So, I got a lot of reviews on the last chapter! I have the awsomest fans on fanfiction! (Blowing kisses to crowd of people reading!) And if I could, I would scream and jump up and down and hug you if I ever meet you! But since that would be considered creepy, I guess it's best we keep our separate ways! (For now, wink wink!) I'm really sorry for not updating for so long but I've been really busy with swimming plus I went on vacation. The vacation was about a week long and then I went to Indianapolis after that. Also I sort of ran out of ideas! But I did write some down and now I'm updating!Now if you are on fanfiction you're probably are willing to forgive me thinking I've been there and done that! However if you are anonymous reviewer
And are not on fanfiction you are probably really mad right now. But I have been in your shoes before I started writing on fanfiction! I am so sorry to say that until the day you start writing to you will never fully understand our author's excuses :b!
So to answer the following questions that were asked in past reviews: I WOULD PREFER EVERYONE READ THIS THOUGH IT HAS IMPORTANT INFORMATION IN IT!
richards25: Welllll, I did a little bit of math for you, and I figured out that Gale won the 72nd Hunger Games and was 16 when he won. Clove was 13 when Gale won (As they were three years apart in the book and movie.) I also figured out that Clove won the 73rd games, and was fourteen when she won! (She's got skillll.) Clove is now 17 and Gale is 20.
So if you read that last paragraph my apologies to everyone for using the term (hormonal teenagers) in the past few chapters, as Gale is not a teenager, however, I'll continue to use the term if I need to because he's so close to being one (a year off.) And because he acts like one, so, without farther ado, here's the next chapie!
Chapter 11
Snow's Meeting
The next half of the day I and Gale spend all of the time together considering we don't have much time left. I still have felt so terrible and awful for blaming Gale for all the problems. But Gale assured me that everything would be fine and that he for gave me. I love Gale and I made a terrible mistake by blaming him. Anger overcame me I wasn't thinking straight I just had come out of surgery; I didn't know what else to think. But the most important question was would I make another mistake again? And if I did what would happen?
Would Gale be to forgive me again, or what our relationship just vanish into thin air? All these questions were controlling my mind as we sat in the dining car eating dinner.
It was such a luxurious food! Food that we didn't even have in the richer districts such as two! It was made up of tender juicy meats. Perfectly roasted vegetables and wonderfully baked bread. And dessert so delicious I found myself eating more of that than the nutrition I would need for the arena.
"You know you really shouldn't eat that junk, especially before we go into the arena." Spoke Gale. Funny, that's exactly what I was thinking just a second ago. I was amused at how similar me and Gale think, we practically think just alike. I guess that's why were so perfect for each other. Maybe he would forgive me again, he is really sweet, but just has a hard outer core.
"I know I just don't get food like this very often I don't exactly have very many luxuries, even though I live in two." I whispered back to Gale.
Just then our mentor spoke up informing us that we would be arriving in the capital in just a few moments. I gave Gale a panicked look, as I wasn't ready for this, to face this horrible city that turned this country into a living nightmare. The city in which my personal nightmares began being in the Hunger Games. I think back to them for just a moment…
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However, much to my dismay, Gale just gave me a look back saying everything will be all right. I didn't feel alright that's for sure!
Just as he gave me that look the train pulled up and stopped right at the Capitol station. People outside were screaming and cheering for the death of us, perhaps a couple sponsors are in the crowd, but still. Evan though we are some of the favorites, they still like a good blood-filled games. I can't really know about the amount of sponsors, and won't really know until after the interviews and the chariot rides and well everything else. Especially since were up against some of the most famous victors like Mr. Finnick Odair, he ended up escaping the third Quell he was forced into and lived through the "rebellion." Well look were that got him now…I guess you really don't get much of a choice when you're Capitol Property. None of us, none of us, not even our escort ran to the window to greet the Capitol and it's freak-like residents. We all already knew was coming for us.
We walked through the mob of people looking just as vicious as when we stepped onto the train. It was no different now that Gale and I are back together. We showed signs of us being a minor couple, but mostly bloodthirsty killers. We walked into the building, and into the glass elevator, all letting out a sigh of relief. As we knew we could be ourselves again. Not that I wasn't a bloodthirsty killer, it's just that that's not the way I act all the time. That's the way that capital wants me to act all the time.
