Okay… not much to say so…. On with the seventh chapter!
Peeta's POV
Haymitch hasn't come back from answering and I'm starting to wonder who it is. Just when I'm just about to get up and check, Katniss gets up from off the couch and begins to walk towards the door.
"Wait," I too stand up and walk towards her direction. "Where are you going?"
"I'm going to see what's taking that man- I mean teen, so long to answer the door." She says.
"I want to come with." I protest and start to walk past Katniss.
"Oh no you don't." She insists.
"Oh yes I am." I say back.
"Peeta, it's a door…plus Haymitch. Still, we're are fighting over who checks who it is." She presses. I let out a huff and give her one of those looks. Her facial expression goes softer and finally she gives in. "Fine Peeta, you can come WITH me." Katniss says then we hurry over to the door.
When we reach Haymitch, we find him just standing there, not really talking.
"Hay- I mean, Sabio?" Katniss corrects herself. Haymitch turns his head and quickly moves to the side. What I see fills me with anger which only one… okay maybe two, people make me this angry. Gale Hawthorne. After the rebellion, I haven't trusted him because personally, I think he killed Prim with his bombs. Katniss on the other hand, trusts him a little more.
"Gale?" I hear her ask from behind. Gale quickly turns his gaze away from Haymitch and to Katniss.
"Hey Catnip," He begins. I try to give him a glare but he doesn't look. He walks in the door and goes right to Katniss and gives her a friendly hug. Yeah, friendly I think.
"So, Gale," I begin, "What brings you back to twelve?" I ask. After the rebellion, he stayed in District 13 to help out with their military or something like that. I'm not really sure why he stayed and I don't really care. I just don't want him near Katniss.
"Well, you know, I just kinda got bored with 13." He says, looking towards me. Why would he visit here? I think. As if she's reading my mind, Katniss asks my question.
"So why would you visit here first?" Katniss asks. Gale raises his eyebrows and answers her question.
"Well I didn't stop here first. I stopped by your house first and you weren't there so I checked Peeta's house but he didn't answer either. So my next stop was Haymitch's. Where… is Haymitch?" He asks after his explanation. Katniss and me look back and forth between each other and Gale.
"Well," Katniss says. I can tell she's trying to think of something. Actually, I can't think of anything either. I mean, we aren't from District 3 like Beetee or the deceased Wiress. Gale cocks an eyebrow and I hear a male voice speak.
"He went to go get some liquor." Oh, I completely forgot about Haymitch. Gale looks confused and scratches his head.
"I'm sorry, who are you?" Gale questions. He's so nosy, has to know everything doesn't he I think. Okay, I might be a little jealous of Gale but still.
"I'm Sabio." Haymitch smiles and puts his hand out. Gale looks at him for a bit and shakes his hand.
"Have I met you before?' Gale asks. Oh no, I hope he doesn't catch on. "I mean, you look a little familiar." Oh crap, I forgot, I think he's seen Haymitch's Hunger Games tape when the 3rd Quarter Quell started.
"Oh, um, maybe in the Seam. That's where I came from, you know… before the rebellion." Gale's expression lightens and he lets out an 'oh'. Leave it to Haymitch to cover up me and Katniss's mistakes.
"Well nice to meet you, uh…" Gale says, trying to remember Haymitch's 'name'.
"Sabio." Haymitch says quickly with a bored expression on his face. He looks towards me then back to Gale
"Sabio, that's it!" Gale snaps his fingers, "Sorry." He apologizes. He should be apologizing to Katniss for killing her sister.
"It's okay, I'd rather you'd forget my name. I kind of hate it." Haymitch says, obviously giving me a hint.
"Hey, got a surprise for you." Gale says winking towards Katniss.
"Really, what is it?" Katniss asks. Gale just shakes his head.
"Now if I told you it wouldn't be a surprise." Gale says taking her hand. They walk out, hand in hand and to me, that just doesn't seem right. Neither of them even bothers to ask if we want to come. But Haymitch and me follow anyway.
"You owe me big time." Haymitch whispers in my ear then he jogs over towards Katniss and Gale. I let out a sigh but follow them and we walk over to the Seam.
"Close your eyes." Gale orders to Katniss. Right now, it seems that Gale doesn't notice that we are there. He directs her over to his destination and tells her to open them. I am taken back in awe. Katniss's old Seam house has been rebuilt.
"Gale." Katniss says. At first I think she's going to cry, and she does, but only it's from happiness. "How?"
"I ordered the builders at the Capitol to rebuild your house while they finished up reconstructing the Seam." Gale says simply. She puts a smile on her face then leaps over to hug Gale. Not as in a love hug but it still seems awkward being there.
"Uhmm." I cough to let them know I'm still there. They turn around and Katniss's face flushes with red.
"Oh I-I'm sorry Peeta." Katniss apologizes but I give her a weak smile.
"Apology accepted." I say and Katniss and Gale head inside her new-old house. But I stay behind. I look around and notice that Haymitch is nowhere to be seen.
"Sabio?" I say out loud. "Sabio!" I walk around the Seam until I spot this house by the fence surrounding the District. It still has some dust from the rebellion covering it. Why would they leave this house alone? I think. The abandoned house seems to lure me in but I need to find Haymitch. I have a mental battle over if I should go inside the house, or find Haymitch. Over all, curiosity gets the best of me.
I walk over to find the door opened. I look down to see footprint in the soot heading towards the inside of the house. I walk in and the house is dark but looks better on the inside, though, you can tell it hasn't been used in a while.
"Hello." I call out. I step into want seems to be the living room and see Haymitch facing in the opposite direction.
"Haymitch." I speed walk over to where he stands and he looks melancholy. "Haymitch?" He looks at me with his gray eyes and down to the floor.
"Hey." Is all he says.
"Why are you here?" I question. His gaze averts mine but he answers after a while.
"This is where I lived before the Reaping." He pauses then laughs, "I'm surprised they didn't demolish the thing." I see something small and shiny crawl down his face. I can't believe that my mentor is crying, he never cries. Well, besides when he was in his bathroom earlier, but still.
We just stand there for a while until Haymitch's head pops up from its position.
"Peeta." Haymitch says urgently.
"What?"
"I remembered what happened at the Capitol." I'm taken back by surprise.
"What- what happened?" I ask and Haymitch responds quickly.
"They did this. These Peacekeepers took me to this white room and a Gamemaker was there with this shot and they knocked me out and when I woke up he said 'this will teach you to mess with my games.'" I can't believe it, I was right all along, the Capitol made Haymitch sixteen.
"Well now that we know who it is," I begin, now having confidence lurking into my voice, "We'll make them pay." Haymitch thinks about this for a moment then smile.
"Damn right."
HAHA! Done, sorry, was watching Supernatural and was working on this project for social studies. I hate homework :\ but whatcha gunna do? XD okay, like I said I have a surprise for the next chapter.
(Hint: I did mess around with who died in the rebellion and who didn't.) Oobay, don't ruin the surprise…