Ch. 14: Raynor
I am dreaming of the fight but instead of me Ryan is slashing Audrie and Mary is nearby watching, wait that girl was Mary! I wake up and sit up and Audrie is next to me, wait no its Helen. She has some plants and some cloth with cold water on it. We're back at the shack which Mary and Ryan probably had a good time in. "Helen how the heck did you find me?" "Well I woke up and saw you weren't sleeping in here so I went outside and searched for you and an hour later I found you next to some knocked out girl and a guy in a very deep pool of blood." I smile and hope that Ryan died of blood loss but then I remember that Mary probably woke up and started to help Ryan like Helen is helping me. I try to stand but quickly get confused by the room spinning. Helen tells me I have a big bump on my head and I remember the shield. Ryan chucked it at me with more strength than I thought he had left in him and I got hit with it and I was out cold. Helen walks over towards the hearth and comes back with some kind of berry and fish soup thing that I eat and find it tastes like crap. Helen eats her bowl of soup and then tells me to rest and that she'll wake me if anything happens. Yeah right if anything happens it will be Ryan and he'll kill you before you have time to scream my name then him and Mary will kill me. But I did wound Ryan badly last night hopefully he won't be able to go anywhere till I regain my strength. I pass out and wake up with Helen sleeping next to me, well that figures. Then I see something that scares me, my arm is on her head and I'm stroking her hair and I didn't even know I was doing it! I move my arm off her when I hear it… Audrie's voice. Oh thank god this is just one of my nightmares, I hear a knock on the door. I know it's going to be some kind of twisted version of Audrie so I decided to get it over with and open the door. Audrie is standing in front of me looking as beautiful as ever except for a giant band age on her arm and one of her legs where the cuts were she looks fine. She flings herself into me then beings to kiss me and then she stops to look at me teary eyed and says thank goodness you won the games so fast! Then happiness turns quickly to hatred as she sees Helen on the bed, I am smacked in the face with such force I get knocked to the floor. I can hear Audrie crying and saying how could you over and over. I know this is a horrible dream, so I just sit there but when Helen wakes up and sees Audrie and screams I know it's real. Helen runs over to me not to her supposedly dead sister and yells at Audrie what she did to me. All I can do is stare in disbelief at how pretty Audrie is right down to her cute bow and arrow she is pointing at me, wait what? I shove Helen off me and run towards her and as I get close she aims for my heart, and I stop. Then Helen does something I would have never thought of her to do for me something nice for me and her sister. She begins to explain to Audrie why she was in my bed and that it was just for warmth and that there was only one. I see Audrie's eyes go from anger to pity to understanding. I run over to her and hug her and ask how she survived and I am crying on her shoulder. Helen leaves and says she'll get some fire wood. Audrie said that when she closed her eyes she wasn't dead yet and that she heard me fighting and then she was lifted off the ground and quickly began getting operated on. I can piece together why this happened. Its nick telling me, see I saved your girlfriend now go after Ryan and I'll let you two live happily forever after. I do want to go after Ryan but not as much as I want to go after nick since he hurt Audrie the most and the first to do so. She kisses me and asks me if I missed her? I burst out crying and say I thought of killing myself five times a day. She smiles a bit teary eyed at that but tells me its ok she is here and this time does not intend to leave me alone. She hugs me and I hug her back and we kiss until Helen comes back with some firewood. I move away from Audrie and say I'll be back after I hunt a bit and settle some business. Audrie stares at me but doesn't comment on it except to say "don't be gone to long." I leave the warm house and the girls and think to myself Ryan will so not trust me, but I have to try to get him to.