[this is before teresa, thomas, and chuck arrived. enjoy the bot, love!!]

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like every morning in the glade, it was calm, quiet, almost soothing to a degree. the only thing that was kind of ruining your morning was the fact that you had a horrible headache, and barely remembered anything from last night. what you did remember was that you and the other builders were cheering gally on when he won against the new greenie - who's arrival was celebrated during the bonfire - and a jar of gally's homemade moonshine in your hand.

right. gally.

you blinked at the ceiling, finally processing that this wasn't your room. noticing gally sleeping next to you out of the corner of your eye, you shouldn't have been as shocked as you currently were.

it's okay, it's okay. nothing happened. let's not panic, you repeated in your head, shifting to try and escape the almost deathly grip he had on your waist, which only resulted in him tightening his hold on you.

just as you were about to protest, he spoke up.

"c'mon, it's barely dawn. don't go yet," he almost pleaded, voice hoarse from lack of use.

"gally," you called.

"we have to redo the fences today, we both need the rest," he tried to reason. "lay down. please."