Listen ~ The Maze Runner ~ Newt

26 ~ Newt

Dani's P.O.V

Newt and I stare at each other from across the hall for a few seconds, as if neither of us could believe that the other was standing there staring back at them. He looked a lot worse than he had on screen; with bigger, blacker bags under his eyes and red eyes that probably looked that way from the amount of crying he had been doing.

My own eyes well up, and this time I don't stop myself from crying. The tears come streaming down my face as I sprint down the corridor to him, leaping onto his body so that my legs are wrapped around his waist and my arms are around his neck, my face burying itself in the crook of his neck as I wept.

Newt lets out his own shaky cry as he rests his chin on my shoulder, the two of us trembling against one another in a mutual feeling of loss, yearning and want for one another. I whimper into his shoulder as I grip him impossibly tighter, completely forgetting what it had felt like to have Newt's hands cradling my head and clutching my waist.

I quickly pull my face from his neck and cup his jaw, roughly bringing my lips down to meet his which he agrees to immediately. Our lips move against eachother's quickly as we try to pull each other closer to one another, afraid that if we let go now that we would be letting eachother go forever. That this time we wouldn't get eachother back.

When I finally pull my lips away from his again, I carry on cupping his cheeks. "I love you. I heard you, and I love you so shucking much! I always have, and I always will!" I tell him, my tears still streaming down my cheeks like this was going to be the last time I would ever cry again. He smiles in relief while a few more tears of his own slip down his cheeks. "Oh thank shuck..." He whispers, staring at my face with so much admiration as I giggle at his statement.

He slowly places me back down on the floor and my hands slip down to his chest, his own hands cupping my face this time as he pushes his head down to meet my lips again. I kiss him passionately as our tears mix together, making us even more like one person rather then two seperate beings. I take his hands in my own and pull away from him, staring deeply into his eyes as I just want to enjoy this moment for a little longer.

Sadly, just as I do look up to him, something else catches my eye. Newt's arms. I pull his arms down from my face and pull the sleeves up on them, seeing Newt wince in fear as I look at the old, and new marks across them. I pull his sleeves back down again and look into his eyes, as he shakes a little bit and lets out a few more tears. "I was going to ki-" He starts, but I shush him softly.

"Shh... It's ok. I know... I understand, it's ok..." I coo, placing my hand on his cheek again and press my lips to his for a few seconds, just so he wouldn't worry anymore. "I know... I made Thomas go into the Maze a few hours early because I was so afraid you weren't going to last until that night not knowing if I was ok. I was so terrified, but I understood your pain. And it's ok... It's ok because I'm here now and I'm not ever going to leave your fucking side ever again." I whisper to him, my tears slowly webbing away.

He nods his head and pulls me into his body, cradling my head to his chest and I wrapped my arms around his waist, our height difference definitely helping us out.

I stay there for a few moments, before realising the rest of our friends were all stood around still, and more importantly my best friend. I carefully peel out of Newt's embrace and give him a soft smile, as I turn around to face Thomas, who was awkwardly looking at his feet while Teresa death glared him from across the hallway.

I tap his shoulder lightly and wrap my arms around his neck, murmuring a "Thankyou for bringing him back to me, and for coming back to me yourself." into his shoulder. Like I've said already, I'm the closest to each person in our friendship group (maybe with the exception of Elijah but now we've been in the Maze together I'm not so sure) but I can never lie when I say I was always closest to Thomas. I had the two girls to always have girl time with, but they don't get me like Thomas does.

Teresa is too smart and girly and Aimee is too aloof and girly to understand me to a huge extent, but that was what made us good friends. Yet still, no matter what, Thomas was the closest to me. Because he understood my pain, my fear, my situation (and no not the baby one, I'm terrified of telling him. And Minho and Gally for that matter. At first I was the most scared to tell Alby, but now that...- You know what, I'm going off track.) and he always gave me time to get things off my chest and just listen. The girls did that too, don't get me wrong, but Aimee normally didn't understand it to a length that Thomas did and Teresa would cut in too early to try and provide me with a solution.

"Of course Dani..." He mumbles into my hair, holding my body tightly. I slowly pull away from him and smile up at him as I wipe my tears away, moving back to the three boys behind them that I thought to be my closest friends besides the ones I had already seen.

Clint, Jeff and Zart.

I move to Clint and Jeff first, wrapping one arm around Jeff's neck and one arm around Clint's neck as I hug them at the same time, them graciously taking it. "I'm glad you two are ok. I'm not sure what I would've done if it was only Elijah and I out there with proper medical training." I tell them, giving them warm smiles before walking around them to Zart.

"And you too Z. I'm glad you're here too." I say, reaching up to hug the ginger boy briefly. He smiles widely at my statement and hugs me back, but before long I was moving away from him again and going back to Newt's side, slipping my hand into his and interwining our fingers.

I take a deep breath and look around at the 13 of us. I slowly walk forward to the door, pulling Newt close behind me who in turn pulls the other 4 boys from behind him to follow us.

"Ok. Let's go and get us some freedom." I say to them all, Teresa's hand resting on the doorknob as everybody had migrated over to us. "Yeah!" Everyone shouts, erupting into a light chorus of chuckles moments later.

After everyone quietens down, I nod to Teresa and she opens the door, the sight in front of us dimming my mood almost instantly...