Katniss and the Rebels
Chapter 15: Fashion and Fury
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Gale POV
Madge didn't arrive until half an hour after the phone call.
During that time I had somehow managed to drag Vick downstairs and got him to clean the dishes from lunch. I had convinced Posy to go back to her colouring book and had checked on Rory and Prim several times to make sure they weren't making out…I think they are aware of what I'm doing but hey, you can't be too careful!
After what seems like ages the doorbell finally rings.
Posy jumps up from her seat and rushes to open the door squealing, "I'll get it, I'll get it." I vaguely remember a time where I used to do that. Desperately hoping that it was Mr. Everdeen and that Katniss was with him.
I follow Posy and see her trying to reach the latch that opens the door even though it is way above her reach. I grin and lift her up high so she can reach it. She giggles and opens the door revealing a smiling Madge Undersee carrying two shopping bags.
"Madgey!" Posey exclaims reaching forward and almost following out of my arms in her attempt to hug Madge.
"Heya Pose" Madge hugs her gently smiling at me before giving her back to me and I let her down.
"Thanks for coming." I tell her awkwardly after she comes in and shuts the door.
"Hey it is no problem I wasn't doing anything anyway, you gave me an excuse to not do my homework for which I am grateful."
"Madge Undersee not wanting to do her homework!?" I exclaim dramatically
"Shush don't tell anyone"
We make our way into Katniss's kitchen and she puts her shopping bags on a chair.
"Sorry I am late. I had to get stuff, I know you said not to bring anything but I had all these clothes and things from when I was Posy's age that I never got rid of and well I'm not going to use them right? So I thought I'd give them to Posy if she would like them that is." She tells me nervously and I try not to look as shocked as I really am.
It is extremely rare in which anyone gives Katniss and me anything that's not for trade. I look at Madge who is watching me nervously and wringing her hands.
"Here how about I show you them first. I understand if you don't want them because well….anyway here they are."
One by one she takes out dresses, tops, jeans, shoes, hair…stuff as well as teddies and toys. The clothes aren't in perfect condition but are much better than Posy's current clothes. They all look like they would fit her as well.
I am now officially speechless
"I don't know why I never thought of it before to be honest"
I don't even let her finish her sentence, "Thank you"
She looks up and smiles wide, "Gale really I am glad to do this. And it was no trouble you will be doing me a big favour taking all this off me. There will be loads of space now for me to fill with stuff"
I laugh, "Yeah true."
"So where has Posy gotten to?"
"I'm here!" Posy squeals running in to the kitchen.
"I went to get you my picture I drew for you Madge!" Posy hands her the picture and Madge bends down and takes it and grins.
"This is amazing Posy. Did you draw this?" Posy nods enthusiastically
"Wow you are really good! Thank you so much!" Madge hugs her "I am going to stick this up on my wall the minute I get home." She says standing up and as she stands I get a look at Posy's picture.
Sure enough it is just a bunch of scribbles and lines but Madge seems really happy about receiving the picture.
"Hey Posy I found some clothes for you to dress up in how about you go and change and Gale and I can see how they look. We can have our own little fashion show!"
I doubt Posy even knows what a fashion show is but she grins all the same takes the clothes Madge offers her and thanks her profoundly before skipping off to Katniss's room to change.
"Thanks for that." I tell her as we sit at the table, facing each other.
"For what?" she asks her face frowning in confusion.
"The picture thing…you didn't have to do that."
"Are you kidding?" She asks raising her eyebrows, "Gale I wasn't lying I love this. And it is amazing for a five year old's drawing."
"Oh…sorry."
"It is grand we aren't all notorious liars like you Gale" She says mockingly
"Ah I wasn't informed of that."
"You need to socialize more!"
"I socialize just fine!"
"Sure you do Gale."
"I hang out with-"
"Katniss, Thom and Darius." She finishes smirking
"Right, yeah, ok maybe I do hang out with the same people a lot of the time but that's still socializing….kind of."
