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"Makorraloveralltheway": Yeah, I winced when I was going back over it to add some things from Speedy08's original chapter... It is brutal.
"cjp1007": You're good at this, you just may be right.
"blowofsmoke": 'oh shat' is right.
Savannah mariyah: ehhhh I don't think your hoping is going to help them much... sorry...
iluviggyhesthebest: Haha, great review!
the scout12: Cato will bash up Snow, not soon but he will.
Here's chapter 28!
Ivy's POV
I had stayed at the hospital after everything had happened, I was still sorting through everything in my mind. I managed to take a blood sample form Katniss, and I send it to the lab to get it examined with mine and my husband's blood. He stayed with me after that as well, along with Cato. Mags had found us shortly after Katniss was taken and she called in a daughter of an old friend, who was the head of the Police Department, and had taken some time off due to her mother's death, leaving Coin in charge.
Suddenly I felt as if someone gave my heart a squeeze, as if it were being torn apart. I looked at John and he gave me a confused look.
"Katniss," I managed to choke out.
"What's wrong?" he asked, instantly on his feet and supporting me.
"Something happened to Katniss." I say, my eyes wide with fear.
"What?" Cato asked, his eyebrows knitted together in confusion and worry as he swiftly walked over to me.
"What makes you think that?" my husband asked.
"It's a mother's instinct," I replied. "Something is wrong with Katniss." I repeated.
Just as I was going to get up and leave to Snow's house, a woman in her early fifty's showed up.
"I'm Chief Paylor," she announced. "I just got reinstated ten minutes ago. What's going on?"
My husband and I shared a look before we all explained the situation of my daughter.
Madge's POV
My father, Thread, stood there looking at me for a long time before taking a look at Katniss. There was something that was off about it him. His stare, it wasn't the sweet, gentle one I knew. I explained to him Katniss's situation, and he waited until I was finished before speaking.
"I'm calling her father," he said, making his way out of the room.
"Dad!" I cried. "He's the one that did this to her! You can't call him!"
My father turned to face me, his eyes meeting mine before he looked over at my somewhat conscious friend. His eyes hardened. "She deserves what she gets." It took me a second to process what he meant. I felt like my whole world had been pulled out from under me at his words.
He'd known. He'd known that Snow abused Katniss. He'd fucking known!
I forced myself not to look as destroyed as I felt. "You-you knew?" It was the only thing I could make come out of my mouth, and I hated how small my voice sounded. "Dad, how could you? She's my best friend!"
"That is of no consequence to me. And she is not our concern. I'm calling her father," he replied. "And then that little problem will be out of my hair." He growled, turning on his heel to get the phone.
I took a step back, almost like I'd been slapped. I certainly felt like I had. I couldn't believe how cold-hearted my father was, how he'd always been. I felt like I might be sick but I pushed the feeling away as I shook my head sadly. "Mom wouldn't have wanted this."
He froze, and for a moment I thought he might change his mind. But then that hard edge crept back into his gaze and he left the room. I heard Katniss groan in immense pain from where she lay on the bed, and I turned my full attention back to her, soothing her as best I could. I didn't have time to feel sorry for myself right now. I had to get Katniss out of here before Snow arrived, and to the hospital before she lost her life here in my house.
Ivy's POV
After thoroughly explaining the abuse that Katniss had received, Paylor called over Coin and yelled at her for the poor action she had taken. Paylor made arrangements to meet with a social worker, which turned out to be Mags's son, Finnick. I impatiently waited for her to do something else than yell when a nurse approached me telling me I was needed in the emergency room.
I felt my heart drop. I knew who it was. I rushed over and sure enough the sight that greeted me was one that a mother should never see.
Madge was walking after the carrier in which Katniss was placed. My daughter was unconscious and she was beaten and broken, blood covering her once blue clothes; the worst abuse I've ever seen in my time as a doctor. I ordered Madge to let Cato and my husband know the situation before rushing Katniss inside the ER. We transferred her to another bed, while I worked on her to see what was wrong.
"Her pulse is dropping," a nurse panicked.
I stayed as calm as possible, doing a quick checkup even if I knew she needed much more, and noticing she was going into shock. I tried to treat her like any other patient, but I couldn't. My baby was in the emergency room, and she didn't look too good. She looked terrible, her heart began to beat much to fast to be safe and every nurse and doctor working on her got to work right away. There wasn't a second to lose. We began to rip her bloodied clothes and I noticed she was bleeding from her mouth, not to mention all the bruises and whip marks littering her torso.
"She has internal bleeding," I stated, my jaw clenched and hands shaking. "She needs to go into surgery. Does she have a medical file?"
"Yes," one of the nurses answered. "Her blood type is B+. We don't have any on storage right now."
I nodded, thank the lord she's John's blood type.
"My husband is B+; get a transfusion from him now. I'll keep her stabilized as long as I can."
The nurse nodded and rushed out the room. About ten minutes later she was back and we began the transfusion while I conducted surgery on my daughter. Needless to say I was nervous. I was very nervous, I knew damn well I shouldn't be operating this way, but I couldn't let anyone else do it. This was my baby we were talking about; I couldn't leave her in another hands. Different nurses wiped the sweat off my forehead as I worked and helped as best they could. Finally after what seemed an eternity I finished suturing the blood vessels, stopping the internal bleeding.
I sighed in relief as I closed up the cut I had made in her stomach when the monitors started to beep. I looked at it and my heart dropped.
"We're losing her!" Someone to my left yelled.
I shook my head. "No, no, no," I said through my teeth as I tried to stabilize her again. Then the cardiac monitor showed a straight line for her heart beat that was no more.
I froze.
No.
Oh my gosh, is Katniss gone? Did Snow win?
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