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Chapter 14- Jealousy
Alice's POV-
My leg is throbbing. Blood is oozing out slowly, and I have no idea what to do about it. I have no supplies, no medicine, not even a bit of water I could use to rinse out the wound. Man, Vale sliced me good. Who knew she could use a knife? The only thing I had ever seen her use was a small trident like she had seen her mentor, Finnick Odair, use in his own Games. That guy taught her everything he knew, and she took advantage of that to the point where you couldn't tell which one of them was the mentor, and therefore in charge anymore.
My mind is going blurry as the scent of the blood and the memory of the event flash across my mind. I remember it completely, even though it had happened a day and a half ago and I hadn't stood or walked anywhere since, because it hurt too much and I didn't like the feeling of blood running down my leg and dripping into my socks and shoes. I cringe, knowing that disgusting feeling all too well. I wish someone could come and help me. I should have stayed with Luke. He would have protected me.
Usual POV (Liz)-
I am so not dealing with this crap. Not at 6am that is. I just sort of got over Marcus's death myself, and I finally start to drift off to sleep, and then of course Gilzira decides that that moment is the perfect time to start her own sobbing. I find a little mirror in my backpack and look at the haggard and ugly face I see. It's my face, but my eyes have the beginnings of purple circles under them and the makeup Melody applied did its job when we first got into the Arena, but this is our 4th day in here, and makeup is beyond helping any of us now. My lip gloss is being saved for the Victory Tour, when I need to look perfect again. Honestly, I don't care what I look like now. I wonder if this is how mothers feel when they are young, like…18, and they have newborn babies and themselves to take care of at the same time. Not sure. I don't intend to find out.
Luke is lying right beside me, and when I groan for maybe the millionth time this morning, he lays patiently there and wraps his arms around my waist. "I love you." He mumbles. He's pretty drowsy too; I can just hear it in his voice. He's yawning as much as me, but he seems to ignore Gilzira completely, whereas I'm about to stab her by how annoying she is being. Don't get me wrong, I was sad as sad could be when Marcus died yesterday, but I had gotten over it when I realized I needed to get over it. I'll give her 2 hours, and if she hasn't cleaned up her act, I sware to God, if there is one, I will kill her.
She lets out a particularly loud sob, and I cover my ears and groan yet again. This time, Luke just laughs. "I'm going hunting." He says. "OK. Have fun, and I'll take care of this. Just come back here in a few hours, and you'll see just how productive I can be." I say, hopefully seductively. He raises his eyebrows and smiles. Then he grabs his backpack, a quiver full of arrows, and a bow. Then he's out, and I fear he won't come back again.
Alice's POV-
I am lying on my side, trying to breathe normally. I am in some serious pain, but I am not letting it stop me from staying alive. I should have been dead right now. I'd certainly lost enough blood to have done me in, but yet here I am, still holding on. I really am missing Luke right now, and I want to see him badly. Just to know he's alive. I don't know who died yesterday. There are too many trees around to be able to clearly see the sky.
I hear a rustle in the trees and pray whoever it is won't see me. Or maybe they'll see me and then make a quick death of me. I see a head of blond hair and toned, muscled arms come through the trees. Luke! My savior is here. He'll help me. And I can make him forget all about that aggressive pig Elizabeth. He looks around, and I decide to let him find me. He looks right at me and gasps. "Oh my god! Alice?" He chokes out. I stare at him through my bloodshot eyes, nodding. It even hurts to speak sometimes.
I hold back my tears of joy when I see him. "What happened? Who did this to you?" He asks, kneeling down next to me. "Vale. She cut my leg." I say, pointing down at my torn flesh on m upper leg. Luke bites his thumbnail. This probably looks extremely horrendous to him right now. His dad had something happen to him just like this, but Elizabeth's dad had done it. Peeta had needed an artificial leg when it was all over. I doubt I'll be that lucky. I doubt Elizabeth even knows what her dad to Luke's dad. I doubt she has a soul to feel bad about it.
