Sydney Tasogare, District 9 Male: night before the private sessions
"Go, go, go!" I hear Thea shout and I quickly get to my feet. I take off alongside Elizabeth and the rest of the tributes.
"Where?" Lily asks.
"Anywhere, spilt up." Thea says as she turns back to face the door, her knife extended, "I'll hold them back."
"Isn't that how all scary movies end?"
"Stay together then-n."
"Guys in here!" Kai shouts from somewhere in the front of the group. I can't see where he's pointing but the two from Six in front of us are moving to the right, so I follow them.
"Run!" Someone behind me shouts as Thea screams. I try to turn back to look at her but the boy from Ten is blocking my view. My hands start to shake as I look over at Elizabeth.
We quickly follow the group into the training center, snow clinging to our clothes. Normally the cold would sink into my bones but this time was different. This time we were running for our lives.
"This is the first place they'd look!" Jocylin shouts from somewhere to the right of me.
"Let's go to the penthouse." Allegro suggests.
"Good idea!"
"We should go up to the twelfth floor!"
"Yeah." I mummer, "like they wouldn't search there either."
"The roof! Let's head up to the roof!"
"What if they're above us?" Allegro says from tight in front of me.
"Like in hovercrafts?" Liz shouts back.
"Yeah."
"Maybe the roof isn't a good idea." Elizabeth sighs.
"We could hide in here." Tyree says pointing to a stairway I've never noticed before.
"The stairs are the only way to hide!" Someone shouts and the crowd surges forward.
"Hurry!"
"Why this year? Why the year we were reaped… or volunteered."
"I mean death was sure for twenty three of us so why not die quickly now and not for the Capital's entertainment." Ciara reasons. Earlier I had found out she was with the rebels, like my father was. We had started to hatch a plan but then they broke into the testing building and we had to flee.
"I never thought about it like that…" Anne says.
"Yeah." Jocylin agrees as we race down the stairs and into a dark hallway. On the right is an old and rotten door and on the left is a door that seems a bit newer but also not in very good shape.
"Which one?" Vienna asks.
"Try them both! See if any are locked." Sunna says. Sure enough the one to the right was locked but the one to the left was a little hard to open but not locked.
"Anyone know how to lock a door like this?" Lily cries as she quickly shuts the door, closing all the tributes into the pale orange room. It was dark and the only light was coming from an old window with a rusty frame.
"I do." I say stepping forward. There had always been a lock like that on the basement door in my house. Probably because the house dated back over a hundred years.
"Good job Syd." Sage encourages.
"Yes!" Celosia adds.
"Do you need help?" Elizabeth asks.
"I got this," I say, "anyone have anything small and metal?" I ask.
"I have a needle." Zacharian offers.
"That'd work but does anyone have anything bigger?"
"I've got this pin." Misty says slowly taking a pin off her shirt.
"Perfect, I'll need both though."
"Alright." Zacharian says as he and Misty hand me their tokens.
I take them gratefully, "thank you." I say approaching the door. I jam the needle up the lock in, almost at an upward angle. It makes a familiar click and I hear a few breaths of relief exhaled behind me. I twist the pin in alongside the needle, this time bending in to the right.
I don't look behind me but I can tell both Zacharian and Misty are sad to lose the one thing they have from home. But when the lock makes a hissing sound and I yank out the pieces of metal, they smile knowing they helped. "Boom." I say turning back to face the rest of the tributes. A sick feeling fills my stomach as I remember that I'm probably looking at my killer.
"Thanks Sydney." Kai says, "I'm sorry about your guy's tokens."
"Oh well, we're safe now and that's all that matters." Misty sighs as I walk over to my allies. All the tributes had already kinda divided up by alliances so Elizabeth, Sage and Cel were standing awkwardly in a clump.
"Hey guys, um, I know this is gonna sound weird but if we are gonna die might as well get to know each other a bit." Gage says walking into the middle of the room.
"We could share secrets like a middle school sleepover." Laughs Abram as he sits down next to Gage.
Lily chuckles and follows suit, "I don't see why not."
"We're all gonna fucking die so I'm in." Zacharian says as him and his alliance sit down beside Lily and Abram.
"Sure whatever." Sasha says as Sage, Cel, Elizabeth and I make our way to the half circle thing. We sit down next to Allegro and Keir who both looked like they'd rather just die now.
