Happy belated Easter everybody :) Tis was a good day, along with the sugary candy that I do not need.. I am on a diet.. considering I have been in hibernation all winter... It's been awhile since I have updated; my sinsere apologies... But my late Easter gift to all of you guys is an long, updated chapter :)

So questionaire here.. who all has seen the Hunger Games? I have seen it twice in counting, and have read all of the books. They are fantastic! I am Team Peeta all of the way... don't get me wrong, I like Gale, but I love Peeta. He is gorgeous for one and for two, well he is awesome!

I haven't had very much time since I have been living at my dads and balancing school and other activities out. But trust me, this update is worth it. Well, I shall update and stop wasting all of your guys time and just update this already.. hehe

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Chapter Seventeen;

"I can do this... I can do this." Riven paced back and forth in the hospital lobby, determining whether he should go up to the fifth floor and make a visit or not. His stomach was twisting in giant knots and he even felt a little sweaty. He had never been more nervous in his whole entire life. What if things were not going right?

"Dude, just man up." Brandon slapped his hands on Riven's shoulders, causing him to pretty much jump out of his gittery skin.

Riven turned his head and glared at his best friend. "Not cool dude."

"Would you stop being such a chick?" Timmy dropped Techna's hand and raised his left eyebrow. Coming from Timmy, that was a strong enough remark to send a lifting scowl to the man's deviant face.

"I am not being a chick." Riven crossed his arms and glared at all of his friends. The rest of the girls besides Techna were up in the hospital room, probably gossiping and reading magazines like usual girls do.

"Yeah right. If you keep pacing around this lobby, let alone this first floor, every worker here is bound to know you by name." Helia retorted and placed his water back onto the table.

"This is pathetic man, everyone is starting to doubt you for the tough guy you are." Brandon snickered with a flashy smile.

"I cannot do this." Riven groaned and threw himself into one of the uncomfortable rest chairs. His elbows dug into the wood rests and his head was thrown back into the air out of frustration. All of his friends were obviously not seeing his crisis, nor understanding the problem he was enduring. He could not just go up to Musa's hospital room and look her in the eyes like all of them expect him too.

"Get up." Brandon groaned, walking over to the chair and tugged on his left arm. The only problem was he wasn't moving and his feet were firmly planted onto the ground.

Riven snatched his arm back, throwing Brandon onto the floor on his butt. The lady in the desk gave him a stern look. He gave off a quick apology shrug and focused his attention back into his friends.

"Guys I kissed her. Like actually kissed her. I can't just go up there and be all buddy-buddy with her. Not to mention we are strictly friends. Now this is going to ruin everything." Riven choked out. His voice was hoarse, his eyes were tired, and his face was starting to get scruffy.

"Look if you don't go up there soon, I'm sure she is going to go crazy. You kissed her, saved her life, and now you have ignored her for three whole days Riven. Three! How much longer do you plan on avoiding her? For the next two weeks before we go back to college?" Nabu growled at Riven in a sharp manner. He wasn't trying to be a jerk, but if he really loved Musa, he wouldn't waste any time.

"She would have been fine if I wouldn't have saved her life." Riven muttered, crossing his arms once again over his chest like a child. He was getting slightly annoyed with his friends making him feel guilty and peer pressured.

Brandon rolled his eyes. "No she wouldn't have. The paramedics and firefighters said she wouldn't have and you know this."

"Fine, I'll go up there if all of you guys lay off of my back. Damn." Riven stood up and brushed off his expensive jeans. He took a deep breath and winced in pain and grabbed the side of his ribs. His stiches were starting to become overly sensitive and the slightest touch was becoming incredibly painful. When he had jumped down from the hole that lead into the water inside of the cave, he had fallen onto the side of a rock. A few broken ribs and some stiches was not exactly the kind of thing he was going for.

"Good now go!" Brandon gave Riven a reassuring man hug before he darted off towards the elevator.

"Do you think he is going to go this time?" Nabu raised his eyebrow and questioned thruly.

"No, but that is why I am taking the stairs." Brandon chuckled and casually walked away from the group as he was prepared to give his bestfriend a boosty-pep talk.

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Riven was resting in the chair in lobby number six. He was hiding from his friends, the girls, and currently Musa. He figured that if he hid in a lobby in a chair in the corner, difficult to see due to a ficus, he might get some time alone to himself. He was constantly being bombasted with questions. After awhile, it was becoming tedius. He shut his phone off and closed his eyes.

