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as written for @pointm4n's : arthur
NO ONE WOULD TELL HIM, BUT BRAN KNEW. he had died under the surface of 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚕𝚊𝚔𝚎, same as the girl he'd speared through and through using her own sword. he didn't know for sure, but for four minutes and thirty seven seconds the capitol's finest doctors had worked on resuscitating him; emptying bran's lungs of water, and restarting his heart.
after all, what was their game 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚊 𝚟𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚛 ?
" be careful with him. " a doctor warns arthur as the two men stand in the doorway of bran's hospital room: the blond boy in question staring up and ahead at the panels of the ceiling, mostly numb from the pain medicine coursing through his veins and the harsh reality that he had been tugged back from a brink, 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚊? had not been.
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ ㅤpoppy. edle. noel.
a bedside alarm goes off as bran stiffens in the gurney, blood pressure rising as the events of the games replay fresh in his head; every foe, every friend, all of them running through his mind as they had through the mines.
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤhow was he alive? 𝚠𝚑𝚢 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎 ?
MAKE ㅤTHEM ㅤSUFFER ㅤFOR ㅤIT !
" — NOEL ! " bran jerks upright then, pulling on multiple wires that cause more screeching to echo throughout the room, the doctor attempting to go back on his word and block arthur's entry into the room, calling over the other's head for more assistance.