by • DEFY THE CAPITOL • » Sat Nov 19, 2011 7:46 am
What?
I'm your father.
Stop saying that!
But it's true. I'm your father.
AGH! I said stop saying that!!!
It is true. I know you don't want to believe it, but it's true.
It can't be! You.... you took me away from Mo- I mean Linda!
To protect you. I knew that Linda was evil and could change into a snake, and I tried to rescue Amy, Jessie, and Brent along with you, but I could only get you before Linda found out. She knew where I was staying and she would come and get you again if I didn't take you to where I was. And when you ran away, I was for sure that Linda had taken you. But now I've found you!
Sorrow hugged me. He hugged me!
How am I to believe what you're saying is true?
I think there's proof outside the door if you want me to open it.
Sorrow was pointing to the door where Aurauria was waiting for us to open it so she could take us.
No thanks! Don't open it! I believe you!
OKay, so maybe I'm afraid of some things. But everybody's got a fear, right? Mine happens to be giant dog-eating snakes that tricked you into thinking they where your mother. Who wouldn't be creeped out by that?
Wait. If you're not bad, why where you with Linda and saying 'good job, Linda'?
That was all an act to get Linda to believe that I was bad. She didn't remember me as her old husband at all, so I joined her making her think i was bad.
I understood, but I didn't want to believe it.
So.... now what? Amy's dead, Jessy was dead but then changed into a ghost and- wait! Amy will turn into a ghost now?
Sorrow shook his head saddly.
Only the younger ones turn into ghosts. A grown dog can take another dog's power of ghostlyness, but they might die even then. And Jessy doesn't have any ghost powers anymore.
I sighed in frustration.
So Amy really is gone.... forever?
Sorrow nodded slightly.
No. It can't end this way. It never ends badly!
Oh, but it does!
I whirled around. Of course, Aurauria had broken through the door and was now staring straight at me and Sorrow.
Life doesn't end badly!
You've been daydreaming for too long! Life always ends bad! Somebody always dies. Life is bad, if you haven't noticed! You're surrounded by it!
No, life isn't bad! It isn't!
Look at me. I'm bad. Suzi's bad. Leo's bad. The whole gang is bad. Face it. Good things are running out, and bad is taking over. The good will soon be destroyed, and bad will rule over everything. So, you might as well join the bad before it's too late. I'd like that a lot. I could even let you morph into a snake.
Her offer was tempting.
I wouldn't have to eat anybody though, right?
Of course not! Of course not! Think about it. Ruling over all the good and never having to work for that stupid Agent Cornelia again.
Any chance she had on me joining her side, she just lost it.
No.
Excuse me?
No. I will not turn from Agent Cornelia, and I will not rule over everything! I like who I am. You can't change me!
Oh, but I believe I can!
Aurauria lunged at me, but I moved out of the way quickly. She lunged again, and I was backed against the wall, no way of escape. No way could I survive this time.
Wait!
What?!
I just need to write one last thing in the journal!
Fine, but make it snappy!
As I write this, Bob, I realize how much I had to be thankful for. Amy, Jessy, Father, my life. All this time I had never been thankful for everything I have. I now am. And as I write this, Bob, Aurauria is hissing at me, light reflecting off her sharp pointed teeth. I must now meet my fate, Bob, and I hope that whoever is reading this will never forget me or Amy or Jessy or anybody that is in this story. Amy's story. I miss Amy, and I know you do too, but don't feel sad. I will now be with her, wherever she is.
"The game is
coming to its end."
"Our future starts
tomorrow at dawn."
"Snow has to pay
for what he's done."
"Our lives were
never ours. They
belong to Snow,
and our deaths
do too. But if you
kill him, if you
end all of this,
all those deaths
mean something."
"Tonight, turn your
weapons to the
Capitol! Turn your
weapons to Snow!"