We are back to Katniss's POV :) Hoped you liked the previous chapter. I really like writing in Peeta's POV. So here, Katniss is finally confronted by her dad and the eels appear. Ugh... eels.

I don't own THG characters nor The Little Mermaid word. Enjoy!

When leaving the palace, I see Haymitch standing by the main passage. I sigh.

"Where do you think you are going?" He asks.

"None of your business." I swim past him.

I don't need to give him any satisfations. I'm still mad at him from before. He can't forbid me from doing what I want. Just because I'm the youngest, my dad and Haymitch think they can treat me like a child. I'm almost seventeen.

"You are going to the surface again to see him, aren't you?" He guesses.

I just keep swimming, ignoring his words. Suddenly, Haymitch stops in front of me.

"Katniss, get your head straight. Forget what happened." He warns.

"I can't!" I snap. "Alright? I can't. What happened was meant to happen for some reason."

"If you had done what I told you, none of this would have happened." He scolds. "You are a stubborn girl. So stubborn."

"So what do you want me to do? Sit all day in my room, staring at the walls?" I say.

"It is better than meeting those humans." He says.

"Those?!" I'm getting a bit annoyed. "Why can't you see that they aren't monsters?"

"They are monsters!" He shouts. "They only think about killing us."

"You don't believe that." I say matter-of-fact. "You don't know them."

"Don't even want to." He spits.

I huff exasperated. "I don't want to talk about this anymore."

"Oh, but I want." He says. "I'm trying to get some sense into your head."

I open my mouth to answer back but I'm interrupted by the kingdom's messager.

"Haymitch, the king would like to speak to you."

Haymitch nods and then glares at me. "Try not to do anything reckless." They leave.

I always thought Haymitch would understand how I feel since... since my Mother died. He helped me in some moments but in others, I had to work it by myself. My sisters were also grieving and they didn't pay much attention to me. I was alone but not until I found Gale and he helped overcome the grief. He was and is a nice company.

"Katniss." I turn my head to the side and see Gale coming my way.

"I was looking for you, Gale." I tell him.

"You won't believe what I found out." He smiles.

"Normally, we find things together, not alone." I joke.

He rolls his eyes. "Well, I was swimming across the coral when I saw it. I thought you would like it."

"What is it?" Now, I'm curious.

"It's a surprise."

"You know that I don't like susprises." I remind him.

"I doubt that." He smiles knowingly.

"Alright. Let's go."

We swim away from the palace and the village, Gale leading the way. We pass through various corals and rocks. Up ahead, I see the cavern.

"I thought you said you found it by a coral." I say.

"When I found it, I brought it here." I raise an eyebrow.

"Just go inside."

I push the rock covering the cavern's opening aside and we get in. We swim to the middle of it and my eyes widen.

"Surprise!" Gale congratulates.

"Oh my god, Gale..." I swim closer to the statue and touch its face. It almost looks like Peeta. I smile, just thinking of him.

"How did you get this here, alone?" I ask Gale.

"I have my knowledges." He jokes.

I shake my head and look back at Peeta's statue. How I wish it was the real him here.

"I wish you were here." I hope.

"Katniss."

I freeze. This can't be happening. I turn around quickly and stare at my dad. When he steps into the light, he has an almost menacing look in his eyes. Behind him, I see Haymitch. I gasp. He told my father.

"I have a very reasonable mind." He starts. "But when things like this happen, it tends to get out of control."

"Dad-"

"Is it true that you saved a human from almost drowning?" He stares at me.

"I..." I can't lie anymore.

He sighs exasperated. "You know very well that contact between humans and merpeople are forbidden."

"I know Dad but-"

"Everyone knows that!" He shouts angrily. "I don't know what went through your head when you did that."

"He would have died." I snap.

"One less human." He says.

"You don't know him." I reason with him.

"Why would I want to know him? They are all monsters. Barbarians!" He shouts.

"Because I have feelings for him!" I shout. I realise my mistake one minute later.

"What?!" His eyes widen. "Have you lost your mind?"

"No." I whisper.

"You are a mermaid. He is a human. These two worlds can't exist together." He says.

"I don't care." I say.

"I always tolerated your rules-breaking but I can't tolerate this. I never did anything to punish you but if this is the only way you will learn, so be it." He warns.

Suddenly, he points his trident to one of my objects in the higher shelves and destroys it. No... It breaks and shatters into pieces.

"Dad, stop!" I shout.

He continues destroying my objects, leaving no shelf behind. I just watch in horror as he destroys my treasures. The cavern floor is covered with broken objects and shards.

"Please Dad, stop!" I beg.

He doesn't listen to me so I reach for his arm that's holding the trident and pull it, trying stop what he is doing. Finally the destruction ceases but it doesn't last because my dad is already pointing the trident in Peeta's statue's direction.

"No." I gasp.

He doesn't hear me and destroys it, exploding the statue into million of pieces. And then there's silence. We stay quiet. I'm looking at my father, dumbfounded. He looks at me, angrily and then removes his arm from my grasp. He turns and leaves. I keep looking from where he left. I can't believe he just did that.

I turn around and look at all the destruction. All my years of collecting wonders, gone. Like that. Gone. I sit on the rock in the middle of the cavern and lay my head on it.

"Katniss?" Haymitch tries.

"Please, just go away." I whisper, looking at the rocky wall.

When I hear no one inside the cavern, I let the tears fall. I don't make any sound nor do I sob. The tears are only falling.

"Poor girl." I get up and turn around quickly.

"Who's that?" I say.

Out of the shadows, two eels appear. They have a creepy and sinister look.

"Poor sweet girl." One of the eels says. "No one should have done that to her."

"Of course." The other says. "Maybe we could help her with her problem."

"Who are you?" I ask, feeling a bit scared.

"You don't need to be afraid of us." The first eel reassures

"We come in the name of someone very important." The second says. "Someone who can help you."

"How?" No one can help me. No one can make this true.

"Well, imagine you and your prince." The second continues.

"Together for eternity." The first finishes.

"How is that possible?" I doubt.

"Coin is very powerful." The first eel says. Coin?

"The sea witch?" I wonder.

"But of course." The second says.

I can't do that. People that go to Coin, never come back.

"I... I can't." I say. I glare at them. "You shouldn't even be here. Get out. Leave now!"

"You really are a stubborn girl." The first eel scolds. "Too bad. We could have really helped you."

They turn around and swim away, knocking a piece of rock near me. I look down at the rock and see Peeta's face. Would he like me more if I was human? Maybe. All I want right now, is to be near him and be able to speak and touch him normally, without any boundaries between us. I have feelings for him. I admited that to myself. I have been mulling that in my head since yesterday and now I know that. It can turn into something more, if he also lets himself feel something for me. I sigh defeated.

"Wait!" I call them.

"Yes?" They turn around with malicious smiles.

I look again at Peeta's face.

"I'll go with you." I say.

Next chapter she will meet Coin and we get to the fluff part ;) Now can you guess which THG characters are the eels? And also don't forget to review. They make me very happy :D