Soon the rest of the tributes had joined but no one was eager to go first. Everyone looked like they had something to say but no one wanted to go first.
I want to open my mouth so bad and say the words I've kept in my head all this time, but I can't. My father sells illegal maps to the rebels and I'm guessing the Capital found out about this because the reaping was rigged. I had found a note in my bag yesterday telling me that they had rigged it to teach my dad a lesson.
Suddenly there's a loud crash and everyone freezes. The lighthearted attitude almost made me forget that there were actual murderers in the building.
"They've got to be in here, we've checked everywhere else." A gruff voice says as the door to the room next to us is thrust open. It wacks against the wall and a few tributes swallow their screams.
"Did you guys all hide together? Or split apart?" Another voice asks, this one out in the hallway.
"Probably together, who splits up?" The gruff voice asks as a chair is thrust backwards into the wall connecting the room we were in to the room they were searching.
"True." The other one sighs, "I'll check this room." Next to me Cel starts to shake and silent tears trickle down her face. I grab her hand and hold it tight. I extend my hand out to Allegro and he takes it. He puts his hand out and Keir grabs it.
Soon all the tributes are holding hands while the rebel plays with the lock, attempting to get it open. "Guys let's move out the window." Liz whispers and several tributes nod.
We all get up and quickly shuffle to the only window of the dark room. "Holden, can you come here and help me with this lock?" The voice at the door asks.
"I'm done checking this room, sure." The other voice, Holden, says.
"I think something's wrong with it." The first voice says as we reach the window.
"No stupid, it's a Canten lock. Do you have anything metal?"
"No…"
"Guess we'll just bust the door open."
"Quickly!" Abram whispers as he opens the window. "Youngest first." Someone behind me pushes me forward and I stubble to the ground.
Sage's already out and Cel's attempting to climb out of the window when I get up. "No, have Vienna go." I hear Elizabeth say, "I can handle myself."
"Thanks Elizabeth." Vienna says as Celosia jumps down to the ground. "Sydney too." Vienna points to me as she quickly climbs out and joins Cel and Sage on the other side.
"On the count of three!" Holden shouts from outside the door. "One."
"Get out." Someone whispers as I climb up in the ledge that leads out to the snow.
I quickly push off the window and land on my back on the snow. "Two." I heard Holden shout as Elizabeth recklessly jumps out the window. She rolls onto the ground and lands next to me.
"Three!" The man shouts and a loud thud sends a crack up the heavy wooden door.
"Hurry!" Someone back in the room whispers as Jocylin pushes herself out the window. She lands on her feet, unlike everyone that had gone before her.
"Again!" The voice shouts and I shudder but get to my feet.
"Guys we gotta get up!" I shout at everyone laying on their stomachs and backs.
"I'll help you up!" I hear Zacharian say as Lily rolls out of the window.
"Who's next?" Abram asks.
"I don't care who, just get out." Kai says.
"I'll go." Keir says from somewhere in the back.
"Get him out!" whispers someone and like magic Keir falls out of the window. The tributes who have already gone through have moved to under the window to help catch falling tributes.
"Sasha your next." Abram whispers as there's another loud thud against the door.
"Whatever." She sighs literally jumping out the window. We catch her but she's hesitant to let us help her up.
Suddenly another there's another thud on the door and this time it creaks open. The fifteen tributes that were still inside whipped around and came face-to-face with three angry rebels.
Keir Wiessel, District Five Male: Rebel attack
"Kai! Abram! Misty! Help me fight, everyone get out!" Zacharian shouts as he steps forward.
"Bravery, how cute. I knew they'd be here." Holden smirks holding out his knife. "We don't want to hurt you, just take you away."
"To get to them, you have to go through me." Kai says, stepping next to Zacharian.
"Again, don't make us hurt you guys." The other man says, "we have more troops outside."
"Come on." I whisper and James starts to climb out of the window. He loses his balance and falls down, we catch him but Celosia drops her hands away, her face as red as her hair. Her expression of hurt burned into my soul.
