Here's the next chapter! Enjoy! I do not own Mockingjay, any direct quotes will be in italics. (I do have a part at the beginning that isn't taken from the book that is in italics. Those are my words, not Suzanne's.)

Ch. 36

"Katniss." The name slips through my mouth again. A wall has gone up between the monster and I and it fights it's way through. Making progress rather quickly while I try to rebuild it just as fast as he destroys it. A memory comes through the cracks.

"Katniss is no more than a killer. She has killed thousands, thousands, Peeta. You think we can go on with her living like this?" President Snow questions me. The new clothes they had given me felt way more comfortable than the ones before. And I felt comfortable with Snow; he kept me safe, somehow.

"No sir." I answer, my face taut. I felt sick, but not in the physical way. Katniss had gone on making a country believe that she was good, but she wasn't. How was she still alive? I gulp at the idea of us being plunged into a revolution. No good can come from that.

"Yes, yes. Follow me, Peeta." I stand and begin to follow him as he talks along the way, "We have been creating muttations to help us get rid of her. Come Peeta, let me take you on a little tour."

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"Katniss," hisses through my mouth, one last final time before I realize what is happening. The mutts, they're coming. We hadn't fooled Snow for long, he knew. I could picture him back in his large office, smiling with delight at the idea that Katniss Everdeen was going to die at the hands of his many creations. And how great he must think it is that he had trained me to respond to them, but the wall was there and I was becoming strong. I would not let the mutts decide what I would do. I made the decisions.

I bolt up from my sleeping position, "Katniss!" she's alert, ready. I barely notice the arrow pointed at my heart, "Katniss! Get out of here!" I scream! The steady hiss of whatever creation Snow had sent out was coming nearer. I knew I could control my inner mutt, but I knew that the real mutts only had one goal, to kill Katniss. If they got here all of us would be dead, and Snow, back in his office, would win. Just like always.

"Why? What's making that noise?" she asks, utterly confused. Her bow drops just a little, though I could be shot if the wall between my monster and I was broken down.

"I don't know. Only that it has to kill you." I answer, "Run! Get out! GO!" I realize that with out trying I had fulfilled what Katniss had said earlier. That we protect each other. I knew one thing, and one thing only; I did not want her dead. I wanted her, needed her, alive and breathing.

Katniss searches the room quickly, looking at each of the distressed tired faces. "Whatever it is, it's after me. It might be a good time to split up." Katniss said. She was tired of being at the fault of all those deaths. I was too, but I wouldn't let her die on some heroic notion. She needed to live.

"But we're your guard."

"And your crew."

"I'm not leaving you." Says Gale pleading with his eyes. He also needed her alive, almost as much as I did. I couldn't explain how powerful this need was for her, only that I could not imagine a world without Katniss Everdeen in it.

We leave the room shortly after that and are on the run. The mutts are surely behind us, but the hissing is gaining much quicker than I would have liked. It takes everything in me to keep the wall up inside of me, if I let it fall then they will have a much bigger problem on their hands and they didn't need that right now. The running was physically taxing, but inside my mind I felt as if my brain was exploding from too much exertion. You can only fight yourself for so long.

Loud guttural screams erupt from behind us. "Avoxes. That's what Darius sounded like when they tortured him."

"The mutts must have found them."

"So they're not just after Katniss." I'm not quiet sure who is speaking, I only know that we must keep moving forward if we want to get Katniss out of here safely.

"They'll probably kill anyone. It's just that they won't stop until they get to her." It's Gale who says this, I know because of the urgency in his voice.

"Let me go on alone. Lead them off. I'll transfer the Holo to Jackson." Katniss says.

"No one's going to agree to that!" screams Jackson, in almost as much hurry as I am.

"We're wasting time." Finnick says this, so much urgency in his voice, but not for Katniss, no not at all, it's for the poor crazy girl at home that was promised something. Annie, who sits patiently for her one true love to come home.

"Listen." I say to get them back on track. The monsters were getting nearer. We begin to run again and it's not long before I see Messalla caught in the rays of something dangerous, everyone looks shocked and doesn't know what to do, but all I can hear is the steady hissing. We had to move. We could be sad about his death later.

"Can't help him! Can't!" and we're moving again. But that's when the mutts appear and we must keep moving. They're gross, lizard like creatures that hiss, just like Snow. A giant meat grinder activates, and we keep moving. Two stay behind, Jackson and Leeg One, they were sacrificing themselves for the Mockingjay.

We're running for an exit, others firing stuff at them, closer they get, closer we get to the exit. It's my goal to get Katniss out alive; I must get Katniss out alive. I begin to climb and Cressida follows and then Katniss and then Pollux and then Gale and I search frantically for Finnick. Where's Finnick? He can't die. He CAN'T die, I'm screaming in my head. And Katniss tries to fight for him too, but Gale won't let her go to get him.

Annie, back in Thirteen, does not know she will never get to see her husband again.

I hear the helpless cry of Katniss, "Nightlock, nightlock, nightlock." As I hear the boom go off I think one final thought before I'm lost to the world.

Finnick was so much more than any of us.

And there you have it the worst and saddest death of the whole entire series. *Cries*

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