Life of the Mockingjays (Sequel to Panem High)

Possessed

Katniss P.O.V

I woke up the next day and look out the window. The blizzards have stopped and the snow has formed a small layer over the sand, making it frosty. I look up and down the beach and put my hand up to the sky and move it to the right which lets the sun come through. I make the snow go away from the sand and the sun will melt the rest. I smile and turn around, walking downstairs. I get to the kitchen where ashton is and he is staring out the window. "What you thinking about?" I ask him and stand next to him. "What do you think?" He asks looking down. "Alex huh?" I ask and he nods. "She was a big part of my life. She was my first love , first kiss, first real friend" he says and I nod. "I understand. You just need time" I say. "How about five minutes" I hear someone say and turn around to see Cato standing at the door half smiling. "Cato!" I shout and run over and hug him. "Yeah. Alex and my parents are heading over here" he says. "Yeah well so is Matthew so this should be awkward" ashton says. "Don't make it awkward. Alex probably won't talk to you" I say and he shrugs. "We can't go to my room" he says. "Why not?" I ask. "There's pictures of us all over my wall that I haven't taken down yet" he says and I smile sadly. "Well it's fine" I say smiling and he sits his mug in the sink. "Yeah. Fine" he says walking upstairs. I turn around to Cato and his eyes follow ashton upstairs. "One more thing" Cato says and I sigh. "What?" I ask. "She's being very uh moody lately" he says and I shrug. "It'll be fine" I say reassuring him. "I sure hope so" he says and I smile. "CATO!" Someone squeals and he turns around and clove jumps into his arms. "I missed you" she says hugging him tightly. "I missed you too" he says kissing her. I walk to the door and Alex pushes past me and Effie glares at her. "Sorry sweetheart" Haymitch says. "How are you back? I thought the flights were off" I say and they nod. "There was an emergency flight going out and we were placed on it" Effie says and I nod. Just as I'm about to shut the door Matthew appears. "Alex is here" I whisper and he groans. "Ashton's upstairs" I say. "Thanks. I'll go see him" he says and I nod and shut the door behind him. "Katniss why did a girl just barge into the movie room. Shout and then leave?" Harry asks and I sigh. "That would be Alex" Effie says. "You guys want coffee or tea?" I ask. "Tea would be great" Haymitch says. "Coffee please Katniss" Effie says and I nod. I start making it and Harry walks over. "You what tea?" I ask and he nods while smiling. "Louis kept me up all night talking" he says and I smile. "I love him to death but my god he can talk" he says and I laugh. I pass him the first cup and make another one and make coffee too. Effie walks back in with Alex and makes her sit down. I glance at her and she just stares at me. I shake my head and she just looks away. I hand Effie and haymitch their drinks and they sit down at the breakfast bar. The rest of the boys walk in looking slightly annoyed and I smile. "Morning" I say. "Morning" they say. "Alex if you're going to just sit there and be rude then you should go sit in the car" Effie says annoyed. "Prim and rue are downstairs" I say and she glances up before standing up and walking away. Effie groans and places her cup down. "She'll come around" I say hopefully and Effie just nods. I just sit down and sigh. "What's wrong with her?" I ask. "I honestly don't know" Effie says. "Morning" Annie says walking in and smiling. "Morning Mrs Odair" I say and she blushes. "Mrs?!" Effie says and I nod. "Finnick proposed yesterday" I say and she beams. "That's fantastic" she says and Annie blushes. "Congratulations" Haymitch says and she smiles. Ashton and Matthew walk in and smile. "Hey guys" he says smiling. "Hey, where are you off to?" I ask. "We're going to meet Abigail and Ronan" he says and I nod. "You got your phone?" I ask and he nods. "Okay, see you guys later" I say smiling. "Okay , bye" he says smiling and waving. I turn around to Effie and she smiles slightly. "Katniss" I hear someone whisper and spin around and catch a shadow out the corner of my eye. I start to walk slowly towards it and it goes past again. "Follow me" someone whispers and I follow it slowly. I stop at the top of the first set of stairs and stop. "John. What a pleasure" I say turning around but he grabs my arm. "Let go of me" I say and he lets go. "What are you doing?" I ask. "Relax Katniss. Just checking up on you. That's what a good uncle would do now , isn't it?" He asks and I laugh slightly. "Yeah but a good uncle probably wouldn't kill my parents , my sister and her friend" I say and he just stares at me. "Can we just skip this. We killed you , you killed my parents. We're pretty much even." I say bored. "Fine" he says simply. "I came for your help" he says and I scoff. "Help? How stupid are you?" I ask him. "Look I have people I love. People I need to protect and you don't know the full story so I suggest that you shut the hell up. And if you thought for even a moment that I wanted to kill my own brother , his wife and 2 innocent teenage girls then you are the only monster here" he says. "What do you mean?" I ask and he goes silent. "John if you know something, you better tell me or you will not get my help" I say and he glances up at me. "The scar" he says. "Wolf attack. I was saving someone. Saving three people to be exact. A boy named Rory , a girl named Brooke and another boy who's name I don't even know. They were all vampires. All young and I put my life on the line to save them. Only I mistook him for a wolf which was in fact false. He was a hybrid. With compulsion and a hatred for witches. Your mother. The only thing standing in his way was your father. He needed to die so your mother could. So he made me kill him. They never found a reason for his death except the crash. It was me Katniss and when he found out you were in the car he got angry at me for nearly failing. So he compelled me to leave until the time was right. Then came your sisters death. Rues death wasn't planned but she was there. I was compelled to kill whoever stood in my way. So I did. Then after you just got over it I killed your parents. Well I was compelled to. Anyway I need to protect someone which is pretty hard when the same person hates your guts" he says."You see when Rory came after me , he never knew who I was. He didn't care. I killed his mate and that was enough I suppose" he says and I nod. "But I need to protect someone" he says. "Who?" I ask. "You" he says. "Who?" I ask. "You!" He says. "Katniss I need to protect you because that hybrid just so happens to want