Sorry me wee ones but I had to wait till summer when my schedule cleared up to keep going on but I'll make this EXTRA long so it will make up for it :D
Oh! I almost forgot, I wanted to ask you guys what you might think about me doing a KatnissXPeeta side story thing once this one gets a little farther on.
Rory's POV
"Dammit why does she have to be so stubborn?" I shout while I kick the metal cabinet I'm handcuffed to. "What is her problem? I was just trying to help-" My rant is interrupted by Gale walking in.
"How you doing?" I ask him casually, hoping I'm not in too much trouble for the misunderstanding in the hallway. "I've been better, you?" he responds back, avoiding eye contact with me. "Just peachy, mind getting me-" I pause when I see how tense his shoulders are and when he looks at me I see the anger flaring in his eyes.
"Look if you're mad about what I got in trouble for then don't be 'cause that's not what was going to happen,"
"I'm not mad about that you nimrod!" he shouts at me and I flinch back into the cabinet. He walks over to me and takes off the handcuffs but stalks off immediately afterward.
"Gale. Gale wait!" I shout running after him. "If you're not mad at me then what?" he stops walking but won't turn to face me.
"There is something more important than you going on and I can't handle you childish antics right now." he clenches his jaw and turns to face me, the anger evident in his eyes, "the Capitol group we have been training to fight has become more active recently and we need more men… I'll have to send out some of our best trainees, I have to pick the best six by tomorrow afternoon or else I lose my job and that's pretty stressful so if you wouldn't mind trying to stay in line I would really appreciate it," I can practically see the anger coming off of him.
I don't know what to say to him so I just stay quiet and avoid all eye contact. "Just keep out of trouble, okay?" he asks and I nod and he leaves immediately after.
I don't know if I should try my best tomorrow or not but if it means leaving this hell-hole then so be it.
The next day
Waking up at the butt crack of dawn of dawn has never nor will ever be my favorite thing to do but if leaving this place means I have to run endless laps around a muddy track whilst my older brother shouts at me and the rest of our group then I guess I'll have to put up with it but a guy can only take this for so long.
After 15 minutes of laps Prim sprints past me, trying not to show her hurt ankle but to me it is as clear as day and I can see the pain it is causing her to keep going but I won't bother her about it, after all, she did want me to keep my distance right?
"ALRIGHT! COME ON BACK!" Gale shouts at us and we all shout "Yes sir" in response before running back to the center of the track circle.
"I have some good news and bad news men!" I see Prim shuffle at the word men, feeling as if Gale forgot she was there but it makes me smirk knowing that the old Prim is still in there, locked away and trying to break out.
"The good news is that you don't have to run any more laps for the rest of the day," he says and I can here silent sighs of relief.
"The bad news…I'm sending out 6 of you to fight against the capitol. The 6 of you who will be going is as follows." I stand up straighter and wait for my name to be called. Heh, it's kind of funny how just a year ago I was praying I wouldn't be called and have to fight to the death but now I'm hoping I do.
"Mark Shendolts, Jaimee Ranut, Sage Pierce, Primrose Everdeen, Holt Jarks, Yolanda Marks," The group of people called goes up to stand near Gale and I finally get a look at their faces. Mark and Yolanda both look terrified and I don't think they could last a second in a real fight against anyone else but if they were chosen then I guess they can. Jaimee, Sage, and Holt all look indifferent towards getting picked but Prim is the only one who actually looks proud, strong, independent. I can see the determination in her eyes and I know that she will be the one to survive and come home alive this won't be the last we see of Primrose Everdeen. I regret not being chosen to go with them but I know that I would just get in her way and that wouldn't help either of us.
Prim" POV
Everyone else leaves, leaving the 6 of us here with Gale out in the cold. "You all are independent, strong-willed, and brilliant in your own ways and are the top of your group. You have 3 days to say any goodbyes and to get ready to leave. Dismissed!" we all start to leave but Gale comes up from behind me and whispers in my ear, "That's 3 days to patch up that ankle." And he just walks off like he never said anything.
