Today is Sunday.

Preston wouldn't let us look for Katniss yesterday, the hospital wanted to make sure that she was actually gone and not hiding in a random closet somewhere.

I am pretty sure she ran away, she always hated hospitals. I actually have no idea where she would be. Especially in District 2, she wouldn't know where to go. The only place I can think of is the woods in District 12 but how would she get there? The trains only come once a week. But I can't give up. I need to find Katniss whether she likes it or not. I know she ran away because she wanted to leave the hospital and not because she wants to be living alone in the forest forever.

When I open my eyes I see something moving in a corner of my room. It's probably just a trick of the light. It isn't.

''Hello?'' I ask, which is stupid, because if this was a burglar then they wouldn't answer.

''Gale" A soft voice murmurs,

the world spins around me, is this real? Is my Catnip really here?

"Katniss, is that you?"

She walks to my bed and sits next to me.

"Yes, it's me Gale"

"How, how did you get here?" I ask, completely speechless

"I have my people" She says with a smirk. "I used a hovercraft. Hovercraft. Hovercraf...Hovercra...Hover..."

I wake up suddenly, I look around my room. Katniss isn't here. It was all a dream. It was all a stupid dream.

I can't get it out of my head though, it was so weird. What did she say in the end? Hovercraft? What? My mind is all muddled up.

Hovercraft. They have emergency hovercrafts at the hospital. Wait.

She didn't. She couldn't! Katniss can be so daring but this is so out of her zone. My gut instinct tells me that she did do though, I know her better than anyone else.

I look at my watch and I see that it is 8 am. If I leave in an hour, I'll get there at 1pm with the hovercraft. Since you basically need no skills to fly a hovercraft it should be easy to get to District 12. I call Preston to tell him about the plan

"I need a hovercraft immediately." I say quickly

"Whoa, slow down. "Preston is the type of guy who likes to take things slow. To make sure everything is perfect before doing whatever. But this is urgent.

"I know how Katniss ran away. She stole one of the emergency hovercrafts from the hospital and flew back to District 12." I explain to Preston slowly

"And how do you know this..?"

"I know her better than her mum does." Really, this isn't an accomplishment. Almost everyone knows Katniss better than her mum but I don't bother to explain this.

"Are you sure, we can go to the hospital to check if one of the smaller hover crafts are missing."

"Preston! I NEED A HOVERCRAFT IMMEDIATELY AND I'M ASKING YOU IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO JOIN ME OR NOT. THERE IS NO TIME FOR CHIT CHAT." I yell at him, right now is not the time for perfect plans.

"Okay, okay. I'll get the hovercraft."

Since you only need to learn how to press a button in the hovercraft, we don't need any pilots. Preston does some adjustments so it takes us to District 12 in the fastest possible time while I think about Katniss.

What do I say to her when I see her? Will she forgive me? I should have thought this through. What if she didn't fly back to District 12 and all this time is wasted?

I realize I haven't informed my mum yet so I type up a text:

I'm on a mission. Love you.

I stare of the small window and my head is filled with questions. What was Katniss doing on the train? How did the Capitol Soldiers get in the train?

I continue to stare out before Preston says:

"What's up, Gale?"

This is one of the very first time that Preston has called me by my first name. I am shocked.

I shrug. What should I say? There are too many things in my head and my brain is all muddled up.

"The Mockingjay is your cousin right?" Preston inquires.

"We are not cousins." I say stiffly. "And don't call her that." I always hated the term

"What? Mockingjay?"

I nod.

Since me and Preston are not exactly talkative type we stay silent for most of the way. The speaker booms above us.

"You are approaching your destination." A robotic voice says.

We are flying over the woods near the District when I see a trail of smoke near us. I know who it is.

"Hawthorne, do you want to go down now via the rope ladder? I'll take care of the hovercraft. There's no place to land here."

I am pretty sure Preston just wants to leave me and Katniss together.

"Okay." I tell him

I take a deep breath and prepare myself for my meeting with Katniss.

A/N I know a lot of you are waiting for the heart to heart talk that Katniss and Gale have and I promise you it will happen in the next chapter! I'll update more frequently now because I have a faint sense of direction of where this fic will go, please review/fav/follow if you enjoyed :) If you need me to clarify something, feel free to PM! (By the way, I'm not gonna write about Katniss' trip to District 12. That's up to you, the reader to determine what her challenges were :))