We gave Reed to my mother and Prim, along with a list of things Reed will need and the schedule we have him on before heading up to the hospital to say goodbye to Cinna and now we were sat at our base camp in the capitol.

Boggs was looking at the holo, trying to work out what route to take first. "We could take the most direct route to the capitol" he says "but that one has the most pods or we could skirt around the outside; either way, once we get close to the middle, the number of pods triples."

The squad, hungry for action, all decided on taking the most direct route but, even taking this route, was a little boring. Peeta, myself, Finnick and Gale weren't allowed at the front. It was up to Boggs, Jackson and Leeg one and Leeg 2 to wipe the area before I was allowed to take out a pod…from a distance…with my arrows…for the cameras.

We were a week in when I decided to sit down with Peeta, away from the group and tell him about my plan. "Well I knew that you wouldn't stick around for long" he sighs "I'm just surprised that you've told me rather than waiting for me to wake up and find that you've deserted us."

"I wouldn't do that" I say "we're in this together, that's what you said. I want you right by my side when I take Snow out."

He chuckles lowly "alright Katniss, we'll do it your way."

I think back to the games, when I wanted to break away from the alliance but Peeta suggested we wait. We waited and were almost blown to bits but then, that wasn't his fault. "When?" I ask him.

"When the opportunity presents itself."

"You going to leave me behind, Catnip?" Gale asks, I turn and find him standing just feet from us.

I sigh "do I have much of a choice?"

He smirks and shakes his head "the minute I find the both of you gone, I'll alert the entire squad and-"

"Fine, you get to come!" I snap

The next day, however, scuppered our plans of leaving. Whilst on a sweep of the street, Boggs steps back onto an unmarked pod which explodes and sets off two more; one skewered Mitchell as he was caught in a net with barbs and the other set off a wave of, what looked like, tar. Peeta and I grab what's left Boggs' body and run for the closest place of safety. A flat.

The door is slammed shut before the tar wave could get in.

"Katniss" Boggs whispers to me as everyone else is trying to figure things out "the holo."

I pass Boggs the holo and watch as he transfers it over to me before he dies. "Well now what?" I ask Peeta, holding the thing in my hands "I don't know how to use this thing!"

"Katniss, pass me the holo" Jackson instructs, coming over to me "now Boggs is gone I need to transfer it over to myself."

"He transferred it over to me" I tell her.

"What?" She frowns "why would he do that?"

"I'm acting upon different orders" I lie smoothly "from Coin, to assassinate Snow." Jackson stares at me for a moment; she wasn't happy about this. "I don't know how to use it" I tell her "can you show me?"

Jackson sighs in annoyance before snatching it from me and setting it up so that the map, with the blinking pods, were projected. "Still pretty spread out" she says "but these don't include the unmarked ones."

"Either way" Gale says "we need to get moving before the peacekeepers get here."

Everyone is in agreement so we walk for a few blocks before breaking into another abandoned apartment where we stock up on food, rest and lay low for a while.

A few hours later, we hear a chain of explosions before the TV starts up by its self. "It ok!" Cressida tells us as we start to panic "it's mandatory viewing; all of the TVs in the Capitol are set up to do that."

We watch as firefighters surround the building, we had been in just a few hours ago, as they try to control the fire that we hadn't started and then we were all pronounced dead.

"Well, that gives us a head start" I say, turning away from the television "we'd better get going soon before they don't discover our bodies." I allow the others to rest up. We grab some food, eat and shove the rest into our packs. As we were just thinking about leaving, the TV turns back on to show Snow before Beetee flicks a switch and Snow is replaced by Coin who was chatting some crap about how monumental I was to the cause and how I miss be missed but to carry on fighting so that I didn't die in vain. "I had no idea I meant so much to her" I rolled my eyes, throwing my pack onto my back.

"Reed" Peeta whispers, knowing that, because everyone thought we were dead, they'd be making plans for Reed. I wasn't worried, my mother and Prim already promised me that they'd take care of him but, it seems that Coin had other plans. "Katniss" he moans, pointing up at the screen.

