Lightning and Rainfall, Blizzards and Teardrops {Arrows}

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Lightning hadn’t been the first one in District Four to volunteer, but he was damn close to it. I never would have imagined that Lightning, even if he were a ‘Career’, would ever volunteer himself for the Hunger Games. Even worse was the fact that he wasn’t the only one going in out of our little family. Chaos had followed in his footsteps, hurling herself into the grasp of the Capitol to be used as a piece in their little Game of killing and survival that they somehow found entertaining enough to televise to the entire country of Panem. I was devastated as they left me, and I didn’t know what to do.

I was brought first to visit Chaos. There were a lot of tears in our goodbyes, and I was terrified to think that that may have been our final goodbyes that we ever gave to one another. At least, it seemed that way to me. The world was spiraling out of control for me, and I knew that I’d be losing at least one of my new family members that had so kindly rescued me and decided to take me in, even allowing me to take on their surname of O’Hana. I didn’t want to release from the kind hug I was receiving as I was wrapped in Chaos’s arms. Unfortunately, it all came to an end, and I had a feeling that that was the absolute end. My mind told me she’d never return, even if my heart insisted that she would.

I’d given Chaos the pendant that I wore around my neck every day. It was something I was willing to give up for her. She needed something, a physical something to take with her. She needed it so she’d never forget how much I loved her. I hated when I had to leave her. The Peacekeepers escorted me out of the room, and I was still in tears from sharing my departing woes. Now, though, I knew I’d be going through something very similar again. I’d be saying goodbye to Lightning.

I loved Lightning, too. I loved all the members of my new family just as equally, and didn’t want to lose Lightning just as much as I didn’t want to lose Chaos, even if I felt that his choice to volunteer was stupid and irrational. Clearly, he hadn’t thought about what he was going to do before he did it. He didn’t think about the consequences that would affect not only him, but the rest of his siblings as well. Adopted or blood-related, we were family, and we needed to stick together. I knew that much. We weren’t supposed to be apart like this, leaving one another.

As the Peacekeeper brought me to the room where Lightning was, he opened the door and informed my adoptive brother that there was someone there to see him. I knew then that that was my cue to enter the room. The Peacekeeper in his white uniform stepped aside and I slid past him, into the room where Lightning was being kept until he was to leave for the train to the Capitol. I didn’t want to think about what Chaos and Lightning would argue about on the train, but I knew there would at least be arguing. That was without a doubt.

When I looked into Lightning’s eyes, mine were still watering with tears. My face was wet from the sobbing I had done during the reaping as well as when I visited Chaos, and I knew he’d be able to tell how upset I was.

”You can’t leave us, Lightning…” I said to him, choking up at the end of my sentence so that his name didn’t come out quite right, sounding like ‘Ligh-ing’ instead of ‘Lightning’. ”Why are you doing this? Tempest and Ty… they’ll be just as upset as I am. I don’t think I can keep myself together without you and Chaos around,” I said, this time being able to speak a bit more clearly. I hiccuped at the end of my sentence but ignored it, looking at my brother longingly. Why had he abandoned us like this?

BLIZZard O'hana

Sometimes our heads slip beneath the sea, and sometimes there's no way to breathe

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