A Minute too Late: Prim's Hunger Games
A/N Okay, okay I know I haven't updated but I have excuses! That you probably don't want to hear… yeah well thank you everyone who reviewed and I have personal thank yous at the bottom.
Disclaimer: Prim: Hey! Hey sunshine? Do you own the hunger games?
Rory: Prim! Stay away from the stranger!
Prim: *eye roll* So do ya?
Me: *Ashamed look* No but I wish I did…
Prim: Oh okay *turns to audience* all rights still belong to Suzanne Collins
Me: Now off to the story!
Prim POV
OH NO! I get up and dash out of my room. "RORY RORY!" I scream as I bang on his door "PLEASE PLEASE THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG!"
"What?" Rory opens the door rubbing his eyes. But I'm still hysterical and screaming. "What the- PRIM CALM DOWN AND TELL ME WHAT'S WRONG!" Rory doesn't look mad just a little scared.
"Katniss… Buttercup… mommy… Ladey" I manage to blubber out and Rory sighs.
"Come on girl." He pulls me into the room and shuts the door. "Now Prim why don't you tell me what's wrong?"
"B-but-t-ter-c-cup." Is all I manage to get out before I'm crying again. He sits down on the edge of his bed and pulls me onto his lap.
"Come on Prim girl you got to calm down." I take a deep breath of air and try to calm down.
"R-Rory, Katniss never liked Buttercup. Buttercup never liked Katniss. But Katniss loves me and so does Buttercup. So they came to an agreement. Deal with each other for me. But now I'm gone and what if Katniss puts him on the streets? What if Buttercup runs away? What if he's not th-there when I come back?" At this I start crying again and Rory is staring at me wide eyed.
"So one second let me get this straight you are crying… over a cat." Rory asks surprised and I sob some more nodding my head. "Ah…" he says shaking his head "only you Prim girl only you." But Rory rocks me back and forth on his bed never telling me to stop crying and toughen up. Then finally my tears stop and I get up.
"S-sorry Rory." I stutter looking down.
"Not to worry Prim girl now why don't you head back to the room and freshen up and then we'll head down to dinner together." I nod and head out of the room. Poor Rory always has to be the tough one.
Switching POVS Now it's Rory's POV
I shake my head as Prim exits the room. Poor Prim girl, so fresh and new everyone loves her. But the stupid Capital has to ruin it all. That girl just sat here and cried for about 20 minutes about her CAT. Now if that isn't innocent please explain what is.
That's why I volunteered. I couldn't just leave the girl I love with that Peeta dude to fight to the death while I looked on. Plus in a way it will be good for my family. I know they don't want me to go but one less mouth to feed, one less tesserae to take. One less slip Gale has to put in that cursed glass ball that got my Prim picked out of.
Yeah I sound possessive I mean what does a twelve year old know about love. Well you don't know love until you volunteer to fight to the death with that significant other. Not one bit.
Now Back to Prim's POV
Effie takes us to dinner and I think Rory finally noticed my outfit, a sundress and I'm still wearing the pin Katniss got me.
"Pretty dress." Rory comments with raised eye brows and I smile back.
"You think?" I ask back.
"Well no…" Rory trails off and my smile falls.
"I think that your beautiful and just make the dress pretty." At this I have to smile. Awe he called me beautiful.
As we sit through course after course of delicious dinner. I start to feel queasy from all the rich food but I hold it in. Katniss and I have had some pretty hard times so I know that I can hold this in. Rory is looking green too.
"At least, you two have decent manners," says Effie as we're finishing the main course. "The pair last year ate everything with their hands like a couple of savages. It completely upset my digestion." I see that Rory is fuming and I'm mad too.
"Oh yes? Well I knew the tributes last year." I say coolly looking directly at Effie "Robert and Emily. Robert was my sister's age and he helped me one day as I was trying to bring in some wood for the winter. That sure was a cool winter and without his help it would have been colder." Now Effie looks thoroughly startled as if she had never suspected things were ruff. "Emily was older than my sister and she was a frail ol' thing but each fall she would scale the fence with me and a few others and help gather apples to sell. This year we were missing three hands not counting Emily." Now I am full on glaring at Effie and she is shocked. "Both Robert and Emily were seam kids but both of them were also great kids." After that we sat in silence Effie trying to process what I said and Rory trying to process that I said that.
"Hey where is Haymitch?" Rory finally asks breaking the silence.
"Oh probably passed out drunk somewhere." Effie says looking up from her soup. I nod it wouldn't surprise me. The she checks the time. "We should probably go watch the recaps. Come along." At that we all get up and head to a new compartment to watch the recaps.
One by one I see names being called. A monstrous boy from district two lunges forward to volunteer and all I can think is that in one swipe he could kill me. Then there is a girl from district 5 not much bigger than me called forward with red hair and a fox-like face. Ha fox-face. I giggle at that and Rory turns to look at me. There are only a few more I take note of, a crippled boy from 10 and then at last another twelve year old from district 11. Rue they say her name is. Pretty. Maybe we could be… allies. After that our reaping comes on. I turn away. I don't want to see me stepping up or Rory volunteering.
