Drifting away // Gally TMR

Awake & Asleep [Part 11]

My mouth gaped open but no words came out.

"I know the feeling that you can't say anything right now so I completely understand if you can't say anything" Thomas said.

"Y-yeah I guess" I stammered.

He gave a weak smile to me and walked away to Minho and Newt who were snickering. They were eavesdropping eventually.

Real gentlemen.

I took my aspirin and drank as much as I can. Slowly, with the unknown, weird feeling, I fell asleep.

***

I woke up at the middle of the night.

The night was still, but I can't fall back asleep again. I decided to go out and take a walk for a while then go back to bed. I found Newt and Alby patrolling at the Top, where they can see the Glade at the highest spot; I remembered that Gally was the one who suggested it and spends his free time pretty much up there. I approached it and they saw me.

"Y/N. Why are you here in the middle of the night?" Alby asked with an unusual tone.

"Just woke up and can't fall back asleep again. Why're you guys actually up there? That's a rare sight, and you actually have to admit that"

I saw they exchanged glances and Newt came down from the Top.

"Well" he cleared his throat. In spite of the cold night, I see him sweating.

"Weell?" I asked, still a bit confused and annoyed.

"It's not the first, but..." He looked down.

"What? Shank, just spill it out!" I nudged his shoulder.

"Gally's missing. Like, really missing this time"

A terrible shock hit me in the chest and I can't move. I searched for words but it came out like stammering.

"W-what do you mean really missing now?" I laughed like it was a joke.

"I don't know Y/N. The day before when he was missing, we can actually find him in the Glade. But now we can't so we're assuming that he-" I cut him.

"Is in the Maze" he looked at me and nodded.

I don't feel like crying, or sad, or angry. I feel numb. Everything had came back to where it belonged, it was perfect for just a moment and now it's gone. I just want to come back to my bed at the infirmary.

The headache came again softly like it's slowly making me want to tear up my skull and I felt my body weaken a bit. I hold on to Newt and try to breathe normally. He caught my side and panicked a bit.

"Alby! I'm going to take her back to the infirmary! It won't take long!" Newt shouted up and saw Alby curtly nodded.

Newt carried me to the infirmary and thank god, it's not that too far. I was actually a bit worried with Newt because he has to carry me all the way back to my bed, but he just shook his head.

"Newt;" I said softly when he started to walk away back to the Top.

"I... don't know what to do without you. Thank you"

The side of his mouth twitched up, forming a smirk.

"You never have to say that, love"

I winced a bit and Newt got concern plastered across his face. "Go, I'm fine" He hesitated but then quickly nodded and headed outside.

My eyes started to droop and feel a bit unfocused. Next thing I know, I fell asleep again.

I woke up at the afternoon and my head still feels like burning. I shake my head a few times and cleared up. I drank my water and went outside.

Now, I'm hungry I thought.

I walked to Frypan's and grabbed the lumpy-looking food from him. He smiled and shook my hair which triggered the headache again. Before I could stop it, he saw me winced.

"Oh shuck, I'm so sorry" He quickly said.

"No, its okay, I'm okay" I gave him a painful smile and walked to seat with Newt, Minho, Chuck, and Thomas whose face is kind of gloomy.

I sat beside Newt and he gave me a smile of concern. I smiled back and ate.

"Hey what's wrong with you, Tom?" I asked between my eating.

"Please don't call me that" He answered briskly.

"Whoa, okay calm down. What's wrong?" I asked without saying his name this time.

He let out a long sigh and whispered, "Teresa's in the Slammer. Just don't ask anymore. I really don't want to argue right now" He turned silent and just like he asked, I shut up.

I came back to the infirmary afterwards and decided to take a nap again after I took another aspirin.

I see it's getting dark outside when I wake up. Blood covered the sheets of my pillow, so my hand quickly went to my nostrils and there it was, dripping bit by bit.

I grabbed a handful of tissues and wiped them. It's still dripping but came out less. I called Clint or Jeff or someone else to maybe help me, but it came out like a croak.

My eyes went unfocused but then I saw a shadow hurrying towards me. He lifted me up, and went outside, to the direction of the Homestead.

It snapped me back to reality and my eyes were focused again to see it was Minho who was carrying me.

"Minho? What are you doing?" I asked.

He didn't respond, maybe my voice was barely hearable.

"Something's happened. I need to keep all of the people in the Homestead" He finally said.

I have such a bad feeling about this.

"Wha? What happened?" I asked. He adjusted me with a grunt while still running, until we finally reached the Homestead.

He took a breath and exhaled, "It's the doors. They're not closing"

Note :
AAAHHH FINALLY AN UPDATE! 🎉

I haven't written any more chapters I'm so sorry! 😭

I have so many tryouts and competitions plus mentioning the National Examination coming up in a few months. I hope you'll forgive me and wait until the next update ❤️

So this part and the next parts are going to be pretty much similar to the book because I researched from them again. I hope I'm going to do TST and TDC chapters well 🙏

So, gonna leave you to continue reading! See ya later shanks

Dunda x

EDITED ! yas