DREAM GIRL EVIL | LUCY GRAY BAIRD ✔️

14. dorothea, its not your fault

Chapter fourteen  

3rd person pov

dorothea knew what she had to do and she didn't know what coriolanus was doing or what was going to happen to him. she knew that he had been caught cheating and something would happen to him but she was going to do the right thing and she was going to donate money to every single one of the families of the tributes because even though money wouldn't bring them back, at least their deaths wouldn't have been for nothing. so behind her parents back, she started to give the families money. she sent letters and went to the districts. she met the families of the tributes and even if they hated her because she was capitol, they still knew her as dorothea castial, the girl who took care of everyone and never wanted to leave in the first place.

she knew that at some point she would be caught doing what she was doing but she didn't care because these families needed food and water and things to stay alive and heal from the wounds that affected them and their families. The money wouldn't heal them but it would help them so here she was in woveys district standing at her families door and she sighed but she knocked and there was her mother 

"Dorothea, what are you doing here sweetheart?" she asked and dorothea sighed as the door opened wider and she stepped inside before she turned to the women. Woveys father and sister were sitting on the couch that they barely fit on and she smiled sadly 

"I know that everybody had to watch the games. I was your daughters mentor, which means that I was supposed to keep her alive and protect her. I didn't do that, but it doesn't matter because other people died to. I'm here because I want to support you guys and I know that I wasn't the only person who lost her but I also want to give the tributes families an opportunity to grieve their children and so I've been going around giving them money or food or water or anything that can help them in this point in time because they just saw their children be slaughtered on TV and I can't imagine how hard it is for them. And I wanted to come see you guys specifically because I grew up with your daughter and I watched her and I took care of her, and I failed to protect her. But I also wanted to give you guys things to make sure that you will be able to stay on your feet and that you'll be able to survive." she told them with tears threatening to fall and woveys mother sighed 

"do your parents know you're doing this Dorothea?" she asked and dorothea shook her head 

"no but that doesn't matter because my parents bought their way into the capitol, they have more money than they will ever need, and I feel gross and wrong, just to keep the money into not give it to the families of the children who are dying, or are dead. The one thing I've been hearing ever since I was forced to be in the capitol was the whole their district or they're not capitol, and I hate it.  I know that no matter how much money I give or food or water or things to help people survive, and live in the circumstances that they are in right now none of it is gonna fix the hole in their chest for the children that they have lost but I hope they know that from the bottom of my heart I hate this as much as they do and it should've never happened and I want the games to stop. I've spent the whole day going just giving them money or resources and every time I show up they look shocked to see me there. I may be part of the capital now, but I'm still Dorothea and I want them to remember that." she said and she pulled out the letter from her back pocket and handed it to the women 

"that's about $10,000, I know it's not a lot, but it's enough to hope that you guys understand how bad I feel to make sure that you guys are able to get back up on your feet" she told them and the women tried to force the letter back into her hands but dorothea shook her head 

"thank you dorothea, you didn't have to do that" she exclaimed and dorothea smiled as she hugged the women and then she hugged woveys father and sister, she noticed the time and hugged them again before she left so she could go to the other capitols 

"dorothea, its not your fault" the women told her one final time and dorothea nodded her head as she left them in their house. she walked to the train station and she got on as she headed to the rest of the districts, finding their houses, donating the money or the food or the water or the resources and by the end of the night, her legs were sore and she felt so tired but she had done something good and maybe she could continue to do this, then she thought about district 12 and lucy gray and the covey and she couldn't wait to see them 

but now she was wondering about coriolanus. however she would learn where he was going soon enough. 

-ABBYS NOTES-

So the reason I brought in the aspect of her bringing money to the families was to show that she is a good person, but to also bring in sort of the later parts of the hunger games, where we see Katniss acknowledging rues family, and that sort of thing. The reason I did this was to show that Katniss will follow in Dorothea's footsteps, and that's very important to the plot line but I also wanted to show how different Dorothea and sejanus are in the aspects of helping the people around them who need help and how they will continue to do that