Sorry sorry sorry for not updating sooner! I was focusing on school and got side tracked but I'm back! And to make up for my neglecting you this will be a long chapter!

Again like always - Disclaimer: I do not own The Hunger Games

Katrina POV

Maggie has always been a kooky girl, even though she's only 4. One of the things I like best about her is her carefree and curious spirit. She can take any inanimate object and find it the most interesting thing in the world. Her mind probably creates a story behind the one blade of grass she stares at for hours, that or her mind just shuts off. When Maggie was first born, I knew I wanted kids, and I wanted them with Finn. The way he held his baby sister for the first time he looked completely content, like he was made to be a father. Well part father, part lover, part husband, part god.

"Trina…" Maggie cooed to me. I looked down at her. She had a bucket on her head and charm bracelets made of mostly rope covering her arms. Her big dark emerald eyes locked on mine as if she were going to hypnotize me.

"Hey Maggie." I said smiling.

"Trina, when are mommy and daddy coming back?" She looked sad, but she was a very independent girl who still didn't like when her parents left.

"They'll be back tomorrow." I reassured her. Ever since Maggie was born, Finn and I would babysit her whenever they wanted to act like married old people who still loved each other. There's just one hotel in District 12 which was built after the rebellion. In case anyone from the Capitol or other districts wanted to visit and didn't have anyone else to stay with. They rent the sea side suite each time, and even though we are nowhere near District 4, the room still smells like the ocean breeze, is still warm like summer weather, and comes with complementary District 4 food. Not to mention the color schemes all throughout the suite are those that remind them of their home.

They always say they'll be back at 10am, but they always get back around 3pm.

I don't blame them for wanting personal time, Finn and I take as much as we can get. But we never do it when Maggie's here. Just fool around a bit when she's asleep.

Maggie goes back to a coloring book she abandoned a few hours ago. I check the clock. Almost midnight. I let out a sigh, that's too long. Finn said the dance is over at 1:30, but he won't be back until 2:30. The first time he chaperoned I asked why he had to stay the extra hour.

"Well, there's clean up, then we have to do a sweep of the building and make sure there's no left over kids in classrooms doing other things besides dancing."

Each year there's at least three couples who think they can get away with whatever it is they're doing. Some years it's drinking, some its smoking, one time Finn even caught a couple of seniors banging each other on the teacher's desk. It reminded me of my senior year there. When Finn and I almost lost our virginities to each other.

The clock rings out. "Come on Maggie, bed time." I tell her picking her up.

She pouts but doesn't fight me, instead she fights a yawn.

Once tucked in bed, she falls almost instantly asleep.

Now I do what I normally do, fall asleep on the couch and wait for Finn to come home, where he'll pick me up, kiss me on the forehead and bring me to his room.

(Dream)

Walking through the streets of the Capitol there is usually lots of people and events happening. But now it's a ghost town. Suddenly a big TV screen appears in the sky, mom and dad's faces plastered on it. But they're young again. Scared and bloody, wearing their tributes uniforms. Someone's laugh rings out and mom and dad disappear. I hear a scream behind me. I turn and see Jane in the street; she's soaking and has burn marks on her exposed skin. She's just standing there screaming. Then she points to something to the left, still screaming. I look and see Peyton standing there laughing. I turn back to look at Jane but she's gone.

"Peyton? What's going on?" I ask.

He just keeps laughing and points to the left like Jane did. Finn is standing there bruised and broken down. His eyes look dim and his face has lost most of its color. Now Peyton's gone, his laughing replaced by Finn's moaning, moaning like he's in serious pain but refuses to scream.

I run to him. But just as I come within arm's reach of him he fades to smoke. I feel myself about to cry, my heart hurts, my head is spinning, and my stomach feels like it's about to burst.

"Bye bye." A small voice fills my ears. Turning to the left I find myself making a full circle and at the end of the street, a small boy stands. He can't be much bigger than Maggie. He has dark hair like mine, but his eyes throw me off. Though I recognize them, it causes me to jump back. This boy is a replica of Finn, the only difference is my dark hair.

