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A/n: This is a series of oneshots. Each oneshot features, in order, a person from the character list on this site as well as a few i felt should be there (Boggs, Coin, Caesar, Cashmere, Gloss, Marvel and Maysilee) each with a randomly picked prompt (or as random as i could manage without throwing actual darts at my poor old dictionary!). Updates will be one a day (hopefully) though when i go back to uni, this might change. Anyway, i hope you enjoy! As always, any criticism, just shout it out. Any advice on law, shout it out louder!
2) Avox Girl (Lavinia) – Urgency
She guessed that there was an ulterior motive for assigning this new avox – Darius – to serve District 12 with her almost as soon as she found out. She didn't need the help: she had managed it by herself last year and nothing had gone wrong, apart from Katniss Everdeen attempting to destroy her room. And since the Capitol disliked Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, improving their standard of service seemed absurd.
So there had to be another reason. Although she had learnt long ago not to question other avoxes past lives and certainly not to question the Capitol, she was curious. But she had never asked and he didn't attempt to explain it to her. She spent the time in which she prepared the room wondering what the ulterior motive was.
As they waited for the Quarter Quell tributes to arrive, it suddenly occurred to her how obvious the answer was. This man had been assigned with her because he knew at least one of the two tributes. Maybe it would unhinge them in some way to see him. That was the only plausible explanation.
She had to warn them, then, she realised. Stop them from being played by the Capitol somehow. Maybe she didn't exactly owe them anything but meeting Katniss again last year had sparked some sort of connection to them. Something which made her need to help them – especially if they could overthrow the Capitol. So she needed to warn them. But how?
She had no idea.
They'll hate you being here, she signed to him, hoping that this would encourage him to suddenly come up with a brilliant plan.
I know, was all her signed back. She was disappointed for a moment but one look at his face told her that he, too, was trying to think of a way to warn them. And he had nothing. So they stood and waited, the feeling of urgency rising higher. They had to warn them ... there was no way to warn them.
It was just like so many moments in her life. It was the day she ran away and gave Ludens' name to the cleaner as an explanation for where she and her brother were going that day. No way to warn him and he died, protecting them for reasons he didn't know about. It was being in the woods and trying to get Katniss Everdeen and her friend to save them. No way to communicate the desperateness of the situation. Tarquin died and she ended up here with no tongue and a burning desire to destroy the Capitol.
The door opened and the mentor, escort and tributes walked in. Her heart sank at their expressions. This was exactly like every other time in her life. She'd worked it out too late. She'd needed to tell them and had come up with nothing. And now, someone was going to pay the price.