Chapter 2: Premonition
Gale knows what's going to happen long before anybody else. Gale POV.
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Gale knows what's going to happen long before anybody else. He knows, he knows, the minute he sees Katniss pin her mockingjay to that little girl's collar before the two of them head off in opposite directions to carry out their plan to blow up the Careers' supplies. He knows what that pin means.
"It's a mockingjay pin. As long as you have it, nothing bad will happen to you."
Gale has seen Katniss at her cruelest, most vicious and hurtful depths. He knows her better than anybody in this world, better than her mother, better than Peeta, even better than Prim. He knows what she's capable of; he knows how strong she is, how brilliant; he can see past her reticence; he knows exactly how deep that contrary streak runs, what an integral part of her it is.
He knows her heart.
His best friend loves with a fierce and savage devotion that can be terrifying in its intensity. She would kill and die for the few people she lets into her heart. And there is nothing and no one in this world Katniss loves more than her sister.
That mockingjay is promise, a promise Katniss made to Prim. She will die before she breaks it, and she will die to keep it. And she will have to die to keep that promise.
So, when the rest of the Tributes are dead and Katniss is left standing with the twelve year old girl from District 11, he knows exactly what is going to happen, what Katniss is about to do. He knows, and he can't do anything to stop it.
He can't do anything to save her.