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Thomas woke up to the sounds of birds chirping and a weight on his chest, like every morning he had to take a few seconds to remember where he was. He spent his first years of life (that he could remember) constantly keeping one eye open and it seems even after 4 years of living in the safe haven his body will always go back to that fight or flight first thing in the morning, nowadays it only takes him a couple seconds to jog his memories but in those early days he would wake up screaming.
His thoughts were quickly discarded when he felt the weight on his chest moving, Thomas looked down and like every morning he smiled to himself before planting a soft kiss into newts hair. He then started the difficult task that was untangling his limbs from Newts, once he was up Thomas could hear the blonde briefly mumbling then sitting up and swinging his long legs off the bed. Newt stood up (once a morning person, always a morning person) and cupped Thomas' face giving him a “mornin’ tommy” before pressing a soft kiss to the other man's lips.
After the kiss, Thomas placed a hand over Newt’s then turned around to riffle through his clothes looking for something clean, "what's on the agenda today?” Thomas asks his boyfriend who walks over to the draws that hold all their clothes. “not much just the usual check of the gardens, oh and tonight is the monthly bonfire” he responds as he pulls a green shirt over his head before continuing "don't forget and fall asleep before dinner again” he teases.
“I wont dont worry” Thomas says before going on to tell his boyfriend about what he has planned for the day, once they’re both finished getting dressed, Newt kisses him once more, tells him to hurry up and heads to breakfast after being told to go ahead.
Now that he's alone, Thomas pulls out the necklace Newt gave him forever ago and gently unscrews it, pulling out the contents. Two of the papers are the letters Newt gave him when he thought he was dying but the third paper is much less crinkled and practically brand new. Thomas unfolds the new piece of paper and looks over the designs he had scribbled out over a month ago, the drawing depicted two matching rings with swirls carved into both of them. He had taken the drawing to the blacksmiths right after finishing the picture and rambled for what felt like hours on how important the rings were and how after all these years he was going to propose to Newt.
The head blacksmith, Harriet obviously said yes to the idea, and so every week since then he would take a couple minutes out of his day to sneak over and check on how the rings were coming out. Thomas had also spent the past month planning out just how he was going to ask Newt, now it was all coming together, today he’d pick up the rings and then half way through the bonfire tonight he’d sneak off to a meadow he had stumbelled upon (and decorated with the help of Minho) before his friends would escort Newt to the meeting place. All he had to do now was wait, and so after going over his plan for the 100th time Thomas headed out to breakfast.
The day went by quickly, right before lunch he met up with Harriet and Brenda who gave him the rings and then went by the meadow to make sure everything was ready for the night. Thomas and Minho had collected fire-flys and placed them into jars (with holes in the lids) that sat along a small path going through the many wild flowers growing, after checking that everything was in place Thomas went back and joined the rest for lunch.
By the time dinner had finished and all the residents of Safe Haven were heading to the bonfire, Thomas felt his nerves shoot through the roof. He couldn't want anything more but was still worried, Minho noticing his friends' thoughts racing placed a hand on his shoulder and wished him good luck before heading to find Newt, Thomas calmed himself down a bit then headed to the meadow with the rings sitting in his pocket.
Newts POV
Newt sat on his and Tommy's bed sketching a drawing of flowers, he had been about half way through when he started to hear the sound of people singing ‘old lady leary’ signifying the bonfire had started. So he neatly placed his things down on his bedside table before heading out the front door of his shared hut, still hanging on the front door even after all these years was the wooden sign him and Thomas had made together not even a week after their hut was built, the blonde lifted up his hand to run his fingers over the carved out names when a teasing voice filled the air.
“God your such a sap” Minho said as he ran up the small hill before taking his place standing next to Newt, “shut up shank” the blonde responded before turning to face his best friend, behind him he could see frypan, Brenda, Sonya and Gally waiting for the two of them “are we having an intervention i didnt know about?” he joked raising an eyebrow “just follow us we gotta show you something” was all minho said before walking over to the rest of the group. Newt glanced at the hut once more before joining his friends.
They walked past the bonfire, through the gardens and into the woods, whilst none said nothing about where they were going playful banter filled the air. Newt, still not knowing where they were going, continued to follow them knowing his friends would never lead him to danger. After a couple minutes of walking they reached a meadow that stretched across a wide cliff, the sun was setting over the water giving the whole scene an orangey glow and a path Newt got lead down was laced with jars of fireflies. The whole view was gorgeous but before Newt could say anything the group stopped walking and he turned to see Thomas standing at the end of the path.
“Go get him tiger” Minho said as he winked and pushed newt towards Thomas then walked back to the group, Newt turned to look at his boyfriend. whilst he was confused on what was happening he just could help but think how amazing Thomas looked, the last streaks of sunshine from the day basked on his face and he smiled nervously making his dimples more prominent, “hi” was all Thomas said before getting onto one knee, then it all clicked.
“Newt , since that first day when I came up in the box and I met you I knew there was something different about you, your accent that makes my heart melt, the way your hair shines in the sun, how your freckles make me want to spend all day counting them but when I first arrived I couldn't pin point how I felt, then when we were in the scorch and I felt like all I needed was you close to me but really it wasn't until you got infected that I truly realised that what I was feeling was love, and since then I've just kept falling more and more for you, and believe me I never want to stop. I understand marriage is something of the past but I want to give you something that shows you I'm yours forever that is if you'll take me, so Newt, love of my life, will you marry me?’
The blonde stood there for a second taking it all in before crashing into Thomas yelling “yes! Oh my god yes of course I will!” The two of them pulled each other together into a love filled kiss as their friends cheered behind them. Once they pulled apart Thomas brought out the rings whilst their friends started walking towards them, sliding the ring onto Newts finger before placing his own into the palm of his hand “oh tommy, these are gorgeous” Newt peppered kisses all over his Tommy’s face before gently placing the ring onto Thomas' finger.
The next 20 minutes were filled with hugs from their friends and Sonya giving a bear hug to her brother and soon to be brother-in-law before the questions started (“what's the wedding going to be like?” “can I be the officiant!!” “what even happens during a wedding?”) Once they had their private celebration with their closest friends, Thomas and Newt decided to head back to the bonfire and let the others know.
The fire crackled brightly and the sound of singing filled the air. Thomas and Newt stood at the front of the amphitheater in between the bonfire and the memorial stone where they waited for everyone to quiet down. “Everyone! Tommy and I have an announcement!” Newt started before turning to his now fiancee “we're getting married!!” Thomas shouted right before everyone erupted into cheers, people started walking up to them pulling them into hugs and giving congratulations. Not long later Gally’s drink got pulled out as Jorge said “this is something we must celebrate!!” and many toasts to the newly engaged couple were made as the night went on. Newt turned to face Thomas, his tommy and smiled at him before getting pulled into a passionate kiss that caused the sound of cheers and whistling, yet neither of them could be happier.