A/N Hey guys, Brighton here. Couple of updates. I'm going to be on vacation for 2 weeks so I will not be writing then until July. And, It was brought to my attention that the characters are OOC a little bit. I thank you for your concern and my reasoning for writing them this way, is because I always imagined Annie as saner than everyone thinks and the others are OOC because I wanted to be. Thanks for the reviews and comments!


I wake up with a start. Annie is still asleep next to me on the cot and Peeta's dead to the world on the floor. There are thick guttural screams that bounce off the walls and Peirce my eardrums. I know immediately what could possibly make those anguished sounds. Avoxes.

"What's that noise?" I realize Annie's awake as she murmurs the question into the darkness. "It sounds like... Screaming. "

"Avoxes. I think it's a man and a woman." I say nonchalantly as I rake my memories for any idea of who they could be.

"Someone go look." it's seems Peeta's awake because he mumbles unintelligent words into his pillow on the floor. Since no one shows any signs of moving, I reluctantly get up and investigate what sounds like animals dying. I move over to the small window at the door and look out.

I nearly vomit at my field of vision, even though I'm pretty sure I've seen worse. Outside of our window, there is an empty space made of dark concrete with various machines and shackles that belong in the medieval era. I see multiple peacekeepers, some operating the machines and others observing the avoxes, who had stopped screaming.

The avoxes were chained at the wall with shackles. They both had red hairs and wore nothing but rags. They were dripping wet and shivering, and also had lacerations all along their bodies. The peacekeepers were hooking the girl up to a machine.

"What are they doing?" I jump as Peeta walks up behind me.

"I-I don't know. Look." I step away from the window for Peeta to see what's happening. He gasps and the screaming starts again. Only this time, the female scream is about. Peeta walks away in disgust.

I follow him. "What's going on? What did they do?"

"They killed her. The electricity stopped her heart." I see pain is imminent in his eyes.

"Why would they do that? What could she possibly know?"

He turns on his heels. "Nothing. She knows absolutely nothing! The only thing that linked her to that shit is me"

That's just not true. I grab his arm. "Wait just one minute. She made have had to misfortune of knowing you, but that does not mean you are at fault. We made sure you and Katniss didn't know anything and I'm pretty damn sure you never even spoke to her except to give her a request. So stop blaming yourself or we'll never get out of here!" by the time I finished my rant, Annie had gotten up and was watching our exchange.

"Guys. Listen "Annie finally says. It's quiet. Too quiet. We don't move or speak.

Peeta finally speaks up. "her name was Lavinia. Katniss actually saw her get captured by the Capitol. The man, that's Darius. He was a peacekeeper in district 12. He tried to stop a whipping by another peacekeeper. He was assigned to us as a warning. Here's our second warning. "no one says anything , but all we do is go to bed. Once Annie checks over to see if Peeta is asleep before she speaks up.

"So they didn't know anything?"

"No. That's what's horrible isn't it? To kill someone for no reason, it's like the hunger games never ended."

"I don't think they have"


A/N Short? Yes. Good? Bad? You decide. R&R!