Venom // Everlark ••Mockingjay short story plot twist••

Chapter 9

-Katniss' POV-

In the stunned reaction that follows, I'm aware of one sound. Snow's laughter. An awful gurgling cackle accompanied by an eruption of foamy blood when the coughing begins. I see him bend forward, spewing out his life, until the guards block him from my sight.

As the gray uniforms begin to converge on me, I think of what my brief future as the assassin of Panem's new president holds. The interrogation, probable torture, certain public execution. Having, yet again, to say my final goodbyes to the handful of people who still maintain a hold on my heart. The prospect of facing my mother, who will now be entirely alone in the world, decides it.

"Good night," I whisper to the bow in my hand and feel it go still. I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink into flesh. I yank my head back in confusion to find myself looking into Peeta's eyes, only now they hold my gaze. Blood runs from the teeth marks on the hand he clamped over my nightlock. "Let me go!" I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp.

"I can't," he says. As they pull me away from him, I feel the pocket ripped from my sleeve, see the deep violet pill fall to the ground, watch Cinna's last gift get crunched under a guard's boot.

I feel myself getting stronger as I fight back after being pulled away from him. I can feel my episode crawling around in my body, just waiting to take over it. I can still see him in the distance looking straight at me. Even from afar I can still see the tears in his eyes from the pain of his hand and nearly witnessing my death.

I push and shove the soldiers, trying to get to that mutt so I can kill him. I know I'm much stronger than these soldiers so it should be easy to get out of their grip.

I continue to fight against them until I feel something going into my arm. They let me go and I'm about to run when I fall to the ground, engulfed in darkness as it takes over me.

-Peeta's POV-

I'm being held back my Haymitch, Robert and Dylan as a group of about six soldiers hold Katniss back. I see them let go of her, she's about to run but she falls to the ground.

"KATNISS!!" I roar. They let me go and I run over. I kneel beside her as she lies on her side. I pull her into my lap as I hold her tight to me, I feel her pulse,

Nothing.

I burst out crying as Haymich is shouting at the soldiers. I hold her close to me, her head in my chest like on the train to the Quarter Quell, but she was alive that time. Her last moment of life she thought I was a mutt, always trying to kill her.

She got what she wanted in life though, for Snow to be dead before her. And it happened.

I imagined us, after she had gotten better. We'd grow old together, maybe even have the children I'd always dreamed of having. Life obviously doesn't work that way for everyone though.

There's still a huge crowd around us, all having sad looks. I see Effie merging out of the crowd, followed by Gale and Katniss' mother. They don't see me due to soldiers all around us.

I tuck a piece of hair that was on her face behind her ear before pressing my forehead against hers. I close my eyes, trying to stop the tears falling out of them. I hear gasps and I immediately know it's Effie. She's seen Katniss.

I open my eyes and take my forehead away from hers before one of my hands hold her cheek, my thumb rubbing it gently as my fingers run along her jawline. I lean down and press my lips to hers, they haven't gone stiff yet. They're still soft like I've always remembered.

I look down to see her belly bump. Our six month old child. Both dead. She would have been the most perfect, loving mother anyone could ask for. She was so strong, how she went through the war pregnant and still managed to keep herself and it alive up until now.

Then it hits me. I have no reason to live anymore, my family are dead, Katniss is dead, our baby is dead. What else is there to live for?

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uh oh. Peeta thinks Katniss is dead😓😡

first part is from the Mockingjay book itself❤🙈

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