He turns to walk away. "Hey wait!" I exclaim.

"I'm not kissing you again Kat." He says lowly.

"No, give me your gun. You can use my bow. I won't be able to pull back the string hanging from the cliff." I explain.

"Sounds fair." He nods and looks down at me.

"Hey wait what the hell did you get on your face?" I ask a growing concern on my face.

"What? I didn't think anything I-"

I press my lips to his happily. "Look Kat you really need to stop that." He tells me. "Because of Peeta."

"Peeta.." I nod softly.

"But I've got to ask, did you mean what you said a few minuets ago?" He asks softly. "About being able to love me?"

"I did."

He takes a deep breath. "That means a lot."

I sigh. "We could keep this up you know?"

"How do you propose we do that?" He asks me with an arm on my shoulder.

"We take off. We could do that you know. Get more than five miles that way."

He shakes his head with a smile. "You and I both know we can't.." He says pinching the bridge of his nose. A few stray tears fall down.

"Why are you crying?"

He falls to his knees and I do also. "I have been waiting to hear that from you for twenty seven years. And now that I have, I can't do anything about it."

"Yes we can." I exclaim grabbing his arm and setting down the gun. "We can go. Right now and never tell anyone again. Fuck the past."

"Katniss listen to yourself. Have you taken your medicine lately? We can't go anywhere. We have kids. And if you leave Peeta will have a search party out looking for you till we both die."

"But we can hide!" I say.

"Katniss stop!" He exclaims. "We can't do anything alright? We're not running away. Look at me."

He looks into my eyes. "You haven't eaten. Have you been taking your medicine lately?"

"I ran out." I shrug standing to drink some water from a small pond. "So?"

"So; they're making you not think straight."

"Gale I'm fine!"

"Positions everyone!" Blaze calls from behind a row of pine trees.

"Come on." Gale says grabbing my shoulder and pushing me threw the tree line.

He ties my rope around a large rock someone rolled closer to the edge.

"Katniss." Blaze calls. "Would you like me to spot you from the top? Or cover Gale?"

"I don't need a spotter." I mutter.

"I'll help her down, and then we'll get her up and we'll both come down and fight." 

"Alright." Blaze nods. "In that case." He says standing on the stump. "Alright guys, split up! Half of you go to one side and half to the other!"

"Ready Katnip?" Gale asks holding onto my repel straps.

"Yes." I nod. He kisses my forehead quickly.

"Alright. You remember what to do?"

"Yes." I nod again. He holds my shoulders and the strap at the same time as he backs me up.

"Actually just give me the gun. I'll pull you back up as soon as you detonate the bombs. It'll be safer that way."

"Fine." I grumble. I shove my pockets full of the small palm size bombs and hug him.

I slip my hand in the side waistband of his pants and pull out his pistol. Before he can stop me I jump backwards off the edge of the cliff.

I hold the butt of the pistol in my mouth and drop the bombs one by one slowly.

Before I can even think about pulling myself up, shrapnel hits my legs and arms.

I empty a round of bullets into the mutts heads. "Gale! Gale up!" I scream over the bullet flying everywhere.

He pulls me up and I instantly begin to undo my straps. "Are you okay? How much did the shrapnel hit you?"

"I'm fine." I say stripping off the straps and throwing them on the ground.

"Lets go then." He says handing me back my bow and arrows back. I hand him his gun. "Can I have my pistol?"

"I don't have it." I whisper putting it in my waistband.

"I felt you take it." He smirks. "Okay let's just go, I'll get it later."

We rush down the hill, both of us loading our weapons. "Stay safe and close." I say quietly to him. "They're blind so don't make a lot of noise." I tell him.

"Same to you."

I stand up on a rock. Watching the chaos unfold. Our men and some woman fight hard. I pull back my bow trying to find a target to shoot at.

But if I shoot an explosive arrow, I'll hit our soldiers also. I can't risk losing that many others.

I can't shoot them individually. They're robots, so a normal arrow won't do any sort of damage.

So instead of shooting, I take the large hard part of my bow, and begin to hit on they're heads repeatedly.

"Katniss!" His masculine voice screams through the crowd. I turn and look for his face. I find it, and begin to push my way through the hoard of mutts.

But someone grabs me from behind, and I try to push them off the best I can. But they're stronger than me, but all mutts are.

They smash me into the ground. One of them rips they're sharp fingers into my calf. I scream out in pain. Most soldiers have split by now, Gale and I lay a few feet apart.

Both of us continue to scream out in pain as our bodies are torn to shreds.

I reach for his hand. "Gale." I whisper.

He weakly wraps his fingers around mine.

"I'm sorry." I breath. "I'm sorry I couldn't save you."

***

I wake with a gasp, sitting up straight and looking around.

"She's awake! She's awake doctor!" A woman sitting next to me on the ground says.

I'm lying on a thin blanket, in a large tent with other injured people.

"W-Where am I?" I whisper rubbing my head. I bump tubes on my nose. A breathing tube is stuck in my nose, I rip it out without warning.

"Hey hey! Stop that, put it back in."

"Where am I?" I growl. "Where did you bring me?"

"Your in a refugee hospital."

"Where my unit? Gale?"

"Gale's in the emergency wing, we can have him transferred to a different hospital if you would like."

"Am I going to be okay?"

"Yes. We removed all the shrapnel and stitched your leg back together. You will be fine in a few days as long as you get the stitches removed."

"Alright." I nod. "Can I see Gale? When can we leave?"

"As soon as he's cleared for transport. We have many people coming and going around here."

"When will that be?"

"I'm not sure. But for now let's just go see him, alright?"

I nod without speaking. We walk towards the emergency wing, where people rush around covered in blood and tears.

I finally see him. He's knocked out cold, I rush to him and hold his hand tears already falling.

"Gale." I whisper. "Gale please wake up." That's when the beeping starts. I look around panicking. "Gale! Someone help him!"

Doctors come and push me out of the way, a older nurse takes me to a sitting area; assuring me he'll be fine.