My grandfather is barely able to talk when my grandmother has him wheeled into the New Florida Oval office. My sisters are all there and we are all wondering how the fuck this dying man is able to do this.
The stingers and I are being looked at by my other sisters. Opal, Diamond and my sister Amethyst are standing there. Amethyst and Diamond are the only ones who really didn't now that we went through with kidnapping Rahmell.
Diamond just was too soft to go through with it and Amethyst...well it was more complicated than that.
"Bring him in," my grandmother orders.
The Amazon soldiers leave the room. A few minutes later Rah is brought into the room. I look at his face and can feel embarrassment when our eyes connect. We both know what happened in that tent between us. Ruby was the other one who knew and Ruby was just pissed that I'd swallowed the nut more than anything.
"What's going on here?" Amethyst asks.
Amethyst runs forward trying to get at Rahmell but Pearl holds her back.
"Amethyst!" Rahmell says.
See the thing about Rahmell and Amethyst is that they were in love a long time ago before Rah was taken away to the Districts. Amethyst never got over it.
Amethyst is kicking and screaming to the point that she has to be taken out of the room. I can tell that she isn't really feeling all of this.
"This is unnecessary," Diamond states noticing Rahmell tied up at that moment and Amethyst being dragged out of the room.
"You're going to kill me?" Rahmell asks my grandmother.
"No...the Districts will suspect us if you end up dead," my grandmother answer, "We're going to let you go."
Beryl looks concerned at that moment and Diamond looks relieved. It's interesting to see the contrasting views between the two. They've always contrasted in that way and butt heads. Beryl usually won because she was bigger, stronger and had the backing of the other two stingers.
In this matter I'm confused. I don't want anything bad to happen to Rahmell but I also don't want him to be let go and go running to the Districts letting him know that we kidnapped him in the first place. Ok...maybe it was rash but we'd done it for the right cause.
Suddenly my grandfather states, "Rahmell...you'll keep what happened to yourself."
It's not a question. My grandfather's voice is shaky. If the country knew their president was so weak god knows what the feminist extremists would do.
"Or what?"
My grandfather is too weak to carry out a threat. My grandmother steps in and looks down at Rahmell, "As you may know, radical feminists have terrorized our cities. These terrorists want to topple my husband's government to create an all female nation. Your mother is one of them. We have her locked up at this moment. You will keep what happened here to yourself and you will assist my ambassadors at the convention acting as a spy for the District."
"Why would I betray my own country?" Rahmell asks.
"Because if you don't we'll execute your mother."
I'm speechless.
Diamond looks over at my Grandmother and all she can get out is a pleading, "Ma Zoe..."
My heart drops. I look over at Beryl and the Stingers. They have smiles on their faces. None of us expected this from our grandmother. This woman had gone around being the most passive woman since the 19th century but she was over here threatening to kill Rahmell's mother.
At that moment I watch Rahmell look over at me and he just seems broken, "Gem look. You can't let them do this. Gem..."
I look at Rahmell. I feel bad. I didn't think my grandmother would go this far as to threaten Rahmell's family if he didn't go along with being a spy for us. I didn't know she was that desperate. Right now I still didn't know my Grandmother's plan. She was being so secretive about it all. She could have told us it was her plan a long time ago for us to go to the Geneva Convention.
I look over at Rahmell and cross my arms, "Just say you'd do it Rahmell."
"Are you fuckin' serious? You know what happens if I get caught spying for another country in the District."
"Please Rahmell."
