Mockingjay's Daughter (Hunger Games Fanfiction)

Chapter 44: Drakob

Drakob's P.O.V

Numbness fills my entire body, while strong shooting pains ache me until I open my eyes. Humming noises where radiating off the ceiling light and a repetive beating heart monitor attached to me made a noise, but apart from that, the room was silent.

I realised suddenly that I was in a hospital room.

I try and think back to how I could be here. Why aren't I dead?

I can remember the very last day in The Hunger Games. The mountain was in fact a volcano which erupted. When we got on the other mountain to avoid getting burnt alive by lava, Willow tried to kill herself just to save me.

The thought was upsetting. The fact she risked her life just so I could live. She has parents who love her and people counting on her...I am just a waste of space with an abusive dad who didn't care that I was reaped into the Games...

...I would never let her die for me.

It's hard to try and concentrate because my head is throbbing so much, but I try and think about more of what happened...

Me and Willow then fell from the lava breaking the mountains enamel, we where later on the broken bits of rock, surrounded by the lava. I remember the whole thing as if it had just happened...The look of pain in her stormy blue eyes as we faced instant death-tints of grey illuminated also from them; her beautiful singing voice filling me with hope I never thought I once had...Then a large hovercraft came and lowered down to where Willow was lying, she was lifted away. She was crying my name and we gripped hands for as long as possible, before she was then taken away from me.

I watched her staring down at me until she was no longer in sight. The scorching lava then started seeping through the piece of rock I was on.

I panicked.

Then blackness...

I hope that the hovercraft was to rescue her, I am so happy that she was rescued instead of me.

But if I wasn't rescued, why am I here? Did the Capitol catch me when I blacked out?

So many questions are surrounding me.

As if by coincidence, someone opens the metal door and enters the room. I turn my body to see who it first is.

Tye.

He look different. His skin a lot paler, his face is shocked-as if he'd just seen a ghost instead of me.

"You're...awake Drakob." He says eyes wide.

"Yeah," I nod still feeling really groggy. "I woke up in here. How are you here? Where is this place?"

"It's-"

"-Its what?!" I interrupt, desperate for an answer.

"Well, you know after The Hunger Games?" He asks. It takes a while, but I nod. "When Willow was airlifted, I thought you were a goner. The rebels of 12 where sent to save her and then, if possible, you."

This was a good idea, something I can understand. "So. I was rescued then?" I ask rhetorically.

"Yeah."

"And Willow, is she ok?" I ask eagerly to him, needing to hear the answer. It has to be positive.

His face then creases, and before he can answer my question, a nurse walks in.

"Ah, your awake Drakob!" She says with delight. "I must go and tell the other members of staff and send out word. Everything will be explained later." The nurse says fast then rushes out of the room.