"Yeah I'm sorry you're right."
We are left in an awkward silence…great.
"So er would you like a drink?"
She nods shyly, "Could I have some water please?"
"Yeah course I'll get it for you." I tell her, standing up and getting a glass from the press.
"You're lucky we are in Katniss' house today." I tell her as I finish filling up the glass and place it down in front of her.
"Why's that?" She asks smiling curiously
"If we were in mine we would only have cups with Tomas the Tank Engine on them or Doc McStuffins." She laughs and I grin helplessly
"So are you working on this project as well? You are in Katniss' Home Ec class right?"
"Oh yeah I am."
"Who are you working with?" She frowns instantly
"A Career?" I ask
"Worse, Finnick Odair." Ah Finnick is alright enough. He came down from District Four a few years ago. He is the townie version of Darius basically, always flirting and trying to get out of work. Though I think he has a girlfriend but by the way he acts around girls you wouldn't think it.
"That sucks" I say genuinely
"Yeah it kind of does I mean I don't necessarily mind doing most of the work in a project but for this one we need to work together on everything. Our result is going to be included in the final exam results."
"He doesn't pay attention?"
"Oh no he does pay attention," I raise an eyebrow, "To his hair! He spends the whole class brushing his hair or doing his homework for his next class that he 'forgot' do to."
"God well I would help if I could but I can't cook…at all. Why do you think I have clung onto Katniss so much?"
We laugh and then we hear Posy running down the stairs.
I turn around so I can see when she comes in.
She runs in, giggling and twirling before she runs up and hugs Madge.
She's wearing one of the dresses it is pink (obviously) as well as light blue shoes and light blue hair-clip.
It suits her a lot.
"Thanks Madge! I love it!"
"You look amazing Posy! You know what you look so great I am going to just have to give you all these clothes won't I?"
Posy looks up at her wide eyed.
"Re-really?"
Madge nods and Posy tackles her into a hug again
"Thank you so much Madge, Gale was right you are really nice and lovely!"
Madge looks up at raises her eyebrows teasing at me to which I instantly turn away.
Why do children have to talk so much?
"It is no problem Posey and thank you as well. Why don't you try on something else now?"
Posy grins and runs back upstairs.
I cough awkwardly, wondering again why I had to have a younger sister.
"Em thanks again for the clothes they suit her…I think."
She laughs again, "Your welcome."
We stand there in an awkward silence for a minute before she says abruptly,
"I have an idea."
I raise my eyebrows, "I'm listening"
Katniss POV
I sigh in exhaustion. I can't wait to get home and put my feet up. Oh God that makes me sound so old. I should apologize to Gale I guess I shouldn't have yelled at him I know how hyper the kids can get.
I wonder briefly if he asked anyone to help him out.
Probably not knowing him but he did sound desperate. If he did he most likely asked Thom. I doubt he asked Madge. I don't even know why I suggest her to him she just popped into my head.
I'll find out when I get home I guess.
"Katniss clean table 6 will you?" I snap out of my dream world and nod at Ripper.
"Yeah, course."
Gale POV
"Right done" Madge says "That was easy!"
I am shocked but don't let it show, "Yeah it was." If she thinks searching through Katniss' cluttered attic, trying to find a bunch of stuff in less than 5 minutes is easy then townies are even weirder than I anticipated.
"She should be done any minute"
"Yeah"
I look around admiring our work (even though it is quite girly in my opinion but it's for Posy I guess and if you looked up 'girly' in the dictionary it would say Posy Hawthorne), we found an old dark red rug in Katniss' attic and have it laid out at the entrance to the kitchen.
We heard Posy coming down the stairs and Madge pressed play on her iPhone (of course). Posy strutted (something she learned from Vick no doubt) into the kitchen and gasped.
We didn't do anything much really, nothing fancy but Posy loved it none the less. Madge and I had managed to dust off the carpet and made it look like a red carpet (it being red and a carpet did help a lot) and we moved the kitchen table to the wall so there was space going down the centre on the kitchen that Posy could walk up and down on.
