
Effie.
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Gales POV:
We started off with Katniss's surprise. Which happened to be Effie. Katniss admitted she thought she was dead. But she's been hiding out here in efforts to keep safe. And it worked perfectly.
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We storm into the cover of the trees. He push Katniss in between Peeta and I as badly as she wanted to lead the way. I go first, they'll target the leader of the line first. Thankfully we had planned this and devised a full body protective suit, well more like a shell.
Peeta's prosthetic leg is slowing him down so Katniss reaches for his hand and pulls him along. I'm afraid that leg will slow him down or make him fall and trip. I push him slightly. "GET GOING MELLARK." I yell as we bob and weave through trees and plants.
We reach the tree line and Katniss stops dead jerking Peeta to a stop.
"What Katniss!" Boggs hisses behind us.
She doesn't speak just barely points directly in front of her. I almost scream when I see what she's pointing at. Guards. More then ten guards. She steps a silent step backward crouching to take off her bow and an arrow. She's silent as she goes about loading it; it's something she's learned from her father. She looks at everyone, but Peeta the longest.
"Go." She barely whispers.
"No Katniss!" He hisses.
"Peeta please, trust me." He looks at her silently. She looks at me. "Gale, Turkies." I crack half an smile as everyone watches us like we're crazy. "Everyone go, quickly and quietly. Don't step on anything. Don't speak, get to the hospital we'll meet there soon."
"Be careful Katniss." Peeta pleads.
"Please." She smirks. "Careful is my middle name."
He shakes his head disapprovingly and kisses her silently before taking off through the woods. "You start on the left I'll start right. Take them out one by one till we have them all." I nod and flick the trigger off my compound bow. "Three...two...one.." I let my arrow fly and we hit a different guard at the same time. Hidden behind huge tree trunks we continue to fly the arrows until each of them are dead.
She does her signature 'whooping' she only does after a good kill. "Hell yeah!" She shouts as we run through the dead's bodies and retrieve arrows as we run. This is what Katniss used to be like.
We speed through the district the back way our gps tells us on my watch. She runs fast considering all the armor we're wearing. I was told the video squad would be at the hospital when we arrived to kill any suspicious of anything going on. They arrived a day in advance. We find a Red Cross on a wooden wall and jog through the door made of plastic sheets. I see the cameras instantly be switched on. Katniss comes to a dead stop, her hand covers her mouth. I hold her shoulders guiding her into the middle of the room.
Everyone who's able to stands, watching Katniss cry silently. Peeta tries to walk towards her and I stop him with an arm.
"Let her be." I don't make eye contact with him. He stands in front of me and I can just barely see over his head.
A young girl stands up. "K-Katniss?" Her voice is innocent. "Is that you?" Half of her head is covered in a bloody bandage.
"Yes." She says wiping her eyes standing up straighter.
"What happened to the baby?" An elderly lady asks from the floor.
"I-I lost it." She whispers.
A teenage boy makes his way to the front of the circle, a rifle slung on his shoulder. "Are you here to fight katniss? Will you fight?" She stands looking to the boy and then straight into he camera.
"I am, I will."
From that point she makes small talk with the other men and women there. Paylor -the president of eleven- comes and greets us. She invites us to show the damage of eleven. I can see in Katniss's eyes the pain she still feels for Rue. To Katniss she wasn't just another causality of war.
We start walking and a beeping starts from Boggs watch. "Bombers incoming from the North, we need cover."
"There's a bunker, come on." Paylor says as Katniss takes second and runs with her. A bomb hits and Katniss sees the opening of a broken wall.
"SOLDIER EVERDEEN!" Boggs screams. She runs anyways and looks through the wall. Bombs hit from the direction we just came. They hit a pillar and the end starts to collapse. The half starts to fall and I pull Katniss away before we get hurt.
"Their targeting the hospital!" Katniss looks like she's about to faint. She runs up a flight of stairs loading an explosive arrow, Cressida the main videographer takes her place with the camera. She lets her arrow fly and it hits the craft sending it to the ground. I see the landing pad on top of the hospital, and before we can do anything the craft smashes on top of it. "No!" She hisses. She runs out into the open and stands there with tears in her eyes. She stands in front of the hospital which is now in flames. "GET THEM OUT! HELP THEM!" She shrieks.
"Katniss! Can you tell us what just happened?" Cressida asks pointing to a mask someone's wearing which is filming.
"The capitol, just bombed an unarmed hospital full of wounded men, woman, and children. And if you think for one second that Snow will ever treat us fairly you are lying to yourself! That man is vile! He deserves what ever we can do to him! And you see that!?" She points to the fire behind her. "Fire is catching, and if we burn, you burn."
"Come on Katniss, it's not safe here. We must be going. Effie will be worried sick."
She nods as we turn around. We start to walk and I swear I see something. Then I hear a voice, one that belongs to none of us.
Suddenly men appear and rush towards us.
"KATNISS!" I scream on the top of my lungs. I kill two but see they already have peeta.
"PEETA!" Katniss screams. They shoot something in into him in the stomach and it makes his face twist. "PEETA NO!" She yells louder then I've ever hear her yell. She charges them but they've already started running. "I LOVE YOU." She screams.
"IM SO SORRY KATNISS! I LOVE YOU." He screams his face red with furry. She chases after them even after their gone.
"NO! NO! NO!" Tears spill from her eyes like a waterfall and I pick her up. We run through the woods even through I know leaving him was a mistake. I know as soon as we return to thirteen, she will be completely unwilling to help. I frown and sit her into a seat. Her loud sobs have turned into whimpers as she cries his name.
No one speaks on the ride back. For, all of us know that this time we have done something irreversible.
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