I bolt upright in the bed and look down at Peeta. He is so calm and still and I smile and then I hear the scream again. If it isn't Peeta screaming then who is it? I jump out of bed and run towards the door. I open it and run out, the room seems so calm and undisturbed it makes me question myself. But, I can still hear the screams and I start running towards the voice. The scream is filled with so much pain and it sounds so desperate. The voice is hard to recognize and that makes me want to know even more. I dash through the hallways following the sound of the voice. I finally reach the door, which the scream is echoing from, and I push it open and I freeze. I am so in shock I don't know why. Tied to a chair is Clayton and surrounding him is Haymitch, Madge, Gale, and a couple of others. Clayton is bleeding and in so much pain while the others looks mad and are smirking. Gale is screaming at Clayton and Haymitch is whipping him. "Stop it! What are you guys doing to Clayton!?" I scream. They all turn to face me. Gale smirks and walks over to me.
"He is a traitor Katniss. He is the son of president Snow, Katniss. He deserves this and we will even let you do the honors." He says and hands me the whip he took from Haymitch. I look down at Clayton and then I push the whip away from me. Gale looks confused and so I answer.
"I know. He told me." Gale's face grows in anger and then I say again. "He doesn't like his father though, he is against him. He doesn't need to be punished just because he is his son. I doubt he ever even talked to his father for 10 years." Everyone stares in awe as I walk over to Clayton and untie the knots that tie him to the chair. Hen falls to the ground and then gets up again. He looks weak but he doesn't look that bad that he would die soon or go unconscious. "Then, if he isn't the one that told the Capitol. Then how are they following us, how are they following all of our ships?" Madge asks questioningly. My head jerks to face Gale and he nods. I fall to the ground and every one comes closer to me. I mumble a few words under my breath and rub my arm up and down. Then I feel a bump on my arm. I look down at it just as Clayton does. I smile and so does he.
"The chips. The tracker chip they put in arms of the tributes. What if they didn't take it out of them?" Clayton asks and I nod in response. I look up to face Haymitch and his face twists in horror. He mumbles a few words to General Thorne and the both leave the room. Clayton offers me a hand and I take it to help myself get up. "Thanks, I don't think they would have listened to anybody else. I thought that I was a goner." I smile and nod towards him in response I walk him over to the nursing corridor and I hand him over to a nurse. I go check on Peeta and he seems to have woken up but not to my disappearance. The nurse seemed to have woken him up to take the chip out of his arm. Both Clayton and me were right the chip was still in his arm. The nurse took it to a window and threw it out into the air. Peeta looks up at smiles and me. He seems to have gotten better and doesn't look as bad as he did last night. I walk over and sit down next to him and as I do he grabs my hand and starts to play with it. I let him and after a while Gale walks. He looks down at us and I try to ignore our eye contact after what happened last night. Peeta stiffens next to me but soon relaxes.
"We contacted all the other ships and they took the chips out of the others also. The others are taking different routes so that we won't get caught. Luckily, they are not being followed but we still are." Gale says and I nod trying to still ignore his eye contact, which still bores into my face.
"Well, then that is still good for them, right. I guess, we got to do something to get them off our tail." Peeta says trying to break the tension. Gale only nods and then replies.
"I need to talk to Katniss." He looks at Peeta and Peeta stiffens. "Alone, I need to talk to her alone." Peeta looks at me. I don't show him my face but I guess he understands that Gale wouldn't hurt me so he gets up and says.
"Katniss, I will be right outside." He then leans down and gives me a big kiss on my lips before he walks out of the room. I can't help but smirk. I guess, this Peeta's little payback of what Gale said to him yesterday. Gale walks over and sits down next to me. I try to ignore his eye contact so I face the other way. He doesn't like this though. He takes my face cupping it in his hand and turns it towards him.
"Katniss, what happened to us?" I just sit there staring into his eyes. I don't respond because the truth was I really didn't know. He sighs and then starts to speak again. "Look, about yesterday I don't know what got over me. I guess it was the shock of seeing you and that lover boy in bed together. I don't want thing to be awkward around us. I want it to be like what it was before the games. See, that another thing these games do. They take lives and break hearts." He pauses for a while. "Why did the games have to happened? Why did lover boy have to get picked? It would have been a lot easier if he didn't. Why couldn't we have just run off together like I asked you the day of the reaping? Life would have been so much easier Katniss." I shake my head in response.
"No Gale it wouldn't have. And why think about the past it already happened, and we can't change that. Another thing, Peeta helped me survive in those games. If he wasn't picked then I wouldn't even be here." I guess that was enough for him to hear. He shook his head and walked off towards the door.
"Katniss, just remember I love you. And I won't stop trying until I get you." He says a little bit to loud so Peeta could hear and he walks out of the room slamming the door. I expected Peeta to come in right after but he didn't. So, I decided to see what was taking him so long and walked out of the room. Peeta, even as bad as he was, was helping Madge pack up some medicine. I walk over to them and help with the last bottle and then ask, "We are here at District 13 already?" Madge looks at me all confused.
"Katniss, they are still on our tail we can't go to District 13." She replies. I get confused, what is with all the packing. She sees my confusion and then replies. "Get ready to land Mockajay."