"Posy squeals and hugs me tightly then quickly moves to hug Madge.
"Wow oh God thank you guys so much this is amazing!" Posy can't stop grinning and it makes me wonder when the last time she was this happy was. This is most likely the first.
Madge smiles back at her brightly and tells Posy that she deserves it.
Then for the next two hours I was subjected to watching my sister try on each outfit and act like one of those Capital models. 10 minutes after we had started Rory, Prim and even Vick came in.
They all then rated each outfit out of ten while I sat in a chair, just watching. I probably would have fallen asleep but the music was (and still is) so loud it forbade me from doing anything of the sort.
Don't get me wrong I love Posy, course I do but I have absolutely no interest in clothes. Oh god if Darius ever finds out about this I will never be allowed forget it.
Posy leaves the room telling us that she only has one more outfit left. Madge gives me a look and I stand up from my chair and pull Prim aside gently.
Five minutes later we had everything set up. We had dimmed the lights, shut the curtains and brought down Prim's lava lamp that Mr. Everdeen got for Katniss when she was 6 years old and we placed it in the centre of the table. We don't have any fancy disco balls but this seems good enough.
It is weird and girly and very townie-like but it is for Posy.
It can be an early birthday present for her or something.
I look over and see Vick showing Madge his latest dance move, I can tell that Madge is actually interested in what Vick is saying to her, she isn't just faking it for him like many people do.
Maybe she isn't that bad after all….though I will deny I ever thought that.
Katniss POV
It is nearing the end of my shift.
I check my phone for the time and see that its 4:30. Half an hour left.
Just as I am about the put my phone back into my pocket it rings.
"If this is one of the guys annoying me I swear they'll pay" I mutter to myself before I answer it.
"Hello?"
"Hello Katniss?"
I am surprised to hear that it is not Gale it is in fact my neighbour Cressida.
"Hey Cressida, how are you and the family doing?"
Cressida married young to a man named, Castor who worked with her and they had young boy Paul (who they named after Castor's brother Pollux) in their first year of marriage who is a few years younger than me. Paul has been very unwell for the past few months unfortunately.
They are a lovely family, it is sad to see this happen to them but I try to help them in any way I can. Cressida has been worrying like mad about him and has been forced to quit her job because of it and so Castor is working longer hours now.
I have offered to look after Paul for a bit while she and Castor have a few hours off but she refuses as she wants to spend as much time with Paul as she can.
"Oh we are fine, good thank you. It is just… well I really don't meant to be rude but Paul has that operation tomorrow that I was telling you about. And it is just he was advised to get lots of rest but he can't really because of the music from your house and I am really sorry to have to ask this but is there any chance you could turn the music down? I know it isn't my place to interfere it is just Paul is so nervous about tomorrow he could really do with sleeping for a few hours."
I frown I have personally warned the kids and Gale to not make too much noise for the past few months because of Paul and they go ahead and blast music without any regard for the neighbours.
"Oh Cressida I am so very sorry. I am at the Hob and Gale is minding the kids I had absolutely no idea. I warned them not to make a lot of noise. I am heading home straight away and don't worry the music will be turned off immediately. I apologize this will never happen again I assure you. Whatever trade you want you can have for as long as you need it."
"Oh no don't worry you don't have to do that."
"Well I'll bake something for Paul in Home Ec. then? I'm going straight home now. Goodbye Cressida and sorry again and please tell Paul I wish him the very best of luck tomorrow."
"That sounds great thank you Katniss. I appreciate this I really do and I will definitely tell him Goodbye."
I hang up and run back to the bar where Haymitch is serving.
"Haymitch I am really sorry that was Cressida, apparently the kids are making tones of noise and Paul is trying to sleep you know for his operation? I'm really sorry I'll make up the time but-"
"Sweetheart relax! Take a chill pill, you go home immediately at worry about getting them kids of yours to shut up. The last thing that family needs is more worry. You get off I'll cover for you."