"You're coming with me. You need to get that taken care of. I have supplies back at my camp." He says. He puts his hand on my shoulder, and I am asked to stand up. I struggle, but Luke is there to guild and helps me, and soon I am standing up on my uninjured leg, the left, and he is lifting me up into his arms with extreme strength. I wrap my hands around his neck and I am being carried away like a princess. Even if I'm only injured, it still feels wonderful to me, who is in love with him.
We walk through the woods and toward a cave, and all I'm aware of is that I am safe in his arms, and nothing can hurt me.
Elizabeth POV-
I feel accomplished. Gilzira stopped crying and I am happy about that. I didn't even notice that MaryAnn and Micheal weren't there until they came in this morning, hand in hand. I really am starting to doubt that they are just siblings, even if they look alike. No siblings can do that, and lay on top of each other.
I cleaned up the cave a little, and I feel truly like a sweet housewife a husband can come home to. I have a fire going, and some fish that I caught roasting, so that counts as lunch/dinner. Even more wife like. MaryAnn and Micheal and Gilzira informed me they would be going tribute hunting, so I only had to make dinner for Luke and I. Like a date, but in the Arena. Making something horrible into something fun. At least, I think that until Luke comes in carrying Alice. She has her scrawny little arms wrapped around his neck, and her leg is totally screwed up. Somebody cut her good. Yay.
"Liz, do we have any medicine?" Luke asks, setting Alice down on my sleeping bag. "None that we can spare." I reply, glaring at Alice, who has completely ruined my nice cave environment. I go to kiss Luke, and HE PUSHES ME AWAY! He turns away toward Alice and starts rifling through my backpack, pulling out my Aspirin and some bandages, and also my canteen.
He unscrews the canteen and pours the water over her leg, rinsing out the majority of the blood, and ignoring the fact my sleeping bag is getting soaked with her blood and my water. Oh well, it had been in my mouth anyway. Then he unrolls some bandages and starts wrapping it gently and tentatively around her upper leg, close to between her legs. She is pushing her luck here. I'll kill her later. Luke won't be able to stop me.
Alice's POV-
Luke is wrapping the bandages around me leg, dangerously close to where my shorts are a bit looser and you can…see up them. Liz announces she's leaving with a grimace and I welcome this opportunity. Luke is being my sweet medic, helping me like a brother. I'll try to get something more out of this. He's wrapping, getting concentrated on everything that will help me. He looks up into my eyes, and I can't resist. I lean in, and kiss him. He doesn't push me off, like he did to Liz. That's saying something. We stop kissing and Liz comes back just in time to see. She gasps and stomps off, and Luke goes over quickly to apologize. She forgives him and he comes back. We both say nothing after that. I let out a yawn and Luke tells me to go to sleep. I lay down on Liz's wet sleeping bag and fall asleep dreaming about Luke.
Liz POV-
Luke and I are finally alone. We are eating our dinner, and I "accidently" haven't made enough for Alice to have any. I don't care if it takes her 3 days to heal; she's leaving when it's bedtime. That, I will not share with any other girl. I go in for a kiss, and he pulls out at the last second.
"I should go check on Alice." He says. He stands, and so do I. I grab his hand and pull him back to me. "No. You don't. Luke, you have taken care of her all freakin' day! You haven't kissed me once, but you kissed her. You're treating her as though she's your girlfriend, and I'm just the stupid tribute girl nobody wants around." I say. I am sobbing now, I am so angry.
Luke pulls me close in his arms and lifts me up. I wrap my legs around him and then we're kissing. He pulls out. "What now?" I whine. "I wasn't trying to treat Alice like she was my girlfriend. I would treat you so much better if it was you that was injured. I was trying to treat Alice like she was a sister." He says. "Why would you do that?" I ask. "I need to learn how to be a brother." He replies.
I stare at him, not understanding what he's saying. Then I figure it out. "The thing your mom told you on the phone…it was that-" He finishes for me. "She told me she was pregnant." He says. I smile at him. Babies are such a big responsibility, and I am so happy for Luke and his family. I kiss him one more time, and then we collapse on the ground, stripping down to our underwear and laying together in his sleeping bag, intimate and all. I couldn't be happier. He doesn't love Alice. He loves me. And that's all I want.
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