06. not much of a victory

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* CHAPTER SIX *
06. not much of a victory

|| no time to die ||"i should have known,i'd leave alone

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|| no time to die ||
"i should have known,
i'd leave alone."

They say grief comes in five stages.

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

Aurelia didn't know what acceptance was. In her eyes she had failed: herself, her family, district nine, but most importantly her brother. She would never be able to accept that.

So as she lay there in the hospital bed, depression seemed to be the stage she was stuck in.

Her mind was completely blank. Selfishly she wasn't thinking about her brother as there was nothing to think about, he was gone. She wasn't thinking about herself either as in a way she was gone too. All that was left of Aurelia was her body. Her soul had taken refuge elsewhere.

She was so entranced that she hadn't even noticed the capitol nurse pottering around her room. "Well you're all set to go," the elderly woman said as she scribbled something on her note board.

Aurelia looked up at her puzzled, until her eyes switched onto the two guards outside her room; she knew they wouldn't let her go that easy, especially after their precious victor tried to kill herself.

The word victor made Aurelia want to rip anyones throat out who said it. Everyone she saw kept congratulating her, but nothing about this felt like a victory.

Dizzily, she pulled herself up from her bed, not caring to spare any words to the nurse, and made her way towards the door, gripping onto the walls to keep her balance as she did so.

Her attempted suicide in the arena had very nearly worked, but yet again she had failed and the capitol hospital had managed to stitch her up and get her back to 'as good as new', much to Aurelia's dismay.

When she reached the hallway she could just about make out one of the guards asking her to follow him, and she did just that, hoping to get away from the prison like hospital room as soon as possible.

As she stumbled through the corridors she soon realised she had been staying in the training centre for tributes, like she previously had been before she entered the arena.

After several minutes of walking and taking multiple elevators, Aurelia and the two guards had reached district nines quarters within the training centre. Fearing whatever she may be bombarded with on the other side, she took a deep breath in order to compose herself before slowly walking into her chambers. As the door slid open, she was met with multiple shocked eyes staring back at her own, and she smiled for the first time in days when she realised they were familiar ones.

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