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Chapter 9
Last Time:
"My parents were murdered earlier this year." Alex informs him, not telling him how, why or anything involving the real story.
"I'm sorry about your parents."
"I'm sorry about your family." Massacre gives her a weak smile.
"I will protect you in the arena Alex. I'm sure Katniss Everdeen will too." Alex gives him a watery smile.
"Thank you."
Now:
Alex stands in line, right behind Massacre wearing a white spaghetti strap dress, white high heels and her hair straight with her bangs flipped over to the left.
She ignores everyone's interviews and just thinks about Ramona, Max and Justin. There are many questions that run through her mind.
Are they ok? Are they safe? Is Justin taking care of Max and Ramona? How are they handling her being in a fight to the death? Do they know what The Hunger Games is? When she dies how will they take it? Is Snow the good guy or the bad guy?
"And here is the young girl from District 13, Alex Russo!" Alex walks up the steps and onto the stage to join the dude with the blue hair and big smile.
Alex shakes the guys hand and sits down on the white chair. Alex crosses her legs and laces her hands together on her lap.
"So Alex, how do you feel about receiving a four from the Gamemakers?" He asks.
"I'm not fazed about it because I don't know how this system works. I'm new here and have been dealing with a lot and still am." Alex answers honestly.
"What do you mean?"
"Which part?"
"You don't know how the system works."
"Oh that, well because I am new here I don't know what The Hunger Games is. I don't know what anything is pretty much." The guy looks at her in surprise.
"What do you mean you are dealing with a lot?"
"That is too personal and I don't want to talk about it, sorry."
"Come on, I know everyone wants to hear it." Alex frowns.
"My older brother, younger brother, little sister and I lost our parents and President Snow brought us from our home to District 13." Alex explains in point form.
"How old are your siblings and yourself?"
"My older brother is seventeen, I'm fifteen, my little brother is thirteen and my little sister is eleven."
"What are their names?"
"I dunno if they want me to say or not..."
"Please?" Alex takes a breath starting to get annoyed with all the questions and the dude wanting to get into her personal life.
"Justin, Max and Ramona."
"Do you have a boyfriend?"
"No."
"A crush?"
"No."
"Past boyfriends?"
"Yes."
"What happened to your parents?"
"You just stepped over the line." Alex narrows her eyes as tears fill them, "I am NOT telling ANYONE how they passed. Stop invading my life!"
Alex stands up and storms off stage leaving the guy shocked and surprised along with the crowd.
~A&K~
Alex walks into the apartment with a few tears falling from her eyes. All she wants to do is go home to see her siblings. She ignores Coin's and Boggs's calls for dinner and to talk, and just disappears into her room. She changes into pjs and crawls into bed just wanting the nightmare to end.
~K&A~
The next morning, Alex is standing in a random room with a tube thing in the middle. Alex bites her lip as she looks down at her right arm that has something flashing in it. When she asked the guy told her it's a tracker. Suddenly the door opens making Alex look up. There is Cinna.
"Let's get you ready." Cinna grabs the coat off the hanger near him and slips it on her before zipping up the coat and doing it up, "The news team is interviewing your siblings as we speak. And you were amazing last night." Cinna smiles.
"Thanks. But I didn't like that the dude kept asking me personal questions." Alex answers honestly.
"We all hate it. No one was able to stand up until you." Alex smiles, "Have you eaten or drank anything yet?"
"Ya. I had cereal, toast, water, milk and juice."
"Good. Did you learn how to hunt?"
"A little but not a lot. I just know how to trap them, kill them, skin them and cook them. But that's only rabbits, squirrels and lizards."
"Better than nothing. Do you know how to track down water and plants?"
"Yes. I know how to track healing plants and the plants that you can eat."
"Good. You will be able to survive this Alex. It I could pick two people to win, it's you and Katniss. If it was down to you and Katniss... well that's hard. Katniss can hunt but you can get away every quickly before people could even blink."
Before Alex could reply Cinna pushes Alex into the cylinder to take her in the arena. Alex hears counting and when she looks around her to see she is in a forest, the person counting says one.
She looks at the big silver hut thing in the center of the clearing. The clock hits zero and everyone charges to the hut. Alex jumps off her platform and sees Massacre grab a sword and stab a little boy, around sixteen/seventeen. She sees Clove, Marvel, Glimmer and Cato grab weapons and begins to kill.
From the corner of her eye, she sees Peeta run into the woods and a little girl take off the opposite way. A tall black guy stands in front of her with a machete, making her gasp and back up to only fall on the platform. Alex curls into a ball and covers her head scared. A grunt is heard and Alex peeks out from under her arm to see Massacre standing there with blood on his sword. She looks at the one that tried to kill her, with his head cut off.
"Boy from District 9." Massacre informs her. He helps her up and picks her up so she doesn't have to stand in the guy's blood. Alex looks at the hut thing to see no Clove, Marvel, Cato or Glimmer, "They are going after Twelve."
"Peeta or Katniss?" Alex asks trembling slightly.
"Katniss. Now I grabbed this for you." Massacre hands Alex a bag and she puts it on her back. He also hands her a knife.
"Thank you for saving me." Alex whispers shyly and ashamed of herself for not running.
"Hey, I told you I would protect you and save you even if it costs me my life. Now, I want you to go into hiding. Do not hunt the others, just stay low." Alex nods.
"Ok." Massacre pulls Alex into a hug then pushes her to the right.
"The others went left, so you go right." Massacre kisses Alex's forehead before watching her run with the knife in hand. He takes off to the left planning to kill Clove, Marvel, Cato, Thresh and Glimmer before they could kill Alex.
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And so Massacre is Alex's protector... in a way. : )
