A MockingJay Story Part 2 Chapter 9
After a frustrating meeting with Snow, Katniss and Liam went back through the mansion. Liam came across a large meeting room. He peeked inside for a moment before moving on.
In the next room, was an office. Liam walked into the room. There were papers all over to the place. Files listed game ideas, arena designs, victors.
He found a file for quarter quells and opened it up.
Katniss walked into the room. "What is it?"
Each page in the file was a new idea for a quell. "They had so many plans..."
Katniss looked at some of the plans. "All tributes male. All tributes female."
"Siblings." Liam said. He looked furious. "The two tributes would be siblings."
"Those poor parents." Katniss said. She was haunted by the thought of it.
"It gets worse." Liam said. He held another plan in his hand. "All tributes be 12 year olds."
Katniss looked like she would throw up.
He held another idea for a quell in hand. "The number of tributes based on the district number."
"Wait, what?" Katniss looked at him confused.
"District 1 would have one tribute. District 5, would have 5 tributes."
"12 would have 12 tributes in one year." Katniss realized. "But that's way more than 24 tributes."
"78." Liam read off the paper.
The were quiet for a moment.
"I guess in that year, the odds would be in favor of 12 winning." Liam said aloud.
Katniss scanned the other documents. One idea for an arena was an island. Another was a volcano. "A volcano arena." She said aloud.
Liam glanced over at it. "Would it erupt?"
"Probably." Katniss said.
"They were truly monsters. They wanted to have two games at the same time, in different places." He pointed to the plan. Another with tributes all being chosen from one district."
Katniss looked over the document. "12. Of course they would chose my district."
"Another was a game with only avoxes being reaped." He said.
"Poor Pollux." She muttered.
"That's very abilist of them." Liam commented. He picked up another one. "A rule that females can only kill males and vise versa."
"Huh." Katniss said. "What's to stop all the females from making a huge alliance against the boys?"
Liam chuckled for a moment.
Katniss looked at one quell plan that caught her eye. "A virtual reality game?"
"So if they die in the game, they die in real life?" Liam asked.
Katniss shrugged. "I guess. Not the same as watching them kill each other. The Capitol would be killing them if they die in the game."
"Pretty sure District 3 would have an advance, being the tech district." Liam added.
"How could they even come up with such things?" Katniss asked.
"Oh, listen to this one." Liam said with another piece of paper in hand. "Only couples could be reaped. Oh that would test their loyalty if only one could win."
Katniss shook her head.
"Oh, correction." He lifted his finger up. "Hetero couples only."
"I guess that would be a good year to be single." Katniss said.
He put the paper down and looked at the next one. "The first born to be reaped, as long as they are under 19." He read aloud.
"What if they're under 12?" Katniss asked.
"They would still be eligible for reaping." He said. "So a three year old could be reaped. An infant could be reaped."
Katniss shook her head. "25 quells. They had plans for the next 600 years of quarter quells."
"And I think I've found the worst one." He said, holding one of the last papers of quell ideas.
"What is it?" Katniss asked.
His face looked flushed. "Children, grandchildren, and other descendants of victors reaped..."
Katniss saw the paper for herself. She tore up the papers. "It's all over now. Snow's going to die. The games are over."
Liam looked over to her and nodded.
The surviving victors that remained were invited to a meeting with Coin. She elected herself as president of Panem, claiming that the Capitol was too emotional to elect an official president. Coin proposed an idea of a punishment for the Capitol. They were exempt for the games all these years. "I propose we host one last game with the Capitol's children."
Joanna laughed at the idea. Annie and Shay looked horrified. Katniss stared at her, as if finally realizing something.
"We need a majority of 4 to do this." Coin said.
"But there's eight of us." Shay said.
"Right. And if there is a tie, I would be the tie breaker." Coin said.
Enobaria voted yes.
Joanna votes yes. "Snow's even got a granddaughter."
Shay gave Joanna a disapproving look.
Beetee voted no. "The answer is not more bloodshed."
Peeta voted no.
Annie voted no. "If Finnick were here, he'd say no too."
"That's sweet, but his vote doesn't count." Coin said. "Shay?"
Shay looked up at her. "No." She shook her head. "This is wrong."
"It's the prefect punishment." Joanna said. "It's poetic."
"The games are over. This isn't the answer." Shay said. "If we do this, we would be not better than them."
"Exactly," Peeta said.
Katniss voted yes, to many tribute's surprise.
Haymitch looked over to her and voted yes too.
4 to 4. Coin leaned towards having the game. She could make the announcement after Snow was executed.
Coin stood up on a tall platform, while Snow was tied to a pole on the ground. Hundreds of people gathered around. Katniss approached Snow with her arrow drawn. It all happened so fast. One minute, it seems like it's all about to be over. And the next, everything changes. At the last second, she moved her arrow up, and stabbed Coin in the heart.
The large crowd ran after Snow. They were all angry and wanted revenge.
Katniss was taken away by guards for killing Coin.
