me. "Calm down? Calm down? This isn't a shucking small thing, Newt! IT'S ANOTHER GIRL!" He screams. 

I stand and walk over to him. "Tommy, just-"

"NO!" He shouts. "I CAN'T JUST DO ANYTHING! HISTORY IS REPEATING ITSELF, NEWT! DON'T YOU SEE THAT?" 

I put my hand on his shoulder. "It's alright, I promise." I look at Minho. "Can you finish talking to her?" I ask and he nods. 

I grab Thomas's hand and drag him out of the room.

"Alright, now you're going to tell me what the hell that was." I say, pushing him against a wall and standing, arms across my chest, in front of him. 

He shakes his head. "I'm sorry, Newt." He says, lowering his head. "I shouldn't have done that."

"No," I agree. "You shouldn't have." 

I think I'm angrier than him at this point.

"You have every right to be mad." He says. "But I'm sorry."

I shift, my defense falling. 

"I love you." He says.

I sigh. "You're very hard to stay mad at." I say, pointing my finger at his face.

He takes my wrists and wraps my arms around himself and pulls me against him. "I'm sorry for that too." 

I smirk. "Yeah?"

"Yeah." He says.

I smile. "Alright, well, we better go back-"

Then, Elizabeth bursts out of the room and I remove myself from Thomas.