Disclaimer: I don't own the Hunger Games because if I did Jay would exist!
I paced the hallway wearing my new District 13 clothes, grey shirt and grey pants; although they were bland I kinda liked having something new to wear as well as something clean. At least it wasn't white. I fingered the purple writing on my arm telling me where to go and what to do. I hadn't really payed much attention to it and was just wandering the halls. It felt so good to just walk freely without being tripped over or having metal digging into you.
As I rounded the corner I saw a girl with brown hair wandering aimlessly down the halls.
'Katniss?' She turns around and stares at me as if she's trying to place me but I doubt she will my hair has grown so long it reaches my ass and it's still that harsh shade of black I dyed it so long ago. 'Hi,' it's all I can say, so many things run through my mind.
'Hi, do I now you?' I shake my head,
'I just wanted to thank you, you saved my family.'
'No I didn't, I've just been stuck here, I haven't saved anyone.'
'Yes you did. I saw my brother smile around you, not that stupid Capitol smile but his regular smile. You brought him back and you saved Rue. By saving them you saved me.'
'I didn't save Rue,' she looks at her feet as tears seem to well up in her eyes.
'You did more than I ever could.' I ran forward and gave her a hug, I could feel her body seize up, she didn't like being touched and neither did I but I felt like I had to do something. I let her go and felt someone's hand on my shoulder; I gripped it and spun them round pushing them up against the wall. I heard Katniss scream and tried to pull me off.
'Jesus, will you stop trying to kill me?' My eyes met Gale's and I let him go.
'Sorry, just don't do that okay?' He nodded.
'Where have you been? I'm supposed to be watching you.'
'Around.' I shrugged and he rolled his eyes at me.
'Hey Katniss, do you mind if I borrow her for a second she needs to get ready for our meeting later.' A confused look spreads across her face but she nods and he leads me back down the hall.
The three stylists circle me and begin my transformation back into the person I once was. Coin wants me to be as recognisable as possible, so that means a full beauty treatment. They have little supplies here in 12 but Plutarch managed to grab what they needed in case I ever got out, I didn't trust him seeing as he knew I was there the whole time and didn't even try to save me. My hair was cut to my shoulders and returned to its original blonde and the pink and blue streaks were added once more. My eyebrows were plucked and my body was waxed, though they were careful of my cuts and bruises. When they were done I pulled the grey uniform back on and stared at myself in the mirror. I looked at the girl who had died so long ago, the innocent girl who had been replaced by a killing machine and thought that no matter what they did to make me look like her; I would never truly be her again.
I stood outside the conference room waiting for them to allow me to go in. I knew they were going to make a big deal out of me being here, like they did in 11 and they expected me to make and entrance. I played with the streaks in my hair as I listened at the door to what Coin was saying,
'Our mission has been judged as successful, we managed to rescue the previous victors and they have all been returned to us safely. Though there was one thing we didn't account for, something we didn't expect. We found someone else in there, someone we all believed to be dead. The escaped the Games before we even imagined it was possible, I give you Juniper Odair.'
The door swung open behind me and I turned around to face the rooms stunned silence, their moths were hanging open but the only person I cared about was backing away slowly shaking their head, with tears welling up in their eyes,
'Finnick, I'm back.'
Cliffhanger, I actually really hate those but I thought it actually worked here. Please Review and favourite it means a lot.