Did anyone else notice that Rose ages about three years each time I write about her? She is one creepy child.

And yes, she is supposed to be five-ish, not however old she seems in this story.

Just imagine how old that would make Katniss and Gale. *shudders*

Thanks to the people who are reviewing here's your reward, a chapter that I at least pretend to proof read before I post it. (I just read over my last chapter, I've been making some pretty stupid mistakes.)

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After hours and hours of thinking, I've narrowed it down to two possible ways to resolve the Peeta and Clover issue:

1: I could tell Katniss that I had to go back to my job and she would be so furious with me that she would leave District 12, forgetting about her husband, his girlfriend, and my existence. Thus, making her somewhat happy.

Or #2: I could decide not to go back, to my job, thus causing Assassin #2 come and assassinate me. This would make Assassin #2 become Assassin #1 through the promotion system. And I would be dead, which would suck, but the problem would also be erased from my mind… along with all of my other memories.

Frankly, neither one of those plans appealed to me, especially the ones that would cause Katniss to hate me. Wait that would be both of them.

Did I really just spend hours thinking up two plans that would result in me dying? Okay, that would be a worst case scenario for plan 1, but plan 2 counted one my death.

In the end, I decided on the newly added plan 3- go for a walk.

I passed a sleeping Ceil as I headed for the door. It was strange to see him there. I mean, of course he and Sebastian still slept on the floor, no the weird part was that Sebastian wasn't within a five foot radius of the child.

I didn't care enough to wake the sleeping boy, so I snuck out of the front door, quite like a ninja. Too bad there was no one to ninja stalk at the moment.

Heading down the gravel path that lead away from the Cursed Cottage, I noticed a lot more flowers than there was the other day… Katniss must be stress planting again.

Still, I had to admit that the flowers were pretty. So of course being me, I walked down the path not noticing where I was going, or I didn't care till I ran into Sebastian, who was talking on one of those newfangled cellular devices. He was in the middle of saying, "Yeah, if he doesn't show up for work I ki…" but then I ran into him and he stopped talking and glared at me.

"Um… Hi?" I stammered as I saw the murderous gaze that he had fixed on me. Apparently, someone was more suited to the killing aspect of my job than I was, that is, assuming that Sebastian was the person who was supposed to be the one who had to kill me and then take over my place as Grand High Executioner/Assassinator.

I didn't think that Sebastian was going to say anything to me, especially since he started walking towards the bushes without saying a word to me. But at the last second before he completely disappeared into the undergrowth, he turned to me. I did not like that knowing smirk on his face. "You've got one day, Number One, make the most of it."

Why did I even begin to think that I would have a couple more days to think out a survival plan?

But really, it's just my luck. Of course the other assassinator in the Company would be Katniss's cousin. Of course I would only have one more day to live or get to work, you know, instead of the six that it would usually take to locate me.

I walked for a few more minutes after the warning in silence. What was one supposed to do when they were told that they were going to die in a day?

"Hey, Gale," Rose yelled bringing me out of my daze. Something told me that she probably knew what was going on at the minute. I mean, not only does Little Catnip always find her way into stuff that she doesn't need to know, nut I figure that Ceil would have told her everything that he had heard from Sebastian ,on the matter.

I smiled at her like nothing was wrong though, because if she didn't actually know what was going on, she would know right away by the way I act. "How's it going, Kid?"

"Great," she replied with a smile. Then she frowned at me, "You planned on telling us yesterday, didn't you?"

I nodded. I seriously didn't want to say anything at the moment, so I just let her talk. "And how do you plan on fixing this problem?"

I shrugged my shoulders, looking and feeling very average, "I don't know, Rose, I guess just the usual run for the hills technique."

"Wow, Gale, that's original," Rose commented, sounding sour. Did I offend her with my lack of enthusiasm? Being Katniss's child, probably, I probably did.

"What would you rather me do?" I asked her. As much as I love my originality, I was open to ideas. Maybe I would be able to get out of town before Sebastian figured out my plan.

Little Katniss looked thoughtful. Then she slapped me, "You should have a better plan! It was your job to find people with plans better than yours. I'm sure you have better ideas then running for the woods."

"Nope."

"Do you want me to get Katniss," she asked with a devilish grin. Did she really want me to think of a better plan that bad? She didn't have to threaten me. But Katniss was going to be so pissed off the second that she heard the news.

"Katniss doesn't need to know," I told her quickly, making sure that she didn't make a run for it. Apparently my impending death wasn't exciting enough for her. Maybe I should have really thought about my escape plan before I told her.

Then there was a rustle in the bushes. I watched in horror as a female figure walked out of the bushes. "Katniss doesn't need to know what exactly?" they asked.

I stared in shock for a moment. Then I realized that it was just Clover, not Katniss.

"JUST CLOVER!" she shouted as she kicked me in the shins. I have got to stop thinking out loud.

Rose walked over to Clover and tapped on her arm even though she was still in a fit of rage, "Clover, today is a be nice to Gale day. He is being both boring and mean, but he is going to die tomorrow, so we better be nice. You, know so we aren't guilty after he dies."

"Oh, that makes sense," Clover said with a smile, "Sorry, Gale."

And here I thought that they were going to say something sweet.

"So what exactly is going on," Clover said with a blank look on her face. Shouldn't she be more worried about me, even if she doesn't know what's about to happen to me?

"Sebastian is going to kill Gale because Gale was a bad boy and didn't show up for work because he is in love with a married woman," Rose explained. "I think that's about it."

"Oh…" Clover said, still looking relatively clueless.

"And know we are trying to come up with a way to save him from this horrible fate," Rose explained again to Clover. For someone who was blonde she was pretty clueless sometimes.

Clover thought for a moment. Then she looked like she had just figured out the meaning of life. "We can lock him in the basement. That way he can't get out and Sebastian can't get in."

I wonder why I'm not talking in a conversation about me. Wait! What did Clover just say?

"That's actually a good idea," Rose said as she pondered the idea. I believe this is the part in which I run away screaming.

It was too late for that thought because in the next moment a brick was bashed into my head.

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"See, Clover, now he won't squirm when we drag him down the stairs."

"Oh I see… Wait shouldn't we have left food and water down there for him?"

"Um… He'll live."

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Hey, guys, thanks for reading. I am so sorry that I haven't been updating. I know it's not an excuse but I just started a new school and it is a lot harder than what I'm used to. I'm going to update whenever I can, but if I'm on this schedule much longer, you will probably get these week/ 2 week projects.

Again, I'm sorry. But I need to save my writing for History reports and my sleep for Cross Country.

By the way, are five reports in two weeks normal for one class?

Bye!