Disclaimer: All stories are individuals of themselves and are unrelated to each other.
"Katniss thinks I need to leave," Gale grunts. His eyes don't even lift to hers. "She thinks they're going to kill me."
"They wouldn't," Madge blurts out. She shifts on her feet and casts an uneasy glance over her shoulder before stepping all the way out onto the porch. "And you can't."
"If Snow is threatening my life I don't have much of a choice," he snaps. He has his family to think about. His siblings, his mother. Madge pulls her door shut and it clicks. "Is what she saying true?"
"What's that?"
"That the Districts," Gale starts carefully, "that they're rebelling." Madge chews on her bottom lip and drops his gaze again. "I knew it," he murmurs.
Gale steps backwards off of the Undersee's porch and shakes his head, starting toward the fence. Things are changing. They talk about it in the mines. Whisper about it in the Hob. But it's happening. It's actually happening.
"Gale," Madge rushes forward, grabbing his arm and causing him to halt. "You need to be rational, you need to think before you-"
"Before I get myself killed?" he growls. Madge drops her hand. "Time isn't on my side, Undersee, I can't just wait around."
She hesitates. "Just be safe, okay?"
Gale pauses again, staring at her with narrowed eyes. "You too."
A/N: Literally wrote this in the heat of the CF trailer omg I can't breathe