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I like to believe that Newt doesn't die from the gun shot--nor Teresa from the roof collapsing on her, and rather they are left not quite gone, and what remains of WICKED, at least those loyal to the Chancellor, take them to one of their other facilities and rehabilitate them. Newt's still sick with the Flare--and now he's got some pretty bad injuries from the gunshot, but they try out an experimental version of the cure that seemed slightly more promising than the others, and it's slow and it's painful but it works. He starts getting better, and the part of his skull that was fractured when it was grazed with the bullet starts to heal.

Just about every bone in Teresa's body is broken though, and she's unconscious for a really long time while they set all her bones and drain the fluid from her lungs, and when he's well enough, Newt sits by her bed and they kind of become friends, talking in hushed tones about anything and everything. Newt talks about life in the Glade, and Teresa talks about how she and the other Creators would watch the Glade and make silly little bets about the silliest things, like which Runner's would make it back first and where each greenie would get assigned.

It's been months and everyone still thinks they're dead, and finally, when Teresa's legs are healed and they're sure that no bone fragments will damage her spinal cord, they're cleared to leave and they get taken to Paradise, and the Chancellor says that they are her way of trying to make up for all that had happened. There's a lot of tears, and hugging, and even when they're there, Newt and Teresa like to just sit together and have these quiet conversations about anything and nothing, and it's perfect.

[heldthemtogether]

'#[ because i think if they ever got past that initial hostility ]#[ newt and teresa could actually get along pretty well? ]' Could you maybe explain this? I've wondered about the possibility of Newt and Teresa getting along and sghjkl I just wanted someone else's thoughts on it.

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Of course, dear. Never be afraid to ask about my headcanons, I have plenty to go around. Anyway...

I think that given the way in which Teresa arrived, the circumstances surrounding her--I think that's what caused the hostility that Newt tends to show towards her. Everyone else was pretty quick to judge Thomas as being the cause of all their problems, but Newt didn't see it that way because Thomas arrived just like the rest of them did--he fit the pattern of how Gladers became Gladers. He was just a Greenie who arrived at the wrong time and when people got scared, they blamed him.

But Teresa was an abnormality. She was a girl, she arrived immediately after they had already gotten their new Glader for the month, and she remembered more than the rest of them did--the Glade, as horrifying a place as it was, had a kind of consistency. A consistency in the way people arrived, when they arrived, and the kind of people who did arrived--teenage boys with no memories other than a name that probably wasn't even theirs. She was different, which was strange and disorienting enough on its own, without her bringing what was pretty much the Glade equivalent of the end of times.

However, I think that if they'd had the chance to get past the hostility that Newt seemed to have for her, that the two of them might have actually gotten along really well. Teresa, throughout the series, always wanted to do what was best for the greater good--even when her actions were a little questionable, even when she did something that made you want to slap her, you knew that what she was doing, she was doing because she thought it was the best possible thing she could do in order to make the world a better place.

Newt is kind of like that, just on a smaller scale. He doesn't care much about saving the world--the world isn't his problem, the Gladers are. All he wants to do is do right by the Gladers, by his friends and the people who are counting on him. He wants to do the right thing, to do the best possible thing he can do given the circumstances. They have the same basic drive--to do good, to do the right thing, Teresa is just on a much larger, more "greater good" kind of scale than Newt is. Which is kind of why I could see them getting along.

Neither of them wants to hurt anyone, they only want to make the world better, safer for the people they care about (And Teresa is thinking on a much grander scale), but are both frequently forced into situations where they're forced to make tough calls that can and will hurt people, even if that's not what they wanted--and they have to make those calls. I think that sharing that kind of drive, that kind of personality and purpose means that if either of them had the time, the will or the lack of stubbornness on Newt's part to look at it from the other's perspective that they would in fact get along excellently. That they could be exhausted and bitter about all those tough calls they didn't want to make together, and to kind of take comfort in the knowledge that someone else hates having to do it as much as they do and there is just so much potential for character relationships and bonds forged in the crucible with this series send help.