Hunger Games: Renewed Hope

Chapter 10 of my Hunger Games story, hope you enjoy it.

Disclaimer: Hunger Games bleongs to Suzanne Collins.

Chapter 10

KATNISS POV

Time froze as I stared in disbelief at Prim's body, she lay, her eyes wide open, glazed over.

'No, no, it can't be,' I shook my head in disbelief, 'She can't be gone.'

I didn't care if there were any Peacekeepers still attacking, I immediately rushed out from behind the statue I was hidden behind and ran over to Prim's side.

"Prim, Prim!" I grabbed her shoulder and shook her, desperate for any response, "Prim, please...no!"

I broke into tears as reality came crashing down, she was dead, she was dead, I had failed to protect her. I felt hands on my shoulders and tried to resist but I then heard a voice.

"There's nothing you can do Katniss," It was Haymitch; I could hear in his voice he was dismayed too.

I let him pick me up and pull me back as a team of surviving medics approached Prim's body and cover her before loading her onto one of our surviving hovercrafts. I remained huddled behind one of the statues. I watched as the bodies were taken away, covered and taken on board one of the hovercrafts. In some cases the dead bodies were medics, some even as young as Prim. My breath caught in my throat as I saw this, I saw two people loading a familiar figure onto one of the hovercrafts, it was Bonnie, she was badly injured but looked like she had a chance for survival.

I wiped away my tears and forced myself to focus.

'No more, I can't let this go on anymore, we have to end this now.' I made my decision and prepared myself, I nodded to Haymitch and he gave the signal, we immediately charged through the doors, ready to fight out way to Snow.

As soon as we entered we saw several Peacekeepers, all along the hallway, ready to defend.

'Yeah, nice, just give us a map right to Snow,' I thought bitterly as it was obvious the Peacekeepers were defending Snow and were giving us a path right to him.

"Let's go, we'll fight right through them!" I yelled, desperate to end this once and for all.

There was a cheer from the Rebels and we immediately attacked, firing the commandeered guns, throwing knives and firing our arrows at the Peacekeepers as they returned fire. Luckily we had the advantage, despite our losses we, for once, had a numerical advantage as well as still working on our element of surprise and so we quickly took them down and soon we arrived at Snow's office. I took the lead and burst through the door, we rushed in and held up all the occupants inside, the look of shock on their faces confirmed that our surprise attack had been successful. We were able to force them to surrender.

"How does it feel, to know the tables have been turned," I said to Snow, he glared at me but gave up and didn't fight.

We sent a transmission to Coin to inform her of our victory and soon began our cleanup, forcing the remaining Peacekeepers to surrender, imprisoning Snow in his own dungeon, several Peacekeepers defected to us, the rest were imprisoned with Snow.

During the cleanup I forced myself to help examine the dead and help move them, I didn't want to think about Prim's death, not yet. I soon found myself in the remnants of the room where Finnick's hovercraft had crash landed; it was a mess, covered in rubble. I was surprised to see Annie here.

"Annie?"

"Oh, Katniss, hello, I was just..." She broke off and sighed.

"I'm sorry Katniss," She said suddenly, "I'm sorry about...your sister."

I nodded grimly, I had lost Prim, Annie had almost certainly lost Finnick, the chances of him surviving such a crash were slim. His only possible survival chance would be if he was thrown through the front window. I looked around the room numbly and then froze...I couldn't believe it.

"Annie, look!" I called out.

I hurried over to the opposite end of the room from where the crash happened. I couldn't believe it, lying there, covered in rubble was Finnick, We both knelt down and I grabbed his wrist, I couldn't believe it.

"He's still alive, there's a pulse, barely but it's there!"

"What, hey, we need help in here!" Annie cried out.

I stood back and watched as Annie followed the stretcher that carried Finnick out. Annie got lucky, Finnick made it, sadly, Prim hadn't, but right now my mind was too full, I couldn't focus on it fully right now, so much still needed to be done, especially since Coin had arrived to take control of the Capitol.

I stood on the balcony with the others waiting for Coin, unlike them however I planned to confront her. Soon her hovercraft landed and she stepped out, she walked towards us and smiled.

"So, we have victory, excellent."

"Yeah, but I'm still not happy." I replied.

She looked at me with narrowed eyes.

"And what do you mean by that Miss Everdeen?"

I pressed the button on the remote in my hand so that everyone could see the video Gale had taken of Coin attempting to hypnotize Peeta.

"That is what I mean, you weren't treating Peeta at all, you were just trying to turn him into a weapon!" I yelled at her, she glared at me and then shook her head.

"So what."

"You lied to me, you don't care about people, all you cared about was your own power, you're no better than Snow!"

"We'll discuss this later Miss Everdeen, especially since your loss is clearly affecting your judgement." Coin replied dangerously but I knew I had one more bargaining tool.

"Fine, I'll save all of this until after we decide Snow's fate…on one condition." I paused as Coin actually showed fear for once, "Peeta is brought here and given proper treatment."

Coin glared again before finally shrugging. "Fine, it's not like I need him anymore anyway."

She turned to her aide and ordered him to give the order before leaving. He did so and followed her.

There was a stony silence as the others slowly left the balcony until Gale, Haymitch and I were the last ones left, finally I got what I was waiting for, another hovercraft arrived and Peeta was brought out on a stretcher, he had been cleaned up but still looked in a bad way, I knew I would have to wait a bit longer but just being able to see him eased the pain in my heart and allowed me time to mourn for Prim. As Peeta was taken inside and to the hospital wing, Gale and Haymitch led me back inside and to the room I had claimed as my own.

"Thanks I'll be okay, you guys can go now," I told them quietly.

They both left and I quickly got changed out of my battle clothes before slipping under the covers of the bed, I finally allowed myself to mourn properly and burst into tears, crying myself to sleep, saddened at the loss of my sister but at the same time grateful that the fight was over…for now at least.

End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.