"Bye bye." He says in a voice of silk. That's when Finn comes behind him and puts a hand on his shoulder.

"Bye Katrina." Finn says.

"What do you mean goodbye?!" I yell. But Finn ignores me and starts walking away into the distance fading into smoke. "Finn!" I cry.

"Katrina?" The boy asks. I look down at him. "I don't wanna go." I reach to pull him into me but he dissolves into smoke too.

I jolt awake with a start, sweating badly, heart pounding and pulse racing. Then before I can help it, tears come streaming down my face. But that's not the only thing I can't control. My stomach roles and turns and before I realize what I'm doing, I find myself running to the bathroom. Dinner makes its way up my throat and into the toilet.

When I finish retching I lay down against the cold tile. I've always had strange dreams, but they've never made me throw up before. Who was the little boy? And what did it have to do with Finn, Jane and Peyton? Why in the Capitol?

"Katrina?! Maggie?!" I hear Finnick's voice cry through the house. He's frantic.

"We're up here!" I call out walking out of the bathroom. He comes bounding up the stairs face sweating breathing hard. He grabs my shoulders and looks at me with a crazed expression.

"Where's Maggie?"

"In her room. Why?" But he doesn't answer. Instead he bolts down the hall and swings open her door, which frightens her waking her up screaming.

"Maggie." Finnick coos. He picks her up and carries her out rubbing her back softly. She calms down enough.

"Finnick?" He turns to me. "What's going on?"

"I can't explain right now, but we need to get you to your parents." He says then walks out.

What the heck is going on? I follow Finnick down the street in the winter air. I should have brought my coat, but I left it in Finn's room. My parents, Johanna, Greg, Annie being held by Haymitch and Grayson are out in the sqaure.

"Mommy!" Maggie cries when she sees Annie. Something about Maggie's voice instantly pops Annie out of her trance and she pushes through everyone to get to her and Finnick.

Mom and dad see me and are instantly around me. "Oh Katrina! We were so worried!" Mom cries.

"Are you okay? You're not hurt are you?" Dad looks at me with a stone expression.

"I'm fine dad. Now will someone please tell me what's going on?" Mom and dad stare at me.

"You didn't tell her?" They both question Finnick. He shakes his head.

"They're gone." Haymitch says gruffly, but with a hint of sadness.

"Who's gone?" I have a bad feeling I already know who they are.

"Jane, Peyton and Finn." He says, his blue-gray eyes meeting mine.

"And Gale." Dad says roughly. Johanna shifts uncomfortably.

"Why is Gale gone? And the others… where are they?"

"We don't know where they are. And we don't know why Gale's gone either." Haymitch says.

"Well we have to look for them! Get a search party or something!" I say urgently.

"We have. All over the district." Mom says.

"What do we do now?" Finnick asks.

"We go after them." I say forcefully.

"We have no idea where to start." Johanna says. She has a fire in her eyes that is only evident when she has a nightmare or someone touches her axe.

A pause ripples throughout the group. "Who do we look for first?" Grayson asks sadly.

"We know which direction Gale went, and I can track him, but I'll need help." Mom says. "We have no idea where the kids are." Dad rubs her back as she hangs her head a bit.

Then he says to no one in particular "If we find Gale and talk some sense into him-"

"He's gone completely mad! We can't talk any sense into that jackass!" Haymitch replies cooly.

"The jackass is my husband Mitch." Johanna shoots back. Then her face softens, "but he has lost his mind. I just don't understand what could possess him to go off like this." Mom moves out of dad's reach to comfort Johanna. She flinches when mom touches her, but eventually accepts the human contact. I'm still trying to process all this. Gales' gone mad and my brother, his girlfriend and my boyfriend are gone. What am I going to do without him?

Just then, mom looks like she's shot a deer; her face lights up with excitement. "I know!" She yells then runs up to our house. We look after her in confusion and Haymitch shakes his head smirking.

