A/N: Okay so this chapter escalates really quickly... Sorry I guess.
<TRIGGER WARNING (References/actions to rape)>
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Sam
The chirping of the birds was the first thing that awoke me, today was going to be interesting.
I didn't know how I felt about the idea of trying out for a medjack, but 'try everything' someone once told me. So I will do just that.
I reluctantly pull myself from under the warm covers, and trudge towards the rickety wardrobe. I should really get Gally to fix that. Oh well.
I change my underwear, and put on some clothes, ignoring the loud footsteps from outside my room. It was probably Newt or Alby. As I begin to brush my hair, I hear the sound of my door creaking open.
Suddenly, I am grabbed from behind and thrown roughly to the ground. I wheeze, as I was winded against the wooden floor.
I scream as the stranger holds down my arms. They then sit on my legs, but I am quick to react and whack them with my paddle hairbrush.
But the man was stronger than me, as I squirm under his weight. He presses a hand onto my mouth to prevent me from screaming. But I bite down and yell for help.
"SOMEBODY HELP ME! SOMEBO-" I'm cut of by the stranger clamping his hand down onto my lips.
I cry and scream, my throat raw. Why isn't anyone hearing me? More importantly, how?
The stranger begins to lift up my top. "HELP!" I scream louder this time. He presses his lips against mine and kisses me. I spit at him and thrash around crying for rescue.
Newt
A female scream rings throughout the glade. I race to the homestead and climb the stairs. "Greenie? Are you okay? Have you found a spider?" I smirk at the thought, but it drops immediately as another shriek is heard.
"SOMEBODY HELP ME! SOMEBODY HEL-" The scream is cut of by a gravelly voice:
"Shut up, bitch. Let me have my fun!"
I sprint into the greenies room, to see the poor girl underneath a huge glader. She struggles and hits him with her hairbrush, but the big glader doesn't show any reaction of being hurt.
"Hey!" I shout, and the glader looks at me with wide eyes, like a deer caught in headlights. I stride forwards and yank the glader from the girl, giving him a good couple of punches to keep him down.
Alby and Minho run into the room. As the girl lays on the ground, her hands covering her face as sobs rack her body, her top disheveled and shorts unbuttoned, with purple bruises on her wrists.
"Shuck a duck." Minho gasps as he looks around, eyes soaring to the unconscious and bloody glader on the ground and the girl in the corner.
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Sam
The medjacks had come in to inspect my bruised wrists. They said it would hurt for a couple of days whilst it healed, but my entire body felt numb and filthy.
Newt and Alby had scampered away to have a gathering. But it was as though they were afraid of a sobbing girl.
The boy was taken to the slammers and told his fate. Which I was yet to be informed of.
And I was allowed two hours off, to compose myself and to "stop crying" like Alby had said. You should try and almost be raped bitch, let's see how you feel about it.
As I sit on my bed, no tears left to cry. I hear footsteps coming towards my room, but I keep my eyes on the door, completely aware of who was going to come in any second now.
But it was Minho, and I felt myself begin to weep with relief. "Hey, how are you... getting on?" He chooses his words wisely, as though I was delicate and likely to break any second.
"Im just shocked."
"Im sorry, I really am. Did he..." muttered, looking at the floor and away from my gaze.
"Thank you." I whisper, my lip trembling, "And no, he... he touched me."
A flash of concern crosses his face as he finally meets my eyes, he gulps as he sees them tear filled. "I'm sorry about Alby and Newt, they're not very sympathetic."
I nod, trying to understand. But only feeling scared and alone. "I'll take you to the medjacks, come 'ere." He opens his arms wide, gesturing for me to hug him.
So I do, and my heart soars with warmth, and I finally don't feel so alone anymore. As Minho links my hands with his and guides me to the medjack room, but before giving me a kiss on the forehead.
A gesture so simple, so small and so kind, that it makes me cry again. But this time with happiness, because I didn't feel so alone anymore.
