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Chapter 1; Blood and Roses
President Snow's POV
The aroma of blood and roses spread around the room. Our scientists in The Capitol had been researching past torturing methods and they had found one. One that would alter any good memories and turn them in to an inescapable nightmare.
Hijacking. That was the form of torture. This would be the best form of torture, as in theory it would torture Katniss as well. I walked to one of the mansions and elevators and entered the number of o go to the cellar. When I got there I walked to cell twenty-two, this was Peeta's cell.
Heavy breathing could be heard through the door as I slowly unlocked the padlock. When I walked in Peeta was chained to the wall with several tubes in his left arm, injecting the venom. A clip was being projected onto the wall across from him and blood was dripping from his wrists. "Hello." One single word was enough to rattle him, he flinched to see a dark figure. "What. Do. You. Want. Snow." He replied. "Just passing through." I saw liquid running through the tube, it was a yellow grey colour. That must be what the venom looks like.
Peeta looked paler than days before, I assumed that the hijacking was happening at accelerating rates, happening all of the time. I guess the torturers are being efficient, guess they get to live. Peeta was shaking as the video played, and I could only imagine what he was seeing. I started into a wild fit of coughing coming from nowhere, and some blood started dripping down my chin. Crap, maybe I should go see the mansions doctor. I walked out of the room as silently as possible to the infirmary. I guess this makes some sense, I am older, maybe I'm finally close to death.
I laid down in a bed in the emergency care room and waited for a doctor to come. I didn't have to wait long however, and almost instantly I was being treated by at least six doctors. One of them stuck a needle into my arm, and instantly I fell into a hazy world, and more doctors seemed to be putting things in my arm and on my fingers and I fell into a dreamlike state.
In this world I was wandering around in a seemingly endless hedge maze, and every turn I got to a demon of my past jumped out at me and tried to drag me away. There were white roses in the bushes, and I picked one. White. Nothing says perfection like the colour white.
As soon as I turned and started walking again something spoke to me, in a deep raspy voice, it made me jump as soon as I heard it. It was the voice of my dying father. "Coriolanus, Hope; it's the only thing stronger than fear. Remember that my son." and then he disappeared back into the hedge maze. I screamed for him to come back "DAD! DAD! COME BACK! Come back. Come ba-ack." I wept into the darkness and felt true loneliness.
