The Misfire:Book 1 (Newt || A TMR Fanfiction)

25. His Last Night

'Erin's PoV:

It was already dark outside by the time I had finished changing Frankie's bandage and cleaning up his wound.

I reckon a celebration tonight for the newbie so I had to finish all my chores and if there were still errands I had to do, I could just leave them for the next day. It's not like Alby would throw me to the Slammer for a not completing a task.

Minutes ago, Maya dropped by the place to check if I was done for the day. I did not want her to wait for me so I just told her to head first since we still had to clean up the entire hut.

I returned the tweezers and antiseptic solutions back to the shelf and dusted the dirt off my clothes. Jeff was already by the door waiting for Clint and I to finish everything.

I exhaled heavily and smiled, placing my hand on each of my fellow med-jack's shoulders. "Come on. We don't wanna be late for the party."

"I'm not touching Gally's recipe this time." Clint stated.

"Why? Too shucking scared to repeat the farting-in-your-sleep incident?" Jeff snickered.

"Dude!" Clint scoffed, "No need to remind me about it."

My hands never left their shoulders as we headed to the bonfire. I really liked these two shanks as well and I could listen to both of 'em argue or tell corny jokes for a whole day. They were no longer the scaredy and timid boys that cried when they arrived in that damn box.

We were already a few steps away from Newt who was happily showing the greenie around.

"And we got our 3 med-jacks," The second-in-command introduced, "Clint, Jeff and Erin; she's the keeper. They spend their days patching up the slicers."

I smiled. "Hey, greenie. Sorry if these idiots scared you awhile ago."

The greenie only nodded and rubbed the back of his neck in response.

"Oh by the way, Newt," I added, "Have you seen Maya?"

Newt frowned. "I thought she was with you?"

"I thought she was with you?" I frowned as well.

"She's not with Winston either. Are you sure she didn't buggin' sneak inside the maze?"

"What? No!" I shook my head. "She dropped by awhile ago but I didn't want her to wait. So I thought she went to you."

"Who's Maya?" The greenie asked. But no one answered.

"She's probably with Jack. She's been hanging out with him a lot recently. Frypan saw them stealing candies from the pantry the other day." I admitted, sensing Newt looking a little distressed upon not knowing where his girlfriend was tonight.

"I'm still a bit busy here. So if you see her, can you t-"

"Yeah, yeah." I waved Newt off, already knowing what he wanted me to do, "I know the drill."

Then Clint, Jeff and I parted ways so I could look for Maya. She was really an expert at staying hidden or being unnoticed. I was just worried she would do something foolish. Afterall, she had a pretty amount of severe injuries that could have potentially ended her life. I have always seen her trying to get too close to the maze entrance and I had to quickly send Winston or Jack to distract her from pursuing her true intentions before Alby would spot her first.

Alby did not shy away from telling me how Maya was really getting on his nerves. So I just needed to keep an eye out incase she actually did something very stupid.