DISCLAIMER: HG characters do not belong to me.

A/N: I will probably update a lot this week, for I will not be as busy as I have been the last few weeks.

Chapter 100-Rescue

"Mrs. Hawthorne, you need to leave please. You shouldn't be in here" one of the military nurses says to Katniss as she desperately kisses Gale, overcome with relief and sadness for she sees he was severely beaten.

She pulls back from him and sees that he has fallen asleep, the morphling kicking in. She quickly leaves the operating room and takes her seat in the main sitting area of the hovercraft.

She looks at the clock and sees it is 9 am. She can't believe it has only been an hour since they first landed. When she got on a separate hovercraft from the Hawthorne's, she had been told by Haymitch that he did have to tell Paylor about her pregnancy, and that when he did she finally agreed to let her ride on the medical hovercraft on the condition that she help the staff if needed. Growing up in a healer's home helped make her somewhat useful. Haymitch also told her that Paylor was allowing her and the Hawthorne's to be close by in case Gale's condition was dire. Luckily, it didn't come to that though Gale looked really beat up.

She begins thinking about what happened after the medical hovercraft first landed. They were a safe distance from the compound but were close enough to help save Gale and his squad and bring them back to the Capitol. A live feed began to show in the control room. Haymitch and Katniss watched as a group of five men left the front and only entrance of the compound. Katniss wondered which one of those men was Jasper. Suddenly, right before the large heavy steel door was about to shut, the door swings back open and lingers for a few moments before shutting. The men not noticing that the door didn't shut immediately. The feed continues to show the front entrance and suddenly voices could be heard. The voices of the rescue squad.

"We're in" Katniss hears a voice say.

Not being able to see anything inside, she assumes they are carefully walking through the compound. After what feels like an eternity agonizing, she starts to hear muffled voices and movement. She then hears loud and clear an unknown voice say "What the fuck?" and then immediately hears a loud voice say, "Stay on the ground."

The unknown voice then shouts, "Get your weapons out! We've got company."

A few moments later men start shouting to get ready and loud gunfire begins.

"Shit" Katniss hears one of the soldiers say.

"Split up, and get your invisibility shield back on" another voice shouts over the noise.

She continues to hear gunfire, with more shouting and muffling voices, unable to make out what is being said. The shouting and gunshots go on and on, and Katniss then sees some of the Jay Killers come running out of the compound. Some carrying guns, some not. Some begin immediately shooting at what Katniss assumes are more soldiers waiting outside. Some of them put their hands up in surrender. Slowly, the soldiers come into view on the screen and begin tying the men up. Some of the Jay Killers fall to the ground from gunshot wounds. She still cannot make out what is being said for she continues to hear gun fire. More and more men continue to come out and eventually, Katniss sees Gale's squad members come out. She sees Spencer, Hance, and Abraham along with four others. A few moments later one more member of Gale's team comes out and then no one else comes out. Gun shots could still be heard but not as many.

"Haymitch" Katniss says turning to him, tears in her eyes. Haymitch engulfs her in a tight hug and tries to calm her when suddenly they hear someone on the feed shout, "We've got Commander Hawthorne, and he's injured."

Katniss whips her head up and eagerly looks at the screen, willing for Gale to come out. She holds her breath until she sees three figures come out of the front door, Gale being carried by two soldiers.

She feels the hovercraft start to move and she and Haymitch take their seats. A few minutes later the craft lands, she takes off her seatbelt to run down the walkway when suddenly she feels a bout of dizziness when she stands up.

Sensing that something was wrong, Haymitch pulls her back down in the seat and says, "What's wrong?"

"I'm really dizzy."

"You need to relax, this much stress is not good for the baby."

"It's a normal side effect."

"Have you ever experienced dizziness before?"

"Well….no."

"You are staying here….don't move" Haymitch says threateningly and heads towards the ramp.

