Imposter

Gale's POV

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I crept out of the house around midnight and managed not to wake anyone once again. I headed towards the spot I was supposed to meet Madge at. I was almost at the spot when I heard someone coming, I hurried up the nearest tree and locked eyes with Madge through her cluster of trees.

"I'm so sick of this," 'Katniss's' voice said.

"Then lets just turn the dumb disguises off," 'Peeta' responded.

"We can't you know we'd die. The capital would just kill us," her voice seemed sad.

"I just don't know what to do anymore. I'm sick of District 12 it's just awful it's horrible. It we were in District 2 as Cato and Clove then it would be fine but in here we're just poor slaves."

"Then come on, we could run away, we'd be fine." He grasped her hand.

"What about our families? You know they'll be punished."

"So what? My dad is a past victor and you despise your parents putting you in this."

"Ya but-"

"Glimmer either you're happy or you're not!" he glared. Glimmer? The girl from one! So then the boy was Marvel? But Katniss killed both of them, how are they here? Why are they pretending to be Katniss and Peeta? Well they said that the Capitol was making them but wow. I looked at Madge who looked utterly scared.

"It's ok," I mouthed to her. She nodded and went deeper into the trees.

"Shall we go then?"

"Do you really think we could just run?"

"We trained all our lives for a deadly game Glimmer, we'll be able to make it somewhere in the forest," Marvel hugged Glimmer and grabbed her hand sprinting away.

I hurried from my tree to Madge. "Are you ok?"

"Yes I am," I hugged her. "Well I don't know how we're going to explain this tomorrow," I sighed.

"I, I don't either," Madge stuttered.

"Maybe I should walk you home? Just in case something happens with or because of those two."

"Oh um ok," her cheeks flushed but I didn't really notice. I walked with her to her home and was about to turn around when Madge hugged me tightly. "Thanks for walking me home," she whispered.

"Ya um of course," I was embarrassed now, I hadn't expected anything like that.

"Hey Gale?" she whispered when I turned to leave.

"Ya?"

"If that wasn't Katniss, who was it?"

I closed my eyes, Madge asked a question I didn't want to answer, didn't even want to think about the answer. "I don't know," I looked at her and saw the pain reflected from my eyes.

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Clove's POV

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"Oh no," I whispered. I quickly started counting days and then weeks on my fingers. I rushed from the house Cato and I shared and went into Katniss's house. I was about to just storm into the bedroom when I heard yelling.

"Look I didn't say I needed kids!" Katniss yelled.

"Do you know what having kids without a plan can do?" Peeta yelled.

"Well it can't be much worse than this!" Katniss reported.

"I'm just trying to make you understand Katniss. This isn't just a simple thing."

"I know it isn't, I practically raised Prim Peeta I now how to handle children."

"That's not all I'm worried about, Katniss no one here knows how to deliver a baby. What if something goes wrong? The baby could die, or you could die! Or hell you could both die! Do you think I want that Katniss?"

"Peeta some things have to be worth the risk," she seemed to be pleading with hi.

"Nothing is worth losing you Katniss! Nothing!" he yelled and the whole house seemed to shake.

"You're so stubborn," she screamed back and stampeded out of the room.

"Hi," I whispered.

"I'm leaving the house so if you're here to talk to me we're leaving."

"Ok," I followed Katniss out into the woods. She hadn't brought her bow but she did have a knife with her. We didn't really run into any game but Katniss seemed to be in an awful mood after her fight. She finally just collapsed on the floor of the forest.

"Are you ok?" I whispered.

She looked up at me and then broke into tears. My eyes went wide as I had no idea what so ever how to deal with crying girls, it wasn't a category I considered myself a part of. I patted her head and looked around hoping maybe the forest would offer some advice.

"There there," I mumbled. "What happened?"

"He's just such a pessimist! I just so wanted to have kids and I thought he was serious and I mean so what it doesn't have to be right now! I figured that I'd always live in a world where having kids that weren't entered into The Hunger Games was just not an option. So I buried the idea of ever having kids but now, I mean there's no games here I could have a family, and I mean, I want one. I just figured that Peeta would be the kind of guy who would have always wanted kids."

I looked around "ya he does seem like the type," I tried.

"I know! I mean if I was with someone like Cato then sure whatever he doesn't seem like the family man type of guy but Peeta! He has a big family and he's always playing with the little kids at school."

"Ya," I muttered I sighed as we walked back towards the houses. "Just try to talk to him, let him know you don't feel like fighting you just want to understand his side of it. You know?" she nodded and hugged me.

"Thanks Clove," she said.

"No problem," I tried a smile and walked back towards my house. I went to push open the door and realized that my problem was still looming over my head.