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Kali Seam Resident 14 POSTS last seen Dec 11, 2018 13:34:31 GMT -5	nadine lark [ d12 ] wip Dec 15, 2018 15:35:53 GMT -5 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Kali on Dec 15, 2018 15:35:53 GMT -5 nadine lark eighteen district twelve "mama said don't play with fire"

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nadine lark [ d12 ] wip Dec 16, 2018 23:12:45 GMT -5

Post by Kali on Dec 16, 2018 23:12:45 GMT -5

BANG.

BANG.

The house seems to freeze at the sound. For a moment, I don't react. I sit at the kitchen table, arms crossed and head resting on top of them, dark curls splayed across the wood. Everything is silent and I can almost hear my heart beating in my chest.

I promise myself it's not him. The sound I've heard is just a pair of doors slamming for the night, and Argon is sleeping soundly in the cot next to Piper. Piper is not lying alone in the cot, pressed against the wall, thin sheets wrapped around her thin body. Argon has not been gone for hours past nightfall, scrounging up food for the next day.

The sounds I have heard are not gunshots.

BANG.

"Nadine?" Piper's voice is faint and quivering.

I rouse myself, force my heavy head to lift from the table top. The chair scrapes the floor as I stand.

My feet carry me down the hall more than any internal command I give myself, my body driven by habit and reflex rather than thought. I duck through her doorway, cross the room and sit at the foot of her cot. She's holding her patched-up teddy bear close to her chest.

"It's not Argon, is it?" she whimpers and clutches the bear tighter.

"Oh, Piper..." I whisper, and pull her in to my arms. She's shaking, probably crying, but I can't see her expression in the dark. "No, it's not him. He's alright."

I'm tempted to use the words I promise, but I bite them back. My promises hold no meaning to Piper, since the factory accident three years back. She still wakes up screaming for Mama to come home.

We sit there for what seems like hours but is probably only minutes, me rocking back and forth, humming softly to calm her down. Eventually she stops shaking.

Last Edit: Dec 18, 2018 13:15:33 GMT -5 by Kali