Disclaimer: All characters are Dashner's.

Thomas:

Thomas sat on the couch, talking to Newt's friends. He was surprised to find that he actually liked most of Newt's friends, minus Alby mind you, but he hadn't had to encounter Alby since the beginning of the night and he was perfectly content with that. About ten minutes after he left, Newt came stumbling back to the couch. Instead of sitting back down next to Thomas where he had been sitting, he plopped down on Thomas's lap and put his hands on Thomas's cheeks.

"What took so long?" Thomas asked, but Newt's only response was to lean down and kiss Thomas square on the mouth.

Newt moved his lips against Thomas's and slipped his tongue into Thomas's mouth. He could hear Newt's friends whistling and making obscene comments and Thomas grabbed Newt's shoulders and pushed him away.

"Tommy," Newt whined.

"Someone's drunk" Thomas said with a laugh.

Newt grunted and buried his face in Thomas's neck. "That must've been quite the bathroom trip" Winston said and Newt flipped him off.

"Newt, are you okay?" Thomas asked in quiet voice.

Newt pulled his face away from Thomas's neck and looked at him. "I'm bloody fine, I just-" he let out a sigh and rubbed his eyes. "We'll talk about it later, okay Tommy?"

"Okay" Thomas said.

"Well, if you're done with your little dilemma, we were playing truth or dare" Sonya said. "You up for playing?"

"Why the shuck not?" Newt mumbled.

"Alright Newt, truth or dare?" she asked.

"Dare" he responded.

"Go run around the house naked" Ben said.

"No" Newt and Thomas said at the same time. Everyone, including Newt, turned and looked at Thomas. He simply shrugged. "I'm the only one who gets to see your cute little butt" he said.

At this, everyone burst out laughing and Newt's face turned red. "Tommy!" he scolded, and Thomas just pecked him on the cheek.

"If you're not going to do it then you have to drink" Ben said.

"Fine, I could use a bloody drink anyways" Newt said as he grabbed a bottle of vodka and took a long swig. After Newt, the game continued on for a while. They watched as Winston licked the floor, Ben spilled his guts about a drunken night with his brother's girlfriend, and Sonya went off to seven minutes in heaven with some boy Thomas couldn't remember the name of.

Things seemed to be going well, most people had left the party at this point and the only people left were ones Thomas really liked. Or at least he thought that was true until Alby walked into the room. Thomas felt Newt stiffen in his lap and Thomas tightened his grip on Newt's waist.

Alby's eyes scanned over Newt and Thomas before he flashed a smile and sat down next to Ben. "Hey guys, what's going on?" he asked.

"Playin' truth or dare" Ben said. "You can join if you want. Where've you been all night?"

"Around" Alby said casually, and Thomas couldn't help but glare at him. Where had he been? Thomas asked himself. Is that why Newt took so long in the bathroom? Did he try and talk to Newt? I don't like this shank one bit.

Thomas resisted the urge to groan out loud and rubbed his temples. This is going to be a weird night.

Newt:

Newt stared at his hands, trying his best not to look in Alby's direction. So far, the game had continued on with minimal awkwardness, but he knew it was only a matter of time before things got weird. Soon enough, they did. "Thomas, truth or dare?" Winston asked.

"Well apparently this shank's not getting off my lap anytime soon" Thomas said as he nudged Newt and Newt smiled down at him. "So I guess truth."

"Uhh..." Winston started, but then made a confused face as if not sure what to ask. Apparently, Alby had a few ideas.

"How exactly did you and Newt get together?" Alby asked, and Newt knew there was anger behind his words. He knew Alby well enough to know this wasn't going to go well.

Thomas bit his lip and made his cute little thinking face. Newt was nervous as to how Thomas would answer, the story of how they got together wasn't exactly the nicest. A smile spread across Thomas's face, the ridiculous fake one he used when he was mad. Thankfully, only Newt could recognize it as fake. "I tutored him in math" Thomas said "and we sort of... fell for each other."

Alby didn't miss a beat. "Were you out when you got together?" he asked.

"I- what?" Thomas asked, clearly confused, but Newt started to see what Alby was trying to do.

"Were you out? Did people know you were gay?" he asked.

Thomas frowned. "I'm not gay" he said simply, and Alby flashed a fake smile. "I'm bisexual, and it's not really important when I came out, is it?"

