Chapter 9

I woke up in my bed, after I had reunited with Clive the Professor had taken me back to my room and laid me down. I twirled my hair with my fingers, still not believing that they still existed, all of them. My alliances, Clive, Becky, Katia, Nina, and Arianna. My enemies, Rosetta, Ilyana, and Sammy. Then Luke, Crow, and Amelia, they we breathing again. I sighed and rolled over, almost falling straight onto the floor. I felt an uneasy pit form in my stomach. I was thrilled that Clive was alive along with Becky, but then I would have to face Rosetta, who I killed. Ilyana who hated me as well. What would I do?

Quickly, I shuffled onto the floor and pulled open a dresser drawer to reveal boring grey tunics and stretchy pants. I sighed again; they could have at least picked out something attractive for me to wear. Slipping my pajamas off and tossing them aimlessly to the side, I pulled the tunic over my head and secured the pants at my waist. I then scrambled a brush and elastic band to tie my hair up in a simple ponytail. Smiling at my reflection, I walked out of the room.

As I entered the conference room, a loud thundering screaming hurt m ears. Everyone, and I mean everyone was hollering at each other, I knew perfectly why. I wasn't supposed to know that the tributes were alive, at least not now. And I knew that one half of the room agreed with that logic and the other didn't.

"Flora," Janice, the singer from district 4 smiled at me, "Come over here, we need to show you something." I nodded at her as she led me away from the yelling. When we entered the hallway with all the tribute's numbers pasted on the doors, she pulled me down further down a hallway to the left. There was one more door down this aisle and I had an idea for what it was for. "Now, when you go in," she turned to me, her red hair sticking up at odd ends, "I can assure you there will be some arguing and disrespectful comments and-"

"Janice, I know," I smiled sheepishly, "People in there killed other people in there and I killed someone in there and… and… and."

"Let's go," she smiled at me, leading me to the door as she twisted the knob and pushed it open.

When I entered the room, the voices I recognized started to hush. The tributes were organized in numbers, District 1, District 4, 5 and so on and so forth. While some of them almost stood up from happiness at seeing me others stood up as if they could strangle me, "Hello." I said quietly, as Janice ushered me to sit down at the head of the long table. Rosetta scowled; she was sitting just a few feet over to my right.

"Listen," Janice commanded, "You all need to cooperate with Flora and each other." Her voice was tense, "Now, you'll have time to threaten each other another time, but it's not now. We are in a war zone, a war that all of you started." Janice straightened her back and gave me the signal to proceed. What was I supposed to say?

"Um, hi," I smiled to the best of my ability, standing up, "I know back in the arena, some of us didn't get along well…" I glanced in Rosetta and Ilyana's direction, "And I did get along well with others," I smiled at Becky and Arianna and Nina who gave me gleeful smiles in return. "But all of us need to work together. I've been told numerous times that I started the rebellion, I started this war, but if it wasn't for all of you, it would have never begun."

"I may have thought death brought us all a part, or hatred and pain," I looked at Crow who turned away, Amelia who shook her head in sadness, "But it's what brought us together," By this time I was standing behind Becky's chair, gripping the cheap fabric, "And we have to work together so we can show 'death' and this stupid 'honor' according to London, that I won, that they lost." I sighed, breathing in cold air, "That they are going to lose and that they are going to regret what they have done... or what they're going to do."

"Let's make them regret!" Clive shouted, I turned my head and smiled, "Let's make them rue the day!" He stood up, his knuckles white from gripping the table; he faced me, "Let's get them back." I felt my mouth twitch into a smiled as I reached out for his hand.

"Who's with me?!" I looked carefully around the room; Becky suddenly pushed herself out of her seat.

"Let them wish they could forget about us," she grinned and took m hand as well.

"Let us greet them with fire," Amelia stood up, taking Becky's hand and gripping it tightly.

"Let's resist London," Luke stood up, smiling, then Nina and Arianna planted their feet firmly on the ground.

"Let's make them regret," Crow muttered.

"Let's make them regret!" Katia shouted. By now almost the entire room was up on their feet, except for three people, Rosetta, Ilyana, and Sammy. I looked at all three of them.

"Let's make them wish we died."

Hello FanFiction! And I must apologize more my disappearance. Being a freshman in high school is very stressful, there is the work, the boys, the EVERYTHING! My updates will not be very frequent, I might just wait until Christmas break because it's just so busy, I might explode! Ug, so what do you think so far? I wanted this to be really inspirational, so I hope it was I will try to update soon! Thanks for reading! Peace out girl scout! -Lil