Peacekeepers dragged me into a room and I smelled the all too familiar blood.
"Ah, Lavinia," Snow said. "Or should I say Melany?"
"It's Lavinia," I said, trying to hold back the tears that threatened to fall. Only Alexander was able to call me Melany; nobody else.
"Alright, Lavinia," Snow said. "Apparently the Capitol couldn't shut you up."
Snow tilted his head slightly upward and the peacekeepers that were holding me shoved me to my knees.
"So, maybe this will," Snow said.
A peacekeeper walked over to me and forced open my mouth. Another peacekeeper took out a knife and started to come toward me with it. I remembered seeing the Avox girl and remembered Alexander's dad saying "well, they are traitors". I had run away from the Capitol; I was a traitor.
I struggled against the peacekeepers, but it was no use. The peacekeeper came at me with the knife and began the bloody process.
It hurt worse than anything I'd ever felt before. I remember screaming a lot, and soon I'd screamed so much that I couldn't do it anymore; all that came out was a hoarse moan.
I finally felt the pain ease up as the peacekeeper took his knife out of my mouth with something in his hand. I looked at it and I felt like throwing up; it was my tongue. Blood was everywhere in my mouth.
"That wasn't so hard, was it?" Snow said, laughing.
Anger boiled inside me and I twisted myself out of the peacekeeper's grip and charged at Snow. I tackled him to the ground and started punching the living daylights out of him. I spit the blood out of my mouth and onto his face, adding to his horrible smell. Peacekeepers rushed over to me and hoisted me off of him. Snow looked bewildered and furious, but I didn't care. He had killed my family, he had killed my first and only true love. He had taken everything away from me.
"Take her away," Snow said angrily, then, as the peacekeepers dragged me out of the room and away from Snow, I heard him shout something after me. "Enjoy being an Avox!"