There was a buzzing in Draco's ears, a blurriness in his vision, he even felt sick to his stomach as he looked around. He should have been dead, this must have been some odd form of heaven. . . or hell. Someplace where he knew, he could tell from what little he could see our hear, what little light there was in the room, but he knew the place, the smells. The girl that had been laying beside him,the one that he had been entangled with, he could still feel the cold sweat that she had been giving off on his face. No, this was a form of both heaven and hell; it being heaven for the fact that he was with the girl that he knew that he loved with all of his life, the one that he would have protected with all of it; and hell because of the fact that he was still in the games, still in the place where he should have died, hell, he did die in. That would only mean one thing, the girl had died as well.
She looked so at peace as she slept still on the concrete floor. Looked like she could have been having any good dream in the world, really. Terra looked happy and that made Draco smile a little as he tried to stand, but fell back onto the ground with a loud enough sound that it shook Terra out of her sleep, spear coming down and nearly plunging into Draco's chest. Once she looked at the boy, Draco could see all of her anger and fear transform into something different, something between happiness and relief. Her skin tone change, the way that her eyes looked changed, hell Draco would swear that they even changed colors as she looked down at him, and there was that smile once again; the one that Draco had come to love, the one that gave him butterflies when he saw it, it was the only true one that Terra had.
Terra wrapped her whole body around the body and just sat there and cursed him for what seemed like ages, but Draco could have cared less. He took in all of her, the way that she smelled of flowers still, the way that she wrapped her arms around his head, her legs around his waist, every bit of her was touching him in some form. Draco could not help but to smile as he finally got to look into the girls breath taking eyes, see every inch of her beat-up face with little scratches here and there, he loved every inch of her. Then, finally, he moved in closer and let their lips press against one another. Draco felt like this could have been called there first kiss. It felt like heaven as they melted into one another, being pulled apart only long enough to catch a breath of air before rejoining one another once again. Draco felt like he could have been that happiest and luckiest person in all of the world if it was not for the sound and sent feat right back into his body, the sound of the Capitol bring shot through the room.
" We're still alive?" Draco asked in a panic, his head getting all clouded up once again.
" Good afternoon Tributes, tomorrow morning when the lights come on, there will be a feast in the lobby of the Asylum. Since we are feeling generous, we thought that you all would maybe like. . . something. Something that you have not been getting enough of during the games, something that you need desperately. This will be the only message during these games, thank you and happy hunger games!" The Head gamemaker said, Draco could almost feel the smile that was on this mans face as he watched over his little pawns
" Food!" Terra cried out as she looked over at Draco, the smile coming back once again as Draco saw the lust of desire come into her eyes.
" When was the last time that you got anything to eat?!" Draco asked as he looked at how thin the girl had gotten. " How long was I out for?"
" I think it's been three days since we've eaten anything that you have been out for a good. . . five I think. Sponsors have been sending apple sauce and things for you to eat, an apple here and there for me."
" Merlin! How many others have died since I have been out?!" Draco nearly yelled as he had to lay down to take it all in, five whole days had been lost and this girl had kept him alive!
" Boy from twelve and the boy from the middle district." Terra said as her eyes started to cloud over once again, all of the happiness fading from her eyes.
" Oh. Man, I really missed a lot, huh?" Draco said with a smile as he looked around, the whole area seemed to be different to him, everything was brighter than he remembered. " Did you move us?"
" I found a place that had no Mutts on the third floor, where most people don't come through and planted us there till you were gonna wake up. Thought it would be better to just take care of you than to have to take care of you and fight for the two of us as well." The girl said blankly as she went to the window. " I found that you can see all of the land that is around here for miles. See the nice green grass, the way that the playground outside had been taken over by rust and vines, see the graveyard that had been made outside, how every time that a canon goes off, another grave pops up, out of the ground. Sometimes I even see my little brother outside playing with my older one, I really do." Terra said lightly. " This place had really been getting to me for the last few days, with no one to talk to and all, it really can drive you insane." She said with a faint laugh.
" How far are we from the lobby?" Draco asked as he got up and followed her to the window.
