Lost & Found (Maze Runner Fanfiction)

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Elaine came back to camp around dinner, but didn't bother to sit down. Instead she went to check on Jess, who sat up reading a book.

"Feeling better?" Elaine simply asked
"I don't know, it still hurts. But I can sit up" Jess said, and put her book down.
"How were you able to find us?" Elaine asked
Jess gave Elaine a 'really' look.
"I heard you talking about it before you left" Jess replied.

Elaine chuckled, and looked down.
"How did you not bleed out on you way here?" She asked

Jess pulled out a circular disc from her pocket.
"I created just a few months ago, it's supposed to help with bullet wounds. But it died half way" Jess explained

Elaine examines the object, "it's incredible" she said in awe.
"It's only a prototype though, that's why it died" Jess explained further.
"Well it's very clever" Elaine commented and handed Jess back the circular disc.
"Thanks"
"I'll come back to check on you in an hour or so" Elaine said before she left.

As Elaine came to sit by the lit fire, she glanced at Newt who only sharped his knives. Anna had gone to look through some of the left over supplies, to see if she could find anything useful.

"...I'm sorry" Elaine said quietly, but loud enough for Newt to hear.

Newt looked up at Elaine, and got up. He walked over to her and sat down, letting Elaine lay her head on his shoulder.

"It's ok, Anna told me about Lucas. I'm sorry" Newt said kissing Elaine forehead.
"You know, now that Jess is here, she'll have to come with us" Elaine said looking up at Newt.
"I know, it's a good thing the boats big enough" Newt chuckled.
Elaine smiled at Newts humor. Soon Anna came back, with many things. Mostly metal trinkets if old radios, and things from almost a decade ago.

"How'd you find any of that?" Newt asked, he hadn't seen any like that from when he was here before.
"I found them in a cellar that was baracaded with crates" Anna simply said setting the bag of trinkets down next to her.
"And you moved them by yourself?" Elaine raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah, I guess having the job as the runner in the maze finally paid off" Anna said and flexed her arms.

Elaine shook her head with a laugh. Anna's face fell at the sudden memory of running the maze with Lucas. He was like her best friend, well besides Elaine. When he passed, she did her best to comfort Elaine, but never had the time to grieve about it. She cried, but not in a grieving way, more of a realizing what had just happened cry.

Anna quickly put on a smile, almost as quickly as it disappeared. She looked over at Elaine and Newt who sat happily together, talking and laughing. Anna sighed as she got up, checking the stew on the fire. Once she was satisfied with how it looked and tasted, she got a bowl for herself and Jess, and hurried to the garage where Jess laid bored out of her mind.

"What's that" Jess asked curiously as Anna appeared in the doorway.
"Stew" Anna gestured to the bowls in her hands.
"Mmm" Jess licked her lips as Anna set the bowl down in front of her, it's brownish contents slightly sloshing.

Anna sat down on the metal stool next to Jess cot, and sighed as she took a bite of her hot soup.

"You ok?" Jess asked after she took a bite.
Anna looked up and nodded her head, "I'm fine, just tired" Anna said simply, and continued to eat. Jess only nodded, and then there was silence.

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"Do you know where Anna went" Elaine asked Newt, after about 20 minutes of Anna begin gone.
"Yeah, I think she went to go give Jess some soup" Newt answered as he got up to look into the half full pot. Elaine nodded.
"Speaking of Jess I'm going to go check on her" Elaine said as she got up.
"Want any?" Newt asked gesturing to the pot.
Elaine nodded, and continued to the garage.
"Be back in 10" she hollered, and looked back at Newt who gave her a thumbs up.

Elaine was about halfway, when Anna stepped out of the doorway with two empty bowls.
Her eyes a bit teary, she really did try her best to keep her head down, so no one could tell she was about to cry, but Elaine saw before Anna could even slip past her.

"Hey you ok?" Elaine asked calmly.
"Yeah, I'm fine" Anna said a bit harshly.
"Are you sure? You seem a bit-"
"Ok, fine I'm not ok!...It's about time you figured that out, I haven't been ok since Lucas's death! And that was two years ago!" Anna yelled, she was furious. Not at Elaine but at the fact that she hasn't been able to grieve for two years about Lucas's death.
"Anna I-" Elaine tried to reach out to comfort Anna, but she backed away.
"I was there for you every day in the glade, helping you with the loss! And not once did you ask if I was ok!" There was a pause, Elaine was speechless, And Anna's knuckles had turned white, her grip holding onto the bowl so tightly they might shatter "you know maybe the reason Lucas is dead, is because of you" and just as soon as she said, Anna regretted every word that slipped from her mouth, and molded into that sentence.

Elaine's eyes watered and she punched past Anna, towards a couple boats. Anna stood there ashamed of what she had just said. Anna hastily ran back to the fire where Newt sat patiently waiting for the two girls. He was surprised at Anna's quick motion at tossing the metal bowls into a basin of water, and by the she ran off, with tears spilling from her eyes. And he knew that something had happened. And it was between Elaine and Anna.

But he wasn't going to ask questions about it, he knew it wasn't his business as long as it had nothing to do with him. So he sat there, with an empty bowl in his hands, as the sun hid behind the horizon.

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