you dead and I can't let him kill anyone else." He says. "I can protect myself" I say. "Katniss I know you hate me. I made sure you hated me because it was always easier to have you hate me than to have you know the truth" he says and I look up at him. "Listen to me Katniss. I hate myself as much as you do but trust me on this one" he says. "What can you do to protect me?" I ask. "That's a whole other story" he says. "You're not dead, are you?" I ask and he shakes his head. "My murderer is vampire , a species also known as dead. My killer is dead therefor making me alive and also let's me save you" he says. "And also lets you find out that your father was a liar" he says. "This is clearly not a good way to get on my good side." I say and he gestures for me to sit on the stairs. I sit next to him and he looks over at me. "Katniss he was not your father. He was not Silvano's father and he was not Prims father and he was not Cameron's father " he says and I shake my head. "He was my father" I say defensively. "Katniss he wasn't" he says. "You just said that the only way to kill her was to get through my father. Why would you say that if it wasn't true" I ask. "Because I needed to know that you would talk to me" he says. "Well you better explain yourself before I kick you out" I say and hear someone walk out. "Katniss I'm-" prim says and goes wide eyes and steps back. "I am your father. I am Silvano's father, I am Cameron's father and prim, I am your father" he says and I shake my head. "It's true" I hear someone say and look up to see my father. Well I think. "Will someone explain to me what is going on because my whole life has been one big lie , I've had secret siblings , secret powers , witches as parents and I don't know what to believe so someone explain!" I say tearing up. Cameron and Silvano come through. "Why are you here?" I ask. "You mind messages us" Cameron says. "No I didn't" I say. "Okay you need to listen" John says. "I'm telling the truth. Your father pretended to be your father and erased your memory. I was never listed under my parents name and nobody knew who I was. Well no one in the supernatural world did anyway. I was compelled to leave so I had to. Your father here stepped in and pretended to be your father until he died. Your mother had lost 2 people in her life. It was too much to handle" he says. "We kept the lie up. I thought he was dead. And then he killed your mother" my 'father' says. "How could you do that to me? You knew all along and none of you told me. I want to know what's real and what's not. I will give you one chance to explain yourselves because I've had enough of your lies!" I say and start crying. Silvano wraps his arms around me and I cry on his shoulder. "Shh Kat just listen" he whispers and I sniff. "You are all my children" he says. "But how is that possible?" I ask. "I was never your father. I raised all of you hating john for leaving me with his family. I loathed your mother. Hated her with everything I had and all of his children just reminded me why I hated him. I acted nice. It was all an act though" he says. "I tried to come home so many times but they wouldn't let me. They had me captured and everyday I wanted to see my family again but I couldn't. It killed me" John says. "Now I'm free from all of you , I'm leaving. You'll never see me again" he says disappearing. I stare at the space he was standing in before storming out the house. I stand on the porch and just stare at the sea. "Katniss" I hear john say and turn around. "If you're alive then how is prim?" I ask. "Because I came back to life but it won't effect them" he says and I nod. "Okay" I say and tears roll down my cheek. "I just want the truth" I say. "This is it. I'm your father Katniss. Your real one and wether you like it or not nothing can change it" he says and I just look at him. "Katniss I know I've been the worst person in the world and I could easily get someone to erase your memory and get out of your life forever if that's what you want" he says. "What I want is a father who will protect me , worry about things that I shouldn't have to and look after me" I say. "That's why I'm back. I've got a spell on me which means I can't get compelled" he says. "I'm here to stay and even if I die trying to protect you from that monster I don't care, at least you'll know that I actually care about you." He says. "Well you sure have a funny way of showing it" I say and he sighs. "I was compelled" he says annoyed and I shake my head. "I don't know what to think" I say and he nods. "It's definitely allot to take in. Your dead uncle is alive and is actually your father" he says and I nod and glance over at him. "Where are you staying?" I ask. "I don't know. I came back today to protect you from that monster" he says. "Stay here. I'll give you one chance to prove yourself. If you mess that up I'll make sure you never see us again" I say standing up and walking inside. "Thank you" he says. "I won't let you down" he says. "I hope not. Because I promise you an eternity of misery if you do" I say walking inside. I run upstairs and into my room. I garb the box from under my bed and take out all the pictures and make them hover in the air before setting fire to them. Tears roll down my cheek as I'm filled with a feeling of betrayal. How could he? "Katniss" Peeta says worriedly and comes up behind me. He wraps his arms around me and I turn around and cry on his shoulder. He wraps his arms around my waist and kisses my cheek. "Hey, it's okay" he says. "My dad hated me and john is my real dad" I say sobbing. "What?" He asks shocked. "He's alive" I say sniffing and he puts me at shoulder length. "Maybe it's a good thing" he says and I look at him confused. "Katniss you don't need to admit it but I know that on some level you are feeling a little happy that your real father is alive" he says and I look down. "How would you know that?" I ask and he looks at me slightly hurt. I sigh and he bites his lip. "Katniss I know you better than you know yourself. You went through hell when your family died. At least now things are getting better. Just give him a chance" he says softly and I bite my lip. "Just cheer up. The last thing I want is for you to be hurting" he says and hugs me. I lay my head on his shoulder and he rubs my back. "Thanks" I say. "I love you" he says. "I love you too" I say smiling slightly. He lifts me up and I cuddle into his chest. "Why don't you get some sleep? Take your mind off it" he says and I nod. He lays me on the bed and puts the covers over me. He kisses my forehead softly and pushes the hair out my face. I smile and close my eyes. He hugs me and turns off the light before leaving the room.