The remainders

Chapter 10

"Now that you know my name I think it's time to hear all of yours." Ava said.

Once again everyone was hesitant to speak but to everyone's surprise Hannah spoke up introducing everyone pointing to them and saying their name.

"Well it nice to meet you all but it's time to get serious. You all show up on our door step weapons drawn and trying to kill each other. Now with that said your clearly not in a situation that allows you much negotiation, so one of two thing is going to happen. One I question each of you and we go from there or two your all thrown back out into that wasteland of a world. What's it going to be?"

There was a lot of looks being exchanged around the table and then Sean spoke up," What is it you want to know."

"Actually you'll all be questioned individually. So let's due this alphabetical, which means Damian I believe your first follow me." Ava replied.

I slowly walked with her into the hallway and into another room. This one was slightly smaller, but sat up the same way with a table and two chairs. On the table lay only a note pad and a pen. Ava calmly walked over to a chair and sat done while motioning for me to do the same which I did cautiously.

"Well here we are. Shall we get started. First question, why did you come here?" Ava asked.

I just stared at here wondering if I should answer or try and get out of here but apparently I had taken to much time to think because she began talking again.

"Your not good at this whole answering question thing are you now? I know you just met me and have no reason to trust me but I'm your only shot at not being thrown out and back to scavenging to survive, so please just try to answer the questions." She said.

"We were hoping there would be others here in New Orleans since they were the last ones to broadcast, clearly it was the right move." I responded answering her question.

"Good that's better. Now, What are you hoping to accomplish here?" Asked Ava.

"Find a place to stay where your not worried about being killed while you sleep." I told her.

At this point I realized she was writing down every word of what we said while also writing her own observations.

"What's the point in writing this all down? Aren't you just going to ask the questions and be done?" I questioned.

"I believe i'm the one asking the questions, but if you must know me and a few others will be going over the notes of you and your friends to decide on what we due with you. Last question for now, Your group seems to be at odds, so what's the story behind it?"

Quickly I summarized the events that happened from us meeting all the way to us making it to New Orleans. After she had recorded the last of her notes we walked back to the room with the others in it. I took my seat and Ava began to cycle through the others.

After about an hour and a half Ava had finally finished questioning all of us and walked Tessa back into the room.

"Now i'm going to have to ask you all to stay here while i consult with the others on what should be done about you all." Ava told us before walking out of the room, closing the door behind her.

For the first five minutes after she left we all just sat taking in everything that was going on around us. Then I broke the silence.

"So, what do you guys make of all this?" I asked.

Tessa was the first to answer my question,"What do you mean? We actually accomplished what we set out to do. We are actually here at New Orleans."

"Um in case you weren't listening they might not even let us in to the actual city." Joe snarled at Tessa. 

"You know what, I wasn't talking to you so do me a favor and shut up would you!" Tessa snapped back.

"No, Tessa he's right. Were technically not all the way there yet." Hannah said.

"Hannah are you really siding with him? The one that took all are stuff and left us for dead!" Tessa said completely astounded that Hannah would side with Joe over her. 

"I'm not siding with him i'm just saying that-" Hannah began to say before Joe cut her off.

"See the smart one knows that i'm right. Go ahead, you can admit that your wrong and that i'm the one who is actually right." Joe said with a smug grin on his face.

With that comment everyone began to bicker back and forth over the table with the volume level steadily increasing in till it turned into a full out screaming match. Everyone got to their feet and was prepared to get into a fight when suddenly the door opened and in walked Ava. She simply just looked around the room at all of us and didn't seem phased by the commotion at all.

"If your all done squabbling please take a seat for we have matters to discuss." She said while taking a seat at the end of the table. 

Everyone slowly sank back down into their seats and looked towards Ava with a lot of anticipation. To say we were afraid of being told that we weren't aloud in the city would be an understatement because we were terrified.

"So after some discussion we've reached a decision on What to do about this situation we have on our hands. Now know this as a citizen of New Orleans your expected to be a productive member of society rather than a liability." Ava announced looking at each one of us.

"So does that mean we made it in?" Sean asked with a hopeful look on his face.

"Straight to the point then." Ava said as she withdrew some papers from her pocket. "These papers are authorization to enter the city and as you can see I only have two of them. This obviously means that only two of you may enter and those two are Kris and Joe. You two will be put to work as fighters and hunters. The rest of you I'm sorry to inform that I couldn't get the authorization for you to enter, thus you'll have to leave.

Kris and Joe both looked at the rest of us with a highly satisfied look on their face while the rest of us were dumbfounded. What could we do now that our only hope was gone now?

So did you guys like the update? I'm going to try and update again soon so be on the lookout.