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Chapter Eighty Six

Chapter Eighty Six

KATNISS'S POV

I sit up gasping and shaking in a dark room, sweat sliding down my face. I feel someone shift in front of me and a soft voice mumbles. "Katniss?" I look down and see Prim, twelve years old, dark circles under her own beautiful blue eyes. I haven't seen that blue in so long. "Prim?" She nods. "Are you okay?" "I-I don't know." "Did you have a nightmare?" I nod a little. "Yeah I did." She kisses my nose. "It's okay I had a nightmare too, that's why I moved into your bed... Because of the reapings today." My thoughts stop, was everything I lived though some kind of twisted nightmare? The sun is rising through the window over my bed and the valley. I don't say anything for a moment. "Was the nightmare about papa?" I stroke her blonde hair and frown. "Something like that." I kiss her forehead. "Alright... I gotta go to the woods." I go to stand but she stops me. "Will you sing to me?" My heart shatters, looking at her small frame in my large bed. My body doesn't ache like it did, there are no scars showing from the war, I feel young. I sit down on the bed and begin to sing the valley song. We sing it together softy, me braiding her hair out of impulse. I kiss her forehead once more and then grab my boots. I look over at my mothers bed, where my fathers side is empty and see tears rolling down her hallow cheeks. I move her blonde hair from her eyes and kiss her temple. "I love you." I linger at the door, looking at them, looking at Prim who's alive, not burnt to a crisp, sleeping soundly. I walk down the stairs and slip on my leather jacket. I hear a hiss and I turn around quickly. I see ButterCup, glaring at me but all I do is smile. I lace up my boots and run out of the house. When I get to the fence I see the outline of a peacekeeper so I go under and sprint. I grab my fathers bow and smile at the feeling of the smooth wood. Then I go hunting on the warm summer morning, sixteen years of age. I see the same buck, the buck that got away from me. I Pursue it leading it to where I need it. As I pull my arrow back I smile and as I let go I hear Gale. "What are you gonna do with a big deer like that?" The arrow goes off into a tree and before I can yell at him about being so damn loud I see the deer, with its fawn, drinking milk from its mother. I smile a little, watching them nuzzle each other and then walk off together. "I dunno Gale... Guess I wasn't thinking." He raises an eyebrow at me. It's so nice to see him, not bitter, not aging to the point it hurts. I wrap my arms around his waist and smile with my head against his chest. "Woah Catnip, you feeling okay?" I nod. "I feel pretty good." He smiles, rubbing my shoulders. "Good I'm glad." He wraps his arm around me. "Come on partner." We sit on our hill, looking at the sun rising. He hands me a piece of bread and I can already tell that Peeta made them. I take a bite out of them and smile, forgetting to say thank you, or ask if it is real... But I know it is. "Happy Hunger Games." Gale says in a Capitol accent. I grab some blackberries and put some in his hand and some in mine. "And may the odds be ever in your favor." We throw them in our mouths at the same time and chew on the delicate juices. For some reason tears prick in my eyes because I've been wanting this for so long and I finally have it back. Silence takes over us and then I smile. "Ya know Gale, I think I might have kids someday." He puts his hand on my forehead. "Are you feeling alright? Yesterday and for years you never wanted kids." I shrug. "I guess I have a change in heart." Then it goes to the next question. "How many times is your name in?" "Forty two, guess the odds aren't really in my favor." When I go to the Hob and trade with Sae I see my pin. I take it into my hands. "How much?" "You can take it." She says smiling. It's good to see her again too. "Thank you." When I get home and I see Prim in her dress with a frown on her face, her blonde hair in two braids I grin. "You look beautiful." I say kneeling down in front of her. I see apart of her shirt not tucked in... My bottom lip quivers. "Katniss?" I brush my tears away quickly, tucking in her shirt. "T-tuck that tail in little duck." I stand. "I have something for you too." My mother says softly. I turn to her and smile. "Thank you." Prims eyebrows are raised at my kindness to my mother. When she finishes my hair and I stand in the blue dress I see myself sixteen, aged beyond her years, but not yet broken by the Capitol, whom could still show her unseen smile. "Now you're beautiful too." My mother says, placing her hands on my shoulders. "I wish I looked like you." Prim mutters. I turn to her and smile. "Oh no." I kiss her forehead, taking her hand. "I wish I looked like you little duck." The train whistle blows, indicating we must leave. My hand reaches inside my pocket, grabbing the MockingJay pin. "Here I got this for you, it'll keep you safe." "No matter what, if you have this you won't get picked okay? I promise." I wrap my arms around her, kissing the top of her head. Then as we stand in our areas, me surrounded by girls my age I lock eyes with the beautiful blue I've fallen in love with. Peeta smiles at me, and I can't help myself but to smile back. Then Effie bounds onto the stage and grins. "Welcome! Welcome! Happy Hunger Games and may the odds be ever in your favor!" She shows the video they show every year and then my heart jumps. "Oh I just love that alright... Ladies first!" She walks over to the crystal ball and puts her pale hand in, hovering over the names and then she grabs the slip. She walks over to the microphone and clears her throat. "The female tribute for district twelve is... Willow Mellark!" My eyes go wide and I turn to see Willow, standing in fear at the age of sixteen, literally next to me. I go to grab her arm but she goes right through me, like I'm air. All of the sudden I can't move, I can't speak. She walks up on the stage. "And now for the boys." I look over at Peeta and he looks horrified. She opens the slip for the boys and grins. "Kaden Mellark!" Kaden, only ten goes up onto the stage, head held high but tears in his eyes. Peeta looks at me with pleading eyes and then he screams. "Katniss! Wake up!" Then Willow and Kaden are getting dragged away by peacekeepers screaming. "Mommy wake up! Please wake up!" Then everyone turns into mutts and I panic. I know now that this is not reality. Then I'm enveloped in the mutts horrible breath, their eyes staring me down to the point of where I want to die. "It's the things we love the most that destroy us." President Snow says grinning over the mutts and then spits blood in my face. I scream to the point of everything disappearing.

