Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters or any part of The Hunger Games as they belong to Suzanne Collins. My story takes off from Katniss shooting the arrow into the force field at the Quarter Quell.
Part 1:
Katniss:
I woke up with a throbbing head ache. I looked around me with blurry eyesight and tried to make sense of where I was. It was dark and I was lying on a cold, hard, damp floor. I tried to move my arms but every time I tried it was excruciatingly painful. I couldn't remember how I had gotten here. I thought of the last thing I could remember; I was in the arena I had found Beetee, Peeta was calling me, I was trying to keep him alive, Johanna had severed my arm I was losing blood, I took my arrow and shot it into the force field. There was a blinding light and then, and then …. I don't know. What happened? Who survived? Thousands of questions raced through my mind, making my head throb. I tried to relax, everything will be fine, and Haymitch will come in here any moment now and explain everything to me. Yes, I'll just lay here and be patient, it's not like I could do anything any way. A large stone door that I hadn't recognised before opened, but instead if Haymitch stumbling through I found myself face to face with President Snow. His foul blood and rose scent wafting right in my face.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't the girl on fire. You and I are going to have lots of fun." He taunted, "Guards take her to the torture chambers."
I froze the what? I couldn't believe my ears. That's when I got hoisted up and dragged along the stone floor. I knew what was coming. Torture.
Peeta:
I was lying in a soft bed, I was holding on to something warm, I assumed it was Katniss so I pulled her closer to me. As I did however I realised that this was not Katniss, scrap that it wasn't even a human! It was a hot water bottle – how disappointing. I was waking up from what seemed a very long sleep, I was groggy and I could hear yelling not too far off. I wanted to shout at them to shut up and that some of us were trying to sleep but all I could manage was a mumble. "Peeta?" someone whispered.
"Katniss?" I replied hopefully.
"No, Peeta it's me Finnick."
"What are you doing here? Where's Katniss?" I asked fully awake now and panicking.
It was all coming back, how she had gone off with Johanna trying to put the wire in the water. Then something had gone wrong, the wire had been cut lose and everything went into panic mode. I had been calling for her and she had called for me sounding terrified, and Katniss was never terrified. I gazed at Finnick from my bed of comfort. "What's happened? Where's Katniss?" I gasped, needing answers.
"Haymitch told me to go and get him if you woke up." Finnick replied, with tears in his eyes.
That's when I knew something was up. I lay there in fear, waiting for Haymitch to arrive. I took in the room it was white, everything was white, the walls, the furniture, everything. It made my eyes hurt to look at it too long. Finally Haymitch arrived in the room, stumbling in looking as rough as ever. "Haymitch?"I squeaked daring myself to ask what had happened.
"Yeah it's me." He replied, surprisingly sober for once.
I saw the look of sadness in his eyes and knew that he was about to tell me something awful. "Haymitch," I continued in a surprisingly steady voice, "I need to know what's happened to Katniss and I need to know now."
"Are you sure your strong enough?" he replied the sadness creeping into cover his whole face.
"It's not a matter of how healthy I am I need to know." I replied, now getting uneasy.
"Ok just promise me this, we're trying everything we can to help her."
Now I was petrified. "I… I promise." I managed to stutter. Then he told me, the one positive thing I can say about Haymitch is that he doesn't hold back, he told me everything that anybody else wouldn't have. Katniss had found Beetee; she had tied his wire onto one of her arrows. Then she shot it into the force field. There was a blinding flash of light as the force field exploded. This had all been planned. It was a rebel attack. The other tributes had all known apart from the careers. After that the Capitol had come in a hovercar as well as the rebels, but the thing is they only had time to save one of us and since I'm better with words they picked me. It took a while after Haymitch had told me this for the devastating news to settle in. Katniss had been captured by the Capitol. I stared at Haymitch, he didn't meet my eyes. Finally I was the one to break the silence.
"Why?" Haymitch met my eyes and I could see the confusion in his face.
"Why what Peeta?"
"Why did you pick me? I thought you agreed with me to save her."
"No Peeta, I agreed for you to take my place in the arena."
"Yeah but still you must have had some reason to pick me." I retaliated.
He sighed "Before the start of the Quarter Quell Katniss made me agree that both of us were to save you. She said that since I saved her last time it was only right that I saved you this time."
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I felt tears prickling my eyes. That's when I broke down I started sobbing, my whole body shaking, through my tears I saw a doctor approach me. I felt a sharp pain in my arm and I blacked out.
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