Haymitch eyes are soft as he looks at me and there is a ghost of a smile on his face.
"Thank you Haymitch so much." I take off my apron, grab my bag and run out the door.
There better be a very good reason as to what the hell is going on.
Gale POV
"I am so so sorry" Vick repeats as he attempts to hold Madge up.
"It is fine Vick, it was my fault" Madge says hissing yet she still tries to smile for him
Vick had been showing Madge the newest dance moves he had learnt and Madge (unlike most people) was genuinely interested in what he was telling her.
Unfortunately Madge isn't used to dancing at the pace Vick does and she ended up tripping over her own ankle.
"Is it sprained? Because if it is you have to go to the hospital" Prim says knowingly and I glare at her, the last thing we need is Madge stressing out over going to the hospital.
I walk quickly over to her and Vick, "Here come into the sitting room with me and I will take a look at it. There is one of Mrs. Everdeen's first aid kits in there"
I place Madge's arm around my shoulder and point at Rory and Prim,
"Will you two finish up in here?"
"Yeah ok Gale"
I look at Vick who is looking at the floor,
"Vick you go into the hall and look out for Posy after we leave."
He nods and I slowly bring Madge out of the kitchen and into the sitting room.
I sit her gently down on the couch laying the leg with her injured ankle on the coffee table under a blanket.
"How bad does it hurt?" I ask, searching the room for the first aid kit.
"It is fine." I give her a look
"Ok it does hurt….a good bit."
"See I know everything" I say winking at her and she laughs.
I find and take out the first aid kit from the drawer along with some of Mrs. Everdeen's old nurse equipment that is used for injuries.
I sit in front of her and place the kit and the equipment beside me being careful to not touch her ankle
"Now I am not a doctor, Catnip is the best at this sort of thing, even Prim could maybe do better but I have looked over the guys numerous injuries for the past few years and they haven't died yet. So I must not be too bad" I say smiling and she laughs nervously
"I can just go to the doctor tomorrow if it still hurts it's no big deal."
"Do you doubt my amazing doctor skills?" I ask faking hurt
"No, no of course not, I just don't want you going to too much trouble when we are meant to be doing something nice for Posy." She says her voice shaking slightly
"Hey, hey, hey it's all right Prim wouldn't mind she would be devastated if something happened to you. Just relax alright?"
"Yeah thanks"
"Great now let me make your injury ten times worse"
We sit in a comfortable silence while I lift her trouser leg above her ankle.
Madge hisses softly as it passes her ankle
"Sorry" I say gulping
After ten minutes I put the kit and Mrs. Everdeen's equipment away.
"Well? What's the verdict?" she asks
I take a deep breath,
"Well it's not a sprain or twisted thankfully it is just as bad as if you banged it off something. But if you do bang it off anything or press down too hard on it them it may twist more easily than it would normally. I think, again I am no doctor or anything but it definitely isn't a sprain or a twist."
"You sure?" she asks warily
"99.987% positive" I say brightly and she grins
"That's very precise."
"Well I am a very precise guy" I say grinning and sitting down beside her, "You should probably go home and rest."
"But-"
"No buts, I don't want you to leave but-"
When I say that we both blush furiously and I do something I never do, I stammer, "not that you know I need you to stay or anything. Not that I don't appreciate you helping out! I wouldn't have survived today without you! It is just em it was really nice having you around today but I mean you need to rest and you won't get much of that here with four hyper kids." Yeah ok breathe Gale.
Madge is smiling and nods, "Yeah you are probably right, I have all that homework to do anyway."
Home-oh yeah she mentioned that before, "Once you do it in bed that's fine with me."
"Whatever you say Doctor Hawthorne" She says slyly.
"So will you ring your dad to collect you?" I ask nervously, I don't want her to go (because the kids will be in a bad mood when she leaves, no other reason!) but she needs to get better but I don't want to seem like I am forcing her out the door either.
