Hello Again (Svelte + Naoki)

ooc: Sorry for taking so long, I've been out. Sorry if it seems a little short.
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Svelte was working in the fields as she usually did with her friends. It was a hot day and the sun was making her work drag on. She tried joking around with her friends to make it more bearable but also had to stay on track in order to not get in trouble. She wished she was at school, finding it much more enjoyable then work, but the weekends were no time for breaks in District 11.

She was excited for later that day because they were bring in some supplies for the workers. It was rare for the Capitol to be generous enough to spare some things for the poor districts, but she wasn't complaining.

Svelte kept her ears open for the sound of the train, but the anticipation was killing her, making her work seem like much more then it was. Trying to distract herself, she started humming and concentrating on doing her work. She slowly got fed up and managed to sneak away.

What she was doing was risky but she needed out at the moment. She ended up at the train station and convinced the peacekeepers there that she was to help with the cargo once the train arrived. She sat down happily and waited. The time that past sitting at the train tracks seemed to be much more pleasurable then the time working. Not having many breaks like this, she took in the warmth of the sun and closed her eyes, smiling and humming softly to herself until the moment arrived.

ooc: Yaaaay! You guys are goooood! And don't worry, Vixen, at all! (I've been taking some time too. ^_^; I like Svelte's outfit too~

Pressing himself ever tighter into the corner, Naoki knew hiding was a lost cause. For him, at least. He could see the approacher as clear as daylight, which meant he was just as obviously in sight of the man. But if he moved, he knew there was no way in hell, unless the guy was blind, that he would go unnoticed.

"Naoki!"

Naoki turned his head as far as he dared move. Ki was giving him a look, the kind of look which usually meant he had something up his sleeves. Naoki wanted to gesture no, wanted him to remain hiding--maybe he could work a way out of this one and pretend he'd been searching for his backpack in the compartment, or something--but his brother had already made his move.

The door opened, and Ki attacked. The two hit the ground hard, and suddenly, Ki was on top of the guy, punching him over and over. Naoki clambered to his feet, a little unsteady, thinking he would close the door of the compartment, then maybe find a place for them to hide the body from anyone else who might come in, when he saw something that definitely meant trouble.

"Ki, we can't stay on this train," Naoki said very suddenly. Three more train workers were coming their way. They hadn't even seen the boys yet, but already they were holding potential weapons. They had lots of work tools, two-way radios......Stuff that wouldn't mean anything good.

He looked at his brother, still pounding the guy on the floor, then pulled on his shirt from the back. "Come on, come on!"

He didn't like the idea of jumping from a train moving quite as fast as this one, but there seemed no other option. They could try to take on the three men coming towards them, but with no weapon and such little space, it wasn't likely to work. Plus, one of them would assuredly page more workers in other segments of the train, and before long, the already narrow space of the storage compartment would be full of lots of guys who didn't mean well for Naoki or his brother. They couldn't get caught. They just couldn't.

At that thought, Naoki grabbed the sliding door to the compartment and began pulling it open. Damn, the thing was heavy.

"Ki...Ki, get ready to jump! When you see grass or some kind of soft earth....jump!" Naoki pulled the door to the outside open as far as it would go, then grabbed his backpack from the floor and heaved it up onto his shoulders.
By now, the three workers had entered the compartment, and the first thing they looked at was their co-worker on the floor. It didn't take a second longer for them to notice the opened side door, or the two boys now standing in front of it.

Naoki's eyes widened. It was bad enough that they'd even seen their faces. "Go, Ki!" He was about to jump out himself--through the blur that was the ground moving past them, he could see what seemed to be miles and miles of grass and croplands, so he knew the landing shouldn't be too bad--when one of the workers grabbed him by the arm.

"Hey!" The guy was pretty strong. Naoki was taller than him, but the worker, probably after seeing the damage done on his fellow employee, seemed adamant to keep hold of Naoki and his brother. With his free hand, he pulled some kind of walkie-talkie from his belt, clicked a button, then started speaking rapidly.

"We need help in the storage compartment, fourth car. We had two kids in here--I think they must be runaways...One's just jumped from the train, I've got the other. They've taken Daniel down...."

