In the past few weeks all hell broke loose. The dam in Seven was bombed and breached, the levees in Four also bombed, One overran with mutts leading to the discovery of Game Makers amongst their ranks. Enobaria was dispatched to assassinate one of the leaders, she bit out his throat stripped him naked hung him upside down and castrated him. This has led to a competition between her and Johanna who was also dispatched to assassinate one of the perpetrators of a bombing decapitating him and hiding his head leaving a treasure map. This leads me to where I sit now. The man who tried to kill my wife and succeeded in raping her provided a plethora of information for us. He's being removed for his military holding cell where he will stand trial. Gale asked me if I wanted to give him a piece of my mind to which I obliged. He had lost a large bit of weight. He probably couldn't eat since I knocked out his teeth, he was sleep deprived as part of the interrogation. Gale had taken a personal approach in his inquisition. The monster spits on the floor as I enter the room.
"Quite the failure huh? Would your cronies treat you any better since you botched a hit?"
He laughs. My blood begins to boil.
"I got a good deal. She's got quite tight pussy on her, sorry I had to break it in for you. The head wasn't too bad either." He begins to laugh hysterically.
I blacked out next. I'm holding a knife in my hand covered in blood, the assailant is screaming being drug out by police.
"You castrated him." Gale says patting me on the back.
I drop the knife, then I spit on the floor.
"Good."
I stand and walk to the elevator where I meet Haymitch, Gale trots up beside me. Haymitch's face contorts in horror.
"He castrated the asshole."
Haymitch smiles.
"Good boy." He says.
I'm silent as I return to the apartment. When I walk into our room Katniss stands in surprise.
"He'll never will hurt a woman again." I tell her. "He's not a man anymore either."
She wraps her arms around me and removes my bloody shirt, then takes my hands and places them on her waist. She kisses my neck up to my lips where I meet her grabbing the hair at the nape of her neck I pick her up and place her on the bed, frantically removing her clothing. As I lean over her again she frantically pulls my pants down breathing rapidly. I kiss her neck as she strokes my cock, my fingers stroking her erect nipples. I stare her in the eyes when her body tenses.
"Do you want me? Inside you?"
Tears form in the corners of her eyes.
"We can stop." I kiss her on the neck.
"I want it." She says.
I enter her slowly. "It's me baby. It's me."
She winces in pain and the sighs in relief. "Go slow." She writhes under me in both pain and pleasure.
"It's you baby, I belong to you." Tears streaming down her face. This is the first time we've made love since the rape. It's fitting. I remove the manhood of the man who tried to steal her from me, then I make love to her show her that I can make her feel good.
"This is real." I exhale.
"So real."
I stroke inside her slowly, agonizingly my body screaming at me to pump harder. I deny that request she comes around me and I stroke longer until I come inside her.
"I love you." She whispers to me.
"I love you too." I reply.
We lay there in silence naked. I realize my hands still covered in blood. I stand up and put a pair of shorts on and wash my hands. Katniss sits up in the bed bare chested, hair messy the most beautiful sight that I've seen like she just woke up. I need to paint this. There's a knock at the door. I crack it open.
"Meeting."
Katniss rises and puts her clothes. We arrive in the living room where Plutarch stands before us.
"Well, we've been quite successful at taking out our enemy. However, infighting has begun in district Two. Granite workers and former Peacekeepers have been engaging between each other. There seems to be ideological differences between the elite and the working class. We've managed to infiltrate the organization and we have discovered agents within Two who sabotaging the government. Today there was a collapse within one of the quarries. Enobaria, Lieutenant Hawthorne will brief you on your mission we've located Nero Scantalia who seems to be running thing within the inner districts. You're charged with taking him out. So be creative. That's all."
I sit back and light a cigarette.
"We should have asked what the outside world is like." Johanna says blankly.
"Here? Fake." Katniss says "It's like we're locked up in Thirteen again. I'd do anything to go to the woods, even a wooded area."
Sirens begin to blare. Gale bursts through the front door with three other men, he hands me a machete, Katniss a bow, Johanna an axe, Beetee a gun, and Enobaria a spear.
"Mutts. We've gotta go." He says.
We follow him out the door into the hallway. Katniss has an arrow drawn ready to fire, we keep our backs against the wall.
"Katniss, pull up the rear."
We immediately hear hissing, the mutts that killed Finnick. An arrow goes whizzing through our formation and a mutt falls.
Gale furiously pushes the button for the elevator. The elevator doors open and we file in. Gale hits the button for the basement level.
"There's a bunker down there."
After what seems like an eternity the doors open. A spear whizzes past my head. Enobaria took down a mutt by the door. They smelled the blood and we could hear hissing behind us.
"Follow me! Let's go."
We hustle sideways down the corridor keeping our backs to the wall. Katniss firing off arrows at mutts who scurry too close. We reach a set of heavy metal doors where Gale punches in a code. A bunker opens up to us. It's a giant metal room. Sparsely furnished.
"It appears there is a traitor somewhere in the government. It's okay we'll take care of them."
Katniss sits against a wall and buries her head in her hands. I hear the clatter of weapons hitting the floor.
"Oh God! Haymitch!"
The clicking of Effie's heels come from across the room.
"Everyone accounted for Lieutenant Hawthorne?"
"Yes."
Effie and Haymitch embrace. Johanna and Beetee sit in a corner talking. The scene is all too familiar. We're in the arena.
"This is General Graves." Gale announces
A large bald muscular man stands before us.
"You'll have to stay here until the all clear is given."
"Fuck." Johanna groans from the corner. "Anyone have cards?"
Spike barks at her.
"Yea well go shit in the corner." She tells him
"Oh my God!" cries Effie. Who then begins to cry softly to herself.
The hours pass. Johanna eventually curls into a ball for a nap. Upon awakening she begins to vomit violently. Beetee patting her on the back. Effie once again horrified.
"No! No! No!" She begins to shriek.
Beetee whispers gently to her she shoves him away.
"Goddamnit I'm late!" She yells like a wounded animal.
Beetee's face is shocked. He tries to mask a smile.
"We don't know anything for sure yet."
"No, but I'm late and sick!"
"We can handle this together." He soothes her.
"Well, doesn't this lighten the mood." Enobaria chuckles.
Katniss stares forward shocked. She leans over to whisper to me.
"It's probably best if she is pregnant. She'll have to stop being so destructive."
I nod to her. She's right. Johanna is on a suicide mission. She doesn't know how to live without the Games. A pregnancy is almost a divine intervention giving her something to live for. I think everyone else knows it as well.
A few more hours pass. Boredom sets in. We betting on each other's abilities, Katniss bets Gale on trick shots, each one trying to beat the other in archery. Enobaria and I compete standing on our hands as Haymitch and Johanna throw down money on it. Johanna wrestles Beetee and annihilates him. The phone rings, Gale picks it up.
"And the monkey chased him." He hangs up. Looks at us "We're all clear. They gave false information within the military and found the traitor."
Cautiously he opens the doors and escorts us back to our apartment.
"This facility is on lockdown until further notice, no one goes in or out without General Graves authorization." A uniformed man tells Gale as we enter the apartment which has been ransacked.
"This shit sucks." Johanna says aloud. "Poker anyone?"