Part 9

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I sit in my room when coin walks in

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I sit in my room when coin walks in.
I look up hoping to hear news
"There's no news. I'm sorry" she sighs sitting across from me
"It's the worst torture in the world. Waiting, when you know there's nothing you can do" she tells me
"Yeah" I nod
"Especially for people like us. But whatever strength, courage, madness, keeps us going, you find it, at times like these. You have it solider. It's what's kept you alive all this time. And it won't fail you now." She tells me but I couldn't respond so I just nod my head letting a few more tears fall






I sit next to Kattnis and Finnick in a room. Finnick is messing with some rope, when haymitch walks in
"They're back" he tells us and I take off running out the door first

"Johanna!" I yell as I run in seeing her first
"I don't want it!" She tells the doctors ripping out the needle
"Johanna" I mumble when I see her condition up close
"Annie!" I hear Finnick yell as they both run tackling each other in a hug.
I start to run again trying to find Flynn, I walk past Kattnis as Gale was talking
"Every gun was back online and on us, and we flew right past them. They let us go." He tells her

I run around but I still didn't see Flynn in any of the medical beds.
"Where is Flynn?!" I yell
"Please please someone tell me where he is!" I cry
"Evelyn Evelyn it's ok.  He's here." Boggs tells me
"Where where please where is he?" I cry
"Come with me" he says as he leads me into a more secure room

I open the door to see him sitting facing away from me.
"Flynn?" I ask
I walk around slowly as he looks up at me. His face completely bruised. Not one spot left untouched. His face sunken in. His eyes dark and bloodshot. His face was no along the tan color if was before, it was now covered in a sick green, purple and blue look.

I let a small smile form on my face but then he jumps at me.
He grabs my neck and slams me against the balls behind me. He tackles me to the ground slamming my head repeatedly on the ground.
Boggs runs over to get him off but he just shoves him and the doctors away. He slams me to the ground again and start to punch my face

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Then everything goes black.






































I gasp awake in a panic. My breathing starts to get heavy as I see Boggs in front of me
"Hey hey you're ok. You're ok. Don't touch, you have a lot of damage on your head" he tells me
"Flynn" I ask
"Don't talk, just rest. Flynn's ok, I just had to get him off of you" he tells me

I lay in my bed which they had rolled into Kattnis' room, who had a brace on her neck
"It's called hijacking. We don't know how long the Capitols been doing this to them." Plutarch tells us
"It's fear conditioning. Enhanced with tracker jacked venom. You were strung your first games, remember?" Beetee asks Kattnis
"The venom puts the subject in a dissociative state. And they torture them. With shocks and beatings, and strip down his identity. And then after all of that suffering and fear is redirected. Associated with other memories or a person." Beetee tells us
"They changed their memories of them?" Prim asks
"To make her seem more life threatening." Beetee says
"They turned them into a weapon. To kill you both" Haymitch says
"But you can reverse it?" Prim asks
"The fear is the most difficult thing to overcome. We're hardwired to remember fear best." Beetee says
"It's new terrain. But we've put together a team. I'm optimistic." Plutarch says
"Im glad your optimistic about the risk of their lives" I scoff before looking away









"Good evening. Yesterday, I authorized a covert rescue mission inside the Capitol. I am pleased to announce that the victors have been liberated! Let this day mark an history change. With the mockingjays and the victors beside us." I hear coin speak on the speaker as I get out of bed to go see Flynn
"We have sent a clear message to the Capitol. That we will never again endure injustice." She says as I slowly walk out of my room
"Today, a day on which we reunited family, friends, and loved ones. Let all of panem come together. Not to battle for the amusement of the Capitol. But to join hands in this fight. Let today be the day we promise never to give up, never to give in, until we have made a new panem, where leaders are elected, not imposed upon us. And here the districts are free to share the fruits of their labors and not fight one another for scraps!" She says as I turn the corner to see the vitals

"This new panem is on horizon. But we must take it for ourselves. The road there leads through the sharp mountains and deep revines of district 2. There in the heart of panems steepest mountain range lies the Capitols principal military facility. We can conquer this stronghold" she says as I open the door walking towards Flynn's room
"Because we are one people, one army, one voice. Because today is our new beginning" she says as I walk up to the glass
"Today we have freed the victors. Tomorrow, Panem!" She yells

I walk forward to see Flynn, struggling against the restraints on him. Hitting the bed harder and harder each time.
My whole body starts to shake as tears flood my eyes.
"I'm so sorry Flynn" I mumble

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