Quickly shaking me back to reality Gage jumps out and we catch him as well. Both boys get to their feet and Gage joins the group helping to catch people but James just sits down and watches. His stare planted on Celosia but she tries to shake it away as Ciara falls out and onto our open hands. Half of the tributes were outside but half were still inside battling for the rest of us. Many of the older tributes had joined in the wrestling match but the rebels had called in backup and now there were six of them.
"Kinnik!" Elizabeth shouts as her District partner falls through the window with blood dripping down his arm. "Anyone know anything about injuries?"
"No, Sunna needs help!" he cries as he gets to his feet, "this is nothing." he points to his arm.
"I'm really good with injuries, send her through!" Vienna shouts and Onyx grabs Sunna's arm. They push her through the window making sure she landed alright before letting themself jump down.
Vienna and Tyree quickly pull Sunna off to the side and Vienna starts to take a look at the wound on her head. She sighs before rolling up her sleeves.
"Angel and Allegro go out! I'll follow you too!" Liz shouts, grabbing Angel's hand.
Quickly Allegro jumps out and lands on his feet, half of us too distracted by Sunna to catch him. He turns around right as Angel falls down and lands right on top of him. "I'm sorry." She says quickly getting to her feet, brushing the snow from her pants.
"Liz!" Jocylin shouts as Liz is pulled back away from the window by a rebel.
"Why are you guys attacking us?" Liz grunts.
"Because you guys wouldn't come quietly."
"Liz!" Angle cries climbing back into the room grabbing Liz's arm. Liz squirms out of the rebel's grip and Angel pulls her out into the snow.
"Anne! Help!" Abram shouts as two big guys tackle him to the ground.
"Abram!" she shouts charging forward at the men. Man, that girl has skill, she's already taken out two rebels and helped Zacharian fight off a third. Now there were only the two piled on Abram and one Misty and Kai were fighting. Zacharian was slowly getting up, obviously hurt.
"Zach! Get out of there!" Ciara shouts as three more rebels run inside the dark room.
"I can't! My leg!" he shouts as two rebels advance on him.
"I have to help him!" Angel shouts jumping back up and into the room.
"Angel no!" Onyx shouts from over by Sunna.
"I'll go back to help him too." Liz says as she quickly pushes past me and runs straight into the danger.
Suddenly three huge men and an armed woman round the corner. Allegro and Ciara get into a fighting stance but no one else does. Vienna was tending to Sunna's wounds with the help of Tyree, Onyx, Lily and Sasha. It's weird the girl that yelled at me on the train was now up helping take care of someone. Really everyone else was now rushing around collecting the things Vienna orders.
Jocylin, Gage and Sydney were out looking around in the snow to find anything we could use as weapons. James sat on the side whispering to himself. Elizabeth was tending to her district partner's arm and Celosia, Sage and myself stood, waiting to help others out of the window.
"I got him! You take her out!" I hear Liz cry as she helps Zacharian to the window. He pushes himself up and let's himself fall forward into our arms. We catch him and gently set him down in the snow as Angel runs back into the fight to help Liz. Me and Celosia help Zacharian to his feet and let him put his weight on our shoulders and he limps over to Vienna, who had taken charge of the whole Sunna situation.
"Zach…" Sunna whispers touching the wound on her head.
"Hey." He smiles as we help him lay down in the snow next to her.
"How are you doing?" She says.
"Please don't talk." Vienna says pushing a piece of her shirt against Sunna's wound attempting to stop the bleeding, "head wounds always bleed a lot but if we can stop the bleeding now that would be best. Onyx I need you to do the same to Zach's leg, both are losing blood." Vienna says, "Lily, thank you, please give her the water."
"Am I gonna die?" Sunna asks.
"No." Vienna ushers her, "but I need you to stop talking please."
"Alright." She nods, turning back to Zacharian. She holds her finger to her lips and he lets out a small chuckle.
"Allegro!" Ciara screams as a man holds the boy in a chokehold. She claws at him and attempts to land a few punches on his face. He pushes her away with one arm as Allegro's face turns purple. I looked over at Celosia and nodded at her. We both changed forward, neither of us having much power or strength but there were two of us. We ran into the man and he stumbled back surprised at the force we hit him with but he didn't let go of Allegro.
"Ciara!" Sydney shouted running towards us a rusty metal pipe held high in his left hand.
"That'll work!" She shouts back, running forward to grab the weapon.
