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straight over to Aslin and Clary. Joey yelled, “Hey Greg, you want me to come with you?”
    Greg shook his head no and said, “Nah, I got a feeling there’s gonna be an ass chewing coming my way. You go eat with Patrick and Kya if you want. I’ll catch up with you later buddy.”
    Joey saluted and headed off to find himself a place to sit.
     
    Chapter Four
     
    Greg saw Clary and Aslin sitting in the corner eating and shook his head. When they saw him coming they scrunched up their faces at the fact he had a full plate of steaming food. Aslin asked, “How’d you get that? We wanted to have your full attention.”
    Greg sat down, keeping his tray far out of their reach and said, “I don’t think putting me in front of the two of you is ever going to get you my full attention. I mean, do you really think that the two of you talking while I watch and see your hot food is gonna do anything for me? Just talk would ya, I'm tired and I want to go to sleep for a couple hours.”
    Clary said, “Well, despite your insubordination you've done a good job lately holding down the perimeter at night. Of course, I think half of that has to do with Shaun being there and keeping you out of trouble. And, of course you are still finding new ways to get into trouble during the day, but nothing too horrible.”
    Greg smiled and asked, “So does that mean that I'm able to start sleeping at night again?”
    Aslin said, “Well, starting tomorrow we want to try and have you start working with some of the kids that are still having issues with firearms.”
    “I’m not a babysitter man.”
    “No, no you aren’t, you are one of the ones that has kept them alive. You are the same age, or in most cases, a bit older. As well you are someone that they look up to. Besides that, you speak a language which while we don’t understand it seems to be a native tongue called teen, which much like Spanish and French, I've got absolutely no interest in learning….ever!” replied Aslin.
    “Yeah I can understand that. You want me to start tomorrow though, so does that mean that I can take the rest of today off?”
    “It depends on what you are going to do with your free time. I mean, will there be any cleanup needed, or any burned buildings?” Clary asked.
    Greg said, “You know I was thinking that I could take a group out on my own. I mean if you want me to be in charge, why not start with something small. I can drive, and we can head to town and have a look around.”
    Aslin said, “Well let me think about it, both the idea of you guys going out on your own, and you said, that you were going to drive? Because that does a lot for me you know. I’ve seen you drive, I mean anyone can drive Greg, now what it boils down to after that is that if you are a good or a shitty driver, well we kind of know that you are a shitty driver and that regardless of even if you took it slow, I think you know damn well that no one leaves the base.”
    Greg leaned in, showing the intensity for how he felt about what he wanted to do which wasn’t something the laid back teenager usually did. They watched him, appreciating it but couldn’t justify letting anyone leave. Greg said, “Guys, there aren’t that many people here, it is a serious facility. I know it's been nine months since this started but think about it, there is bound to be survivors, people that have been hiding in fear. I think that if they were given the opportunity and chance to go somewhere safe that they would take it and we could help them. If one of you guys even want to go then I'm fine with it, but I've been thinking seriously for a long time about it and I'm not screwing around here.”
    “Well there’s a first time for everything isn't there?” Clary asked.
    Greg replied, “I can understand that statement but let me take four or five people out, and I won’t let you down.”
    Clary said, “Hey let us talk about it, and we will see ok? Just hang out today and go catch yourself a nap.