Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and ate lots of food! I know I did!:)Thank you so much for all the wonderful reviews, I hope you like this chapter as well. Om my goodness! 15 reviews for the last chapter! You guys are totally awesome! Thanks sooooo much!

So instead of having just another boring chapter of Gale and Katniss in prison I'm hoping to add some action and start the 'attempted' rescue. I guess we'll see what happens and what my fingers type. Lol.

There will only be a few more chapters to this story and then I will be ending it. I know it's sad! But don't worry it's not over yet, Katniss still has to say those three words to Peeta!

Disclaimer: I do not own the Hunger Games, only the books, although I wish I were as talented a writer as Suzanne Collins.

Chapter 46! (Approximately one week later. Katniss has not been touched but Gale has been beaten numerous times.)

I am rudely awakened by someone shaking my shoulders; I groan and open my eyes, about to yell at the person who just woke me up out of a dreamless slumber.

Lily's face appears and I immediately swallow what I was about to say.

"What's wrong Lily?" I ask quietly, trying not to wake Gale who is asleep with his head once again resting on my lap. Her face lights up into a grin and she pulls a wadded up piece of paper out of her pocket, flattens it out, and hands it to me.

The rebels have broken into the capitol and are on their way now.

"They're coming to rescue us?" I ask in disbelief. Her head bobs up and down excitedly. I gently smack Gale's cheek to wake him up, but he doesn't even stir. Lily and I begin shaking him and doing everything except for yelling to wake him up.

"Lily, what's going on? What's wrong with him?" I start to panic. She ponders my question for a moment then begins to write furiously.

I don't make the meals, I only deliver, but this time there was a strange man that gave me the tray to bring to you. It's possible that he slipped some sleep syrup into Gale's water. I'm so sorry!

"It's fine Lily, it's not your fault." She nods, and a tear slides down her cheek.

"Could someone have known about the rebels coming to rescue us and they wanted us to have to leave Gale behind?"

That's possible, it would be pretty impossible for us to carry him out and not get caught.

"Besides, he's too weak to walk anyways. They've beaten him and done other things to him that he won't speak of. Every time he gets thrown back in here he's worse."

Lily slowly nods her head, sadness in her eyes.

"I have to get him back! He's my best friend and he is engaged to my other best friend. She'd never talk to me again if I just left him here alone. We have to try! Will you help me?" I end in a pleading voice.

Don't worry Katniss, we'll figure something out.

And with that she's gone. No explanation, no nothing. I have no idea what to do know; so for the next hour I try without success to wake Gale up. I finally give up, exhausted once again, and fall asleep against the wall like I have been doing ever since he got here.

It seems like I have just fallen asleep when I'm being shaken again. My eyes fly open to see Lily with 4 other people; I'm guessing who are avoxes. She hands me a piece of paper with writing on it and I squint in the semi-darkness to read it.

These are a few of the Avox Rebels that want to help.

"Oh thank you so much Lily!" She bends down and gives me a hug, then signals two of the men who come over to Gale and me, smile, then gently lift him up into their strong arms. I stand up once Gale's is off of me and stretch my stiff legs and sore neck. Another young Avox boy, probably around 18 or so, carefully opens the door and peaks out, looking both ways before motioning for the rest of us to follow him.

It feels so good to be out of my small prison and not have to stare at the same dreary concrete walls all the time. We sneak down the hall following the boy, he stops and peaks around a corner, placing his finger on his lips even though I am the only one that could make any noise and I couldn't even if I wanted to. Gale doesn't wake up, just stays limp in the arms of his carriers. I sure hope that it was just a little sleep syrup that knocked Gale out and not something poisonous that does permanent damage.

I'm really surprised that we haven't come across a single capitol worker or anyone, it's like they want us to escape. I'm hoping against hope that Peeta is on that rescue team, I miss him so much it's crazy. We get up out of the prison and into the main part of the mansion, passing an innumerable amount of rooms that are probably bedrooms of some sort.

We finally arrive at a door and the Avox boy slowly cracks it open and looks out. It must be clear because he motions for us to follow him. We tiptoe down another hallway; the floor is covered in a crimson soft carpet that sinks down when you step on it and the walls on both sides of us are lined with fancy paintings, mostly of the capitol. I glance behind to see that Gale is still out cold, it's a good thing that the young men carrying him are strong because I know that my friend is quite heavy, and it's not from fat. After maneuvering through many doors, up and down sets of stairs and through long hallways we come to a huge set of double doors with a guard on each side. Then Avox that had been leading us grabbed my arm and gave me a pleading look that seemed to say: Just play along. So that's exactly what I did. I fought him and yelled kicked and screamed for him to let me go. When we arrive at the doors Lily hands that guard an envelope that apparently says that they were given instructions to take Gale and I somewhere. The man finishes reading it and hands it back to Lily, the doors are opened and we step outside.

