Undoing
* Sorry for the suckish title, my friend made it up
Disclamer : I own none of these characters (I wish I owned peeta though) and all rights go to Suzanne! blah blah blah *enter more legal stuff here* I used some parts of Catching Fire because I wanted to show how It was like in Peetas point of view and I tried to put every detail Katniss saw from Peeta's P.O.V :)
Prologue:
Taken
Beetee and Finnick are on opposite sides of the tree, attaching wire around it back and forth. Katniss, Johanna, and I stand guard just in case any intruders come by. I look at what Beetee and Finnick are doing, and I hope Beetee planned this out well, but who am I to judge? I know nothing about electricity, so hopefully Beetee knows what he's doing. They finish wrapping around the wire on the tree when the wave starts. Beetee comes over and tells us his plan. Since Katniss and Johanna move quickly and quietly through the trees, he wants them to go unwind the wire through the jungle. I don't want to separate from her, I planned she was going to win, and I had to be next to her to protect her.
"I want to go with them as a guard," I say immediately.
"You're too slow, Besides, I'll need you on this end. Katniss will guard," says Beetee. "There's no time to debate this. I'm sorry. If the girls are to get out of there alive, they need to move now." He hands the coil to Johanna. I try to keep my calm. They wouldn't kill off Katniss like this. Would they? You can't trust anyone in the games though. I was about to complain when Katniss speaks.
"It's okay," She tells me. "We'll just drop the coil and come straight back up,"
"Not in the lightning zone," Beetee reminds Katniss and Johanna. "Head for the tree in the one-to-two-o'clock sector. If you find you're running out of time, move over one more. Don't even think about going to the beach, though, until I can assess the damage." I decide to let Katniss go. She'll come back quickly anyway. She takes my face in her hands. "Don't worry. I'll see you at midnight." She gives me a kiss, and I want to object, but she turns around to Johanna. "Ready?"
"Why not?" says Johanna with a shrug. She seems annoyed. "You guard, I'll unwind. We can trade off later." They run down the slope.
I sigh and lay on a tree. Hopefully nothing will happen to Katniss.
"Peeta!" yells Beetee. "Come over here."
Reluctantly, I walk over to Beetee and Finnick. "Finnick is going to help me carry this rock away from the tree. I'm afraid it might cause some disturbance with the lightning. I need you to check if anything happens to the wire."
"So, I just baby-sit the wire?" I ask.
Beetee smiles "Sure, just baby-sit the wire. We won't take long."
Finnick walks over to me. I hope my face wasn't that easy to read.
"Don't worry. Nothing is going to happen to Katniss. We have it all planned out."
"Thanks." I say "But seriously, I'm fine."
"Sure." Says Finnick, using heavy sarcasm. Beetee and Finnick start walking over to the rock and then start lifting it up while I stare at the wire. "Everything's fine." I tell myself. "Nothing bad can happen in such a short amount of time." By telling myself this, It makes me calmer. I look at the sky. It's dark. I dislike the temperature of this place. It's very humid and warm. It's my least favorite type of weather. Beetee and Finnick toss the rock in the water. I look back at the wire. My blood turns cold. The string is slack. Not as strong as it was before. Someone cut the wire.
"Beetee! Finnick!" I scream. "Someone cut the wire!"
"What?" says Beetee, in shock.
"I'm going to find Katniss and Johanna!" Screams Finnick, running like a mad man into the jungle. This surprises me. Surely he doesn't care about Katniss, right? He seems overly worried about her. I don't know if I like it. I take out my knife, predicting a fight. Someone not very far away must have cut the wire. Katniss! Where is she! She's not dead yet. No cannon has been fired. But it's a matter of time before someone dies. Turning to run into the jungle, Beetee grabs my shoulder.
"Don't." Says Beetee "Finnick is trying to find Katniss and Johanna. He has a better chance than you to find them." I shake his hand off and start running. I'm so stupid! How could I have let them separate me from Katniss! I had to be next to her, no matter what! What if this was all a trick? To make us trust them, then separate us to kill us. That seemed like a lot of planning on their part, but I wouldn't put that behind them. I run, trying to follow the wire.
