A/N: So sorry that it took me forever to update my story, and sorry that this chapter is short. Promise the next one will ne longer :)
"They tear you into pieces, making sure you don't live long enough. The Capitol was evil even before they started to do the Hunger Games. Making us work on all hours of the day, like we were their slaves. It's still going on, but no one has the courage to stand up to The Capitol. No one will even dare to make a wrong move. The Capitol will break you until there isn't any of you left."
Ada was a wise woman, but I don't think she would have ever see this one coming. She wouldn't have seen Peeta and Katniss standing in the middle of the crowd alive. She wouldn't have seen The Capitol's soldiers everywhere. She wouldn't have seen the fear in everyone's eyes. She wouldn't have seen my rash actions.
"No." I whispered out again. I started to move closer to the stage. I heard Gabe's voice shouting out my name, but it was too far. Curious eyes landed on me, but only one pair of eyes I caught was Katniss. Her long brown hair pulled back into a braid giving her face a sharp, but soft look. Her gray eyes look right into my light green ones. Her eyes were sad, but were sharp by watching my every move. Someone grabbed a hold of my arm and turned me around quickly; putting up my defensive walls. What I saw in front of me was another pair of gray eyes, but it was a guy. He's grip on me was strong and I was about to burn him with my arm, but I didn't. He looked deep into my eyes trying to look for any recognition.
"Who are you?" He asked me. I shook my arm out of his grip. I wasn't prepared for this, we never got caught. I could say my name, but they would find out that I am not District 12 citizen. I heard deep breaths from the left of me. I looked to see who was breathing so heavily and there stands Gabe hunching over. The gray eyed guy looked at both of us in confusion. I looked around to see if we also caught other curious stares, we didn't. Everyone is around the stage. I went to Gabe and grabbed his arm.
"We have to go now." I said fiercely. Gabe saw the fear in my eyes, and he nodded following me.
"Stop!" That strange guy yelled. I started to walk a little faster until again he grabbed me. This time I imagined the fire going into my arm, making only the surface of my arm hot. "Owe." He looked at his hand in amazement. "How did you-" He got caught off by me.
"You didn't see anything, we were never here." I told him. He looked hard at me.
"You were here, the soldiers saw you, but I grabbed you in a friendly matter so they wouldn't attack." He explained in a serious tone. I looked at him, then turned to see the soldiers walk away from us, since they lost interest in us.
"Thanks, but I could take care of myself." I whispered harshly to him. Gabe poked my side and I turned towards him. He moved his head to the side, towards the cameras at different point areas. I cursed under my breath.
"They might have caught us on video coming inside here, which means we can't leave." Gabe whispered into my ear. I closed my eyes tightly, clearly frustrated. The strange guy looked between both of us and then he turned his attention to the camera. The side of his lip twitched a bit. I know what I have to do, but there's too many people outside. Gabe took my hand in his, caressing them trying to calm me down. This seems to always work on me and bring slight shivers down my arms. I breathed in and out deeply, closing my eyes. I opened my eyes again to see turquoise eyes staring into my light green ones. I knew my only option to keep us both safe is to stay here until we come up with a plan to leave. What am I going to tell my parents when I get home? Gabe nodded his head, understanding what we need to do without a single word being spoken. It's weird how Gabe knows exactly what I'm thinking with just one look into my eyes, since I'm the one with the powers. I turned my attention to the guy standing in front of us waiting for us to speak.
"It seems we came across a complication..." I tilted my head towards the camera. "I was wondering if you would consider helping us?" I asked being polite. The guy smiled which made goosebumps go all over my arms.
"I thought you said you could take care of yourself." He smiled. I wonder if he's always this friendly with strangers? "I'm Gale by the way and you two are?" Gale finally introduced himself to us. I slightly looked at Gabe to see if we should tell him who we are. He sighed in defeat and nodded his head.
"I am Alejandra and this is my friend Gabriel." I introduced us to this Gale. He smiled at both of us, but frowned a few seconds later.
"Follow me." Gale said walking towards houses. Gabe started to follow. I stood there debating if I should follow along with Gabe or turn around and try to find a way out. Gabe turned around and waved at me to follow. I sighed in defeat and made my feet move. As I was walking, little kids were praising the champions. I frowned at this, for children have to be born into this chaos of death. That made me want to fight in these games much harder now. I know there is one more month left, and I know that I need to save the people of all districts. Wow, that just put a lot of weight on my shoulders. We stopped in front of a small house. Gale knocked on the door very softly. A young girl opened the door. She had brown hair and her eyes lighted up when she saw Gale.
