If i can just

by Page Wonder

My one-shots are generally too short to be one shots so, they are simply short monologues! This one happens to be about Finnick's death. (yeah, i know. all of my one-shot/monologue things are about the deaths of characters but that's just my specialty. (also that i am really bad at spelling!)

Authors note: for those of you who are reading "Can't get away," I'm sorry I haven't been able to update in a long time and the next chapter still won't be out for a while. Most of you have probably figured out that all of my one-shots are miniature so they are not really one-shots. So I'm just going to call them, "Really-short-Monologues"

(Finnick) If I can just…

The lizards have already ripped over a dozen large tears in my skin and the wounds a burning. I can see the rising sun light above me. I grab at the ladder rung above my head. I can see Katniss and a few overs standing around the opening of the man hole. For a moment I wonder why none of them are helping me. They're just watching me suffer. Then I realise that there's nothing they can do. I'm already done for. At that moment, a lizard beast latches onto my short hair and starts pulling me down. I scream in pain and everything seems to slow down in my mind. I see Katniss take out the holo and whisper the death words into it. I understand. It seems to fall in slow motion.

No! I just realized I still have a chance. If I can just reach the few rungs above me.

I yank my head upwards as hard as I can. The lizard falls down, taking huge clumps of my hair with it. I kick lizards off my feet and scramble up. My time is ticking, but things still seem slow.

If I can just reach that top rung…

I stretch my arm out as far as I can. Just as my fingertips reach the bar, the man whole seals. The rising sun light is gone.