Reading: Catching Fire

A new summary of Catching Fire up until page 120. What's going on with this uprising?!

After the Harvest Festival Katniss heads out into the woods to the usual meeting place. She leaves Gale a leather ball of food, a flask of hot tea, and a nice pair of gloves that Cinna left behind. She keeps going leaving a trail he can follow, only the trail leads to the lake. Katniss is planning on telling Gale everything, but she can't decided if he'll show up or not. This part is confusing because it's an awkwardly place flashback, but Katniss returns (mentally) to the mayors office, when she finds Madge. They talk about the mockingjay pin and the species history. Katniss is constantly reminded of Rue every time she sees or hears a mockingjay. So, she's walking through the woods and reaches a one room, twelve feet square, concrete house. Inside she starts a fire and clears away all the snow that's managed to accumulate under the windows.
Shortly, Gale appears with a bow and a dead turkey. He won't accept her gifts because he's mad at her; at first he rejects the gloves thinking they're Peeta's, but takes them back when he learns they're Cinna's. Katniss can tell he's hurt and feels betrayed because she's now engaged to Peeta. She explains to him how President Snow threatened to have him killed and how she now has an escape plan. Katniss spills her guts out to Gale telling him everything from the moment she and Peeta were crowned winners till now. Her plan, as mentioned in the last reading log, is to gather all the people that mean most to her and to runaway. Gale thinks she's crazy but he says he'll still go with her even though it's going to be hard. Then, after saying that Gale drops the "l" word, that's right he finally tells Katniss he loves her. Aw he's such a good guy too! And being an idiot and confused about her feelings, Katniss only responds with 'i know.'
They sit trying to work out all the kinks in Katniss's plan. When she tells him of the uprising in 8, he immediately gets excited and asks for all the details. It's clear Gale's had enough crap from the Capitol because he begins to talk about starting his own uprising. The previous conversation was a total setback and she still plans to escape, with or without Gale.
On her way back home Katniss bums into Peeta and he offers to walk her home. He's such a gentleman! She tells him about the uprising and asks if he'll run away with her, and because he loves her, he says yes, but then he says he doesn't think Katniss will actually run away herself. In the square there's a whole lot going on. Peeta finds out first and tells Katniss to get out of there because a Peacekeep is whipping Gale. He's been bound to a wooden post, his clothes are torn away, he's unconscious, and his body is a "bloody slab of meat." Except it's not the normal Peacekeeper doing the whipping.
Katniss runs to Gale in protest and gets whipped on the cheek. Haymitch arrives pissed at the Peacekeeper because in a week Katniss was supposed to be modeling wedding dress and her welt won't heal by then. Turns out Gale was being whipped for poaching. He didn't say he was hunting outside the fence, instead he claimed the turkey slipped underneath the fence into the district and he killed it. A by-stander informs the Peacekeeper that the punishment for first offense doesn't receive whippings. People scoop Gale up onto a board and take him straight to Katniss's house so her mother can heal him.
At Katniss's house, her mother puts snow on both Katniss and Gale's wounds. She issues Gale an herbal concoction combined with sleep syrup to help ease his pain. Her mother and Prim bandage Gale's wounds while Katniss worries over him. Madge arrives with a cardboard box full of little vials that contain morphling. Mrs. Everdeen gives some to Gale. At the moment with everything going on Katniss wishes nothing had happened or that she had been killed in the games. Fora brief second Gale comes to and says a few words to Katniss, nothing special don't worry, and he's taken over by the drugs.

More coming soon, I promise! What will happen to Gale? Will everyone run away?