The Same Night:

Trigger warning for forced sexual situations.

After he'd entered the room he'd just stood by the door for a short while, staring at my body as I try to cover myself with my hands,

"I had to sell one of my Avoxes to afford you tonight Diamond" he tells me as he steps up to the bed and removes his robe, He steps over and strokes my face.

"I'm grateful for that" I reply calmly as I close my eyes to his face, he thinks this normal selling one human being for the chance to abuse another, but we are the playthings of the capitol ours is not to argue. But who says that, why can't we argue, why can't I fight, keeping my eyes squeezed shut I move to reach my hands up to his wobbling neck fat, to destroy this fat, harsh Gamemaker before he can hurt me.

I fling my eyes open to find Bernard is touching himself as he gazes at me, I avert my eyes not out of humility like he probably assumes but because the sight of this thing touching himself like that makes me want to actually puke.

"You are the most beautiful woman in all of Panem my dear" he tells me as he strokes himself through his underwear

"thank you sir" I will kill you as you sleep tonight

"Call me Bernard, after all I suspect we'll be seeing a lot more of each other my darling" He moves his hand faster as he stares at my breast, "My darling you're driving me crazy" he reaches out and places his other hand on my face pinching my cheek.

"I can't" I gasp suddenly, pulling myself away from him.

"Oh Diamond of course you can, just leave everything to me" he pushes my shoulders down onto the bed, for such a fat thing he's awful strong, either that or I'm particularly weak tonight, I guess at the latter.

He begins to try and remove the flimsy piece of material I'm wearing as I struggle "I want to kill you" I hiss up at his face but he only laughs

"There's my arena Diamond. All that spark I know you have in there my darling"

"I. Am. Not. Your. Darling!" I gasp in short breaths as I struggle against him "I am Diamond Hart and I won the Hunger Games by defeating more impressive boys than you!" I shove him hard with both hands and he tumbles off the bed.

As he falls the door bursts open and three peacekeepers run into the room, of course they were watching following them is Demica, she looks mad. Bernard stands up and smiles at Demica "Oh Demi, you've got a right one on your hands here" he tells her with a chuckle composing himself rather quickly for a man who just got bested by a seventeen year old girl.

I've realised that I've started to shake, the pride I felt is gone, no one will cheer at my victory here only punishment awaits me.

"Would you like us to deal with her?" Asks Demica

"No, I want to tame this one myself"

"Very well" she bows to Bernard and glares at me "You know where we are" this is aimed at the both of us, and then she leaves us alone.

"What an ugly display that was there Diamond, I don't like to be reminded you're not entirely here under your own will"

"I'm not here under my own will at all" I spit back, "that should be pretty self evident"

"Yet here we are" he says "surely it would be easier for you to let this happen" he raises his eyebrows as if he is actually shocked at my actions here.

"Honestly Bernard" I sigh "It would be easier for you to use one of the straps from that dressing gown you discarded earlier to strangle you to death"

"Guards" he calls and the three peacekeepers charge into the room, I shift my glare from him to them "Do we have some way of restraining her?" the guards nod and advance towards me pulling handcuffs from their belts.

"Wait" I call not wanting to be tied to the bed, to lose my way of strangling this vile man "please don't, I'll do as you say please" I seem to plead to him, Bernard smiles

"Told you I could tame her, you can go now, but leave the cuffs" the peacekeepers leave the cuffs and go back outside.

"I hate you" I tell him as he pulls off his underwear exposing himself to me fully "I will never forget this"

"Well I don't plan on tonight being forgettable Diamond" he tells me as I finally allow him to remove my own inadequate underwear. One day I will kill you Bernard, but not after I make you suffer worse than you are about to make me.

Afterwards I curled up into a ball on the luscious plush bed with the crumpled sheets and cried. Bernard had left pretty quickly then "Till next time my dear" he said as he'd exited the room.

They'd let me sleep at least and when I awoke I found a smart shirt and pants lay over a chair that had appeared over night, a door had also opened in a bookcase to reveal a bathroom with a deep bath, as I relax in the warm embracing water I realised I hadn't had a nightmare that night.

Maybe that's because reality had become so hellish.

Moments after I was clean and dressed Demica re-appears "Come along then" she tells me and I follow her in silence. We walk to a car and she lets me climb in, "I don't know why but there allowing you a shopping trip before you go home, personally I'd have you shipped back to one before you have a chance to embarrass yourself further. I'll see you again Diamond" she slams the door in my face and the car sets off.

I look out of the window of the cab as we move through the traffic of another morning in the capitol, people promenade the streets with little rush or reason. There's a barbecue going on in one of the parks as kids run around and play with swords. One woman notices me gazing out of the cab window and screams my name, I sink onto the seat.

We pull up to mall and the cab driver tells the cabs not pre-paid this time.

"Figures" I mutter as I scan my thumb print, I guess only good little whores get free taxi's.

The cab driver leaves me at the main door to the mall, people rush past me as I stand there.

"Hey Persephonie, isn't that Diamond Hart?" calls a boys voice

"Oh my Panem it sure is" shrieks his companion, I rush into the mall, what do I do now?

"Diamond?"

"Silk!" the sight of my mentors never made me so happy, Silk will make everything okay again won't she?

"Oh Diamond I'm so sorry" she wraps her arms around me "I didn't know till it was too late, I got the earliest train"

"You told me it would happen"

"But this soon? Look we should go somewhere to talk"

"Home?"

"Not yet, here's safer" she takes my hand and leads me through the crowd we head to the far end of the mall and into a large department store. The place is filled with what feels like the majority of the capitols women, trying on shoes, looking at bags and jewellery and browsing hundreds or racks of clothes. Silk leads me to a rack in the middle, nothing exciting just some jumpers.

"You'll needs something warm for your victory tour" she tells me loudly, "I just adore this designer don't you?"

"Yeah I suppose"

"You should try this on" she shoves a jumper into my hand, "third cubical on the left" she whispers in my ear "over there" she points to the changing room.

I take the jumper over to the changing room and seeing no shop assistant head over to the third cubical on the left, I swing open the curtain.

"Diamond I thought I'd find you here" I recognise the speaker, most of the country would I'm being addressed by Maggie Sedna winner of the tenth hunger games here in this changing room in the capitol.

"I'm sorry" I reply blinking towards her "How can I help you Miss Sedna"

"I heard you didn't have such a good night last night"

"Yeah, I suppose, look I don't want a lecture on my behavior last night, I want to go home."

"Not a lecture, Diamond, an idea I want to share that's all"