She Has My Heart Forever

Chapter 50 Darkness

Katniss POV

I open my eyes, the room dark and cold. My head filled with a thobbing pain. I rub my eyes carefully and slowly sit up, looking around. The room is only as bright as my eyes allowed. I can't stand so I decide to stay sitting. Where am I? What happened? I shake my head and calm myself down just as the door opens. The same man, Gale walks in. I hold my breath as he turns a light on and I'm shortly blinding. He walks over to me.

"Gale?" I croak. He smiles and shakes his head.

"No dear, I'm not Gale." he says kneeling down. "But I knew him."

"Why are you doing this?" I ask.

"Calm down, all in good time. I want you to remember the day your Peeta killed him." he says. What? Why?

"I....I just want my family." I say worried.

"I want an answer." he says more firmly. 

"I do." I say softly. He nods and sit down, crossing his legs like a child ready for a story.

"Tell me about him. About Gale." he says smiling. 

"Umm..he...he was sweet. Very sweet." I say. He nods and looks down. "Kind and loving. He took care of me."

"Why did you leave him?" he asks looking back to me.

"What? Well....because I loved Peeta." I say. He scoffs.

"Why love Peeta? Gale was better." he says. What is this?

"I just did." I say. He nods and looks down.

"Here." he reaches in his back pocket and pulls out I think his wallet, opening it and taking out a picture. He hands it too me. I look and see two boys, Gale and another. Pretty young, maybe 5 or 6. Both smiling and arms slung around each other's shoulders. I look up to him then back to the picture. Its him. 

"Your Gale's little brother." I say. He nods.

"I was. He was my everything, my role model. I loved him and your sweet, better Peeta took him." he growls.

"I'm sorry." I say.

"Your not sorry, but you will be." he says.

"Leave my family alone!" I snap. He narrows his eyes at me. "Take me but not them."

"But where's the fun in that?" he asks grinning. 

"Your sick." I say. 

"No, I'm just seeking revenge." he says standing up.

"Leave them be!" I yell. He grabs my wrists and pulls me to my feet, yanking me out of the room, down a dark hallway. I kick, punch and bite but he's too strong and holds me tight. I thrash around but its useless. He holds me so tight and walks into another room, closing the door behind us and sitting me down.

"Your a feisty one." he says tying my hands behind my back. "Sit still, I've got a gift for you." he leaves. I look around, this room has a window, covered in black paint. As I wait the seconds turn to minutes before he walks in with Peeta. 

"Katniss?" he says worried. He's been badly beaten, his left eye black and swollen, his lip busted open and bleeding and blood covering his whole chin. 

"Peeta." I say as the tears pool in my eyes.

"Ohhh...Kat no crying." he says. "He'll be just fine." he sets his down in a chair across from me. "So, lets all remember the day you shot my brother."

"Your brother?" Peeta asks.

"Gale." I says. He looks to me then back to him.

"I'm Will. Remember?" he says kneeling between us. "I came with sometimes when you met."

"Yes, I remember that." I say. He nods and stands up, walking around to Peeta's back.

"Good." he says. "But you don't remember the pain. The pain I had when he was gone. He was everything, a father like figure for me and from one day to the next he was gone. Wiped from us, from my family and me. You know how that feels?" he asks getting angry.

"No, I don't. But he ruined my life." I say. He frowns and walks to Peeta's side, punching him so hard without warning and scaring the hell out of me. Peeta slumps to his side and groans, blood dripping from his lips. 

"No! Stop!" I says as the tears escape down my cheeks. He smiles and throws another punch, hitting him clean in the jaw. "Please! Stop!"

"You feel that? That feeling of helplessness?" he asks punching him again in the side, causing a snapping sound. 

"Will stop it! Leave him be! Take me! Beat me but not him!" I cry. He looks at me for a while and kicks Peeta's knee making him slide off the chair and onto the ground. "Peeta!" he only winces and groans. Will stomps down on his knees a few times before pulling him back onto the chair.

"You feel that pain Katniss?" he asks. 

"Yes....yes I do...please stop it. Leave him alone." I cry. He looks at me, even with pity. "Take me."

"But then you wouldn't feel the pain I want you too." he says before leaving the room. I try to break free and get to Peeta but I can't.

"Peeta?" I cry softly. He coughs up some blood and looks up for his eyes to meet mine. 

"I'm.....I'm okay." he croaks.

"No.....this is my fault." I say.  He slowly shakes his head.

"Its not, stop it." he says just as the door opens. Will walks in with Rye over his shoulder and Emily being dragged behind him. He sets them down.

"No! Don't you dare touch them!" I yell. He smiles and shakes his head, tying them up and grabbing a hammer from the wall. "Will!"

"Feel the pain Katniss." he says before swinging it for Rye's knee.

~Later~

I open my eyes again, looking around to see Peeta, Rye and Emily laying on the other side of the room. 

"Rye!" I says sitting up.

"Hush now." I jump as the lights turn on and Will stands there, Peeta, Emily and Peeta all on they're knees, guns at the back of their heads. Strings lead from the triggers, to the wall, up and over them and to me. "You can save two, who will you?" 

"I won't do that!" I snap.

"Oh...." he steps to the left for me to see Jace, Jasbay and Bryant sitting against the wall. "Then they'll all die." he holds up a gun. 

"No! Stop!" I say. He smiles.

"Choose." he says. I look to all three who knee before me. My son, his girlfriend and my beloved husband.

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So how evil am I? I left out Rye and Emily getting beat cause thats not right and really nasty.

Nikki :)