"Katniss wait!" Dad calls after her following her into the house.

We all wait in the middle of the street. Dawn just beginning to break in the east.

"Has something happened?" A soft voice calls from behind us. We all turn to find Madge with two peacekeepers – now they're just used as policemen, still trained in District 2 though.

Before anyone can say anything Johanna walks up to her, more like stalks. "Gale's gone mad and run off to god and Katniss only knows where with a knife. And my daughter, Mellark's son and mini Finnick are missing!"

Madge's face goes pale. "Gale's gone?" She asks shyly.

"That would be the only part you heard!" Johanna screams. "Our kids! Our kids are missing! But if you weren't eye-fucking my husband every chance you got you would notice that it's the kids we need back!" Finnick steps forward and picks Johanna up around the waist and brings her back a few feet. "Damnit Odair put me down!" She kicks and thrashes. Finnick sets her down carefully and Johanna adjusts herself turning back to Madge.

Madge's face hardens. "I won't deny that I have old feelings that linger for your husband and for your information I have never acted on them. However that's not how I meant it to come across, only asking if Gale was gone. I meant has he completely lost his mind?" We stare at her and Johanna, watching the tension between them heat up. Madge continues seeing as no one will answer. "When Katniss and Peeta when into the Quarter Quell, Gale tried to kill himself. No one but me knows cause I walked in on him. I thought he completely lost his mind. He was whispering nonsense and wanted to burn down his house. I calmed him down."

"I'm sure you did." Johanna sneers.

"Jo! Enough!" Annie barks. She looks at Madge who looks like she would really like to punch Johanna. "Sorry, it's been a long night for all of us. But Jo's right, we need to focus on getting the kids back." Then she looks at Finnick giving him a look of question, wondering if what she said was okay. He gives her shoulder a squeeze and a reassuring smile.

Dad returns from the house then followed by mom. She has a smile on her face considering the situation. "They're coming." She says. Now the smile looks a bit devilish, or Johanna-ish.

"Who's they?" Johanna asks.

"The only ones who could trace Gale besides me. And when tracking him, even I'm going to need help." Johanna's face suddenly lights up in realization.

"Yes!" She cheers. "Oh this is going to be good." She now has an evil Johanna smile on her face.

"Who the fuck are we talking about now?" Haymitch yells in frustration rubbing his head.

"Haymitch please!" Finnick yells nodding to Maggie who looks half asleep.

"The Hawthorn clan." Johanna says.

Madge's eyes bug out slightly. "All of them? Even Hazelle?"

Mom and Johanna share a look and nod their heads simultaneously. Gale supposedly bailed on them after the war leaving Rory to help take care of the family. Eventually they forgave him I guess, just like mom did. Gale's just too proud to ask for forgiveness. But there has always been a little tension between the Hawthorn's, mom and Gale. Barely any, but it's still there.

"So that solves the Gale problem. Now what about the kids?" Finnick asks.

"I made a call to Paylor asking them to keep an eye out." Dad says. "She said they would start a small search because we don't even know where to start."

"So now we wait." Johanna's shoulders drop a bit. "I hate waiting."

All of us go to the Hawthorne house and wait for the hovercraft carrying the Hawthorne's to arrive later in the morning.

(Six hours later)

"It's here!" Maggie yelled out from the windowsill. I forgot she was an early riser. I rub my eyes and get up from the couch. It looks like Johanna and I are the only ones who got some sleep. Weird, you'd think Johanna would be up all night. Everyone moves over to the window and watch as the hovercraft lands across town at the airport.

"Lets go meet them." Mom says ushering us out the door. We all ran into town and rushed to the designated hovercraft landing pad.

They had already unloaded, and there in a line stood two strong looking men and two women, one much older than the other. When they walked, you could tell that they were Gale's family. Then his mother, who was entering some of her final years from a near lifetime of malnutrition hobbled behind them.

