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Katniss' POV
I slowly open my eyes, and when I do, all I see are blank, white walls. I'm hooked up to an IV. I don't know where I am, last thing I remember was that I was in the arena...then if I'm here, that means I won, and if I won, that means Peeta is dead. I suddenly remember giving birth to a daughter, Peeta and I named her Briar Evangeline. But then where is she?
Still confused, I unhook myself from the IV, and wander across the room to the door that is also white. As I'm about to reach for the door handle, someone else beats me to it. I'm taken aback by who it is.
"Why, Miss. Everdeen why are you up out of your bed?" President Snow asks me with a devious voice. His white hair and pale skin blends right in with the walls and flooring of wherever I am at.
"It's Katniss Mellark." I correct him. "Where's Briar and Peeta?" I ask demanding an answer.
President Snow chuckles and then looks at me in the eyes and then chuckles again. I don't know if I should be worried what he's about to say. "Why Mrs. Mellark, only one can win the Games, but in your case, last year I allowed to victors to win so you could have a happy ending with your dear husband. And this year, the rebels broke into the arena and got the remaining victors, but don't worry, we made sure that we were to capture Peeta and Briar, but decided you were the most important out of the trio, so we killed them off so we could have two less mouths to feed."
So they're dead. They're really dead then. My wonderful husband and my poor and innocent daughter dead after only being alive for a few hours. "You're joking. You wouldn't kill them." I protest. He couldn't kill them, unless he wanted to shatter me into pieces.
"Why, Mrs. Mellark, I thought we agreed not to lie to each other." President Snow says referring to our earlier conversation right before the victory tour and walks out. I crawl back onto my hospital bed and lay down pulling my knees up to my chest and let myself cry. I have no family left, I'm sure if they killed Peeta and Briar, they would have killed Prim and my mother too. All because of me, all of them are dead. This is why I never wanted kids, in fear that I would lose them to the Games, and I did, but also my amazing husband.
I cry myself out, I realize I'm starving, I still haven't eaten since the start of the Games several days ago. When I see someone walk into my room, I get hopeful that they're bringing me food. I was wrong. It was a peace keeper bring me into a cell type thing. It's cramped. It couldn't be taller than six feet, with a perimeter of about fifty feet in total.
"Can I have some food?" I ask to the peace keeper.
All he does was laugh and then leaves me. I don't know what to do now. Do I cry? Do I try to act strong? Yes, I have to act strong because the capitol wants me to be broke, so if they want me broken, I'll have to be whole.
I soon learn a daily routine, well it's not really a routine because every other day, they bring a slice of bread and sometimes if I'm lucky, they'll bring me an apple with it. I get a cup of water a day. I can slowly see the weight fall off of me fast and I know that is not healthy. I don't feel safe to fall asleep here, so I try to stay awake most of the time.
I feel my eyes become heavier and heavier, I haven't slept very long since I've been in this room, which is about two weeks. "Get up!" A peace keeper comes over to my cell and shouts. I quickly sit up rubbing my back where I have a cramp from sleeping on hard tile floor.
I quickly obey knowing that if I don't they can easily hurt me. He opens my cell and grabs my arms and holds them behind my back. "Where am I going?" I ask
"You have an interview that will air and that will show the rebels you are alive and thriving here." He responds, I'm not thriving, I'm slowly dying, I don't know what he's talking about. I'm taken to a prep team, I think it's District 7's old prep team. They try to make me look presentable, not like I've been trapped in a tiny cell with barely any food or water for the past two weeks. I'm also handed a script with what I'm supposed to say and if I don't, they'll kill me immanently. In a way, I want to die, the rebels will use my death as strength, and I can be put out of suffering.
I sit on a small chair next to Ceaser, they made my dress bigger around my stomach so it looks like I have been eating when I really haven't.
"So Katniss, how have you been?" Ceaser asks, he's changed his hair back to blue since the start of the Quell.
"I'm fantastic Ceaser. President Snow has been really kind to me." I say, I''m sure the rebels know it isn't true.
"Well that's always nice to hear. And I must say, you really were shocked to find out that you were giving birth, did you even know you were pregnant?" Ceaser asks looking in the distance to the crowd.
I feel tears form in my eyes, I think of how beautiful Briar was and how it wasn't her fault she was born, and then that makes me think of Peeta and how they're both dead. I let the tears fall down my face, I don't care if it ruins my make up, it's not like I'm pretty anyway.
