Shattered Hearts and Shattered Bones {Destrii Oneshot}

All we are is broken glass

As his body crashed to the ground and the cannon signifying his death sounded, I clenched my fist in rage. I wanted to yell out, but I couldn’t, and I didn’t know why. My voice just wasn’t working. Tearing out of the room, I stormed out of the house after shoving my feet into my shoes. Without a coat, I ventured into the chilly weather. It was close to becoming winter, but I didn’t care. All I needed right then was to get away.

Thrown to the floor

My mother shouted after me as I left, but I ignored her words. Sometimes, being alone was all that would help me. The mutt that took down Zagreus took down his last remaining ally, as well, and it didn’t seem as if it was going to stop there. I didn’t care right then, though. I didn’t care if it tore through all the rest of the tributes. I just wished that Zagreus were still alive.

We were never meant to last

I’m a member of the Moon family, and nothing will ever change that fact. I don’t want anything to change it, either. I’m proud of who I am, but I’m not ready for all the words that will flood my ears when people make the connection between Zagreus and I. “I’m sorry for your loss,” they’re going to say. “My condolences,” they’ll tell me. I’m not ready for it, and I don’t want to hear it. All I want is to change the fact that I never said goodbye to Zagreus before he left the District, and to make it so that he never died.

And all we are are empty shells

Making my way down the sidewalk, meandering through the crowds of people that were out and about, I didn’t care what anyone thought of me. As the cold wind hit my skin, I ignored it. It wasn’t important right now. All that mattered was that Zagreus was never coming home alive, and I never said goodbye. What scared me was the fact that Daniela Rasoio, his District partner, still had a chance at returning. I couldn’t even imagine how that would make me feel, if she came out victorious. It just wouldn’t be right. I don’t know what I would do if I saw her alive after all of this.

Try to pick us up

Someone else needed to win, other than those who’d mistreated Zagreus in his time in the arena. There were very few tributes left alive that deserved to win. All of his allies- all of the people who cared about him in that arena were dead. Tobias had fallen to the same enemy as he had. They’d faced death at the hands of the same Capitol creation. The same monstrosity murdered them both with a bit of help from the tributes that were fighting.

You're gonna cut yourself

If Alfie Larson won, I’d punch him in the face. He had tried much too hard to end Zagreus’s life, and he’d almost been the one to end it. He didn’t deserve victory. If anyone deserved victory in that arena, it was Zagreus over anyone else. The Moon boy had faced too many hardships in his life to have to face even more in the arena. His parents wanted to force him to volunteer, yet he was chosen to fight in the Games, regardless. I’d talked to his mother after the reaping, and she was glad that he was going in. That rotten bitch didn’t even care that it would likely kill him in the end. How did she feel now that her only son was dead?

We walk the streets at night

I needed to talk to Zagreus’s mother about all of this. Charlotte Moon would not get away with how she had treated her son while he was alive, and I would make sure she didn’t continue to treat people like that after his death. It was time that I spoke to her about all of this. I made my way to her house, and I wasn’t going to stop on my way there. This woman was certainly not my favorite right then.

Looking for a thrill

When I got to the door of Zagreus’s old house, I didn’t knock. Instead, since it was unlocked, I came inside. Charlotte Moon looked away from her television as she sat on the couch and instead locked her gaze on me. I glared at her with rage in my eyes. I couldn’t believe she was so calm in that moment! It just wasn’t right. She asked me what I wanted and what I was doing there, and I told her just that.

Looking for a fight

”You rotten woman!” I yelled at her. ”How are you so calm after seeing your son murdered like that?” Immediately, she stood up from her seat, and her husband, Lorenzo, came in from another room. ”Both of you are ridiculous! You don’t even care that he was just killed! Your own son! He’s never coming home alive and you’re not even fazed by it one bit!”

It was the first day of the rest of our lives

“You don’t belong here, Destrii.” Lorenzo told me this all too calmly. I glared at him, making strong eye contact. ”He went into the Games, and had he actually been good enough, he would have won.” Charlotte nodded in agreement to what her husband said, and I charged over to Lorenzo. He was bigger and stronger than me, but I took him off guard, knocking him to the ground and pounding my fist into his face a couple of times. Charlotte had to pull me off of Lorenzo and she screamed at me to get out.

We work fast

I refused to move from the spot I stood in. My fists were still clenched, yet now covered in blood. Lorenzo was helped up from the ground by Charlotte, and his nose was at an odd angle, bleeding. I’d surely broken it, and I knew he deserved it. It took me a moment before I spoke again, not entirely sure what to say.

Never gonna die

”You’re terrible human beings!” I shouted. Then looking in Lorenzo’s direction, I spoke directly to him. ”You deserve that broken nose, too!” Then, I turned swiftly and ran out the door. I needed to get home. I needed to go up to my room, lock myself in there, and cry. That’s all I wanted to do. Zagreus was gone, and I couldn’t get him back.

Riding up the highway, forty-five

As soon as I got home, I did just that.

We didn't know it couldn't go on forever