Newtmas • Tommy is mine •

The girl/runner

(This is going to be in Thomas's POV. And yes this is where Teresa comes in 🥹 don't murder me)

Btw anything that looks like this is their thoughts 🫶

I woke up at the crack of dawn on the floor. It takes me a little while to adjust my eyes to my surroundings and once I'm finally able to do so, i look around and see Two people running into the maze. I stand up from where I was lieing down, and stretch. My back hurts like hell. When I look over at Newts hammock, he's not in there. Maybe he started working early today. and with that started to make my way to the entrance of the maze. A sudden Erie yet adrenaline feeling washed over me and consumed me. Without even thinking my feet stepped into the maze. One, two, and-
"Hey! Get away from the maze!" Someone shouted at them and knocked me down onto my behind. "What do you think you're doing man!? Trying to get yourself killed?"
I look up at the man who pushed me and see that it's Gally. "What the hell man? Did you have to push me?" I say standing up rubbing my back.
"Didn't anyone tell you to not go into the maze?" He snapped.
"No- wait what-?? But I saw-"
"Lies." Gally cuts me off. "Come on, I'm taking you to Alby." He says grabbing at my arm. His grip was hard and it was hurting me, but I was too afraid to speak up to him. He is Gally after all. Those weird eyebrows make it worse.
We arrive at the center of the glade where I see Alby and Newt talking. I'm immediately filled with a sense of joy when I see Newt.
"Hey Alby! Look who I found trying to break our first rule." Gally says throwing me to the ground.
"What?" A thick British accent appeared. Must be Newt. "Tommy you tried to run into the maze?" He said crouching next to me.
"Yeah. I saw two people running in and-"
"I should have told you this." Newt said groaning. "Alright get up," he says as he helped me up from the ground and patted down my shirt. "So Tommy, they are called runners. They run the maze everyday trying to map it and find us a way out. It's a dangerous job. Bloody hell it's dangerous even stepping in the maze. Don't do that again." He says his voice stern."unless.."
"Newt, no." Alby cuts in. What was Newt thinking-? And how did Alby know it.
"Alby- we saw him make that dash the first day. He could make a good runner!" Newt exclaimed. My head immediately looked up at Newt. I watched him argue with Gally and Alby for a while. That's a lie, I really only stared at Newt the entire time. His accent was so intriguing to me. It was a feeling of comfort. And the way his blonde hair stuck to his forehead when it was sweaty. What's the word? Newt looks so-
"Thomas. What do you think?" Newt looked at me and asked.
"Huh? Sorry what did you say-?" I ask. Not really sure what he's asking of me.
"Do you want to be a runner?" Newt said. His voice pleasing.
"YES" I blurted out quickly. Maybe a little too quickly. Newt chuckled and looked back at Alby and Gally.
"Told ya~" Newt says putting an arm around my shoulder. His touch warming me. I saw Gally role his eyes while Alby just nodded.
"Alright. Thomas." Alby projected. I looked at Alby, taking my eyes away from newts arm around me. "Starting from today, you're a runner."
"Thank you so much." I reply quickly "i won't let you down."
"You better not. Newt fought for you." He said back to me. "You'll be working with Minho. I'll get him to help you set up tomorrow for their run. Just follow Minho around and don't. And I repeat. DO NOT cause trouble. Got it?" His voice stern.
"Yes yes I understand." I jumble out the words quickly and nod like a thousand times. "Thank-"
"Yeah yeah alright go somewhere now." Alby said shooing me away with his hand. Ouch.

It's been about 4-5 hours since I was appointed as a runner. I feel great about it. I sit down propping my back up against the nearest tree and take in the sight of the glade. I fall asleep in that position for a little while before I'm awaken by sudden blaring and a hand on my arm.
"Get your hands off me." I say yanking my hand back from the boy and smacking him in the chest thinking it was Gally. I look to see who it is and I immediately regret it. It was Newt. He looked sad and hurt. "Oh my god- I'm so sorry Newt I didn't mean-"
"It's fine it's fine." Newt replied quickly before reaching his hand out to take my arm, but then he retreated and rubbed where I hit him on the chest. "The box that you came up in is back. That's what I was trying to show you." He replies before gesturing his head to the box looking panicked and hurt but trying to hide it. Poorly. I could barely hear him over the loud blaring noise ringing throughout the glade. But I strain my ears to listen to Newt. "I'm gonna go check it out. You just uh, stay safe or come with me." He says before taking off running to the box. I notice a little limp in his run. Not sure where it's from, but it looks like it hurts. I should probably check it out.
I get to the box and squeeze my way to the front to see what was happening. Newt had already jumped into the box by the time I got there.
"It's a girl-" he said, confused. Quickly murmurs broke out amongst the gladers. 'A girl? What? We've never had a girl here before. Is she okay?she looks dead.' I take a look at the girl. Something feels, odd. I'm not sure what it is, I don't know if it's her dark hair sticking to her sweaty chest or what, but she seems awfully familiar? No that can't-
"Thomas!" The girl that was unconscious in the box exclaimed. Her blue eyes popped open and stared at us intently before she crashed back down.
I just stared at her blankly, but soon, I felt eyes creeping all over me at every angle. I could feel someone staring at me from behind. Staring daggers.

F**k.

Authors note
This one was a little long. Sorry about that 😭 next chapter with hopefully be shorter. 🫶