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Chapter 24
When Katniss wakes up she realizes shes lying in her old bed at her mothers house. All is quite in the bedroom just the sound of the clock beside the bed ticking.
She's warm under the covers of her bed and she moves her head towards the window and sees the sun rising.
She climbs out of bed and makes her way to the kitchen. Ms Everdeen is preparing breakfast and turns around when she hears someone coming towards her.
"Hello dear. How are you feeling?" she asks.
"What happened? Wheres Gale?"Katniss says.
"You blacked out due to stress. With Hazelle, he's very upset with himself. Blames himself for what happened"Ms Everdeen says.
"The baby is okay? Isn't she?"Katniss says worriedly.
"Yes. Yes. You just need to take it easy okay?"Ms Everdeen says.
Katniss nods.
"C'mon sit down and I'll fed you two"Ms Everdeen says.
Hazelle and Gale sit at the kitchen table. Gale sits with his face in his hands while Hazelle rubs his back soothingly.
"This is my fault. What's wrong with me? I was yelling at her and I didn't even take into account that she was five months pregnant and I was stressing her out and the baby"Gale says.
"Dear, you just overreacted. You just wanted to protect them"Hazelle says.
"I was stressing her out so much she collapsed! I was lucky I was close enough to her she didn't fall. If she landed on her stomach- well I could never of forgiven myself- if something was to happen to the baby or Katniss But I could of killed the baby"he says as his eyes fill with tears.
"Hon, sshh. It's okay. Well nothing happened to the baby or Katniss"Hazelle says.
"I need to go. I'm going to go to the woods. I'll see you later"He says before storming out of the house.
Later at lunch time, Katniss is lying down across the bed when she hears a knock on the door and her mothers voice mixed in with someone else's.
She hears her mother rushing into the kitchen and setting up her medical items. Katniss realizes that something is wrong.
She hears the door open and the sound of many feet rushing into the kitchen. A mans cry.
She gets off the bed and heads down to the kitchen to see whats going on.
At the bottom of the stairs she hears voices.
"What happened?"Ms Everdeen says.
"Whipped, he was walking through the seam when Cray caught him with it"a man says.
"Nobody has been whipped for years"
"Its happening all over again, isn't it?"
"Well- lets hope not"
"How bad is it Rose?(Ms Everdeen if you have forgot)"a worried voice says.
Katniss knows that voice. She walks into the kitchen and four men stand in her way. She moves around them.
That voice belongs to Hazelle who sits on a stool beside the table the man is lying on.
Ms Everdeen looks up from the man's back and sees Katniss and freezes.
Hazelle catches Ms Everdeen's reaction and turns to katniss with tears running down her face.
Katniss sees who the young man is lying on the table.
Gale.
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