Katniss sees the injured soldiers and Jay Killers start to enter the hovercraft, the Jay Killers tied up but taken into adjacent rooms to be treated. She then sees Gale being carried into a room. Still dizzy but feeling slightly better she gets up and yells out to him while following them into the room.

Her thoughts now in the present, her dizziness now passed, she slowly gets up and goes to find Haymitch. She walks down the walkway and sees him talking to one of the soldiers and hears a voice call out to her.

She turns and sees Spencer walking up to her. She embraces him and he asks her how Gale was.

"I think he'll be okay, he's being operated on and they just gave him morphling."

"We walked into a trap, we were separated from the Commander right away."

Katniss sees that he looks alright except for some bruises here and there. "Then what happened?" she asks.

"All of us minus the Commander were taken into a large room and chained up. They only gave us water. They tried asking questions but none of us would speak. They would bring other people in but still none of us talked, and then-"

She sees the pained look on his face before he says, "One of them recognized Ruby, a solider from District 1. Apparently she and the guy who recognized her are from the same town. He asked her why she was working for the enemy and when she wouldn't respond, he pointed a gun at her and said this is what they do to traitors. And he…..he shot her, right in front of all of us. Killed her in cold blood. We then heard the Commander start to yell, and then one of the men left the room to deal with him."

Katniss puts a hand on his shoulder and says, "I'm sorry."

"I could….I could hear the Commander while the man was beating him, we all heard it."

Katniss closes her eyes, trying to get the image she had imagined out of her mind. She clears her throat and says, "He's safe now. You all are."

Haymitch comes up beside her and says, "Sorry to interrupt, Katniss we need you on the hovercraft, some of the nurses need help treating the soldiers."

She excuses herself and begins walking up the walkway, Haymitch coming up behind her and whispering, "You look better."

She turns and says under the breath, "I'm not dizzy anymore, I feel fine."

"I'll be helping out if you need me."

She nods her head showing her appreciation and Haymitch leads her to the area where she is needed. She ends up helping apply bandages and cleaning up wounds. She is kept away from the area the captured men are treated in for safety concerns and for fear she would harm them though that couldn't be further from the truth.

Once she was finished she was told she could go in and see Gale. The doctor who treated him tells her that he suffered a concussion and that they treated his back wounds.

"Good thing we treated them when we did, the wounds were beginning to show signs of infection" the doctor says to her.

"Is he awake?" she asks, eager to speak to him.

"No, he will probably be sleeping for the next several hours."

She has Haymitch find out if a message was sent to the Hawthorne's that Gale was rescued.

She goes into a small room and sees him sleeping soundly on his stomach, the IV still inserted into his arm. She finds a small stool and pulls it up beside him, taking his hand in hers. She strokes his hair as she realizes she is almost in the same exact position as she was back in 12 after he got whipped after being caught illegally hunting. She remembers how she had realized at that moment what he meant to her, what he still means to her, and how their relationship ended but was salvaged all these years later. No longer taking advantage of her relationship with him, she knows he will always be hers, and she'll always be his. She whispers to him that she loves him and lays her head beside his and closes her eyes. She drifts off to sleep, exhausted from her lack of sleep the night before and wakes to Posy's voice.

"Katniss" Posy says softly shaking her awake.

She opens her eyes and leans up and sees Posy, Hazelle, and Vick in front of her. She gets up and all four of them embrace, Hazelle softly crying. Katniss fills them in on what she saw on the live feed. They stay in Gale's room with him while he slept until they are told everyone has been treated and on are on nearby hovercrafts and that everyone would be going back to the Capitol. They exit the room and go and sit beside Haymitch in the sitting area. As Katniss feels the hovercraft begin to rise up in to the air, she feels Posy take her hand and squeezes it. Sensing the youngest Hawthorne felt uneasy, never having been on a hovercraft until today, Katniss squeezes her hand back in support.