He was trying to replay the last emotions and event in his mind over the last few days.

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It was night fall, and the sky was only being lit up the numerous stars and the cast of the full moon. Riven had found his way out of the cave with the light from Brandon's cellular device. The air wasn't as thick and the temperature was about twenty degrees warmer than the cave. He shivered and moved towards the outside of the cave. He needed a way through the mass of trees, bushes and debree covering the forest floor.

It had taken him awhile to get to the where the crevice was in the cave. He had ran over a half a mile up through the woods. He had closelined himself a few times, gotten attacked by tree branches and thorns. Not to mention he was stuck with a severe case of poison ivy and spider bites on his left arm.

He wasn't going to lie, it was scary being up in a forest by yourself. It was dark, bats were fluttering in the night sky. It was like a scary movie. The parts where the owls eyes would light up the trees and they would casually hoot. And the occasional coyote would howl, sending an echo through the vasty forest.

He was even waiting for Edward Cullen to jump out of the tree and suck his blood. It was kind of dissapointing when he never showed.

Riven guessed it was no or never whenever he got over his fear of heights. His heart was racing as he sat near the opening, trying to pick the perfect time to jump. He couldn't see anything in down there except that the ripples in the water from the moonlight. For all he knew, the lockness monster could have eaten him or bigfoot was going to strangle him if he was sitting up there for to long. His childhood fantasies were going to the be result of a heart attack.

His mind was racing as he knew Musa was down there unconsious. Without creating a plan or determining if he was going to land on rocks, he slid his body as close to opening as he could before he jumped down.

He closed his eyes when he jumped. He didn't want to see the fall. Not like he would have been able to see anything due to the pitch black cave, but that was besides the point. When he fell, he tasted the thick air,and the blood from biting down on his left cheek. He felt his stomach go to his chest. What was only a matter of seconds felt like minutes. It was a different feeling then jumping off of the high dive at the local swimming pool.

This was a scary and risky feeling. The air was damp and cold. When he hit the water, he heard the water splash and he felt like time had stopped. He struggled to swim back to the top and shook as the water was freezing, ice cold. He reached the top of the water and gasped for air. He spun around, creating a drift in the current water stream. It was then he realized why he was in the water.

His body was shaking violently. He used his quivering voice to call out Musa's name. "Musa, Musa, please answer me. Where are you."

It wasn't for a few seconds when he heard a voice mumbling quietly. "Riven." She cried out.

Riven swam towards the shore where she was. "Musa, please talking louder." He shouted and tried to make as less noise as possible so he could hear her.

"Riven." She called out in pain.

Riven was able to swim to shore and he pulled himself out of the water. His soaking wet clothes stuck to his skin. His hair was sopping wet. He climbed back up onto his feet and staggered towards Musa. It was then he realized that he was breathing hard and his ribs were aching. He pulled his shirt off of his body and tossed it to the side. He ran his fingers over his aching ribs and winced in pain. It was then he felt a different texture then the water. He knew it was blood.

He wasn't for sure how much he was bleeding, he just knew that Musa needed him.

"Musa." He stumbled over to her. He pulled out Brandons phone from his pocket. By luck, it turned on and he flashed it in front of her face. She looked like death. Her face was pale and she was bruised all over.

"Riven." Her voice was shaking.

"Shh. I'm here." He sat down in the dirt and rocks and pulled her close to him. Her hands were ice cold and her body was shaking rapidly. He pulled her onto his lap and wrapped his arms around her. She leaned in close to him.

"It hurts to breathe." She whimpered and gasped for another breath.

"I know the feeling." He chuckled and groaned in pain as his sides were firing with pain.

"You're hurt." She spoke, her voice was soft and heavy. She slowly moved her hands towards Rivens side and he grimaced in pain. "Are you okay?"

He rolled his eyes to himself and held onto her tighter. She was always caring about other people besides herself. She was sitting in his lap, barely breathing and she was asking him if he would be okay due to a little scratch and bruise. "I hit myself on a rock falling into the water. I don't remember doing it, I just remember seeing it on my fall down."

"Ouch." There wans't much emotion in her voice except a twinge of compassion.

"How are you feeling?" He asked gently. Rubbing her head and trying to find the spots where she was bleeding. It wasn't hard to, she had blood all over herself.