The bright afternoon sun temporarily blinds me since I've been in darkness for the past two weeks or so; I'm not even sure how long I was imprisoned. One word comes to mind as I survey the area before me. Chaos. The entire city is in chaos. My stomach starts to get butterflies as I anticipate meeting up and begin rescued by my knight in shining armor. No one pays any attention to us, they are too busy preparing for a full on war, well at least the men are, all the weird looking women and children are screaming and running to no where in particular. It's actually quite funny to watch.

The boy that had been hanging on to me as let me go so now I'm just walking silently beside him. "Where are you taking us?" I don't know why I ask him this, I know I won't end up getting an answer, but I still had to ask. He just shakes his head and doesn't look at me. Lily and the other girl are leading the way, and from the looks of things we're getting closer and closer to the outskirts of the capitol, hopefully to where our rescuers are waiting.

More and more soldiers appear the closer we get to the edge. But Lily said that they already broke through, or at least some of them did, is she the only one that knows this? I walk a little faster to catch up with my friend and whisper my question in her ear.

"Is it only the rebels in the capitol that know about some of the people from District 13 are inside the capitol?" She nods.

"So the rest of our army is right outside the force field surrounding the capitol?" She nods again.

"So where are they?" She puts her finger to her lips and her other hand up to signal for our party to stop for a minute. I look around me, we're at the base of the capitol's forest, although it's probably all fake just like everything else around here. The 5 avoxes make sure that we're not being watched then we quietly step into the woods and I feel instantly at home.

My hunter instincts immediately kick in and I'm so quiet it surprises even me.

"Are they waiting for us in here?" I ask. Lily bobs her head up and down excitedly. I begin walking quicker, barely able to contain my excitement, from the looks on everyone else's faces so are they.

Our smiles instantly fall when the sounds of guns and bullets flying overhead reach our ears. We all drop to the ground, but for the men carrying Gale it isn't so easy, thankfully no one gets hurt though.

When they finally stop I stand up and scurry up the nearest tree, then help Lily and the other girl up as well. It's pretty impossible to get Gale up so his two protectors hide him in a clump bushes and the leaves conceal the four of us up in the tree. We were barely hidden before a group of about 2 dozen soldiers run by, thankfully they don't notice anything strange and just keep on going. I let out an audible sigh of relief.

After a few more minutes we decide that it's safe to come out of hiding, I climb down first and I'm about to help the others when about six capitol soldiers jump out of the bushes and immediately point their guns directly at my heart. I slowly put both hands up in surrender; hopefully they don't notice the others above me.

"You really thought you could get away?" One of the men sneers at me.

"Well it was worth a try." I say, shrugging my shoulders, trying not to sound as nervous as I really am.

"You're coming with us, and this time Snow won't be showing any mercy." Another man says.

"Oh, so that was mercy that he was giving me back there?" I ask, laughing.

One of the younger men takes a step closer to me, all the while holding his weapon pointed at my heart, one wrong move could result in instant death. He reaches for my arm but I side step him and he just grabs air. He curses under his breath and tries again, this time I duck. Each time he tries to catch me I take a step back getting into the denser part of the woods where the trees are closer together.

I finally decide that I'm in the right place, far enough away from his friends, so this time when he grabs for me kick the gun out his hand and with the toe of my boot get him right in the gut. He grunts in pain and doubles over, clutching his stomach in pain. I don't have time to get the gun so I just take of running, I'm not fast enough though because I hear a shot and a few seconds later a bullet grazes the side of my shoulder. I bite my lip to keep from crying out and keep on running, not looking back. The pain is excruciating, worse than anything I've ever felt in my life. Warm liquid starts to run down my arm; I rip the bottom of my shirt and wrap the piece of fabric around my shoulder, hoping to minimize the amount of blood that is coming out. It's only when I'm pretty far away that I realize that I just left my friends, and worse, Gale as well. I'm such a chicken! I can't believe I just left them!

