I could only breathe heavily into the phone until Prim screamed, "WHO IS THIS DAMMIT!". I gasped and said, "Prim, it's me, Katniss." She gave a shocked sound and said, "What did you say to mother to give her a seizure Katniss?" I started to cry and I said, "I'm sorry Prim. I was just stressed out about the stuff going on here and I needed to talk to someone…." I stopped talking as I heard Prim trying to wake my mother up. Prim yelled at me in the phone and said, "You know how fragile she is Katniss! Damn, you couldn't talk to me or Thomas or literally anyone else. You probably scared her death!" Then her voice got quiet and she said, "Literally…Katniss she's not waking up."

Oh my…, did I just kill my mother? I started to freak out and I said, "Prim, you have to take her to a doctor." Prim gave me an aggravated sigh and said, "Katniss, she is the doctor." I shook my head and said, "No no, the real one. The expensive one who lives on the edge of the district. Go into the box under my bed and grab all the money, give him whatever he wants. Take her there okay." Prim sighed and said, "I'll call Gale or somebody to help me get her over there. I'll call you if she dies. Thanks a lot Katniss." And the phone went dead. After that, I heard a wailing cry coming from my room and I realized it was me. Chances were my mother went into shock and got a seizure from it. But she should be okay, shouldn't see? Cinna ran in my room and asked, "Katniss, what's wrong?" I couldn't talk so I just said, "M-m-my mom…" and I just laid back in my bed and started to cry again. Cinna stood there for a minute not knowing what to do, so he said, "I'll be here if you need me."

Two days passed and I heard anything from Prim. I try to think of it as a good thing because she said she would call if something happened to Mom. I spent the days modeling and going out with Cinna and blacking out drunk so I wouldn't have to complete any missions. Every time I thought about it, I thought of my mom, and I didn't want to do that.

However, Snow finally called me and said, "Miss Everdeen, I hear you haven't been completing your missions as of late." I sighed and said, "I'll take care of it tonight. I just wanted a couple of days to myself." Snow made a murmed sound and said, "Yes I heard your mother was sick… it's a shame. You shouldn't tell her things about your new life." It took awhile for the realization to kick in. However, she went into shock as I was talking to her. I said, "What did you do?" Snow snickered and said, "Well, I always have someone by your home in District 12, Miss Everdeen. As soon as you said the words I had someone…. sedate your mother. Through the window of course. However she reacted much worse than I expected."

My breathing stopped and so did my heart. I really did just kill my mother. Just because I couldn't handle my own moral quandary. I should've known better to my mother in danger. I quietly asked, "Is she dead?" Snow sighed and said, "No I didn't want to kill her. She will be okay soon. And she will also suffer some memory loss. I suggest you no longer put your family in that situation any longer. I hope to hear from you tonight. Good-bye, Katniss."

That midnight, after I strangled someone with thin stockings, I got back in the car and said to my driver, "Ask Snow if I can go kill someone else tonight." He opened his mouth in shock but as usual I didn't see his face. He shrugged and said, "I don't see why not, however I don't think I can get you a new backpack." I spat, "I'll figure it out." I wanted to get out of the Capitol badly. I only have five people left on my list and if I can take another one out tonight, I could leave this hell hole in a few days. I liked the Capitol, and I loved living with Cinna, but this was glorified torture. I hated it, and convinced myself to find the diamond in the rut.

Snow said it was okay for me to go to someone else's house tonight and was glad that I became so involved in this job. We pulled up to a new home and the mission tonight was to kill not one person but two. Fuck, Katniss. The one night I decided to go to a second house with no backpack I have to kill two people. The mission was to kill a husband and wife, probably traitors or spies, but leave the children alone. I took a deep breath and walked out of the car. I decided to go through the back door of the house which led to a small living room. I looked inside and saw the husband and wife I was supposed to kill. Only issue, they were sitting with their three children watching television. How was I going to do this? Sit and wait, until they fell asleep. It was 1 in the morning as well, what the hell were kids doing up? But I guess in a lifestyle where you don't really have to worry about money, staying up late is an option.

I opened the door quietly and tiptoed my way to the kitchen and throughout the house to see if anyone else was here. I heard Avoxes live in homes as butlers or maids to the Capitol but so far I haven't seen any here. I walk into a room and see a baby inside of it. She's sleeping peacefully and quietly so I quickly exit the room. I bite my lip to prevent the tears welling in my eyes from falling. How am I going to kill two parents when they have three kids and a baby who need them? I start to walk out of the house but I think of my mother. She's laying in a bed, who knows how she is, just because I told her what was going on. Snow would kill her and so many others if I disappeared now. I took a deep breath and kept searching the house. In the master bedroom, I looked through the drawers for perhaps a weapon or something I could use. I found a gun.

I walk back into the small living room and find the family sitting watching television but one of the kids has fallen asleep. I clear my throat loudly and they all turn around, in complete fear. "Who are you?", the man asks, standing up towards me. I close my eyes, which was stupid, and shoot him. He grabs the wound in his chest and falls to the ground and dies. The kids and wife scream in terror and I start to panic. I look at the woman and say, "Look, you know why I'm here. Put the kids in the other room and we can take care of this." She looks at her kids and nods them to go in the another room and she'll see them soon.

