thecapitol | Late at night

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Late at night

Who| Pruna and Sandy
What| Late night conversations
Where| Sandy's room
When| The night of the date auction
Warnings/Notes| Frank talk of death probably, also more talk of pregnancy because Pruna will get to the bottom of this mystery!

Even after all the excitement and dancing Pruna woke up a few hours after she went to bed, alert and ready. She sighed because here there were no guardians waiting for her to turn up to lessons, and she got into trouble if she left the suit this late at night. So there was nothing to do but lie in bed and try and go back to sleep.

Her thoughts wouldn't be quiet though as she thought about the dancing and everything she had learned, and how she was Sandy's friend now. She was also thinking about what Wesker had said, and how she had had parents once because everyone did.

She frowned, she wondered if Sandy knew that. She sat up and making her decision padded out of her room, and across the hall into Sandy's.

"Do you be being awake?"

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"You do be talking about sex right?" Wait for it, Pruna blinked and you could practically see the light switch on in her mind as the final puzzle piece clicked into place.

"Sex do be making babies?" Pruna sat up fully and blinked at Sandy in surprise and everything she had been trying to work out over the last week made sense at last.

She let out an annoyed huff. "Well why did no one just be saying that in the first place! Instead of giving me stupid books that do no be explaining everything and do be telling lies."

Sandy's face burned red and she laughed out loud.

"I never really know what stuff you know about and what you don't." She sighed.

"Adults don't like talking about sex in front of us cuz we're young. It embarrasses them and makes them feel gross."

"That's because it do be being gross." She said flopping back down, "Well at least that do be explaining how they can be making babies by accident."

"Yep, have too much fun and it happens. I was an accident...least my mom said so." She added nonchalantly.

"Who have you been asking?" She added curiously.

"You did be?" Pruna wrinkled her nose, "But she did no be throwing you aw... adoptioning you?"

She shrugged, "Wesker."

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Sandy shrugged, "Well my dad was still around then. And he was good to me. She was happier too back then. She only got crabby when he was taken away."

Sandy's face screwed up when Wesker was mentioned. "Ew that guy? He's a creep."

"Did your dad be naming you then? If your mum did no be liking you?" Pruna did not seem to register that this subject might be uncomfortable or sad for Sandy at all.

She wrinkled her nose, "He do be being nice, and he did be explaining things better than the stupid book."

Sandy pondered that for a moment. "Well I mean...mom liked me OK before dad left but maybe. I mean he was the "Sandman" and I'm "Sandy" so...maybe?"

"He creeped me out when we met. Threatened me and stuff...I mean so did you but we're cool now." She rolled onto her side to face Pruna.

"I guess it's hard to hold a grudge around here since we're all being forced to do all these terrible things by the same people."

Sandy nodded at that, thinking. So as well as parents not liking their children at all it was possible for them to like them, and then decide later that they didn't like them at all.

She wrinkled her nose, she didn't like remembering when they first met, so she had mostly just pretended it never happened.

She was quiet for a moment before she spoke quietly, "Sandy? If I did be dying, for real dying if they did no be bringing me back. Would you be being sad?"

That made Sandy's breath catch in her chest. She looked far away and worried as she considered the option.

"Yeah." She answered softly. "I don't...I don't know what I'd do if that happened." She tried to think. Would she fight? Would she lay down and die?

"I'd cry alot...but I'd try not to because I know you hate that." She muttered sheepishly.

"But I'd never, ever forget you."

"But you would be crying anyways because you do always be crying, your face do be being leaky." She said softly, not knowing what to think about the fact Sandy would never forget her, it made her feel strange, happy but sad all at the same time.

But also suspicious she sat up slightly. "But you did be saying that you do only be deserving to live until you do be doing bad things like killing, and I do be being a killer. You did be saying that if you do be hurting people then you do be giving up your right to be being happy. You did be saying it."

And it was something Pruna wondered about, even when she tried to pretend that meeting had never happened. Because even though she wanted to be with her sister, and be back at her job she felt happy with Sandy, she just couldn't believe the same things, because killing people was what she was best at, and serving the dark god was what she did, what her biggest duty was.

Sandy fell silent again. Pruna was asking so many deep questions tonight. If it weren't for the adrenaline from her nightmare there was no way she'd be up for all this thinking.

