Alex Mellark - Hunger Games Fan Fiction

Escape - 13

Chapter 13

Escape

Alex P.O.V

I sat down groaning and looked around I was in a room around 1 and half metres wide and 2 meters long with a bed branching off the side. The walls were cemented and grey, a single glass door with a keypad at the end stood there. 

I drew a shaky breath, they had locked me up.

I let out a scream of frustration as I kicked out at the wall. I hate small spaces I always had, I just felt like I couldn’t breathe, like I would run out of air in a small enclosed area.

I banged on the wall anger flooding through me, a shadow crossed my floor. My head shot up and I saw Katniss standing outside the door. I tilted my head sideways. “Katniss”

“I’m sorry Alex” Katniss whispered

I ran 3 steps forward and pressed my hands onto the glass door, “Rush, is Rush”

“He’s fine don’t worry. I’m sorry about”

I cut Katniss off as she had cut me off “Peeta what about Peeta”

Tears filled Katniss’s blue green eyes, “The Capitol got him”

I crumbled to the ground and buried my face into my hands, guilt pressing in on me from all sides.

Katniss P.O.V

I could hear sobs echoing through the halls.

Prim and Rush looked up “What’s going on?”

“Nothing” I shrugged

“That sounds like” Rush drifted off and stood up

“Rush sit down” I snapped

“That’s Alex” Rush said shaking his head.

“No Rush” but it was too late Rush had run out of the room followed by Prim, I raced after them as they sprinted through corridors. I slowed down due to a sharp pain in my leg, I rounded the corner to see Rush and Prim pressed up against a glass door.

Alex P.O.V

I sat up from lying down on my bed, I groaned as I heard tapping on the door. I stood up and looked at the door to see Rush and Prim hammering their hands on the door. Prim pounding the key pad with her fingers.

“Rush, Prim” I whispered walking three steps forehead, I placed my hand on the door.

“Go now” I said

“No not without” Rush started

“RUSH” I shouted then my voiced faded away “Please for me”

Katniss appeared behind them “Katniss get them away”

Katniss wrapped her arms around Rush and dragged him away, screaming and kicking, Prim trailing behind them.

Rush P.O.V

Katniss’s arms pulled me away, I screamed and kicked her. I had to return to Alex, never not even in the Games had I seen her more worn out or broken. Dirt smudged across her pale face, a dull forlorn look in her usually bright green blue eyes, her full lips dry and cracked.

Katniss pulled me into their room and placed her hands on my shoulders “Rush, I need you to calm down okay. I promise you I will get her out of there oaky” Truth shone through Katniss’s eyes as she cupped my cheek.

I nodded tears building in my eyes, Katniss nodded and pulled me into a hug rubbing my back as I buried my face into her shoulder, longing for warmth.

***

An alarm started to blare through the halls, jumping up I ran out of the room, Katniss and Prim hot on my tail. I sprinted down the corridor to Alex’s cell to find the glass had been smashed. A note lay among the broken glass, my name written on the front. With trembling hands, I lifted up the letter from the broken glass remains, and read the message.

Rush my dearest brother and trouble maker.

I ran, I’m so sorry but I can’t stay here, President Coin is right, I’m unstable. I’m leaving; Peeta can look after you once he’s escaped from the Capitol or maybe Katniss. I need you to know that I love you and even though I have left doesn’t mean I am gone. No before that though even crosses your mind, I haven’t killed myself. I am simply leaving the Panem, there has to be another world or city or place out there and I am going to find it and maybe a cure. Maybe one day I’ll come back, come back for you. You my little brother, my favourite mischief maker, you must forgive me, please don’t forget me but move on from me. Peeta is your family, Katniss, Prim, Haymitch, and Finnick. Even though they are gone Mama, Papa, Fern and Josh they live within you, within that big heart of yours. Please move on from us all but don’t forget us.

From your forever loving sister

Alex xx

Tears dripped down the end of my nose, as I read my sisters words. She was so stupid yet so brave, flipping the note over; I found a P.S. I eagerly read the words hoping she might say where she had started her search but instead it read;

Rush tell Katniss, that she is the Mocking Jay and that all she has to do is survive, survive for Prim, for her Mother, for Peeta, for me and for you okay? Correct her tell her that I’m not stupid, I’m foolish. Tell her that I love her, tell Prim I love her, Tell Peeta I love him, Tell Finnick I love him, Tell Johanna I love her, Tell Haymitch I love him, and remind you I love you and tell Auntie Effie I love her. (See I called her Auntie Effie, your welcome). You’ll find notes under the bed for them, please give them to them and tell them it was from them. Tell them please Rush, and again because I want to remind you, I love you.

I let out a tear chocked laugh as I read the bracketed message, it seemed like an age ago when I fake cried because Alex refused to call Effie Auntie, I had been more care free than ever. I walked through the chambers and picked up 7 scraps of paper and I clutching the note to my chest and shoving the others into my pocket, Prim wrapped a thin arm around my shoulders “Come on Rush”

“She loves you” I replied “She told me to tell you that she loves you” I whispered

“I know, I know” Prim murmured

Prim led me back to her room before the guards came and sat me down on her bed when she turned her back on me to get some water. I pulled out the seven notes to see each labelled Prim, Katniss, Peeta, Finnick, Johanna, Haymitch or Effie. Putting everyone’s expecting Prim’s in my pocket, I tapped Prim on the back.

Prim turned around holding a glass of water in her hand. “Rush” her wide blue eyes puzzled

I pressed Alex’s note to her in her hand I repeated “She loves you”