yes the title is from take me to church

amazing song

i would like to say that this is my 3rd attempt at tmr bingo square 'royalty' :')

(for tmr prompt royalty)

set in the past :))

Thomas lets his head drops onto Newt's shoulder, a content smile on his face.

Here, in the attic of the palace, they can have as much peace as they wish.

There's no maids running around, panicking about sorting things out for the Royalty. There's no Royalty themselves - other than Thomas, but, well, Newt doesn't see him as Royalty, he sees him as a human - who's trying to get said Prince to do something. 

They can relax. They don't have to listen out for anybody when they're doing anything that would put them to death instantly.

Thomas doesn't really know what he's doing. He sneaks off with Newt, and they share sweet whispers to one another, kiss each other, and sometimes make love. He used to feel like he's doing something wrong, that he's going to go to Hell for simply loving somebody. But now? Now he feels like he'd do anything for his love.

Newt, on the other hand, seems to know what he's doing. He's never had any doubts, although he doesn't like to call Thomas' panicks 'doubts', because that insinuates that this is just a little crush, which it's not. Anyway, he doesn't care about people. He'd run away with Thomas if he could, but of course he knows it's too much to ask for; running away from his Royal duties, and his younger brother, Chuck.

Newt smiles and wraps his hand around Thomas' waist. They're both looking out the window into the Palace Gardens where the sun is hitting perfectly. He closes his eyes and exhales a content sigh. "I love this."

Thomas hums in agreement and relaxes further into the other's touch. "Yeah," He whispers. "I do too." He does. He absolutely adores this. He feels loved, safe and comfortable and he doesn't think he'll A) ever get bored of the feeling and B) ever let go. 

The sun is setting and it's making the pair illuminated, and when they look at each other with the same thought of 'beautiful' and a smile, a silent confirmation crosses between them.

And then Thomas is lifting his head up and turning it sideways and then they're kissing. They're kissing and it feels so familiar, yet so different, and the Prince can't really explain it and he'll probably never be able to but he doesn't care. Newt's lips are soft against his and he tastes of the alcohol they had snuck out earlier that night to drink. Their lips are moving together but it's not lustful, no, it's sweet and loving and passionate. Thomas thinks he could get high off the blond's lips and it still makes him dizzy. 

Newt pulls away first, eyes still closed and lips parted. He looks gorgeous in his boy's mind. 

Thomas chuckles, and shakes his head in disbelief. "Can I say something weird and probably really stupid?" 

The blond lets out a breathy laugh and nods. "You always say weird and probably stupid stuff, Tommy. This must be really stupid." 

The Prince doesn't respond to the remark with words, but instead with a playful elbow to Newt's ribs. He huffs. "What if we ran away?" 

Newt doesn't respond. His eyes are wide and he's been completely caught off guard. Run away? He's pleasantly surprised in a way - he would happily if that what Thomas would do. 

Thomas seems to think that his silence is a bad silence, because he, panicked, tries to take his words back. "I- Nevermind. It was stupid. I don't know why I even thought of it. I need to stay here and you've got Minho and everyone and-"

"Tommy." He laughs properly, a hearty laugh. "You're rambling, love." 

"Sorry." He cracks a smile, but Newt knows him, and he can see the tension lying underneath. 

"We could." Newt murmurs, intertwining their hands on his thigh. "I mean... it'd be hard. We'd need to bring Chuck and I'd need to bring Minho, if he'd come." 

Thomas shakes his head and looks down at his lap, playing with his free hand. "No. It's fine. We're okay here, right?" 

Newt can't help but feel a pang of disappointment - they were okay here, but he'd much prefer to live somewhere peacefully, alone, maybe on a farm with a few animals, where they wouldn't have to sneak around in the shadows to be alone. But, of course, he doesn't voice this, and instead he just makes himself smile softly. "Yeah. We're okay." 

They sit in silence, just listening to the steady breaths emitted from their lover. This is all they need - each other. Nobody can get between them when they're sat so closely, nobody can take one of them away when they're hidden. They're okay. 

Maybe 'okay' isn't the ideal word they want to feel, but, they'll take it. 

Newt yawns. "If we ran away, we'd get a lot of time to ourselves." He takes a gamble and starts the conversation up again. 

Thomas whispers a small, 'yeah', and pulls his hand away to drop his head in his hands. He groans loudly.  "Why can't we just be fucking normal? I don't want to be a Prince, fighting and learning everything there is to learn. I just want to go outside, be free, live with you." 

"I know, sweetheart." The blond whispers, sitting up slightly and facing the Prince. "I want that too." He doesn't need to say much, he never does - him being there is enough for Thomas. 

"If we were to run away, I'd need time." 

Time. 

Newt nods. "Of course." He plants a gentle kiss onto his forehead and lingers there for a second. "Time is valuable." 

They hear the shouted 'THOMAS!' and know their time is up for now. 

nah because this is shit

i swear if this doesn't fit in the royalty prompt box i might cry

anyway i felt like doing this below

three possible endings here:

- thomas and newt run away. they get caught and get put in prison, newt gets executed (bit of an l there innit)

- they run away. they go into the countryside with chuckie wuckie and minho and they live in a village where gally is *definitely* a grumpy farmer who looks after sheep (the gladers all work there <33) they live happily ever after

- they stay in the palace and they continue with their sneaky sneaky. thomas is made to court teresa, and they get married blah blah and EITHER: thomas still sneaks around with newt and does whatever (pspspspspp) OR thomas realises their relationship is never going to work and cuts off his seeing newt and then minewt and thomesa def happen 

ANYHOO 

this was shit ok im sorry