Naoki heard someone begin to ramble some sort of response to the man, but he didn't wait to hear what. With some sort of last reserve of strength, he wrenched his arm from the man's grip and kicked him hard.

Naoki saw the worker go flying, his radio flying out of his hands, but it took just a second for Naoki to realize that he too was suddenly airborne. He'd kicked so hard, he'd actually knocked himself out of the train compartment.
It seemed to take forever before Naoki finally hit the ground. The landing was brutal. Naoki felt something snap in his shoulder and he cried out in pain. He didn't even have a chance to properly react, because the next thing he knew, he was rolling fast and hard down some kind of slope, blades of grass and country plants slapping him in the face as he went.

Then something stopped his path of destruction.

Naoki heard someone yell out--and for a moment, he wondered if it was himself, because he knew that he too had yelled out at the collision. Then he subconsciously decided that it couldn't have been, unless he'd undergone some kind of weird surgery that exchanged his normally deeper voice for the much more feminine one he'd just heard.

Naoki just took a moment to lie on the ground and breathe. Everything hurt. He knew he and his brother were in quite the situation now, and more than that, he'd just smacked the living daylights out of someone and he had no idea how far away his brother had landed. If he could have just passed out from the pain, heat, and worry, that would have been just fine with him right now.

Compared to the darkness in the cabin, the light outside was absolutely blinding. It took Naoki a good minute or so before his eyes could properly adjust to the light and see just who or what he'd struck.

"I'm....sorry," he said, breathlessly. He didn't even know if the person could hear him or not, but it was the best he could do. "I'm really....AGH!"

God, what had he done to his shoulder? And where was his brother?

ooc: Vixen, lol, I thought you were gonna be the person I bumped into! xD I'll bump into a cow instead!


Naoki cursed to himself, rolling around in the grass clutching his shoulder. Damn, what had he done? It wasn't that he routinely jumped out of trains and had the practice, but normally when he had to jump from a certain height or something like a moving vehicle, there was a specific way he tried to land. This time around, he'd been retaliating against a train worker and accidentally flung himself out the door. There hadn't been a chance for him to aim for a good landing. His shoulder had paid the price for it. Judging by the pain radiating from that area, he got the feeling he'd dislocated it.

And he'd hit someone too, hadn't he?

As he turned over in the grass, Naoki looked up to find himself face to face with an awkward looking animal leg. The resounding "Mooooooooo..." which followed told him he'd not only collided with a rather unfortunate animal, but he'd also somehow ended up in District 11 after all. He couldn't tell if it was bad or good luck.

"Sorry," Naoki murmured to the cow, though he now understood why it felt like he'd hit a brick wall and thought his injury was a tad worse than the cow's invisible one.

He was just wondering where his brother had landed, when all of a sudden, he heard another voice. This one, Naoki was sure, did not belong to the cow.

"Are you alright?!"

Naoki looked up a the sound of the voice, but had to squint. The sun was absolutely blinding like this. He saw the dark outline of a person over him, then the person knelt by his side. He felt his hair get brushed out of his face.
Naoki could see her better after that. He didn't know who the girl was, but she had a very tender, sweet look about her. And she reminded him of home. He could only assume she was a resident of District 11 if she was in this area, and that alone made him feel a little better. He'd grown up in this place--he knew that most of the people here were quite good-hearted.

"Hey, you okay?" Her voice was just as gentle.

Naoki winced and kept his free hand clamped over the area of pain in his right shoulder. But he nodded. He could probably get up and move around--he didn't think he'd injured his legs--but he'd be damned if he tried to move his right arm. He just....needed a moment.

"I'm....okay...." Naoki managed an encouraging smile. "Just learned my lesson not to jump out of moving trains ever again." He paused. "Did you see someone else who jumped out of the train....around here? And thanks....for coming to help."

He wanted to ask her what part of District 11 she lived in, see if maybe she knew anything about his family's old farm or maybe if she just lived anywhere near where he once lived, but he knew that would have to wait.

ooc: Woooo, not happy with this one! >.< But I figured I'd take it easy and let Ki have some say on what to do!

Naoki watched the pretty blonde-haired girl send the cow away. That made him feel a little bit relieved--it hadn't been too comforting knowing he was lying by the back end of a cow.

