Mocking Jay TRAPPED

Chapter 23

I give a deadly glare at Snow as my hand shakes with the gun. The room is slightly blurry to me and reeks of roses and blood.

"Surrender Snow" I step closer.

His mouth hangs open and he starts to chuckle.

"Peeta. You lived. I thought your body would be disintegrating into dust by now." He stands and I click the trigger into firing position.

"Oh now now Peeta. You can't just end a war. Not without paying the price" He smirks but still eyes my gun. "You see... Katniss Everdeen and Finnick Odair are dead by now surely. Many of your rebellion people are gone as well. Both of our troops are tired and being shot down by the second-" He stares at my reaction.

"Spit it out Snow. What? " My head pounds and I begin to lose focus.

"Why don't we call it a truce. All of your family and friends are gone. Our troops are willing to let you surrender. Why not? " He has that evil fake grin plastered on his face as he holds our his hand.

I shake with anger. I don't believe him. Not for a second. Katniss and Finnick aren't dead. I will not believe his lies. I am not letting him win.

"No way. They're lies! You're a liar!" I raise my gun back up again and slam him against the wall. "Listen Snow. The districts are all against you. You've killed so many lives. Quite a lot of people who you thought you trusted hate you, and Katniss and Finnick are still alive. So why don't YOU surrender?? " I press the rifle on his forehead.

He actually looks, scared. Or maybe it's worry? Or he has a backup plan? I don't know. The muscles in my finger intensify and I prepare to kill the man who put me through so much hell, when my leg begins to shake recklessly. I fall and it twists and kicks, and I have no feeling at all of it. Snow reaches for my neck and I shoot.

Bam.

He collapses to the ground holding his stomach.

I want to celebrate but my leg is going haywire and I finally figure out something. It was the leg I had surgery on.

I then realize something I shouldve a long time ago. My fake leg is rugged. I shouldn't have trusted that nurse. I only now understand why the nurse was so apologetic and suspicious. I only now understand that she was the enemy all along. And she is holding Finnick and Katniss captive. I groan in frustration.

Gaurds that were called burst in and I shoot again and again. Most of them are so focused on Snows body that I am able to get out with only two gaurds chasing me.

I duck into a corner after tumbling down the stairs. I grip my twitching fake leg until my knuckles are white. The seizure just gets worse and I am totally out of control of it. I can only crawl out a window and lie back in the wet dirt. It's nighttime now and I hear screams. Murder.

I turn back to the door. I expect them to come chasing after me. But I assume that they are still caught up with Snow.

My leg is still shaking harder making it impossible for me to move, which was the plan I guess. I'm stuck and there is no escaping this time.

About a dozen men equipped with guns emerge from the heavy darkness. They rush into the palace. I do my best to roll farther into the shadows. Two men stay behind and gaurd the door.

My leg is tearing from my skin due to the viggerous shaking. I hold my breath trying not to scream from the pain. Tiny shocks start in the metal of the fake leg. The pain gets more intense by the second then it stops.

I shoot my head around and see a woman. She comes into sight and shoots two darts. The gaurds drop and she comes towards me.

It was the nurse I saw as she came more into focus. She holds a knife and a back up as quickly as I can with one leg.

"Where are they? What did you do? Are they alive? " I yell, trying hard to sound like I was fine.

"Yes Peeta they're fine. Now sit still"

She lowers the knife to my messed up leg and for some reason, a part if me wants to trust her and I obey.

She slices a wire that had come loose. The fake skin peeled and all I could see was metal and more wiring.

My leg had gone numb by now and I was able to pull myself into a standing position. The nurse acted as a crutch for my broken leg.

"Where are-" She silences me by placing her finger on my lips. She had a mysterious look on her face and I get impatient with her.

"Tell me" I say in the slightest whisper. I glare at her.

"They. Well Katniss, she's fine. I got her out. Finnick, he, um" She looks at her feet and a tear falls. If it werent dark out I wouldve seen her cheeks flare red. "They got him"

No. No. Not Finnick. "Where? " I turn her back to face me. "Where is Finnick?!"

"Peeta don't be too angry with me please. I know you have multiple reasons too. I'm sorry. My family. I tried to save them! I managed to take Katniss and she made it out. I don't know where. But Finnick, he tried to stay and stall time. If it weren't for him, I would've been able to save Katniss. I'm sorry" She is full on crying now. I stare at the blank, lifeless sky, trying to take it all in.

Finnick sacrificed himself for Katniss, for me. I told him to protect her. This is all because of me. I want it to be over. I don't deserve this.

"Take me back. I'll find her" I hop forward.

"No a hovercraft picked her up. It didn't have the Capitals sign so I suppose it was one of yours." She wipes her nose and composes herself.

"Kalvin. She should be safe with him" I nod, now I need to just to end this.

We make it to the center of Panem with the nurse helping me limp on one leg. It took hours but I saw the sad lonely soldiers still standing. Firing slowly, once in a while. Some would fall or drop dead. There were few left from each side. Weapons were low and I could tell that they were just waiting each other out for who was to surrender first.

I approach the Capitals general on the side.

"President Snow is dead. You have no leader. Surrender and we will leave Panem in peace." I hold out my hand.

He stares at me in the same straight face. "Leave" He shakes my hand and turns to face the task of having clean up the city's mess.

I turn and look at my fallen troops. The war is over. A hovercraft drops and I see Kalvin and Katniss. She sees me and hesitantly runs into my arms. I sigh and rest my head on hers. I feel a sense of small relief and I know by how her muscles relax that she does too.

I turn with her hand in mine and we walk towards the hovercraft.

This is the last chapter. Sort of a terrible ending but I am including an epilouge. I promise it will come out sooner than this chapter did! Vote comment and share!