Chapter 2
Peeta's POV
All the ways they can torture her...that's only PART of how they torture me. But to me, it's most effective. So, why do they keep me alive, just so they can rub the fact that, for all I know, Katniss is dead? They show videos-shudder-, give replays of voice recordings of her giving practically everything I want from her to Gale, her love and her devotion. The only good thing is the food, some of it is stale, but, of course that's basically all I would eat before the games. That's another way. Just another way they toture me, the games. They play all the parts where Kat was hurt, or about to die, or even just sleeping. Anything to make me remember her. And to torture me. Those replays of the...Games...Make the nightmares even worse than ever.
But the food is the only good part. The only stale stuff they give me is bread. Every time I see stale bread, I just laugh, and then the avox gives me a funny look. Oh, if only they knew... But, they give me soup filled with meat, an apple or orange, and some kind of pasta. And don't forget the bread, with the best butter in all the districts provided! But they really have no idea that they're giving more food than I would get in District 12, silly capitol people!
Oh great, another beating. Just another way they torture me. Avoxes write down they only last 15 minutes, but I have a feeling they last at least half an hour. Those people that beat me force all the people they've captured that are against the Hunger Games watch. I'm always surprised to see Darius, our old peacekeeper, watch.
They finally finish, and I swear, they extended that one to an hour long! Now, I take the small quiet time to thimnk about Katniss. How she always swiftly put her hair up in a braid every morning in the Hunger Games. How when she would sing, all the birds would stop singing...
Katniss POV
I finally decided to go to the meeting for the Mocking Force. For some reason, they left off the jay. But, apparently, they're deciding how to rescue Peeta! So, as I walk the streets of District 13, I see a mockingjay. I softly whistle Rue's signal. For the end of the work day, for safety(A/N Look at HG). The mockingjay then bursts the four notes into the dead silence, and I hear people come out of their houses, and one comes up to me and pokes me.
"Are you really Katniss Everdeen?" The little girl asks. When I look down at her, I gasp. She looks exactly like Rue.
"Yes, what's your name?" I ask her, trying to sound as content as possible.
"Sunflower, I'm Rue's sister, only one year younger. Thank you for taking care of her, it really meant a lot to my family!" She says.
"It's no problem! Why did everyone come out when they heard the mockingjay sing that?" I ask.
"Oh, it would mean you were outside! We would know we could come out then!" She explained. I looked around, the others were watching our exchange warily.
"Okay then, I must go." I told her, and went down the street, looking for mom without another word.
lem, now, why did everyone come out when they heard