Chapter 4
I wake suddenly. Sweat trickles down my forehead. I take deep breaths in and out. Just a nightmare. I vaguely remember my dream. Katniss had gone to shoot Snow. But he caught it and he threw it to president coin who shot it at me but Katniss jumped in front of me and...
I shake it from my head, but the picture of an arrow in Katniss's heart stays in my head.
I get up and walk into my bathroom. I splash my face and open the cupboard. Coin was right. There is every kind of makeup I could want and more. Eyeshadow, blush, lipstick, mascara, in all the shades of the rainbow as well as 20 shades of black, white and grey.
I close the cupboard and go back into my room.
This time I walk into the wardrobe. I gasp. It's huge! As big as a normal room! A moving system is in the middle of the room. I go over to it.
It has a computer, which I guess controls it. I look at it. It has five buttons, shirts, pants and skirts, dresses, jewelry and shoes. I press the dress button. It pops up with a scroll down list of all the dresses. I chose an aqua one with white straps and a simple short design.
I then choose pearl earrings and a silver locket necklace. I look inside and my heart flips when I see a picture of Katniss. I close it quickly and move onto shoes. I choose a pair of matching aqua sandals, with pearls on them.
I then leave the wardrobe an make my way downstairs to the kitchen. I pull out a bag of dried apples that, again, don't taste much like the real thing, and head back up to the 3rd floor. I turn the TV hoping to find out how Katniss is going. Instead I find out what fashions are in, and the things that are out.
Apparently, all that I chose this morning were out. Apparently, bird feathers and mocking jay jewelry were in.
I end up turning it off and going back down to the library. I pick up the book I had yesterday and am about to start reading when I hear somthing. A small cry. I look around. No-ones here, of course. Tears threaten to come spilling out of my eyes, but I push them away. I don't want to cry as much today. It must have been my imagination.
I start to read but then the sound comes again. I definitely didn't imagine it that time. I wait for it again, putting the book down. There it is again. It's not from above me. It's from BELOW me. But this was the basement? How could it be below me? I go back to the elevator and check it. Yep, this was definitely the basement. Unless...
Underneath the basement button was a metal panel, the paint slightly darker than the rest of the elevator. I pick at it. It doesn't come off. I'd need a tool to take it off. I remember seeing a tool shed near the pool. I quickly press the normal ground level. I run out to the shed and sure enough, a tool box is inside, as well as a bucket of everlasting chlorine. I grab the tool box and run back to the elevator. I grab a crowbar from the box and try to wrench the metal panel away from the wall, but it doesn't work. I notice some tiny nail heads screwing it to the wall of the elevator. I look through the screw drivers, looking for one that will fit. I find one that just fits. I carefully unscrew it.
The panel comes off easily after I get the screws out. My heart beats faster. Underneath is another two buttons, not a bit dusty. One has a D on it and the other has ESC on it. I didn't know about the D but I knew ESC standed for escape. I press D. The lift jolt into action. It seems to take a little longer to get there. Then the lift doors open. I step into darkness. The elevator closes behind me and I hear it leaving.
As my eyes adjust I see a light switch. I turn it on, but immediently regret doing so. Where I am standing is a vast stone passage way with iron doors lining it. I walk up to one and look in through iron bars. I flinch and look away. Years old blood stains the floor and bones sit in clusters in the corners. Shackles are on the walls and the bones of a body are still there.
I look in another. Same story. I look at the end of the hall and see a sign. I take a closer look. It reads,
Scarell Point Jail
Hidden from the law since 1902
1902? That's before the downfall I the old country, America! This place was heaps old! I think I remember noticing somthing about the jails of America. I must check it out when I go back up.
I hear a sob.
What?
I go down the passageway and have a look in the room they were coming from. It's too dark to see into it.
"Hello?"
"What are you doing here, come to finish off the job?" A small voice snaps back.
"What? No? What are you talking about? Are you alright?"
"What? Who are you?" The voice asks back, less snappy.
"My name is Primrose, Primrose Everdeen."
"Everdeen! Are you Katniss's sister?" She asks.
"Yes."
I hear the girl sigh in relief.
"How is she? How's the rebellion going? Is the Capitol defeated?"
How long had this girl been in here?
"Yes, and Katniss is fine. Who are you?"
"My name is Bonnie. I came from eight."
Somthing clicks in my mind. When we had just gone to thirteen, Katniss kept on asking about two girls she had met in the woods that were going to thirteen, from 8. I think one was called Bonnie.
