thomas had just walked in, and saw the chaos.

"you cant give up on him!"

teresa was crying, minho was shouting at the doctor, wanting to punch him and the others were crying and comforting eachother, trying to calm down minho.

"teresa, what's wrong?" he croaked out.

"they want to give up on newt." she shook her head. "they can't, tom, they can't. he's your world."

thomas instantly span around to face the doctor.

"you better not put him down, or i'll-"

teresa took his hand in hers and intertwined their fingers, in a relaxing platonic way.

"tom. calm down. being angry won't get you anywhere." she frowned, opening her arms for the boy to be engulfed in a hug.

he took the hug happily, bursting into tears and crying into her shoulder.

"shh, shh, i know." she rubbed her hand up and down on her back. "he'll be okay. newt's friends will find a way to stop it, alright?"

"i'm sorry, tess."

"don't be sorry."

"the doctors won't lay a finger on him, i'll make sure of it, thomas."