Author's Note: Ultra short chapter folks! Sorry, I couldn't tag it to either the previous or the next chapter because it kinda leads up to the latter, so today will be a double update
Thanks go to my reviewers: HL, EWD and JB
Chapter 52
No Comunicado
Guards line a lot of the hallways and when I reach Ziggy's lab I am welcomed not by my buggy eyed friend but with guards.
"Sorry Crane, Coin's orders, you are not allowed in without expressed permission from her or Plutarch" one says, he's new
My communicator goes off and I look at it
'meeting cnfrnc rm 4-457'
I restrain myself, because she is starting to really ride my rear.
I finally go to a meeting after many missed.
"Ah soldier Crane glad you would grace us with your presence" Coin smiles deviously, "liking the rules we have?"
I don't respond. Gale looks at me and I shake my head.
"Well speak up Crane" Coin says
"I know what you are trying to do, the tighter you grasp the more you will loose" I look at her, "barking at me, and restricting access so I can't do what is needed"
"What is needed are those access codes" she interrupts, "you give those to me and I will let you do any heroic thing you want"
I scoff, "see if I was that desperate I would gladly do that, but y'see it's not for me I was doing what I was doing, Finnick is despondent according to hearsay, I wanted to get in contact with Four, see what I could find out"
Beetee clears his throat, he was welcomed to the meetings with open arms, "last we checked any and all other victors were taken, including Cresta" he looks at Finnick, "we didn't want to tell you Finnick…sorry"
Finnick groans and covers his face.
I glare at Beetee until he looks away. Where are my people? Where are Ziggy and Maverick? My support isn't here; I even notice Makenzie was replaced with Mrs. Everdeen. My only ally is Gale!
Coin seems to read me like a book, "yes after a few meetings we realized we weren't getting anywhere with some people on the panel"
I shake my head get up and make to leave.
"I didn't dismiss you!" she barks
I recognize one of the soldiers, he recognizes me as well, he has a small knife in his belt. I go over and pretend to whisper something, as I slip the knife out. I turn just as Coin is reaching for a file.
It gets the knife in it. Everyone looks at me.
"Just wanted to see if I still had it" I smirk, "am I dismissed yet?"
Coin glares.
A few hours later I get a new message.
'cnfrnc-rm 4-421' it's done differently, so it not anything but a one on one with someone.
That someone is Coin.
A/N 2: stay tuned for the second chapter in this two part update: The Penny Drops