A Change In The Mockingjay

Katniss Everdeen woke up with a sense of many things.

Confusion and clarity, anger and tranquility, longing and contentment....it didn't make sense but that's how it was for everyone who had been flushed with tracker jacker venom...

"Peeta is a traitor and was taken by District 13. Gale is dead. You have no family."

The lies spoken to Katniss came out of Snow's mouth and flew into her ears and began to nest in her brain, determined to stay there.

The one I had cared about is dead and the other is a dangerous traitor. I never had a family.

"Peeta must die. He betrayed us Katniss. He betrayed you."

Once again the words wrapped around her head and stuck there.

"Do you, my dear broken mockingjay, know what this means?"

She shook her head in a mindless manner.

"War. That is what that means."

The word rang in her ears and she stood. After all of the brain washing she knew what to do when the word was spoken like it had been.

Prepare. It's war time.

》----- >

The Capitol had given her a suit of red for battle. A suit that would have been too flashy for the old Katniss but it didn't matter, because this wasn't her.

The suit was stiff and detailed with it's plates of shiny red material. It began with layered shoulder plates that cast a strange, mesmerizing affect on the viewer that only that Capitol could create and curved down onto her sleeves. The sleeves had engraved roses on them and clung tightly to her arms, making them slightly uncomfortable. Covering her chest was a breast plate with more roses engraved around the edges. It curved around her hips and seemed to dissappear into the bottom half of her, flowing smoothly onto her leggings. Her leggings were surprisingly simple and they tucked neatly into her boots, completing the battle armor ensemble.

"Shall we go Ms. Everdeen?"

Katniss gave a curt nod of her head to a pilot and boarded the Capitol ship, prepared to kill anyone that got in her way of the traitor Peeta.

》----- >

When the ship arrived at a safe distance near the above ground ruins of District 13, Katniss wrinkled her nose in disgust. A disgust that was not her own. It was a disgust that had been engraved into her mind by President Snow.

"Missile launch in three,
two,
one."

When the expected howl of the missile that did not come everyone stared around, confused. That's when the lights went off the missile ship that was still airborne miles behind them fell. A shaking aftermath sent a majority of people screaming but others, like Katniss and Snow, remained calm.

"Relax please."

Snow spoke over the slight panic and quickly recieved everyones attention.

"This is auite obviously 13's doing. All we need to do is make a change in plans. Instead we attack from the inside. Katniss will go in and kill the traitor. If and or when things flare up, a select few break through and help our broken mockingjay. Understood?"

A few murmurs of "yes" sounded in the dark ship. Satisfied, Snow turned toward Katniss.

"Time to go Ms. Everdeen."

》----- >

When District 13 took in the broken mockingjay they didn't expect her to be so whole looking. The truth was though is that the mockingjay was terribly broken and so corrupted from the Capitol that she would try to take the life of a friend, a lover. And that was what Snow wanted. For her to look so innocent that when she striked, they would be in a panic.

That is exactly what happened.

Peeta unknowingly stepped into her cell to see her soon after she was recovered from the ship and got too close to the corrupted bird. He escaped narrowly with his life. Katniss fought and struggled against the Disrict and was able to pull an alarm, drawing the ships to her and beginning a blood bath.

Screams could be heard for no less than a second before the victims death and blood had begun to stain the compound's floors. Bombs were sent off from new Capitol ships that had been called for and they were rattling the ground with tremendous force, leaving people to stumble quite a bit while they fought. One of these people to stumble was the mockingjay herself. She was trampled and slashed at and left for dead when a small something came her way.

Primrose.

Prim being Katniss' sister and a medical wiz rushed toward her wounded sister. Her wounded sister that didn't remember her.

"Katniss! Oh my gosh....it's going to be okay, I'm gonna help you."

Shocked by the strangers pleasant nature Katniss shook her head slightly (the pain was beginning to get to her too much) and said no. Prim attended to her anyway with much struggle. She was forced to drag her full-grown sister away from the battle and into a slightly safe corner. When the nurse in training finished fixing up her patient she set the mockingjay's head in her lap.

"Don't you remember me Katniss? I'm your sister Prim. You remember me right?"

I never had a family.

Strange, sudden and unexpected rage filled the mockingjay and with it, sudden strength. Katniss flung herself on top of Prim and clutched the girl's throat.

"Liar! You liar!"

The mockingjay screamed with all her might and squeezed Prim's throat harder. The girl struggled and struggled, she attempted to scream multiple times and struggled some more but then......

Tension released her muscles and she went still.

That's when the mockingjay snapped out of her spell. She saw the damage she had done and decided that there was no going back. She fought with Snow even after the District 13 win and went down a road as his broken mockingjay.