"Yeah I will. Could I use your phone please? I left mine in the kitchen." Now I can hear the blaring of the music from the other room, I had forgotten about that.
"Yeah of course you can" I say taking out my phone and handing it to her.
"Thank you"
After a five minutes conversation with her dad she hands the phone back to me.
"He will be here to collect me in twenty minutes."
"Ok"
We sit there awkwardly for a minute or two
"So Posy seemed to like the clothes" she says breaking the silence
"Yeah she loved them, thank you for them."
"Oh I needed to get rid of them anyway and I'm glad someone who wants them has them now. My mum was trying to get me to give them to my cousin but she's a real tom boy and would hate them."
"Like Katniss?" I ask grinning
"Exactly like her come to think of it" We laugh for a bit before Madge speaks again
"Thanks for checking my ankle over."
"Oh it is no problem, the kids are always getting injuries and doctors are expensive enough as it is without needing to go to them every week so thankfully Katniss inherited some of her mother's nursing skills not as much as Prim as but enough. My dad taught me some when I was young and then Katniss has taught me more over the years."
Ok Gale don't go giving the girl your whole life story!
"I thought about being a nurse when I was younger but that dream didn't last too long."
"Yeah no I would not like to be a doctor at all."
We talk about random things for a while then I gently remove the blanket from under her leg and put it on the back of the couch.
When I do I notice that Madge has something on her back,
"Here wait a second sorry I think you have something on your back. I'll get it."
I reach around so I am basically hugging her and get the wrapper off her back
"Here it is" I say and Madge and I laugh and she places her hands on me to push me away so she can see it, "Let me see."
But with all our laughing we didn't hear the front door slam shut and a figure appear in the doorway.
"Well isn't this cosy." A cold voice states and I look up to see Katniss standing in the doorway of the sitting room, completely and utterly furious, there is no denying that.
I realise that it looks like I'm hugging Madge very…em intimately and I pull away as fast as lightning.
I cough awkwardly and I can see Madge is as red as a tomato and I can see her eyes flash with worry and uncertainty at Katniss' arrival. She's not the only one either.
"H-hey Catnip" I say nervously looking up at her, ok what is it with me and stammering today? "You're home early."
She just glares at me, if looks could kill I wouldn't just be dead I would be straight in the coffin by now.
She turns on her heel and marches into the kitchen, I see Vick standing behind her, he looks terrified and I don't blame him. When Katniss Everdeen is angry, she is lethal.
I turn to Madge, "Don't move alright?" She nods and whispers, "I'm so sorry if I made her angry."
I stand and give her a reassuring smile, "Don't be sorry this probably has nothing to do with you anyway."
I hear the music shut off and my eyes widen, "Be right back." I say quickly running out the room.
I enter the kitchen and see Rory and Prim standing there in shock. Katniss is standing there, Madge's iPhone in her hand and is looking right at me.
I have no idea what this is about. Is it because I invited Madge over? When she suggested I invite her over did she mean it in a sarcastic 'you should never invite her over' way? Or is this because I hugged her? Surely she wouldn't be this angry just because I hugged Madge Undersee.
"What," Katniss starts slowly and deliberately, "do you think that you are playing at?"
What is she on about? She suggested I ring Madge for gods sake!
"I needed help and you suggested I ring Madge for help so I did." I say in defence.
Katniss looks at me for a long time, her face expressionless before she starts laughing.
Not the airy, happy kind of laughing oh no the deadly, you are dead kind of laughing.
"You think I am this angry and upset and disappointed because you invited Madge Undersee over to my house? You have no idea do you? Is that what you think of me? Really you think that little of me?"
She takes a deep breath and turns to Rory and Prim, "Can you two please go to your room please?"
"Katniss are you ok?" Rory asks and I look at Katniss more closely and I can see her eyes have brimmed with tears. Which she immediately tries to shake off and she grins at Rory, "Yeah, yeah I'm fine course I am can you two please just head up to Prim's room, maybe watch a movie or something."
