His Girl ~ Newt x Reader

C15 - Shuck Chuck

The next morning, I watched as Minho and Thomas ran in to the maze for the day. They told me about how they were going to investigate the cliff because the day before they were throwing rocks down it, to see if they saw anything weird. They claimed they found a small area where the rocks wouldn't disappear, which they believe could be a possible way out.

After waving them off, I headed to the gardens to work with Newt and Teresa, since today was her day trying out for the Track-Hoes. I instructed Teresa how to do the basics and she was getting the hang of it. I answered her questions about the glade and we also cracked jokes here and there. I always caught glances at Newt, admiring him as he worked. "Hey Teresa," Zart called out for her, "come over here!" Teresa made her way to the Keeper. I got bored of being alone and working after a few minutes, so I decided to go and do my job over by Newt. "Hey," I said while squatting next to him. He quickly took his attention of what he was doing and his face softened, "Hey beautiful," Newt smiled, "what's up?" I began helping Newt harvest some crops. "I don't know really, I just got bored and thought I could talk to you," I shrugged.

The rest of the morning consisted of Newt and I working together and laughing at anything and everything, especially one of the growing potatoes that Newt said looked exactly like Minho's head, which was true and scarily accurate. After lunch, Teresa had to work with the Medjacks, and obviously Newt and I still had to come back to the gardens. Newt and I continued working and joking until...

"Guys, it's Alby," Teresa said sprinting towards us, "he's awake!" Newt and I gave each other and weary look and rushed to the Medjack hut. We bursted through the door and there Alby was, sitting there looking depressed. He looked really...broken. I thought about Gally, and how much Newt described how the changing had literally changed Gally completely as a person, now the same thing had happened to Alby. The stern leader who was always picking others up, looked hopeless. "What's wrong Alby?" Newt said bending down to be at the same level as him, he currently still never even glanced up to look at us. "We can't leave here," Alby stated, still facing the floor. "The bloody hell does that mean?" Newt questioned. "We can't leave here, Newt. The world outside here is sick, way worse than spending our whole shuck lives here." I felt my stomach flip. What could be so bad about the outside world? I squatted next to Newt. "Alby what do you mean? We're so close to escaping. We can finally be free and go home," I tried to comfort Alby. "Home?" Alby began, "there is no home." "Well we can find one, it doesn't matter we can't live in this death trap forever." Newt attempted to reassure Alby. Alby had a tear fall from his eyes and started again, "You guys need to trust me on this! It's horrible and-" Alby was cut short from Thomas and Minho bursting through the door, with Teresa behind them. "Alby, welcome back shuckface!" Minho greeted with his usual Minho sassiness. "You!" Alby said, completly ignoring Minho and darting his eyes towards Teresa and Thomas. "U-Us?" Thomas began, taken aback. "I saw you both! Thomas and Teresa! You were- you were" Alby couldn't even finish his sentence before he went into a trance. Alby began uncontrollably shaking and hurting himself. I gasped and grabbed Newts hand for comfort. "Alby stop!" Clint ran in holding him down, shortly followed by Jeff who helped. Alby kept going insane, thrashing around screaming nonsense. I couldn't make out what he was saying but I got a glimpse of him shouting "all their fault!" assuming he meant Thomas and Teresa. This subject kept coming up about stuff being Thomas's fault which left me curious and filled with questions of what it could mean. My brain hurt from frustration. "Alright everyone other than Clint and Jeff let's get out," Newt instructed, basically shoving everyone out the building. I was still holding Newt's hand.

"What do you think he means?" Teresa finally spoke up to the four of us. "I don't know but it sure as hell doesn't sound good," Minho said. "I guess we'll never know though, let's just focus on the maze right now," Newt suggested. "Maybe I'll know," I heard Thomas who was next to me mumble on his breath. I turned to him and gave him a questioning look. I only saw him give me a side glance as we continued walking. How would Thomas ever know? He would dare to- "Y/n? y/nnnn?" Newt said distracting me from my thoughts. "Oh sorry what?" I realized it was only us two now. "I asked if you wanted to eat now. Are you alright? You weren't answering," Newt asked with a concerning look on his face. "Yes sorry, I was just thinking...let's just go eat," Newt studied my expression, "Alright fine come on," Newt said sounding unconvinced, but he finally gave in.