Chapter 9
Notes
Just realised I'm a bit shit at the whole consistency thing.
The time had come.
He'd found Peeta's cell, hopefully he could find the others.
He unlocked the door and headed out.
Down the hall. Left. Straight. The second last cell.
He knocked on the bars and unlocked the door.
Peeta crept out.
The headed down the hall and up the stairs, they could see a guard standing in front of the door, faced the other way.
Haymitch held up his fingers, and counted down to one.
They grabbed the guard by the legs, taking hold of one each, dragging him down the stairs and placing him behind the corner.
They went through the door, straight through the hallway and up the stairs, into the other block.
In the hall they saw two signs, the Mess Hall was left and the Isolation Cells straight through.
They turnt to the left and took cover behind the walls, Peeta peeking his head out to check for guards.
There were two guards standing in front of the entrance.
Haymitch crept behind one of the guards and started counting down again.
At the count of one they wrapped their hands around the guards necks and brought them backwards, strangling them and rendering them unconcious.
They crept into the mess hall hugging the wall, trying to stay in the shadows. Entering the hallway that led to the main control tower.
The two headed down the hallway, they heard footsteps, coming towards them, they had nowhere to go, they both hugged the wall and prayed that they wouldn't be seen.
They caught sight of a guard coming down the hallway, they stayed to the wall as much as they could, and to their surprise, they weren't seen.
Both of them continued down the hallway, keeping as quiet as they could, until they reached the main control tower.
It was a big room, with guards patrolling around the outside of the room and the tower in the middle.
The room was swarming with guards, all they could do was pray that they didn't get spotted.
They hugged the wall and went around the room until they found some steps that went up to a little-elevated part of the room and housed the stairs to the tower itself.
They quickly rushed to the steps and headed up them, they had seen a guard on this platfrom earlier, they had to be quick.
The two of them headed up the stairs into the tower itself, suprising the guard, and managing to strike him unconcious before he could do anything.
They pressed the Emergency Override button, went through the racks, picked up as some guns, and got ready for the fun.
They opened fire on the guards, prisoners rushing out and swarming the guards, trampling the guards, a few made it to the tower Haymitch told them to go through the rack and pick up a gun, they all happily obliged.
Amongst the prisoners that managed to get to the tower they found Tye, he gave the two a smile and opened fire on the guards.
Melody was awoken by the sound of gunfire once again.
She was escorted by a guard into what looked to be some sort of storage cupboard, given a gun and told to stay put.
30 Minutes later.
She slumped down into the corner and shut her eyes, she couldn't look at his face, the blood pouring down, his face contorted in pain.
She had killed him.
She had shot him.
She sobbed, he was actually nice to her.
He brought her blankets, extra food and in return he got a bullet in his head.
She wasn't expecting him to come in.
She thought someone had come to take her away.
She was a murderer.
She crawled over to him. Put her hand on his face. And shut his eyes.
He didn't deserve that – no-one did.
Yet she had killed him.
Because she was scared.
Only because she wasn't expecting him to come in.
That was her reason.
To her, no reason could justify a fate like that.
She sobbed and sobbed for hours on end.
Until, eventually, the gunfire stopped.
And she kept sobbing, she didn't want do do it, she didn't mean to do it.
But here she was, in the corner of a storage cupboard, sobbing, with a dead body at her feet.
2 hours earlier
Haymitch peeked out from his cover, met by a flurry of bullets and instantly popped back down.
He peeked back up and opened fire once again, he heard a guard scream in pain as he fell to the floor.
Haymitch went to the door and looked at Peeta "I'm going to find Gale." He said as he ran down the stairs and dissapeared into the fury of the gunfight.
He went down the nearest corridor, running, trying to escape from the guards following behind him.
He took cover behind a wall and opened fire on the guards, every one of them fell to the floor, their bodies contorting in agony.
Haymitch entered a room, in the center of the room there was a chair, sitting in the chair, with his hands bound to the back, he found Gale, covered in bruises and blood, with a bandage over his shoulder.
He walked up to Gale and tapped him on the face.
Gale looked up at Haymitch, covered in cuts and brusies, and smiled.
Haymitch walked round to the back of the chair and untied Gale.
He helped Gale up, he wrapped his arm around the back of Haymitch's neck, using him as support.
They limped their way through the hallway until the reached they reached the control tower room.
The gunfire went on, Haymitch propped Gale up against a wall, passed him a pistol and told him to wait.
Haymitch ran back to the tower, dodging bullets and told Peeta he needed cover fire and he needed one of the prisoners up there to come with him
One of them gave him a nod, he gestured for the prisoner to follow him.
They ran down to where he had left Gale, he was surrounding by bodies, but still in one piece, they helped him up, he wrapped his arm around the back of their necks for support and they helped him to the tower.
Haymitch felt a flurry of bullets pass over his head , he looked up at Peeta and gave a smile.
Peeta continued to give covering fire until the three of them reached the tower.
Once again Haymitch propped Gale up against a wall.
Gale gave the two of them a smile as his eyes fell shut.
Hours later the fight stopped, they helped Gale up and walked down the stairs.
They looked around and finally saw the carnage they had caused.
There were bodies everywhere, blood still pouring from some of them.
Gale looked over at Peeta. "Where are the twins?" He asked hoarsley.
"We haven't found them yet." Peeta said.
What was left of their 'Rebellion' said they would split up and look for the two of them.
One group going clockwise through the compound and the other going anti clockwise.
One hour later
Haymitch opened the door to the cupboard, he found Melody in the corner sobbing, with a dead body at her feet, a gun at her side.
He tapped her on the shoulder and asked her what had happened.
Through the tears, she managed to explain briefly to him what had happened. And she hated every second of telling the story.
Haymitch hugged her and helped her up.
About fifteen minutes later they found Finn, tucked away in the back of his cell, with his back to the wall, just sitting there.
The two groups met up at the entrance to the complex, they all climbed into one of the trucks they had been brought here in, Haymitch climbed into the drivers seat and started it up.
All the others soon fell asleep. It had been a long day
