OMG! (I say that a lot) I still need a nurse :/ if any1s interested Pm me your name! and btw when I came up with the chapter title I so felt like bursting out in song "lets get down to business, to defeat the huns…" haha some of you get it (its from mulan) Anyway…WRITERS BLOCK. I hate it. So this chapter might not be that good…just don't eat me.

Chapter 8: Let's get down to business

Haymitch's P.O.V

I should have been the first to know. I always am. I make the plans. Yeah I get she's the "President" or whatever but something's up. I know that tape is fake. It has to be, no one gives up on a war just because the prisoners have been rescued. Or make that prisoner. Johanna was dead when we got there, the guards didn't even notice I guess she just got too much of a beating. I shudder. Another one of my friends, gone. This is usually when I down a bottle, but this stupid district has nothing. Nada. It's like being in hell.

Another meeting with Plutarch today, he said that we could probably tell if it's fake, but we would need someone with experience in that field. So that's how I got stuck with finding the nerd and bringing him to Plutarch's office. There's not a lot of places to be, except maybe your room and the dining hall. So I check in the dining hall. Sure enough, he's sitting at a table with Peeta and Katniss. I make my way to the table, oh shit. Peeta knows about the tape, but Katniss doesn't know we think it's a fake. When she finds out, she'll flip and want to join us. But for whatever reason she's already on Coin's bad side, and that's a place Katniss shouldn't be. I've gotta think fast if I wanna make this look normal. Think, think, think! 'Beetee, I have to talk to you?' no. 'Beetee, can I see you for a second' Ahh! Come on!

"Hey Haymitch." Wow, for a boy that just came out of a torture cell he is pretty perky. Then I see Katniss face and she's glowing. Underneath the table you can see their holding hands. I don't stay long on this, so I just nod.

"Hey kid, listen I gotta borrow the brains for a second." Katniss gives me a weird stare, but Peeta just gives me a look of understanding. I like that kid.

"Sure, I'll see you guys later." Beetee knows about the video, but he doesn't know it's a fake. Or, that we think it's a fake, so he just follows.

"Alright lets get started." I push Beetee into a control room, full of gadgets. Plutarch says it's where 13 keeps all the gadgets, not much.

Plutarch just pops the video in a player and we watch it again. I am watching Beetee's face, nothing, until the end of the video.

"What's this about? I seen this already. Yipee." He's being sarcastic. Before I slap him , Plutarch steps in.

"It's fake. I'm no genius, but I know he wouldn't surrender. Not this early in the war. A number of people have been acting strange here, and we think they have something to do with the making of this video."

Beetee just sighs.

"Bravo, your correct. It's been edited, however not by the people of 13, or maybe by 13 but not in 13." And he wonders why we make fun of him. "This was obviously made in the capitol, the editing is too precise for it to have been made here. Snow could have said all of these words separately, edited them together, and maybe even used a different background. It was not made here. I don't know what it was made for, but those people could be spies."

I let all of this sink in. Spies.

"I don't think so," Plutarch has a confused look as he says so, "all of the hovercrafts that have come in have been for war and combat purposes only." We all go back to thinking.

"What if they didn't come here by hovercraft?" I say, and they just look at me like I'm crazy. Plutarch has his mouth open, "Are you crazy? How could they do that? It's impossible."

Then it hits me.

"No…it's not. Katniss met two girls before the Quell that were on their way here, and they were on foot! It is possible. The people could have been from the capitol, with this video, and came here on foot through the woods! Then once they got here they made it look like the tape was a message from snow by attaching it to a parachute and leaving it near the District! It all makes sense!"

Both of them are taking this in, it's a lot to process. "But why?" Plutarch is really getting on my nerves with being all negative, that's usually my job.

"Why make it look like your quitting when your not?"

"Easy," Beetee isn't so bad after all, "to trick us, to get us to lower our defenses."

"But then why hasn't he attacked yet? What's keeping him?"

"Nothing."

My body is aching, 13 is huge, and I have to run all the way to Coin's office to tell her to move the people to bunkers because the surrender video that she is so proud of, is fake. This should go well.

Haha! I wanted to keep going but, writer block. This wasn't even good :/ sorry I gave you guys a bad chapter. Anyway, sorry about having Johanna die, I love her, but I just felt like having someone die. Oops haha. And I PROMISE that I will have some PeetaxKatniss romance next chapter k? ;) so agin...don't eat me. Soo shouldn't you be…reviewing? Come on I know you want to! ;) do it!