Chapter Two

Disclaimer: If you have ignored me up until this point you must really not like me. So anyway I am not Suzanne Collins I am much younger than that. So anyway, enjoy this chapter! Also I came up with the other friends of Stanly and Prim by my own terms. I can think of things on my own… sometimes.

Stanly struggled to reach his tied hands in his pocket. He pulled out a key that was to his house. The people obviously didn't check his pockets. But he didn't understand why they would want to kidnap a kid so young. A Mellark child. He grabbed the key and began to slowly saw away at the rope on his wrists. About twenty minutes later the rope snapped. An alarm sounded and he stopped dead in his tracks. A smoke filled the air and he fell to the ground. Gasping for breath from the poisoned air.

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Katniss and Peeta sat down talking for minutes when, everyone inside decided to come out. Katniss's eye caught on Beetee and stood up. She hurried over to him. "Beetee, I'm so sorry for what I said. How crazy I acted. You just don't know what it's like to have someone you love just, disappear." He looked down. His face showed that he was grief struck. Then a memory flashed by Katniss.

The two tributes from District 3 are beside me, struggling to start a decent fire with matches. I think about leaving, but I really want to try using the flint again, and if I have to report back to Haymitch that I tried to make friends, these two might be a bearable choice. Both are in a small stature with ashen skin and black hair. Then I noticed the girl, Wiress.

Wiress. Her name played over and over in Katniss's mind. "Oh my gosh Beetee, I-I am so sorry I didn't mean that." he let out a low sigh. "It's okay Katniss." Beetee said straightening up. "I think I'm going to go home." He left before she could say any more when, Peeta walked over. "What happened between you two?"

"Well I guess I'm a horrible person and reminded Beetee of his dead lover. Good deed for today covered." she sighed. "Hey it's okay, you didn't know. This is just a very stressful time for you. It is for all of us. Let's just go home."

Peeta put his arm around Katniss squeezing her shoulder lightly and leaned over and kissed her forehead. He motioned for her to get up. She followed. They walked down the long paved road quietly. Peeta looked at Katniss worried while she looked at the ground. Two small children ran down the path. The giggling girl and smirking boy with blond hair wearing the same tee-shirt and jeans. The girl and boy ran over to Katniss. It was Delly's children Thyme and Blye. The girl's two lost front teeth showed as she spoke. "Hello Mrs. and Mr. Everdeen. Can Prim and Stanly play today?" Peeta kneeled down and put his hand on the girl's frail shoulder. "I'm sorry sweetie but, Stanly and Prim are… gone right now and won't be back for a while. But you guys can come to the bakery and come for a treat, on the house. Now scram children!" The kids giggled again and left the open trail. To Peeta's surprise Katniss was giggling too. They began to walk down the trail again.

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"Katniss, Katniss come follow." Rue's voice was almost a murky whisper. "Rue?" Katniss asked walking through the fog ridden swamp. "Katniss! Katniss help!" Rue yelled this time. "Rue! Rue where are you?" Katniss began sprinting. Her brown hair was curled and fell in spirals that flew in the misty air. The short, white dress that hugged her body tore as she ran through the branches. She came to a halting stop as she saw Rue on the ground, dead. And it was as if the memory dripped away.

Katniss and Finnick sat down looking at each other. He wore a plain white shirt and jeans. Katniss had the same white dress and curled hair. Finnick stroked a hand through his tousled bronze hair. Katniss looked away for a mere second and looked back. Finnick had now transformed to the mutt that had killed him that one time. And it now lunged for Katniss.

Next, everything went like a moving video of pictures. Prim as she was reaped, Finnick and the sugar cubes, Beetee and Gale, Annie and Finnick's reunion, Johanna smiling, frosted dolphins, bow and arrows, hunting, the games, District Twelve, the girl on fire dress, and the Mockingjay pin when it stopped instantaneously.

Then, Prim and Stanly were standing next to Katniss's bed side. They were both frowning. Katniss's hands were tied and her mouth was taped shut. She had the same white dress on. Footsteps entered the candle lit room. President Snow. Katniss tried to yell but nothing came out. President Snow took the children out of the room. Katniss heard the scream of her children and yelled through the duck-tape that covered her mouth. When he came in he was alone. The pale moonlight fell on his white hair. Tears began to pour down Katniss's face. "This is the game Miss Everdeen I thought you knew how to play it. But I guess not. Just like the games you destroyed. This was my way of getting you back for what you did.

