So, here I am, posting chapter 6 of my story. I hope you guys are happy, because I usually don't post chapters so closely together like this. And I just posted that information chapter earlier today anyway, and I hope that you didn't just skip over that and not read it. If you did, I would REALLY appreciate that you went back to read it please! But anyway, I'm sure you want the chapter now, so read and enjoy!

"Peeta's gone!" I screamed, running into the house to grab a duffle bag out of the closet.

"Katniss, look at me." Gale said calmly, grabbing my arm and spinning me around before I could head towards the refrigerator to shove food into the bag. "Tell me what's happened."
I start to hyperventilate, but I know I need to tell them. "They're here- the capitol. I saw them, they had the hovercrafts and ladders and guns, and they swarmed the streets, killing people. Peeta said he would warn towns people, and I ran, but when I turned I saw them take him away…. They just took him…" I was talking so fast, my whole body shaking like I was locked in a freezer.

"Ok. What should we do, Katniss?" I was angry at Gale for being so calm.

"We need to get food and bags for clothes and essentials, and escape to the woods… Kids-" I turned toward Madeline and Jemiah, who looked scared and shocked "-I need you to each grab your backpacks, and put clothes in them. Anything you can find, as fast as possible. I'll explain in the forest. and grab my bag out of the closet, Madeline, and grab some clothes for me please." Then I turned toward Emalia, who was holding Caleb. "Grab whatever you can. Please go in the cupboard and grab the extra duffle bag and help me collect food. You can take some of my clothes," I added, because I knew she didn't have much. "Gale, you can take some of Peeta's. And there are old clothes that should fit Caleb in Jemiah's drawers. Hurry."

I ran to the fridge, scraping its contents of fruit and vegetables into the duffle bag, avoiding anything that would perish quickly. Then I moved to the cupboard, grabbing crackers and cans of corn and beans, the non-perishables, and bags of rice, adding them to the bag. I grabbed 3 small jugs of water that we always kept under the sink, and a small pan for cooking- it was a large bag.

In 3 minutes, we were all in the living room, grabbing all the bags we had prepared. Emalia was carrying a crying Caleb and 2 duffle bags, Gale 1 large bag, Madeline her backpack and a duffle bag, and Jemiah his back pack. I had the bag with all the food.

"Ok, let's go out the backdoor. We have to run to the woods, everybody follow me." I said, heading for the back door.

I pulled the door open and ran out as fast as possible towards the forest. I could hear my family's feet behind me, but I could also hear them, the capitol, the peacekeepers, yelling in our direction. They had seen us, and were pursuing. But the forest was so close, only 100 yards away now. So close.

Then I heard a scream. I whipped my head around, afraid it was Madeline being captured, but the woman's scream was too old to be my 13 year old daughter. Instead I saw Emalia and Caleb crashing to the ground, the duffle bags she had been carrying flying in all directions. Caleb was pinned under Emalia, unable to move her weight. Emalia was unmoving, facing downward, and there were 3 bullet wounds in her back.

I looked up to see 5 peacekeepers advancing on us with guns, jogging. Their gaze was locked on me, recognition in their eyes.

No. They knew who I was. They were coming for me and my family. I just didn't know what they wanted to do to us.

Probably kill my children, and torture me…

I focused my tortured gaze back down to our scene, and my hearing focused too. Gale was screaming Emalia's name while he pushed her onto her back, her eyes wide and staring, vacant. He picked up Caleb and held him, crying for Emalia.

"Emmy!" He screamed, rocking back and forth on his heels while brushing her hair to the side, desperate to see her face.

"Gale! We have to go! She's gone! We can't stay here!" I screamed, pulling on his arm. The peacekeepers were 100 yards away now, running. If we could just make it to the woods, to me and Peeta's spot, we would be safe…

Gale glanced up at me with tear-filled eyes, then grabbed Caleb's small duffle bag and ran with us again.

We were 10 yards from the forest line when I felt a sharp pain in my left arm, right below my shoulder. I cried out in excruciating pain, glancing down to see what had hit me as I stopped running. I was shocked to see blood running freely down my arm from a large bullet hole.

"Mom!" Madeline screamed, seeing my arm. "No, mom!"

"Katniss, what…" Then Gale saw my arm. "Holey… Katniss, c'mon! They're coming." Gale yelled, pulling on my arm toward the forest. I started running with them, Gale partially carrying my weight by my right arm, dragging me when I stumbled.

When we were in the forest, Gale turned to me.

"Which way, Katniss?" He asked, not having been in these forests in 20 years.

"Deeper," I gasped, the blood loss pulling the air out of my lungs. "Go farther."

Gale pulled me along until we reached a special tree, and I told him to go right. As soon as we reached the dead stump of a tree and the small cave in the side of the hill, I told him to stop.

