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The ShotGun Wound.

A few weeks turned to a month, then a month to a few months. Peeta's dead in sure of it. I'll die here too, there's no way I'll make it out alive.  There's no one on the outside who can save us now. My stomach growls and I remember it's time to do my routine throwing up. I do it every morning lately.

Peeta's dead, my mother's dead, Gale's dead, Finnick's dead, Prim's dead. All because of me, they all got too close and I got them all killed. The combination of my dead loved ones and my physical pain makes me groan and the sobs start.

I am thrown face down on the stone and I sob hard. It's the hardest I've ever cried. I hear Gale whispering to me hoarsely about needing to believe we could get out, and that Peeta was alive.

Then an idea comes to mind. I bang on the bars with a metal cup. "GUARDS! GUARDS. ID LIKE TO SPEAK WITH THE PERSON IN CHARGE!" I yell through the cells.

"Don't do anything stupid!" Gale hisses.

I shrug it off and remind myself I'm doing this for Peeta. A man comes and slaps my face. "What do you want Everdeen?"

"Take me to the man in charge." I breath hard. "I have a proposition to make."

"Let's go." He says roughly jerking me from the cell. It's my first time out of our dim hallway, we get tortured in the rooms directly below us.

The building we're in is beautiful, and if I wasn't here as a prisoner i'd be amazed. They drag me to a room where they handcuff me and tie my feet to a chair. I'm already weak, what could my small fists do?

The door swings open and a large colored man appears. "Katniss Everdeen.." He says looking me over. "Winner of the seventy fourth hunger games ..... the girl on fire .... half of the star crossed lovers .... ah Katniss Everdeen. What can I do for you today?"

"I have a proposition." I speak with confidence.

"Continue..." He insists.

"Let me see Peeta, for ten minuets. You can listen and watch us. I just need to see him. And in return you can send me to Coin, I'll die and you can release the other prisoners." He ponders for a minuet. "Please, they don't deserve this."

"Okay. I'll take you up on your offer." I close my eyes and sigh relieved it worked. I won't thinking about my death till later. I'm lead to a room with no widows.

Almost instantly they throw in Peeta's body and he gasps in pain. "You have five minuets." A guard says before closing the door.

"Katniss, what's happening?" He breaths into my chest. I shake my head and kiss him for a long time.

"I'm going to the Capitol Peeta." I whisper.

"Why? They'll kill you." He sobs.

"In exchange for seeing you one last time, I would be sent to the Capitol. There I will be killed on national television and you all will be released afterwards." I speak slowly and quietly.

"Katniss please don't. I can't live without you. You know that!"

"Peeta you'll die with me!"

I think I head the door knob jiggle so I kiss him again. He holds me close and whispers into my hair. "I love you Katniss. I love you I love you I love you."

"Peeta. I love you too." I sob holding him tight. The door swings open and I cling to him. "Please! I change my mind, I don't want to leave him! Please." I scream at the guard.

"Too late. The deals already made."  He pries us apart and I'm staring at him hard.

"PEETA I LOVE YOU! ALWAYS!" I scream trying to get back to him. My eyes are blurry with tears.