Chapter 15: So Comfortable, It's Scary
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I once was lost, but now I am found.
The first explosion threw the couple from the stage. Gale and Katniss looked for the exit, but the second
explosion was the exit. The third explosion blew up the tables, and the fourth began to blow up one
random place after another. Gale quickly scooped Katniss in his arms. From the look on her face, he
could tell she was protesting. Katniss was a lot of things, but a damsel in distress she was not.
Gale rushed to the nearest side exist. He wasn't the only one there though. He set Katniss down, and
Made sure she got through. When he tried to go behind her, he felt hands grabbing him by the throat.
He was taken up high, and slammed hard on his back. He struggled to catch his breath and tried to crawl
away on his hands and knees. He was kicked in the stomach. He rolled over in pain. He then was
grabbed by the scruff of his collar. He elbowed his attacker in the face. The big guy staggered back from
the force of Gale's elbow. Gale then delivered some punches to his face, and then tripped him. The guy
went down so fast, he sat confused for a moment. He wasn't alone though, and some other guys
surrounded Gale.
"What is this, a bar-room brawl? In case you idiots didn't get the memo, we're all in the Hunger Games!"
Gale yelled, hoping to get through to them.
"You're the idiot. This is the Hunger Games!" one of the guys yelled, charging at Gale.
Gale however, used the guy's force against him, throwing him into the big guy, who was still dazed and
confused on the floor. The other three had weapons of some sort. He had to dodge their swings
constantly. They were looking for an opening. Gale forced himself not to choke on the smoke in the
room, as it increased greatly. He took two hits and seemed to go down. While his onlookers were caught
off guard, he bolted for the nearest side exit, just before the ceiling collapsed.
Katniss waited in horror and suspense, questioning all the choices she had made up until now. Why did
it have to be Prim who was chosen? Why was life one cruel game of chance? She dropped to her knees,
as the other girls took off into the nearby woods. She wasn't going to leave Gale behind. The roof near
the side exit had collapsed. She knew that the chances of Gale being alive was slim. She clasped her
hands together and began to pray. President Snow smiled as he watched her on a screen in his office. He
toasted to her defiant effort, until Gale came out slowly from among the rubble.