Panem High

Chapter 24 - Devastation

KATNISS POV

Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.

Everything is black and I have no sense of feeling in my body. I try to move my hands and fail. I try to blink and fail. I begin to think that this is the end, i'm going to die. I'm going to die and leave everybody I love behind in my path. My line of thought is interupted though when I hear the door open and several voices I don't recognise bounce around the room. I hear parts of a conversation involving my name and The Mellarks. The voices leave and the door shuts again. I am alone with my thoughts once again.

PEETA'S POV  (several hours before)

My short nap is interrupted by Katniss screams. I try to reach for her as the large lorry comes pounding onto her side of the car. I feel the car begin to turn and manage to reach katniss seatbelt and undo it. I pull her into my arms in the hope of protecting her from anything I can. I slam my eyes shut and wait until the car stops moving around and becomes still. Nobody says anything so I immediatly assume the worst but I refuse to open my eyes. I stay like this until I hear sirens in the distance and parts of the car are being ripped from its body. I still stay sat in my seat, holding onto Katniss with an Iron grip. I feel myself shaking and dripping wet but I still refuse to move.

"Come on son" A medic says trying to pry her out of my arms. "Your alright, you just need to come with us" I still don't move and eventually I feel myself being lifted away from my torn seat and into the back of an ambulance. I slowly open my eyes and as soon as I realise that Katniss isn't with me I begin to scream. I don't stop until they have to shoot something into my arm. My eyes droop low staight away and all my energy is suddenly gone. In the end I just let go and soon I'm gone. Into my own dream world where everyone is safe and Katniss is forever mine.,..

"Peeta?" I hear by my side as I shake my head to reduce the feeling of tiredness hanging over me.

"Easy Peet" I recognise this voice and jerk as I see my dad on the other side of me holding onto one of my hands tightly. 

"Dad?" I croak.

"Your okay son, everything is fine" He says and suddenly I remember why I am here and what happened. I wonder where Katniss is and I feel the panic begin to rush back through me.

"Katniss?" I say and nobody answers me. "Where is Katniss!" I shout and startle the nearby nurses.

"Peeta calm down" Dad says from my side but I can't. I refuse to until I know where she is and I can feel her alive and breathing against my own body.

"Peeta if you calm down we will tell you okay?"

"Okay" I splutter through my tears. I shut my eyes and try to calm myswlf as I know that kicking up a fuss will get me nowhere. Eventually I am calm and my dad slowly begins to explain what happend. Apparently we were driving down the freeway in a storm and a lorry fell and skidded over Katniss's side of the car, crushing the entire side. My side was almost un-affected with only slight dents. 

"She is alive isn't she?" I feel a tear slip down my face as I watch my father sigh. 

"Katniss is alive, but barely. Both her parents died and Prim is on life support currently" He breathes out heavily as a few tears of his own slip down his face.

I feel numb all of a sudden. Katniss is alive but could die at any moment and Prim is almost gone. 

"When can I see her?" I ask the doctor.

"Well you only have a minor concussion and a broken leg so within the next few hours I'm sure" He says, sympathy plastered on his face as he reads my broken expression.

*6 hours later*

I slowly stand from my bed and grip my crutches between my hands as I hop through the door and follow the doctor down the corridor. We walk through into the intensive care ward and I feel tears already begin to stir in my eyes. He leads me though several doors and makes me wait outside as he and several others walk in first. I hear mumbling and the involvement of my name and thats all before he returns to me.

"Peeta, Katniss is in a coma and she is unable to feel or see anything but we believe she can still hear so you are welcome to spend as much time as you need in there and just ring the nurses button if you need any assisstance" He tells me before leaving back down the corridor.

I slowly enter the room and stop when I see her situation. She is laying flat on her bed hooked up to several wires and her complextion is the most pale I have ever seen it before. I walk to her side and pull up a chair, I am never leaving her side now that I know the true extent of her condition. I remember that she can still hear so I take her frail hand in mine and begin to speak to her.

KATNISS POV (*present time*)

After the doctors leave I hear the door open and shut again. I hear the clicking of someone's crutches and the sound of a chair being dragged across the floor. There is momentary silence before I hear a voice I thought I never would again. Peeta's.

"Katniss" I hear him whisper gently. "Katniss i'm so sorry" He starts and then gets choked up and begins to cry. I wish more than anything that I could just hug him but I can't. 

"Katniss I'm so sorry, this shouldn't of happened" He says beginning again. " Not to you or to anybody, I love you so much" 

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WOOYEH I updated!

Who cried because I know I did writing this! I'm sorry don't kill me.

I updated because I finished one of my exams today! But I do still have the rest of maths and all 3 sciences so don't expect any frequent updates! 

I hope this chapter keeps you going till next time! Keep COMMENTING and VOTING as I love you guys!

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btw I have no idea about comas so sorry if I got it wrong!