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Chapter: 9
It took me a while to fall asleep after thinking the careers where making a plan to kill me and Alexander. It was a very scary thought. I was still a little shaken by my fall earlier but Alexander helped with that.
I woke up soon after that. I was freezing cold even with Alexander holding me. "Lily your shaking"
"I-I know" I say. Thats when I relize that I am shaking and my teeth are chattering. "Lets go get some food, maybe walking around will warm you up a bit" Alexander said. I nod in agreement.
Together we walk around finding supplies to set up a snare. When we have what we need Alexander sets up a few around where we are staying. "Okay I got them working, lets go back and we'll check them later" Alexander tells me. He takes my hand and we walk back to our tree and sit down at the base. I am still shaking but it has gotten better. "We'll go check them in a few hours"
"Sounds good" I say. Alexander scoots closer to me and puts an arm around my shoulders. We stay like this until we go and check the snares. On our way to check the first snare I hear something snap. It wasn't Alexander or me because it sounded far away. Then it happens again, closer this time. "Alexander, somethings coming" I say in a whisper. "Do you know what?" He asks
"No, but there are a lot of them"
"Okay lets hide" He says. Then he grabs my hand tighter and we hide. I don't know where but I do know the sounds of crunching leaves and breaking sticks are getting louder. Now I can hear voices. "It's the careers" I tell Alexander. Before he has time to respond we hear one of them shout. "Look guys there they are!"
"Run Lily, I'm right behind you" Alexander says. I get up and start to run. I have no clue whats going on or where I'm going or where Alexander is. I run right into a tree. I fall down to the ground and my head hit hard. "Lily!" I hear Alexander shout from somewhere behind me.
Suddenly I'm being lifted by the collar of my jacket. "It's about time we found you. I should have killed you while I had the chance" The career growls. "Now I'm going to make you suffer" He finishes. He brings his hand down on my right cheek, hard. I stuggle to get out of his arms while he continues to punch me. He hits my stomach, and my face. "Lily!" Alexander calls again. I'm on the verge of blacking out when I feel an agonizing pain in my left shoulder. My gets all tinglily and then nothing. I can't feel or move it. Whatever it was, probably got a nerve. "I"m coming Lily!" Alexander yells. by this point I'm almost unconsious.
From out of nowhere a career yells "Run!" I'm dropped from the careers grip and he kicks me in the ribs once before running away. A cannon sounds, then another. I feel arms around me, lifting me up before I black out.
I wake up and I feel arms around me. My head feels ready to explode, I still can't feel my left arm and my stomach, face, and ribs ache. "Lily?" Alexanders says. I wanted to say "Alexander" but it came out as a moan. I feel that I am in his lap, my head resting on his shoulder and his arms around me. "Lily," Alexander says again. This time I manage to say something. "Alexander" My eyes are still closed buy he know I'm awake. "Lily, oh my gosh I thought when one of the cannons went off it was you. I'm so happy it wasn't"
"What happened?" I whisper.
"Well after the career... stabbed you with their knife," he sounded worried about saying that. "there was a whole swarm of tracker jackers that came after all of us. One of the careers was killed by them, I killed one of the careers. I didn't want to kill him but I did. After that they all ran away, I came and got you and then ran back here."
"Where is here?"
"The tree where we were earlier"
"Okay"
"Lily can you feel this?" I have no clue what he did but I didn't feel a thing.
"No"
"You can't feel anything on that arm can you?"
"No, what happened to it?"
"The career stabbed you in the left shoulder" Then I remember the career stabbing my shoulder "I think he might have cut a nerve. Once we got back here I took the knife out and did my best to stop the bleeding"
"Thank you"
"Don't thank me yet, it hasn't stopped bleeding. It's gotten better, but hasn't stopped."
"Still thank you"
"You are very welcome Lily, now you need to rest"
"I have for... how long was I out?"
"About 6 hours"
"I have rested for 6 hours, you rest I'll listen for anything unusual"
"Lily-"
"Alexander, it's alright I'll wake you if anything happens"
"Okay" he says. I know he doesn't want to but he needs to.
Suddenly I feel his lips on mine. He put his hand on the back of my head and the other hand around my waist. It was a quick kiss but I enjoyed it. "What was that for?" I ask once we pull away. "I just needed to do that. I'm glad that you are still here"
"I'm glad your here too" I tell him and give him a quick kiss on the cheek.
"Lily... I love you"
(A/N: I'm not great at all the kissing scenes, i know. :\ just use ur imagination if you don't think they were good enough. Do you think i'm moving their relationship along to fast? REVIEW PLEASE! anyway... hope you enjoyed it. :D)