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My eyes snap open and I vomit, everywhere, blood and bile all over me, it burning my throat and leaving a metallic taste in my mouth. "Ah shit!" I look up weakly and see Jordyn dragging me by the arms through the woods. "Holy shit." She drops me and I cry out. "You're alive! Oh my god you're alive! Mason! Mason come here!" I see him rushing over with dirt all over him, a shovel in hand. He drops it and gasps. "Katniss?" He kneels down and grabs a cloth, wiping the vomit from me. "Thank god, oh thank god." He presses his communicator. "I need a hovercraft inbound please to my location." "Yes sir." Someone says and he pats my cheek. "We're getting you outta here, alright? I killed most of those bastards, we're dropping a bomb on them, they won't ever start a war with us again." I see someone I thought I would never see again. The dark long hair tied up in a bun, stubble on the handsome jawline, his grey eyes so calm. "Dad?" I whisper. He walks over to me, kneeling down besides Mason but Mason doesn't even acknowledge him. He puts his scarred hand on my forehead and smiles sadly. "Katniss, my child, my beautiful daughter." I keep grinning up at him, blood dribbling down my cheek. "Daddy, daddy, I missed you so much-" "Listen to me child..." He looks up and I hear it too, the sound of gunfire. "Run." He dissipates like smoke and a bullet goes right through the trunk of the tree we were passing. I grab onto the lowest branch and pull my body up, screaming at the agonizing jots going through my back. When I'm at a standing position I pull Jordyn behind me, grab my gun and clear my throat. "May the odds be ever in your favor." I shoot the first person I see between the eyes. Mason starts shooting an automatic weapon as they start charging me. A man throws a knife and I duck under it, and pull the trigger with a bullet going through his chest. I hear the hovercraft above us and then a man throws me on the ground and starts strangling me. I claw at his hands as he smirks at me and then all of the sudden Jordyn jumps on top of him, grabs his large knife and brings it down to his chest, over and over again to the point of where blood is being sprayed everywhere and even on her. She's screaming, tears in her eyes and then the hovercraft lands and Haymitch rushes over to her. "Jordyn! Jordyn stop!" He pulls her off the man and she punches him in the jaw. "Get off me-" "Jordyn!" She looks up and gasps. "Haymitch he tried to-" Haymitch brings her into his chest. "I know baby girl, I know." Tears sting in her eyes but she has the biggest smile on her face. He then cradles her cheeks in his hands, brushing the tears and blood away from them. "I'm gonna get you home, we're going home." I see more blood seeping through my bandages and I put my hand to my stomach and I feel the agonizing pains in my back. Mason rushes over to me. "Katniss-" I fall over out cold.

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My eyes stay closed, I don't want them to open. People beg for me to wake, but I can't... And I won't. I know I'm back in Twelve because I feel the familiar pattern of the worn sheets I've been on so many times at Haymitch's. I feel Peeta holding my hand, his tears drip onto my skin. "Katniss... Open your eyes honey." I do for Peeta, and when I see him he just smiles, not caring to brush his tears away. "I thought you were dead." I give him a smile. "I was." He raises an eyebrow and I give a low, gravely chuckle. "I saw my dad... When I saw him I knew it was time... But he didn't take me." He looks over at the door and so do I. I see Emily and a doctor at the doorway and he whispers something in her ear, and walks out slowly. Emily walks over. "I've got some bad news." Peeta squeezes my hand gently. "Katniss, it seems a bullet went straight through your spinal cord, you're lucky to be alive but..." "But what?" Peeta says. "She's not paralyzed, but you are crippled now. Which means your walking capability will get worse over time, there will be major pain everyday in your legs. We can stop this as soon as you heal with medication but until then... There's nothing I or the doctors can do, I'm so sorry." I knew it was coming, some awful blow. "Where's Mason?" I mumble. "He's fine, don't worry." Peeta says. "Jordyn?" Peeta stops at her name. "What happened to Jordyn Peeta?" "The Capitol took her in for tests... Something caused her to snap." I think back to her brutally killing that man screaming and crying. "She was just trying to protect me-" "It was her biological father." I see Haymitch, shaking his head. "Left her for dead at ten, deadbeat, made her a criminal to survive, she's not crazy." He huffs. "She's my little girl now, and I'm glad she killed that son of a bitch." "When will she be back Haymitch?" He shrugs. "Dunno, I guess until they're done with testing." He shakes his head. "It never ends."

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