~ Chapter 40, it's the time of truth! Eye on you France, look up mere888, and review~ p.s. this isn't going to be like the book, a lot of things will be missing, also be ready for a hard death blow—your going to hate who I kill off—or they.
Don't lie, don't cheat, and never make promises you cant keep.
~Diana pov~
"For those of you who don't know me, my names Diana hangerman I'm nineteen and a half. I'm from South Carolina, and please hold questions till the end" I said, as I could see there questioning looks but they seemed to yield.
"And these are my friend's." I finished, motioning for the others to introduce themselves.
"My name is Piper rabbi, I'm eighteen and a half I'm also from South Carolina but I used to live in New Jersey." She said, not meeting anyone's eyes.
"My names Megan arena, I'm eighteen and going on nineteen, I'm originally from California but moved to South Carolina at the age of fifteen." Megan said with the flip of her hair.
"And Maryanne cadaver is also from South Carolina, but came to us from Florida" I explained, in place for our mentally damaged friend.
"Ok sweetheart now that introductions over, what's with the books?" Haymitch asked, holding one up to wave around in my face.
"We're not from here." I said slowly, trying to word this out.
"I can tell darling." Haymitch said calmly, seemingly wanting to make things clear and even worded.
"We're- from- an- alternate- reality- in- which- you- all- are- book- characters!" I rushed out, soundly scared of the foreboding outturn.
At first nothing—soon we heard hysteric laughing all around—so this is how Megan felt.
"HEY SHUT UP!" Megan shouted; at her place at the head of table making the laughter die down a bit.
"Now, what's the truth love?" Finnick asked, a wide smirk on his face.
"You wanted the truth now you got it." I huffed, taking up "catching fire" and slide it over towards him.
"Now what's this?" He asked, looking towards me then back towards the book.
"That there is from the end of the hunger games, till the end of the quarter quell." I tell him coldly, having the patients sucked out of me, leaving me annoyed and impatient.
"Now tell me darling—" Haymitch had my attention once again "—why don't you prove that you're from another world?" He questioned, doing air quotes.
"Honestly, in the books and the movie I still hate Katniss" Megan said expectantly knowing Megan and her flare for drama. As she just hade to be the center of attention, while looking over her nails
"I could careless if Katniss ended up happy. All I could think was Peeta. He's done so much, not only for Katniss but for the well being of the others as well. He does not only deserve happiness, but he deserves SOMEONE who'll love him like how he loves' Katniss. He DESERVES anything, or ANYONE who makes him happy.
"Also movie Peeta isn't as though as book Peeta." Megan ranted, as I arched an eyebrow and waited for it to end.
"Are you done." I asked irritated, she nodded her head.
"Team-Peeta?" Piper asked Megan as though she had been slapped.
"Heck no, forget team-Gale or team-Peeta I'm on team-Finnick all the way!" She declared, crossing her arms.
a Cough from Haymitch brought us back.
"Done there?" He asked, as I became embarrassed.
"Sorry Megan's mouth can run away with her." I told him, getting a scruff from Megan.
"Now as I was saying, we are not from this time period nor is this our reality." I continued.
"In other words, we're not of this earth." Megan stated bluntly.
"You still haven't proved it yet!" Plutarch decided to put his two-cents in.
"We don't need to, just take a look at the books." Piper said, gesturing for them to read the hunger games.
They seemed skeptical until Finnick picked one of them up, turned to the first chapter and read aloud.
When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, seeking prim's warmth but finding only the rough canvas covers of the mattress. She must have had bad dreams and climbed in with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the reaping—I stopped him there, taking hold of the book once again. Getting a few wide eyes and some skeptical.
"You see we don't know how we got here or why, but our presence here are changing things." Piper said, looking around at us.
"Basically we changed that little girl Rues life, had a break-out in the seventy-fourth hunger games saving these two—" Megan pointed to Thresh and Vulpix "—had Maryanne placed in the quarter quell, Diana saved Cinna, and she also saved that hospital in eight." Megan explained pompously, coming to stand next to me.
"Along with things soon to come." I said, my gaze falling on Cinna to my amusement has been taking the pregnancy well, if not shocked into calmness.
"That's hard to believe." Says Gale, looking at us like we grew two heads.
