Ruthless Killer || F. Odair

Chapter 9

The next day, Andrea and Joseph hopped on the elevator to head to the training station. Andrea didn't want to go but her brother refused to let her stay in the room as he argued that she was rusty. Little did Joseph know that he was probably rustier than herself. When the doors opened, the room was empty with only the game makers.

Andrea turned to her brother with narrowed eyes and said, "you really dragged me here for this?" 

"We're here to train, aren't we?" Joseph said back. He then walked over towards the weapon station as Andrea mocked the boy behind his back. 

As Andrea followed Joseph over to the weapon station, she looked up to see the game maker room, but something was different. She looked a little longer and finally saw what it was, a protective barrier to separate the tributes from the game makers, which made Andrea laugh thinking back to the reason they put the barrier up. The men heard her laugh and looked to see where it came from, and when they saw Andrea looking directly at them, they couldn't help but look a little worried. 

"Oh hello boys, long time no see!" Andrea shouted to her former co-workers once she noticed the attention she was getting. "You better hope I die in these games or I'll make sure you all pay." The threat seemed to resonate with the game makers who all had wide eyes, all except one. With a wink, Andrea walked to her brother who gave her a disapproving look. 

"You're just asking to be killed at this point, Drea." 

Andrea grabbed her scythe and running her hand along the blade before turning to her brother and saying, "oh no, I'm just asking for a challenge, little brother." 

With that, Andrea pointed her scythe at Joseph, challenging the boy to a little sparring match. He raised his eyebrow but accepted the challenge as he pointed his own weapon at her. While Andrea hadn't picked up a scythe in seven years, the weapon became an extension of her own body. The siblings swung their weapons at each other, clashing their blades as they built up a sweat. Andrea was constantly watching her brother, analyzing his movements, noting what he needed to work on and how his style was too similar to when he was in the games all those years ago. That was when his blade came from up high, letting Andrea stop the sickle while kicking a foot out from under him, bringing the tall boy down, leaving her with his sickle. She threw the extra weapon to the side, no longer needing it as her brother had already been brought to the ground. Andrea stopped the boy from moving as she trapped both of his legs and his arms, all the while holding her scythe to his throat. A crowd had seemingly come from nowhere, at least to Joseph, as they began to applaud Andrea for her win.

Andrea got up and offered her hand to Joseph, who accepted it. Once he got up as well, Andrea pulled the boy in to whisper, "you need to practice more, change up your style. It's too similar to your past games and these tributes see that." She then stepped back and smiled at her brother while saying, "nice to confirm what we already knew." Her comment caused a few to laugh before the tributes dispursed to different stations. 

Finnick began to walk over to the pair before Joseph walked up to the man and whispered something in his ear. By the look Andrea was receiving, she could tell Joseph probably told her husband about her yelling at the game makers. When he began to walk her way, Andrea gave the man a lazy smile while she said, "don't be mad, Fish. I'm just asking for a little excitement in life." 

"And being in the games isn't enough?"

Andrea walked up to Finnick, lightly running her fingers up his arm as she quietly said, "I already know the arena, I know that the President requested this to kill Katniss and he's enjoying the fact that he thinks he'll kill me too. I know that there's something going on behind the scenes and I'm not being told about it. So no Finnick. I'm bored." The look on Finnick's face gave away more than enough for Andrea to continue, "I know you were already approached, probably by Haymitch, and the fact that I'm being left out of the loop is insulting, especially when I can probably name all of those that are apart of this so secret association, or those that will be in it by the time the games start." 

Finnick looked like he was a deer caught in the headlights at her words, not bothering to deny them as it would probably only make Andrea furious. Without getting a response or excuse, she rolled her eyes and walked away, going towards the knot-making station that Katniss was at. 

"Hello, Girl on Fire, mind if I join?" Andrea asked as she sat down next to the young girl, not really looking for her approval. After a few moments of knot tieing, Andrea said, "it seems like you've caught Finnick's eye," Andrea toyed the young girl. When she didn't see any change in Katniss' behavior, Andrea leaned over, gliding a finger along her jawline, "but I think you should be more interested that you caught my eye." This seemed to get Andrea the outcome she wanted as Katniss seemed to freeze in place. "I told you I bet on you, right Kitty Kat?" Andrea drew her words out as a lazy smile graced her lips. A finger began to twirl in Katniss' hair as she continued, " you see, I'm a pretty important person and when I have my eye on you, it means you're important as well. I do hope you won't let me down." Andrea then leaned in, her lips grazing Katniss' ear as she whispered, "I don't like being disappointed." 

With that, Andrea stood up and began to walk to another station, but not before saying, "oh and send your mentor my love. I do so miss that bastard." 

Joseph grabbed his sister's arm as she was walking away from the younger tribute, spinning her around and saying, "what was that?" 

"Oh relax, Joey. I was just sending a message," Andrea patted the boy's shoulder as he let go of her arm. 

"And what message is that?" He asked. 

"That I know what he's up to, and I don't appreciate being kept out of the loop." Andrea refused to say anything further but then she noticed an empty station. Andrea smirked as she turned to face her brother, saying, "let's see if your memory's still intact." 

The two seemed to skip over toward the plant recognition station, setting it up for a competition, as it seemed like that's all the pair were planning on doing today. A few tributes turned their way with confused looks as none of them knew their skill, seeing as Andrea's knowledge wasn't needed in such a short time span and Joseph's was hidden as he used it to find the tree that saved his life. So when the timer began, Andrea and Joseph were racing to finish, this time Joseph completed it a second before Andrea did, still leaving a minute left on the clock. 

Joseph turned to Andrea with a smirk on his face and said, "what was it that you said, nice to confirm what we already knew?" Andrea couldn't hold her smile back as her eyes rolled, laughing at the statement that was being thrown back in her face. 

Joseph and Andrea separated once more as they tried to actually practice instead of getting into little competitions between the two, and that was when Katniss went over towards the archery range. People stopped to watch as she shot animal after animal, one arrow taking out five birds. That was when Joseph walked back up to his sister and said, "wow. I didn't know she was that good." 

"I always saw it."