Always Together (After Mockingjay Story)

Chapter 12

(Peeta's POV)

I wake up with a start and realize I don't know where I am. I look around me. All I see are gray metal walls with a metal door that is probably locked. I try to get up from the chair I am sitting on, but realize that I'm tied to it. 'Really Gale?' I think to myself.

Why does he have to do this? Why did he even come back? Why is all this happening to us? Why can't anything ever turn out right? Why am I asking myself all these questions when I should be trying to escape from this place and get back?

"HELP!" I scream in the top of my lungs. "HELP! Anyone?" I scream again.

I'm pretty sure no one can hear me, but I keep trying. I need to get out of this and go back home. I need to get back to Katniss and make sure she's okay.

I think of another way to get out. I'll try to get out of here myself. My hands are tied with a rope behind the chair so I can't do anything with them. I try to wiggle it free, but find that it's no use. I start rocking in the chair trying to loosen the ropes around me. I am desperate and will try anything to get out of here.  

(Katniss's POV)

I just realized that Gale was involved with Peeta's disappearance after Finnick told me he heard his voice. Finnick and Annie don't know about Gale coming back. I explained everything that happened with Gale when he came back to Finnick and Annie.

"So you think Gale has something to do with this?" Finnick asks once I'm done.

"No, I know Gale has something to do with this," I tell him. It makes sense and it's the only thing I have now. I just hope I'm right and nothing else has happened. He thinks about it for a minute and agrees with me.

"Okay, so we know who was involved. But what are we going to do next?" Annie questions.

"I don't know," I admit, "but we have to do whatever we can to get him back."

We pace around there house trying to come up with a plan. I'm really worried and I don't know what to do or how to get Peeta back.

What if I never will get him back? What if Gale did something bad to him? What if Gale is torturing him? What if he hijacked him? I shouldn't be thinking of all these what if's.

"What are we going to do?" I ask. I start to get tears in my eyes.

"Katniss it's going to be okay. We are going to find him," Annie insures me and rubs my back.

"But what if we don't?" I ask. She shakes her head and tells me not to think like that. We all stay silent for a moment.

"How about we go find Gale? Katniss should go and talk to him and me and Annie watch," Finnick suggest.

"Why do I have to talk to him?" I question. I really do now want to talk to him. I might explode and hit or beat him the second he's in the same room as me.

"Just to see how he acts. And maybe he will tell you something that will lead us to Peeta," he says.

"No. I don't like that idea. I am not talking to him," I tell him.

"Don't you want to find Peeta? We have to do whatever we can. That includes you talking to Gale." I think about what he says. Can I get information out of him if I go and talk to him? I might be able to get something and that's better than nothing.

"Okay," I say quietly. It's the last thing I want to do, but if it'll help get Peeta back, then it will be worth it.

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Finnick, Annie, and I get ready for the plan. I take a little microphone and speaker and put it behind my ear. The microphone is so they can hear and record what Gale says. The speaker is so they can tell me what to do if something goes wrong.

I called Gale and told him to meet me at the town square, which he gladly agreed to. I sat down on a bench while Finnick stayed behind a bush on the other side. Annie had to stay home to take care of Fin.

"He's coming! He's coming," Finnick shouts into his microphone.

"Ah, you don't have to scream into my ear," I scold into the microphone.

"Sorry," he apologizes, "I just want this to work."

"I do too," I remind him.

A smiling Gale walks over to me. "Hey Catnip," he says casually. I wanted to smack the smile off his face.

"Hey Gale. How have you been?"

"I'm good, great actually. How about you?"

"I-well I can't find Peeta and I don't know where he is and I'm kind of scared," I tell him. If I'm going to get information out of Gale I have to pretend I don't know anything else about it. Maybe he will leak something that will help us, but knowing Gale, he'll just act like he doesn't know anything.

"What? Did he run away?" He asks shocked, but you can easily tell he is acting.

"Umm.. I'm not sure, but i think he was kidnapped," I explain.

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that Katniss," he says sympathetically. All I want to do now is smack him and force him to tell me where he's keeping Peeta, but I know I have to be patient. "Do you want to go inside?" He asks pointing to a restaurant. I don't want to go anywhere with him, but I agree.

We walk in and take our seats. Its a quiet restaurant and there aren't many people in here. A waiter comes over to us and takes our orders. He tells us he will be back later with our food and leaves.

It's pretty quiet and neither of us have an effort to start a conversation. I hope I will hear Finnick over the speaker in my ear, but it remains silent. After a while Gale had excused himself to go to the bathroom.

"Check his phone! But wait until he is gone and put it away once he comes back," Finnick tells me over the speaker in my ear.

"Okay," I whisper back to him. I make sure Gale was gone before I took his phone from the jacket that was hanging over his chair. He didn't have a password so I was able to search his phone. I went in his notes and found an address. I'm not sure it will help or if that's where he's keeping Peeta, but I take out my phone and take a picture of it. I try to look for more things, but nothing looks important or suspicious.

I go to his text messages and one catches my eye. I open it up to see he's texting a girl. I look at her picture to see she has blonde hair and looks like a rich kid. I start reading their conversation and it makes my stomach turn. The girl is probably from district 2, where he probably met her. I take a bunch of pictures of his conversation with this girl.

"Katniss? Did you find something?" Finnick asks over the speaker.

"Yeah. A lot actually," I tell him.

"Okay well that's go- Katniss! Put the phone away. He's coming," he warns. I turn off his phone and quickly put it back into his jacket pocket.

"Hey. sorry I was long, but are you ready to eat?" He asks.

"Umm.. I uh.. I actually have to go," I say, "so bye." I get up and leave without another word. I'm not sure why he was texting her the things he was, but I now know he wasn't alone.

Cliffhanger! Well, kind of. So what did you guys think of this chapter? What do you think Katniss found on his phone? (I know I kind of told you, but anything more specific?) Who do you think the blonde headed girl was that Gale was texting? Comment below!

And it's like 3am here right now, but i felt bad for not posting in a while. Well, I hope you enoyed this chapter! If you did, comment below or click on the star to vote! Also reccomend this to a friend so they can read this too! As always, THANK YOU!