I crumble down into a heap on the forest floor, partly from exhaustion but mostly from the lack of blood and the pain. After few minutes I open my eyes to find a small stream running next to me. I quickly rip the piece of my shirt off of my wound and splash cold water onto it, instant relief floods through me, but as soon as I stop it hurts even worse.

I don't know how long I stay there on my bed of leaves falling in and out of consciousness but before I know it I feel someone touching my wound and my eyes fly open.

"Lily! You're here! You found me!" Tears of joy stream down both of our faces as we hug.

"How did you find me?" She points to the blood on my arm and around me on the leaves as if to say: We followed the blood.

"Where's Gale?" I start to stand up but Lily pulls me back down beside her and points to a body lying a few feet away from me.

"Is he okay?" She nods and I get up again and walk to few steps to get to him.

"Gale?" I whisper and his eyes flutter open. I grin and hug him tightly.

"Oh I'm so glad you're awake!" he chuckles.

"It seems like a lot has happened since I fell asleep, where are we?"

"We're in the capitol's forest, I guess we were supposed to meet some of the rebels here but we got chased by a few soldiers."

"Catnip, are you okay?" He asks suddenly. "You're bleeding."

"I'll be fine Gale, just a bullet grazed me, nothing but a painful flesh wound." He doesn't seem convinced but lets the matter drop.

"What do we do now?" I direct my question to one of the men that was carrying Gale. He shrugs and seems to say: We wait.

We have no supplies whatsoever so all we can do is sit here and wait for help to come, or to be taken back to prison and have our tongues cut out or something. Evening soon begins to descend on our pathetic looking group, and with evening comes the cold. The 7 of us sit huddled together in a circle trying to keep warm.

We haven't been sitting together for very long when the sounds of crunching leaves reach our ears. I hold tightly to Gale's arm, as we await our fate. Soon we hear voices, a few of them sounding quite familiar.

I recognize that voice! I jump up without telling anyone what's going on and start walking towards the voices, soon I'm running with all the energy that I have left, the pain in my shoulder completely forgotten.

After a few minutes of running I collide with a person. At first I think that it is a soldier come to take me back to my cell, but when his arms pull me tightly to him and I smell his scent I know that my knight has come to take me home.

"Oh Kat, I missed you so much, you have no idea." Peeta whispers into my hair.

"I'm sure I do." I whisper back, into his chest. "Because I think I missed you just as much. He squeezes me tighter and kisses my head.

"Promise me you'll never leave again?" I nod. "I promise." I look up into his shining blue eyes that are still evident in the twilight and stand up on my tiptoes. He picks me up and swings me around laughing happily, then we kiss. I'm never leaving him again, next time I'll fight with everything I have. I will never put him through that again, I love him and I'm never going to leave him.

"I love you Katniss." He says once we break the kiss. I hold my breath for a moment then slowly let it out.

"I love you too Peeta."

AAAAHHHH! She finally said it! Are you as excited as I am? What di you think of this chapter? I sure had fun writing it! Thanks to the wonderful 15 reviewers for the last chapter:

~Liv (Guest): no problem sorry it took me so long to update, Glad you liked it! Thanks for reviewing!

~Shayrosemc (Guest): Oh that makes me so happy! Thanks so much! Nope it's not the end yet!

~thatclovelytribute: AW thank you! Oh don't say that, I'm sure you are a great writer Thanks for your faithful reviews, they mean a lot!

~canadianboy98: Glad you liked it!

~jessy0622: Well you got your rescue, or at least part of it, what did you think?:) Thanks for all the awesome reviews name twin!

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~Paulitapg13: (Guest): I know sad isn't it? Thank you so much! Hope you enjoyed the end of this chapter and the beginning of the rescue!

~Katka (Guest): she said it! Are you as happy as I am?:) Glad you liked it, please review and tell me what you thought of this one too!

~stopdroplove: Glad you enjoyed the cookie! ;) Thanks!

~HGFan4719: well I decided to put your idea of the sleepy syrup in there I loved reading your ideas of what happened, thanks for the reviews!

~Guest: Aw thanks, yeah I just had to put Madge in there

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~TragedyIsTheKey: thanks! I really can't believe how many I've gotten! It's crazy! Well I couldn't let them torture katniss, hope that's okay!

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~Guest: Isn't she? I think so too, yah I know, glad you liked it!

~Guest: Thanks for the review! You were the first one!

Thanks again you all, well I've gotta run, my dad has a bench-pressing competition soon so I've gotta go watch Hope you liked it, don't forget to review!

~firepearl