Peeta opened his eyes to a bright luminescent light, he could hear the low humming of an engine and the high pitched rhythmic beep of the machine. He tried to sit up but his efforts were met with the force of strong hands pushing him back down. He tried to fight the arms. He screamed for help. "Get off me! Let me go!"
Peeta thrashed his legs and hands ripping the needle out of his arm, fresh warm blood trickled to the floor.
"KATNISS…KATNISS". All he could think about was whether she was safe. He had seen the arrow flying through the air, seen it strike the force field, felt the flakes fall burning his skin like fiery petals from a burning flower. As he had lay there stunned, he felt something grab him from the sides, as he tried to move he felt himself lifted up, as if gravity had failed. As he was lifted up he remembered seeing Katniss lying motionless on the ground, her bow still clutched in her lifeless hand. He remembered calling her name. Screaming at her to wake up, to run away. Higher and higher he went, from where he was he could see the peace keepers, guns in hands flood into the devastated arena, they surrounded Katniss, they moved closer to her, encircling her. Before Peeta lost consciousness he saw them lift her off the ground, saw her limp body being transferred into the back of a white truck.
"Peeta calm down" Haymitch said has he tried to push Peeta down onto his back. Hearing the voice of his mentor Peeta relaxed a little, he looked up into the tired eyes of a man who had seen far to much hurt in his short life.
"Where is she Haymitch, where is she, you promised you'd save her. You promised"
"Peeta I tried" Haymitch replied, the pain in his voice all too noticeable. "When she hit that force field it all happened so fast, we found Finnick first fighting off a peackeeper, we grabbed him and continued looking. At this point Snow was on the attack, he was sending in peacekeepers quicker then we could ever have imagined. You were the next person we found, you weren't moving, Katniss was about 100m across from you, I tried to get to her I promise, but the peace keepers were too fast, they surrounded her, there was nothing I could do, Coin told us to pull out. I'm sorry Peeta…..im sorry".
It took a minute for Peeta to digest what he has just been told. Snow had what he wanted, she was his only threat, she was the one that turned the world against the capitol.
"What! Haymitch you promised, you said you'd save her, she's what snow wants, you've handed him the bullet all he has to do now is pull the trigger!"
Peeta threw all his body weight into the effort to get free from the hands that held him down. Haymitch went flying across the room, his back slammed into the wall, knocking the breath out of him.
Peeta fled into the corridor. He didn't realise how unsteady he was on his feet, he crashed through the double doors into what looked like a control room. Finnick was stood looking out of the window of the hover craft, next to him stood a women with grey hair, when they heard Peeta crash through the doors they turned, Peeta had crumpled in the corner, sobs made his weak body shudder.
"Peeta" Finnish exclaimed as he made his way over to the cowering body on the corner. "its ok Peeta, its ok we'll get her back, once we are at 13 we figure out a way".
"Wait….. What?...13?" Peeta lifted his tear stained face to look directly in Finnicks eyes, confusion clear to see.
"I'm sorry Peeta" finnick said as he took hold of Peetas shoulders.
"There is no district 12"
