Johanna

I must be dead. I feel safe and warm. I hear someone speaking to me. I feel wind against my face as if we're flying.

"Blaine," slips from my lips. Someone hugs me against their chest. My eyes feel heavy but I force them to open. What I see startles me. My fiancée, or once was; Blaine. The room shifts and turns black at the edges. I must be dreaming. A horrible nightmare is what this is; taunting him in front of me only to slip from my fingers when I finally reach him. He is dead, I tell myself. Snow killed him when I refused to sell my body to the rich Capitol citizens. But Snow did something worse. He took him away from me and hid him away. But if he is really alive and this isn't a dream then why would Snow hide him away? Or did Snow know he was still alive? Artemis was in charge of the prosecutions in the Capitol. He could have hid him away to use on me later. But then why would he even remember me? Artemis could have hijacked him just like Peeta? Is he haunted by waking nightmares like Peeta? It's too much to go through in my befuddled mind so when the room tilts again I give in and settle into the security the warm arms give me even if it is false. I just want to feel them around me one last time.

Peeta

We're hiding in the woods deep in shrubbery. Katniss's rain soaked jacket no longer protects her and she is shivering. She is trying to hide it. I know she is worried about me but I only scoot my body against hers and try to warm her. I know she is going to break down but she's trying to hold on to sanity until we get out of here. Gale's somewhere up in a tree he had climbed trying to lead the guards away from us. Even now we hear their boots crunching on the rocky ground' tromping through the forest trying to locate us. I wonder if Johanna was successful in her attempt to kill Enobaria. I wonder how she knew Enobaria was behind this. I don't question it because she has known her a lot her than I have and it wouldn't be hard to figure it out because she is about the only person in the world left that hates Katniss other than some of 13's citizens. I take her hand in one of my own. There is a slight moon high in the sky and I can barely make out her face. I know if I were to become blind I could remember every feature. She grasps my fingers tightly and I can't help but think how different out live are now. So much has changed in less than 4 years. Once she would hold my hand because she had too, to convince the districts of our love for each other. Now she grasped my hand almost as if she was hanging on for dear life and maybe she was. I reach out my hand and place it on her stomach under the jacket. I've missed so much. It's almost as if Katniss senses what I'm feeling because she places her hand on top of mine. I wonder how much longer she has until the baby is born? It can't be too long because it looks as if she's swallowed a watermelon. I hear a bird sounding a warning call and I silently wish it is the hovercraft. There is no sound when it appears; only the wind blowing against the trees, parting them alerts us that they're here. I can see the ladders ghosting to the ground, the current waiting to freeze us in place after our feet land on the first rung. Haymitch stands revealing himself to the guards surrounding the area.

"Go," he says. "I'll cover you."

"No not without you," Katniss says. "What about Gale and Johanna?"

"They'll come," says Haymitch. He looks at me with pleading eyes and I know he wants me to get Katniss to that Hovercraft no matter the cost. I would carry her but I'm not sure my legs would hold out. I still have a hold on her hand so I start to pull her in that direction. She looks at me and I think she knows I will do almost anything to get her safely on the craft. Katniss complies and she turns her feet in the direction we have to go. Gunfire sprays the area, bullets lodging deep in trunks of trees beside us, splintering the wood and sending the shards into our bodies. I keep pulling Katniss along but this time I'm put my body behind her to guard her from the splintering wood and bullets. Guards' yelling to tell us to stop reaches my ears over the gunfire. I hear feet pounding the earth and Gale screaming for me to get Katniss on the ladder. We're almost there, lest than 6 feet to go when I hear someone grunt as a bullet hits their flesh. I'm afraid to turn to see who it is. Katniss is pulling away from me. I turn to see Haymitch lying on the ground arm covering a place on his chest, blood seeping through the cracks between fingers. Gales running and I can see him jumping over fallen logs. I feel as if I'm back in the games again. Bodies of guards and friends alike falling to the ground. Gale has a gun and he's spraying bullets behind him as he runs. I can see Katniss poised ready to run. I turn and pick her up. I run her in my arms the last 6 feet, hoping my legs hold up with her thrashing around.

"No, Peeta, Please put me down," she pleads. I love her too much to give in.

"Haymitch," she calls.

I place her feet back on the ground and push her onto the ladder until she freezes. She's upset with me. The ladder raises her into the hovercraft and she disappears as doctors and nurses pull her from the ladder to check her.

I run back to Haymitch's crumbled body and try to lift him from the ground but I'm too weak. Haymitch moans. At least that's a sign he's still alive. Gale runs into the clearing and puts his shoulder under Haymitch's other arm, helping me lift his from the ground. We lift him and his feet drag the ground, leaving drag marks behind us. Bullets are hitting places we just were burying deep in the ground or in tree trunks. The guards are getting closer. I'm surprised they're not here yet. We put Haymitch on the ladder and I step back to let the current freeze him and Gale.

"No, get on."

"No,"

"Get on," he says and shoves me on the ladder. "You're her husband, she loves you." We're frozen and I wonder if bullets can penetrate the current. Doctors push their way to me and I wave them away and pointe to Haymitch.

"Take care of him," I say.

Katniss is curled up in a corner and I place my arms around her. A nurse walks up with a gown and a blanket.

"She wouldn't let me touch her until you got here," she says.

"Katniss why don't you change in to the gown, you'll be warm." She shakes her head vigorously. "The baby will be cold," I whisper to her. It shakes her a little and she stands and removes her jacket just as Gale's feet are off the ladder and on the firm ground of the hovercraft. He shakes water from his hair.

"Johanna, we can't leave without her," says Katniss. This draws his attention. His face is unrecognizable as he stares at her extended abdomen.

"What the…..you're …pregnant," he chokes out. Katniss looks down and the nurse quickly hands over the blanket to her which she quickly wraps herself in.

"Well I am married Gale!" she yells at him. Plutarch walks into the room squishing the tension under his shoes so it can simmer until it explodes again when we're all safe.

"Sorry we would have been here soon but I had a little mishap in 13-." Katniss doesn't even let him finish.

"I'm not leaving here without Johanna; I have to go back for her."

"No you're not going, I'll go."

"No Peeta you're too weak Peeta,"

"I'll go, it's not like I have anything to live for anymore." Gale says and climbs back on the ladder. Katniss looks torn. She wants to go after Gale but I know she won't leave without Johanna so she lets him go.

"Come on," says the nurse as she starts to lead Katniss from the room. She grabs my hands and pulls me along with her to a room where we get to change into warm clothes for the first time in a long time.