I'm so sorry! Haven't updated as soon as I wanted to, but its summer and I can't type while I'm swimming. So I've kept you waiting long enough let's get started. Warning this chapter will be slightly bloody.

I am not the amazing Suzanne Collins; I do not own The Hunger Games, or any of its characters.

Chapter 14

Katniss' POV

I wake up in a hospital bed, and I find myself trying to remember how I got here. I can remember Ashley and the fight, but I think I must have passed out if I can't remember a thing after that. And all I can focus on now is this shooting pain beginning in my shoulder and travelling down my arm, but even though it hurts I still try to get up.

"You shouldn't do that," says a man coming out from behind the curtain separating my little room from the rest. I recognize him though; he's on Gale's squad. Biggins, I think his name is. "I don't know if you remember me, but my names Biggins. I'm on Gale's squad, but ever since the mine incident I've been helping out in the hospital a bit.

"How's everyone else?" I ask finding my voice is a little raspy,

"Everyone else is fine, but it was you that we were worried about. When she stabbed you we were scared about the amount of blood you lost and that she permanently scared tissue. But luckily a member on our squad has the same blood type as you, AB-, and he donated blood."

"Who donated?" I ask curiously,

"Levin. And as for everything else your surgery went well, with this new Capitol technology the pain in your shoulder should go away soon," He says and then asks, "Do you want to take visitors?"

I just nod, because this is a lot of information to process in just a couple minutes. I also realize I'm truly grateful for Gale's squad, but I don't have a lot of time to be grateful because Peeta bursts into my little room.

"Katniss, Biggins told me everything. Are you alright? Are you hurting? How do you feel? I told you that you shouldn't go into those mines…" Peeta continues to talk for another minute until I say,

"Peeta, just be quiet for a second. I'm fine, but just stop asking so many questions."

"Oh, sorry," he says as he sits down. We spend the rest of the time in silence, with only him talking to me occasionally about small things, until he asks seemingly out of no were,

"What are we Katniss?" he must see the confusion written all over my face because he adds, "Are we dating, are we friends, what are we?"

What are we? I ask myself, because I haven't really thought about it. We're-

"Friends," I say the last part aloud, "I will always love you Peeta; we went through something together that no one else can understand. But I just don't love you that way," I finish and I can practically see the disappointment on his face, but he quickly brightens and says,

"As long as I'm your friend, I can be happy with that." Then he gets up and gives my hand a quick squeeze before he walks out.

My next guest I'm relieved to see,

Gale.

"Hey, Catnip," he says as he sits down were Peeta was once sitting.

"Gale what happened after I blacked out?" I ask, he sighs then says,

"There were three seconds left before P.T. stopped the bomb. After all the bombs were declared stable they took Ashley out of the mines."

"She's still alive?" I ask,

"Yea, but barely. Turns out that if that gas is breathed in directly it could be deadly, it paralyzes the lungs; I didn't breathe it in directly and neither did anyone on my squad luckily, but she breathed in a whole can of it thanks to you." He finishes and all I can say is, "Oh."

"She wants to see you Catnip," he says and I let out a heavy sigh.

"When?"

"Right now, but if you agree I'll warn you she's not all there," He responds.

Before I know it I'm up and dressed and getting ready to see Ashley, they don't let a person rest around here do they? I think, as I walk down the hall with Gale and Levin.

"Oh, thanks for donating blood," I say to Levin before I walk into Ashley's room.

"No problem, looks like you and I have some rare blood types," he says with a grin. I just smile and nod before walking into a room with white walls and a one way window so the people can see in.

It looks similar to the one Peeta was in when he was retrieved from the Capitol, but without a bed and all the medical things. In this room, there are only chains that hold her to the wall. I'm on my own on this one, there is no one talking in my ear instructing me on what to do.

Ashley is practically hanging by her arms on the wall, well if he legs weren't chained too. Her hair is matted and her eyes vacant. She looks up at me and smiles,

"Look who came to visit me," she says before she begins to cough up blood.

"Well, you asked for me to come," I say.

"Oh, well I can't remember anything anymore. Did they tell you my lungs are bleeding? It happens more when I talk, but that's good because it speeds up the dying process," she says with a laugh that only ends with a coughing fit and what seems like a river of blood pouring out of her mouth.

Once she stops she seems to forget I'm there, and she begins to look down and hum the hanging tree.

"Ashley?" I ask moving back a little.

"It's going to be ugly you know. When I die it's going to be ugly," she says more to herself then me.

"Why?" I ask, but I regret it soon because I really have a bad feeling about this.

"Because silly," she says with a laugh, "I'm going to die when all my organs get paralyzed and then I'm going to start bleeding out of everywhere," she says in a small voice, finally feeling bad for herself.

She finally looks up and says, "All because of the damn gas," she says shedding a small tear mingled with blood.

"Are we done here?" I ask, because the sight of all this blood is making me queasy and reminding me of President Snow.

"What's the rush?" she says with a sly grin, "Don't you want to hear about my surprise?" surprise? What is she talking about? Well, Gale said she's not all there, but on what terms of crazy are we talking about?

"What surprise?" I ask getting slightly annoyed with myself, because I should have just left when I had the chance.

"Well, I always knew that if I died during this…let's say mission, I would want to go out with a bang," she says with that same grin. And then I know what she means, oh God, I think.

"What have you done?" I ask in a weak voice, but all I hear is her laughter as I run out into P.T.'s lab.

"P.T. find out where Ashley went that time she left the mines." I command in a hurry as Levin and Gale follow in after me.

"Your wish is my command," P.T. says as he puts down his cup of coffee and begins to type.

"She was at…" he raises his eyebrows and checks again, "She was at your house."

"Peeta just went to get some of your stuff from there," Levin says with wide eyes.

"There's a bomb in my house," I say rushing out the door.

I guess Gale went and got Swarm and Kent because their good with this kind of stuff, but I didn't really hear because I was rushing to my house.

By the time I've burst through the door Gale is telling me to slow down because they don't know when it will detonate, but I don't care I'm already yelling Peeta's name.

"Katniss! What is it? What's wrong?" Peeta asks rushing down the stairs to me.

"Nothing we need to get out of here right now Ashley put a bomb in the house," I say already pushing everyone out the door.

Once we're all outside and a safe distance away Kent says,

"I'm going to go back and check everywhere," he then runs toward the house with Levin and Swarm.

"You ok?" Gale asks, sitting next to me on the ground where I collapsed.

"Yea, I guess I just can't run as long as I used to. Lucky it was only this far, or I probably would have passed out," I say with a laugh and Gale just chuckles before we see Levin and Swarm trotting back over to us.

"Well it's nothing to worry about, it was just an inactive Phoenix bomb under the sink," Swarm says and Gale just nods before Peeta asks,

"What's a Phoenix bomb?"

"It's a bomb that doesn't cause an explosion, but it sets a pretty decent size fire that spreads faster than normal fires. Plus there extremely loud when they detonate," Gale says.

"Where's Kent?" I ask noticing that the extremely hyper boy isn't with them, well maybe not a boy he must be about my age.

"He's in the house checking if there are any more bombs. You can never to careful," Levin says with a sigh.

"Why would Ashley want to do that," Peeta asks, but no one ever gets to answer because all of the sudden there's a loud booming sound.

But I only seem to notice two things:

The flames bursting out from my house, and Swarm calling out his brother's name.

Whoa! Cliffy! Mwhahaha! I promise to update sooner because I left a cliffy. Again sorry for the wait everybody. Oh, and soon I'm going to type a B-day present for Hailey. It will be out by June 27.