"How many [possible worlds] are there? In what respects do they vary, and what is common to them all? Do they obey a nontrivial law of identity of indiscernibles? Here I am at a disadvantage compared to someone who pretends as a figure of speech to believe in possible worlds, but really does not. If worlds were creatures of my imagination, I could imagine them to be any way I liked, and I could tell you all you wished to hear simply by carrying on my imaginative creation. But as I believe that there really are other worlds, I am entitled to confess that there is much about them that I do not know, and that I do not know how to find out." said Beetee, using the possiblitys of things.
"Ya what ever he said." Megan says, pointing at Beetee.
"We do know what happened and what will happen, but if we detalate our actions things could unravel, creating more harm then good." I tried to explained further, checking this over with Cinna, who nodded his head.
"So sweet heart, now that we know your "little secret" what do you plan to do?" Haymitch said, making it seem like we were just talking about the weather.
"You cant possibly believe them?" Plutarch sneered in shock, rising from his chair.
"YOU KNEW THIS WHOLE TIME!" Katniss suddenly screamed, as she rushed over to us looking as though she wanted to strangle us, but Gale stopped her in time.
"Y-yes we did know-but we had our reasons, you have to understand." Piper tried to reason, and looked towards Thresh and Vulpix only for them to look away.
"YOU COULD OF HELPED US!" Katniss screamed as she struggled to break free of Gale's iron grip.
"We have, and still are!" Piper argued, as she stared wide eyed at all those that were seated, pleading with her eyes for them to understand.
"Hey you have to lose some to gain some." Megan said of handedly, flipping her hair over her shoulder when it fell forward.
"Megan!" I hissed, shooting her a glare.
"Hey, I didn't ask to be here-I didn't ask to be stuck in a world were there's psychopathic murders that think killing kids are ok—I didn't tell nobody to help me—and I sure as HECK AINT TAKING ORDERS FROM YOU!" Megan shouted, glaring right back at me.
"It hast to be all about you isn't it? All for Megan and no one else, you are such a brat!" I stated, our eyes locked in a glare match.
"Well Miss. high and mighty why don't you get laid—oh wait you already have!" She mocked sarcastically.
"Why don't you just go eat some makeup, that way you would look pretty on the inside!" I fired back.
"Ya well!—ENOGUH!" Cinna shouted, breaking up our little spat.
"She started it!" We both said at the exact same time, pointing at each other.
"Wait a second, since you know what happens, do we win this war?" Innocent Primrose was the one to point this out, making others go quiet and look towards us.
The glances from our little trio, in debate weather or not to tip the balance or not.
"Yes, we win but at great loose." I say, turning to Cinna who took my hand in his own.
"Such as Primrose getting blown up!" Megan said softly, that stopped Katniss struggles and make both her and Prim to embrace and weep.
"How?" Haymitch asked, looking put out from this information as it seemed like he has aged over a hundred.
"Why don't you ask Beetee and Gale, I'm sure they would love to tell you all about it!" Megan pointed out, coming around to put a protective arm around Primrose's shoulder as Katniss went to attack Gale.
"k-katniss I—I would never!" Gale tried to defend himself physically and verbally.
"Ya those bombs you're making, to bomb up the capitol? Well when you bomb presidents snows mansion I didn't think you would blow up the capitols children as well." Megan's words were met with silence, as glares from all around were shoot at Beetee or Gale.
"Of course there not all to blame." I say, keeping my eyes trained on Cinna`s.
"And who else Darleen?" Haymitch asked, running a hand down his face looking life he wanted to be bold face drunk right about now.
"President coin, her wand's to kill Primrose along with the capitol children and blame it on the capitol, starting a whole burnout she also wants to put Primrose on the front lines as a doctor that way she would get killed easily, along with drawing Katniss closer to her. But in the end Katniss kills her." Megan explained in light detail, shrugging her shoulders as the victors started in on this new topic, Primrose crying is now just sniffles as she clung to Katniss as Megan wasn't to far away as Katniss looked and might actually kill Gale.
"So what else should we know?" Haymitch seemed to take things in strides, maybe because he's sober?
"Finnick dies." Megan said bluntly, teasing Primrose hair up off her face.
"And here I thought you loved me." Finnick joked lightly, a pouting look crossing his face.
