Mockingjay's Daughter (Hunger Games Fanfiction)

Chapter 22: The Career

This is a picture of Fletch

In the morning, I woke up with Autumn sound asleep on my shoulder. I carefully lift her resting head off me and climbed down the tree to where Drakob was standing.

"Hey," Drakob greets me as I'm jumping off the tree, "sleep well?"

"Yeah, I guess." His eyes looked like
they where going to pop out of his sockets from lack of sleep he's had.

"Should I take over?" I offer, "you look tired." Tired was actually the understatement of the century for him.

"It's ok, I can just go later. Last night a couple of them wired mutant animals came out so I killed them." You could tell, he was covered in blood from head to toe. Although, the blood was a weird colour "I want to fight them off if they come again."

"It's ok, it's only daytime so nothing is likely to come out. But Drakob, you barley slept yesterday and you didn't sleep the night before."

"Huh," he sighs giving in, too tired to argue. "Ok, I'll sleep for just a few hours but wake me if something happens. Anything, ok."

"Good and just so you know Drakob, I could fight them off myself, ya know." I elbow him.

"Right. Sure you can."

I roll my eyes at his annoying sarcasm. "I'll go and find some edible plants and hunt more animals." I say gripping my bow. "If Autumn wakes, tell her."

"I still don't trust her you know." His mood suddenly changes. "I know you think she's your friend, but I just think something is...off with her."

"Trust me, she's a good person." I don't admittedly have a 100% great feeling about her, but we do need another alley.

"Whatever. Just go and don't be too long Willow."

"Ok," I smile picking up my water bottle to fill up at the lake. "I'll be back soon and I'll try and get as much as I can."

I start to run now clutching my items in my clammy hand.

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I found some brambles, chives and four small apples hiding beneath trees after a long time of looking from around the lake and had also shot three more birds.

This will do.

I return with the food a couple of hours later and place them in the hole by the tree where we agreed yesterday. It still has the large rabbit in, this will have to be eaten soon or it will go bad.

I go to see if Autumn or Drakob are up in the tree but they aren't anywhere to be seen, I daren't call out incase a tribute hears me.

I hope they are ok.

My stomach rumbles, demanding food. I decide on one of the small apples I found, I don't want to be greedy to the others.

My crackling throat now feels sore and inflamed. I try to swallow some saliva, but nothing comes out. Reaching for my water bottle, my heart stops for a second. I've left it by the lake since I went off hunting and forgot it.

I need to get it. Wether I like it or not, I need to go back and get it.

I rush and try skimming the trees to the lake for my water bottle desperately. It takes me around ten minutes to reach here running, I think anyway. I'm not good with time.

I look around the stream retracing my footsteps. So I came here after I shot the birds, then I set my bottle down to fill it but then saw the bramble bush and must of forgot about it.

It made sense now.

Arriving to where I can remember being earlier, I can see the bottle standing up on a rock by the lake untouched!