The Quarter Quell

The Truth

Katniss's POV:

I cry next to Posy. I hold Posy's hand tight in between my hands. Peeta manages to stop the bleeding from her head and even though she's gone we tight it up with moss just in case. I wonder how the crowd is, her family, Prim. . . I know they are not taking this easy. Peeta leaves me alone so I'll say my goodbyes to Posy. He leaves a kiss on her cheek and goes away. Parts of Posy's hair filled with blood, pale faced with the redness of her lips has disappeared, her body lies motionless on the ground and those innocent eyes never to open again. She'll never see another sunset or those millions of stars in the sky. Posy will never grow up and know what true love is, she won't finish her education and her little laugh will never be heard again. The powerful smile that made people happy in an instant will be missing and it's sad that the world won't know about her or share her friendship. I get up and just walk around her body. My tears fall on my cheek and slide down as I stare at Posy. I don't know what to say. Her family and Prim would want me to say something.

"Posy, I don't know what to say. I'm sorry, for everything. I'm sorry this happened to you. I wasn't the best guardian and I'm sorry." I say crying; but there's more I have to say. "You brought that smile to everyone's faces and made those little funny jokes that with one mistake of mine, nobody will hear your sweet voice. You meant so much to everyone you knew." I pause. I kneel besides her. The mistake was keeping the secret I made to Gale from her; she got mad and now she's gone. On her pocket, I notice a small object inside and I take it out. It's a golden fishhook. This must've been the object Mags dropped in her hand before she died. I hold it on my hand so I'll give it to Finnick. I know Posy would want me to give it to him. I stroke Posy's face, almost as cold as ice is her face.

"I'm really sorry, I didn't mean for anything like this to happen." I whisper. "I love you." I give her a kiss on the cheek and I notice something around her neck shining as the moonlight hits it. I pick it up in my hand and know this must be the token Posy chose to go into the arena. It's an old golden locket. I open it and see a picture of Posy's family and her father. I smile at the sight of it. I put it inside her shirt and leave; the hovercraft will come to take her body away. I meet Peeta halfway and arrive to where the others are. They stare at us with curiosity.

"Where's Posy?" asks Finnick. "We heard a cannon and got worried." I ignore Finnick and just sit alone in a rock still crying.

"She's dead." Peeta answers. I feel the pain in my heart.

"What?" asks Finnick surprised. "How?"

"She was attacked by someone or something and slammed into a rock." Answers Peeta. Everyone stays quiet.

"When I told her to shut up forever, I didn't think it happened for real." Marco says sadly. There's a pause between us again. Rue's the reason why I went on the arena last year, Posy's the reason why I'll keep going in this arena and Prim is the reason why I live. The hologram video of the latest fallen starts up in the sky.

THE FALLEN: District 2 Target (Ash), District 3 Target (Winter), District 6 female (Samara), District 7 male and Target (Blight, Skylar), District 10 Target (Quinn) and District 12 Target (Posy).

18 are dead and 16 of us are still alive. We got to sleep and I fall asleep next to Peeta and Marco keeps watch. My dream with Rue continues again. I start with where I left off. Rue backs up from the tree trunk and by my surprise Posy comes out. They both smile at each other.

"Posy?!" I my voice echoes happily. She grins at me. Rue takes her hand and they stay like that for a minute looking at each other's eyes; like they can read each other's thoughts. They look back at me and smile. They grab me by my arms and start running with me by their side. We arrive to the woods; the woods from last year of the arena. I'm in the waterfall that connects into a river with the sky blue. We just play their and their laughs and smiles make me happy. Out of nowhere, we hear thunder and the sky gets dark. Their smiles fade from their faces. Marvel comes out and shoots a spear at Rue. The same thing as last year. Then, someone appears and slams Posy into a rock. I couldn't see their face. Marvel and that someone then stand feet away as I hold Rue and Posy in my arms. Small drops of rains start to fall and the sky rumbles and lighting struck into trees. It gets harder and Rue and Posy's heartbeat stop. They both die. Marvel and that someone just stare.

"WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?! THEY'RE DEAD!" I scream at them. Marvel turns around and disappears and then that someone disappears also. I start to cry and in a few minutes Rue and Posy disappear. All of them were ghost. I don't get the dream. Every dream is message and I don't get this message; that's if it's a message.

Gale's POV: (Posy's death)

The crowd gasps in shock. My ears fill with tears as I see Posy being attack and Katniss just screams for her. Brutus slams her into a rock and my heart stops, a cannon fires and she's dead. I see Peeta arrive and tries to stop the bleeding of my sister's head. Hate and sorrow goes through me and I start to cry as I shove people out of my way. I run through the Seam and catch my mother crying and hugging Vick and Rory. I run inside the woods and kick rocks, punch trees and kick the dirt until all my energy runs out. I drop into the ground and just cry. My little sister is dead. The little girl that I took out to the woods, the girl that my mother let me carry the day she was born, the girl I took to school and spend almost all my life with, is dead. It's the worst feeling ever. I don't know what to do. Posy was just a little girl. Prim must feel horrible. Maybe Posy was right, Prim does need her sister more than her, but that cost her, her life. I go to a lake in the woods and just throw rocks into the water and see them jump. When it's dark I go back home to face my family. I hug my mother tight and her face soaks in tears. This has affected my family and has changed our family's lives forever.

Katniss's POV: (after the nightmare)

I try to go to sleep again but the dream haunts me. I hear a voice close to me. It's Wiress. She woke up and starts to murmur "Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock. . ." Marco turns around and sees us both awake. I notice tears in his face. Either he's still a bit sad about Mags or he's crying because of Posy's death.

"What's wrong?" Marco asks.

"Just Wiress." I answer. Wiress quickly crawls to me and repeats her words.

"Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock!" says Wiress even more desperately. I lie her down in my lap and try to make her go to sleep.

"I know, Wiress. Just go to sleep." I whisper but she keeps murmuring to me "Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock." Wiress falls asleep saying those short words.

"Is she asleep?" asks Marco. I nod and he turns around. Wiress words repeat in my head and then I start to think of it. I remember the twelve bongs from last night like it was midnight and then lighting and there was the fog. Then there came the blood rain where Johanna, Wiress and Beetee survived. Me, Peeta, Finnick and Marco would've been in the third section next to the blood rain and then the monkeys appeared at the next section. When me, Peeta, Marco and Finnick were walking around the beach for about an hour and found Johanna, Beetee and Wiress, we must've missed something that happened in that station at the beach. Wiress words repeat again in my head "Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock. . ." I notice the edge of the beach; a straight circle. Now I realize it.

"Now I get it. Tick, Tock" I whisper. "This arena is a clock."

Doctor's POV: (after Posy's death)

Me and my partner go down the hovercraft to pick up the dead body of the Target of District 12. When I check her pulse my heart stops. With the Blue tooth in my ear I contact Plutarch Heavensbee as fast as I can.

"Yes, Dr. Flanders?" Plutarch says.

"We have a problem." I say.

"What's wrong?" my partner mouths at me but I ignore her.

"What is it?" Plutarch asks.

"The Target of District 12, Posy Hawthorne. . . is alive."