Hey guys! Sorry for not updating and this may be the last one for a while. I just started High School today and am now only permitted to write on the weekends or days I have no homework. Enjoy!

This chapter is going to skip a few years to when Kat is fifteen. This is when she became the Mockingjay, which she does with a lot of drama and secrets spilled. Peeta won't be in this for a chapter or two. Plutarch's idiocy is going to be coming into play. Honestly, I never liked his character which is why I'm having him play a total douche. Don't worry; I have Peeta's dealing with him planned out in my head.

Chapter 4

Glitter and Snow

District Island

December

"Boys!" Haymitch heard several girls scream. Sitting up from his position on the shore, he looked out at the waves and wondered if whatever he was about to deal with was worth leaving the serene peacefulness the beach offered.

Groaning, he got up and headed to the door. His wife Maysilee was out in the halls shaking her head in amusement. "What's it this time?" he asked as he made his way over to her.

She smiled. "Finnick, Cato, and Marvel decided it would be fun to replace the girls' facial wash with glitter and glue. Johanna and Clove are about to have their heads." He laughed and headed down to the lounge room.

The sight was hysterical. Finn, Cato and Marvel sat on the couch looking like they were staring at the face of death again. Thresh and Beetee were leaning against the wall smiling while Gale was trying to hold a very pissed off Johanna back from trying to kill the trio. Kat, Clove, Annie, and Glimmer all stood behind the couple, the latter three casting murderous glances at their boyfriends. All the girls were cover in silver glitter, making them look like they were wearing masks. If it wasn't so scary that the boys might get killed, he would have laughed.

Johanna turned to look at him. Through small gaps where the glitter layer was thin, he could tell her face was turning red in rage. "You're not gonna stop this?" she asked, practically yelling the question at him.

He sighed. "I have a better idea that you screaming at them Johanna. How about you and the girls go with Cinna, Venia, Octavia, and Flavius and get cleaned off. I'll tell you when you get back in here."

She looked at him suspiciously before turning around and walking out the door, the rest of the glitter girls following her. He chuckled and shook his head. He still didn't know if this was better than relaxing on the beach, but he knew that this was going to be seriously entertaining.

~5 hours later~

He looked at the boys in front of him who were squirming in their seats. He would have laughed again but that was when the girls came in. Each had their hair down and wet with their faces pink from the hot water.

They moved and sat down on the second couch in the room. All eleven teenagers stared at him in confusion and anticipation, waiting for his next words. After sighing, he spoke. "Here's what we're going to do. Gale, Beetee, and Thresh, do you have anything to do with this?" the boys shook their heads and he continued. "Ok so it was just the idiot triplets that are behind this. Now, here's what I propose. Girls, the boys pulled this on you. For your revenge, you get to choose a thing for the boys to do. It can be anything as long as it doesn't kill them."

Clove and Johanna had strange looks on their face and he could only imagine the horrid things going on in their mind. Kat looked lost in thought and the other two were smiling.

Joe spoke first. "Boys out, now!" and they practically ran out of the room.

~about a week later~

Kat's PoV

"Do we really have to do this?" Finnick shouted so he could be heard from the top of the cliff. Cato and Marvel were behind him with the same terrified expressions.

Clove and Johanna were the ones who came up with this. Well, somewhat. The plan was originally to have them jump of the waterfall naked in the freezing water but Annie, Glimmer, and I decided it would be best if they were in their underwear. I personally don't want to have that picture stuck in my head for the rest of my life. The boys were pretty thankful for that since the water was like, what, 20 degrees? About?

"Yes, you do! Now hurry up we don't want to have to be out here in this anymore than you do." Clove yelled.

"Then why are you out here?" Marvel asked. Glimmer put her face in her hands at her brother's stupidity. Next thing we know, Marvel is pushed over the cliff by a very annoyed Cato.

"Holy crap! This stuff is freaking cold!" he screeches as he climbs out of the water to where my dad is waiting with a few blankets. The rest of us are laughing like crazy. Finnick laughs so hard he actually tumbles over the edge with a flip.

We all look up at Cato after Finn's out of the water. "We don't have all day you moron! Just jump!" Clove screeches at her brother. He hesitates for a second before he two is pushed over the cliff by a satisfied Johanna.

I, along with the rest of the girls cheer as we head back in to the castle. I turn around though and look at the boys. "Now what did you learn?" I asked sweetly.

Finnick answers. "Never mess with the girls and that the punishments that they come up with make the enjoyment of the prank we pull seem like nothing."

I nod before letting them in. When they are I look out at the ocean I know is towards the castle in Bakeria. "Miss you Peeta. We'll be together again as soon as this blood bath is over."

