Waiting [Rosie]
Jul 11, 2010 0:54:53 GMT -5
Post by sbeeg on Jul 11, 2010 0:54:53 GMT -5
Gwen Halls
Waiting. Gwen hated waiting. Yet here she was, waiting in the Tribute Training Center to be picked up by a slick black car and brought to her new "home." They called it a new home, but it wasn't. Not to Gwen. Home was in District 8, a place she would never see again.
Fidgeting, Gwen tried to get her thoughts straight. There was still a deep roted fear in the pit of her stomach telling her that they were going to eliminate her. She's seen it happen before. She hadn't known the Avox personally but it sure stuck in Gwen's mind. A blonde girl around 20 had been planning to escape since she'd become and Avox. However what all the Avoxs in the training center didn't know was that the Capitol knew about her plan and the night she carried it out, the night of the closing ceremony of the 54th Hunger Games, they caught her and stuck the girl into a glossy dark car and brought her back to the Avox's quarters.
They made them watch. That's what screwed with Gwen's mind, that's what forced her to do the Capitol's bidding.
The reason she was sitting there at the front of a line of Avoxs seated on a bench was that the Capitol didn't need all of them right now, the Games were going on and they had plenty of their mute servants so they were selling them. Like property.
On top of that all of them had at least one strike against them. Gwen had two. First she had tried to communicate with a Tribute from her district two Games back. The second one was more recent, Gwen had bottled up her frustrations and anger for too long and she ended up breaking a couple of dishes.
She was lucky.
Suddenly it came, the shiny car. Gwen's legs had as much strength as the brightly colored gelatin she served the Capitol people. One of the Peacekeepers that corralled the Avoxs pulled her up by grasping her upper arm and shoving her to the car who's door had opened.
Gwen stumbled into the car and the door slammed behind her. A Capitol man sat next to her with a clipboard full of papers, his eyes were an insane shade of green and they scanned the paperwork before him with such intent that it made Gwen jump when he looked up at her. The man mumbled something and scribbled on his clipboard.
The car had begun moving without Gwen even knowing it, it glided through the streets of the Capitol where the sights and sounds abused the senses, well you couldn't quite tell that from inside the car. The windows were tinted and dimmed the neon colors and the vehicle's sturdy walls rendered the core of the car silent.
Gwen could tell by the subtle movement beneath her that the car had stopped. The person driving got out and opened the door for the Capitol man who shoved past him. The driver then turned to Gwen and offered a hand.
She took it. It must have been the first contact with another human in weeks. The driver didn't offer a smile or any kind of expression, just ushered her to follow the green-eyed man.
The Capitol man, dressed in a straight up and down black suit, walked quickly through the doors of a large building and Gwen followed. The driver stayed with the car but a Peacekeeper stationed at the door of the building fell into the procession to the elevator.
The three of them took a car up to a different floor, Gwen didn't really pay attention to the floor number.
In a line, they ended up in front of an apartment door where the man in black knocked raptly 5 times exactly.
And they waited. The man in black waited to get rid of the Avox, the Peacekeeper waited to get back to his station and Gwen waited to see who her new master was.
Gwen hated waiting.