𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 | 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐭 𝐱 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫

7

When I wake up, Newts arm is being used as my pillow, we all wake up at around the same time, by that I mean when Thomas started yelling at a bird and that woke us up,

"Are they all gone?" Newt asks as we both sit up,

"Yeah, I think we're safe for now" Thomas says in reply, "Okay we should get moving, let's pack it up" He says as we start Getting everything up off the floor, Winston has trouble sitting up so Fry helps him, we make out way out of the rubble and up to what we find a decayed city.

"What the hell happened to this place?" Fry asks,

"I dunno" Newt says, "it doesn't look like anyone's been here in a long time."

"I hope the whole worlds not like this" Mihno says,

We all stay quiet for a moment,

"Woah, Woah, wait" I say as everyone stops and looks at me weirdly, "do you hear that?"

"Shit..." Thomas says,

"Everyone Get Down!" I yell as we all scurry under the concrete rubble,

"Everybody Hide!" Thomas yells, we all look up and see aircrafts flying above us,

"Oh shit" Newt says out of breath,

"They're never gonna stop looking for us, are they?" Mihno says once the aircrafts are out of view, we all avoid the question and walk out of our hiding place.

After a little more walking we find ourselves at the top of a sand dune out of the city,

"Just a little further guys" Thomas re assures us, we look and see mountains in the distance, "Those mountains, they gotta be it, that's where we're going"

"That's a long way off" Newt points out,

"Then we better get moving-"

Winston puts down his bag and stumbles down the sand dune,

"Winson! Hey! Winston!" Thomas yells, we all run down the hill to where he is, he's gasping for air, I put my hand under the side of his face that's on the ground,

"Winston!" Mihno says,

"What do we do?" Teressa asks, Thomas gets up,

"Winston? Can you hear me?" Newt says looking from Winston up at me concerned, "is he okay?" He asks me, "your the one who was gonna be a medjack" I look from him to Winston on the ground,

"I dunno" I say worried, then I look up at Thomas, "Tommy what are you thinking?"

Next I know it Winston has been constructed a chair for us to drag him on, me and Mihno pulled him first, we volunteered to at least, he was grunting the entire time, I was worried he was gonna die, I know I shouldn't think like that but I can't help it when he can't stop gasping for breath.

"Hang in there Buddy" Mihno says, he looks from the back of Winston's head to me, I meet his eye contact then look forward again.

After hours of walking we finally come to a stop, Thomas was standing a little while from where we stopped, Teressa went over to check on him, 

"How's it looking?" Newt asks, 

"Uh, it's a little further" Thomas calls back at us,

Newt turns around to face us, 

"Well thats not very convincing" He snickers sitting next to me, "You alright?" 

"Yeah, yeah I'm good" I reply looking away from him, the more I seemed to be around him and the more I looked into those deep brown eyes the harder it seemed to admit to myself, let alone admit to him everything I'd found out, whenever I'm not thinking of our safety or when we will die from dehydration, I keep imagining a little baby with his striking blond hair and smile, only my eyes and freckles [if you don't have freckles lets pretend🤫], "What about you? You surviving?" I smile placing my hand on his knee,

"Yeah I'm alright" He nods, I remove my hand and we both look down to the ground, I look up at Thomas and Teressa, it looked like they were fighting when a sudden gunshot went off, 

"HEY!" Fry yells, I immediately look at Winston to see he has just tried to shoot himself, I Quickly scurry to pull the gun away from Winston's reach, 

"Guys! Get down here!" Mihno yells at Thomas and Teressa who start running towards us, we are all saying things like 'What the hell man?!' and 'What are you doing!?' 

"What Happened!?" Thomas says in complete panic,

"I dunno man he just woke up and grabbed the gun and tried to..." Fry says being cut off by a whimpering Winston,

"please, give it back" He says in a weak state reaching towards me who is holding the gun,

"And I'm going to take that" Mihno says taking the gun out of my reach, I flash him an annoyed look who immediately passes the gun to Newt with a startled expression.

Winston was now bend over on his hands and knees, Thomas bend over and placed his hand on his back,

"Winston are yo-"

Thomas was cut off by Winston spewing up black blood and coughing, Thomas stood back from him, Winston rolled over onto his back, I look at Thomas and walk over to Winston and crouch down next to him and take his hand in both of mine, he is now struggling to breathe, Everyone inches closer to him after me, He lifts his head up,

"I-Its..." He lifts up his shirt with one hand revealing the scratches eating away at him, "Growing inside me" He whimpers, He sits back trying to catch his breath, I place my free hand on his shoulder, Newt looks up at Thomas and back to Winston, "I'm not gonna make it"

The look on everyone's faces, they knew it too, Winston lifts up his hand reaching for the gun Newt was still holding,

"Please... please don't let me turn into one of those things" He says still struggling to breath, My eyes fill up with tears, his clutch on my hand softened, I rub his arm with my hand, Nobody seemed to know what to do, Newt looked at me, He walks over to Winston and crouches down next to him,

"Wait... Newt" Thomas says, Newt places the gun in Winston's hand, we both look at eachother, Newt looks back at Winston,

"Thankyou" He says weakly, still breathing heavily, "Now, get outta here"

"Goodbye Winston" Newt says looking at him, then getting up, Winston looks at me, my eyes watering, I give him a weak smile, I place my hand ontop of his head and kiss his forehead,

"Thankyou, for everything Winston" I say softly, he smiles blinking,

"No, Thankyou" He says giving my hand a squeeze, "Go, it's okay" He says softly, I stand up and mover my mouth with my hand as I walk away trying not to cry, I put my hand down as Newt embraces me in a hug, we pick up our bags while everyone says their goodbyes, we slowly, one by one, start walking in the direction of the mountain, when we hear the gunshot, we all stop, it was the sudden realization that he was gone that made me breakdown, everyone else seemed to too.