Suddenly the sound of a gunshot rang through the little clearing. Everyone stopped to look around at who had fired a gun. It was the woman and she had sent a bullet right into the man's chest. He fell to his knees as his comrade rushed towards him.
Her black hair tied up in a tight bun on the top of her head. She looked at us with suspicious eyes, but we had to trust her. She had saved Allegro… right?
The woman turned and motioned for Sunna and Zacharian to come with her, so Celosia, Vienna, Onyx, Tryee, Lily and myself held their weight as they stumbled towards the woman. She held her gun out and another bullet went flying into the other man's arm.
A sigh of relief escaped my lips because we were getting these tributes to safety. Sure, Vienna had made the bleeding stop but they needed to be checked for real fatale injuries.
"I'm coming as a backup." Ciara says as she gently grabs the pipe from Sydney.
"Me too." Allegro says as he and Ciara take up the rear facing backwards to see any oncoming attacks.
I glance back and see Anne helping Abram climb out. His left eye was already turning a nice shade of purple. He limped but held tight to his district partner. She quickly walked over to Jocylin and Gage. She pointed at us and said something but I couldn't quite make it out.
"Guys wait!" I shout, "Abram."
"Hurry." The woman says as Jocylin and Gage take both of Abram's arms and wrap them around their shoulders. He lets them help him walk all the way to us before Jocylin falls to the ground bringing Gage and Abram down with her. Abram grunts as Gage quickly gets to his feet and pulls Abram up as well. Celosia quickly rushes over to help him and Jocylin. Together they make their way over to us and the woman continues to lead us away.
"Who are you?" I ask.
"My name is Commander Alexia and I'm on the side of peaceful rebels. We want change not vigilance."
"Oh I didn't know there were different kinds of rebels." Celosia reples.
"Most don't so we get blamed for things they do," she motions over to the open window leading back into the room.
"Oh wow." Lily says.
"Yeah."
"Guys get down!" Alexia shouts suddenly as gunshots rain over my head.
Misty Weaver, District Four Female: Rebel Attack
"Anne!" I shout as a man approaches her from behind. She whips around and kicks his knee caps making him lose balance and fall to the ground.
"Thanks!" she yells back as she lands a few punches on the man's face.
"No problem." I say turning around to the woman on the ground. She grunted and pushed herself up to her feet, her angry blue eyes burned with fire I've never seen before.
She charges full-force towards me and I don't flinch. I had had practice fighting before having been the top sixteen-year-old. I love hand-to-hand combat and could do it with my eyes closed.
"Angel get out!" I scream as she just stands over the body she had taken to the ground.
"Alright." She says running at the window, unsure of how to get out. She hops up on the ledge and out into the snow.
"A real career never lets their guard down!" the woman shouts as she throws her elbow into my back.
"I didn't!" I scream as I grab the woman's arms and flip over so I was on top of her. I push my elbows into the fleshy part of her shoulder, a pressure point I had learned during training.
"Ow!" she screams as her body falls limp in my arms. She wasn't dead, just would be out for a few days.
"That was cool!" Kai says as he grabbed a man's arm, twisting it backwards, and kicked his side.
"Is that all of them?" I ask looking around. There was Anne fighting a man in the corner, Liz just finishing up piling the unconscious bodies, Kai and myself. Quickly I rush over to Anne, her face was red but she had fought hard and taken out a lot of rebels. "Need help?"
"Together." She says nodding as I jump onto the man, and she kicks his ankle, making him fall to the ground. Anne lands a few gut punches while I search his neck for another pressure point. Quickly I find the nerve and the man passes out, knife in hand.
"Nice." I reply, getting to my feet.
"I can't believe we just did that." Anne says looking around at Kai, Liz and myself.
"That was great." I replied offering my hand to help her up. "Kai, why didn't you ask this one to join us." I laugh.
"I don't want to talk about it." Kai chuckles.
"Let's blow this popsicle stand." Anne laughs, "and make sure everyone is alright."
"Sounds good to me, let's go before more come in."
"Did anyone get hurt? I was too busy fighting to see." Kai says as he reaches the window and easily jumps out. Liz and Anne quickly do the same as I glance back towards the men and woman slumped in the corner.
"That's what you get bitches." I say as I climb onto the ledge and slowly fall out into the snow.