The first and the tallest walked forward strong like a bolder. He had all of Gale's features, and if possible he might even be a bit taller than Gale. The only difference was where Gale's hair was dark brown; Rory's was a shade darker, almost black. He was wearing his commander's uniform; ever since Gale married Johanna, he quit his job as the head of all peacekeepers and after a few years, Rory took the position. He's been living in District 2 with his wife, and it sounds like they are expecting their first son after two daughters soon. Behind him stands a slightly shorter version of Gale with slightly lighter hair, Vick. Vick from what I heard has had a hard time settling down in one place with one woman. He was engaged, but broke it off for some unknown reason. Now he bounces between districts for his job to evaluate how the districts are rebuilding. Then stands a woman who has seen much, her dark hair has grayed with time, matching her silver eyes, she walks a little slower than the boys but is strong enough to hold her own. Then comes a young woman. Well, not my age young, but she looks about 20 instead of 30. Posy has her dark hair in a messy bun with a gold headband. Her mother's silver eyes gleam with excitement, and her fit body looks like she's ready to go for a 10 mile run. She works in some kind of lab to help with agriculture to grow faster or something, all I really know is that she goes back and forth between District 1 and 2 a lot; though the travel doesn't seem to affect her. Her bronze wedding band on her ring finger shines as bright as her smile. I remember her wedding perfectly. In the backyard of her husband's house with flowers everywhere, a waterfall in the back and everything glittered. Her husband was the heir of a wealthy man in District 1 who helped fund the rebellion when he could. Rumor was that he was related to the late Cashmere and Gloss. His dad's cousins or something, so he had the blonde hair and green eyes typically found there. Everyone commented that they would have beautiful kids. But after two years of trying and no pregnancies, they visited the doctor and he told them that Posy couldn't have kids. It was a sad time, but the doctor told them about adoption. So over the past five years they adopted a boy from District 11 and a girl from District 5, where Vick has supposedly made his current residence.

Mom rushes up and embraces all of them. They've only been here a handful of times after the rebellion. Mom then motions for us all to come help with bags.

"So, fill us in on everything." Rory says.

"Well, not everything unless you don't mind spilling details." Vick winks at mom. Hazelle slaps him upside the head. "Ow!" He complains.

"Perv." Posy says walking past him.

"I've been called worse." Vick smiles to himself as if recalling an old memory. Hazelle slaps his head again. He turns to argue with his mom.

"Behave." She says. Vick shuts up.

We all walk up to the Hawthorne's house and get them settled in. There are enough rooms to accommodate for them in the Victors houses so there's no need for a hotel. Mom and Johanna take turns explaining everything to them. When they are all caught up to speed, Rory stands up and grabs something from his shoulder blade. It was small and square shaped and it beeped.

"What's that?" Dad asks.

"GPS tracking device." Rory says.

Mom suddenly starts howling with laughter. "You had Gale chipped?"

Rory smiles. "Thought it might come in handy one day. Turns out I was right."

"When he finds out you are gonna be in such deep shit." Mom catches her breath walking over to him.

"You mean if he finds out." Rory corrects her.

Mom smiles. "This is going to be a lot easier than I thought."

"When do we leave?" Vick asks. "It's not every day I get to hunt my brother."

"We're not hunting him, we're tracking him." Posy says.

"Yea yea." Vick waves his sister off. Hazelle gives him a look and he backs off from his mom hiding behind Rory.

"So who all is going?" Rory asks.

"Katniss, Finnick, you all and I." Johanna says talking to the Hawthorne kids.

"When was this decided?" Dad asks. "I can help."

"Honey, your feet are too noisy." Mom says.

"But-"

"Shut up boy and listen to your wife." Haymitch says. Dad looks like he wants to protest but knows better not to.

"Alright, let's go." Rory says. And with that, all the Hawthorne kids, mom, Johanna and Finnick grab some gear Rory brought and head for the door.

Annie takes Maggie home with her for a nap. Grayson makes sure Greg is settled with Hazelle then goes off to see Maysilee. Haymitch passes out on the dining room table. Dad and I head home.

