If only I had an actual white jacket and stuff instead of this stupid black top, no one will take me seriously as a doctor now. What I need is a proper first aid kit, I'll just have to wait for someone to sponsor me. But for now, I gotta get him outta this dang hole which, for some reason, he thought was a good idea to put himself in. I am not very strong, I can't just lift him out of the it. Unless, if I have a sudden almighty adrenaline surge through me, and I feel brave enough to lift him right outta the hole, but that can only be triggered by strong feelings of anger, lemme think. That just because Dim got picked I had to volunteer, okay, I feel a bit angry, that Coo had to die because of that STUPID BOY WHO KILLED HIM! Yes, getting angrier, that they GAVE ME A STUPID ONE IN TRAINING ALL BECAUSE I SHOT THAT ONE STUPID CREME BRÛLÉE! I am beginning to steam up now, I am also angry that FETA SHOVED ME INTO THE VASE WHEN I KISSED HIM, yes I am infuriated! I AM GONNA GO INTO A BREAKDOWN! With all of my strength, I lift Feta straight outta the hole and into the lake. The lake will wash away all of the burns. He is sighing in relief as the water washes away all the dirt and mud in him. If I survive this then I'm going to become a doctor, and I will become famous too, well, to be honest, I'm already quite famous in the arena, but like, I mean, actual proper famous! However, we need medicine from the Capeetol to cure it, but I don't actually know what it is, so I think of everything we could never afford in District 12. Fresh fruit, that could soothe the wound, fish, the strong and fishy smell of it may distract him from the pain and agony, and wine. Wine! I watch a lot of teen romance comedies, and they drink wine, and they become in a sudden epic party mood and they forget about everything... and then they have regrets and end up vomiting everywhere... nah, I'm thinking of Mean Girls, it's not like that in real life, I'm sure. Besides... it'll be the best treatment ever! I'll even think of a name for it, fruit, fish, wine, FRISHINE! Now it's declared I will one hundred percent become a doctor when I'm older! I almost don't even care about Feta's life right now, just how awesome my plan is! Let's begin!
Grapes are easy to find, I find some growing right beside the lake actually! It's all I can do not to stuff them into my mouth right now, they smell so fresh, and they're not just any grapes, they're black grapes! My favourite kind! I may not be a wine expert, but I know that it involves grapes! I grab a bunch, only where do I put them? Suddenly I look up and see a sponsor gift floating down towards me, and it's a big cooking pot with a handle! Not just one, a whole set of small and large bowls, each with handles! I blow a big kiss in front of me, the cameras will HAVE to show it, and if they don't, well, that's their loss! I shove the grapes in and, it's not dark, so a fire isn't too big a risk, however, beforehand I pound some twigs into the ground, grab some vines to tie one large twig to balance on both of them, hang the cooking pot on them, make a fire underneath, and I have my stove! Awesome! I will admit, I don't exactly know how to make wine. It's not really what I do, I hunt, then my mother (still haven't forgiven her for my name) would cook it. I think you literally crush the grapes and then wine comes out, so that's what I do. I put them in the stove, get a large piece of bark, and crush the grapes. Even though I have never seen wine before, I am not sure I have gotten it exactly right. It just looks too... mint green. Ah well. I made a lot too, so I can put half in another bowl as well, that way I will still have some left after I feed Feta the FRISHINE. Next thing we need is a cooked fish...
"Fatniss!" Feta yelled, ah, whoops, I had gotten so caught up in it that I totally forgot about him. "Can I come out of the water now? It's been, like, an hour!"
"You've hung in there for one, you can handle another two!" I yelled back.
Anyways, what I was saying before I was rudely interrupted, I am going to have to cook the fish, or else, Feta is more likely to die than live from my FRISHINE, but the fish will be very easy. I go near the lake with my bow and arrow and skewer the first fish that swims by before it can so much finish the word, "help". It takes about twenty minutes for the fish to cook over the stove, then I crush it and add it to one of the half bowls of wine. Now I just need the fruit. I could use the grapes, but I already used them for the wine. Then I remember, I never ate the dried fruit which I found in the backpack from the Mournodopia. I can easily use these! I add all of them to the mixture, ugh, the fish really makes it smell terrible, and crush them. It smells terrible, The colour is not a hot, but an icky pink, did I mention that it smells terrible?
This is the closest I'll get to the special Capitol medicine. Feta looks up at me, he is clearly annoyed, don't blame him, I kinda abandoned him in the lake. Hopefully the FRISHINE is so exquisite and it cures him, and then I'll be a doctor when Feta and I both go home. I pick up the bowl and hand it to him.
"Um... Fatniss? I know you mean well, but I'm not that hungry right now..."
"Nope! You're going to swallow the whole thing!"
It takes a while but I manage to force the whole thing in him. I expect a sudden change, suddenly he's in a party mood and is completely cured of everything, but instead he's coughing and vomits right into the lake. I'll admit, I'm disappointed, I probably won't be a doctor when I'm older after all! I somehow made him more sick by my medicine.
"Foul!" he yells. "Disgusting! Revolting! And it smells so bad! What did you put in it?"
"Wine, fish and fruit!" I am annoyed at him for not liking it, and because he drank all of it, I drink the wine. Oh gosh, that's not wine, that's grape juice! This has all gone wrong!
I need proper medicine. I can't make it myself. Suddenly, another parachute comes floating down, oh! It's the medicine! It's in a pot. It is a small pot, maybe it's just really strong. I put a bit on my tongue, no, that's not the medicine, that's sleep syrup, enough to knock someone out for one day straight. But why would I need sleep syrup?
A speaker appears in the sky again, "HEY TRIBUTES, HOW'S IT GOING?"
You know what, Feta's going to die, I'm not feeling too good.
"WELL, WE HAVE A FEAST IN THE MOURNODOPIA!"
Well, we're not that hungry!
"AND SOMETHING YOU DESPERATELY NEED WILL BE IN THE BACPACK WITH YOUR DISTRICT NUMBER ON IT!"
Feta yells, "Don't you dare even think about going Fatniss! If you do, I will hobble to where you are and so Baito will kill me!"
Great, so Feta won't let me go to the feast, but if I use the sleep syrup I can knock him out for a day and go and collect the medicine he needs. But I'd be risking my own life, and Baito and Glove will, for sure, be attending, as well as Mesh and Foxface.
So what do I do?
Do I go?
Or do I stay?