"I didn't know I was pregnant." I choke out, "And they're both dead, and it's my fault. It's all my fault they're dead." I repeat.
Ceaser feels some symphony for me and pulls me in for a hug. "Peeta nor Briar are really dead, they were rescued out of the arena. They're just trying to mess with you." Ceaser whispers quietly in my ear. I just nod, a part of me wants to believe him and another part doesn't and I don't know which one to believe.
After the interview, the make me take off my dress and put me into an over sized white tshirt that goes down to my knees. I'm locked back up in there, away from civilization. I'm alone with my thoughts. "Dear God, please have Ceaser be right about Peeta and Briar. And my mom and Prim to be okay. I don't know what I would do without any of them. Even though Gale and I don't really talk, would you mind watching over him and his family?"
I sigh, I really hope God will help me out with this one. The more and more I think, the more I realize that the odds were never in my favor. Even though both Peeta and I were allowed to win last year, and I have or had a daughter. "The odds are never in my favor." I say to myself, I keep repeating that and eventually cry myself to sleep.
Peeta's POV
I'm still in total shock with what happened to Katniss in the arena. Haymitch took Briar and I to the hospital in District 13. I still can't believe that District 13 has been in existence this entire time without any of us knowing. I spent about a week in the hospital, and surprisingly, even though Briar was born in the arena, she has no birth defects and is a very healthy baby which is a big sigh of relief.
After I got out of the hospital, I've been assigned a 'family compartment' in 13, there are several bed rooms and we are supplied with a baby's crib even though Briar sleeps with me every night. Mrs. Everdeen and Prim helped me feed Briar since now she has to be fed from formula instead of Katniss' breast milk. Haymitch told me they got out all of the remaining victors besides Katniss, but I can't recall who is all alive and dead.
Every morning we are assigned a schedule I never follow it because of Briar's constant needs and plus all I can think about is Katniss. A few days after being in 13, I wake up to a banging noise on the door. I pick up Briar and hold her in my arms and walk over to the door. "Someone wants to meet you." Haymitch says.
"Can I at least get ready?" I ask half asleep.
"Nope." Haymitch says and grabs my wrist and leads me down to the command center of District 13. The walls are still really white, it makes everything feel so gloomy when there is no color besides white.
Haymitch opens a door, when I walk in along with Briar, I feel six set of eyes staring at me. A middle age lady motions for me to sit down across from her. "My name is Alma Coin, and I'm the president of District 13." She says and reaches her hand out to shake it, I reach my free hand out to shake her hand back.
"We originally thought we would be having this meeting with Katniss, but with unexpected events take place, we had to adapt to the sitation." She says, and I know what she means by unexpected event, she's talking about Briar's birth. "But, you and Briar are just as important as she is, we want the three of you to be the face of the rebellion."
"We're leaving Briar completely out of this." I say flatly.
Surprisingly, President Coin agrees to this. She tells me my schedule, which is basically training for strength and cardio. Hazel, Mrs. Everdeen, and Prim help out a lot with Briar, they all watch her at point during the day. After about two weeks of training, I'm notified that there was an emergency meeting that I must attend. I decided to pick up Briar from Hazel then walk down into the command center.
"So, we have a note from the capitol that Katniss will be doing a live interview." Haymitch says. I take my seat with Briar still in my arms, she still sleeps most of the time, but I can tell she's going to be just like Katniss.
The dress Katniss is wearing makes her look fatter than she really is. I can tell by her face that she's not eating much at all, she has bags under her eyes, I wonder when the last time she had slept. Her entire interview breaks my heart, she thinks that Briar and I are dead. I wish I could just take this pain away from her. After the interview was over, a peace keeper took her away, I can only imagine where they are keeping her.
"We have to get her out of there." I demand.
"It's too dangerous. Too many lives would be at risk." Coin says plainly.
I overreact to this a little, but they are torturing my Katniss, I don't want to grow old without her and I don't Briar not to have a mother in her life and then for me to have to explain why. "We're getting her out of there, or you could find a new Mockingjay."I say dead seriously.
"We'll work on it." I scream, how could Coin just sit there and let her basically die?
"No, we're going to get her out soon." I start to go out of control, I start screaming at everyone, one of the guards comes to take Briar away from me, I don't refuse, but I keep yelling at Coin. The last thing I could remember was Haymitch injecting some type of liquid in my arm then everything goes black.