I'm Safer With You -newtmas

Chapter 3

Thomas's Pov:

I wake up to the sun shining at my face and I flinch and sit up. I see Newt is already awake.
"Good Morning." He says quietly. "Morning." I reply back tiredly. I immediately start thinking about what I thought about last night. Do I still have feelings for Newt? I really don't know. Maybe I'll figure that out soon.

I look in the my backpack to see if there was any food left and saw some bread and handed a slice to Newt. We both ate, and Newt asks "So what's the plan for today?" "We can go looking around more, and if there's nothing, I know that's it safe and we can go back to the camp." I reply. Newt just simply nods.

After a little bit of sitting we both get up and I grab the backpack and we start walking still not knowing where we are going. We are basically just walking through millions of trees now. I'm actually starting to hope that this island is normal.

I mean maybe I should calm down and relax. The past few years was basically running maybe I should just take a break from worrying. What am I even doing? I get interrupted from my thoughts when I see something sticking out in the distance.

I start walking towards it a little to fast still limping because of my injured leg. And Newt is just keeping up with his limp as well. And I finally close enough to see it's a foot of a dead crank. It seemed to be shot by a gun. Newt flinches when he sees it. I sigh. "Let's keep walking." I say.

We just continue to walk and I stumble and fall down. I groan out in pain. "Tommy are you okay?!" Newt asks worriedly. "Yeah I'm fine my leg just really hurts." I say in pain. "Must be cause of the bullet, here let's rest for a little bit. Newt says. He looks around for something and then comes back with a tiny log. "Here." he says softly while putting it under my leg to support it.

We sit there for a little bit and I ask. "Newt, why'd you come with me?" Newt looks at me and replies "I just...I...don't know what I would do, if...something would happen to you and I couldn't be there to do anything.." He says and looks down at the ground. I gasp and nothing seems to come out of my mouth except "Thanks Newt." He just smiles at me.

It made me wonder if maybe after what Newt had just said, he had feelings for me too? I don't know this is just all so confusing.

•Time Skip•

It's already nighttime and me and Newt decided after a long day of looking around to just head back to camp. Other than WICKED being here before and cranks, nothing really seems wrong with this place.

We finally get back to the camp and everything is quiet until Minho walks up to us.

"Where have you Shanks been?!" He says to us.
"Just exploring." I mumble. "For two days?!" "What were you even looking for?" He asks. "Finding out more about this island." Newt answers for me. "You guys are crazy." Minho says while laughing. "But we did find something, WICKED has been here before and cranks." I say. "Cranks?! WICKED?!" Minho yells. "Yeah." Newt says while yawning.

"Alright you shanks seem tired I'll ask more questions tomorrow, but just letting you two know everyone took up the beds in the big house so you gotta sleep in the shed that Thomas woke up in" Minho says.

Me and Newt look at each other. "But, there's only one bed and basically no space to sleep on the floor." I say. "Well it's also starting to drizzle and it's pretty cold out here so that's your problem to figure out." Minho says and walks off.

Me and Newt just look at each other awkwardly for a little until Newt says "So, are we just gonna sleep together in the shed?" "Yeah it's already starting to rain pretty hard.." I reply. We just walk really awkwardly towards the shed and get inside. I take off my jacket and so does Newt.

And I just lay down on the left side of the bed and Newt seems to hesitate at first but lays down next to me awkwardly and we just both lay there for a while both of us awake.

"Sorry I dragged you into this Newt." I suddenly say facing Newt. "No Tommy don't apologize I'm the one that chose to come." Newt says while facing me too. "But what if that Crank actually could've hurt you badly." I say while my voice shaked a bit. Newt noticed and replied "But it didn't, Tommy I'm fine everything's okay." And he puts his hand on mine like he did on the beach when I woke up the first day I found myself here.

Without even knowing what I'm doing our hands intertwine. Newt just looks at me but doesn't let go. And I look at him too. Afterwards we just fall asleep still holding hands.

Hope that you guys liked this chapter thank you to all the people that are reading already! I appreciate it so much! Chapter 4 will include a lot more action
I will update again soon :)

- Angie