" Three flights down, through the kids ward, and then straight down the hall. Not too far, as long as the kids are at bay."
" Kids?" Draco could feel Terra shudder.
The kids. There were hell to get through and toe get Draco through them as well. There were tough little suckers to keep down for long enough to run through with a two-hundred pound man resting on your back! They used whatever the could find to keep the two of them down the the ground, trying to take the spear that Terra had wrapped in her hand, trying to rip out the sword from her pants, sending a gash through her leg. She thought that she would never be able to run up the stairs fast enough, now only being able to drag Draco up the stairs and she tried not to scream from the pain that was in her leg, the blood that was dripping on the stairs and being spread by Draco's limp body. There was no way in hell she would have been able to stay alive long enough for her to keep Draco alive long enough until a little vile of some for of medication came from the same Snape fellow. She would have to thank him if she made it out of here.
The feast scared her when she thought about going, it had always been known that there would be one death that would come from the feast, there always has been before. No way that this year would be the first to have no one die. No way around it. She looked back at Draco for a moment and thought that maybe, just maybe, it would be best for them to just stay back, away from the feast for the fact of staying alive. Maybe, just maybe, the rest of them would just kill off one another, making it time for the final battle. She shuttered as she snapped her head back towards the window and shuttered, no, there was no way that she was ready to have to come to the final battle just year, not with what had just happened a few minutes back, Terra could feel her face flush as she slowly moved her fingertips to her lips.
But Terra kept her body looking out the window as she was her brother, Talon, wadding around the playground, looking up at it and smiling so wide that he looked like the happiest person that ever walked on the earth. She could feel her body slowly moving closer and closer to the window, just to get a better look, as she saw her older brother helping Talon up and onto the old, rusted slide. They both looked like there was no care in the world, they both looked like the children's father, tall with black hair and soft features, while she looked like her mother, red hair, freckles, and sharp features that would pierce through anything. She smiled likely and moved her hand to the air as the brothers both smiled up to the window and waved at her, Talon making out unknown words that could now be heard through the window. All she could do was hold back her tears and smile down at the playground, where she knew that there was no one around, the damn games getting to her.
" What did they look like?" Draco asked
" Huh?" Terra was snapped out of it as she looked up at the boy.
" The children, what did they look like?" Draco asked once again as he looked out the window.
" They just looked like kids, all different ages and heights and colors, they just looked like kids in hospital gowns that could have killed us at any moment." Nearly did, Terra thought as she felt her leg and thanked Snape in her mind once again for saving her life. As she looked back down through the window, she felt a cold breeze pass through the room as there was no one looking back at her.
" So you see them out there, huh?" Draco asked lightly.
" Not right now, no, I think that it has just been an escape for my mind, with the whole fact that I can hear it every time that someone has died and all, it's a place for me to go when I am just getting a little too well. . . crazy." She laughed lightly as she looked at the boy. " Are we really going to that feast?"
" We have to, Ter, we both know that the food supply is not going to come back, these games are almost over, we are going to die if we do not get down there and get something to eat!" Draco said as he looked around and found the bag with what little supplies they had left in there and pulled out his wand and whipped around and got his trident, Terra had run back down to the lobby to get that back.
" We can just wait it out until all of the others have done and then we can go in and get what is left, then it will be a lot safer and smarter!" Terra whispered.
" No, we have to go to this thing, it is the only way, I mean look at you! You are skin and bones! There is no more debating this, we are going, get your stuff!" Draco hissed as he started down the hall towards the stairs.
It was nearly midnight by the time that they had made it through all of the kids, Draco having to help Terra through the end of the hall because one of the kids had kicked her so hard that she felt like she had a broken leg, which thankfully, but dawn she was able to stand on once again. They were the first ones that were there, the first one to be hiding at the edge of the lobby as everything was brought up from the floor. It felt like they had been standing for hours, just waiting to see if anyone else was going to run up, Draco would take them out as soon as they made it through with a simple spell, but as Terra looked around, she saw no one. Everyone that was left must have been as smart as she was and decided against it. Knowing how hard it would be to come out of their little safe zoned to get this food.