I take a breath and aim my gun towards her, to shoot her but she pulls a gun out of the couch and aims it at me. I don't put the weapon down, but I'm in shock. Sure I've had to fight people before, that was nothing new. But no one had ever pulled another weapon out on me, especially one identical to mine. She smirks and says, "Who do you think can shoot faster me or you?" The way she's holding the gun, firmly and not shaking like I am, my best guess is her. She looks down at her now dead husband and wipes a quick tear from her face. "I don't know who sent you. But if you don't leave right now, I will send you back to them in a body bag." I shook my head saying, "You know I can't do that." She shrugs and says, "Oh well." and shoots me.

I've never been shot before. It was worse than I imagined. I was hit in the shoulder and I could almost hear the bones in my shoulder break and crack. Her shot however is not as good as she thinks as I'm still alive and able to shoot back. I get her right in the middle of the neck, and crack her windpipe. She begins to choke on her own blood and falls face forward into the floor, only a few inches from her husband. I hear little footsteps start running into the room so I force myself to move towards the back door and get into the car as soon as possible.

Driver sees the blood pouring from my shoulder and says, "I will take you to our personal hospital. Put pressure on it." I do so but it hurts fucking bad so I pull my arm away. He yells, "Pressure Katniss, dammit." He pushes some numbers on the screen of the car and says, "Driver speaking, Agent #1295 has been shot and needs to be transported to the hospital. Come in please." A static voice comes back and I don't know if I can't understand them because of the weak signal or because I'm fading. Driver says, "Katniss, did you complete the mission?" I only nod and give a weak, "Yeah." Driver says, "The targets have been terminated." The static voice speaks again and Driver turns the car around quickly and says, "Stay with me Katniss." It's the last thing I hear before everything goes black.

I wake up and I'm in a hospital room. My shoulder feels a bit sore, but besides that I feel fine. I look around and I see Cinna. He looks tense but relieved. I want to reach out and hug him but something's holding me back. All the wires and tubes attached to my body have pulled me back to the bed. Cinna laughs a bit and says, "Don't try to get up. I do get to take you home today, however. How do you feel?" I shrug and say, "A little sore but fine. How long was I out?" Cinna thinks for a bit and says, "Two days. Your sister called and your mother is fine. The doctor found some type of posion in her but they couldn't identify it. Weird, right?" Yeah definitely weird. Probably some unnatural Capitol concoction.

I let Cinna catch me up on the last couple of days and then we hear a knock at the door. We both say "Come in.", thinking it's the doctor or a nurse. It's Snow. He walks in wearing a dark green suit and smiled in delight. "Oh Katniss, it's so good to see you're alive. You've been of great use to me lately, it would be a shame to see you dead." I couldn't express the same feelings towards him so I said, "Thanks for taking time out of her day to come see me." Snow waved his hand and said, "Don't even think of it." He turned his direction to Cinna now saying, "And Cinna, how are you doing my fine friend?" Cinna shifted uncomfortably but grinned widely and said, "Better than ever sir." Snow closed the door, leaving his guards outside and said, "Well, Katniss you only have three more cases left. And then you get to go home to cheap old District 12. I just wanted to make sure we were on the same page." I nodded and said, "You may have to give me a few days for my shoulder to feel better but I should be ready soon." Snow nodded and said, "I heard your mother is well. Let's just hope we don't make the same mistake again with someone else." He gestured over to Cinna and said, "We let our friend Cinna, the designer", he said, exaggerating the last word, "know what's going on, but you had to tell other people." Snow sighed and said, "You're an agent now Katniss, you must act like one." I laughed a bit in my head, like I hadn't heard those words before.

Though what I thought what he was saying was bullshit, I smiled and said, "I'm sorry about the whole thing with my mom. I promise it will not happen again." Snow nodded and said, "Good. Here I'll make you a deal." He nodded for Cinna to leave the room and though he was reluctant to leave me alone with Snow, he had no choice and got up and left. Snow waited until he closed the door completely and continued. "Since you were out for a couple of days, and it will take you a few more days to recover I will take care of some of other your other… cases for you. See it as a gift from me to you. You'll still get paid for the ordeal and your sister can still come to school in the Capitol and all that. I just need you to do one more thing for me. One more person and you're done here in the Capitol."

Intrigued by the new offer I sat up and leaned in to the conversation. I gestured him for him to continue and said, "Go ahead, tell me." Snow grabbed my hands and said, "I'm so delighted to see you're excited. It's not even that big really. I just need you to sneak into the Capitol President Castle, my home of course, get past the guards and kill my son, Demetri."

A/N: I know I know. I'm late, don't hate me. I got extreme writer's block yesterday. However, I just kept writing and writing and I got this chapter. I now know the direction I want to go with this story. I will update tomorrow like usual. Anyway, please leave reviews, suggestions, and commentary. I love them all and I love you all! xo