So I'm typing this in school. My ICT teacher is trying to teach us about the internet. LOOOOOOOL.

I can feel my writing deteriorating as this fic goes on…ugh, need to work on my writing. Sorry guys.

Peeta's eyes widen when he sees the hovercraft parking lot in front of us. "No. Katniss, no!" He grabs my arm and pulls me backwards. He used to throw gigantic bags of flour over his shoulder, no problem. Should've thought of that before. "Katniss, are you even thinking about this?"

"I can't let him go!" I scream back. "He'll die! Have you seen him, anyways? Seen how thin he's gotten? There is no way I'm letting him go in there! He will die!"

"So will you! Think about this. Think about what you're about to get yourself into. You aren't thinking this through."

I stop fighting back for a moment. He has a point. I'm not thinking about this.

"You're right." I pull my arm from his grasp and look at him. "Absolutely. I didn't think it through." He almost looks relieved, but seems to sense there's something else going on.

"Katniss."

"You're not coming with me." I take a few steps back so I'm out of his reach.

"Katniss, no."

His left arm twitches, but he keeps it in place. Barely. I stare at it. Then I realize that his watch has read the same time for the last 6 hours. I feel my eyes get bigger, and he watches me understand. The orange metal band around his wrist is not a watch.

Before he can do a thing, I turn and sprint to the nearest hovercraft. "Gale!" I hear him shout. "Gale! Hovercraft lot! NOW!" I look around, frantically trying to start this machine. I turn the key, and push the lever up just as Gale bursts out the door.

"KATNISS!" He runs over, and stops two yards from where my hovercraft was. "Katniss, we can find a compromise! Do not go! They'll torture you, then kill you!"

I can barely hear his voice from up here, and forget about the possibilities of him hearing me. I look around the dashboard, and hit a button labeled 'dematerialize'. Nothing feels different, but I look down and see Gale on his knees, running his hands through his hair and crying out in frustration.

"I'm sorry, Gale…" I whisper, and proceed navigate out of the lot.

Hours later, I'm following a GPS that's leading me to District 13. The few seconds before I took off replays in my head: Gale on his knees, frustrated and angry. Angry at himself, because he thinks he failed me again. I suppress a choke. He did everything to protect me, spent hours making plans to make sure I'm going to be safe, and I ruined it for him. I don't doubt that he'll be there a few hours after I land. So I have a short amount of time to get into their system and get everything that needs to be found. I need a plan. I need to use my time to strategize…

But my mind keeps going back to Gale. He doesn't owe me for Prim. I never told him I hated him for it. I can't help but associate him with it, but regardless of all that, I don't hold him responsible. It isn't his fault. He has no debt to repay to me, and when I get back to the Capitol, I'm going to make sure he knows that. And hopefully, somehow, someday, we can be as close to the way we used to be…

A tear streams down my face when I think about it. My life since Gale flashes through my mind. Meeting him, him mishearing me when I introduced myself, the slow process of learning to trust each other… and when we finally did, it was like a huge load was lifted off of both our shoulders. I finally had a friend, someone I could trust completely. I could provide for my family, and he for his. I had someone that I could be myself with, whatever the circumstance. Snow ruined that, and Coin tried to ruin it again. And though we might get closer again in future, I can't say that things will ever be as they were.

I shake these thoughts from my head. I don't need this right now. I look down at the GPS. Apparently, there's another thirty minutes until I reach the forest beside 13. Instead of flying over the district, I decide to fly around it. Just to be safe.

Suddenly, the radio crackles to life. "Katniss? Sweetheart, is that you?" Haymitch's voice nearly makes me fall out of my chair. Of course he would call. I consider ignoring him for a moment, then I remember his threats of transplanting a chip into my head…

"What?" It comes out as more of a statement than a question.

I hear him sigh. "Look, I'm in a hovercraft with Gale. I know he wants to tell you to stop where you are, but…just don't do anything you'll regret." I can hear Gale protesting in the background, but Haymitch gives him a sharp order to 'shut his hole and fly this thing'. Then he comes back to me. "We all know you well enough to know you won't stop if we tell you to. So we figure it would be a better idea to back you up on this." More grumbling from Gale, but Haymitch chooses to ignore him this time. "We're probably only one or two hours behind you, or at the rate your cousin here is going…" Gale snorted at that. "We'll catch up with you faster in about 45 minutes. That is, if you're flying at a sensible pace."

"Don't worry about it. I'll get myself a two hour head start," I laugh.

"No! No, you won't!" Gale shouts through the radio, but I'm already picking up the pace. Soon, I'm flying at maximum speed, and I almost miss my destination.

I find a small clearing and land the hovercraft. It's the perfect place; on the side of a hill, facing away from District 13, with plenty of tall trees around to keep it hidden.

It takes about half an hour to get to the gates of 13. Already, I'm faced with a problem. Their fences are always charged, and there are guards at every entrance. I climb about 40 feet high on a tree, and scan the possibilities. The gate where Gale and I used to use to go hunting has one guard, another one a hundred yards down from there also had one. There's a small guardhouse near the first gate, where I assume there's another 2 or 3 guards. The kitchen is about 200 yards to my right. No food is wasted in District 13, so the only thing they're getting rid of is dirty water. I already know that their sewage system is underground and extremely organized. Hacking the system would only work if I go in undetected, so I can't take out a guard. There's no way I can jump off a tree branch over the fence without being seen, and besides that, I would probably be seriously injured. I glance back towards the kitchen. I suppose I could look more closely. I get off my tree and run to where the kitchen area is. There is a large pool full of dirty dish and cooking water, and who knows what else. It looks pretty bad, and it smells awful, but it could be useful. It looks relatively deep, about 3 or 4 meters maybe? If I were to dive off of a tree, and if I was streamlined enough, I could get in with minimal splashing. Its two thirty in the afternoon, dinner isn't until 8. There shouldn't be anyone in there right now.

Just to stay on the safe side, I poke a leaf through the fence to make sure the water isn't acidic. It doesn't dissolve, or set off any kind of alarm, so I decide that it won't harm me. In two minutes, I'm preciously perched on a branch that's around 25 feet off the ground. I close my eyes. If you don't do this, Gale will, I tell myself. Gale's gotten weaker. If he does this, either he'll die, or they'll kill him.

I take the dive.

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