I hear Finnick shouting "Johanna! Katniss!". Then I hear a cannon. Someone died. Please
Please don't let it be Katniss. I run faster. I search for my knife. It's not there. I probably dropped it! I keep running, faster, faster. I will my legs to go faster.
"Katniss!" I shout. "Katniss!"
"Peeta!" She screams. "Peeta! I'm here! Peeta! I'm here! I'm here!"
She's screaming too much. She's going get people to notice her. I try to search for her, but can't see her. I try to follow where I heard her voice. The insects are getting dangerously quiet. I see Enobaria and Finnick at the lightning tree. I don't care if they can see me anymore. I have to get to Katniss.
A cannon fires.
"Katniss!" I yell even louder. "Katniss!"
No response.
I want to curl up and die. Why should I live if she died. It's all my fault. It's my fault I let them separate us. She could have been alive if it wasn't for my stupid choices. We should've broken the alliance when we had the chance. I should have listened to her! All of a sudden, I see Katniss. She was hiding. Relief fills my body. I start running towards her. She pulls her bow up, hitting the force field. Sparks run up the wire, paralyzing her. I yell.
Darkness is all I see when I fall.
Chapter 1:
I feel weird. I have no idea if what I see is real or just a dream. A hovercraft is above me. What just happened? Did Katniss just blow up the arena? Thinking hurts, so I just stop. I let the claw that drops from the sky carry me. It freezes me, Just like the claw that picked us up from the other Hunger Games. Why are they picking me up now? Has everyone died instead of me? Have I won The Hunger Games? Very unlikely. Is this the capitol, just trying to torture me? Plutarch Heavensbee appears before me. So, it is the capitol? The head gamemaker didn't like how The Hunger Games played out, so now he's going to torture me in front of the whole Panem? Fine by me. Better me than Katniss. I want to close me eyes. I don't want to see anything. As if he's read my mind, he closes my eyes for me. I fall asleep.
I'm on a padded table, with tubes in my arms. I have a thin sheet of clothes on me. My old clothes are on the chair. I stay still. I'm too shocked to do anything. Why am I here? At least I'm not alone. Beetee lies in front of me, Which confirms my theory that I didn't win. So, again, what are we doing here? I fall asleep again.
I don't have tubes in my arms anymore, thankfully. I try to sit and get over comed by dizziness that I lay down again. Haymitch comes in the room. Haymitch! So, it's not the capitol either.
"Well," Haymitch says "Sleeping Beauty finally awakes."
This annoys me. After all I've been through, he still has the nerve to be sarcastic and drunk.
"What am I doing here?" I say in a small voice. I cough to clear my throat.
"What am I doing here?" I say more forcefully.
He explains the plan about trying to keep us alive in the arena and how everyone agreed to die for us. That explains the morphling who died to protect me.
"Wait, where's Katniss?" I ask, warily.
"She was taken by the capitol, With Johanna and Enobaria." He looks away.
Dread, anger, sadness. The wave of emotions is too much. Haymitch told me he would do everything to protect Katniss, and now she's gone. A tear escapes my eye and I quickly wipe it away.
"Why didn't you protect her!" I yell. I want to break his neck. I want him to feel the pain I'm feeling. "You promised me we would do everything we could to save her! Not me!"
"I know," says Haymitch.
"You promised!" My voice cracks.
"We couldn't save her!" He yells. "We tried to get all of you, but they got to her! We tried!"
"What about my family, are they here?" I lower my voice, afraid of the answer.
Haymitch looks at me with sympathy. As If I wanted any of that.
"Your family didn't make it Peeta." He says "I'm sorry."
"Get out!" I yelled, another tear escaping. "Get out!"
Haymitch stands up and goes away. I bury my face in my pillow, hating myself, hating Haymitch, hating everybody, and fall into colorless nightmares.