He ripped the tape off her mouth and she started. "How could you kill my kids you beast? They were just children. They were just children." he stepped back into long shadows. "Like I said I thought you knew how to play the game. But I guess not. You have failed this time Mockingjay." The trail of footsteps told her that he left.

Peeta awoke to the ear shattering noise of Katniss waking from a nightmare. She shook and trembled under the covers of the master bedroom. He pulled her under his arm and she began to cry in his shoulder. "Shh, shh Katniss settle down. Calm down nothing happened. Everything is, okay Katniss." She sniffed and looked up into Peeta's convincing blue eyes. "Then that means Primrose and Stanly are safe asleep in their rooms where they can never, ever, leave me again unless they were supervised?" Peeta sighed and stood up. "Well you proved me wrong yet again Katniss. I'm going to make some coffee." He left the room staring at the ivory, white carpeting. Katniss turned on her stomach looking at the clock. It read, '3:15.'

Katniss slipped on her slippers and left to fetch Peeta. He was standing in the middle of the kitchen reading the newspaper that comes at one in the morning. She looked at the largest, bolded letters known as the front sentence. She read it out loud, "After years of winning the war, the famous couple Katniss and Peeta Mellark's children go missing." Peeta set the paper down looking at his frowning wife and set a hand on her shoulder.

"Katniss, don't you fret. Look at me." Katniss looked into his crystal eyes once more. She pulled away and turned her head. "I hate it when you make me stare into your eyes. You're like a hypnotist. I know the news company just want a good story and I know we'll find the cultists'." Just as she stopped there was a long rapping on their door.

"I'll get it." Katniss quickly said and ran towards the door before Peeta could protest. Her heart was pounding. Who would need to come to the Mellark house at three in the morning? Who or what was behind that door? She swung the door open quickly and saw it smack into someone. "Ow." The man groaned pinching his bleeding nose. "Beetee? Is that you?" Katniss asked pulling her robed over her night gown tighter.

"Yes it's me Katniss. Wow, yesterday you hurt me emotionally and today you hurt me physically." Katniss put a worried expression on her face. "Beetee I am so sorry for that." he waved a hand. "It's all right Katniss. Anyway reason I came at this time. Everyone wanted me to grab you because I wasn't there, and they nominated me, and then I came here to tell you that we have news on your children so grab Peeta and let's go."

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Katniss sat down bobbing her knee up and down. Everyone in the room was in some sort of pajamas. Everyone looked very tired and groggy so someone decided to bring a coffee maker. Katniss's long brown hair was tangled from sleeping and she was pretty sure she wasn't the worst looking in the room from sleeping. "So, why did you gather us here at three in the morning?" Effie asked obviously angry about being woken at this time and breaking the silence. Beetee wondered in at last with a bandage on his nose. "What happened to you?" Asked Haymitch who was ignoring Effie. Effie scoffed and walked away from that area.

"Katniss happened to me. But it was an accident." Beetee said sitting down in one of the chairs. Haymitch started to laugh and then he frowned once more. "Katniss, Katniss. You hurt people in the Hunger Games, and the war. Don't go back on that violence streak." Haymitch said. "Haymitch, Haymitch. Your words sometimes hurt you know?" Katniss said not making any eye contact.

"So, reason we are all gathered, again." Beetee said with a small nasally tone in his voice because of his broken nose. Some people giggled a little when Beetee glared at them. "We found out who stole your children Katniss. Cultist, people who supported President Snow."

"'Cultists?'" Katniss asked. "That's the word I used earlier." Haymitch looked slightly annoyed with Katniss's comment. "Anyway, we have a new plan to get your children back." Haymitch said. Katniss looked utterly baffled.

"Like the Star crossed lovers bit that you played for the games? That sure didn't backfire." The Star crossed lovers from District Twelve. This is going to work. I have seen it once from District Four with children who were much younger than you. But, that didn't end up as well as it did for them. Haymitch had said once to Katniss and Peeta after the war was over. "It will work Katniss you just have to be able to trust us. You have to trust your friends, because we will find your kids. You just have to trust."

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