Maxie and the girl walked to the kitchen, but on the way to the kitchen the girl collapsed.
"Get up! You have work to do!" Maxie yelled at her.
The girl struggled to get to her feet, but just couldn't. Maxie saw that she was really trying to get to her feet, and he softened up a little.
"You're really trying, aren't you?" Maxie asked her.
The girl nodded, and Maxie bent over and scooped her up into his arms.
"Let's get you to the infirmary……." Maxie said.
Maxie carried the girl up to the infirmary, and once there he carried her over to a doctor.
The doctor looked at her for a minute before he said, "She's really sick, I'll need to keep her for a couple of days to make sure that she'll be all right."
Now Maxie replied, "Sure, keep her for several days, I want her to be in excellent health so that she can do the things I need done."
Now the doctor asked, "Is she a new recruit?"
"No, she's not, she's my slave." Maxie replied.
"I'll see to it that she gets well. Would you please follow me with her so that we can get her to bed?" The doctor said.
"Sure thing." Maxie replied.
Maxie followed the doctor with the girl to a small room, and once in the room, the doctor pulled back the covers of the bed, and Maxie laid her down on the bed; then the doctor pulled the covers up around her.
Now Maxie said, "I need to go get one of the grunts to make lunch, since the girl's too sick to make it……. Also I'll need to get some of the grunts to guard her while she's sick……."
"Okay, you do that, and I'll tend to the girl…….." The doctor replied.
Maxie nodded and left the room.
~*~
Maxie walked down the hallway and on the way he ran into one of his grunts, who was goofing off instead of working.
"Josh, what on earth are you doing!?" Maxie asked.
"I…… I was looking for the slave girl." Josh replied.
"That's a lie, and I know it, so you'll be making lunch for the team today as the slave girl is up in the infirmary very sick." Maxie replied.
"As you wish, boss…….." Josh replied.
Josh walked with Maxie to the kitchen and once there, he got to work preparing the meal. It was an hour before he finished preparing the meal, and by this time the rest of the team had already seated themselves. It took Josh about 5 minutes to carry all of the food from the kitchen to the table.
Now Maxie entered the room, and when Tabitha saw him he asked, "Where's the little slave girl? It seems weird that she's not here……"
Maxie replied, "She's up in the infirmary, she's very sick. Shortly after you brought her to me after her task you gave her, she collapsed and couldn't get up. By the way, I'm going to need 4 grunts to guard her while she's sick."
After he said that, 4 grunts automatically volunteered to guard her.
"Good, after lunch you will report to the infirmary where you'll guard her." Maxie said.
"Yes, sir." The grunts replied.
Now everyone served themselves some food and began eating, and it was an hour before everyone finished eating. Then once everyone was finished, Maxie and the grunts, who had volunteered to guard her walked back up to the infirmary to find out the news was about the girl, and how long it would take for her to get well. Maxie hoped that the girl would be okay, but he couldn't do anything else for her except talk to the doctor and keep her comfortable until she got well, and that was exactly what Maxie planned to do.