I don't know how but this one comment made me grin and I sprinted off to the infirmary to get this thing checked out. (I know, I know, it isn't good to run on it if it's injured well shut up!)
When I get my ankle looked at the nurse almost falls over from seeing the shade of purple but I've seen people with worse when I still lived in the seam.
"Listen just let me ice it, then once the swelling goes down I'll splint it and be on my merry way ok?" I tell the nurse so I can just get the hell out of here because this place just smells too much like anti-septic spray for my liking.
A few minutes after leaving, the nurse comes back in with a back of ice and puts it on my ankle which I elevated while she was gone. "Thanks," I say and she leaves.
After the swelling has gone down quite a bit I call her back in and she goes to try and splint it but almost does the wrong ankle so I just take the kit off her hands and do it myself. I leave the examination room and am about to leave when the nurse hands me a crutch to use to keep the weight off my ankle and I have to completely honest with you, I really needed that.
Next stop, Katniss.
Katniss' room
"What do you mean you're leaving!" Katniss shouts making me flinch against the wall she cornered me into.
"Gale chose-" as soon as those words leave my mouth I knew they were the wrong ones to use right now.
"He is the one responsible for all this! I'm going to kill him if anything happens-" "Katniss I'm happy I'm leaving!" I shout over her which makes her go quiet.
"I wanted to go the moment he started talking about the small group of us going and I will be coming back Katniss, real nice of you to have faith in me," I say hostilely and stalk out the door, slamming it behind me. How dare she not even believe that her own sister could possibly make it out alive? This isn't the Hunger Games, the odds aren't stacked against me and I have a group of people to back me up.
She hasn't even bothered to come after me which means she's probably having a breakdown or something and normally I would care but I'm too angry to care right now. She'll be fine later.
Three days later, leaving for the wilderness surrounding the Capitol
Prim's POV
There isn't anyone here but Gale, Katniss, and Peeta, all here to see us off. Katniss is crying in Peeta's arms and Gale is visibly bothered by this but he has bigger fish to fry right now so he focuses on the 6 of us being put on the hover craft.
Right before I get on the hovercraft I run up to Katniss and hug her from behind. "Promise me you'll come back," she whispers so only I can hear. "I promise," and I limp over to the hovercraft, crutch in hand, before I become a crying mess.
The 9 hour hovercraft ride is probably the most boring thing I've ever done in my entire life but once we get there it is obvious how these people don't think we'll amount to anything.
We step off into the blinding afternoon sunlight in the middle of a clearing surrounded by trees and I can see small camps semi-hidden around the perimeter of the clearing.
I hear whispers around us.
"So Scrawny."
"Weaklings"
"Won't last a week"
"They brought a cripple girl with 'em"
When I heard the last person say that they also tripped me and I sort of accidentally pole vaulted over my crutch and landed on my feet but I would try and use this to my advantage.
Turning around, I glare at the person and anger surges inside me, I did NOT put up with a 9 hour ride in that metal death trap to be called a cripple and have people try to make jokes at my expense. I hobbled right over to him and looked him right in the face.
"Oh what's this? The cripple came to play guys!" and everyone starts laughing as he tries messing up my hair but I lift my crutch and swing it around full circle, hitting him in the head, and I am walking away with my back to the stunned gasps and cuss words before he even hits the ground.
Before I'm completely out of ear-shot I turn around slightly so they can see my face and say, "And my names not cripple… its Prim."
Long enough for you guys? I hope you liked it 'cause I sure do.
And I know that Rory was really set on getting out of there but if you read carefully you would see why he let that hopeless dream go.
I really like this angry side of prim and I think it fits her well because she's always been known as this good girl sort but she probably has a lot of pent up emotions just waiting for a chance to break through and I figured this could be their chance. REVIEW! :D