Okay this chapter is gonna be kinda sad… All of you Mr. Everdeen fans, sorry… I really want this story to be close to the book, but a little different also because if it was exactly the book what would be the use of this fan fiction? Anyway… Thanks again to my friend for editing this and thank you guys for the reviews. They really do make my day. This chapter is going to have both Katniss and Peeta's point of view. Disclaimer: All of the characters belong to Suzanne Collins, not me so…

Katniss POV

Today started as any normal day. I woke up, ate breakfast, kissed father as he left for the mines, woke up Prim and walked with her to the town square. There, we met with Peeta and walk to school to drop off Prim. School is as boring as always. Coal. Coal production. The capitol is amazing and more coal. Lunch with Peeta and more coal.

While having another fascinating conversation on how fantastic the Capitol is an alarm sounds and time seems to slow down. What is that alarm for? Why is the teacher running out of the classroom? Peeta, Peeta's saying something. He's leading me to Prim's classroom. Why? School hasn't ended yet. The alarm, the teacher running out of the classroom, the teacher's husband is a coal miner, Prim. I have to get to Prim.

My legs take me to Prim's classroom, I grab her hand and Peeta, Prim and I are off towards the mines. My legs are taking me faster then I have ever run before and Peeta has to carry Prim so she can keep up with me. Up ahead I can see smoke and ash. Did the mine collapse? There's people crying and hugging loved ones. Where's mother? Is father all right? He has to be.

I can faintly make out mother, holding onto the ropes around the edge of the mines as if it were a lifeline. I run up to her and hug her waist. Prim runs up and we all hold each other, waiting for father to join our group hug.

Peetas's POV

A group of miner's are out of the mines. None are Mr. Everdeen. More come and come and come, but Mr. Everdeen never makes his appearance. The miner's coming out become less and less and my hope decreases with them. When the sun goes down I run to the bakery to get a blanket and a few mugs of tea. I make it back to the mines in record time and wrap the blanket around the three women who in the past six years have become my family. I hand each of them a mug and little Primrose is the only one who takes a sip.

I take a seat next to Katniss and set her on my lap. She doesn't move a muscle. I gently stroke her tense back and she lays her head against my chest. A few hours later it's been an hour since the last coal miner has showed up and the head miner has told us repeatedly to go home. I don't want to go home without Mrs. Everdeen, but I don't think that is an option. She hasn't moved since I have arrived with the tea and blankets and she's staring off blankly into space. I pick up a sleeping Katniss who, even though doesn't want to admit it, is as light as a feather and Prim who is even lighter. I carry them back to their home in the dark and lay them down in their bed.

I walk back down to the mines to see that Mrs. Everdeen has yet to move. I walk down to the Hob and ask Thom and Darius to help me take her home. We walk back over to her and while they pick her still form up, I try not to think of the inevitable. Katniss and Prim will wake up tomorrow morning without a father. School will surely be cancelled and that gives them time to think about that fact.

Mr. Everdeen isn't coming back. He's gone. They don't have anyone providing for them anymore. Mrs. Everdeen is going to have to get a job, but doing what? Maybe I could slip them some bread a few times a week and hunt? Mr. Everdeen did teach Katniss and I which plants are edible and he taught me how to throw a knife and a few basic snares. Katniss could practice with her bow and arrow and that will keep them fed right?

Although, hunting won't work now, I would have to start in a few months. It's the middle of the coldest January anyone can remember. What should we do? Most animals are hibernating and I can't give them the bakery. If we could get the money that they receive for their father's death to last until the reaping, I could take out Tessera.

Once Mrs. Everdeen is home I walk back to my house. I try to sneak in through the back for if my mother caught me I would surely get a beating. Luckily for me she's asleep in her bedroom upstairs, but I can hear a noise coming from the kitchen. I walk in and I can see my father working on two loaves of bread over the oven.

"Dad, what are you doing?" I ask.

" I thought the Everdeen's could use some bread after the coal mine collapse. How is Mr. Everdeen? Is he wounded at all?" He replies.

At that question, all of the emotion I've been holding in spills out of my eyes and over my cheeks. The loss of Mr. Everdeen hurts; he was like a second father to me. My father looks down at my crying face as an answer. Mr. Everdeen is dead.

"Oh Peeta, I'm sorry." He says and bends down to give me a hug.

That night I go to my bed and cry for the loss of a great man that was loved by many and didn't deserve this fate.

Yep! That's the end of this chapter! Mr. Everdeen is dead! I decided to post this chapter early, but that means that the next chapter will probably be late… Sorry! Just be exited that this chapter isn't late! Remember, I love reviews positive or negative, I don't care. Although I like the positive ones better.