I am back with chapter 8!

Katniss' POV

Chapter 8:

I wake up the next morning to find my mother and Prim gone. My father is up and ready. When I meet his stare I see he is haunted by the Peeta incident. I grab my clothes and go in to the bathroom to change. I pull on a dark pair of jeans and a light orange shirt.

"Peeta…" I whispered.

I haven't been able to find my pearl, mockingjay pin or my locket! It is driving me crazy! I walk out of the bathroom to find my father waiting for me.

"We need to meet Coin," he muttered.

I nodded and followed him out of the room. I closed the door as Haymitch came running up.

"Can you believe it?" Haymitch asked.

"Believe what?" my dad asked, clearly irritated.

Haymitch glared at him. "Aster…you are never fun!" Haymitch whined.

"What can't I believe, Haymitch?" I asked.

"See! You could learn a thing or two from your daughter!" Haymitch exclaimed.

"Haymitch…" I started. He chuckled.

"I have been sober! Since they won't let me drink I am sober! I bet you a million bucks I am going to go insane," Haymitch said.

"Haymitch…you are one tough cookie," I heard. I saw Finnick was now standing by Haymitch as Haymitch sucked his thumb. Why am I stuck with the oddest mentor?

"The problem is I am not a cookie," Haymitch said. Finnick and my dad sighed.

"I remember when I was your age Katniss, Aster and I was best friends," Haymitch said.

"You still are…" Finnick told Haymitch.

"Maybe…" Haymitch said. I rolled my eyes. Haymitch is weird.

"Where are you headed?" Finnick asked me.

"To see Coin," I said.

"I am too. Haymitch too but I don't know," Finnick said.

"I'm a big boy now!" Haymitch whined. I sighed. Haymitch is going insane, it is a clear message. Not even someone drunk, major drunk, can see Haymitch is going insane. Finnick runs his fingers through his hair and shakes his head. My father is getting annoyed, big time.

"Haymitch, what is wrong with you?" Dad asked.

Haymitch looked at Dad with a wild look in his eyes. "What is wrong with you? By the way…" Haymtich started.

"You could say btw," Finnick mumbled.

"By the way…" Haymitch said while glaring at Finnick. "Where is your wife, Lily?"

Dad said, "Working at the hospital with Prim."

"Sure she is just working?" Haymitch asked, clearly having fun with this. Dad's face got really red and his hands balled up in fists.

Finnick stood between the two men and said, "Boys, boys…"

"We are men, thank you very much!" Haymitch retorted.

"You guys don't need to fight. If you do I know karate!" Finnick said.

I laughed. "Katniss knows karate too so don't think we will be easy on you two just because you don't know karate," Finnick added quickly.

Dad and Haymitch looked completely clueless which made Finnick and I laugh.

"What is so funny?" they asked together.

That only made Finnick and I laugh harder. The sight of my Dad and Haymitch looking completely clueless was hilarious! I don't know how it is so funny to Finnick and me but it just is!

"We need to go," Dad said.

Finnick and I stopped laughing abruptly at my Dad's glare. "She is a friend, nothing more!" Finnick declared.

I rolled my eyes as we followed Haymitch and Dad down the hallway. We entered the meeting room to find Beetee and another young man.

"Beetee, who is this?" Finnick asked as Haymitch and Dad sat down.

Finnick this is James. He was the victor of the sixty-sixth Hunger Games," Beetee explained.

"I already knew that…" Finnick muttered.

James walked up to me and Finnick and stuck out his hand. Finnick shook his hand while saying, "I am Finnick Odair, what is your last name?"

James chuckled and replied, "Russell. James Russell."

He then shook my hand. "I am Katniss Everdeen," I told him.

He nodded. "Thank you for being Johanna's allies during the games," James said.

"We are her friends but why would you care?" Finnick asked.

James looked at us. "Johanna means a lot to me. She is my girlfriend," he replied.

