Haha I promised I'd post the next chapter today! It was really easy writing this because of my inspiration but it'll take a bit longer to write my next chapter because I don't really know what to do anymore. Please review! I appreciate the reviews! Anyways, I hope you like it! Also, you realize I did the cliffhanger for a reason right? Haha, I like keeping you in suspense! Well, Read and review!
Author's Note: I'm sorry if this chapter doesn't really include that many events but I've decided I want to explain more. Also, I did use some more of what Suzanne Collins wrote in "Mockingjay" because I thought it was good. Please don't sure me or anything for using her stuff! I am giving her credit for the District 8 part but I changed parts that I wanted to change and stuff. Read it and I hope you like! Read, review, add to your favorites, add to story alerts!
Chapter 3:
Boggs leads me to the District 8 hospital tent where they keep the sick and the wounded. Someone named Cressida has a microphone and there are two cameramen filming my every move. It feels like the Games all over again. I enter the tent and see so many bloody people in pain. It hurts my heart to see the little children moaning. I walk over to a little girl on a cot that looks around 7 or 8 and she has bandages on her legs and a bloody bandage on her arm. She has an older woman, whom I'm guessing is her mother, sitting on a stool next to her. When I walk over, the little girl's eyes widen. She says, "Mommy! Is that the girl on fire?" I nod and then she reaches out to feel my face. I let her and then I take her hand and caress it. Her mother smiles and gives me a pat on my back. Then the little girl calls out, "Daddy! Daddy! The Mockingjay is here!" Other wounded and sick turn their heads to me and call out to me. I walk over, visiting almost everyone and letting them touch me. Then I walk out the tent where Gale is waiting for me. He smiles and says, "I didn't think you'd let them actually touch you. I half expected you to come running out at any moment." I smile and then Boggs leads us to the bunker where the hovercraft is parked. We're almost there when I hear a bomb.
I turn around and see that there are several Capitol hovercrafts. They are dropping bombs and one is about to drop a bomb near us. I see Gale run over towards me. Then I'm knocked flat into the alley on my back by Gale and I hear the bomb blow the hovercraft backwards. I turn my head and my eyes meet Gale's. One thought registers in my brain. Gale just saved my life.
Gale's face is flushed and when I notice how close we are, I blush. Before I know what I'm doing, I lean in and kiss Gale. It's not the way I remember it to be but it's still so… perfect. I pull back and Gale smiles. "Are you all right?" he asks me, his voice nearly drowned out by the explosions. "Yeah. I don't think they've seen me," I answer. "I mean, they're not following us." "No, they've targeted something else," says Gale. "I know, but there's nothing back there but the—"The realization hits us at the same time. "The hospital." Instantly, Gale's up and shouting to the others. "They're targeting the hospital!" "Not your problem," says Plutarch firmly into both our headphones. "Get to the bunker." "But there's nothing there but the wounded!" I say. "Katniss." I hear the warning note in Haymitch's voice and I know what's coming. "Don't even think about—!" I yank the earpiece free and let it hand from its wire. Now with that distraction gone, I hear another sound. Machine gun fire coming from the roof of the dirt brown warehouse across the alley. Someone is returning fire. Before anyone can stop me, I make a dash for an access ladder and begin to scale it. Climbing. One of the things I do best. "Don't stop!" I hear Gale say behind me. Then there's the sound of his boot on someone's face. If it belongs to Boggs, Gale's going to pay for it later. I make the roof and drag myself onto the tar. I stop long enough to pull Gale up beside me, and then we take off for the row of machine gun nests on the street side of the warehouse. Each looks to be manned by a few rebels. We go into a nest manned by a few rebels. "Boggs let you up here?" asks a soldier named Paylor. I try to equivocate and be as vague as possible. "He knows where we are." is all I say. Paylor laughs and hands us each a machine gun. Gale and I tell him we'd rather use our own weapons. Then we put on helmets that are tinted so that no one can see who we are but we can see everything else. I see that most of the other rebels are wearing one too. Then we shoot down most of the hovercrafts but one remains. It releases around 50 peacekeepers and the peacekeepers head for the hospital. Then the hovercraft leaves.