"Gale!" She excitedly said. She was about to run into his arms until she saw us standing behind him. She gave us a cautious look.
"It's okay Prim, they are...friend's of mine." Gale told the little girl known as Prim. Prim gave Gale a blank stare. I kind of used my powers to read her aura. She clearly didn't believe Gale when he said we were his 'friends'. Gale sighed. "If you let us in I'll tell you who they really are?" A devious smile played around her lips at first, but then she looked into my eyes and frowned.
"Okay come on in." She left the door open and walked away. Gale went slightly right leaving space for me to go inside first.
"Ladies first." he said with a grin on his face. I went in and turned to my right with no one giving me direction. As I went into the room the first thing I notice how small this kitchen was. Prim was standing next to the dinning table looking at me with careful eyes. After what seemed like an hour the guys finally followed through. "Okay what do you want to know Prim?" Gale looked at her with slight amusement. She cleared her throat and looked at me first then to Gabe.
"I want to know who these two strangers are and where they came from. Because I know they aren't from around here." Prim said eyeing us more closely now.
"I found them in the market area looking up at Katniss and Peeta. They looked a bit in shock and the Capitol's soliders had their eye on them. I couldn't just leave them there defenseless."Gale looked away slyly. Prim had a surprised look on her face.
"That's a first, you usually don't like helping other people out expect for your family and us." I looked around the house trying to see my escape routes. My extra sense gave them to me right away, just in case.
"Yeah, yeah I know." Gale said while putting his hand behind his head. Prim stared at me with coriousty burning in her eyes. I turned my head slightly to the left to sneak a peek at Gabe. All he was doing is staring at an old worn book.
"Gale, you still didn't tell me where they come from?" She asked looking at me straight in the eyes now. Gale looked between me and Gabe.
"Huh, I have no clue. So which District are you two from?" He probed. Gabe eyes went wide and he glanced at me for adive or support. I didn't give anything away.
"Does it matter which District we come from?" Gabe answered finally. Gale looked at Gabe with a starry eye. Prim glared. Her small figure shaking a litlle. I read her actions before she could even act on them. I stepped in front of her and put my hands up in surrender.
"There is no need to attack my friend just because he answered a question with a question." Her experssion was confused. Her muscles relaxed a bit, but her hands still were in fists.
"How did you know I was-" I interurppted her.
"That doesn't matter now. What matters is for Gabriel and I to get out of here without getting caught." I cannot believe I was asking help, but it's the only to get out of answering her question. I felt a hand on my shoulder. I thought it was Gabe, but he's aura is different. I turned my head to see Gale looking at me with pity. I really wanted to read his mind to see what's going on in there, but I haven't master that power yet.
"There is no way out. The Capitol soilders turned on all the electricity gates and they are ten times worse. I don't even know how you two got in here without getting burned?" Gale is curious, too curious. Well that explains why the leaf got burnt like toast. I couldn't believe this is happening. Two survivors won The Hunger Games and now this District is being watched by the Capitol. What is going on?
I looked at Gale and Prim. They both watched me carefully just in case I did anything rash. I didn't know what to do? I never been in this sitituation. Ada told me something, I could feel it. She was preparing me for this moment. What did she tell me.
"Mi bisnieta listen to what I have to tell you. It's very important. You need to have esperanza, have hope that everything will be alright once everything goes badly wrong. If the time ever comes when you are face to face with a crumbled wall you need to know how to climb that wall without it falling down. You need the wall to trust you first so it will know you won't do any harm. If you cannot trust the wall then how do you expect the wall to trust you. Alejandra trust that the wall will hold you up and trust that the wall will put you safely on the ground. If anything just put your palm on the wall and if it comes tumbling down then it wasn't a good wall."
I didn't know what my great-grandma was talking about back then, but now I do. The crumbled walls are people. All I have to do is trust them. I am stranger that came into their home and they have every right to dis-trust me. Great. This means I have to tell them the truth. Oh the hell am I supposed to know they wont report it? Looks like the only thing I could do is use my powers, but I need to have physical contact to do that. I turned to face Gabe. His guards were up. I could feel them. I grabbed his hand and he looked up at me with hard eyes. I closed my eyes and sent a calm engery towards him. When I opened them I faced Prim and Gale.
"You're right." I told them. Not giving anything away just let.
"Right about what?" Gale asked staring at me strangely.
"You are right. We are not from here. We are not from any districts." I answered.
