Katniss' body shot up right out of Peeta's arms as she jumped to her feet. She was aiming to run when she felt the grip of Peeta's hand on her arm. She pulled so that he could let her go, as she heard the incessant screaming of her younger sister.
Her heart raced in her ears as the many different possibilities flowed through her mind, how did she get here? With who? When? Why? How?
"Peeta! Let go!" She shouted at him, trying to pry his fingers off of her arm. She looked at him, her whole expression darkening. "Peeta!" She screamed getting out of his grasp.
"Katniss, you can't go! What if it's a trap! What if Snow found us and he knew the only way to lure you in was by using Prim's scream!" Peeta said, ultimately analyzing the situation.
"Then let him kill me." She said defiantly, as she stomped in the direction of the forest. She remembered, that if she stomped, she might scare people off. No matter how angry she was, she made it her mission to be as silent as possible.
The screaming was still going strong when she reached the clearing, but there was nothing. No one was there, and as soon as she stepped foot in the clearing, the screaming stopped. Her heart was aching as it was pounding in her ears, she looked around, her bow at the ready.
"Who's there?" She asked, looking around, just ready to attack anyone and everyone. She took a deep breath, climbing up in a tree, but there was no one as far as the eye could see. She sighed as she climbed back down. She looked around, heading back to camp.
That's when she heard it again, another round of Prim's screaming in another part of the forest, she raced towards it, her little sister now shouting her name... But she realized this time, it wasn't Prim's voice, it was Rue's.
The realization hit her like a ton of bricks, and she seemed to have stopped in her tracks. Her bow had fallen to the floor and the wind had seemed to be knocked out of her.
Rue, the little girl that reminded her of her sister, who she had teamed up with for the Games. The girl that she was too late to save. She felt the tears form in her eyes. She didn't know what was going on, she wasn't intending on waiting too long to find out.
When she reached the part of the forest where her name was being shouted, she was stunned by the sight. In front of her, was the exact sight from the Games. She didn't know who was responsible for it, or why. The only thing that she knew is that it was terrifying. She looked at Rue's corpse...
All the memories seemed to have flooded back, when she heard a pair of footsteps behind her. "I thought we agreed not to lie to each other, Miss Everdeen." She knew that voice, she would know that voice anywhere. It was the voice of the president of her country. President Snow.
"What do you mean?" She said, trying not to show any trace of fear in her inflections. She removed the spear from Rue's body, well she tried to, her hand went right through it. It was a hologram. She turned around to look at him.
"You know exactly what I mean, running away, hiding in the woods. I thought we agreed that you would stay where you knew that I could find you." He said, looking right at her. She did nothing to avoid his snake like eyes. Not in the slightest. "Where is your... boyfriend?" He asked her, and she shrugged. "What? You two broken up?" He asked with a small taunt in his voice.
"No." She said to him. "He's just not with me right now. He's still in the District." Which was a complete lie, but what was she supposed to tell him? That Peeta was sitting in the forest, praying that Katniss didn't become ground meat in the next hour or so.
"Oh, is that right? Then why is his mother crying and frantically looking for him." He looked right at her, as if he saw right through her, he was trying to shatter her confidence indefinetly.
"He's not here, President Snow. He's not. And if he's not in the district, then I have no idea where he is." She said to him.
"Fine, I'll take your word for it. But if I go back to twelve, and he's not there... It's a bullet through the skull for both of you." He said, as the ladder from the hovercraft lowered.
When the hovercraft departed, Katniss took off to the woods, her boots creating a steady rhythm against the floor. "Peeta! Peeta!" She shouted frantically, her fears set on high. "Peeta!" She screamed again as she got back to the camp, he was nowhere to be found. "Peeta!" She screamed, looking around for him. She ran her fingers through her hair, clearly distressed. They needed to get back to District twelve as soon as possible.
"Pee-" She said, bumping right into him. She looked at him, taking a deep calming breath before throwing her arms over his shoulders, holding onto him tightly. "We need to go back. To the district. Before. We're all killed." She said, taking deep breaths between each sentence.
"Katniss! We can't do that! You know we can't do that! Snow is going to kill me!" He said, his emotions set on high as well.
"We have to!" She protested.
"We can't!"
"Peeta! We have to, or Snow is going to shoot us both in the head!" She said, her scream faltering at the end.
"Katniss... What are you-"
"I bumped into Snow, in the woods, your mother is looking for you. And he said if you're not in the district, when he searches, that we'll both be executed." She felt the tears form in her eyes. "Peeta, what do we do!" She asked him. His eyes blank.
"I don't... I don't know."
"Peeta, think of something!" She said to him, her heart racing.
"I guess... We have to head back." he said, hanging his head in defeat. "Katniss... If I die..."
"Damn you, Peeta! We're not discussing this again!" Katniss said, now angry.
"You're not going to die. We're going to figure this out. We'll take our families, and we'll run."