Finnick and I stood there in shock. "Yes, I am guessing you want to know how? Well, I was Johanna's mentor when she went in the games. When I met her she was so pretty I was planning on just helping her but Blight told me we had to be half and half for them. When I took them to training I stayed for the first few minutes. Johanna wasn't that bad to start off with. When she went into the games I watch her very closely. Now, she had used the crying to her advantage because she stayed around for a long time. When it got close she lashed out and won the games. I was over come with joy."

I stood there waiting for him to continue. "A little while after the games I told her how much I liked her. Her face got so bright and she told me she liked me too. We got together after that. I helped her through all of the tough times and she helped me through them too. Then the Quarter Quell came. When she got pulled I was getting ready to volunteer for the boy tribute but she met my stare. Her eyes told me not to volunteer and I listened to her for once," James added.

"Johanna did have someone left that she loved," I murmured.

"You are correct Katniss. Now all I want to do is rescue her along with Annie and Peeta," James said.

"Take a seat and we will talk about that," I heard from behind me.

I turned around to find Coin pointing to the seats. Finnick, James and I walked over to the table. I sat in the middle of the boys and Coin looked at all of us.

"I can see that we want to rescue the rebels?" Coin asked.

James, Finnick and I nodded. There was a knock at the door. "Come in!" Coin yelled.

In came Gale and Madge. I wasn't expecting them.

"These two will come on the mission for rescuing the rebels. We will be leaving today once we all get suited up. Madge and Beetee will stay on the hovercraft while the rest of you get the rebels and any one else in their cell. Do you understand?" Coin asked.

Everyone nodded. I felt so happy. I could see James and Finnick did too. I can't believe it! We are going to safe Peeta! This is purely amazing!

"Now follow Beetee while I go get the hovercraft ready," Coin said.

Everyone got up and followed Beetee. Madge grabbed my hand as we walked down the hallway.

"I can't believe I am doing this," Madge whispered so only I could hear. She didn't turn out successful though.

"You will do great," James whispered to her.

"Right, all I am doing is staying in the hovercraft," Madge whispered.

"That is important too," Finnick whispered.

"No it is not," Madge whispered.

"Of course it is. You can help us get everyone in," I whispered.

"Stop all the whispering! It hurts my head!" Haymitch exclaimed.

I sighed as we entered the room Beetee led us to. There were weapons as far as the eye could see. Beetee handed Haymitch and Dad two guns. He handed Madge a knife. "In case they invade the ship," he said while sticking a knife through his belt loop. He gave Gale and James a gun and a knife each. Finnick got a mini version of his trident. His trident was closed but when you opened it a trident came out. Then Beetee gave me a bow and some arrows.

Coin came in and said, "If you are finished, let's go."

We followed Coin to the hovercraft and boarded. I could see she wasn't going as we lifted off. If she was going she would have to jump on or get her own hovercraft. As we left the underground District Thirteen I saw the ruble.

"Finally! I can breathe!" Finnick exclaimed.

I rolled my eyes as we flew. I could feel the hovercraft getting faster and faster as we got farther away from thirteen.

"Listen up!" Beetee yelled. We all looked at him so he continued, "The hovercraft is invisible so we won't get shot down by the capitol. You will put on these black shirts and run to the building. There are windows at the bottom, open one up and slip in. Find the door that says Prison, obviously. Look for them and get out as quickly as possible. If anyone asks you what you are doing say you are taking them outside for every one to see as you torture them. Deal?"

"Deal," we all said.

"Landing in the capitol!" the driver of the hovercraft yelled as I pulled on my black shirt.

"Put on these wigs too," Beetee said.

Beetee handed Gale and James a purple wigs. He handed Haymitch and Dad green wigs. Finnick got a pink wig and I got an orange wig. I smiled to myself as I pulled the wig on.

"We have landed!" the driver yelled.

"Be quick," Beetee whispered as we hopped out of the invisible hovercraft.

