I quickly pulled on my jacket, put up my hood, then sped into the living room. Katniss was already at the door, and ran out. I ran after her, soaking my boots into puddles, sloshing the water every which way. The rain came down harder, and I swear I heard the rumble of thunder in the distance. I quickly dodged a lightning strike, and my heart nearly stopped. I have never come that close.
I finally caught up to Katniss.
"What are you doing?!" She cried.
"I need to help!"
"Everyone thinks you're mentally disabled!"
"Tell them that the sirens brought my memories back," I told her. "But I'm not just going to sit at home while people are in danger."
"There's a reason I didn't want you to come with me," Katniss wailed.
"What?!"
"Gavin left," Katniss hollered. "He went to check on one of his friends in the mines!"
I stopped running. I couldn't do it. I couldn't afford to lose someone else. I wanted to quit, to go home. To hope that someway he was still alive. But I knew Gavin. He would sacrfice himself to help strangers. But I wanted more than to go back to Victors Village. I wanted to go home. I wanted to shrug this off, to think that I had just had a freak accident at camp and was still imagining everything. No, there was no way I could do this. This was real. People were really dying near that mine, and I had to get to them.
I did what I never thought I would.
My emotions controlled me, and I ended up pushing Katniss to the ground. I ran closer. I heard Katniss screaming at me behind me, but I had made my decision. When I made it to the mines, it was worse than I thought. The entire thing had collapsed. As in, the elevators were destroyed, the emergency enterence blocked off.
I felt my demigod strength returning, when a sudden wave of water came from inside the mine, and pushed all the debris out of the way.
I was truly shocked. Only Percy could do that. I shook this feeling and ran in. I helped others bring out the injured, and when Katniss came, instead of scolding me, she silently pitched in. I quickly scanned the sign-in for that day, and cried. Everyone, for the first time, made it out alive. Then my breathing stopped. Gavin hadn't signed in since he was just checking in.
I ran into the mine.
"GAVIN!" I screamed. "GAVIN!"
I turned a corner and found him, trying to comfort a wailing girl. She was only around 14, so I knew she must have snuck in at a young age like Gavin. I ran up to them.
"What happened?" I asked, worried.
"He-he..." the girl began before choaking up again.
I recognized her voice.
"You!" I cried. "You were the girl in the woods."
She let out a slight nod before whimpering again.
"It's her boyfriend," Gavin told me. "He disappeared after the wave hit."
"Oh," I said sadly. "There's plenty of people outside, maybe you'll find him?"
"I-I guess."
I helped her to her feet, and led her outside. She looked deppressed once she walked out, like she couldn't see him.
"ABI!"
We turned to the left, and the girl smiled. A boy slightly taller than her, with sandy blondd hair and mitchmatched eyes ran up.
"Wyatt!"
I nearly cried as the two united. I told them they were lucky, then I started walking home with Katniss. We were passing the square when I froze. In all the chaos, I had forgotten that tomrrow was the reaping.