CHAPTER 4:

"Rose, take Peter and get out of here!" her mother ordered.

"But-..But-" Rosie said. "I can fight! Let me help you!"

"Just get out of here!" Katniss snapped as she shot explosive arrows at the jet's direction. "There's too many of them! We need to retreat!"

Rose grabbed Peter by the helm of his shirt and ran. Everything was a daze of explosions and screams. Fire singed the meadow as Rose and Peter ran along with the crowd. It was a stampede and bombs dropped everywhere. Katniss and Peeta covered as much citizen as they could. Rose and Peter had reached the fence. Rose pulled Peter behind a thick tree.

"What are you doing?" said Peter. A few yards away, Rose saw a little girl with a bloody leg. She was crying desperately for her mother who seemed to be sleeping on the ground with an little hole on her forehead, gushing out blood.

"We cant just leave her!" Rose said, pointing at the little girl.

"But Mom said-" Peter started.

"I don't care what Mom said!" Rose snapped and ran out into the meadow with Peter screaming for her to come back. Fire fell from the sky and she ran as fast as possible. She reached the little girl and scooped her up into her arms. The little girl struggled against her, wanting to go back to her dead mother. Rose stumbled on a rock and they fell. She bit her tongue and the little girl cried out in pain. A blinding light came from above her. She looked up and hooks shot out from the sky. She skittered out of the way but one pierced the little girl deep into her stomach. The little girl stopped breathing almost immediately. In rage, Rose grabbed her bow and shot an arrow towards the direction of the jet and she heard someone cry in pain and a man in uniform fell a few feet away. She got up and tried to run.

"ROSE!" she heard someone cry. Her father. A second later, a body hit her and she was down on the ground again. She hit her head on a rock and for a moment, everything seemed fuzzy. Her vision doubled and by the time it returned to normal, her father was floating. His eyes closed, his shoulder drenched with blood from where the hook had pierced him.

"DAD!" Rose screamed. "NOOO!"

She saw the hook that pierced the little girl. It was still there. She ran for it but strong arms gripped her, dragging her back.

"LET GO! DAD! NO! PLEASE! MY DAD! LET GO OF ME!" she screamed as she struggled to break free of the hold. She watch as the hook dangled her father around, retracting inside the jet. "NO! DAD! DAD!" she screamed as she saw her father dragged inside and gone.