When they arrive in the Capitol Gale along with a few others are taken to the Capitol hospital. Katniss finds out from Haymitch that the five men who went to see Paylor were captured and were also flown to the Capitol, currently being questioned though the Capitol wasn't getting much information from them. The compound was still being searched, Katniss hopeful that perhaps her journal and map would finally be found.

Katniss, Haymitch, and the Hawthorne's are taken to a hotel and are given rooms for the rest of the day until tomorrow. Telling the Hawthorne's she was still pretty tired from everything that happened, she goes to her room and takes a long nap. When she wakes, she is starving and goes down to the hotel's restaurant and sees Haymitch sitting at the bar. She takes a seat beside him and orders food while he continues to drink. They chat idly while she eats and he drinks and once she is finished eating, she sees Hazelle just outside the door in the lobby. She tells Haymitch she will be right back as she goes out to the lobby and calls to Hazelle.

"Katniss there you are! I tried to call your room, we are heading over to the hospital now, Gale's awake."

She goes back to the bar and tells Haymitch she is going to the hospital and then leaves with the Hawthorne's. When they arrive she manages to hold back her tears when she sees him sitting up in his hospital bed, his head wrapped and his back bandaged.

Posy goes to him first, throwing her arms around him as he tells her he is alright. Hazelle hugs him next followed by Vick. Finally, Katniss approaches his bed and gives him a hug as he whispers into her ear, "Are you alright?"

She pulls back and gives him a nod and says, "Are you alright?" concern still evident on her face.

"I don't feel any pain, just soreness. My head hurts a little and my back just feels numb."

Katniss tells Gale about the rescue, how the five men were lured out of the compound, about Ruby being murdered and about the invisibility suits.

"So I wasn't losing my mind when all of the sudden I saw someone appear out of nowhere. I can't believe the Capitol had that kind of technology and kept it secret."

"It sounds like they had been working on it for a long time" she says in response.

"I'm going to ask the President about it, find out why she kept that from me." Katniss sees the look of anger on his face, hurt that the President didn't entrust him with such sensitive information. Hazelle tries to make him feel better by saying she's sure the President had her reasons, and not to jump to any conclusions.

Once they are told visiting hours have ended for the day, Hazelle, Posy, and Vick wait outside Gale's room giving him a few moments alone with Katniss. Once the door is closed she bends down and begins kissing him. He wraps his arms around her and holds her close.

"I told you I would come back" he says to her in between kisses.

She looks down and says, "When I saw everyone come out but you, I was so afraid that I lost you."

"I'm not going anywhere Catnip, the two of us are supposed to continue causing all kinds of trouble right?"

"Right" she says smiling, her smile then becoming a slight frown as she says, "I'm sorry about your squad member-Ruby."

She sees his smile fall as he says, "Jasper better have been one of the men who came out of that compound."

"I don't know, I hope so."

Katniss then hears the door open and sees the nurse who tells her she only has a couple more minutes. She hugs Gale one last time and gets up and grabs her things when he says, "You still didn't tell my family about the baby."

Surprised that he was bringing it up she looks at him and says, "No I didn't."

"You told Haymitch didn't you?"

"How did you…"

"Because I know you, I know what you would do. I think when we go home we need to tell them, and your Mother too."

She nods in response, not wanting to start an argument even though she still wasn't comfortable telling them. She tells him she will see him tomorrow and gives him one last quick kiss and leaves.

The next morning after emerging from the shower she hears the phone ring and quickly goes to answer it, Haymitch on the other line.

"Your journal and map were not found, the compound was searched numerous times."

She feels a sense of dread forming in the pit of her stomach, realizing what she feared was coming true.

"The Capitol questioned the men all night, one of them finally cracked and started talking. Jasper was not with them, he wasn't in the compound."

Katniss doesn't respond and instead falls the ground, passing out.

A/N: Wow 100 chapters! Thanks for sticking with my story! The Jay Killer storyline will wrap up soon, I promise.