Chapter 77

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VERY LONG CHAPTER!! 

Chapter 77

Gale's POV

Before I left 12 for yet another trip to a District in which to find Katniss, I promised Johanna that I would return back, unharmed and with Katniss. She had a doubtful look on her face after I told her, but I will try, because Hannah, Jason, Finnick and I have searched every District from top to bottom except 9 which is where we are headed right this moment. Katniss has to be there. She has to, or we will have to start over again and go over every District again in attempt to find her. There is a big pit in my stomach that tells me that she is dead and that's when we can't find her, but there is a bigger part in my heart that tells me she is there in 9 and that we will find her.

We arrive in 9 and we do as we have with every other District. Start at one side, and work our way through the houses, basements, apartment buildings, anything in attempt to come across her. That hope that I have in my heart is slowly fading as we get through the town and begin to get to the outskirts of 9. Two days past and Monday, the day that we said we would be back is coming upon us quickly. Tomorrow is Monday and I start to get worried with the fact she might be dead. What will Peeta do, he is already unbelievably unstable, and what would he do if she was dead? What would happen to Willow? Would he really be that selfish? No one knows. But I stop myself from thinking about that and about the day that we have planned. Just like all the other Districts, they have woods surrounding them, so that is our day plan today, to search the woods surrounding 9.

The day is long and hard with the sun shining down onto us making the walk in the woods unpleasant. We come across a big metal shed in the middle of the woods. It is curious to all four of us. We guard ourselves and go ahead to check out the place. With our guns at the ready, Jason bangs on the metal wall. "District 13 police. Open up." He yells. Hannah and I walk around the other side trying to find an opening. We find a door and Hannah kicks it down. In the dim room there are four people sitting at a table playing cards.

"District 13 police. Put your hands behind your head and get on the floor." Hannah yells as she walks into the room shoving them all off their chairs and onto the floor. I help by pushing them to the floor. With my trigger cocked and ready to open fire I yell at them. "Where is she?" I yell. "Who?" One of them says a little cockily. "Katniss Ever-Mellark. Now where is she?" I yell back. "Is that one of the remaining Victors?" One asks sounding really dumb. I kick him in the shoulder and point my gun to him. "Don't play stupid. We know you have her here!" I shout. I look up to Hannah and she gives me a wide eyed look saying 'we are not one-hundred percent sure'.

"Hannah. Gale." I hear Jason yell out to us. He must have found another way in because it is coming from within the shed. Hannah nods for me to go ahead and I meet Jason and Finnick standing next to a big door which has huge locks on the outside. Jason and Finnick look at me with worried and sad faces. Mist, of what I assume is gas, comes from the room and I cover my face with the gas mask that we had in our bags of things. I push through and look into the room. I see a white dress, stained with blood, ripped and wrecked. Olive skin with bruises, cuts, oozing scars, burn marks, scrapes and scars. Dark hair tangled together in knots with singed hair and bald patches. Hands in cuffs with a short chain that is attached to the wall. In the corner a body holds itself in a hopeless and lifeless manner. My anger is boiling over and I cannot contain my next actions. I storm back into the room where I previously was and point the gun at a girl with short, black, spikey hair laying on the floor with a smirk on her face as her hands are behind her head. Before I think about it, I shot her in the head letting out a loud gunshot throughout the whole shed.

Katniss's POV

I lay here hopelessly in the room I have been stationed for the last, who knows length of time. I hear a loud thud as it rings throughout the place I am in. There is yelling which I cannot make out follows the ringing of the loud thud. I try and move but the pain takes over my body. Next thing I hear the locks of the door opening and shouting behind the door. The next thing I know, mist is somehow coming into the room. It doesn't hurt me like the fog in the Quarter Quell nor does it leaves scars, instead it just floats mid-air filling the room. This is weird. Theo has already done his mental torture today and the mist has never revealed itself before. The door swings open and the mist is so thick that I cannot see who lies behind the door. Soon enough, the mist has filled my lungs and my eyelids drop and I cannot even stay conscious.

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