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It was after the fall down of President Coin that push Gale to leave. Or atleast that was what they knew.
Peeta had asked Katniss about it, her answers were repeated all over again "to get revenge"
It was true. He wanted to get revenge with every innocent blood spilled to the ground.
But nobody knew about the blonde bloodstained girl from his past.
Gale Hawthorne was an issue in their office. "Did he ever love someone?" "I heard he once love the girl on fire" "He had failed to rescue the entire District" "He didn't save the Mayor's family"
He eyes them with daggers but the truth is, it eats him alive.
"I heard that a lover gave him a permanent memory"
He bow his head, he didn't know how to rspond. Does he have to be angry? Does he have to be sad? Does he deserve all the pity remarks? Does he have to hide the truth?
He doesn't know. Instead, he closed his eyes and let memory after memory sink in.
It was during the bombings when he was defined as a hero of the Seam. He can smell the fog and heavy fire, he can see his past self rescue children.
For a moment he thought he was a hero.
His range was building as his District was caught on fire. He hated President Snow, he hated the peacekeepers, he hated the Capitol, and he even hated the Town.
And it was his stubborn act that caused him to become the villain of the Town.
He didn't rescue anyone down there. Not even the Mayor's daughter, Margaret Undersee.
He gulped a lump down his throat.
He passed the Town wihout second glances. Although he remember promising Madge Undersee that he'll come back to rescue her. It was then that she realize that he might've broke her all over again.
She was there, observing the chaos of the once too afraid District. She let out a tear when she saw him walk across her house. She had a way to leave but Madge Undersee trusts Gale too much
"Shhh" she craddled a newborn down to her arms "we will be okay" her blue sad eyes stared down to a set of gray ones "Daddy will be right here. With us"
He scratch his cheek out of frustration.
When he was finish with the Seam did he remember the girl that was waiting for him, he race his way to her house only to find out that it was burned into ashes.
"No" his feet; became wobbly, fights their way inside the burnt house.
"Madge?" he leaned towards the bloodstained body down the ground. He eyed her figure only to find out that there was a sob coming from the blanket figure crossed to her chest.
He opened the blanket only to see that there was a newborn waiting for him. He didn't need a proof but he picked it up and kissed the baby's mother one last goodbye.
"I'm sorry Madge. I love you" he kissed the blue cold lips and run outside the burning house witout looking back.
"My Goodness Gale! Where had you been?" his Ma hugged him to his chest as he clumsily handed her his daughter "Ma, meet my child"
Hazelle stared at him "Margaret Hazel Hawthorne"
"Dawwwii?" his thoughts broke when pale hands wraps around his leg "I cant sweep. Pwiss tell me an'ther stowy?" he smile to his daughter. She had grown up too much that she looks like her mother. Her blonde curls falls perfectly down her back with her curious gray eyes staring back at him
"Once upon a time in a far away land. There was a Strawberry Princess named Madge-"
"Like Mowy?" her eyes twinkled in delight to hear her mother's name
"Like Mommy"
"I heard that a lover gave him a permanent memory"
Madge left him a permanent memory; a memory that he'll forever be thankful of.
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