I just wanted to give a warning before you read this. Katniss is poisoned and she has a seizure because of it. I have never had one myself or known anyone who has. I tried my best to get the information right but it might not be.
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When I wake up Prim is home. "What time is it?" Buttercup flicks his tail in my face and I push him off the bed. "Dinner, I was just about to wake you up to go down. Peeta stopped by earlier." I forgot to go to his place after I talked to Gale, probably best that I did. I put on the shoes that were broken in all weird and walk down to the dining hall. Peeta is sitting over by the tv's in the center of the room. I make my way over and sit next to him. "Hey sorry about earlier I went home and fell asleep." I hope Prim didn't tell him while I was as- "Prim told me you came home crying. What happened?" I'll be mad at her later. "Gale and I got in a fight." He leaves it at that and we finish eating and go back to his apartment for bed.
I wake up in the middle of the night feeling sick. I make a run for the small bathroom and empty the contents of my stomach into the toilet. I feel my hair put into a ponytail behind me. Peeta rubs my back; I sit down on the floor and rest my head against the wall. I don't remember anything after that.
When I wake up I hear a heart monitor beeping. I feel several needles in my arm. I move a finger and Prim rushes in pushing doctors aside. "Katniss!" I open my mouth to talk but one of the doctors stops me. "I don't want you talking for a while. Just listen, we found poison in your system, it gave you a seizure, Peeta was smart to bring you straight here another 5 minutes and you could have been dead." Another thing I'll never stop owing him for. "This was an assassination attempt, we have notified the president. All the chefs are under interrogation as well as all of the Capitol citizens that are here to help the rebellion. We will find who is responsible for this Ms. Everdeeen. You will be assigned a taster to ensure your safety." I nod and feel a searing pain in my neck. I wonder how long I've been out. "We will let your family in now." They leave and my mother and Gale enter. District 13 must not have figured out that Gale isn't my real cousin yet. "I tried to talk Coin into letting you off Mockingjay duty for a while. She'll give you a week once you're discharged but she wants you to shoot something as soon as you can talk notifying the Capitol that they failed." Gale explains, there must have been a Command meeting. "Thank you Gale. Where's Peeta?" I mouth to my sister. "I'll go get him."
Prim arrives back 10 minutes later with a cup of cold water and Peeta. He pulls a stool next to the bed, sits on it, and tightly grabs my hand. "Nobody knows anything?" Peeta asks my mother. She shakes her head. "Just that this was a Capitol plot, who would want her dead here?" Probably more than any of us would think. "Coin knows there are Capitol sympathizers here. That's why all the military equipment is on such heavy lockdown." Gale says. I decide that I can try and talk now. "When am I going to be let out?" I feel the bed dip and Prim grabs my other hand. "They want to keep you here for the rest of the night and maybe tomorrow night. But nobody really makes you do anything do they?" I smile a little at that. "Not really little duck."
They released me after 4 hours of observation. While I'm here I decide to check on Finnick since he basically lives in the hospital now. "My name is Finnick Odair. I am 24 years old. My home is District 4. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me. Annie was taken prisoner. She's thought to be dead, most likely is dead. It is probably best if she was dead." He keeps repeating this not noticing me in the doorway; he's furiously tying knots in his rope. He tightens them so hard he has a hard time getting them undone. I silently wonder what would have happened to me if the Capitol took Peeta. It would probably destroy me. "Finnick." He doesn't notice me, I walk to his bed and sit down. There's plenty of room because he's curled up in a ball near his pillows. "Finnick" I try again, no response. I gently take the rope out of his hands and he immediately snaps out of it. "Oh hey Katniss. How long have you been here?" My heart breaks a little at the sight of him so broken. He's one of my only friends here. I need to do something. "Not long, I'm going to see what I can do about getting Annie out for you." His eyes widen, he's about to cry. "Really? Could you ask about Johanna too? I know this is too much to ask but she doesn't deserve to be in there either." I nod my head. "Yeah, I'm going to go talk to Coin now okay?" The door slides open to let me out and I walk straight to Command.
I walk in the room and Plutarch and Coin are sitting at the big table in the center of the room. "I need to talk." I say to no one in particular. "Go on, take a seat Ms. Everdeen." Plutarch motions to the chair across from him. "I have some conditions on continuing to be the Mockingjay." Coin sighs. "Katniss you have already agreed to thi-" "Yes, but I was under the false impression that I would be protected. Someone just tried to kill me. So I will not continue to help unless you agree to some things." Coin tells me to go on. "I want you to rescue the tributes in the Capitol at the first opportunity." "No." She says. "You will hold yourself and your government responsible for their safety, or you will find yourself another Mockingjay!" Coin looks impressed for a split second. "Fine. Anything else?" She asks. I should throw Prim in there too. "When the opportunity arises I kill Snow. And my sister gets to keep her cat." She genuinely smiles at the first one. "Yes, when we have captured the president, I will be sure to hand you the arrow myself."