"ALLI!" Gabe stared at me shock that I was actually going to tell them the turth. I ignored him.
"What do you mean?" Prim whispered. I walked towards her and kneeled to reach her height.
"If I tell you do you promise not to report us?" I put my hand up in a fist with only my pinky left out. She stared at my hand for the longest time. Then she wrapped her pinky around mine.
"I promise." I felt her aura and I saw her intentions. She meant no harm. She only wants her sister to be home and safe. Huh? I wonder who her sister is. I nodded my head. I stood up and turned towards Gale.
"Your turn." I told him. His stood there shocked. He un crossed his arms and intwined his pinky with mine.
"I promise I won't turn you into the Capitol. I want to bring them down in ashes." I felt his anger towards the Capitol surge through my body. A never ending flow. I let go of his pinky to rid myself of his anger. I looked at Gabe on last time to see if he was doing alright. He just stared at his shoes not making any eye contact with anyone in the room. I sighed.
"Okay. So here it is. My great-grandma Ada told me about me when all the Districts rebeled against the Capitol. Then the Capitol blew up District 13 to show the other Districts the cause their rebellion made..." I stopped in mid-sentence by Gale.
"Yeah. Who could forget that. That is why we do this fucking Hunger Games every year!" He tightened his jaw. His eyes widen. "Oops. Sorry Prim didn't mean to cuss in front of you." Prim shrugged her shoulders.
"It's fine I heard worse." She waved her hand for me to continue my story. I nodded my head.
"As I was saying. Few people from District 13 survived the bomb. My great-grandma was one of them. She and a few others went deep into the forest for safety. They stayed there for while and moved a little deeper just in case Capitol soilders decided to see of there was any survivors. Once everyone knew that the Capitol weren't looking for them, they started to make their own home. Nobody wanted to go back to a District. I mean who would? They build their own houses and made their own food. They built a village and made families. My great-grandma named our village Nueva Vida which means New Life. She told me it was blessing they made it out of there alive and that they were given a second chance at life. That is were me and Gabe are from. From the people of District 13 survivors." Silence filled the room. I waited for any response to what I just told them. Gale was the first one to end the overwhelming silence.
"I can't believe this. All this time there were survivors. Why didn't any of you come here and help us escape?" His voice had a hint of pain in it. I winced. I didn't expect him to ask that question.
"Our village were scared. My people are scared of The Capitol. After what they went through and after hearing the stories. No one dares to go against The Capitol again. They are trying to forget out is beyond our forest." I told him the truth and I know this truth is heart breaking. His eyes went down.
"I guess I understand, but then why are you and Gabriel here?" He asked. His eyes bore right into mine. Again he caught me off gaurd. What is the matter with me? This guy keeps dodging and going through my powers. I looked at Gabe for help. He stepped forward.
"What? There can't be any rebellious teens in our village? There is a rule that no one is allowed to go into District 12. Me and Alli here well we come here once we have chance. We both don't like the rules much and sometimes this District has good supplies that we could use." I almost let out a sigh of relief, but I held it in. An oh slipped past Gale's mouth. Prim stared hard at us again. "What is it?" Gabe asked her.
"It's not fair." She pouted. Her lip quivered a little. Gale kneeled down by her and put his hand on her shoulder.
"What's not fair, Prim?" He asked, clearly worried about her. She put her hands in fists.
"It's not fair that we have to go through The Hunger Games every year and worry about our loved one getting killed! It's not fair that they don't go in it and fight for their life. It's just not fair. I almost lost my sister, but thank someone she is alive and she's home." Prim was trying so hard not to cry. Gale pulled into a hug. I knew I needed to say something.
"Prim?" I spoke. My voice cracking a little. She didn't look my way. She didn't even awknowledge my presence. "Prim, you're right. It's not fair that all of you have to go througn this and we don't. It's completely unfair, but Prim things are going to change soon very soon. Just wait a month because I am going to change everything. I am going to make this world a better place to live in. I promise." I held up my pinky finger for her.
Her eyes were watery, but they lite up in hope. She wrapped her pinky around mine once more and gave a small smile. Even Galed looked at me in surprise, but clearly hopeful. Gabe patted my back, telling me with his patts that he too has hope. Like Ada said 'You need to have esperanza, have hope that everything will be alright once everything goes badly wrong.' I know what she means now, and I am going to try my best to give every single person to hope for a better life.
"Really now and how exactly are you going to do that?" A harsh tone said by the hallway. I turned my head and saw one of The Hunger Games champion, Katniss.