Him & I (Newtmas story)

Chapter 5: Tommy No!

Heyyyy whoever's reading this, welcome to Chapter 5 of Him & I! This has been so fun to write, I honestly love writing. Woohoo! In this chapter I'll try my best to keep you entertained! Thanks for reading this though, it for real means a lot. 🩷 And off we ride into chapter 5!

Thomas's Dream:

I was in a lab, that's all I knew, surrounding me were a bunch of clear tubes. They were at least a few feet in width, but it wasn't the structure that fascinated me, it was what was inside of them. The tubes contained bodies, one per tube, all of the people in them seemed to be in a drug induced coma as machines harvested something from them. I couldn't stand them being in there, it wasn't fair to them, they didn't get a choice. 

Once again I saw the girl, she was next to me this time, 'I' turned to her, but it was like I was in my subconscious mind, and I didn't have a say in what 'I' did or didn't do in that moment.

"Teresa, why are we doing this to them"? 'I' asked her. "It isn't right". 

"Thomas, we have to do what we're told, that's the only way this'll work". she tells me.

"But this can't be the only way, there has to be a better solution than, 'This'" 'I' half yelled at her, gesturing to the tubes encasing the humans. 

The only thing I was learning from that at this point in 'my' subconscious mind, was that the girl's name was 'Teresa', and that we did something to these people. I couldn't see fully who they were, so the 'me' in whatever this dream-vision thingy got closer. If I had control over 'myself', I would've jumped back in surprise. I knew those people! I was staring at some of the gladers, more specifically, 'I' was staring at Gally! The more 'I' stared at him, the more he seemed to twitch, as if he knew that 'I' was staring at him. Then he woke up, his eyes ablaze with fury, he looked straight at 'me' and tried to scream, but the thing covering his mouth made it difficult. Just then, and alarm went off, blaring red and loud in the lab, two people in security uniforms came and took me and the girl named 'Teresa' out. 

"Wait!" 'I' yelled, "Please!" 'I' tried to push my way out of their grip, but I couldn't. The last thing I saw before they shut the door was Gally breaking open the glass tube that encased him.

Thomas's POV:

I regained conciseness slowly, I tried to open my eyes, but was met with darkness surrounding me, suffocating me. I lifted my hand and brought it up to my face. It gave me such a relief that I was able to feel it against the tender skin of my face. I brought my hand up to scratch an itch on the left side of my head, only to find that it was encased in a bandage. I felt my left arm with my right hand, also to find that it was also covered in a bandage. I sat up extremely quickly and banged my head on something above me. 

"Shit!" I whisper yelled. "That was fucking painful!"

I brought my hand up to my head again to rub the spot where I banged it. I swear I could already feel a bruise forming on it. I then paused my copious rubbing, I knew I heard something. I wasn't mistaken, I heard a groan coming from beside whatever I was laying in. I reached my hand out into the void of darkness to try and feel who or what's making that sound. My hand brushed against coarse fabric and I knew I had struck home, whatever that meant. I poked the fabric and a groggy voice spoke,

"The 'ell, wha' 'appened?" 

I knew that voice, the unmistakable accent shining through, thick now with sleep. 

"Newt"? I called out into the darkness, hoping he was still a little bit awake.

"Tommy"! he called back to me.