"Um." Anne mumbles, "where did they go?"
"I don't know…" Kai trails off.
"Did they go to get help?"
"What the heck?"
"Did they get captured?" Anne says her eyes dart around the scene. "Is that blood?"
"I guess so." I sigh as the tall girl limps to a red patch in the snow.
"Anne… we'll find them." Kai comforts.
"How are we supposed to go into the arena when some of us are already losing blood?" I wonder out loud.
"I don't know but someone could already be dead! We have to find them!" Anne shouts lightly touching the blood with her finger.
"Come on, I see footprints heading this way." Liz says as she points to the right of the building. Quickly Anne stood up and traced the path with her eyes. There was no end in sight, so they must have traveled far.
"Wait, didn't Angel just come out of the window?"
"True."
"She probably saw the footprints and followed them."
"Probably." Anne says nodding, "let's check it out."
"Lead the way." I chuckle as Anne starts up the trail. The footprints grouped together but there were a few smeared lines of blood.
"I hope Sunna's alright. Ciara and Zach too." Anne sighs her eyes drifting down to the lines of blood.
"Hey, you've just gotta keep your head up. They'll be fine." Kai comforts patting her on the back.
"Thanks." She smiles and pushes her dark hair out of her face.
We walk for a while in the Capital streets not having any idea where we were going and only having the footprints to guide us, before Anne stops in her tracks. She had stopped us a couple times before but now she seemed different. "What is it?" Liz asks.
"They just stop." She gasps.
"Stop?" Kai asks, stopping next to her.
"Yes."
"What the hell?"
"Where did they go?"
"Did they get into a car or something?"
"I'm guessing so." Anne sighs. "This is pointless, we won't find them."
"Don't say th-"
"Guys!" Angel shouts from the other side of the snowy street.
"What?" Kai gasps, "Angel?"
"Over here!" she shouts quickly crossing the street.
"Angel." Liz says as Angel joins us. "Any luck?"
"If you mean finding them, no." She sighs.
"Do you have any idea where they went?"
"No clue."
"Maybe someone-" I start before I'm interrupted by a short woman with wavy dark brown hair.
"Tributes?"
"Yes-" Kai says only to be interrupted as well.
"I need you guys to follow me."
"Why? Who are you?" Anne questions.
"Just trust me."
"How can I, my friends have been taken and could be dead. How can I trust anyone at this point?"
"Anne, they're fine!" Kai shouts, his face showing how he was done comforting her.
"I'm sorry they're like my family!"
"Anne…" Angel squeaks, "guys calm down!"
"Whatever." I sigh turning back to the small woman.
"Are you guys done?" the women asks.
"Are we?" Angel glares at Kai.
"Yes." He nods.
"Good, now please," she waved us forward, "follow me."
"Still, how are we supposed to trust you?" I say looking over at my alliance members and the tall girl from Ten.
"I know where the other ones are,"
"You do?" Angel asks.
"Yes, now we need to get out of the streets. Now." The woman says her voice hushed like we were a secret.
"Guys, if we ever want to see the others again we have to trust her." Liz replies walking over to where the woman was standing.
"Yeah I agree with Liz." Angel says.
"Me too." Anne nods.
"Well… I guess we can follow her." I sigh, "keep your guard up." I whisper to Kai.
"Alright, let's go." Kai says and the woman turns around leading us up the dark street lit only by lamp light.
"I thought the Capital streets were always busy." Liz says to the woman.
"They normally are."
"Wow, is this because of the rebels?"
"Yes." The woman nods.
"I thought all Capital citizens did crazy things to their bodies and hair, why do you look so normal?" Angel questions.
"Because I'm not like that. My name's Aspen, but you can call me Asp." The woman sighs.
I nod, "alright Asp."
"Quickly, in here!" the woman whispers ducking into an alleyway.
"Why?" Anne asks as we rush to follow the woman.
"Shh."
"Did they go this way?" I hear someone shout as the woman's eyes go wide.
"I think so!" another voice shouts as two men run past the alleyway, each holding a bright flashlight.
"Which ones?"
"I saw the pair from Four and the girls from One, Two and Ten."
"Ooh, quite the bunch. I heard Alec was betting on the girl from Four 'cause she won the test."
