A/N: Old readers, new readers, welcome! After a few requests, I have decided to add who's POV the chapter is going by before the chapter. I hope it clears things up for my readers although I had enjoyed letting the readers guess who was speaking :) Alright, well, like always, enjoy!

-smyle94-

Johanna

"This is so stupid!" I cry, pressing my face against the glass window.

I feel a warm hand wrap around my fist, pulling me away from the glass opening so I wouldn't have to keep looking out. I glare back, pull my hand out of Darius's grasp, and stare at Lurena.

"They're dying down there! The District 'army' is like gnats to those mutts!"

Lurena doesn't say anything. Instead, she exchanges a glance with Darius. I hate being left out of the plan…

"What?" I screech, looking from one of them to the other.

"In a minute I will tell you," Lurena compromises, turning to a computer screen and clicking away.

My temper is something even I have trouble leashing up.

"How are you even talking?!" I stammer. Lurena glances up at me and rolls her eyes.

"Do you recognize me, Johanna?" she asks. I shake my head. She moves some of her red hair out of her face, looking back at the computer screen as she talks. "I was Katniss's Avox before both the Hunger Games she took part in. I was the mute servant to her."

"Key word, mute," I snap back.

"Like I mentioned before, Cinna and I are part of a secret organization," she begins.

"I know that."

Lurena turns back to gaze at me. "I'm not from a District, Johanna."

That seems to catch me by surprise. After all, every Avox was created because of their defiance to the Capitol. What would someone like Lurena be doing in that position?

"You're from the Capitol?"

"I wouldn't say that. I was born and raised in the Capitol but my place of work before I was caught up into this situation hadn't been within the Capitol. I worked under a secret organization, away from the Capitol, and against the Capitol." I open my mouth to speak, but Lurena cuts me off again. "Being that I'm supposed to be an Avox, keeping my mouth shut was probably the smartest thing."

"You're confusing me! You haven't told me why you speak," I snap.

Lurena gives a sly grin.

"Like you already know, we have connections, including those who carry out tasks for Snow. In essence, we are probably much more powerful than him…"

"So you faked being mute?" I ask.

She nods.

I point a finger at Darius, about to ask about his situation, when he catches my finger in his hand.

He shakes his head.

"Oh," I say.

Lurena glances between the two of us and shakes her head sadly. "No, he wasn't out of the situation. We couldn't risk getting caught. Before he was turned into an Avox, we didn't know him too well to stop them from cutting up his tongue."

Lurena turns back to the computer, dialing in some random codes, when I speak up again.

"Why were you taken in to be turned into an Avox, anyways?" I question curiously. Lurena twists her head to gaze at me, some flicker of the past flashing in her eyes.

My heartbeat stops for a second.

"They caught me and my boyfriend," she states. I'm about to apologize for my stupid curiosity when she continues.

"We were chosen to carry out an important mission. We were planning for this to happen. For this rebellion. Our part of the plan was to deliver the information to some of the District heads about our existence. It was our first step in breaching the space between our privacy and the real world. As obviously understood, it didn't go too well. We had made it past the first eleven districts when someone back at the Capitol spilled of our whereabouts. The Capitol till now doesn't know what we were doing, but being undercover was evidence enough that something was happening. When the hovercraft came for us…"

Lurena, already taken this distant look in her eyes, blinks back some tears.

"Two Capitol officials came down to speak to us. My boyfriend didn't want any of it because he knew we would be turned into Avox. He took out his gun and shot the two of them. We started to run, but going against the Capitol, we didn't get too far on our own."

She turns back around without another word uttered. I don't dare ask about her boyfriend and a look from Daruis confirms that. Instead, I walk up to her and gaze at the computer screen just as she turns off the screen.

"Johanna," she states, looking me straight in the eye.

"Yes?"

"Cinna, he said you might consider…"

Darius cuts her off with a shake of his head. Lurena gives him a look, and he steps back, mute the entire time.

"What is it?"

"We have the key to destroying these mutts and every creation of the greedy Capitol hands," Lurena whispers. My eyes widen.

"Well then? What is it?"

Suddenly, I feel the ship that we are in halt from any movement. I turn around to gaze out the window, realizing we have touched the forest ground, away from the war.

"We must fight fire with fire," Lurena begins.

"Enough with the stupid sayings! What is it?" I give Lurena a bewildered look, not understanding how she could deal with containing the answer to our problems yet not placing it into action.

"Our organization has created the perfect chemical." Lurena raises a small vial filled with clear fluid. I stare at it.

"When injected into a person, they become what we call a mutt."

I take a hasty step back. What is she talking about?

"The creation from this liquid is stronger than any mutt the Capitol has ever created. If you agree to use it, you can easily overpower the mutations out there killing off your district."

I unconsciously reach for the vial, greedy to use it already. Lurena swiftly plucks it out of my way.

Her eyes smile at me. "There's a catch," she whispers.

I stare her straight in the eye.

Darius's fingers curl around my hand, begging me to not consider this.

"Your memories washed away. Every part of your body is not controlled by you anymore but rather by instinct. And, you will stay this way forever."

I feel every part of my body go numb. Lurena's eyes don't leave me as she studies my reaction. I take a deep breath and place my arms on my waist.

"Is that it?" I choke. Lurena nods.

I glance at Darius, who looks too pale to be considered alive. I laugh out loud and his eyes flicker to mine. I place a hand on his cheek and settle in for a kiss.

I see his eyes go wide in surprise. I also see Lurena setting the vile into a needle.

I feel like there is not a care in the world…

Past memories flood into every vein in my body. I may have had a crappy past, but who can stop me from having a crappy future? I had lost the will to live years ago…

Once I take my lips off Darius, whose eyes begin to plead with me and whose face begins to smother in tears, I push my arm out to Lurena, catching her by surprise.

"Inject me with that stuff before I change my mind."