"I'm going to, go make, some biscuits." Dad says still a little sad he couldn't go along. I pull him in for a hug. He gladly hugs me back and kisses my head.

I head up for my room, but make a quick stop to the bathroom because a sudden retching feeling came back. But having nothing in my system nothing comes out. I decide on a shower and a nap. The hot water hits my body and my skin greedily soaks it up. Not bothering to dry my hair I crawl into some sweats and wrap myself under my blankets. Feeling my eyelids flutter I decide to give into their wishes and let myself float away expecting dreams of Finn. But none come.

The sound of shuffling and grunting from outside startles me. It's sunset now. Wasn't it just sunrise? This is going to fuck up my sleeping schedule. That's when I hear mom downstairs.

"Peeta!? Katrina?!" She calls. I put some proper clothes on and my coat and run downstairs. Dad beat me.

"What is it?" He asks.

"We got him." She says slightly out of breath.

"Where is he?" Dad asks urgently.

"Hawthorne house. But he's out of it; we don't know what's wrong. Posy drew some blood and is running the usual tests to check for any irregularities. But Peeta…" mom pauses, "something's wrong with Johanna. I don't know what it is and she won't tell me, but something is up with her."

"What do you mean?"

"When we were out there she had to stop for rests more, she even threw up once, and then she started freaking out at the slightest things. She was out of breath so much faster too."

Dad chuckles. "Well what do you expect? She's been out of the game for a while. I would be a little out of breath too."

Mom thinks to herself then waves it off. "Probably nothing." She mutters to no one in particular. Mom's not going to let this go though, I know her to well, and once she gets a weird feeling she doesn't easily let it go.

"Let's just get over there and see how it's going." Dad says.

We all walk through the door and I have to stifle a gasp. Gale is tied to a chair. He is dirty, unshaven, a little bloody, and his eyes look like black holes. Johanna can't take her eyes off him, but not in a good way.

In the kitchen Posy and Rory have set up some kind of laboratory and are running tests of who knows what on Gale's blood. I'm not sure what they expect to find, or if it would even help. At least they got him back home safe.

"How much longer?" Johanna asks her arms wrapped around her chest and tapping her foot.

"Not long at all." Vick comes and stands right behind her. Johanna tenses, grabs his arm and spins pinning it behind his back and pushes him to the floor in one swift movement. We all get up in alarm as to what just happened. Vick grunts underneath her but she remains on top.

"You know this could be really hot if you weren't my sister-in-law." Vick mutters. Johanna twists his arm even harder making Vick whimper.

"Come that close to me again, and you lose a testicle." Johanna replies coolly. Vick nods his head furiously and taps the ground with his spare hand. Johanna gets off him and smiles to herself then brushes off her shirt.

"Still got it." She says proudly. Mom looks like she wants to lecture her but instead lets is slide. Johanna takes a seat next to Hazelle on the couch and she and her mother-in-law share a smile.

"Not many girls can do that to Vick and get away with it." Hazelle says happily. "It's nice to see his smart ass get beat every now and then." Johanna lets out a small laugh.

"Whose side are you on anyway?" Vick asks getting annoyed.

Hazelle turns to her youngest son. "Johanna's threat has brought something to light for me. Your brothers and sister have all given me grandchildren. Put what I gave you to good use and give me more or don't have them at all."

Vick turns white. Mom and dad hold back a laugh. Johanna is eyeing the carving knifes on the table. Vick sees this and excuses himself. For a moment, people seem happy, but all that goes away when Gale makes a noise. A groan? It causes us all to look at him. Just sitting there making noises. After a few minutes Vick comes back in composure in check. Then Gale starts moving. Squirming around in his bindings, he keeps moaning and coughing, sometimes growling.

Posy comes back with the blood work, her gray eyes flutter with excitement. "He's been drugged." She says.

We all stare at her in shock, though she seems rather fascinated.

"By who? With what?" Johanna asks impatiently.

