A/N: Hey everybody, I'm back! I'm very sorry I did not start this sooner, I've been just so busy. I hope you forgive me. Well here is the sequel to a Dangerous Change. Warning: this does have some graphic parts in this chapter. Here we go. I now present the first chapter of A Strangled Cry.
It's been days since the encounter with Snow. I've barely have had anything to eat and when I do, its always stale and mold covers it. I've been beaten to a pulp and I can barely move.
The day that Snow told me my family died when they bombed 12 was devastating. I did everything I could to keep them alive, and now it was all for nothing. Prim...she has been fresh in my mind the last few days. I did everything! I volunteered when she was reaped, I made sure she always had something to eat, I loved her and was always there to protect her, I did everything to save her but in the end I just wasn't there. Peeta...my life. He was taken away forever as well, again at the hands of Snow. It seems as though I have nothing else to live for...but I do, I have this little life inside me, Peeta's child, this child is all I have left of him and I won't let anything happen to it.
On the first night, I saw Johanna. When I first saw her, it almost made me sick.
I was being carried by a guard after my violent attack on Snow, I'm thrown in my cell and that's when I see her. "Johanna?" She looks towards me and that' s when I really see her. Her hair has been shaved off, she has lacerations and bruises everywhere. Are those bite marks? I am so disgusted right now. I crouch down next to her.
"Johanna, what did they do to you?"
"What do you think?" She says with an edge in her voice.
"Johanna...how did you get those bite marks?
"Snow told me that if I wanted to act like a bitch, then I should join them." She says.
I just sit there with a look of understanding. I feel numb, hollow inside. This is what my life will be like until, either the war ends, or I die, whichever comes first.
I hear a set of footsteps, I already know its a Peacekeeper. I can see out of the corner of my eye, Johanna shaking uncontrollably, fearful that they could be here for her. But I know who there here for...me. "Miss. Everdeen." I barely make it up. I just do what they tell me to do, maybe if I'm good I won't be tortured as badly. I know this is a false hope, that is just not going to happen. They handcuff me, push me up several flights of stairs, walked down a couple of halls and pushed into a white room and in the middle of the room is a restraint chair. They push me down, restraint me and walk out the room. I'm alone for five minutes or so, then the face of evil walks in.
"Hello, Miss. Everdeen." I see that he has a black eye. Good, I'm glad I left him a mark! "You haven't been telling me the truth Katniss." Oh no! He knows. I guess he was going to find out eventually. "When I asked you before you're interview, if you really were pregnant, what did you tell me?" I don't answer, which is rewarded with a cold slap in the face. "What did you tell me?!" He yells. I finally give him an answer. "I said no." " Yes you did indeed tell me no. But I found out that you were lying to me!" He slaps me again but with more force. "I have plans for you Miss. Everdeen. I'm going to have that thing remo-"
"No!" I interrupt. "Please don't, I'll do anything you ask of me, just please don't kill my baby."
"One screw up...and its over." And with that he walks out the room and a set of peacekeepers walk in with a assortment of torturous devices.
One of them walks up and punches me right in the face. Another burns me on my arm with piece of hot metal, he holds it on there for a few seconds and I scream out in agony, and when he removes it there is a large blister with blood surrounding it. After about an hour with many beatings and burns all of them leave except the head. He walks over while undoing his belt, he takes it and slaps me in the face several times, each slap, I cry out in pain. Then he throws the belt on the floor and removes his pants, leaving him exposed. No! My mind screams at me. I struggle trying to break free. He walks up and forcefully pulls my underwear down because that is all I'm wearing. "No, Please don't, please!" I try to plead but that is going to get me nowhere. He sits down on my lap. I'm shaking uncontrollably and shaking my head back and forth and trying to break free but deep down I know that there is nothing I can do to stop this. He pushes himself inside me and I scream, not in pleasure, but in pain, its a blood churning scream. He is taking his time, I just wish is was over. I feel as though a part of me has been taken away from me because of him. Sex was a special thing between Peeta and I and now that's broken, shattered like broken glass. He pulls himself out of me, stands up and puts on his pants. I'm so shaken and numb that I don't realize that he has put my underwear on and has a bat in his hand. I feel the immediate pain, and then I see darkness.
A/N: I know, it was pretty graphic. I don't want to be that writer who skims over the violence, so you know it happened but you don't know what happened. I think (hope) that I will have chapter 2 up next Thursday. Please review and let me know how this was. Thanks for reading!