A/N: I've had a lot of time today to write, including take a nap! I felt so refreshed that I wrote this chapter for you guys!

Chapter 20: Fixing Melody

(CATO POV)

I grabbed Melody from Katniss and ran to the house. I tried not to let my fear show for Melody. She would be fine. Mrs. Everdeen would make her fine.

"Oh my," Mrs. Everdeen said when she saw her. "Put her on the table!"

I put her there and went to find Kat. When I got to the door, I heard someone crying. I looked outside and saw Katniss. My strong, brave, girl on fire, was crying. I felt like the world around me was collapsing. My sister was severely hurt and the love of my life was crying.

"Kat-"

"It's my fault," she said with her head in her hands. "I felt like Gale and I were being followed, but I shrugged it off because I thought I was just over reacting."

"Kat," I said sitting next to her and pulling her on my lap. "It's not your fault. Melody's always had a problem with not watching where she's going. She should have looked in the bush before she hid in it."

"I'm just so scared," she said putting her arms around my neck. "She's just a baby. She might never get to walk on that leg again if my mom can't fix it."

(GALE POV)

"She might never get to walk on that leg again if my mom can't fix it," I heard when I walked to the front door.

"It's not your fault," Cato said. "Stop blaming yourself."

"Well it's not Melody's fault," She said louder. "So if it's not mine and it's not her's, than who's fault is it?"

"Gale's," He said.

I froze. He's blaming me. I know it was my trap, but the only people who go out in the forest are Katniss, Prim, and myself. I never expected a little girl to go in the forest, forget finding one of my traps the hard way.

"I know you don't like Gale, but don't go to hard on him," Katniss said. "He did help me get her out without looking her leg."

I couldn't take it anymore. I walked back to the kitchen to see what I could do to help. I might have caused her pain, but maybe I could help get rid of it.

(MRS. EVERDEEN POV)

I was almost afraid to untie Gale's shirt because it was the only thing helping her bleeding. Taking a deep breath, I cleared my head was ready to take care of the little girl.

"I need a big big bowl of water, any and all clean socks in this house, and two pillows," I said out loud, knowing someone would hear and get me what I needed.

"Here," Prim said handing me the bowl of water.

"Two pillows," Gale said running down the stairs.

"Here's all the socks from the clothes line," Prim said dropping them on the table.

"Go find all the other ones you can," I said.

They were off to find socks and I started to do my work. I put one pillow under her head and one under her calf. I was about to untie the shirt when Katniss and Cato walked in.

"Cato, go help Gale and Prim find socks," I said looking at him. "Kat, bring me every herb we have in the house. They're all in the pantry by the fridge."

I took a deep breath and untied the blood soaked shirt. I dropped it on the floor and immediately dropped a sock in the water. I had to try to get a good view of her ankle before I could fix it and stop the bleeding. I wrapped a sock around her ankle and pulled it off. Luckily, it was enough to see her ankle for a second. It was BAD. Even my best wouldn't completely help. When they got to the capital, they would have to bring her to a hospital.

"What else can I do," She said dropping the herbs on the end of the table.

"Go find socks, and you might need to find other clothes too," I said looking at her.

I looked back at the bleeding ankle and started up again. I carefully wiped her ankle with the wet sock and looked through the herbs until I found the one I needed.

"I NEED A SMALL BOWL OF HOT WATER," I yelled up the stairs to the kids.

When I got the bowl of water, I checked the temperature and told the kid to crush up a handful of herbs and let them soak until the water started to turn a slight green color.

I kept wiping her ankle until the mixture was ready. Dipping a sock in it, I carefully applied a thick, watery coat. After, I held a sock on it for thirty seconds and repeated until the mixture was gone. All I was doing was getting rid of any possible infection.

"I ran to the market and bought this," Prim said handing me some kind of sewing like thread. "They said it's good to seal big gashes."

I quickly took it and started to sew up the little girl's ankle. This thread was going to extremely help her chances of healing. When I was about half way done, I told the kid that helped me before, which I finally saw was Cato, to make another mixture that I could reapply.

It was hard to listen to her screaming as I sewed her ankle. I didn't have time to give her anything for the pain and wait for it to set in. She had lost enough blood as it was and she didn't need to loose anymore.

Cato put the bowl by my side and held his sister's leg still. When her leg was sewed up, I applied the herbal water mixture to her ankle again, realizing that I should have put the thread in there to make sure it was clean.

"She needs something for the pain," I said to Prim, who was now at my side. "Something strong."

(PRIM POV)

I found the strongest sleeping and pain relieving herbs we had, mixed them with a little water, and told Melody to drink it. She made a face, mostly because she was still crying, but drank it. I knew drinking the leaves wasn't smart because the leaves gave it the strength, but she needed to be pain free and sleeping. She almost immediately fell asleep, which is just was I was hoping for.

(MELODY POV)

When I woke up, I could see the sun was just above the houses in the Victor's Village. I didn't know if it was rising of setting, all I know is that I was in a bed and my ankle was on three pillows.

UNCLE UPDATE: My uncle has an appointment on Tuesday that I'm taking him to. He's still really bad... His face is thin and his belly is VERY bloated again because he needs to get drained again. I'm scared because I know I'm going to loose him...