"Isn't it lovely. All alone.
Heart made of glass. My mind of stone.
Tear me to pieces. Skin to bone."
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BOOK 1 - Indiana Summers is the niece to two Victors and the sweetheart of the Capitol but now she'd been dropped into the...
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'"They're back." Haymitch announced, bursting into the room. "We're wanted in the hospital and that's all I know."
Heart leaping from her chest, Katniss wished she could run the long walk to the hospital. Both Gale and Peeta could be there safely as she was only minutes away from finding out. The prospect of seeing Peeta for the first time had her heart pounding a thousand miles an hour.
On the other hand, her feet stumbled through an agonisingly slow walk as she had to help guide Finnick out of the room. Shocked by the news, the man from Four appeared to have lost the ability to walk as his feet shuffled along.
Was Annie down there? Were Indiana and Johanna alive? Was Cato alive and happy, having reunited with Indiana? He was going to see Annie but somehow his body couldn't move. He was too terrified for any bad news he could receive.
Bursting into the hospital wing, there was a flurry of activity as all the returned soldiers were being given mandatory checks and the 'rescued' were undergoing severe medical assessments.
A gurney passed by with a bald, young woman laying unconscious on it. She was covered in bruises and scabs; she was unhealthily skinny and her skin pale. Johanna Mason was alive but she was certainly not well. The woman had been through Hell and back and she looked it. Fear coiled in the pits of the two healthy Victors as they dreaded to see the state of the other prisoners.
In one room, a doctor was seeing to Gale. He had been stripped of his shirt and the doctor was removing the bullet from his shoulder. Blood dribbled out of the window, mixing with the slight sheen of sweat coating his chest. Relief washed over Katniss upon seeing her friend and she called out for him only to be shut out of the room by a nurse.
"Finnick!" A joyful voice echoed around the vast space of the hospital.
Turning to face the dark haired woman who was dressed in nothing but a sheet, Finnick's face broke out into a huge grin, highlighting how handsome he was. Colliding with each other, the reunited pair smashed into a wall but neither of them paid it any attention as they remained wrapped in each other's arms; the world around them faded away. Nothing else mattered but each other.
Smiling at the loving display, Katniss couldn't help the small pang of jealousy that struck her as she watched them, so certain of their love for each other. On the other side of the room, Cato watched his friend with a similar expression to Katniss. Whilst he was grateful that Annie had been rescued safely and Finnick had gotten the woman he loved back, Cato was also jealous because he had been robbed of a reunion with his fiancée.
