I got my first review! I was so stoked and beyond excited! Seriously, I haven't been that happy in a long time. Thank you so much! I just hope other people review, too! Here's Chapter 1.

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Chapter 1

Peeta squeezed his eyes shut as tight as they would go. After his long, groggy, and delusional sleep, the light seemed much too bright through his eyelids. A vaguely familiar smell wafted in through his nose, and he peeked one eye open to see the mysterious environment he had been dropped into. The bright colors seared his eye again and he shut it, but not before it had triggered something in his brain.

He cried out as an explosion swept through his mind. An arrow flew across his closed vision, and a hovercraft appeared above him, reaching out its arms as far as they could go, scooping its claws underneath his useless body . . .

"Katniss," he whispered, and jumped into action. He became fully alive, thrashing and screaming out, doing all he could to free himself from this terrible prison. Voices started coming for him, calling for the aid of others.

Peeta opened his eyes and stopped fighting. Able to see the real world now, he looked down at his wrists. They were in restraints, attached to a hospital bed. His ankles were shackled, too. He looked up at the white room, fully equipped with medical devices and high-tech computers.

The Capitol.

His breathing became restricted, his heart working overtime and the blood rushing to his head. They had captured him, and who knew who else? He was panicking, and tried to force air back through his closed windpipe. Frantic footsteps pounded closer to his room, structure to the voices he had heard a second ago, the evil beings of the Capitol, the ears that had received his scream.

They burst into his room, but he was no longer calling out. His screams had been reduced to a halfhearted moan. Seeing he had calmed, the Capitol nurses checked over him and filed out of the room, leaving only two to look after him. One laid a hand on his shoulder, sending shivers through his body and the urge to shake it off.

"Peeta," she said carefully. "There's no need to worry. There was a slight . . . mishap in the arena. But it's fine now. You're safe here."

Peeta narrowed his eyes. By the look on her face, he could tell it was more than just a little mishap. But he didn't need her to tell him that. He remembered. Even more so, that he would never be safe in their hands.

"Katniss," he spoke, his voice dry and hoarse. "Where - where is she? What happened?"

The nurses glanced warily at each other. Their status wasn't important enough to know the details, but they clearly weren't supposed to talk about it either way.

One looked down with pity and a tight smile. She believed in their love. "There's no need to worry about little things like that. The Capitol has everything under control. As always," she added.

"Katniss," Peeta demanded. "Where is she?"

The nurse stepped away from the bed, done with the conversation. "You must be hungry. Your food will be coming soon."

"Where is she?" he repeated, his voice rising. "Where is Katniss?"

Receiving no answer, he began to thrash around, struggling against his restraints. He knew it was unlike him, but he couldn't help it. He had to know.

His defiant yells were silenced by a prick in his arm.

"Sleep tight, dear."

He faded into darkness once again.

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