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"No, you have to go take your sister and the others," My father, the president, had said. "Be their leader; keep them away from the virus." He ended in a coughing fit.
"Father, lay down, I'll get them out later after you and momma…. After you're-"
"After we're gone," he says matter-of-factly. I help him lie down in his bed and pull his covers up to his neck.
"Is Daddy going to be OK, Katniss?" My sister Prim asks.
"I don't know, honey, but we'll try to keep him and Momma OK. OK?
"OK," she says as I brush the few blonde strands of hair that fell out of her ponytail behind her ear.
"Momma, Are you ok?!" I shout into her open door after I hear the loud Thump!
My mother died that day and my father the next and he would have wanted me to take Prim and the others and leave. But could I leave the only place I've known for 17 years? Could I leave my home? I decided then, three years later, sitting in my room that I would but not for myself. I'd do it to get Prim and these other kids away from the virus.
The virus came to America from Germany three years ago Prim was only 6 at the time. My mother and father instantly fell ill. I took care of them along with some of the White House staff but they've died already leaving just me and my sister who were given the vaccination to make us immune along with 45,000 other lucky children. Our parents lasted longer though; the doctors had medication for the really rich or famous people. When my father referred to "others" he meant the children here in WashingtonD.C. not many survived here, they didn't get the vaccination quick enough.
"Katniss!" Prim shouts.
"What, Prim?" I shout back.
"Somebody's here to see you," I can hear the grin in her voice. I wonder who it could be. I walk downstairs slowly peeking at the door as I go. Peeta Mellark, my best friend, is standing at the door looking disheveled as always.
"Peeta." I say taking my sisters place at the door.
"Whoa there tone down the enthusiasm your one and only friend is coming to visit you. It's not like I just walked through the virus infested town square to get here." Peeta says. He was supposedly born immune to the virus so he didn't have to get the vaccination that involved a bunch of needles.
I shut the door and open it again he looked confused.
"Peeta, this is such a pleasant surprise!" I squeal in mock happiness. "Better?" I ask.
"A little bit," he hugs Prim and I and then makes himself at home on the couch. Today is the anniversary of his grandparents' death. They died in a car wreck which isn't very common for deaths around here. My grandpa and grandma died before I was born I never knew them on my mom and my dad's side.
"Katniss, when are we having that party?" he asks using our code. He's about the only person who was forewarned of the plan.
"Any day now," especially since the caretakers are coming around and taking children below 10 away from their older siblings. "They are not taking Prim." I refuse.
"I think we should get Darius to help." He replied quietly.
"The officer? NO! He'll kill us!" I shout.
Officers kept the kids off the streets except they wouldn't take them home to their warm and safe beds. They took the kids to the labs to be tested you would be tazed and put in a sedated state and then added to their collection of dolls. That's what we call them anyways because once they put you in the sedated state at the lab you usually don't come out. It's basically murder and who would do that to a child? If my father was still alive he would put a stop to this. My mother was a doctor she called the virus a spore that the German chemical plants released and the people who were infected came to America hoping for treatment but they ended up dying too.
He opens his mouth but is cut off by the phone ringing.
"Hello," I pick it up not recognizing the number.
"Miss. Everdeen please make your sister presentable the caretaker will be over in two hours." An electronic voice replies. The phone clatters to the floor as it falls out of my sweaty hand. This is what I've been dreading for years. They aren't taking her though we are getting out.
Authors Note: This is my first fanfiction with chapters. I have a busy schedule so the updates might be at random. Please review and tell me how it is!
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-Kat