I do, I need you. #wattys2016

Meeting Coin.

We slept and talked on and off for about seven hours before we arrived in thirteen.

Gale came in letting us know. We were tangled together sleeping. I felt bad after he woke us up, Peeta had a panic attack. He was still asleep and started screaming for me to stay with him. It lasted half an hour before I was able to wake him up, everyone had given us privacy. He clung to me for fifteen minuets afterwards and we just laid there, I waited for him to calm down. And when he finally did, Haymitch was waiting outside of the main door of the hovercraft. Haymitch goes first, then Peeta, then me as he helps me down.

So this is thirteen.

I sigh looking around, everyone's eyes instantly stare at us. I feel my cheeks grow red and I drop Peeta's hand. His eyes show hurt but I shrug it off. Some walks you just have to take alone.

The people of thirteen all work in sync, doing the same thing of the same variation of their work. They all wear dark grey jump suits, rolled up at the elbow. I notice marks on their arms, no not marks more like scans, like a barcode.

There's a large pair of doors that slide open as you near them, and when they open we are greeted by a dark skinned man. "I'm Boggs. The head of thirteens military forces."

Finnick, Johanna, and mostly Peeta are in almost as much awe as I am. This place is huge. We start to walk. "Over forty stories high and low, over two thousand rooms."

"Why so many?" Johanna asks.

"All we have it underground." Boggs says. "We can only go above once or twice a month to be sure we aren't found."

"Where do you get food from?" Peeta asks.

"We have livestock here. Along with various farms maintained by the people here."

"Oh." He responds. The door opens again, and my breath is sucked away instantly. We're standing on a ledge, or a balcony overseeing all of the levels. Hundreds of feet are below us, hundred above us. We walk through a clearing and everything opens.

Peeta's hand finds mine as we walk through the crowds of people. Shoulders brush mine and push me sideways resulting in Peeta asking a million times if I'm fine. I always reply yes.

"Preisdent Coin's office is this way. We will be there in a little." Boggs informs me.

"This place is so cool.." Finnick murmurs.

"Yeah." Peeta drops our hands as he catches Boggs staring at us. I take the front of the pack and Peeta stays behind, so I walk a little faster.

"Is she nice?" I ask Gale beside me.

"Who? Coin? It depends on if she likes you or not."

"How will I make her like me?" I ask quietly.

"Just try and be yourself, but your fiery self."

"Her fiery self?" Peeta asks behind me.

"Yeah. The Katniss she used to be. The Katniss only I've seen before."

Mentally I scold Gale, for being so rude to Peeta. But physically I shoot him a gaze and slightly shake my head. I drop back a little and walk beside Peeta. I take his hand squeezing it tight letting him know everything is okay.

"Be abrasive Katniss." Plutarch says. "Don't take no for an answer, be the mockingjay we all know you can be."

I nod and take a deep breath, we all push through the single person door.

Immediately she stands, her gray straight hair falling down her shoulders and face. Her cheeks are hallow and her eyes look sunken, like she hasn't slept in days. She wears the same basic uniform everyone else wear except she had a variety of tiny patches above her left breast pocket. She stands placing her hands on the table and looks at us coldly. I catch her gaze instantly. "Only Hatmich, Katniss, Boggs, and Plutarch shall be here for this conversation." She says. Way to make a first impression Coin.