"I'm cold and I hurt." She paused and closed her eyes. "Riven, please don't let me go. I don't want to move." She leaned into his chest and listened to his heartbeat. At that point, Riven felt his heart stop and his breath tighten in his throat. She was only saying that because they were under these circumstances. She couldn't possibly feel anything specific from him.

He laced his fingers through hers and stroked the side of her arm. "Don't worry Musa, I'm not going anywhere. I promise. I will stay right here. Oh and Brandon is on his way with help. You just got to stay awake with me." He tilted his head down and rested it ontop of hers.

Time seemed to stop and was at a standstill. "I fell you know." She started to speak, trying to relapse what had previously happened. Her head was throbbing and her body was so cold she could barely talk. Her bones ached, but even with all of these small problems, she was able to feel comfortable and safe around Riven. She was in his arms and for the first time since her mothers death, she was able to feel alive when she was so close to not being alive.

He made her heart skip a beat. He leaned down and breathed heavily into her neck, sending chills through her spine. "I know you did. Bloom and Stella were so concerned, that they left to go find you help. They are okay, just minor scratches. Everyone is so worried Musa. Including me. I thought for a moment I had lost you." He closed his eyes and couldn't even imagine Musa not being in his life. It was all to scary for him.

A small smile parted on her lips. "I'm not going anywhere, so you need to stop thinking that." She closed her eyes when he ran his fingers through her hair.

"Well at this rate Brandon takes, neither of us are going anywhere." Riven stared down at the wet phone and prayed that Brandon was going to come soon. It had been over a half an hour already. Time was moving incredibly slow and the temperature was dropping tremendously.

"If we don't make it out alive Riven..." Musa began, not exactly knowing where she was going with. Her head was throbbing and her vision was becoming fuzzy. She was just playing the dramatic part, the role that she had seen mutiple times in the movies.

He rolled his eyes in a child-like manner. "Shhh." He placed his fingers to her lips and stopped her from talking. "Brandon is on his way with the help, and believe me we are going to get help."

She looked into his eyes, the reflection from the moon making his pupils shine brightly. She used the last bit of her energy to pull herself up close to his face. She was only an inch away, and the world seemed to stop spinning. She grinned slightly as he did. Little splashes of water drops dripped from his sopping wet hair onto her face.

"Sorry." He laughed as he didn't move his face away from hers. The drops continued to fall and he knew that if she didn't budge, he was going to have to. She smiled softly, her lips were chapped and her face was caked with dirt. Even with all of the problems, she saw Riven in a different light. His guard was sliding down, just like the drops that were sweaping away from his loose hair strands.

It would have been the perfect romantic moment if Musa hadn't been losing consious. "Stay with me Musa." He whispered, closing his eyes only for a second. He had to watch the reality unfold in front of him.

Without thinking, Riven bent his head down, embraced his hands behind her neck and went in for the most daring thing he would have ever thought of himself to do. He planted a kiss onto her lips, shaking her from her transe. She gave off a soft smile and kissed back.

"God I -" Riven stopped and paused before the rest of it came out.

She turned her head at him in a curious way, "What?"

"Nothing." He smiled, running his hands throughout his head.

"Tell me." She begged quietly, trying to prevent herself from shaking.

"I can't." He scolded himself for letting his guard down.

"You can." She gripped onto his hand tighter for two reasons; one it was for a hint of reassurance and two she felt like she was slipping into a dream.

He shook his head and stared up at the moon. He was avoiding the leftover awkward commotion between he and Musa. It wasn't much longer before everything became a blurr. He and Musa had both let themselves fall asleep in the dark, damp collapsed cave. He remembered slightly from being awaken up by the paramedics and being carried out of the cave by a group of men.

Brandon was by his side, making sure both he and Musa were okay. It was a long night and the only thing Riven really remembered was the paramedics lying Musa outside in the grass hooking an oxygen tank up to her, reving the dead oxygen that had released from her over the last few hours. He watched from the rocks as medics were asking him all sorts of questions, and attempting to heal his wounds before he was life flighted to the nearest hospital. For a moment of time, it felt as if all life had been sucked out of both of them.

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Gahh I am terrible. This chapter is probably not what most of you expected, but hey I am a few steps closer to finishing this story. Maybe another chapter or two. I would really appreciate if everyone would review and give me their awesome input in. :)

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