"If we catch them, ooh, can you imagine the reward?" the first man says rubbing his fingers together.
"Well, we can't think about the money until we actually find them."
"True, now which way did they go?"
"This way!" the man calls and the footsteps slowly fade out into the distance.
"Were they looking for us? Why?" Anne says getting to her feet.
"That's why we need to hurry, word got out the tributes weren't in their Penthouse."
"Oh, we're lucky we made it this far."
"Yes, very lucky. Now we need to move." The woman says getting up and walking out of the alleyway. We exchange nervous looks before quickly following her.
Lily Rossett, District Twelve Female: Rebel attack
"Kinnik's fine. Zach too." A nurse says to us sleepy tributes.
"Man, that was crazy." Zacharain sighs as he stumbles into the waiting room.
"Tell me about it." Kinnik replies. They fist bump before Zach heads over to where Ciara and I were sitting.
"Hey, glad you're doing better, that leg looked serious." Ciara says as Zach sits next to her.
"Yeah," he sighs, "hey Lily."
"Hi. Glad you're feeling better."
"Thanks," he says reading my face like a map. "Abram's doing pretty well."
"He is?" I reply, trying not to sound too hopeful.
"Yeah."
"That's great."
"We talked a lot, all four of us did, he may have mentioned you a few times."
"What? He did?"
"Yeah."
"Oh, what did he say?"
"He'll tell you." Zach says turning back to Ciara, "I'm not so sure about Sunna, she got beat up pretty hard."
"She's got to be alright, she can't go into the arena hurt, right?"
"I guess. I told her to get out. I told her not to run at that man 'cause he had a knife." Zach replies, "it's my fault, I should have made her get out."
"Zach, you can't blame yourself."
"A little too late for that." He laughs. "Wait. Where's Anne?"
"She's with the careers."
"What?"
"We had to get Sunna, Abram and you to a hospital. We had to leave them to fight off the last of them."
"What?"
"Neither you or Sunna were conscious and Abram was pretty out of it."
"What?"
"Yeah, fifteen of us worked together to carry you three."
"Wow, how far are we from the training center?"
"Quite a ways."
"Wow… how will they find us?" Zach asks, "how did we escape the rebels?"
"It's a long story."
"I got time."
"True." Ciara sighs, "so it started when we found out there were two groups of rebels. One that wants peace and one that wants corruption and bloodshed."
"Those were the ones that attacked us." I add.
"Yeah... why though?"
"They want us to die because technically we're on the Capital's side."
"But we aren't, they're sending us to our death?" Zach says, his eyes flaming.
"That's where it gets confusing…"
"Continue."
"So, we were attacked, while you were unconscious, by the Capital fleets."
"We were?"
"More like the person leading us to safety..."
"Commander Alexia." I finish, "she's the one that was attacked and murdered right in front of us."
"Then the Capital's fleet picked us up in their hovercrafts and brought us over to this hospital. We've been waiting for a while, which is how I got to know Lily."
"Yeah, both of our alliances were gone so we were just like, you look friendly." I say and Ciara giggles.
"Glad to know I'm easily replaced," Zach laughs.
"Zach that's not true."
"I'm joking." Zach says, "anyways, I could use some fresh air, wanna come?"
"Are we allowed to?" Ciara asks.
"I think it's fine." Zach replies as him and Ciara get to their feet.
"If we get in trouble, I'm blaming it on you." Ciara laughs, "you coming?" she says turning to me.
"Me?" I ask.
"Of course,"
"Alright."
"Where do you think you're going?" the nurse says as we make our way to the exit.
"Outside for a breath of fresh air."
"I'm gonna send a guard out with you, but yes you can."
"We didn't ask but alright." Zach sighs.
"Zach." Ciara says glaring at him.
"What? We didn't ask for a bodyguard."
"At least be nice about it." She reasons.
"Whatever." He sighs, "where is this guard?"
"Right here." A gruff voice says from behind us.
"Alright, lets go." Ciara replies and we head out the door, into the bitter-cold night air.
"So I wanted to talk to you guys." Zach says after we make it out of earshot of the other tributes.
"Yes?" Ciara asks.
"I want to form a sub alliance with you guys."
"Um," I say looking back towards the hospital, "can Abram join?"
"Sure. Just no one else." Zach says.
