What is Love?(Newt x reader)

Chapter 33: Lightning

"Aww honey, sorry, we didn't mean to wake you." I said gently stroking her hair.

"It's okay," she replied sweetly. "Why were you shouting?" She asked.

"Minho, just got a bit over exited." Newt replied. "We were just telling stories from our time in the glade."

"Can you tell me a story?" She asked, doing puppy eyes up at Newt and me.

"Course honey." I replied.

"What kind of story do you want, princess?" Newt asked.

"Tell me about you and mummy again." She replied. "Tell me how you asked her to marry you." She added.

"Okay, it was a greenie day, meaning another bonfire. We were all sitting around and doing the usual, playing Truth or Dare. We were just playing around when a boy came up to us, his name was Gally, he used to be one of our friends, before something happened to him in the maze and he became rude and short tempered." Newt started, gently stroking Emmy's hair to help her fall asleep. "He started saying mean things about me, and mummy got mad, so she walked up to Gally and threatened him. I had to drag her away to make sure she didn't do anything to him. I took her to the deadheads, that's what we called our forest, and we walked around for a while. Your mummy suddenly started running away, that's when I noticed where she was going, she found a pond. So we both jumped in, we swam for a while when I decided I was going to do it. So we both stopped what we were doing and stood facing each other. And that's when I asked her, I was actually planning to propose to her the next day, but something made me change my mind. And to my surprise she said yes. We then left and told everyone. And we got married the next day." He finished. And Emmy was laying on top of Newt, fast asleep.

"I think we should call it a night and get some rest." Minho said after a while of sitting in silence.

We all moved around so we were laid down comfortably, Emmy was hugged to Newt's left side whilst I was hugged into his right, my head on his chest.

"Goodnight, I love you." Newt whispered into my ear.

"Goodnight, I love you too." I whispered back.

~~~~~TIME SKIP (1 DAY)~~~~~

"GUYS WAKE UP!" I heard someone shout, waking me up from my peaceful sleep. I opened my eyes and saw Thomas shaking me. "WAKE UP!" He yelled again.

I jumped onto my feet and started shaking Newt and Emmy. "Newt, Emmy wake up!" I shouted noticing the storm heading our way.

We were laying in the middle of the desert.

Newt woke up with a jump and Emmy soon after him. We were all now on our feet.

"LOOK!" Thomas yelled pointing in front of him. I turned around and noticed lights.

"People." Newt said. There was a loud bang behind us, the storm was getting closer.

"RUN!" Minho yelled.

We all picked up our things and started sprinting towards the lights.

A sudden burst of light made me scream, lighting was shooting at the ground beside us but we had to keep running.

We ran and ran and ran, the lights seemed to be getting further. The lightning kept hitting the floor beside me.

We were so close to the door now, only about 20 meters left. When out of nowhere lightning hit the spot beside me making me fly up in the air and hit the ground.

My ears were ringing, I couldn't hear anything, it felt as if I was in a dream. A face appeared in front of me. Newt.

He helped me off the ground, he was talking to me but I could only hear muffled noises. "EMMY KEEP RUNNING!" I heard him yell, my hearing finally coming back.

That's when I noticed Frypan and Thomas carrying an unconscious Minho.

Newt and I were the last people to get through the doors, Newt slammed it shut and we all let out a sigh of relief.

"Mummy, daddy!" Emmy cried and ran up to us.

"Are you okay, princess? Are you hurt?" Newt asked her crouching down in front of her, I crouched down next to him.

"I'm okay." She replied sniffling.

"Aww, honey, it's okay, we're safe now." I said bringing her into a hug, I felt Newt wrap his arms around the both of us.

He kissed mine and Emmy's cheeks, "don't cry princess. Princesses don't cry." He said. 

"Minho, what happened to Minho?" Anna asked frantically from somewhere in the room, it was completely dark so I couldn't see anything. Newt and I got up from the ground and I picked Emmy up. 

Someone pulled out a flashlight and pointed it at Minho's unconscious body. We all made a circle around him. "Minho, come on." I muttered.

"Please Minho." Anna said, tears pouring out of her eyes.

It was deadly silent in the room, no one dared to speak. When we were all on a verge of loosing hope a sudden gasp left Minho's mouth.

He opened his eyes and looked around.

"Minho!" Anna cheered. She suddenly turned serious, "You scared me half to death you Slinthead."

"W-what happened?" Minho asked.

"You got hit by lightning." Thomas replied.

"Cool." Was all Minho said. Two of the boys helped Minho onto his feet, I gave Emmy to Newt and Anna and I walked forwards into the darkness.

Anna was about to say something when a face appeared in the dark, a person, well, a crank, jumped out opening and closing its mouth as if it wanted to bite us.

Newt quickly pulled me behind him and pointed his flashlight forward. The crank was chained up. The sudden light caused shrieks to explode in the room, multiple chained up cranks jumped up and started trying to move towards us.

Before anyone could react a sound of a door opening came from the other side of the room, letting yellow light into the darkness.

A silhouette of a girl appeared in the doorway. "I see you've met our guard dogs."

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AN: I just published the first chapter of my new Newt x reader book. I'd be grateful if you checked it out x
-Julia