I run towards the hospital with Gale trailing behind me. I dash inside and see that there's no damage to it, except that there are 5 peacekeepers there and 2 are gunning at the people. I shoot one of them and then Gale shoots 3 more. There are one that remains is unarmed. The peacekeeper has a helmet on like ours. Gale points his at that peacekeeper and then tells me to do the same. I point my bow at them and then Gale helps evacuate the sick and wounded. Then we tell the peacekeeper to come with us so that the rebels can question him or her for information. They come with us as we lead them out the tent. We see rebels and peacekeepers gunning each other down. Most of the peacekeepers are dead or severely injured. We go to the alley and then we head towards the bunker. When I arrive, Boggs has a bandage on his nose. I feel guilty that Gale and I caused that to him. Then Cressida asks me, "So how are you feeling Katniss?" I didn't know Cressida had followed us. I shout so I can be heard over the machine guns, "This! Is what happened! They just tried to kill innocent wounded and the sick at a hospital! They sent peacekeepers to kill them! Only 7 of the people in the hospital survived! How do you feel about this? This-"then I wave my hands frantically "is what they are doing to us! I say we should fight and get freedom for once and for all!" Then I look straight into the camera, then I say, "I say, if the Capitol tried to set us on fire, they burn with us!" Then Cressida yells, "Cut!" Then I turn to realize that the peacekeeper I was supposed to keep hostage had escaped.
I go up the hovercraft and come face-to-face to a very irate Haymitch. His face is red and he says angrily, "The next time you rip your earphones off, You wear this!" Then he shows me a pair of headphones that can be locked onto my head. Then he adds, "And if you manage to escape those, I'll have the doctors implant something into your head so I can communicate with you every time of the day every day." The thought of having Haymitch's voice inside my head everyday makes me shudder. Then I notice Gale isn't here. I say frantically, "Where's Gale? Is he alright?" Haymitch growls and says, "Don't worry, your boyfriend is safe." At the mention that something might be going on between me and Gale makes me blush. Then I see the peacekeeper that escaped from me come aboard the hovercraft. The peacekeeper was followed by Gale, who was pointing his bow at him. Then the 7 survivors from the hospital come on.
The survivors were brought to the medical room on the hovercraft. Then Haymitch comes over. He raises his eyebrows when he sees the peacekeeper. "And this is?" he asks. I say quickly, "He was in the tent along with the other peacekeepers trying to kill the innocent people." Then I flash a glare at the peacekeeper. Haymitch looks at the peacekeeper and says, "Now, you are going to tell us everything you know about President Snow and his plans for the rebellion. Understood?" The peacekeeper nods slowly. Then Haymitch brings the peacekeeper to a separate room for an interrogating session.
I sigh and Gale looks up. He asks, "What's wrong?" I say, "I don't know. I just feel like… we did a horrible job. We didn't stop the peacekeepers from killing so many innocent people." Gale says, "We didn't save all of them but we did manage to save 7. It's better than letting them all die and out of those 7, 5 are children." I nod but my melancholy must still show in my eyes because Gale puts his hand on mine and looks at me. Then he says, "Katniss, listen to me. We did the best we could. That's all that matters." I nod and then I lay my head against the chair. Then I fall asleep.
When I wake up, I'm back in my room in District 13. I get up and then I hear my door open. Gale walks in and says, "I'm glad that you're up." Then he hesitates before he says, "Haymitch wants us in the Control Room." I nod and we hurry to the Control Room. When we enter, everyone is clapping. I clear my throat and then Plutarch smiles when he sees me. Cressida grins and says, "There's our super star!" I'm really puzzled. Then Plutarch tells us how Beetee managed to hack the televisions and that my time in District 8 was being broadcasted all over Panem right now. Gale and I take a seat and watch. It starts out with Haymitch announcing my miscarriage. Then it takes us to the hospital where people are touching me and I'm comforting them. Next, they go to when Gale and I were shooting hovercrafts down. Finally, it goes to where I say my short speech. Then at the end, there are words that say "If the Capitol sets us on fire, they burn with us!" Then the words go up in flames. Everyone applauses and then they give Cressida pats on the back. Haymitch suddenly walks in. He looks at me and says urgently, "Katniss," The usage of my real name snaps me alert. Whatever Haymitch has to say must be really important. "I need you to come with me." Gale follows us. Then Haymitch leads me into the room where the peacekeeper was being kept. He was still wearing the helmet. Haymitch says quietly, "Take his helmet off."
Then I carefully walk over. I'm terrified of who might be under that helmet. I slowly reach out and lift the helmet off his head. When I see who it is, I drop the helmet. Gale puts his hand on my shoulder but I can tell he is shocked too.
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