But then I hear chuckling and I peek up onto the screen to see Haymitch falling off the stage. I giggle and Effie scowls.
"You do realize that is you mentor right? The one supposed to help you survive in the arena?" She snaps and immediately I stop laughing. Oh no.
Just then Haymitch stumbles into the room and slurs "Dih I misth dinnarr?" and then threw up.
"So laugh away." She says side stepping the throw up and hopping out of the room.
"Should I get some attendants?" Rory asks and I shake my head.
"Neh they shouldn't have to deal with this besides I've done it plenty of times." It's true some of mothers patients tend to drink their sorrows away.
"Okay." He still sounds unsure "I'll help you get him to his room." So we end up dragging Haymitch to his room (he was too heavy for us to carry) and plopping him into the shower.
"Now I want you to undress him and get the water running plus make it have lots of bubbles and then I'll handle it from there." I command using my 'Nurse Prim' voice as Katniss likes to call it.
"Okay but um bubbles?" Rory asks looking extremely uncomfortable.
"Naked people don't really bother me but I'd rather not see Haymitch naked." Now Rory looked sorry he asked and hurried to get my tasks done while I exited the room.
Five minutes later Rory came out covered in bubbles with a sour look on his face. "He's good and ready Nurse Prim." He says before stalking from the room trying to ignore my giggles.
So I enter the bathroom and see it is covered in bubbles but luckily so is Haymitch. I sigh and clean up the mess and then find a fresh pair of clothes for Haymitch to wear. I set them outside of the shower and then head back to the room. I look around for a minute until I finally find some medicine that mommy said help this sort of thing. Next I find the greatest invention yet. A food dispenser! You see you order off a menu into the mouth piece and then a few minutes later the food is there! So I ordered a big glass of water and some salty crackers and bread for when my 'mentor' wakes up. After that I have some time to kill so I search around and finally find a book to read.
About fifteen minutes later I hear groaning. "Ugh what the h*** is going on here? Bubbles? What the F**-"
"Mother says those are bad words." I inform him very politely of course "And I've heard it all, from worst cases then you so I suggest you be quiet." I tell him sternly this time.
"What the? What are you doing here Princess?" Haymitch asks and I roll my eyes. Mother always told me not to roll my eyes at my elders but for some reason I'm thinking Haymitch doesn't count. Plus I don't like the way he said princess.
"One I'm here to help you with that massive hangover you probably have and two don't call me princess." I command in my Nurse Prim voice.
"Yeah yeah." Haymitch mutters and I sigh. So he's going to be one of those patients. Well okay then I can deal with that.
"Eat this it will help with the head ach then wash up and get changed into those clean close I set out for you." I say handing him the medicine that should help with the hangover. "I'll be waiting outside the room and you have ten minutes to get out there. Understand?"
"Yeah Princess I got it." He says and I roll my eyes again and walk out. Ten minutes later Haymitch stumbles out holding his head in his hands. " 'Ay Princess got anything to help with the headache? The meds wore off." I sigh and turn my back on him to grab the meds and as soon as I turn back around he has a bottle in his hand about to take another swig.
"DON'T YOU DARE!" I yell at him "I DID NOT DRAG YOU FROM THE TV ROOM TO HERE, HELP WITH YOUR HANGOVER JUST FOR YOU TO GET DRUNK AGAIN NOW YOU PUT. THAT. BOTTLE. DOWN!" I screech and for a second Haymitch looks scared. Then the bottle clatters to the ground.
"Okay Princess okay. I got it don't drink yeah yeah." I am fuming but I drop it. Baby steps Prim baby steps.
"Now sit." I say in a kinder tone and he plops down on a sitting chair. "Good now I want you to drink all of this I put the medicine in it so you have to drink it all." I hand him the large glass of water that I purposely made so he would have to drink it all. "And here is a few crackers you can have with the water." I say and Haymitch sighed but I think he excepted his fate because he drank all the water and eat the crackers and bread.
"Thanks Princess." Haymitch says looking slightly better. "Now what do you want to talk about?" He asks.
"Nothing in particular-"
"Don't try that with me Princess what do you want."
"Haymitch I want you to get Rory home." I say and Haymitch nods like he has been expecting this all along.
"Not in a coffin I presume."
"Haymitch!" I exclaim "That is a sick sick joke-"
"Yeah your right Princess sorry." We sat for a few seconds in silence until Haymitch breaks it "You like him don't ya?" He asks and for a drunk Haymitch is abnormally smart.
"Haymitch I think I L- yeah I like him Haymitch I like him a lot." All of the sudden I couldn't say it because who know what's going to happen out there? Who knows? Haymitch walks over and pats my shoulder knowingly.
"You better get to bed Prim we got a big day tomorrow." And for the first time Haymitch said my first name. I just nod and get up and head out the door.
"Night Haymitch." I call.
"Night Princess." Much better.
********The End*********
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