"Have you met Katniss?" I ask.
"Yes, one day in the woods when we were traveling to 13."
"Yes, I think I remember Katniss talking about you. When we first came to 13. No one knew who you were."
"Well, Coin did. When we got to thirteen, she was the first who found us."
"What happened? Why are you here?"
"When Coin found us we were so relieved. We had started to grow worried we were wrong and there wasn't a district 13 still left.our hope soon faded as Coin put us into a helicopter. We thought she was taking us back to 8. Turns out, it was much worse. She took us here, to an old prison, and put us in here, giving us small amounts of food and water, while she started construction on renovations. Well, it wasn't her. She was off doing whatever in thirteen. Workers put in the elevator and we heard a faint sound of dull construction noise overhead, but that's all we had to know about it. About a week ago, although I'm not sure, the only way we have of telling in here is that clock on the elevator, she brought us a small amount of dried fruit and a bottle of water and then left. We heard a helicopter leaving and then all was quiet and we realized we were alone. Locked in a cell with a single bottle of water and some dried fruit. We ran out of water soon enough and have had to drink some water from a puddle coming from a leak in the corner. We ran out of food about a day ago, just when we heard the helicopter coming. But then it left again and hope left with it. We realized someone was still there but not coming down here anytime soon. It was you. I couldn't help but cry. You must have heard me because here you are."
"Yes, I didn't realize you were here until I heard you. I went to check but the lift buttons down here had a panel over them. I had to unscrew all the bolts and then I got down here."
"What are you doing here anyway?"
"Well..."
I tell her about how Coin had found out that I wasn't dead and taken me here because she had a plan for Katniss and I needed to be out of the equation. I tell her about how Gale had said how I was the nicest person he knew and how Coin had mentioned another hunger games in my honor. I finish with the lift and its two buttons, the ESC and the D.
"What do you think D means?"
"Dungeon maybe?"
"I don't know."
Someone grunts from inside.
"Is that Twill?" I ask.
"Yes. She hurt herself yesterday, trying to kill herself."
I really needed to get these people out of here.
"Is she alright?" I ask, concerned.
"I think she'll be alright, I caught her with a rock to her temple, and managed to stop her before she did damage but she's really depressed and unless I get her out of here soon then..." She trails off.
"It's ok, I'm going to get you out of here."
I look around but the keys to the door aren't anywhere near.
"Look, I'm going to have to look around for the keys. I'll bring you food and water and clothes. If Twill comes around, hold her steady and don't let her do anything stupid."
She nods in the darkness.
I leave and go back to the kitchen and grab a packet of banana chips and look in the cupboards for a bottle.
I find a two liter one and fill it to the brim. I take it back down to the D level.
I pass them in to Bonnie. "Are you going to be alright as I look for the keys?"
She looks down at Twill and nods.
"She's not awake yet."
"When she is, give her some food and water and don't let her do anything dumb."
"Ok, I'll be fine."
So I leave them there again and go back upstairs. I search through the kitchen and don't find anything so I go to the second floor and look through a few rooms, but I still don't have any luck. I decide to check one of the master bedrooms. One is like all the others with plain white bed sheets and the other has stripy sheets. I look through the white one and don't find anything so I move onto the other. I find a board full of keys with labels on them, spa room, pool shed, tennis shed, tool shed and hanger but I don't find anything for the dungeon. Suddenly I remember a keyboard in the tool shed. Wait a second. I didn't see a lock on the tool shed. So this key must be for somthing INSIDE THE TOOL SHED!
I grab it and rush into the elevator. This time it seems to go really slowly. I step out and run to the shed.
I check. Yep, no lock. Meaning, it doesn't need keys. I search inside and quickly find the board of keys. My heart drops. It's like a copy of the other one. Just without the tool shed key. I notice a small chink in the board. Not realizing what I was doing I put my finger in and follow it round. Then my finger hits hard metal. I look at what I just hit. It's a metal finger hole. I pull. The board swigs out. Inside is a vault. Excitedly I fumble around with the tool shed key, until I hear a small click.
I pull the vault open. Inside is another board with 12 keys on it. I take all of them and I notice that each has a tiny number on them. Room numbers.
I take them, running back to the house. I run into the elevator and push the D.
It jolts into action and again, it seems to take forever to get there. When it does I run over to Bonnie's room, and look on the door. A few of the others had numbers on them, but this one had long since faded. I feel like screaming in frustration. Instead I look into the darkness and call quietly to Bonnie.