We arrived to in our suite which was obviously on level II as it has been for the past 76 years. We were escorted to our rooms and told to stay in there and that our prep teams would come and prepare us for the chariot rides. They said things would be a little bit different this time due to the fact that we have already been through this process before. And they just want to speed it up. To get closer to a nightmare for us and entertainment for them, they're probably screaming with joy for the games, as I think about it in this very moment.
I've been waiting in my room for hours I look at the clock, it is 5 o'clock the prep team's supposed to come at six. I've been locked in my room for three hours nothing to do no one to talk to, not even allowed one visit to Gale. I'm bored out of my mind. But by some miracle I hear a knock on the door. Normally I would be lazy and just say it's open and let the person walk in. However I am so bored I'm to the point where I would rather walk across the large room from my bed all the way to the door, with them rapidly knocking, and answer it myself.
However I'm greeted with an unpleasant surprise peacekeepers lots of them grabbed me by the arms legs and even head, and dragged me into the hallway. I couldn't scream, I couldn't move. For once I'm scared I thought back to everything I did from the reaping to the train to even now! Did I do anything so horrible to deserve this? No, no I did not so the only answer could be… This is my last thought before I feel syringe pierce my arm, and I am knocked out cold.
I wake up in a strange room. It smells funny smells like roses and death, how can something smell like death? Then I realize, this is president snow's office. That makes a lot more sense now that I think about it, Snow smelling like death. Sick man he is. I look all around me but see no president snow. Maybe I could do a little bit snooping; after all it would never hurt to know what snow is planning in the future. However the closest I will ever get to snooping president snow's desk, Is a mere dream or even a daydream. Because of sure this place is infested with cameras. That's my first problem. The second problem is, Snow decides at this very moment to waltz right on into the room, I think to myself oh great how convenient…
"Good morning miss. Kennedy." Snow speaks in a snakelike voice.
"It's not a good morning now." Is all I reply with.
"Now, now don't be impossible child, I bring good news! Well, it depends on if you take it good or bad if it's good or bad news." He says letting out an evil cackle.
"I don't have time for games I have… What time is it? Well anyways I only have so many minutes to have to be all dressed up and ready for the chariots." I reply nonchalantly.
"Very well then I shall cut to the chase" Snow pauses for a second. Then continues "I will not allow you to be with Gale . I have decided that you no longer need to be together you do not fit well together. I set you up with Finnick Odair as you will make a much more popular "Capitol couple". I mean after all you're much more popular than Gale. He'll just have to face it sooner or later."
"I refuse to break up with Gale the thanks for the offer and Gale is just as popular as item for the record I have no interest in Mr. Finnick Odair, as popular as he might be he's a womanizer and he makes me sick." I reply coolly.
"You have no choice now if you haven't already noticed your already dressed up for the chariots and you're on the chariots, riding in the next 10 minutes. Now you will be escorted out of here, and If find out you and Gale are still together I will see that every person in Panem that means something to Gale is executed at once That Includes miss. Everdeen, who has even had chance to participate in the games yet!" Reply's snow as peacekeepers are escorting me through the doors.
I expect to find many halls to pass through before we reach the chariots area thing. But what I find is as soon as the door opens I'm shoved into a mob of the rest of the tributes. I see Gale who waves to me. I just give him a sad look and simply look away. I get ready and pumped up to go out on the chariots. Right now, now that I don't even have Gale I really will only be a bloodthirsty killer coldhearted, sad alone… Wait I should not be thinking of this I need to forget Gale if I know what's best for him. I cannot let all his love ones die like all of mine did. I cannot, I can't, I just can't let that happen! I hear them announce that it's time to board the chariots. And I step onto the chariot, in my warrior-like suit, just as it was two years ago in the 74th with a little twist into it. But still, the outfits were quite boring.
Into the bright shimmering lights and crowds of stupidly dressed people and stupidly acting people, I go. Hoping and praying that I do what snow expects me to do.
I didn't know what to do without Gale or what I would do without Gale. But I knew one thing, I was doing whatever it takes to protect him. I wasn't going to let them be hurt like I was when my family was killed. This time around I was the one protecting Gale, and no one could stop me.
