I wake up covered in sweat, I can feel my heart beat racing. Peeta's arms stretch out to wrap me in an embrace but all I can think is that I have to get out. I don't know what I'm trying to escape from, but I can't help to leap out of the bed and run out of the house. And that's all I do, run.

I run past the broken roads and fallen walls until I reach the fence. By that time I hear footsteps behind me, which only makes me run faster. Someone calls out but I can't hear them through my sobbing and the crunch of branches under my feet. The woods get denser with each step and I swat trees out of my way. That's when it happened. Pricks of pain occurred all over my body. My world swayed and dipped into misshapen figures when I see president snow leaning against a tree. I stop running and stand there confused "lets agree we will never lie to each other" he says with a sly smile. This only makes me angrier I feel the heat of anger rising in my chest I let out a scream before I lunge towards him to wrap my hands around his neck but he disappears like mist into the woods. Before I realized it I was on the ground with a constant jabbing in my neck. The pain felt like staples were scraping my flesh in a repeated motion. I cry out in pain until my vision fades into a deeply threatening color of black.

Peeta POV

My barefeet scape across the pavement, why does she have to be fast? I think to myself. I get closer and can almost touch her braid that is bouncing behind her I yell, "Katniss!" she doesn't seem to hear me, so I try again only this time my prosthetic hits a rock and sends me tumbling towards the ground. As soon as I get my feet up under myself again I hear a scream, and that was the thing that set me off. My adrenaline was cursing through me like acid. I ran faster than I have ever ran before. I called her over and over until I see it, a small pool blood around her face. When I got to her, my hands were trembling. Come on peeta, think don't panic! I practically screamed in my head. As if my hands had a mind of them own I ripped my shirt and tied the piece around the gash in her neck to try to stop the bleeding. I scooped her up in my arms and ran to the hospital. I got many odd looks as I sprinted through the streets but I didn't care. My mind was only set to one thing, katniss. By the time I get to the hospital the blood has soaked through the makeshift bandage and on to what is left of my shirt.

Katniss POV

My head feels fuzzy, and oddly enough I remember everything that happened before I passed out. I open my eyes when a blinding light greets me so I decide to keep my eyes shut. Someone is stroking my hair (peeta I suppose) when he accidentally touches a bruise on the side of my head making me groan. He puts down his hand and I can feel his eyes searching my face. I slowly open my eyes fearing the white light will blind me when I hear peeta whisper, "oh my god your okay."

"Can I sit up?" I ask. He just nods as he cradles my head as he helps me push myself up. For a moment we just stare at each other.

"Why did you run?" I an almost confused but then I remember,

"To escape."

"To escape what" he says pushing further

It hadn't hit me until then, but what I really wanted to escape was the past.

"The past" I say in a hollow voice.

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