A/N: Well Aaron has won the Games and my SYOT is coming up, AKA the sequel to this, takes palce 7 years later, but with your tributes! I will put up the form when I post the first chapter of the SYOT. Pm me if you want the form early

21: Caesar's Goodbye

I am ready to go home. When I got out of the arena I don't really remember what happened. I just remember them pulling me up and then I blacked out. They gave me all these medicines and kept poking and prodding me with needles.

"Aaron!" Dixie yells as she finally sees me for the first time. Dixie hugs me and I smile. I think that would be the first time since before I was reaped that I had an actual smile. I killed my sister is the phrase that keeps coming into my mind. I killed her, freely.

"Aaron you look great! Sewed you back up in the hovercraft they did!" Dixie yells again

"Alright Dixie. Don't want to know what they did to me in there," I say back to her and she laughs.

"You know, you are from an outer district," Dixie adds in.

"Yeah, that doesn't matter."

"You don't understand. President Snow is not a fan of outer district victors. He will be keeping an eye on you. You know that all he cares about is fear and hope? It's absurd. He came and gave me a chat. Oh and Abigail Arrow, murdered."

"What!? Why was she murdered?" I ask Dixie with a confused expression.

"Too short of games. The president's last words to her was something about making them full of excitement but not long enough for the citizens to enjoy. I don't understand that guy. And with a Quarter Quell coming so soon for the 50th anniversary. Doesn't matter. Zipporah is ready for you. Wants to dress you for your interview."

"Interview!?"

"With Caesar Flickerman about your victory." Of course, another interview. All the Capitol citizens will want to see the prized Victor, me!

I say a goodbye to Dixie and head off through the building to find Zipporah.

"Aaron, great to see you again!" Zipporah yells at me, hugging me tight. She releases and pulls me into a separate room. On a stand is a brilliant orange tuxedo. The pants are silver and glisten as you walk. The shoes are orange and are very shiny. "You get dressed and meet me out here and then I will take you to the interview." I nod to her and strip of my clothes.

I look at the clothes that stand in front of me. I put on a tee and then the tuxedo. The pants are rather comfortable when I put them on. I put black socks on and then put the shoes on.

I walk outside and Zipporah grabs my hand. She takes me to the same place I had my first interview in. "You wait here and somebody will come and get you," Zipporah tells me and I nod.

I sit on a chair, waiting for a person to get me. After about 30 minutes, a man dressed in black takes me to the steps to walk on stage. Portraits of me are glowing behind Caesar Flickerman, who is providing jokes until I am ready.

"Ladies and Gentlemen. . . Let's hear it for this year's victor of the 47th Hunger Games, Aaron Garze!" Caesar summons me onto the stage and so I walk onto the stage.

"Please sit Aaron," Caesar tells me. I need to play it funny.

"Only if you sit down first," I tell Caesar and the crowd bursts out laughing. I laugh with them. No! I stop laughing instantly. I am not becoming one of them. Caesar and I both sit down.

"You alright Aaron?" Caesar asks me.

"Fine, how 'bout yourself?"

"Just dandy. So, Aaron, how does it feel to be crowned victor?"

"Great and horrible at the same time."

"Really? And why is that?"

"I killed so many innocent people. Heck, innocent kids. And it feels great because I get to go home."

"Of course you must be longing about the deaths of your friends, but you are excited to go home?" I nod at Caesar. "And what do you think your brother will think of you coming home?"

"Ray or Spike?" I ask Caesar.

"Both," Caesar replies quickly.

"Ray will be so happy and Spike will be smack talking Cassie."

"Ah right, while we are on the Cassie subject. What do you think about her now?"

"I absolutely hate her." The crowd all gasps. "Sorry you guys," I say to the crowd. "Could you really like your siblings if they joined the opposite team and wanted to murder you?" The crowd all nods in agreement that they couldn't. Good, they are on my side.

"One last question for you Aaron Garze. Your father." I raise an eyebrow. "What will he think?"

"Honestly, I don't know." I lied. Of course I know what my dad will do. Be mad at me for not taking care of Cassie.

"Well then. This is our goodbye to you, from the Capitol. Everybody, Aaron Garze, the victor of the 47th Annual Hunger Games!" I smile at the crowd and then walk off the stage.

Zipporah and Dixie are there to greet me. They dress me in more comfortable clothes and then take me to the train station. Zipporah hugs a goodbye and leaves immediately because she has started to cry.

"Are you ready to get back to District 10?" Dixie asks me as we get into a train.

"I am just ready to get home," I reply. Sitting on a couch with Dixie and watching replays of this year's Hunger Games. "Where's Leporis?" I ask her.

"Staying in the Capitol until the next reaping."

Watching TV I all Dixie and I do until we reach District 10. It's weird. I get to see where each of the other tributes are and what they are doing. My eyes start to doze off and then I am asleep