Ok I realize that this is really late…but I was busy…doing nothing, yeah. So here you guys go

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JUNE: Chapter 12

There he was, the boy. The snakes writhed around me, desperate to tell him the secret I carried in my thoughts. Yet those snakes could not use my mouth like I could. I would have to be the one to tell him. To tell him the reason I'd been brought.

Chains bit into my skin, growling at my intentions. I growled back and shook their shackles. It was hard enough keeping the message in my head. It kept trying to fly away, its wings aching for a flight that would spell my doom. Bees buzzed around me, trying to distract me from the careful secret. My eyes closed to the noise.

DAY:

Without another word Major Winston clicked something on the screen. We were in a chat room, another screen appeared. This one held the familiar face of Anden. Though his ragged appearance wasn't what surprised me, it was the fact that he seemed to be in some kind of dark tent. The noise behind him seemed to shake the thin walls and it pulled his face into a grimace. But his eyes quickly found Junes' it seemed, since he scrambled for a light, flipping some off screen switch.

"June don't worry I'm-"

"Ms. Imparis is not in the position to speak with you at the moment. We on the other hand have spoken before."

"Yes Major Winston, I remember you. You contacted me saying you had something important to say." Anden would lose very fast at poker. His eyes kept drifting over to June, scanning her strangely dark eyes.

"Ms. Imparis was infected with the plague before coming here-" Anden's fury could be felt across the screens. His eyes darkened and his jaw tightened.

"How could this have happened? June-… Ms. Imparis has been vaccinated, unless of course someone introduced a new strand of the plague to her." He eyed Winston accusingly. Winston's eyes lit up at this.

"I can promise that we have done no such thing. Not that it matters. Since the Colonies have achieved in what the Republic has failed at. We have found a cure to the plague."

The silence in the room lay like a fog. To say that Anden was surprised would have been an understatement. Though to his credit, his mouth wasn't hanging open…that far. "We are willing to graciously share this cure with the Republic if they surrender."

"No, prove it first. Prove that it works." His eyes were hard and cold, cautious to the end.

"Of course, we have the perfect test subject right here." Her hand clamped down onto June's. Anden stiffened if just the slightest. Hadn't anyone taught this guy how to hide his emotions?

"If June is not cured the deal is off. There will be no surrender." Was he really considering this? The Republic had already lost so much. If we won the war we could just take the cure. But if we didn't…we would become slaves to the Colonies and die from sickness. That and June wouldn't be cured. I glanced at her small form. She looked like a skeleton, hair hanging off her head. I couldn't let her die. I had to fix this.

"Give us a week, she'll be cured by then. After that the cure will be delivered and so will the prisoners."

"Let me see Day first." This seemed to throw Winston since her smile was quick to disappear. Her eyes shifted to mine. I stepped forward.

JUNE:

The boy was talking. His voice was too loud too loud. I can't hear the snakes. Everything is dripping and falling, melting by the Queen's glare. Bees slip through my eyes, blocking my sight. Now I was being hauled away. The room went dark as the boy tried to speak to me. His words were frantic but light in color. He spoke poetry and music and they filled me up like I'd swallowed a sun. If I opened my mouth I'm sure I'd blind the world with the light of my words.

Time slipped by me, a raindrop on a windowpane. People came and went in my room of white. I laughed and laughed at them. They thought they could kill this, this madness that pricked and sewed itself under my skin? I would undo all the queen's careful work, stich by stich.

Red filled my vision as something new, something real, pricked my arm. I was being flooded with something dizzying. Yes this was what would fix me. As the queen left I could only laugh.

The buzzing of her bees grew fainter and fainter. I waited until I couldn't hear them at all before I moved. The statue of the man in my white, white cell didn't even bat an eye as I punched in the code to the door. My fingers were weak and feeble. They didn't do what I told them to, but the sound was there all the same and the door burst open. I was free but only just. The snakes slithered around me, leading me. They knew the plan much better than I did. The counted steps aloud. Three hundred and six to the right, six hundred and twenty five to the left, the third door, the one that gave a soft creak, this was my map.

The room was filled with angry wolves. They bit and snarled at the air as though that was the enemy. Yet they never moved. Their metal bodies stuck in place, those trigger teeth ready to gnash. My hands found the one that glowed, the one that purred with a familiar light. Another boy's face came to mind, one that I knew long ago. He had held this wolf at bay.

I held out my hand, an offering. Without hesitation the wolf bit and drew blood with needle teeth. Something new filled me up, something that made the snakes more real. It made my head heavy as though rock weighed down the bone. I let the wolf back into its cage, its danger spent.

My feet found their way back to the white room, the map a vivid green in my eyes.

DAY:

I hadn't been able to do anything. I couldn't talk to Anden like I'd wanted with Winston in the room. Then again did I even want Anden to go through with the war? If we lost…or even if the war took longer than another week, June would die.

No, it didn't matter what happened, June had to live. I had done this. This was my fault. I had to save her. I'd thought my way out of every situation so far. So why couldn't I think of a way out of this? Why couldn't I do some daring rescue? Why was I so crippled with idea that she might not make it through the night?

Sappy end, I know right :P and it was short…and late. Anyway, you know what would make me update faster? REVEIWS! I love reviews, they're great :D