Location: Whitvale family quarters, day 67 @vengefvlx
It was mid afternoon and Cecelia was alone in the Whitvale's new quarters. Well...it was new to Cecelia, not to Sterling and the kids. She had insisted that she was going to be okay, that Sterling should go about his regular day, and it was the first time that Jax and Satina had gone to school and Juliet to the nursery. Life was going on as it had before her resuce.
And yet...there was so much to wrap her mind around. Sterling, the rebel, Juliet growing bigger, and Jax...Jax had been safe the whole time. The thought brought tears to her eyes. Cecelia had long been used to President Snow's cruelty...and yet, the lie that he had Jax seemed worse than the rest. And Claudia...she had hoped that it had been fake, some of the executions had been fake, but nobody had heard anything from her. Was she still dead in that room? Or had they disposed of her and her parents?
The knock at the door startled her from the spot on the bed that she had been sitting in for far longer than she wanted to admit. She forced herself up, almost mechanical in her motions, and went to the door.
Cadence. She had briefly seen her since arriving in Thirteen, but she hadn't spoken to her.
"Cadie," she greeted, her voice soft. ""I'm so happy to see you." She tried to smile, but it didn't quite light up her face the way it used to "Do you want to come in?"














