"Oh my gosh, Johanna!" Peeta exclaims when he sees Johanna.
"Peeta." She calls. I see Rosie and Alex look up from where they are sitting. "Oh my god, are these yours?" She says looking behind at me. I nod smiling.
"Hello." Alex says brightly.
"Hi." Johanna says.
"Hey." Rosie calls.
"What's your name?" Johanna asks Rosie.
"Rosanna." She says proudly.
"Oh dear, she's a miniature Katniss." Johanna sighs.
"How can you tell?" I say smiling.
"She has the same evil glint in her eyes." She says laughing.
"Ok please tell me Johanna does he have the same glint?" Peeta says desperately pointing at Alex.
"Nope he's a miniature you." She says to Peeta.
"Ok so we only have to get rid of one." He sighs in fake relief. Then I see a hurt look on Rosie's face.
"Rosie sweetie it's a joke." I reassure her. She just ignores me.
"Come on Ro." Peeta says looking at her. She just lifts her head up high with a small confident huff.
"Anyway, what about you young man what's your name?" Johanna says looking at Alex.
"My name is Alex." He says looking happy.
"Cool." She says.
"So where you going?" I ask Johanna. Her eyes narrow when ask her.
"Heavensbee wants to talk to me too." Her voice is full of hate.
"Ok, where you going to stay?" Peeta asks.
"An old friend, you?" Johanna asks.
"Annie's." Peeta answers.
"Awesome have you seen Harry yet?" She asks.
"Nope, you?" I say.
"No." She looks down at the floor. "What do you think he looks like?"
"Finnick." Me and Peeta say together. I smile slightly.
"How's life?" Johanna asks awkwardly.
"Fine." Peeta says quietly.
"Anyway I got to get back to Allen." Johanna says smirking slightly.
"Ooh a boy." I giggle slightly, like a girly giggle. Johanna walks right up to me and puts her hands on my shoulders and starts shaking me wildly.
"Snap out of it girl, what's happened to you?" She pants.
"Daddy, why's the scary woman shaking mommy madly?" I hear Rosie ask Peeta sounding rather frightened.
"Ok Johanna I think she might be back." I hear Peeta say laughing slightly. She let's go and I start gasping.
"I am going to kill you." I say exhaustedly.
"And she's back." Peeta says shaking his head slightly.
"I'd like to see you try." And she starts to run off. And I instantly run after her.
When I get back to my family I feel pretty proud. "Where've you been?" Peeta asks smiling up at me from his seat.
"Fighting." I answer smiling back at him.
"Fighting... who?" He asks cautiously.
"Johanna." I say so it sounds obvious. "I told her I was going to kill her." I look over at Rosie and Alex and see their horrified faces. "I didn't actually kill her, it's a way you say 'watch out' and then start chasing them." I reassure them, they don't look convinced.
"Hey I'd watch out Johanna's back." Peeta says grinning.
"Back for more?" I say teasingly while I turn around to look at her.
"Lucky for you, no. I want you to meet someone." She says stepping sideways to reveal a very handsome looking young man. "Peeta, Katniss, kids, this is Allen." Peeta stands and walks over to Allen.
"Nice to meet you." Allen says taking one of his hands out of his pocket and holding it out. Peeta shakes it and replies.
"Same to you." Peeta let's go and steps back.
"Nice to meet you finally girl on fire." Allen says walking towards me and holding out his hand.
"I don't go by that anymore." I say smirking slightly and taking his hand.
"How's the liquor addict?" He asks letting go.
"You mean Haymitch? He's um drunk." I say laughing slightly.
"I heard your cousin came back from district two a couple of days ago." Johanna says. I stand slightly confused and then I remember that Gale was my fake cousin during the Hunger Games.
"He wasn't actually my cousin, that was only for the Games." I correct her.
"What's the Games?" Alex asks.
"It's nothing." Peeta tells him.
"Anyway, we'd better go." Allen says.
"It was nice to meet you Allen." Peeta says as they walk away.
When we finally reach the Capitol it doesn't feel quite right. Inside the train there's chaos and commotion everywhere. I hold Alex next to me when I hear him crying, I sit him down on a seat and kneel in front of him. "Hey, hey it's ok everything's fine." I tell him.
"Where's daddy and Rosie?" He asks sobbing.
"They're just over there." I say pointing over to where I see Peeta's blond hair.
"Mommy what's happening." He asks me nervously.
"Darling I don't." I murmur. Then I hear shouting and voices.
"Move! Get out of the way!" I hear the voices shout. I know instantly what they're after, me. I take Alex's hand and lead him over to Peeta. I lean up and whisper into Peeta's ear.
"Look after them, I'll be back." I say and I start to meander through the crowd. As I get closer to the voices I hear gunshots and blood curdling screams.
"Where is she?!" A voice says. I get closer and see a masked man holding a blood covered girl. "Where is she?!" The man repeats.
"Why would I tell you that?" I hear the voice croak and recognise the voice, it's Johanna.
"Because otherwise I'll kill you like we did with your boyfriend." The voice spits. I look around and see a body slumped on the floor.
"I'd be happy to, she's my friend and I'd never give her up." She barks and starts to choke.
"Well if she was your friend she'd give herself up for you." He smirks, he's using her against me, like they did with Peeta after the second hunger games.
"No because I'm not as important as her." Johanna says.
"True." He says. "But she's still your friend, oh well I guess she's not here." And he raises his hand that has a gun in it.
"Stop, stop!" I shout from the crowd. "I'm here!" I call. I see the man.
"Katniss no." I hear Johanna choke.
"Zip it." He says to Johanna pointing the gun at her neck and shoots.
"Johanna!" I shout.
"Hah, so touching. What happened to the murder machine?" He asks me.
"I was no murder machine, Snow." I snarl. I hear gasps and cries of fear from the crowd, I don't blame Snow died, I killed him.
"How did you guess?" He sounds taken aback.
"Because only you have a cold enough heart to kill people and not care." I say.
"Well nice to see you to Miss Everdeen." I hear the laugh in his voice. He looks over to some peacekeepers and nods. They walk over to me and grab both my arms, seven years ago I would fight back and struggle to free myself. But this time I know more people are at risk and my children too. That is until I hear the scream. I know instantly who the scream came from, Rosie. I start to struggle to get to her. Snow sees my reaction and he takes his mask off, I see the evil smile on his face. That's all I could take, I kick one of the peacekeepers so hard I see his eyes water and he lets go of me. I reach for his gun, shoot him. I hear a gunshot and a sharp pain in my shoulder, but I pay no attention to it, I turn and shoot the other peacekeeper then I aim the gun on Snow.
"Everyone off the train and run!" I shout, I lower the gun to point at his thigh and shoot, he screams and while he's occupied with his one leg I shoot his other one. He collapses to the floor. I start to run towards the scream I heard. I enter a carriage and I see Rosie lying on the floor with both Peeta and Alex next to her. I instantly run over to them, Peeta sees me.
"She's ok." Her assures me. I kneel next to Alex and see that he's crying so badly that his voice has broken. I pull him towards me and hold him tightly.
"It's ok sweetie everything's ok." I whisper in his ear.
"Mommy?" I hear Rosie say quietly.
"Rosie, thank heaven. Peeta carry her, I'll take Alex we need to get to Annie." I tell him and stand up picking Alex up with me.
Once we're out of the train and on the platform, it's deserted. We walk out and into the city, but this isn't the same place it was eight years ago, it was nothing like it, because there wasn't anything left, no towers, no shops, no Capitol, everything was on fire.