I turn to see that the camera has panned out and now shows Coin holding our son as though he were hers. "What the hell?!" I shriek, moving closer to the TV, listening carefully.

"I promised her and Peeta that their son would want for nothing" she says "it is my job to take care of Reed Mellark, the new face of the rebellion for, without his mother, we would never have gotten this far!" Then she's gone and I'm left staring at the blank screen feeling more pissed off than ever.

"Oh the hell she will" I snarl, turning to the others who, if I'm not mistaken, all took a step or two back…as though I was about to explode. "Get up, get your packs on and let's go!" I snap "we're finishing this one way or another!". No one argued.

Behind me, as the bugs discard their bulky camera suits, I hear Finnick sing "someone's gonna get it" under his breath.

I smirk a little at his words as I think 'she is so dead.'

We descend underground through the maintenance tunnel in the middle apartment with Pollux as our guide. By going lower, we were hoping to cover more ground as well as avoid the majority of the pods. We walk for far longer than we should, Peeta and I up the front with Jackson and Gale close behind, before we finally decide to stop in a room filled with pipes and loud machinery.

I volunteer to take the first watch whilst the others rest; it gave me a chance to gather my thoughts as well as look through the holo.

It seemed funny to me that it had always been Snow at the top of my hit list when I should have been focusing more on Coin; true, she things that both Peeta and I are dead, but he should have been given to my mother to look after, Coin shouldn't have taken him away from them. God only knows what she did to them to get him! I'm not worried about him, I know that Coin won't hurt my son; she may exploit him and tear him away from his family but she'd never physically hurt him.

Baby stealing wrench.

I kick a pipe, causing myself more harm than the pipe, before Peeta crawls over to sit with me. "You should be sleeping." I say.

"He's my son too, Katniss; aren't I allowed to be worried?"

"Of course" I say "but there's nothing to worry about. I'm not worried about Reed but I am rather angry at Coin."

Peeta nods "yeah, so am I, but aren't you worried that she's done something to you mom, Prim and Haymitch?"

I shake my head but then think about it and shrug "I'm trying not to think about it plus Cinna should be up and about now, he'll never let anything happen to them. Let's just focus on completing the mission alive, ok?"

"Then we can get our son back and teach Coin a lesson she won't forget" he finishes darkly.

I smirk "couldn't have said it better myself."

Peeta finally succumbs to sleep, leaving me alone again, but not for long.

"Katniss"

It sounds like a hiss, like the way my name would sound on demon tongues.

"Katniss"

I didn't need to hear it a third time before I get everybody up. "They know we're alive" I tell them, rousing them roughly "we need to move!"

The smell hits us only yards from the room we'd just vacated. Roses. Focusing on Coin and my son was all I could do to not lose my head.

We lose Messalla first, caught in a beam of light and then his flesh melts like candle wax. We lose Jackson and Leeg 1 and the meat grinder, they stayed behind to hold the mutts off so that we could get away. Then, just as we find a way that takes us back above ground, we lose Castor and Homes. Finnick is the last up the ladder, after Gale, before I whisper 'nightlock, nightlock, nightlock' to the holo and drop it down where it explodes, showering us in human and mutt remains before Pollux slams a cover over the pipe and locks it.

I place my hand on Pollux's shoulder for a moment before whispering that we should continue.

Through some stroke of luck, we make it to a small clothing shop, just off one of the main streets in the Capitol. The owner, Tigris, used to be a stylist for the games; Cressida assures us that we can trust her and she's right. We're given a good hiding place, in the cellar of the shop, food, warmth and supplies.

We stay there for a few days, until we're well rested, before we decide to start moving again.

"One more night" I say to the others "we'll leave tomorrow."

"Final stretch" Peeta says to me as we curl up under a pile of furs "it'll all be over this time tomorrow."

"I really hope so" I sigh "I think that I've had enough excitement for a life time."

He chuckles, kissing my neck before pulling me into him and wrapping his arms around me.

Tomorrow is where the future begins. Regardless of my success.

Sorry if this part sounds really rushed! I didn't want to skip the entire bit so I just skimmed through it. Tomorrow is where the real fun begins!