"Bonnie, are you Okay? I have the keys! I just need to find the right one!"
No answer.
"Bonnie? Twill?"
Still no answer. I start to panic. I fumble through the keys, and on number 6, the door opens.
I step inside. I just have time to make out a dark figure lying on the floor before someone runs at me and pins me to the wall, her hand at my throat.
"What are you doing here? Did she send you to finish us off."
I can't answer, I'm running out of air.
"Tell me! Did President Coin send you?!"
I still can't answer. I feel my face turning blue. I manage to whisper,
"Can't breath."
Her grip loosens and I feel the color run back into my face as I take big deep breaths.
"Now, answer me!"
"I'm not from Coin. She trapped me here. My name is Primrose Everdeen, Katniss Everdeen's little sister."
I see her face relax in the darkness.
"Oh, Katniss's sister."
"Yeah."
"So you found the keys to release us?"
"Yes. Where's Bonnie?"
She looks uncomfortable.
"I, um... When I woke up, I was really depressed and um..."
I see Bonnie's broken figure in the dark.
"Bonnie!"
I run over to her. Her nose is bleeding, she has a sprained ankle and she's unconscious.
"I got mad and hit her... Is she alright?"
"It's ok, she's breathing. I need to get her out of here. Can you help me lift her?"
"Yes, she's not much. We haven't eaten properly since that day in the woods when we met Katniss."
We easily lift her and bring her into the elevator. I need to pinch her nose to stop the blood flow but her mouth isn't open and the only way she can breath is through her left nostril, so I end up having to rip a bit off my dress and hold it to her nose.
I take her up to the kitchen and we lie her on the island and I search through the cupboard for a first aid kit. I find one with everything you would need for every type of injury, as well as a bottle of night lock tablets. I grab a roll of bandages, a glass of water and some tissues.
Firstly I wash her face and as I do so I realize she is about Katniss's age.
Twill helps me rap her ankle and slowly the blood flow stops. I wash the rest of the blood off her face and then we take her upstairs and lie her on my bed.
I change into some different clothes, a pair of blue jeans and a dress type green shirt with a picture of a mockingjay imprinted on it, and as I'm doing so I find a stash of clothes that are in larger sizes, all the way up to the largest women size. I shiver. Coin definitely wanted me to stay here forever. I take a pair of jeans and a blue frilly shirt in what I thought was Bonnie's size and I get a clean Pair of pants and another plain green shirt for Twill. I go back into my room as Bonnie starts to stir. I hand Twill her clothes and she goes into the bathroom to get changed. Suddenly Bonnie's eyes flutter open.
"Bonnie! Thank god! I was starting to worry!"
I rush over to her. She sits up and smiles, looking around.
"Don't worry, it was just a little bump on the back of the head. I'm quite alright."
She looks me up and down.
"How old are you?"
"13. You?" I ask.
"16, two days before the reaping."
"Unlucky." I hand her the clothes. " I found these in my wardrobe."
She looks at the size.
"Coin really wanted to keep you here for a long time, didn't she?"
"That was my reaction."
She gets changed. As she's pulling on the shirt, Twill walks back in.
"Bonnie! Your alright!"
"Yes, I'm fine, and you seem ok too."
"Much better now I'm out of that ghastly prison."
"Hmm." Bonnie replies sleepily.
"You two need to rest. Here, I'll give you rooms."
I lead a sleepy Bonnie into a room next to mine and I lead Twill into the one next to it. Bonnie falls asleep the second her head hits the pillow but Twill turns and looks at me first.
"Thank you for getting us out of there. I owe you one."
"Don't worry about it. Coin shouldn't have put you in the first place. I wonder why she did?"
"I don't know. When she found us, after we had just walked out of the woods onto the ruins of thirteen, she had said some very strange things."
"What like?"
"Well, she said, 'No! Not enough! You can't!' Then we mentioned how we had met Katniss in the woods and how she didn't know whether 13 still existed and she said,'Katniss? You've met her! No! You could ruin it all!' Like a mad person. Then she seemed to have thought of somthing. She shoved us in the nearest helicopter and brought us here, throwing us in the dungeon."
"How strange."
"Yes very." She says sleepily.
Then she lies down and if fast asleep in ten seconds.
I go up to the entertainment room with her words swirling around my head. Why did Coin put them down there? None of it made sense.
I turn on the TV to the sound of my name. I look at it. On the screen, in a hospital bed, clearly awake, is Katniss. Crying and screaming my name.
Bạn đang đọc truyện trên: AzTruyen.Top