Okay, heres a chapter I've been looking forward to writing ever since this story started. Hope you enjoy! Not my usual heading cause I'm not listening to music instead seeing how long I can stay awake. (joy for my wonderfully curious teenage mind I bet I'll regret it in the morning but oh well it's one already) Please review!

Denver's POV:

It doesn't take long at all before Gale has a plan on what to do. "We need to get everyone to the woods, and fast. Common." Gale tells me and his family, I stand beside Gale as we work together to convince people to follow us, we go and lead them to the clearing and go a little beyond that. Gale turns around after, I barely hear his words over the sound of District Twelve being bombed to rubble. "I'm going to get more people" he tells me sternly. I nod.

"I'm coming with you." He stares at me for a moment then nods. "Everyone stay put, if the bombs get closer then move deeper in the woods." I tell them before Gale and I are racing back through the woods. The woods are fully alive now, birds flying away from the District even some deer are out and racing away from the noise. We go through the opening in the fence and run back into our District. It's almost unrecognizable already, I can see the bakery, obliterated, nothing but dust and rubble except for a melted oven. My home. Gone. Most of the Seam itself is already gone. I catch sight of our mining crew and we go over to them. "You need to get in the woods, its safest there." I tell them all right away, they nod and join the people behind us. I turn back to Gale. "You take them back we can save more if we split up." I yell over the raid. He nods bluntly and then I race off deeper into the District towards the Square. As I run a bomb lands not even thirty feet away from me and I'm blown onto my face. I can feel the rocks and ash that covers me as I force myself up and to just keep moving. I find a crowd of merchant people all huddled together. "Come with me, I'll take you in the woods, its safe there." That's all I need to say to them to get them to follow. The trip back to the fence with these people is the hardest; repeatedly I'm blown to the ground as are my followers. But I always get up, always keep moving. If you stop you die.

I skid to a stop along the road though, a building fallen over now in our path as it continues to burn. I wave the people over in a new direction, but I don't speak. The air is a hazy gray as disturbed coal dust and smoke fill the atmosphere that surrounds Twelve. It takes longer to get to the fence, but once we're in sight of it I see Gale waiting there and I know these are the last people we can get out alive. I stop as I see Gale's grief stricken face as the people I have led go under and deeper in the woods.

"Rory, he went back in, to get Prim. I'm going back in, you lead them deeper in." Gale explains to me in a rush of words. Immediately I grab his arm.

"No, you know where it's safest, you go in the woods, and I'll find the kids." Gale looks back over the District, fully ablaze and all going to burn down as bombs rain down, we need to move soon, they'll bomb where we're standing.

"Why you?"

"Because you might die getting them out. And I couldn't live if you died. If I die, no one will care, no one cares about me Gale. I have nothing left anyways." I explain in a rush, his face softens at my words.

"I do Den, I care." I let the smile come to my face at is words.

"I'll try to come out, I promise, I need to go now though." I turn around but Gale grabs my hand. As I turn around his arms snakes around my waist as he brings me closer to him. I feel his hand go on the side of my face, and then his lips are on my own; forceful, passionate. I don't even try to resist him, because that's a fight I can't win, and one I don't want to win. He doesn't even stop for a breath as he kisses me again; his hand goes down so it rests on my back and beckons me closer to him. Soon I'm right up against him, no space left between us. It's the sound of a nearby bomb that makes us pull apart and his forehead rests on mine.

"I love you" he breaths, I kiss him quickly again before I back away.

"I love you too Gale." And then I turn and run back into the flaming District.

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-Gale's POV:

I watch her until I can't see her anymore, I swallow the lump that forms in my throat and turn and go back in the woods. It doesn't take me long to find the people we've saved. I take a deep breath before I speak. "All of you, follow me, we're going to the lake!" my voice echoes throughout the clearing so everyone stops and looks at me. I walk to the front, where I see my mother, Vick, and Posy. I look at my mother, tears in her eyes. I hug her tightly to me, "She went to find him mom, he'll be okay." I pull away and she nods. Then I take Posy's hand in mine and we start walking to the lake. About two hundred people follow me.

An hour later we reach the lake, I make sure everyone is settled down; everyone sits on the grass now. They hold their families close to themselves. I look for my family. I easily find them. "Are they back yet?" My mother asks, tears still in her eyes. I look around and don't see Rory, Prim, or Denver. I shake my head.

"No, I'm going back to the fence to see if I can see them." I say sternly, she nods and I turn and start to run back.

I stop when I reach the fence; my eyes take in the horrific sight of my District, burning, bombs still falling. I stand there and look out. "Rory!" I scream over the explosions. I barely hear my response.

"Gale!" I hear Rory yell, I have to squint to see the three figures sprinting towards me. Two in the front, Rory and Prim, and then one lagging behind them, Denver. My eyes widen as I see a bomb falling towards them.

"Run! Rory run faster!" I yell as loud as I can. All three figures somehow move faster, and then I can see their faces, Rory and Prim's. Black and burned, their clothes tattered. Denver lags even farther behind then she did before. I can now tell she's coughing, badly, she's limping too, her left leg is black. I scoop Rory up as he reaches me in my arms; I hug him close and then put him down. "Go, go in the woods, I'll meet you just go strait." I tell him quickly, he nods and takes Prim's hand. They disappear in the woods. I start running to Denver, but then I see her waving me off.

"Go back!" her hoarse voice barely reaches me. I stop and stare, she keeps waving me away. I turn and run back to the fence, I'm halfway under when I look back. The whole world seems to slow down to this one moment and my stomach feels like a never ending pit.

I watch as a bomb falls from one of the last hovercrafts right above Denver. I watch as it falls to the ground. I watch as Denver looks up and sees it coming. I watch she waves me forward again.

"GO GALE!" I hear her scream. And then I watch helpless as the bomb hits right behind her. I watch as she's catapulted high into the air by the force of the bomb. I watch as she flies through the air. I watch as her body slams back into the ground. I'm vaguely aware of someone screaming, of someone crying out, before I realize it's me. I watch hopelessly as she doesn't move. I look at her, lying there, her hand reaching out towards me still. And then I turn and run into the woods. And for once I cry, I cry for the girl I've lost. I've lost the girl I loved. I lost her while she saved my brother.

Sorry it's so short, but I hoped you liked it. This isn't the end by the way, two more chapters left! Please please please review!

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