Chapter 2

Katniss POV

I'm running through the woods, a wall of fire burning behind me, engulfing me into the hot, orange flames. Suddenly the fire circles me, leaving a space in the middle where I stand untouched. I am trapped. Suddenly the fire stops and dies down to nothing. I breath a sigh of relief. I'm safe. Then I hear a rustling in the bush behind me. Out steps a mutt with blond hair. Glimmer! Next to her steps out another mutt, with dark hair and an array of knives around her neck. Clove! Around me steps out all the tributes from my first games. Marvel, Cato, Thresh, Foxface and even Rue. I look over to the 12 year old, who I sang to sleep. The eyes of a mutt stare back at me. The look in her eyes tell me exactly what I already knew. They were going to kill me. Just as they are about to attack me, they stop and part. Out steps a boy with blond hair and blue eyes. Peeta! I run over to him and throw myself into his arms. I feel soft fur beneath me. I look down and my boy with the bread has gone. Only a mutt stares back.

"Peeta"

"I'm going to get you Katniss"

"Please Peeta, leave me alone, don't do it"

"You're one of us Katniss, you're a mutt too"

I hear a voice shout Katniss and I scream in response, again a voice calls out my name but it's different to the evil voice of the mutt. It is soft and full of concern. I feel two sturdy hands grab me and shake me. I can't stop the tears slipping down my cheek as I scream once more and await my death…

Peeta POV

I finally manage to awake Katniss from her nightmare. She was thrashing about like crazy and crying and screaming. Her eyes flicker open whilst I hold her in my arms.

"Shh, shh, Katniss its fine, you're safe. It was just a dream"

"P-Peeta?"

"I'm here Kitty, it's fine"

"I was back in the woods, and-and they were all mutts and they were trying to kill me. You were trying to kill me too Peeta!"

"It was just a dream, nothing's going to happen to you"

"I'm sorry, it just felt so real" she said, still sobbing.

"It's fine, you can go back to sleep, I'll be right here the whole time"

"I love you"

"I love you too" I say back, smiling at those three words she said to me. So small, yet they mean so much.