"Wanna go get a room?" Megan flirted.
"I would, but I'm a taken man." Finnick shot down the request, ignoring Megan afterwards.
"So what do we do now?" Enobaria asked, scarping at her teeth the whole time as she sat quietly.
All eyes turned to Diana, as she thought things through.
"What to do, what to do—" the plans wont seem to form.
A grin crosses my face as an idea, comes to mined and I must say their going to hate me.
"Cinna, how about we make some clothes!" I said, as Cinna got on a grin getting on to my thoughts.
"Mad I tell you, mad!" Katniss groans, falling into a chair a glare fixed on her face.
~Piper pov~
And that is how we found ourselves on an undercover mission under the nose of president coin. And I must say, if Diana wasn't pregnant and had Cinna I would had to go through, she would be dead.
Looking down at myself, I was in white and black poke dot dress, a matching bow that was as big as my head, and matching heels.
Johanna mason came as well, seeing as she and Wiress were in the hospital wing she doesn't know about—cough, cough—us, she seemed content to come with us, but looking at her she looked ready to kill someone.
She wore a bright yellow dress, and long green wig, with matching boots. Yep not happy that one.
I looked behind at Vulpix who was on cockpit duty, but she didn't meet my eye I felt crestfallen, she and Thresh wont talk to me or look at me at all—it hurts.
Looking towards the front where Megan was complaining about her dress, which had light bulbs going down the sides and bottom along with a star crown type headband. I think Cinna porously made her like a charismas tree.
Diana herself was having set backs, forced to stay behind by a stern talking Cinna, and a very hot headed Mrs. Everdeen.
Cinna being from the capitol himself was signed to this mission by Haymitch, Katniss was sitting up front looking liked a glowing silver moon, and Finnick—well it's a new look alright, black wig, painted face—nothing like Finnick odair anymore.
We left behind, a shamed Gale and Beetee; a gone made Maryanne who was in confinement, who was being looked after by a somewhat recovered Wiress. Seeing as Maryanne almost bit a finger off one of the volunteers.
And our small band of rebels were heading towards the capitol, getting to the main point of it all—television and to infiltrate the next course of action
In other words… we're going to war from the inside—and if I die, I blame Diana.
Haymitch and Diana are our home base, directing the on fleet as we plan to take the capitol but first we get snow!
Slowly the plane is set on the outskirts of panama. Our deices in place, and our heads full of air.
"This should be easy." I think.
From the streets of the capitol, things we're in a type of paralyzed state, peoples feathers seemed to be ruffled.
Their heads held down, and walking quickly to their destination, women pulling their children fast out of the public eye, men pulling up their collars or their hats low over their eyes.
There was defiantly an up roar, and we can only wait to see how things will turnout.
Walking quickly towards the head where Cinna was leading them, Piper leaned in close to his ear.
"So we follow into snow's mansion along with the viewing crowd and then what?" Piper whispered to him.
"We intercept the broadcast, with the reserved file that Vulpix has than we inform the rebels that it's time to end things." Cinna whispered back.
"And how's that again?"
"With the broadcast Katniss will signal the final battle, then Haymitch will send a fleet of ships to district two, since their a military base, but make it seem that their coming to the capitol distracting their attention." He makes it seem so easy, like he rehearsed it or something.
"a-alright." I said, falling back into silence.
The easy part of the day was for them to get inside, the hard part is to distract the army of peacekeepers lining the room.
"How are we going to do this?" I whispered over to Enobaria, who got a shark grin on her face, she walked towards a peacekeeper and started to flirt?
"I see." Johanna grumbled as she to start to flirt with a nearby guard.
Soon they lead the guards away, leaving room to slip away further into the mansion.
"Well they work fast." Piper mumbled aloud.
"Who would have thought." Vulpix replied, coming to stand beside her. Piper looked at her startled, making Vulpix glance at her.
"What?" Vulpix questioned, looking down at herself like something was wrong.
"No-nothing it's just…your talking to me." Piper stuttered, looking straight ahead.
"Well of course not like I don't care, its just strange is all!" Vulpix said, shrugging her shoulders.
"So—we're still friends?" Piper asked with hope in her voice.
"Of course!" Vulpix said, flashing a smile, but soon had to leave her to move ahead, when Cinna signaled her to follow.