"Here, in this cave," I gasped, stumbling inside the cave and sitting on the rock in the corner.

The cave was about had an opening about 4 feet wide, but inside it was 6 feet wide and 10 feet deep. It was pretty small, but it would have to do.

Gale and everybody came following in, dropping their bags just inside the opening and hurrying to my side.

"Katniss, what happened?" Gale asked, opening one of his bags and pulling a towel out. He ripped it in half the long way and tied it around the wound on my injured arm.

"I don't know." I answered, breathing heavily and gasping. "They shot me…."

"Mom, why? Who were those people?" Jemiah asked, his eyes wide and filled with tears at my sudden injury.

"They were waiting… waiting…" I was so tired. Couldn't I just rest? My eyes started to close with the blood loss.

"Go ahead and rest, Katniss. I'll watch them, I promise." Gale said, gesturing toward my children.

I didn't even reply. I was asleep in seconds.

… … …

When I woke up, I kept my eyes closed for a little while. I didn't remember me and Peeta's bed being so hard. I rolled over, wincing at a pain in my arm.

What happened last night?

I reached over, search for Peeta's warm body to comfort me. But when I didn't find it, I started to panic. I opened my eyes, and saw the rock wall of a cave. Then the memories flooded back to me, and I screamed out loud in pain and loss. Peeta! Peeta was gone, taken…

And Emalia was dead. It was only Gale and I and 3 children, And I was pregnant. What are we going to do?

I was still screaming when Gale came running over, pulling me into a tight hug, murmuring to me until I quieted down.

"Katniss, you can't scream like that. The Peacekeepers can't find us." He said, brushing the hair back from my face.

"I know, I'm sorry. But they're gone, both of them." I said, crying silently into his shoulder.

"I know." He said, crying with me, mostly for his Emalia.

Madeline and Jemiah crawled over to cuddle too, and I turned away from Gale to pull my children to me. We laid there for a long time, just cuddling and crying for Peeta and everybody who was lost in our town. It was destroyed for me again, but for them it was the first time. They had never witnessed such violence.

"Mom, what happened? Who were those men?" Jemiah asked. He was unaware of me and Peeta's past, because we felt that he wasn't old enough to understand it. But now I knew that I would have to explain it to him, or else he would never truly know who those men were, or why they were there. So I told him everything that I had told Madeline, leaving out the small details so that it would take less time than before. Madeline added in a few things she remembered that I had forgotten, and by the end of it Jemiah finally understood. He seemed to accept it like Madeline had, but he wasn't as devastated as she was.

"So now you understand it, don't you Jemiah?" I asked him.

"Yeah, but why did President Snow do that? Why would he hurt Daddy?" He asked. That's the only thing he seemed upset about, that dad had been hurt at some point. Unbelievable.

"I don't know, Jemiah. I really don't know." I started to sit up, but a sudden wave of dizziness washed over me, and I fell backward again. Did I really lose that much blood? Or did I have an infection? Or both.

"Hey, don't try to move." Gale said, hold my shoulders down so I couldn't try to get back up. "You lost a lot of blood."

Great. "What am I supposed to do, then? Sit around? Eventually they'll find us, Gale. I need to protect us." My bow! "Gale, I need my bow! It's in the hollowed-out log outside the cave opening. Could you get it please?"

"Katniss, you're in no shape to shoot that thing. You can't even move without falling over." He said, glancing at my arm.

"It would make me feel better. Please, Gale?"

"Fine." He muttered as he stood up and exited the cave. A few minutes later he came in again carrying y bow and arrows.

"Hey, can you set some traps for animals? I don't want us to eat all the food, and I didn't grab any meat out of the fridge when we left. I'm sure they're hungry…" I trailed off because I wasn't hungry. I knew I should probably have eaten something, but my stomach wasn't up to it.

"Sure."

"Just be careful. They could be out there looking."

He nodded, then grabbed a kitchen knife out of the kitchen bag- it was the best we had, but a hunting knife would have been better- and set out to set snares.

I was getting tired again, surprisingly, probably because I had lost so much blood today. My eyes were getting heavy, and they eventually slid shut, even with me trying to keep them open.

"It's ok, mom. We'll be fine. You just rest," Madeline whispered just before I fell asleep.

HAHA! So, how'd you like it? Not at all? Well, at least it's better than Mockingjay. Well, that's my opinion, anyway. So here I go, back to the real world to my crazy little cousins who are visiting from Boston (fun…). I haven't seen them in 2 years, so there's a plus. So, visit my profile, PM me, and review and favorite! Thanks! P.S. I might not post for a while after today, so be happy with what you got! I post 2 chapters in 2 days! Live with it! :D