The capitol people paid to attention to us because we had the normal hair that every on here did. Finnick had five wigs for our fellow rebels.

"Why did Beetee give us two extra ones?" Gale whispered as we sped through the city.

"In case there were extra rebels," James whispered.

We reached the building and opened up the bottom window. I slipped in first and waited for the others to come in. Once we all were in we walked sown the hallway.

"Where is the door?" Dad whispered.

I pointed down the hall to the door that said, Prison. We picked up our speed and reached the door in no time. I looked both ways to make sure no one was coming and opened the door. We all piled in. I was shocked. I didn't know there were so many cells!

"We need to move sweetheart," Haymitch whispered.

We looked in every cell. I was speeding down every one. No Peeta, I couldn't find him. I then came by a cell. There were five people. Four of them had brown hair and one had blonde hair.

I was about to have a break down if I didn't find Peeta but the blonde hair looked familiar.

Then a girl sat up. Her brown eyes made contact with mine.

"Katniss?" she asked.

"Guys! I found them!" I exclaimed.

I looked back to Johanna. "James is with us," I added.

Everyone was by my side now. We were trying to open the cell so Johanna didn't ask questions.

"Who's all in there?" Dad asked.

"Annie Cresta, Cinna Owens, Portia Hayes, Johanna Mason and Peeta Mellark," Johanna said.

"Why won't it open?" I asked her.

"You need the code," she answered.

"Do you know the code?" Finnick asked.

"Of course I do. It is 88152," Johanna recited.

Dad punched in the numbers and the cell opened. "Finnick will you carry Peeta for me?" I asked.

"If you lead Annie," he said.

I nodded and walked over to Annie. I saw James was hugging Johanna, Dad helping up Cinna, Gale and Haymitch helping up Portia and Finnick picking up Peeta.

"Annie…" I said while shaking her slightly.

Her eyelids opened to show her green eyes.

"Hi," I said. "I'm Katniss. It is so nice to meet you. We are breaking you out so put this wig on."

I handed her a pink wig and she did what I said. "Finnick is carrying Peeta so you will be with me. How does that sound?"

She smiled at me and nodded. I helped her up and saw everyone ready to go. Everyone has a wig on so we better start moving.

"Let's get out of here," James said.

I grabbed Annie's hand and led everyone out of this prison. I was so happy. Peeta is alive and with me!

We walked out of the building with no curious glances. When we stepped outside Annie gasped.

"Been a while since you've seen the sun, hasn't it?" I asked her as we sped down the streets to the hovercraft.

"Yes, it also feels great to be with Finnick again. Also I am so glad I got to meet you Katniss," Annie said.

I smiled. "Katniss!" I heard Finnick hiss.

I turned my head. "What?" I hissed back.

"Peeta weighs less than Annie!" Finnick hissed back.

I turned my head back around. Tears were threatening to come out of my eyes. Annie squeezed my hand in reassurance. We turned the corner and ran. The hovercraft door flew open and we piled in. Beetee closed the door and the pilot took off.

"I can't believe it. We are out of there," Annie whispered.

"Believe it," Johanna said.

Finnick put Peeta down in the only chair we have in this hovercraft. I crawled over to him and brushed the hair off of his face. I can't believe it. Peeta is here and safe with me, finally.

"Annie, Johanna why is Peeta so skinny? He weighs less than Annie and Katniss combined! He should weigh more!" Finnick exclaimed.

"I don't know! The last time we saw him he was fine! He told us to go to sleep so he could've been taken to torture during that," Johanna said.

I felt Peeta's forehead. He was a little warm but not much.

"We will be landing in thirteen in a few minutes!" the pilot yelled.

"Well, was that all of you?" Haymitch asked.

"Yep," Annie said while taking off everyone's wigs.

I saw us going in to the under ground district. I looked at the sky one last time. I turned my attention to Peeta. I could feel Gale and Dad glaring at me but I didn't care.

