Peeta woke up to find Katniss curled up at the foot of the sofa in his living room. Haymitch had taken their parents out to District 2 for dinner, something he did only when he was in a good mood. For safety reasons, they made them stay in one house. Prim was tossing and turning in a small chair by the fire, with a green-and-tan striped blanket tucked around her tiny body.
He heard a noise. Sounded like a their parents were home! He nudged Katniss. "Wake up, our parents are home."
Katniss groaned and stretched out, accidentally punching Peeta in the nose. "What was that for?" Peeta complained. "Oh, sorry!" Katniss giggled. When Peeta got mad, his face crinkled up in a weird way.
There was a knock on the door. Peeta stood up and walked over to get the door, when, not his parents' faces did he see, he saw Cinna. "How are we doing over at the Mallark residence?" He said in his tone that crossed between mysterious and angry.
"Just fine. Katniss just woke up."
"Is Prim here?" he asked nervously.
Peeta pointed to the lump of blanket in the corner.
"Crap. This living room is the only place in the house not bugged, so we need to find a way to get her out of here. I am pretty sure her ears are too fragile to hear the news I need to tell you."
Katniss awakened suddenly, after drifting back to sleep. "Cinna! What are you doing here?"
"I need to tell you something." He said in a hushed voice.
It was then that Katniss remembered that the house was bugged. She nodded her head and helped carry Prim up to the top level and plunk her into the first bed they saw. "Sweet dreams, little duck." She whispered.
Cinna then pulled the two into the passageway that connected the Victors' homes. "I have horrible news. Snow just ordered that victors are eligible for the new games. The bad ones."
Peeta and Katniss both gasped.
"The NEW games? There are only 12 people from each district in the reapings for the new games! And, of course they would love the drama of making the victors compete again!"
A tired Prim came downstairs. "What is all the racket downstairs? I heard something about the new hunger games. What is the new hunger games? What are the doing with Katniss?" She almost yelled the last bit. Prim had never seen this angry before. Cinna tried to calm her down. "The new hunger games is a quest for an object, not a fight to the death. The tributes are still armed with weapons, But technically they don't have to kill anybody. There are tweleve peple from each district put into the drawing. We just found out that victors are going to be put in the drawing too."
Prim started wailing. "She IS going back to fight, I know it, I just know it!" She ran back into the house, and you could hear her sob the whole way back up the stairs and into the house.
"Hopefully the capitol will have the decency to not put us back in, but I am sure they won't. I mean, afterall, we are talking about the capitol, not happy-smiley-face-land." Peeta rolled his eyes.
"So does this mean we are going back in?"
She got a muffled reply in return. "Yes."