District 13

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----Haymitch's pov----

Soon after we drugged Peeta we land in 13. We open the door and walk out wit Peeta on a stretcher. When I walk in the entrance I get tackled by hugs of Prim. She looks up at me with a sad smile then she looks around and I know what she is looking for. Katniss.

"She isn't here." Is all I can say without bursting into tears. Prim looks at me confused and I try to explain to her but if I do I will burst into tears. Thankfully Plutarch notice this and walks away with Prim to excplain.

I continue to walk into 13 when I met Lily. Katniss and Prim's mother who is also my sister.

That's right I am Katniss' uncle and she knows that. When she went into her first games, every night I would cry myself to sleep and the same thing when she went into the Quell. And that is why I am so close to crying now.

Lily walks up to me and looks me in the eyes. She can read my feelings every time she does that. She throws her arms around me and wraps me in a hug. I hug her back and let the tears coma as I cry in her shoulder. After a few minutes the tears stop coming and I hear her whisper in my ear: "Why are you crying?" If I could I would start crying again but I can't.

I pull away and look her in the eyes before I walk over to some chairs and sit us down. I take her cold hand in my. I look at the floor and start. "The night the Quell was announced both Peeta and Katniss came to my house and begged to save the other. Katniss was more convincing. She said that in the last arena we saved her and now it was Peeta's turn. Back then I already known about the rebellion so I had to fake cry. I knew we were going to get her out. But things didn't go as planned. When Katniss shooted the arrow at the force field, it was falling apart, making it easier for us to enter and help them. But the Capitol got first. While we got Peeta we were not aware about the other hovercraft. It was a Capitol hovercraft and it took Katniss." When I said Katniss name my voice cracked.

I see Lily covering her mouth as she cries and I hug her as I start to cry to. We break away from the hug and go to her apartment to talk more about it.

----Peeta's pov----

When I wake up I am no longer on the hovercraft I am in what looks like a hospital room. I have bandage on my arm that itch really bad, but is there one thing I have learned about itching wounds is to never itch them. It will only give an infection.

I remember who teached me that. Katniss. And she is probably dead. I start crying, thinking she is dead.

The door slides open and no one else than Prim walks in. She has puffy eyes and tear stained cheeks. Does she know?

She comes up to me looks me pleadingly in the eyes. "Is it true. That Katniss is in the Capitol?"

My answer comes out as a whisper. "Yes." After that I start crying.

Prim starts crying too and I hold out my arms for a hug. She accepts it and we sit there crying together.

After a few minutes we brake away and we sit there looking at each other and finally she speaks up: "I almost knew this was going to happen. She loves you. She was just afraid to admit it. I knew she was going to save you over herself."

She takes a shaky breath from the crying and continues. "I thought she was going to end up marrying Gale ever since she met him. They always had strong feelings for each other. But when I saw you and her in the arena, I realised that that was something different. In the woods is the only place she smiled, but with you she could laugh."

When I hear this I realise it is true. She really does love me. Prim goes away to give me a cup of water. I sip some of the water and Prim continues her little story time.

"It wasn't uncle's fault she is in the Capitol. He didn't know the Capitol's hovercraft was there..." She trails off and look at the floor. Uncle? She has a uncle?

I need to ask her. "What do you mean by 'uncle'?" She looks up at me with wide eyes and a small smirk.

She looks like she is going to mock me or something. "You don't know, don't you?" I shake my head and sit up. "Our mother has a brother and you know him. Her brother is Haymitch." What?! "When Haymitch won his games he knew his family was going to be punished. He loved Lily, my mom, the most in the family. So the first thing he did when he came home was to tell her to run away to the seam. She did. She found our father and married him. Changed her last name from Abernathany to Everdeen. Her and Haymitch's family was killed a few days after the wedding. They both were 18 by then. Haymitch started drinking and Katniss came to the world.

When Haymitch got to know that he was an uncle he changed. He stopped drinking and took care of us. Under the games when he mentored he acted like a drunk. A few years passed and it was my turn to say hello to the world. Then our father got killed by the mines. Mom went into a depression and Haymitch had to take care of us. The stories Katniss told you about her hunting is also true, I mean come on she couldn't learn how to shoot with an bow and arrow all in a few days? So Katniss and Haymitch took care of us and slowly mother came back to life.

Then the reaping of the 74th hunger games came and as you know my name was picked. If you had looked at Haymitch you could have seen tears in his eyes. Then Katniss volunteered. Every night before the games began they would sit together in one of the couches and cry. And when the games ended he was the happiest man alive. And I guess that's the end of this night's bedtime-story."

I chuckle a little before I bring her into a hug and we stay like that for a long time.

Authors note: It is a lot diffrent from the orginal. And I don't know why I made Haymitch Katniss' uncle. I guess I just felt like it. And I don't know what it is with all the hugs! Also how did you like the story?

Thanks for reading and MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOUR-katniss701


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