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Chapter 14-Taken

Katniss awoke from what seemed like a long nap. She found herself still in the forest with her arms tied behind her back and felt her mouth taped shut. She looked around in panic and sees Rain unconscious in the same position as her. She doesn't recognize the trees around her, she figures they must have been moved by whoever has taken them.

Suddenly, appearing almost out of nowhere a man kneels down in front of her. He gives her a smug smirk and says, "Aww, you finally woke up sleepy head. Why so panicked?"

Katniss doesn't recognize the man at all. He appeared to be in his early 30's and was dressed all in black. It looked like he had been out in the wilderness for quite a while, his face was dirty and he had a full grown beard that was unkempt. His clothes were dirty as well. She wondered if he was sent from the Capitol. After taking a closer look at him, she determined he wasn't, if he was, he would look more fed.

Rain started to open her eyes. Once fully awake, she too starting looking around with panicked eyes and made noises that were muffled from the tape on her mouth. Her eyes settled once she saw Katniss off to the side. Katniss gave a slight nod of her head, acknowledging that she sees Rain. The man witnesses this and turns to Rain and says, "Hey Warren, the other one is awake too."

Katniss saw another man approach, also dressed in black and unkempt looking. He had long hair and a lot more facial hair. His clothes were more torn. The man called Warren walked up to Rain and touched the side of her face, stroking it. Rain winced in response and pulled away. He then slapped her hard across the face.

Katniss found herself trying to say something, but the sound of course was muffled due to the tape. The guy who had been kneeling beside her turned and smiled at her, an evil smile. "Don't like that do you" he said.

Katniss glared at him.

"You are probably wondering why we have taken you. You are a wanted woman girl on fire. We are taking you to the leader of the group we came from. We call him Geffen. As you know that's Warren and my name is Gray. I would say it's nice to meet you but that would be a lie. Though we are glad we ran into you. We were heading back into Panem and we hid in a tree to get rest. All of the sudden I look down and I see you and your savage friend over there sitting practically below us. You both were so engrossed in your conversation you didn't notice the leaves rustling above you as we discreetly climbed down. You've gotten careless Mockingjay. But after hearing your lovely conversation I guess I can understand why. It's too bad you won't live to see your dream lover fuck you senseless. It sounds like you are dying for it. What would lover boy Peeta say?"

Katniss tried to stand up in response but Gray pushed her down and held her. "Easy now" he said as he then punched Katniss in the stomach. She doubled over in pain and fell face first to the ground. Snow getting into her eyes.

She laid there for what seemed like an eternity, staring at the snow while laying on her side. Finally, she heard Gray say, "Get up, it's time to move." Katniss slowly got to her feet, she was unsteady plus it was difficult to get up with her hands tied behind her back. Once she stood she saw Rain standing with Warren behind her. He continued to stare at her in a predatory way.

They began walking through the forest, Katniss leading with Gray behind her with Rain and Warren in the back. Katniss noticed Gray was carrying her weapons. She tried to think of ways she could get her weapons back. Right now it didn't look like that was happening.

Her only hope was that the tribe would come looking for them. The sun was starting to rise, they would be getting ready to leave and would see that they were gone.


Red Bear approached the tribe's leader and said, "Something's wrong, Rainbow and Killing Bird are not here, their personal belongings are still here so they didn't leave. I need to take a few men to find them."

Red Bear was given 5 tribesman to go with him, along with 6 horses. They were given the horses to cover ground quicker. They were also given more weapons to take with them. The rest of the tribe continued on the long walk to the Comanche tribe.

The six men headed out, moving a swift pace to find the members of their tribe.


It began snowing heavily as Rain and Katniss continued to walk with Warren and Gray. Katniss's stomach started to rumble, she realized she had not eaten since dinner last night. Katniss wasn't expecting to be fed. Warren and Gray were so thin she figured they hadn't been eating very well out here. She wondered if that was why they were heading back to Panem.

After a few more hours of walking, she was finally able to sit and rest. She sat as close to Rain as she could, trying again to give her a look of 'it'll be okay'. Katniss was used to her life being in danger, but this was Rain's first time experiencing such a thing.

She noticed tears starting to form in Rain's eyes. Katniss grunted so Rain would look at her, she gave Rain a look with her eyes that said, 'hold yourself together'.

Rain nodded and started looking around. Katniss figured she was trying to take her mind off of things so she wouldn't cry.

After the short break they continued on, walking another 6 hours before finally setting up a fire for the night. Gray approached Rain and Katniss as they sat by the fire and said, "We have some food for you, I am going to take the tape off, don't think about screaming, if you make a sound, a bullet is going through both of your heads you got it?

Katniss and Rain both nodded in understanding.

Gray removed the tape from both of their mouths. Katniss moved her jaw around and opened and closed her mouth. But she remained true to her word and didn't make a sound. Gray fed Katniss while Warren fed Rain. He didn't take a chance untying them.

'Smart move' Katniss thought.

She was disgusted with herself for allowing Gray to feed her, but she was so hungry and thirsty she couldn't resist his offerings.

After they finished eating, their mouths were taped shut again. Katniss thought they would be allowed to sleep but that didn't happen. Warren, who had been eyeing Rain all day went over and sat down behind her. He started to stroke her shoulders and then moved his hand down her shirt in the front. Rain tried to pull away but he held on to her, she began to whimper through the tape, trying to plead with him to stop. He then pushed her to the ground and got on top of her, unbuttoning his pants. He pulled her pants down and pushed himself inside her, pumping hard into her. Rain screamed through the tape, eventually her screams subsiding.

Katniss looked on in horror, she desperately tried to undue the ties behind her back but it was of no use. Her wrists were sore from how tight the rope was. She started to make loud noises and grunts so Gray would look at her. He did and came closer to her, she tried to shout for him to remove the tape, after a few attempts he finally figured out what she was trying to say. He quickly ripped the tape off her mouth causing a stinging sensation. After a few seconds once the pain subsided Katniss said in a low voice to Gray with menacing eyes, "When I get these ropes off, I'm going to kill you."

Gray laughed and put the tape back on her mouth. Warren had finally finished raping Rain and pulled his pants back up, leaving her in the snow with her pants still down at her ankles. He finally returned after a few moments and pulled her pants back up, buttoning them.

Katniss hardly slept that night, her mind racing to come up with ideas to plan an escape.