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Gale

I'm deposited on the ground from the Hovercraft, with only my bow for protection since I used all of my bullets trying to hold back the guards. I run from the clearing for the safety of the trees. It's still raining harshly and I find myself thankful for the protection the tree limbs bring even though they are nearly bare of leaves. I walk through the woods on silent feet. Feet used to stalk prey. Feet used to keep my families stomach relatively full. There's a sharp pain in my shoulder and I suspect my leg was grazed by a bullet. But I keep inching silently through the foliage despite the pain. I'm pretty sure I'm doing better than Haymitch. I reach the end of the trees and hunker down behind a bush. I can see the building. Dawn will be here soon. The clouds part slightly letting a ray of moonlight slips through. I see a shadowy figure coming from the corner of the building. I look closer. It looks like it is carrying something. Possibly the guard with Johanna? I start from my hiding place seeing no sign of the guards who so persistently pursued us earlier, only to stop when three guards step out of a place in the trees. Two of them stop them in the middle of the clearing before you reach the trees. One looks as if he is the leader, controlling the others and issuing orders to them. I barely catch the words being said but catch enough to piece together the conversation.

"What do you think you're doing Saffron?" the head guard asks.

"This woman came here by accident and fell I was going to take her back to town and leave her."

That the guard didn't believe him was evident in his posture.

"Put her in a cell," says the guard.

"No I think we should let her go, she is no prisoner of ours."

"Are you defying me Saffron?"

"No sir," says Saffron. The Guard considers this for a moment. Saffron is not in a position to protect himself and Johanna so I ready my bow with fire arrows and wait for the opportune time to shoot.

"Shoot them," he tells the other guards and walks back toward the stone building. This is it, I tell myself. I have three arrows and three guards to shoot. I can't waist them. I have to shoot straight. Katniss has always been better than me with a bow and arrow. I rise from my place of concealment and pull back my bow. The guns raise their guns to Saffron's head. I aim for the head guard first to provide a distraction. I take and deep breath and fire. It is cowardly and I hate to shoot a man although my enemy in the back. The arrow lodges itself between his shoulder blades. He screams as fire overtakes his body, burning his flesh and singing his hair. He tried to roll on the ground but it's no use. He's stops writhing and I know he is dead. The guards are looking around in confusion. Blaine has taken the opportunity to disappear silently into the woods. I debate whether to kill the other two guards. I decide against and start to melt back into the woods when I hear them say.

"He went this way."

I pull my bow and think how they almost escaped with their lives. If only they had kept their mouths shut. I aim and pull back my bow piercing one in the heart. The other sees his fellow guard fall to the ground and takes off running. I place an arrow in his back where his heart would be. He too falls to the ground, his body stolen of life. I run back to the hovercraft thinking how for the first time in my life I've felt something when I killed those men. It was wrong but necessary I know. I place my foot on the first rung and I'm lifted into the Hovercraft.

Katniss

The doctors sedated Johanna as soon as she was off the ladder. She had awoken and started yelling crazy things, screaming something incomprehensible. I think she thinks she back in prison being tortured. She lay in a hospital bed the guard whose name I still do not know holding her head. I walk over to him, Peeta still holding tightly to my hand. Gale has been staring at my stomach ever since he boarded the hovercraft again. He starting to get on my nerves but I just ignore him and I continue in my quest to find out just who this guard is. I walk into the small room. Johanna pale and tubes are in both of her arms. The guard tears his eyes away from her on our entrance. He takes a deep breath.

"I bet your wondering who I am." Peeta and I take a seat in two empty chairs on the other side of Johanna's bed. I smile at him, the best one I can conjure up at this moment. I'm still thinking of Haymitch. The doctors were able to save him, though they lost him once and had to restart his heart. The bullet had nicked arteries near the aorta but the talented surgeons Plutarch had thought to bring were able to perform emergency heart surgery to save him. He now lay in a room like Johanna's hooked up to even more tubes than she. I had sat with him for a while after his surgery. The doctor had told me he would probably be out for a couple days because of the pain he would be in. I had reluctantly left him to be with Peeta and talk to the guard.

"Yeah," I say. He waits a second as if weighing on what to reveal. I decide to put him at ease.

"Johanna's like a sister to me. We don't always get along but I think we both really care for each other, which is kind of like how real sisters are. She helped keep Peeta alive during the Games and for that I'm grateful. She is a part of my family."

"She's both our family," says Peeta further ensuring the guard he was among friends.

"Johanna and I were supposed to be married before she was reaped. I had to watch her games and it just about killed me. Snow ordered her family killed. I was out working that day and came back to find them dead a day before. Peacekeeper's came for me. They chose to spare me, use me for some purpose later on. They were going to inject me with trackerjacker venom to make me hate her. I think it was something called hi-."

"Hijacking," Peeta and I both say together. Peeta gives my hand a squeeze.

"Yeah Hijacking. They were going to use me to kill her if she caused any problems. I told them I would do anything and I meant anything if they would spare her from physical and….mental harm. So they transferred me to the Capitol and trained me to be a guard. I was able to see Johanna though her being a mentor in the games and watching her in the Quarter Quell. I was so angry when she was reaped again. When you all teamed up together I had some hope she might make it out. There seemed to be something going on beneath the surface. I could sense it. I've known her, loved her for so long. I know her every thought." He looks at her lovingly. The way Peeta looks at me. "Well I used too."

"Then you blew out the dome in the arena, I dint know what was going on and it almost made me crazy. I tried to get away from here to save her but I almost got caught doing it. I knew I would be no help to her dead. Then the war started and I didn't see her except in a few propos. I was scared out of my mind. Then you shot Snow and Coin and everything was crazy for a while with your trial. After that everything was quiet. No sign of her anywhere. I was waiting for the right time to escape. I never would have dreamed we would be reunited like this." He looks at Peeta.

"I was in the Capitol when you were there. I watched them torture you once; I was got them to stop by telling Artemis the President wanted to him. I thought I would be dead when he got back but by some miracle Snow did really want to see him." A dark shadow crossed his face and he huffs.

"To order him to torture you in a new way. I heard you scream for so long. I didn't know if I could take it anymore. That's when I requested a new job."

Peeta's gripping my hand so hard. When he realizes it he lets go. I stretch my fingers out, massaging them, waiting for the blood flow to start back. I then slipped my hand back into his.

"I'm sorry I couldn't save you." He looks back at Johanna then at me.

"I know," says Peeta. "I would have done the same."

The conversation lags and we all just sit and stare at Johanna. Peeta shivers beside me. I touch his cheek with my fingers to bring him back from that dark place he had returned to. His nightmares will get worse now. I kiss his cheek and try to think of something that will get everybody's mind off of the current situation. I then remember that I keep calling the man guard.

"What's your name," I ask him.

"Blain…Blaine Saffron," he replies.

"I think you know who we are," I say, motioning to Peeta and myself. He smiles slightly.

"I haven't met you officially Mr. and Mrs. Mockingjay." I wonder how he knew we were married until I remember the plain gold band on our fourth finger of out left hand. I can't believe they let us keep them. Probably an over sight or they just didn't care.

"Just Katniss and Peeta are fine," I say. He smiles and we all settle into a more comfortable silence awaiting arrival home. Wherever home is for all of us.

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