Please see the A/N at the bottom. Thank you. Carry on.
It's time for my session with Alma again, I'm not nervous, or scared, anymore. Just anxious. With everything that's going on Snow might be calling me up to do my 'missions for my country' soon and that is not something I'm looking forward to.
Cato comes to open the 'cage' and bring me to her office. He and I haven't talked since yesterday and I'm glad for it. I have to keep my distance from him, everyone really, getting attached is something I can't afford.
I setting myself for failure on that one really, sharing a room with him, making jokes, training Clove. I'm already attached. What's wrong with me?
We get to her office and Cato knocks on the door and just like last time he goes to stand in the corner when I'm left to sit on the couch in front of Alma.
"Hello Katniss. How've you been?"
"Since we last talked two days ago? Fine." Sarcasm. Awesome.
"Yes. Well, you have been busy training a new recruit, that must be tiring."
"Nothing I can't handle."
"So let me get this straight. Training a new recruit that you are trying to save doesn't even faze you while seeing an old book makes you cry? Something I'm sure you regret doing."
I grind my teeth together. I knew it was going to bite me in the ass.
"I didn't cry. You know I'm not that sentimental."
"Oh, but we both know you are and don't blame Cato for this, I asked. I was also the one that asked for him to give that book to you. I was hoping for nothing less Katniss. It showed your greatest strength and weakness. Your heart. Even after all of this you still care."
She is looking at me with a cold calculating look, something most recruits have to get used to when they get their sessions. She is trying to figure me out.
"I shed a tear over a book I had before my shit storm of a life, it doesn't mean anything Alma."
"Maybe, but your fathers writing on it sure does. What was it again? My brave little girl. Adorable really."
Hearing her talking about my father is something unusual. She'd never particularly brought up my father or the writing on the book even when she got it for 'safe keeping' why now? Then I realize where she is getting at. She wants to hurt me and knows that my family is a sure way to do it but there is also something else. Curiosity.
"Are you really going there? First Peeta now my family?"
"Those are the things that upset you the most aren't they. I am merely trying to help you overcome them."
"Overcome them my ass. You wanna hit where it hurts."
"That is simply collateral damage."
"I'm sure."
"Let's get back on the topic. The only time we discussed your family was very vague. I'd like to know more Katniss."
She crosses her knees and holds her hands together looking at me intently.
"What do you want to know? No, actually I should just ask you what you already know."
"Very well. I know of your father, your mother, your little sister, how they were, what they did, their names, and the way they died."
"So you know everything, no use in me telling you something you already know."
"Wrong Katniss. I wasn't there, I couldn't see them, know them. There are things not even I know, but you are going to help me with that."
Alma gets up and goes to her desk picking something up from one of the drawers. A syringe.
I get up and try to walk away, run away, when I'm crushed into a large chest while muscular arms encircle me, effectively trapping me.
"No, let go! Cato let go! Do you know what she'll do to me?! Please!" I was screaming by now while he remained calm and whispered in my ear.
"Calm down. She won't hurt you."
"Yes she will."
And that was the last word I said before Alma shot me with whatever was in that syringe.
The world went black and I could no longer feel strong arms surrounding me.
A/N: Sorry for the late updates and short chapters. School has been getting in the way :c
But I promise that the next chappie will be extra long and perhaps with someone else's POV *wink*
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