Fire is Raging On (A Hunger Games Fanfic) [#Wattys 2016]

Chapter Five

Chapter Five

Vada's POV

This bed is so much more comfortable than the one in prison. The mattress actually supports you instead of just being a padded cardboard thing. I need to be rested for my plan to take place.

I stretch before getting out of bed. I have a good feeling about this. I quickly get ready and call the meeting into session. As everyone gathers in the dining room, questions float around. So many questions are being thrown at me I don't have time to answer one before I'm asked another. I suppose it won't hurt to start with answering some questions. As Cynthia enters the room, I motion for her to sit next to me at the head of the table.

When she takes her seat, I motion for everyone to quiet down and they quickly obey. "I suppose you all have some questions before we start?"

Dixie raises her hand like she's still in school; I nod my head for her to talk. "I'm curious. How did you manage to get out of jail?"

A straightforward question, I suppose I should have expected that to be on everyone's mind. "I know many of you are probably curious on how we managed to escape. I didn't say how we would in my letters in case one of those idiotic guards would eventually catch on. It was simple really. The prison had this activity room, and we collected some stuff from there over a few weeks time. We spaced it out enough so no one would become suspicious. As you all know I also have my way of hiding things, and I hid a knife upon my capture that no one ever found. I was able to sneak it into the prison. After that all we had to do was each keep a pair of our dirty prison garb and stuff the pillows into them. We cut the bars off the window and broke the latch. Put the bars back in place once we were outside. We scaled the barbed wire fence and then we were home free. We travelled through the forest, mostly running, until we met up with Althea and Cordo."

"I have a question," Jago says, raising his hand. I nod my head. "None of us knew of your plan before you were captured. What exactly was it?"

"What was my plan before?" I muse. "It wasn't very well thought out. Of course, I thought about it somewhat, but I should have developed and prepared more before I took any course of action. I was acting upon revenge for my grandfather's death and to restore my family's name. I didn't really think through how I was exactly going to accomplish that. I was kind of acting on instinct but not necessarily instinct. It was more of I was just acting in anything that I could. Running into Gale Hawthorne definitely didn't help much. That ended up making it worse than it actually helped. Sure he was a help at first, but he just became a burden. He spilled all of my secrets about what little I actually had planned. I kidnapped Katniss because I saw an opportunity. I wasn't quite sure what I was going to do with her. I wasn't expecting Peeta to come after her, even though I should have."

All this has me thinking of how stupid and naive I was. It may have been only a little over a year ago all this went down, but I was still so stupid. I guess the only good thing that came out of jail was it let me think over my new plan.

"Blye," I nod to the next raised hand.

"What's your plan now?"

I smile, "I'm glad you asked. Let's see it's not much. It's kind of similar to my plan before except I actually thought it out a bit more. I need all of your help though. I can't do this alone. I promise you will all be rewarded for your help. I chose you all specifically because of your power and high standing with government officials. As much as I think we can all agree we hate the government, but it's still necessary for some of us to be in good with them so that this plan will work. That's where you all come in. Obviously, Cynthia and I aren't in good with the government for obvious reasons. I blame the Mellark's for everything that happened. The government was perfect the way it was before. I have to figure out my exact way to get back at the Mellark's for what they did. My last attempt wasn't my proudest moment so I need to study them and figure out what will really get me my revenge. Now onto my plan," I clap my hands together, excited to begin.