Prim and Noah left for District Two in the morning. I wanted to go too but they wouldn't let me, not after everything that happened.

Shortly after Prim talked to me I conked out. I woke up almost ten hours later, drenched with sweat and panting hard. Everything started to look a bit fuzzy and I couldn't tell apart real from fake. I think I saw Katniss checking up on Gale, Annie kissing Finnick, and Mrs. Everdeen hooking me up to some morphling. I couldn't breath and I started seeing things. Things that aren't actually real. The floor turned to white and the smell of roses overwhelmed me, reminding me of my stay at the Capitol. Then I was at the mines, smoke filling my lungs as the explosion killed everyone inside. Next was the quell, where I was drowning in the water while Prim kissed Finnick on the cheek and told me good bye. They're just hallucinations, I had told myself but it seemed so real at the time. Johanna grew some snakes for hair, Annie coughed up blood, and Prim rushed towards me with a huge syringe. It's all fake, she left for Two in the morning, I had told myself. I passed out before she reached me.

When I wake up I'm in a different room. I feel better than before but things still seem fuzzy. I'm hooked up to something new and my breath smells like some sort of mint. My shoulder still sports a bullet and is now spewing out white stuff. I avert my eyes so I don't throw up. It looks disgusting.

"You're awake!" Mrs. Everdeen exclaims with a sigh of relief. "I'll contact your Mom, thank goodness you're up...you've been asleep for a full day."

A full day?! Prim said she'd call me when she got to Two. I touch my wrist, groping for my communicuff and find that it's not there. That explains it...she wouldn't just forget to call me...right?

"Rory!" Mom exclaims as she rushes into the room. She seems frazzled but not on the verge of tears. She's always been able to keep her calm in hard situations. I wish I was like that, but I don't think I inherited any of that goodness. "Rory...Rory the rascal."

It's an old nickname and it brings back good memories. I think that's what she meant to do. She then goes on to tell me that Gale is doing better. Katniss requested that they should bring Pollux to him, and the two have been getting along well. Castor's been helping his brother teach my brother sign language and hopefully Gale will be able to speak one day.

"Is he okay? Will he be able to come home anytime soon?" Mom asks Mrs. Everdeen.

"He will be better but needs some more time to recover. He may relapse...the bullet is quite dangerous, loaded with tracker jacker venom. It took effect after about 12 hours, and will probably happen again at the 24 hour mark. We haven't been able to remove the bullet yet, as it attached itself to an important vein...it'll be risky to try and pull it out. We just have to hope it loosens overtime, then we can pull it out. Until then, we need to be careful for relapses. I advise he stays in the hospital until that happens."

Beep beep. My communicuff starts beeping from somewhere on my left.

"Oh sorry Rory, I set it aside earlier, here," Mrs. Everdeen apologizes, handing me the device. My shoulder throbs but I swallow back the pain as I thank her and receive my communicuff. I decide to call Prim with it, who's finally gotten a cuff of her own.

"Give it back," I hear her shout. There's some shuffling and Noah laughs. Primrose squeals but then comes in. "Hey Rory! How are you doing?"

"Hey Primrose, I'm doing okay...they couldn't remove the bullet though, and they think I might relapse so...I'm stuck in the hospital for a while."

"Oh, that must be really bad! We'll try to make it back quick, miss you!"

"Aha miss you too. Tell me about Two."

Prim and Noah take turns sharing (and bantering) about the Nut, a huge arsenal at the heart of Two. It was created shortly after the Capitol lost Thirteen during the Dark Days. According to them, it's not the same but still got a lot of weapons, and from the outside, it just looks like a mountain. It hurts to hear them laughing and talking together like childhood friends. I decide to let it go, but only because Prim came to see me first despite the fact that her ex-crush just came back from the dead. That was pretty awesome.

"They take the propaganda to heart here," Noah says. Then off the device, "Haha remember Cato and Clove, they were so big and bulky, always pushing people around. Rue stole Cato's knife at training though, and he got so mad at Axel even though he was innocent!"

"Haha yeah of course I remember that...and when Rue and I pretty much rescued you from the careers..."

"Hey, I'm the one that told you about the food pile!"

The two laugh and I can't help but feel hurt this time.

"Rory, let's talk Mockingjay now."

"Sure," I answer, glad that we can talk about something that's just between the two of us.

"So as we know, the other districts are all free of the Capitol, but they still got Two. They trains lot's of Peacekeepers here so they're generally well fed and so...they leave their loyalties with them."

"That's gotta suck...what about rebels from Two?"

"Well there's a line here, where the rebels from Two and the Peacekeepers, Capitol slaves pretty much, fight back and forth...But anyways, we need the remaining bit of Two on our side, then we get to the Capitol, and we kill Snow."

"Sounds awesome. Can't wait to have you back here and talk business!"

"Yup, I totally agree! See you soon!"

"See ya!"

"Me too!" Noah adds, "And thanks for bringing me back, I don't think I got the chance to tell you yet. I'll take good care of your girl."

It takes me back a little and I pause before saying, "Yeah, see you soon bro, maybe I can show you the armory when you come back."

"Yeah that would be awesome, see ya!"

The call ends and I smile. I got myself some pretty awesome friends.

Later in the afternoon, Finnick visits me in the ward. He tries to cheer me up and I'm quite grateful for that. We talk about the Quell and what not, and I notice how much happier he has become after they've brought Annie. He tells me that Gale is doing much much better and that helps too. Maybe things are finally starting to get better.

~A/N~ Did you guys know that Finnick auto corrects to Finicky? Just thought I should say that hehe. Hope this extremely short chapter was enough for you guys, I'll have the next one up in no time! Question: Proah or Prory, and why? Comment down below!!

-Monica