"Alot of stuff has happened since then." Sandy decided, "And while I still think that people shouldn't go around killing other people just...randomly." She worked through her thoughts slowly, "Some people are bad and deserve to die." She decided.

"People who are cruel. People who bully others or take away freedom like the capitol. I guess...I still haven't killed anyone."

Another pause.

"But I've thought about it alot. I mean...obviously right? In the games we have to. The only way I could win without killing someone is being lucky and faster then any of them...and I think we both know I'm not lucky."

Pruna wrinkled her nose at that. Since she didn't agree but she thought that it seemed important to Sandy, that she didn't want to kill. But if Sandy believed that to hurt or kill was to give up happiness...

Pruna had never really thought about happiness before, she had never thought it very important. But she thought that it was to Sandy.

"You do no be needing to. If killing people do be forfeiting your right to be happy and making you be deserving to be dying and if you do be wanting to be being happy, I will just be doing your killing for you."

That made her smile and she took Pruna's hand. She wasn't sure why but it felt...important.

"That was how it was supposed to be back home. But I'm not home anymore. I'm probably never gonna go home."

She gave the hand a squeeze.

"Things are different here...I've gotta learn to be different too...I guess."

And then another shy mumbling.

"Besides, I want you to be happy and not dying too."

"But I did be already killing loads of people." She pointed out, "And I do no be minding, I might no be deserving to be happy but that do no be meaning I can no be stealing happiness anyways."

Because Pruna was one of the best thieves in her part of Gauig, and felt no need not to brag about that fact.

And then her eyes glinted and she whispered, "And we will be going home. I do be promising you."

Something about those eyes sent shivers through Sandy. She believed Pruna completely.

"So I just keep standing behind you and let you do all the hard work?" It worked well enough in the last arena, but that didn't mean Sandy had to like it.

She shook her head, "No you do be needing to be learning to fight. Some people do be being too strong for me until I do be getting better, and you need to be able to be getting away if they do be killing me, or fighting if we do be being separated. But you can be fighting and running and leaving the killing to me."

The scruffy girl nodded, that made more sense at least.

"I'll keep getting better...but you deserve to be happy too. I was wrong before." And she wouldn't let her best friend keep trying so hard to keep her alive without trying to make her happy.

Pruna smiled at that and wriggled further under the covers, she was glad Sandy thought she deserved to be happy. Because she was happy, even though she wanted to go home, and everyone here was stupid and she had a stupid cuff on her wrist she also had a friend, a friend who didn't mind if Pruna killed people and didn't try to hurt her because of it and they would win and find a way home.

Sandy snuggled up to Pruna the way they had so many nights in the last arena. Except now her leg wasn't so delicate and painful so she didn't have to worry about getting too close to the warmth of her friend.

After a moment another thought crept across her head and she voiced it softly.

"Hey Pruna...do you think I'd be happy in your world?"

Pruna wrinkled her nose as she thought about that. "My world do be being big so you would be being happy somewhere... I do no be thinking you would be liking the Poison Apple though and my guardians would no be liking you." Pruna had no doubt about that at least."

She was silent a moment, "But my sister would be liking you. And if we did be finding you somewhere you did be liking to be living I think you could be being happy."

That comforted her and she relaxed.

"Good...because when we find a way to go home, I'd like to go back with you if that's OK...or take you with me to my home. But my home kinda sucks so..."

It wasn't as bad as living in the Capitol but well...

"You do be wanting to be coming with me?" Pruna blinked at her. "My world do be being different than here though. We do no be having TVs or transporters or those things." She waved up at the ceiling lights.

She thought about it though, "You would be having to be living with the thieves I would be thinking. They would be taking you in because they do be knowing I could be knocking all their teeth out if they did no be."

Sandy nodded trying to imagine a life like that.

"Yeah my world was...more advanced too. But there were monsters raining down from the sky when I left. I don't know what's going to be left when I get there. And even before the monsters the police were super strict and there was a massive web around the city that kept us locked away from the rest of the world."

She didn't think Pruna would like that much.

She was right, Pruna's nose wrinkled. She didn't like the idea of Sandy going back to a place like that. There were monsters in Pruna's world as well but not in the city and not falling from the sky.

"That do be sounding stupid." She said. Decision made.

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