In my nightmare, I'm happy with Katniss. She's not in the clutches of the capitol anymore. We smile at each other. We're together. My family is fine, at the bakery. I'm happy. I'm about to hug her when someone stabs her in the back. Our smiles go away. I scream, in shock. The person behind her stabs her repeatedly, I try to help her, but I'm stuck, unable to come to her. She falls to the ground to reveal the person who killed her.
President Snow.
I wake up, gasping for air. Katniss told me I never screamed while having a nightmare. I just get paralyzed. I'm glad. I don't want people to know I have nightmares. After hearing about Katniss being abducted and my familys death, I feel numb. Beside me, there's a small breakfast of one roll with chicken soup. I eat the roll, but leave the chicken soup. I don't feel very hungry. I stand up. I decide to walkaround and see where I am. I'm not too sure If I could go around the place though, so i quietly put on my old clothes, and walk on my toes. While I look around me, I see that the place is underground. District 13. I don't really love living underground, but I could still live a few days with out getting claustrophobic. I don't like being in cramped up spaces though. People stare at me. Do I look weird? That's when I notice everyone's wearing some kind of gray clothing. I, apparently, stick out like a sore thumb. I was not doing a good job of staying hidden. Plutarch comes over to me.
"Peeta!" He says "Your supposed to be in your bed!"
"I'm sorry." I say, not sorry at all. I make up an excuse "I just really had to talk to Haymitch,"
"Well, your not supposed to be walking around," Says Plutarch "But I don't blame you at all. You probably want to know where you are. We're just keeping you in the dark. I'll pretend not to see you, but you have to put on this." He hands me some very unflattering pair of clothes.
"Everyone has to wear these." He walks away. Weird. I barely even knew Plutarch, yet he does me a little favor. He's not all bad. I walk back to my bed and put on the clothes.
"Knock Knock!" says Delly Cartwright "Can I come in?"
"Delly!" I run over to her and hug her, happy to see at least one friendly face.
"Your alive!"
"Of course I am!" She laughs. "I'm really lucky Gale was there to save people, or else I would just be a pile of bones." She frowns slightly. "Coin wants to see you."
I was expecting this. They had to inform me on how to be the "Mockingjay" after their real one was gone. It sickened me how easily she could be replaced. No one cared for her. They only wanted her for her image. All because of the berries.
"Why?" I ask anyway, just to make sure.
"I don't know. She just asked me to come and tell you." She pauses. "You probably don't know who she is, huh?" She asks. I shake my head. "Well, She's supposedly the next ruler of Panem. If we win, of course. She's helping lead the battle. A director, let's say." She smiles. "Come on, I'll show you where she Is."
We walk through the underground city, which I still dislike very much. People seem to live in little compartments. One for each family. While walking, I wonder who else made It out of the arena alive. Beetee made it, I saw him next to me at some point in my waking up and blacking out phase, but I wonder if Finnick made it. Now that I knew how they risked their lives for us, I don't have any miss givings about him anymore. It doesn't mean I trust him. I don't dislike him. He hasn't done anything wrong. He even saved my life when I hit the force field in the arena. If I dislike him, I must dislike everybody. I probably just dislike everyone except for Delly now.
"We're here!" She says in an overly giddy voice. "I'm gonna go now cause I think this Is a private meeting for you and her. Good luck though!"
"Thanks." I smile to show that I really am grateful. I open the door. The room is a
a surprisingly empty room. The walls are grey, just like the clothes, and there's only a place for two people, even though there can be a lot more. It's only a one-on-one talk with Coin though, so it doesn't matter. I hate to admit it does make it more intimidating.
"Hello, Peeta."
"Hello." I say, keeping my face free of emotions. "Delly said you wanted to talk to me?"
"Yes, please take a seat." It sounded more like an order. I sit in the seat across from her.
"You may have an idea of how this all happened, correct, Peeta?"
"Correct." I repeat.
"Since we saved you, we need you to be our mockingjay." She looks me in eye.
"Are you willing to be our mockingjay?"
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