"What's wrong with Alice?" I asked looking to Josh.

After I brought Alice to the hospital they moved her in the physic ward. Josh had just finished talking with her, trying to figure out what's wrong. He ran a hand through his hair and adjusted his lab coat which read, district thirteen medical team. "Why is she having so many nightmares? I didn't have as much."

He sighed and glanced down at her charts then to me. "She has lost so much, her best friend got murdered right in front of her. She lost he mother and brother to whooping cough, she got reaped into the games, yet she stayed strong through all of it. Then she met you and Lulu. sShe had something to live for you both gave her hope, then she almost died. It's called PDSD or post-dramatic stress disorder. Everything just caught up with her." He explained in his worn tone.

I nodded and yawned. It had only been an hour since I brought her up here. "Can I see her?"

He glanced at the curtain dividing us from Alice. "I suppose you can... but I do warn you to be careful, some words can set off her memories, and we don't need that happening." I nod anxious.

He steped aside and pushed the curtain out of the way. She sat criss cross on the bed, her body turned slightly, and she stared at the curtain.

"Alice?" I asked hesitantly. She didn't move, or even blink. I just sat down in a chair near her. She just stared and stared. I took her hand finally when her silence and unmovingness began to worry me.

"Fray." She choked in a bare whisper. "Make it stop. Make it stop." I got up and hugged her.

"I will, Alice, I will..." I promise her.

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Every day I visited Alice. Sometimes she muttered words. Other times she said nothing and stared at the wall. She often sat cross-legged on the bed. I traded rooms with Lulu so that I could be with Ezra again. One morning after a visit with Alice I sat on my bed when Ezra walked in.

"Hey Seed." He greeted boldly. It was his nickname for me my mother often described the two of us, when we fought as seedy. hence for, Seed. "Rough Moring?" he asked as he sat on the bed next to me.

"Yeah," I replied, even if it didn't explain half of it. "Alice just sat there but at least the glint returned to her eye."

He laughed. "Yeah, she is pretty feisty!"

I nodded my agreement. "I wish she could get over it soon."

"Seed, let me tell you something. Alice will get better but she needs your help. our help. We just need to support her and be there for her." He looked me straight in the eye as he urged this.

"Yeah," I sigh. "You're right."

He smiles and gets up. "I've got to go the class. See you soon." He leaves the room. I sigh. But soon after I wondered around the District. I turned my head down a long hallway.

"Oomph!" I said. I banged my head in to something. Or someone... I look up to see a small, red-haired girl on the floor rubbing her head. "Are you okay?" I ask red offering her my hand.

"Yeah," she groaned her reply. Then I looked in to her eyes. The bright Amber eyes that were all to familiar...

"Julie?"

A/N: oohhh a cilff hanger! please review and thanks to darkkitty101who beta'd