Love, Newt

Chapter Six- The Palace

"Gally." I poked Gally's shoulder to wake him up. "There's someone at the door."

"Hm?" He opened his eyes and smiled.

"There's someone at the door." I repeated.

"Oh." He yawned and went to the door with a stone-faced expression. "Glad you came. Because the end of the world is upon us."

He pulled the door open and I saw a group of people I haven't seen in three weeks. "Thomas!" I ran to him and hugged him like my life depended on it. "You escaped!"

Thomas and I pulled away and they all sat down. "You know Minho." He said to Gally. "This is Brenda and Jorge."

"I know 'em." He said shortly.

We spoke about some plans to make. At one point, I grabbed Gally's hand while we were discussing and Thomas looked at me weird. I bit my lip and looked down.

I wasn't ashamed that Gally asked me to be his girlfriend last week. I started liking him as well as he did me. It's just that I felt guilty. I thought I'd never see Thomas or Newt ever again, so I took a chance. The thing is though, that I kind of figured out something that I don't want anyone to know. Not even you guys.

We left to find Hans, but we stopped at the coffee shop. I went in with Thomas and stood with him while he ordered.

"I can't believe you could do this to Newt." He hissed.

"I felt like I was never gonna see you guys again, so I said yes."

"Just know that I still love you."

"And I still love you, Thomas, but I also love Newt." I paused and looked at my feet. "Plus I might have a reason to be with Newt instead of anyone."

"You're not..."

"I am." I said, looking up.

"I'm gonna be a shucking uncle!" Thomas jumped for joy.

"You can't tell anyone." I wispered. "Especially Gally."

"I just can't believe that shank had it in him." Thomas shook his head in awe.

We grabbed our drinks and I noticed a man in the corner who looked high. I nudged Gally and showed him, and just as he looked over, guards came running in.

Gally grabbed my hand and pulled me out of the coffee shop with Brenda and Jorge on our heels. "Wait, Thomas!" I let go of Gally and ran back in, but the guard pushed me against the wall.

"We have to test her!" He put this weird device to my neck. "We have a munie! Check the other!"

"He's also a munie!" The other guard replied.

"Where did you two come from?"

"I-I don't know." I said.

"Well, just watch out for those World in Catastrophe Killzone Experiment people, they'll abduct you in a heartbeat." He shoved us both out of the shop and we made our way to the huge door keeping us in here.

We made it out and I saw a berg in the distance. I walked a bit faster, excited to see Newt. Gally obviously noticed and he balled his fist, but kept walking. We got on the berg, but he wasn't in there.

"Guys, where is he?" I asked.

"I don't know."

"Yea, I can tell Thomas." I rolled my eyes and went back off of the berg. I saw a guy in a red suit like the one at the coffee shop and went to him. "Hey, have you seen a tall blonde guy anywhere?"

"Yea." The guard snorted. "Infected by the flare, so I sent him to the Palace."

"The Palace?"

"It's where the cranks go." I turned around and Minho looked at me sadly.

"Newt isn't a crank." I shook my head and came closer to Minho. "He, he was perfectly fine when I left."

"That was almost a month ago, Ameels."

"But, but he, he can't be gone."

"He isn't just yet." The guard spoke up.

"Shuck off." I flipped him the bird while keeping my eyes on Minho. "He's still alive and we're going to this Palace thing."

"We'll be there in twenty minutes, muchacho." Jorge grinned.

Exactly twenty minutes later Jorge landed the berg. We stepped off, but there was two guards outside of the Palace.

"Hey, this place is off limits!"

"We're just trying to find our friend." Thomas said.

"You're friend is gone now."

"He's my baby daddy." I blurted and everyone looked at me wide eyed. "And he doesn't know so I want to tell him."

"Aren't you a little young to have a child?"

"Aren't you a little old to be alive?" I sneered and pushed past the guards and into the Palace.

Third POV

"Hey, get back here..." The guard trailed off when he realized that Amelia wasn't there. "Where'd she go?"

He turned back and the guys and Brenda started to worry. "She's gotta be in there." Gally pressed and stepped through the gate. Sure enough, she was nowhere to be seen.

Thomas walked in and looked to the side, noticing a gray sheet laying on the ground. "Hey, guys what's this?" He dipped his finger in it and it went away and came back when he pulled it out.

"It's a flat trans." Brenda inspected the Flat Trans laying on the ground. "Only WICKED has enough money for one of these. It was a trap."

"She must've fell through when she came in and now WICKED has her." Jorge insisted.

"Did she tell the truth?" Gally mumbled and barely looked at Thomas.

"Yes." Thomas confessed. "She told me at the coffee shop."

"I had a memory come back when I saw her under that rock." He looked up. "We were sneaking around the facility and I was watching her smile and hug you and I felt a pang of jealousy in my gut, so I made her mine so I wouldn't have to feel that again."

"Okay..." Thomas said.

"Raise your hand if you're in love with Amelia." Jorge let out a laugh when Thomas, Gally, and the guard raised their hands.

"Shucking perve." Thomas shook his head as he pushed past the guard.