A/N Me: Has Exam tomorrow
Also Me: Writes Fanfiction.
Well, here you go! I hope you enjoy!
"Do you know why I sent you to the districts Mr. Snow?" Dr. Gaul asked from across the room. Coriolanus had just walked into her laboratory after his class.
"Dean Highbottom said it was to punish me for cheating in the Hunger Games." It had been months since Coriolanus had returned from district 12, why was she bringing this up now?
"Well yes, but why the districts? He could have had you publicly executed or turned you into an avox and sent you deep underground. Why make you a Peacekeeper in the districts?"
"I assumed it was because he wanted me out of the Capitol and wanted to show me why it was pointless to help Lucy Gray win."
Dr. Gaul hummed, walking behind her desk, "Have a seat. Your reasoning isn't wrong, Mr. Snow, but it's not the whole story. You see, I gave Highbottom the idea to send you to the districts."
A flare of anger shot through Coriolanus, but he made sure not to let it show. He wasn't that easily riled.
"I gave him the reasons you just gave me, but I had another. I wanted you to see how easy it was for the people to choose to rebel and how important it is to snip a rebellion in the bud."
Coriolanus couldn't stop his mind from flashing to Sejanuses dead body hanging from the tree along with the other rebels that were planning an escape. He did what had to be done, traitors do not belong in Panem.
"The Hunger Games were created to make sure the districts never forgot what they did to the Capitol. When the Games are messed with, even in the slightest way, that can lead to waves of rebellion. We can't have that."
"No, we cannot." Coriolanus wanted to make sure that would never be thought of as a rebel. Someone had once accused him of it in one of his lectures but he was quick to shut it down by saying he was the reason a rebelion didn't start in 12. A stretch of the truth, sure, but he did stop some rebels.
"You are probably wondering why I bring this up now. During the War, not only did we defeat the districts but we also put an end to the organization known as the Table. Every few years I like to pay a visit to the members locked up deep below the Capitol. They claim that their organization existed long before Panem ever did and that it reached far beyond Panem's borders."
Coriolanus was impressed, very little had survived from before Panem, and even more of it was lost in the uprising. He could see why Dr. Gaul would want to pay them a visit.
"During my most recent visit one of them told me the story of how their organization was almost brought to the ground by one man; the Boogeyman they called him, his skills were unparalleled. But then he left the organization, a feat not easily accomplished,and he was free from his duties until a mobster angered him to such a degree that he personally took out a large chunk of the mob, killing nearly 100 men."
Coriolanus kept his face neutral, but he couldn't help being impressed by the talent and anger it takes to kill 100 men.
"His story could have ended there, if he was left alone, but he was not. Another man wanted to claim a debt owed. And after some harsh convincing the boogeyman agreed to kill for the man. But this man ended up backstabbing the boogeyman, and after fighting through another 100 men the boogeyman ended up killing his employer on sacred grounds. That was one of the biggest rules of the Table and so he was hunted down, but seemingly nothing could stop him. People still helped the boogeyman even when they knew their lives would be forfeit. Then he died after freeing himself again in a duel with a high ranking Table member.
"The story of the Boogeyman, even if fake, shows how easy it is to break a system as fragile as ours."
Coriolanus thought for a moment, all systems are fragile; there just has to be a way to stop people from uprising. And that is one of the reasons for the Hunger Games. The Table would just kill people, but when faced with an unkillable man, they could do nothing. He needed to come up with a plan in case the Hunger Games failed or someone tried to take advantage of it like he had.
"I can see the gears turning in your head, Mr. Snow. Best get to work."
Coriolanus stood up and went to his desk in the adjoining room.
"Remember Mr. Snow, the rules are the only thing that separate us from the animals," Dr. Gaul said.
Those were the only words Coriolanus could think about as he heard Dr. Gaul laughing from the other room.
A/N What did you think? I know it is a bit rushed but I really wanted to write somethin with Dr. Gaul in it. (I also don't want to study, so it's a win-win)
Please let me know what you think!
