chapter 7, 'the accident'

Disclaimer: I do not own the hunger games or
anything or anyone that Suzanne Collins has created.

KATNISS POV

"prim?", I ask. She nods. Oh, prim!. Its too much, I burst into tears. But this cant be, prim is a little 12 year old girl and this is a middle aged woman. Peeta decided that he wanted to go find his family alone so me and gale went inside my 'once little' sister's house when we got there, I was greeted by two very hansom looking boys. About gale's age.

When I looked up on the wall, I saw a news clipping. It read:

Local girl, Katniss Everdeen and Local boys, Peeta Mellark and Gale Pierce were reported missing on the – of may, 19--. we have found no trace of the trio and are still looking. If they are not found within the week, they will be reported dead. If you have any idea about their whereabouts, please contact either the peacekeepers, the mellarks, the everdeens or the pierces. Thank you. May they all be safe and well.

I was astounded by what this read, but the person who was looking at it astounded me most. Standing there was a little girl, exactly like prim in looks except this little girl had brilliantly white hair. And then I realized it, this little girl was prim's daughter. But who was the father?

"Prim?", I asked behind me. "yes katniss?". She called merrily from the phone. "um, can we talk?, you know, just get to know each other?". She was ecstatic to just have that. So I asked gale if I could talk to prim alone and he just said that he would try and find his family.

GALE POV

katniss asked me if she could talk to prim alone. I was a bit hesitant at first but decided that I should just go try to find my family. It was clear that when I found the house in which address matched the one on the pure white piece of paper in my hand that we weren't poor anymore.

I knocked on the door three times with my hand bunched up into a fist. A woman around seventy opened the door. "hello?, who's there?". The woman asked. She had white hair but the same smokey Grey eyes that I have and still do. She wore glasses and walked on a walking stick.

I walked up to her, I don't know how, I just knew that she was my mother. "c'mon, mum. Lets get you inside, huh?". After that, something glazed in her eyes. Recondition. "gale!, oh gale!. Your home!" she all but squealed in my ear. "yea, mum, its me" I said in much less enthusiasm.

When I took her inside, the same clippings and photographs were plastered on the wall. My mother ran into the kitchen and started rambling things such as 'put the kettle on and butter some crumpets' and then I realized it.

How did they hunt while I was gone. Why do they have all of this stuff now? Did she work because women shouldn't have to work. I ran up to my mother and managed to choke out to her. "bye mum, I'll be home soon", I hope, I added mentally.

I ran to the mellarks and found peeta, sitting on the doorstep, tear stains running down his cheeks. "OI peeta!" I called, he still didn't look up at me "what happened with you?", I asked again. This time I got a reply "there dead. My whole bloody family is dead they got killed when a bomb fell on the town.

"oh" was all that I could muster. I feel sorry for peeta. But I had to get to the point. We had to go get back to katniss "c'mon" I told him. He followed very glumly. I couldn't blame him. When we got to katniss' sisters house, we knocked twice before we got told to walk in.

when we got there, we saw katniss huddled up in a corner of the couch crying and prim trying to comfort her. She was mumbling reassurances to katniss but all she was saying in reply was "she's gone, she's gone" (I got that part from the twilight saga new moon. If you picked that up).

I ran over to her and asked her what was wrong but she just shook her head and returned to saying her line of "she's gone, she's gone". I then turned on prim, angry about what she had done to upset her this much but she just replied. "our mother died in the same blast that killed the mellarks" but then a few tears rolled down her shocked white cheeks and I pulled her into a hug but then ran back over to katniss. She looked catatonic.

5 months later

after what seemed like eternity of just getting to know this new world, we had to go to school. Something they call senior year so today would be our first day. I was wearing some baggy shorts and a tee shirt but when katniss came down the stairs, she looked. I cant say this any other way. She looked HOT!

We got to the school and saw peeta (he no longer had much contact with gale and katniss). He had a similar outfit to mine on except he was wearing jeans. But I could just tell that he was staring at katniss. Her hair has grown, now it was halfway down her back.

She was wearing white mini shorts that came down halfway on her thigh and a spaghetti strap, baggy, dark purple shirt. Needless to say, prim picked out her outfit But as soon as we walked into the school grounds. We were ambushed.

We got away easily enough but I heard some boys snickering and taking bets on who would 'get some' out of her first. The 'her' being katniss. This made me so angry. I just wanted to use those archery skills that I had learnt from katniss to shoot an arrow right through their pathetic little eyes.

But I know that katniss would never fall for them, would she?

AN/ hi, sorry for not writing so much. I have tried to make a really long an good chapter but i have failed. also; should i write a story about what happened at the accident? if so, who should tell it? the baker?, katniss' mum? or a whole new character? OH AND AS ALWAYS PLEASE REVIEW. i love getting reviews. it makes me reflect on my mistakes so i can change them. also, i live in Australia so i don't know much about American high schools. please give me some ideas

thanx, nuttigirl