"Cool. I'm in." Ciara says, "why don't we meet at the cornucopia on like day Four or something?"
"That works. I'll have to clear it with Abram when he's feeling better. Actually. I think I'm gonna go ask the nurse if I can see him now." I say motioning back towards the hospital. As I turn around to leave Ciara nudges Zach with her elbow. The two of them turn around and she whispers something to him.
Are they talking about me? Did I say something? I don't trust them, well, I do trust Ciara but not so much Zach. When they're together they're sketchy, I need to find a way to bring them apart if me and Abram want to survive in this alliance.
"Are you alright Honey? You look pretty pale." the nurse says as I walk through the doors.
"Could I talk to one of the tributes in there?" I ask wiping the cold sweat that had dripped down my face.
"Of course, which one?"
"Abram please."
"Right this way."
"Thank you."
"No problem." The nurse says as her bright red hair gently falls into her face. "What's your name Honey?"
"Lily, Lily Rosett."
"Alrighty Lily just through that door." She points to a bright blue door on the left hand side of the hallway.
"Thank you."
"No problem, just holler if you need anything."
"Cool." I say walking to the door and pushing it open. On a ghost white hospital bed lay a broken and bruised Abram. His head was wrapped in a bandage that covered his left eye, and a cast was wrapped around his right leg.
His right eye was closed so I slowly and quietly shut the door, I wasn't going to wake him up on purpose. Without making much sound I move to the chair next to his bed and sit down. It wasn't the most comfortable but do I care? No.
"This is impossible!" Abram shouts and my eyes go wide. I let out a sigh of relief when I notice that his eyes are still closest- he's only sleep talking. "No!" he shouts again, instinctively I grab his hand.
"It's alright." I comfort, even though he can't hear me.
"No! Please!" he shouts and his eyes flare open.
"You were only sleep talking."
"What? Where am I?"
"A hospital, you went unconscious."
"Lily? What are you talking about?"
"Remember, the attack."
"We were attacked?"
"Yeah."
"Wait, I remember. I remember fighting with Anne and then this girl coming from nowhere."
"Was she the one that hurt you?"
"Yes but it wasn't just her. It was a man too."
"They both fought you?"
"Yeah, I thought I could take them. Obviously not." He laughs motioning to his leg. "Man, this shit hurts."
"Oh, give me a second."
"Alright."
I get to my feet and quickly walk across the room. I open the door and shout out into the hallway, "um, miss, Abram's awake and hurting."
"I'm coming right now." She says heading down the hall towards the room. She steps into the pale yellow room a black expression on her face. "Alright, this is gonna pinch for a second." She quickly washes her hands and puts on a pair of fresh gloves.
"Alright." Abram nods.
"On three." She says grabbing a needle from a pile of sterile syringes on the counter.
"Just do it." Abram says, "please."
"Whatever you say." The nurse replies jamming the plastic needle up his arm. Abram grunts but keeps his face calm. I can see the relief on his face when she pulls it out and throws it into a red bucket to the left of me.
"That wasn't what I expected."
"Yeah, it's quite painful-"
"Lily! Abram!" Keir interrupts as he throws the door open, "they others are back!"
"They are?" I ask, getting to my feet.
"Go ahead, I'll take care of him." The nurse smiles.
"Actually... I'll see them later, I'm gonna stay here with him." I say motioning to Abram who was still trying not to scream from his pain.
"Alright." Keir replies and quickly runs out of the room.
A/N: Hope you guys like this chapter! This was so fun to write XD I love how this chapter wasn't the traditional Private Sessions but those are coming, don't worry. There will be one more chapter before them though.
First time I actually have no idea what to say. Well, thank you to everyone who's stuck with me so far, you guys are amazing. I hope I'm doing well with your babies! Oh, and school, for me, doesn't start for another month so I'm gonna keep going full force towards the bloodbath!
That's it for now, let me know what you think of this crazy chapter!
Bye for now,
Marie
Waitttttt- I almost forgot! Alliances! So, the contest… it's still going so don't be afraid to submit your ideas for the names :) Results will be posted in the next chapter. Oh and about the next chapter, me and my family are going to visit a National Park (I love National Parks so much!) this weekend so the chapter might take a while to come out, but I promise it will come.
Bye for now (for real this time),
Marie