"I don't know who, but if you ask me, it looks like the new form of tracker jacker venom we have in the District 2 lab." Dad stiffens and his face goes white. Mom is instantly assuring him what's real and what isn't.

"Tracker jacker venom is illegal Posy! What were you thinking?!" Haymitch yells.

"Guess you have some competition for being brainless Brainless." Johanna side smirks at mom who rolls her eyes.

"Not this kind." Posy says. "This is made from scratch, no actual tracker jackers were used." We all stare at her in confusion. Then Rory steps up. Does he know about this?

"We were trying to locate different elements of the venom so that we could make," he pauses thinking "a kind of antidote that isn't given to people, but to the tracker jackers themselves turning them into normal wasps." Everyone is quiet.

"Does it work?" Mom asks shocked.

"We think so. But some when missing a few months back when it was still in the tracker jacker replica form. We never found out who it was." She hangs her head sadly.

Johanna's head snaps up "How long ago?"

Posy shrugs. "Maybe 5 months ago or so."

Johanna's face lights up. She's obviously caught onto something we're missing. And I think I have too.

"Can you tell how long he's been under the drugs influence?" I ask. Johanna smiles at me.

"I would probably say since late August or early September, but it wouldn't officially take effect until about a week after exposure, it's a knock-off after all. He would need a specific target too."

"Peyton and Jane." Mom says.

"What?" Rory, Posy and Hazelle ask. Vick just laughs moving out of reach of his mother's hand.

"He's always seemed to go crazy whenever he heard of Peyton and Jane being together." Johanna says.

Posy and Rory look at each other. "I guess that's possible." Posy shrugs.

"So that wasn't the real Gale. That was-"

"-a highjacked Gale." Dad finishes mom's sentence looking more calm than before.

"I think so." Posy says.

We all stop to take this in. Suddenly Johanna bursts out laughing. Everyone turns to stare at her. She starts turning red and grabs her stomach, when she looks back at our confused faces, she laughs even more. Hazelle looks worried, but a little curious.

"Mom?" Grayson approaches Johanna cautiously. "Are you okay?"

She stops laughing and becomes serious again. "Of course." She says.

"What was so funny about learning that Gale's been highjacked? It's no laughing matter Jo!" Mom yells.

"I just didn't want to bring another kid into this messed up world with an even more messed up husband." She says smiling to herself.

All the air is sucked from the room. Everyone's mouths are hanging open. "Guess he just couldn't get enough of you." Vick says holding back a laugh. Hazelle slaps him over the head harder than before.

"Jo? Are you pregnant?" Mom asks.

"I'm surprised you didn't figure it out sooner. You can be oblivious sometimes Brainless."

Mom shakes her head. "How far along are you?"

"About 3 months." Johanna says. "I think it's another boy." Her eyes show sadness again and she rubs her stomach. "You know… last night I was wishing it was another girl. Just in case Jane…" She trails off choking on sobs. Grayson is there to support her, doing Gale's job. "Damn hormones." She says fiercely.

"Jo you need some rest." Mom says.

Joanna nods. "I'm not the only one who needs rest." She mutters heading for the stairs.

"What do you mean by that?" Mom asks getting defensive.

Johanna smiles, and mischievously glances up at mom. "Truly oblivious." She says.

Mom stands there confused.

"I'm not the only pregnant woman here. But I doubt even she knows." Johanna says.

My heart stops. I'm sure I feel my face go white.

"But… I'm not… Posy can't have kids… and Hazelle has already…" Mom stops suddenly. But dad catches on quicker.

"Katrina." He growls slightly.

Everyone instantly turns to me, but before a word can be said I sprint out of there. I can't be pregnant! Can I? Finn's not here, what do I do?! I feel the light rain hit my face as I run outside into the woods. Branches hitting my face but I don't care. Don't stop. I can't breathe. Can't stop. Won't stop. Pregnant? I can't be! Well, I guess I could be, but, not, its… I… oh god… I am. And Finn might never know.