Sorry, I was supposed to upload a few hours earlier :s but there was thunder and I couldn't go to the beach and write, instead I trudged through the rain to the shops :| Not my BEST idea! This is Chapter 21... enjoy!

Chapter 21

Effie in the woods.

As soon as Aurelius left in the hovercraft, Effie decided that she was going for a stroll in the woods. She wasn't afraid of the peacekeepers coming after her anymore, however she was still grieving Cinna's death, but she wanted to clear her mind. As she walked past the many evergreens, she recognised many as she was a bit of an expert on trees and wood and as she walked past the trees she identified every single one; red pine, ebony, cedar and mahogany. She loved the smell too. Fresh pine, amongst other smells, and all the colours too, the reds, browns and the luscious greens. She was glad to have run away from her old life. She felt at home in the wood, from what she heard, Katniss loved the woods too. Katniss also hunted illegally there with her friend Gale. Effie also loved the woods but she had never even attempted to hunt there. Katniss, what if she's already dead? She knew that the rebels would try to rescue her, but what if their plan failed? Either way, she was sure that she wouldn't see Katniss again, she tried to deny the thought, and Peeta. Is he alive? There was also a chance that he was dead too. He was less important in the rebel plans but Effie knew that Katniss needed him too much, she wouldn't carry on without Peeta, just like Effie couldn't carry on without Cinna. Cinna, she couldn't stop thinking about him, she loved him so much, he couldn't possibly be dead, he couldn't possibly not be on the earth any more because Effie needed him, she needed him more than anyone else. A year had passed since they first met but Effie still felt as if she lived her whole life with Cinna at her side. Effie decided to take a break so she sat on a log and pulled out a piece of bread from the house, that she put in her handbag.

"Life is so unfair," Effie said out loud, and shortly after she had said that, a mockingjay started to sing. She smiled at the little bird that flew to a nearby branch, in Effie's view. She started to talk to it and the bird gazed at her and she was sure the bird understood every single thing that she said to it. "Cinna loved mockingjays, he told me on the rooftop once," she told the little bird and the bird replied with its beautiful song. "If only he was here to hear you sing, little mockingjay, he would have loved listening to you, thank you for keeping me company mockingjay," Effie thought she could almost feel Cinna's presence there. She shivered and then stood up from the log and the bird flew away, "Goodbye Mockingjay!" she shouted and her voice carried in amongst the tall trees. The mockingjay replied with a simple song and Effie smiled. She carried on walking even further into the forest but she knew that she could be able to find her way back eventually.

She came across to another clearing and she saw a white building there, there were no windows but then she realised there were bars across tiny, narrow windows and she realised that it was a prison. She walked around it and just as she was about to leave she heard a cracked voice speaking, calling her name,

"Effie? Is it you?" the voice said. She shook her head, she didn't even recognise the voice but something deep inside of her made her turn around and look down at the tiny, narrow, barred window and she saw a starving, weak Cinna.

"Cinna?" she could barely whisper, tears running down her cheeks, "Is that really you?"

"Effie… Help me…" Cinna whispered back, he was weak and as his hand crawled through the bars, Effie held it.

"I promise I will get you out," she said through her tears and she whispered, "I promise," but she couldn't think how she could get Cinna out. "Are there any guards here?" Cinna shook his head,

"I think this prison…. Is for criminals to die…here…" he muttered.

"That's great!" said Effie, "I need to weaken the bonds between the metal fibres, you might want to step back Cinna," she said as she got a bottle of acid out. Cinna wisely stood back because as the liquid was poured over the metal, it started to sizzle. "I might be able to snap this…" she said as she reached into her handbag and got an alkaline liquid out and poured it over the bars, "This will neutralise it so none of us get hurt by it," and she touched the first bar and after quite little effort she snapped the first bar, she continued with the rest and then told Cinna to come over, "Do you trust me on this Cinna?" she asked holding both of his hands,

"I trust you Effie," replied Cinna surely but still in a weak, cracked voice. Effie then started pulling Cinna out, trying to reach his shoulders to make it easier to pull him out and after one last haul, Cinna was free!

"I'd better get you to the hut now," Effie whispered to him, Cinna was unsure what she meant by 'hut' but he was too tired to care. Effie put one of Cinna's arms around her so she could support him as they walked slowly back to the wooden hut.

Once they were inside, Effie sat Cinna down onto the sofa, and she got some clean bed sheets and put them on the big bed in the bedroom, then she walked Cinna to it and laid him down. He relaxed a bit,

"I'll get you some food now," Effie said softly to him and she got some food out of the cupboard and after she fed him, she kissed his scarred lips. The first kiss they had since the night before the Games, which seemed like years ago. Effie felt a tear prick her eye as she gazed at Cinna's face.

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