"Yeah ok Katniss." Prim says, Rory is clearly worried about her but he leaves with Prim passing Vick on their way out.
"Vick? Do you want to go and play with Posy?"
"But she still has another outfit doesn't she?" he asks confused
Katniss' eyes flash with confusion and I jump in, "Tell her Madge has to go now and unfortunately she cannot see the last one but she will come over another day. Distract her for as long as possible will you? Maybe join Prim and Rory in their movie evening." Vick nods and leaves.
Katniss and I face each other and I can tell that she isn't just angry, she's furious, disappointed and upset.
"Is Undersee not joining us? She asks coldly.
I haven't heard Madge by her surname in years in fact I'm not sure she ever did.
"She em hurt her ankle dancing with Vick so she is resting, her father will be her to collect her soon."
She stares at me for a moment before asking, "So outfits? Were ye having a fashion show her something?"
How did she go from being furious to calm…..well she's a bit too calm.
"Em well yeah, Madge brought over a bunch of clothes for Posy that were hers when she was Posy's age."
Katniss closes her eyes, "She thinks we are that bad at taking care of our siblings that we don't give them clothes?"
My eyes widen, "No just Posy was at me to play dress up and then-"
"I'm not interested in that Gale!" she shouts, opening her eyes
"What I am interested in why the hell you had that music up so damn loud that I could hear it three streets away! What I am interested in is how you could be so insensitive to the poor boy who lives next door who is getting a major operation tomorrow!"
"What is she going on about-? Oh no…oh shit I am dead. Somebody kill me (well Katniss will probably take care of that) oh god no what have I done?
"Which I have told you about! Which I have warned you and the kids countless times about! How many times over the past few months have I said to keep the noise down so we don't disturb them? How many times have you or I gone to their house giving food? Gale I get that you were trying to be nice and whatever but come on that boy needs to sleep and to rest! And Cressida and Castor they need to think and rest as well! Tomorrow will kill them especially if something goes wrong! They are such lovely people Gale and they don't need extra stress"
She has stopped shouting but that doesn't mean her emotions have changed in the slightest.
I know the only reason she isn't shouting is because she doesn't want anybody to overhear us.
"I..I didn't-"
"You didn't what? Think? Damn right you didn't think. Next week you are going over there and apologizing. That boy, that family is one of the nicest around here the least we can do is return the kindness they have given us over the years."
I feel terrible, I don't know the family that well but I know Katniss does. I have heard her talk about them millions of times even before Paul became ill. I have spoken with Castor and Cressida a few times in the Hob and they are lovely people.
There is a knock at the door and Katniss closes her eyes again, "
Will you get that?" she asks her voice shaking.
I nod even though I realise she can't see but she seems to understand as she sits on the chair I sat in an hour ago. I take Madge's iPhone from where Katniss has placed it on the table.
I make my way to the door and open it to see Mr. Undersee standing there, looking worried.
"Gale! Hi is Madge here? Is she alright?" He asks frantically.
I have always thought Mr. Undersee to be a calm, quiet man. Never spoken to him much. I've never seen him anything like this before.
"Hello Mr. Undersee yes Madge is here and she will be fine. She just needs to rest and she can't put pressure on her ankle so I'll bring her out to you. I advise for her to rest in bed for the evening. I'm not a doctor or anything but that would probably be best just so there isn't the added chance of spraining her ankle."
He nods and I head back inside to the sitting room,
"Hey your dad is here?" Madge looks up at me with the same frantic look her dad had just a moment ago
"How is Katniss?"
"She is upset, angry, disappointed. It is not to do with you there's something else I'll explain another time. Text me to let me know you're alright and I haven't killed you with my doctoring skills." I joke as I place her arm over my shoulder again and bring her out to her father's car.
"Ok thanks for everything I hope Posy likes the clothes, I'll see you tomorrow."
I help her into her dad's car, "See you then" I say and she smiles before closing the car door and they drive off.
I turn and walk back inside the house to face Katniss.
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