"I guess not" Alby said, and Newt prayed he'd drop the subject. But of course, he didn't. Alby took a swig of vodka before continuing. "I was just curious since you seem like the type of prat to hide in the closet for while, ya know all ashamed of who you are. Probably had a girlfriend when you started fooling around with Newt, eh?"

Thomas's face turned red. "That's not- I-" he rambled, but Alby cut him off.

"You probably didn't want to tell your friends either, did you? You're way to cool for that, aren't ya Tommy? Did you drag Newt into your little closet too? Try and make him your dirty little secret?" he continued, and Thomas's grip on Newt's waist was almost painful.

"Alby, that's enough" Newt said.

"No, it's not" Alby announced. "C'mon Newt, you know exactly what type of guy Tommy here is, and you hate them. We hate them. What was it you used to say about dumb jock types? 'Good to look at and nothing more.'"

"Alby, you need to stop this right now" Ben said as he grabbed Alby's shoulder, but he shrugged it off.

"Shove off, Ben" Alby mumbled.

Suddenly, Newt was being pushed off Thomas's lap and Thomas stood up off the couch and stepped towards Alby. "Say one more word and I'll kick your shank ass" Thomas said, and Newt considered stopping him but he discarded the idea. In that moment, Newt wouldn't mind seeing Thomas deck Alby.

"Oh, yea?" Alby said as he stood up and got in Thomas's face. "Course you will, nothing else is retained in your neanderthal brain."

Newt saw Thomas clench his fists, his knuckles were white, and Newt was completely sure he was about to punch Alby. To Newt's surprise, Thomas let out a long breath and stepped back from Alby. "Ya know what?" Thomas said as he stepped next to Newt and wrapped his arm around his waist. "I don't need to punch you. I've got Newt. So you can go home all self-satisfied for your clever little comments, but I'm going to be spending the night with Newt and having sex with my boyfriend, so I'm pretty sure I'm the winner here."

Newt barely had time to smile before Alby punched Thomas square in the nose.

Thomas:

Thomas had thought that the comment about screwing Newt had been a bit too far, but he decided to go for it.

Apparently it was a bad idea.

It resulted in Alby punching Thomas before tackling him. Thomas didn't even have time to fight back before people started pulling him off of Thomas. Alby was hysterical, screaming things like "you're screwing this prick?" and "you made me wait over a year!" and "YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!"

After Ben and Winston pulled Alby off of him, they dragged him out of the house. Within seconds Newt was kneeling next to Thomas, touching the place Alby had hit him. "Tommy! I'm so buggin' sorry, I didn't think he'd bloody punch you. He's drunk, he's not normally that shucked in the head. Shuck, Tommy, I'm so bloody sorry" he rambled.

"Newt, it's okay" Thomas mumbled. "Somebody get me some shuck ice."

"I'll get it" Sonya said, as she got up to leave.

Newt stood up and grabbed Thomas's hand. "C'mon, onto the couch ya go" he said as he lead Thomas over to the couch. "How's your face?"

Thomas shrugged. "Not bad, but I'm pretty drunk so ask me again in the morning" Thomas said and he gave Newt a small smile.

Newt forced a smile in return. A few moments later Sonya came back with a bag of frozen peas and Winston came back into the house. "Ben's driving Alby home" he said "I don't know why we invited him in the first place. Thomas trust me he's not normally like that, he's been having a rough time since Newt moved."

Sonya nodded and turned towards Newt. "The break up was really hard on him" she said "he's been moping around since you left. He got really excited when he heard you were coming back, but then we told him you were bringing Thomas. You should've seen the look on his face..."

Thomas glanced at Newt, who was picking at his nails, his face looking both sad and guilty. "That's not my bloody fault" he mumbled.

"I know Newt, we're not saying it is, it's just..." Winston started, and Sonya finished for him.

"He really loved you, ya know?" she said.

Newt looked on the verge of tears, and Thomas didn't really know why he did what he did next. Maybe it was because he was drunk or because of the blow to his head, but he wasn't angry or jealous in that moment. He simply pulled Newt against his chest and rubbed circles on his back. "Of course he did" Thomas said. "It's nearly impossible not to love Newt."

I put a bunch of references to chapter one and other early chapters in this one, so go check those out! Lemme know what you thought of this chapter! Please review! I'd love to hear what you think of this story or if you have any suggestions!