"Yeah, another boy fell off over there, I haven't checked on him yet," she said in response to his question. She was pointing off in the direction Naoki would have guessed his brother had landed. He only hoped that when they went over to him, not only would Ki be okay, but that he wouldn't have one of the train workers with him. Naoki hadn't seen one of the other workers in the car when he'd fallen out.

Then again, he'd been pretty much been in shock at the fall, as well, so he hadn't really had time to look to make sure all the guys had still been in the car once he'd left it.

Naoki saw the girl make a move for his shoulder and flinched even before her hand reached the area. He didn't think anything would help what he suspected was a dislocated shoulder, with the exception of maybe a sling or a doctor, neither of which seemed to be around and neither of which he wanted.
The poor girl seemed to realize his hesitation, because instead she drew her arm back and asked, "Can you get up? Or I can check him on my own."

Naoki nodded. It wasn't going to be fun, but he could do it. He began shifting himself slightly into an upright position. He would just have to be---CAREFUL. Damn, that had hurt.

Scrunching his face in pain, Naoki looked up in time to see that the girl was now offering him her hand. She was looking particularly pleasant. If Naoki could have better gathered his thoughts at the moment, he would have loved to thank her for her consideration.

District 11 People. His people. He loved them.

"I'm Svelte by the way."

Naoki dared to remove his right hand from his bad shoulder to offer the girl a shake. "Naoki--Ohhhh boy..." Naoki shook quickly and immediately withdrew his hand to grip his shoulder again. "That was a bad idea.....I think I dislocated the dam--I mean, darn thing."

He paused. "Uhh, yeah, then...we should go find my brother. He took the girl up on her offer for his hand once again and hoisted himself to his feet with some effort. It was going to be a chore trying to get things done with his arm like this, but maybe he could check and see if their old family doctor was still in the town somewhere along the way. That guy would probably remember him, probably take care of whatever was wrong without too much of a fee too, good soul that Naoki remembered him as.

Svelte looked at him sympathetically as she saw the pain on his face.

"We'll have to find something to hold it with, or you'll be in more pain as we walk" She said.

With some effort, Svelte managed to pull Naoki up. Once he was up, she looked him over and tried to think of something he could temporarily use for his arm.

"We can use your jacket as a sling." She told him. "If you take it off, I can tie the sleeves around you neck and your arm will have a place to rest, it might be a little big for a sling, but if we fold it right, it could work."

Before there was time for an answer, Svelte heard a noise and quickly spun to the direction where the other boy had fallen. She squinted her eyes in the sun and made out two figures in the distance, but one was quickly gone onto the ground.

"You don't happen to have two brothers here do you?" She said a little worried as she turned back to Naoki.

Remembering he said brother and not brothers earlier, she knew the answer was no, he only had one. She brushed herself off and looked back to where she had seen the silhouettes.

"We should hurry." She said in a concerned voice and took a few steps before turning back and remembering Naoki's injured arm.

"Would you like to sling your arm now, or after we save your brother?" She asked him.

ooc: I'm going camping this weekend, so i wont be able to reply till Sunday or Monday. Sorry.

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Svelte watched as he ripped his coat for something to clench on to bear the pain. She shook her head thinking he was in no condition to fight. She thought about his request, to go get help. Who would help them? If she told an adult, they would surly all get in more trouble and possibly killed and what use are more kids?

Before she had a chance to reply, he had stuffed the padding in his mouth and ran towards his brother. She knew there wasn't much he could do in that condition and his brother could possibly be deeply injured as well.

Deciding she couldn't leave them to be beaten anymore and possibly tortured or killed, she ran after him. She knew how to defend herself, if worse came to worse, she had a small blade hidden in her sock for emergencies.

Svelte was able to quickly catch up with Naoki, since he was injured. She gave him a reassuring smile as they ran. It didn't take to long to see his brother and the man clearly and she bent down into the grass, lightly tugging Naoki to come down as well.

"We shouldn't jump into it right away." She whispered. "We have to be careful and find out what the situation is first." She added before turning her attention to Naoki's brother and the large man.

"We don't want to get him into more trouble then he already is." She said while putting her hand where her knife is just in case.