"Then become the Mockingjay." I hear a voice from one of the people I hate the most say from behind me. I turn my head to see Plutarch looking at me with an unreadable expression.

I sigh before turning around completely and rest my body up against the railing. My right hand falls to my hip where I have my knife hidden in the pocket of my pants. "Didn't my dad tell you to drop that subject years ago?" I question back to the first year after he stuck me on this island. It was pretty and peaceful, something I didn't find a lot at home in Revolutia, and however it wasn't that. Home. I hadn't been there in so long. I thought about my cousin Marcus, my general Ripper, my friends Delly and Madge and their parents, Peeta, Josie, Rye, Wheat, and the rest of the Mellarchs. How much had home changed? Had any of them forgotten about me? Had Peeta?

He nodded and I wanted to slap him, again. "Then why?"

He looked perplexed. "Why what?"

I scoffed. "Why are you still bothering me about this? Why did you fake our deaths? Why we are not allowed back home? Why won't you tell anyone what's going on in Panem? I want to know why you thought any of this was a good idea."

Sighing he looked at me. "Do you really want to know?"

"You really don't know the answer to that?"

He chuckled. "I understand your hostility to me Kat. Trust me, I do. You blame me and for some things you have every right to."

"You're not answering my questions." I stated looking at him. I could see my family and friends in the doorway out of the corner of my eye but they didn't matter. I needed answers and I wasn't going to stop till I got them.

"I'm getting to that. Snow wanted to start a war with both Bakeria and Revolutia. So he went after you to get them pissed and to take you out of the fighting because he knew that if you were still in, he would never have a chance. But if he failed with you guess who he would have gone after."

I thought for a moment before I realized it. "Peeta."

Plutarch nodded. "The prince and princess of the light kingdoms. If you two got married it would unite both of them. The people fantasized that day so the only way to get them both outraged enough to declare war would have been to go after the two of you. You were a bigger threat or so Snow and Coin thought, Peeta's become quite a thorn in their side these past few years. They thought getting rid of you would have taken out a huge advantage."

I nodded before. "That answers why they attacked us. But what about you getting us out of Revolutia? How did you do it so fast?"

"I saw the way Snow would look at you. You may not have noticed it Kat but he was infatuated with you. It was so creepy it turned to me thinking it was a threat. I knew in my gut something was coming. I had Cray as my spy in Capitallia so we would know when. I however didn't get word about the attack at Seam Valley till you guys had left. I got everything ready and had just finished when Haymitch came saying you sent him for back up."

"So you faked our deaths so the war would start and they wouldn't go after Peeta. Why not tell the people we were dead and let him know?"

He gave me a look. "Because Peeta wouldn't have been able to stand it. He would keep asking about you and no fighting would get done to end Snow and Coin and the rest of the dark section. He has pretty much been single handedly pounding them to dust these past three years."

I nodded, having seen the shows Caesar did about the war. Peeta had seriously been kicking the crap out of them. "Why do you want me as the Mockingjay?"

"Because the people need hope and inspiration. They are losing hope that this war will end. They've been fighting out of anger for your death but it's not enough for them to continue. They want revenge for you but they're starting to think it's not worth the bloodshed. You would be able to motivate them. Everyone knows that you don't have a clue on how you affect people. You dying sent two countries to war. You becoming the Mockingjay will end this and let all of you get home quicker."

A thought went through my head. I was almost sixteen. Three months after my birthday I lost my grandmother and promised Josie I'd tell her about the locker. My hand went to my neck and held the chain tightly. Josie was turning twelve soon. I promised her I would tell her then. This war needed to end before then and this may be the only way to guarantee that happening.

"Fine." I said, a plan forming in my head. "I'll be your Mockingjay."

Plutarch ran inside, probably to call someone. Finnick came up and whispered in my ear. "What are you planning?"

I smiled. "If we get on his good side we have a chance of getting off this blasted island and a better one of getting home to Revolutia and Bakeria."

Finn smirked as I turned to look at my father. His grey eyes were filled with pride. I smiled. We were getting close to where we all wanted to be. Home.

Wow, that took me a long time to write; almost four weeks to be exact.

If you read my other stories I have some updates for you. Secret and Freedom is going on hold; I have a serious case of writers block. I HEART QUESTION MARK have the next two chapters in the making; the first being all written out and mostly typed while the other is halfway done period. Hidden Love I need to put to words. Everlasting is in the middle of planning. SB: ASO is in the middle of construction (Rachel and Jesse confrontation).

I'm in the middle of planning four new stories. Sonny with a Chance pregnancy, St Berry "one that got away", my already mentioned Peter Pan one, and a crossover between Glee and Austin and Ally. I'm going to be putting up an author's note to see which one is wanted done first so head's up.

I'll try to update soon,

Victoria,