Beetee opened the door to the hovercraft. Prim and Mama came in.

"Why are you guys here?" I asked.

"We came for the rebels," Prim said.

Prim and Mama picked up Peeta and walked out. "Follow us if you just got out of the capitol!" Mama yelled over her shoulder.

Annie, Johanna, Cinna and Portia followed Mama. Everyone got out of the hovercraft and we all walked away. Madge and Gale went one way; Beetee went another way while Finnick, James, Dad, Haymitch and I went another way.

"They're back," James said.

"I am dreaming," Finnick said.

"Unfortunately, you guys aren't," Haymitch said.

"Why don't we go get lunch?" I asked.

"You all can I need to go," Dad said and left.

"Have fun you three, I'll go to the hospital," Haymitch said and walked away.

I looked at the boys, expecting them to bail on me. "Let's go get lunch," they said together.

We walked in to the dining room and got our lunch. I got a turkey sandwich, a cup of fruits and water. Once the boys had theirs we sat down.

"It is amazing isn't it? I have my Annie back, James has Johanna back and Katniss has Peeta," Finnick said.

"What if they're clones?" James asked.

Finnick's eyes got wide and James laughed. "I was just messing with you buddy," James said.

"You better be because that is not funny at all," Finnick said.

I laughed. "Of course it isn't funny, it is hilarious!" I exclaimed.

That made James laugh along with me. All Finnick did was glare at us. "That would be terrible," Finnick said.

"It would be Finnick, we're just messing with you," I assured him.

Haymitch came running in just then. His face was all red and he was gasping for air. "Finnick and James you can see your girls," he said in between breathes.

The boys threw their stuff away and ran off. Haymitch then looked at me. "Follow me," he said.

I threw my stuff away and followed Haymitch. He led me through the hallways in complete silence. We started to approach the hospital. "Haymitch, what is going on?" I asked.

As we entered the hospital he didn't answer me. When we entered the elevator he said, "Room 816."

"What does that mean?" I asked, clearly annoyed.

He looked at me and said, "He is awake and that is his room number."

I gasped as the elevator doors opened. I ran through the hallway and stopped at Room 816. The door was closed so I put my hand on it to open it. I took a deep breath and slowly opened it. I stuck my head in to find Peeta and doctors surrounding him. His eyes were wide. I entered the room and closed the door softly behind me.

The doctors saw me and left with out a word. I made my way to Peeta's bed with out him hearing me.

"Peeta?" I asked.

He looked at me. Tears sprung to my eyes and rolled down my cheeks.

"Katniss?" he asked.

I walked over to him. I looked down in to his blue eyes. I grabbed his hand and pushed back his hair.

"Katniss…" he said through tears. I leaned down and hugged him. I let a sob escape my throat. It felt so good to have Peeta back. I helped him sit up and pulled back to look him in the eyes.

"I thought you were dead," he said.

I put my hand on his cheek and said, "I'm alive and well now that you're here."

"I missed you so much," he whispered, while pushing a lock of my hair that fell out of its braid behind my ear.

"I missed you too, and now that I have you, you are not leaving my site," I said and leaned in to kiss him.

When our lips met I felt that feeling that I felt on the beach and in the cave. I had missed him so much and now he was here with me, and kissing me. That was the best part of it. My hands curled up in to little fists and rested on his chest. His hands were around my waist. I uncurled my hands and ran them up and down his chest. My hands eventually found their way up his shirt.

I pulled my hands out of his shirt and rested them on his face. I then heard someone cough. I sighed and pulled away from Peeta expecting to find Gale. Instead I found someone else.

My Dad was in the door way, raising his eyebrows. I bit my lip. This is not good, at all, I can already tell.

Well? Peeta is back and really skinny thanks to Snow, meany butt. Please review so I know what you want for the following chapters! Stay tuned for chapter 9 ladies and gentlemen! Please review!

~Lovely Kacey Faith