Propped into a lavished room, where Johanna and Enobaria, have tied up the computer dorks—they work fast.
"I took out the most!" Johanna said cracking up.
"No, I think I did!" Enobaria argued.
"No time for your fighting!" Megan said, leaning over Vulpix who's fingers were flying across the control pad.
"When this is up and running you will be put right on." Vulpix explained, not looking at anything but the screen in front of her. As Cinna helped Katniss change into something more fitting.
"Then we run like mad!" Megan put in, taking off her heels.
"After capturing snow!" Vulpix interjected.
"And kill him!" Johanna and Enobaria said as one.
"One thing at a time, and we're on!" Vulpix stated.
The screen flashed red, as Vulpix made the screen zone in on Katniss, for her part she stood tall, in a elegant black attire, but not as the mockingjay but Katniss.
"The time has come, we build from the ashes!" Katniss said firmly as you could feel the capitol shift, then there's alarms that go off.
~ Diana pov~
"The time has come, we build from the ashes" Katniss said, as I looked on from the screen as Beetee communicated with rebel ships.
But then started an alarm coming from the inside the room, where Katniss and the others are.
"What's going on?" I yell at Haymitch, who scrunched up his face in confusion.
"I don't know!" He said, trying to get in touch but they weren't answering.
~snow pov~
Looking out across his used to be nation, he knew he was being unthroned the man that was known for bringing the hunger games to life. The man that at a young age to hold of power and killed those with power around him—his time has come.
And as he slowly routs away from the poison he just consumed, he couldn't help but smile. He lived this life of his till this day, but the one thing no one thought was for him to blow up his mansion with himself in it.
~ Megan pov~
"WE GOTTA MOVE!" Megan yelled pushing on Katniss shoulder's to get her going, she may not like her but she was still Prime's sister.
"Right behind you!" Piper said, throwing off her pumps, as she yanked Vulpix from the seat to pull her along.
Their little gang of six, hightailed it back to the plane where Thresh, Finnick and the cockpits would be open and waiting.
The blasting sounds come all around, hurting Megan's sensitive ears, getting to the back to look after her comrades like she was trained, she focused sourly on running and keeping an eye on those ahead of her, as she ran beside Cinna.
The faster they ran, the longer the exit seemed. Megan felt like they would never reach it, but when they did an explosion sounded, knocking some to the ground and sealing their exit.
"UP THE STAIRS!" Megan yelled, taking the stairs two at a time, as the others followed closely behind.
Megan looked across the top level floor, another bomb struck and screams from down below became deafening.
Glass shattered and cut into her bare feet, as she ran, yanking open a glass door leading out onto a balcony, which could possibly be their escape.
"c-COME ON!" Megan got out after a time, as she let her team jump over the side, first Piper then Vulpix, soon Johanna mason, Enobaria, but she didn't see Katniss or Cinna.
Cursing under her breath, she ran back into the fry.
"KATNISS, CINNA, KATNISS, CINNA!" Megan screamed as she looked around frantically for them.
Hearing yelling from a room, Megan yanked open a door reveling a restrained Katniss who was being held back by Cinna and a snow that seemed at peace with himself.
"One day Katniss, you will understand." snow said, as he turned back to his window as all around them, the building was coming down.
"WE HAVE TO GO NOW!" Megan yelled to the two, forcing them along by pushing them ahead of her.
Explosions sounded, as they neared the balcony, but as Megan looked up to see a parachute that looked like the one you see during a hunger games over head.
Time seemed to turn cold and numb—the sounds of the three of their heavy thumping sounds as they ran—the blood in her veins turning—and her thoughts of how if she could change things she would tell her parents she loved them—Megan in a rush, took Katniss by the underarms and threw her forwards, over the side of the balcony and she just stopped and waited.
Seeing she herself wouldn't make it—but she felt herself being thrown forwards, as she tumbled over the edge of the balcony she caught a glimpse of Cinna, before the entire mansion was blown off its foundation.
"CINNA!" Megan along with basically everyone else screamed.
But he was gone—
~I cried when I did this, don't hold it against me I know "why did you save him, if your only going to kill him off later"? also I got my eye on you France, oh who cares I'll let you off the hook this time seeing as I'm so sad—look up mere888 and review~ *turns around and cries*