Gale Hawthorne X Reader -The World Has Caught Fire-

Chapter 8: Photo-Shoot

Song: Control, Zoe Wees

(f/f): Favorite food

Y/n's POV

It's been about 2 weeks since the whole whipping fiasco, Gale's back is much, much better now. There are still pink scars, but he doesn't feel any pain anymore. He started walking again a few days ago, I'm so happy that he's okay again.

Throughout these past two weeks, I haven't left the house. Not only because I'm scared to face the peacekeepers after what happened, but it's also been snowing non-stop, we got so much snow it's insane.

The new head peacekeeper is crazy. He was whipping a victor. And he hit me and threatened to kill Haymitch and me. All three of district 12's victors could have died that day. Things are different in 12 now. The Hob has been shut down, the streets are lined with peacekeepers armed with machine guns and all kinds of weapons, and there had been multiple whipping posts set up for when a person breaks any tiny little rule that the head peacekeeper made. It's horrible, and I can't say anything because then I would get in trouble. Ughh, this is so messed up.

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Today is my wedding dress photoshoot day. My prep team, Effie, Cinna, and some photographers will be coming over in a little bit. Cinna has made all the dresses himself.  I'm sure that they'll all be beautiful because I trust Cinna and every dress that he's made had been stunning. I'm excited to see Cinna, but I'm not excited to be put in 7 different makeup looks, 7 different heels, and 7 different dresses all in one day. 

I'm still basically asleep, but I'm also sort of awake. I just lay in bed for a while drifting in and out of sleep, then someone comes in. I'm praying it isn't Effie about to rip me out of bed and start dressing me up. I'm relieved to see Gale walk in.

"Hey, good morning. You awake?" He says in a low hushed tone

"mmm, kind of" I say. He comes over to my bed and hugs me while I'm still laying down

"I'm about to go to the forest, it's the one place not crawling with peacekeepers, I saw another opening in the fence, there are no peacekeepers over there. I'll be back by at least 4, okay?"

"Okay, just be careful, don't let anyone see you"

"I'll be careful, I promise. Good luck with your prep team today"

"Thank you, I'm gonna need it. They're gonna put me in 7 different looks in one day. It's gonna be horrible"

"aww, I'm sorry. But I'm sure you'll look beautiful in all of them"  I smiled and kissed him

"Thank you" we cuddled for a little bit.

"Okay, I'm gonna go now, I love you," Gale says

"I love you too" He left and I tried to sleep again, but then Effie swung the door open.

"Miss Y/n, it's time to get up. We have a big, big, big day ahead of us!" She says in a high cheerful tone.

"Ughh, please, just 2 minutes," I say

"Nope, not today. We have no time to spare" She drew open the curtains and pulled off my blankets.

"Fiiiineeee," I say. She leads me to the bathroom where my prep team is drawing a warm bubbly bath. Okay, to be honest, the bath does sound really nice right now. I got into the warm rose-scented bath while my prep team set up all the makeup and hair stuff. They talked all about the new trends in the Capital, and how everyone is wearing Cinna, they also talk about how they haven't been able to get any seafood lately. District 4 is rebelling. I thought. I couldn't say anything though because they can't know about a possible rebellion.