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I felt my knees buckle and I slid onto the floor. The room around me had begun to spin and didn't stop spinning. My baby, my poor, poor baby. It isn't even a baby. It's a mutt. My stomach was rolling painfully and my eyes couldn't focus on one thing. I felt myself crying as the room tilted and I was staring at the ceiling. Somewhere next to me I vaguely heard someone call my name. I don't know who it was. All I heard now was my own thoughts repeating over and over. Muttation. It's not a baby. It's not even alive.

My face was wet and my throat was sore when I finally reopened my eyes to see where they had put me. Thick tears obscured my vision, but I could make out the figures of my family. Prim was holding onto Mother and her face was buried in her sleeves. Peeta had sat down on the floor and his hair fell in his stricken face. Until then, it was apparent I was lying on the bed in the far corner of the office.

Ever so slowly, my senses came back and my body started shivering violently.

"What's happening to her?" Peeta said frantically to the doctor, standing up and putting his hand on my forehead.

"She is hyperventilating." Dr. Longarden went into his professional-doctor mode and began rummaging through a cabinet with a serious look on his face. He took out a strip of cloth and soaked it with ice water.

"She is trying to say something." Prim had unburied her face and was looking worriedly at me.

I tried to move my lips and form words through the chattering of my teeth, but as I cried harder, I found that near impossible so I stopped trying.

Doctor Longarden put the wet strip of cloth on my forehead. "We can worry about that later. For now we need to get her to calm down."

If this was in a different situation, I would have thought it funny that my family seemed to be taking turns trying to calm me down, but the poignant stress was crushing my chest and the choking sobs wouldn't stop.

Pretty soon I found Prim curled up in my arms, stoking my hair and Peeta was holding my hand, saying reassuring stuff to me. I didn't hear what they were, and I guess it didn't really matter, because it seemed as though nothing would calm me down.

"You need to calm her down or else she will go into shock." The doctor was now scolding my family for not stopping my crying. I wanted to scream at him, "You aren't the one with the mutt growing inside of you, feeding off of your energy! You have no right to be mad about me crying because you don't know how it feels!" But I didn't.

Peeta sighed and turned to Dr. Longarden. "I think I know what will calm her down."

"Then what are you waiting for? A go-ahead?" snapped the doctor. If I had once thought he was nice and charming, I was sorely mistaken.

Peeta let go of my hand and stalked out of the room. Is that what he thought would stop me crying? I cried even harder. I really didn't want to be such a crybaby, but it was one of those times when you are so scared, so absolutely horrified at something where your mind and body almost shuts off completely and nothing seems to make it better.

"Katniss, please calm down." Said my mother in a soothing voice."We can leave the hospital and go back to our rooms and forget that this day ever happened until tomorrow."

That is when I finally cracked. "You think this is something I can just shove aside in my mind and act all happy-go-lucky? You don't have to live with it constantly as it grows inside of you and feeds off of your happiness! I can never and will never forget it because things like this don't 'just happen'!"I half-screamed, half-sobbed at her. "This is my baby and you have never known what it is like to love something and then learn it is a monster!"

The room grew absolutely silent. I expected the doctor to scold me for being out of control.

"Just go." I choked and lied back down onto the bed, my back facing them. "All of you. Leave me alone."

I heard the door open, shuffling, and the door close again. Now I was free to be as masochistic as I want and no one will tell me to "calm down".

About ten minutes later, I heard the door open again and this time only one person stepped in. I was about to tell them to get the heck out of here, but for some reason, I didn't.

"I may not be able to make you sing show-tunes again, but I can certainly try to cheer you up."

I rolled over and wiped my eyes to see my visitor.

Gale was leaning against the wall nonchalantly.

"Gale." I sniffed pitifully. Then the stupid tears started pouring out over my face again and a covered it up with my hands.

I felt him sit next to me on the rock-hard bed and took my hand. "You don't have to be upset."

I coughed and uncovered my face. "How can you say that? You haven't heard what is wrong."

"Believe it or not I did." Gale smiled crookedly and I wanted to hit him for smiling while I was so miserable. "I really hope you don't mind, but Peeta told me about it."

"Then what do I do, Gale?" I begged. "What do I do?"

He shook his head. "I don't know what to do, and I don't know what it must feel like. People must have been saying 'Oh, it will be all right. Nothing is wrong and everything will turn out perfectly fine'. I, for one, and not sadistic and I can't promise you that everything will be okay, but I can help in some way. What can I do to help you?"

I sniffed. "I don't know. My stupid baby is a mutation. What would you do?"

Gale shrugged.

"Well that's helpful." I snorted and began scrubbing at my eyes, which had begun to stream again.

He put his arm around me. "Well, whatever happens, just realize things could always get worse."

I'm sorry the ending to this chapter was really bad. I couldn't figure out a way to end it sooner, and if I had gone with my original plan, this chapter would have been, like, fifteen pages long. :D I am still totally open for suggestions about what they should do next, or whatever. Never forget I love you all!

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