" I'll go first, if anything happens, get out of here, do not try to come for me, got it?" Terra asked but did not wait for an answer.
As she walked out and moved towards the food. It was all lined up in a beautiful line, everything there seemed to be like a gift from heaven above. There was a thousand different types of fruits that Terra had only seen in the Capitol, a whole roasted turkey that was waiting right in the middle of everything, surrounded by hundreds of other types of meats. Terra could feel herself drooling as she walked closer to it, but she heard the soft voice of a child and panicked as she thought it was one of the kids from the hall, but as she looked, it was the little girl from the pure blood district, pointing a wand at her, sending Terra to the ground, screaming.
" Let her go Cas! She has done nothing wrong to you!" Draco screamed as the little girl looked up, she was torturing the Terra without even using her hands on her. The screams that the girl was making were unbearable for Draco to listen to. " Just take what you want and then get out of here!" Draco screamed.
" Never! This is a game, you fool and I will not be losing this one. I will be able to bring true pride to our district, the pride that you will never be able to give them. You, with you Death Eating father and the mother who will follow him into the dark. The crazy-ass aunt who is locked away for killing too many innocent people, no that is not what our district needs for a victor! But I am!" The little girl said with a shrill laugh.
" Avada Kadavra!" Draco screamed at the girl.
" Protego!" The girl screamed as she sent the curse back to Draco.
" Finite Incantatum."
" Crucio!" The girl said and was right back to bringing Terra to her breaking point.
" Stop it right now!" Draco screamed as he looked around to see if anyone was around, there seemed to not be a soul around.
" Make it stop!" Terra cried out as she looked at Draco. " Please!"
" See, Draco, she is asking me to kill her! Isn't that right, Muggle?!" Cas said as she kicked the girl as hard as she could with the heel of her shoe. A sound that sounded like grugling water came out of Terra.
Draco could not take it anymore; the way that Terra looked the sounds that were coming from her, he could not stand a thing about it anymore. He launched himself right at the little girl that was smiling down at the girl, holding a knife now to Terra's throat as she gave a sick smile over to Draco, but then her whole face seemed to change as she saw the whole body of a trident coming towards her little body, could see her death bring brought to her. Draco knew that this girl was going to have to pay for what she had done to Terra, who did not open her eyes as Cas held up the girls limp body, she looked dead. By the time that Draco had run to the other side of the lobby, Cas' knife was missing and Terra looked white than a ghost. But it was not from Draco that the little girl screamed from.
It was from the boy from District Eleven that made her scream like she had never screamed before. With the machete that was wrapped around the little girl's neck that was bringing her further into the sunlight. The big guy that was holding her in the sun looked like he was crazed, looked like he would do anything to this girl. Draco did not look to see what the guy that was twice the size of Cas and nearly five nearly older than her was going to do; instead he filled the bag that they had with any type of food that would fit into the bag, hulled Terra onto his back, and made a run for it down one of the many halls.
" Two! Get back here!" The boy screamed down the hall as a canon fired off. " We have unfinished business to attend to!"
" Terra, you hang in there, alright, I'm getting you some help as soon as I can, just hang in there a little longer, okay? Talk to me, Terra, common, just hang in there a little longer." Draco could hear that the boy was following them down the hall, knew that there was no way to get around him as the came to the dead end of a hall. " Terra, talk to me baby, please, just talk to me!" He cried out.
" Hey, Wizard boy, why are you even trying to help us lesser folks anyway, huh? You think that you are doing some kind of charity work?!" Eleven screamed from behind as Draco made a break for the last room at the end of the hall and pushed everything that he could in front of the door.
" Terra, wake up, we really got a problem right now!" Draco cried out as he tried to shake the girl awake and got nothing from it, common Terra, common baby. You gotta work hard to get through this. Common, wake up! Terra! Terra I love you, now common and wake up and tell me that you love me too!" Draco screamed at the girl.
" Two! I am coming in there for you!" Eleven screamed from outside as a canon fired, long and loud, Draco looked down and panicked as he knelt down to Terra's body to try and find a heartbeat.