You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope (On Hold)

Chapter 15

Where am I is all I have to say to myself as I drift in and out of consciousness or in and out of the world I don't know whether or not I'm just half asleep or half dead. I try and open my eyes but I can't muster the strength to open my eyes so I just sit trying to remember the events that led up to this point, oh yeah that's right I was attacked by a hungry wild dog I say to myself sarcastically. The fact that I was bitten by a wild dog means that my wound is definitely going to become infected if I don't get it treated soon, I don't know much about healing but I know that for sure. After awhile of just holding on to my now incredibly sore and torn up side I make another attempt at opening my eyes which surprisingly this time works considering I couldn't do it before if my life depended on it. When I opened my eyes I registered my surroundings slowly, they consisted of the now dead wild dog lying about a meter away from my outstretched feet, a small pool of my own blood covering the foliage below me and I was still clutching my life saving handmade weapon so tight in my hand that I couldn't feel it in my hand anymore.

It was probably about twelve or one o'clock considering that the sun was about half way through its daily course. Once I had taken everything into account I made an attempt at getting up which you could barely call an attempt because I wasn't even able to lift myself off the ground, I had lost so much blood that I didn't have enough strength to do something as simple as that. They have to have noticed that I would never go out into the woods for this long on my own and I wasn't hunting, they must know I repeatedly tell myself trying to find some sort of comfort in it.

"KATNISS!!!" I hear Gale scream hysterically as he runs in what I can only hope is my direction.

"here." I shout with all the decibels I could muster with my raspy and weak voice.

"Hold on I'm coming!" He responded to me with a louder tone than before it was either louder or he was getting closer.

Seconds later he came bursting through the thick brush to the left of me, as soon as he set eyes on the scene I was sprawled across he darted across the clearing and took his jacket off and lent me forward so that he could wrap it around my shoulders and but my arms through the sleeves as quickly and carefully as he could before addressing the hole in the side of me, when he did he took his top off and pulled mine up enough to expose the wound properly, when he had done so he tide his top around it tightly to prevent anymore blood escaping he then lifted me up and made a run through the forest as fast as he possibly could while I just dangled limply in his arms as though I was dead and I may as well have been considering I couldn't do anything else even if I wanted to.

"Stay awake Katniss please!" I pleaded with me who was now unable to do anything apart from dangle around in his arms as he ran.

"Katniss!" He shouted at me as he kept running, this time I just couldn't say anything nothing no response I just continued to dangle then I was gone I was out no coming back.

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I'm dead I'm dead I'm definitely dead right now I was mauled by a hungry wild dog there is no coming back from that, is all I can say to myself right now as I stare into darkness.

"She should be okay, and Gale don't let Prim in." I hear my mother say to Gale which means I'm not dead, really I'm seriously not dead nothing can kill me at this point I've survived it all. "Do you want me to make some dinner Mrs.Everdeen?" Asks another incredibly familiar voice but I can't quite place it my memory is quite fuzzy. "Only if it's not to much trouble Peeta." My mother answers, oh my god Peeta's here why is he here? I'm going to have to make it known that I'm awake if I want an explanation. "No it's no trouble." He answers as I hear the heavy footsteps of his prosthetic make their way out of the room. I finally make the decision to make my consciousness known considering Peeta was gone. I slowly start to open and close my eyes in an attempt to focus my vision which gets my mothers attention because I then heard and just about made out her figure make its way towards me and sit down on the side of the what I can now identify as the living room sofa.

"Hey." She said to me in a quite voice while grabbing a soft loose grip of my right hand.

"Hi." I answered in an even lower and incredibly hoarse tone.

"How are you feeling?" She asked me in the same tone she used before while she stared me in the eyes.

"I guess I'm fine considering I'm alive." I answered in the same cracking tone as I made an attempt at positioning myself more comfortably on the sofa which was a terrible idea because the pain immediately made itself known and it wasn't enjoyable, once it had done so I gave out a faint cry and stopped all movement.

"Don't move Katniss you're just going to pain yourself." She stated as she moved the sofa cushion that caused the pain in the first place.

"Do you want some tea Mrs.Everdeen?" Asked Peeta from the kitchen as he made his way towards the living room and all I did before he reached the threshold is hope like hell that he wouldn't come in but that was a waste because as soon as he got to the archway between the kitchen and living room he noticed my consciousness. "Your awake." He said in a happy tone of relief and his eyes lit up as he made his way towards me.
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