hey guys chapter 8 is here :) It's a little bit shorter than usual (chapter 8 and 9 were both just going to be the same chapter but it was too long and I hate long chapters ! lol x) So i split them up, since the next chapter is already typed and stuff you can expect it to be up later on tonight hope you enjoy and goodbye x PS just realised I never thanked CutePandas382 - RuePeetaKatniss - & Fuzzycat901 for reviewing ! thanks :) please please review this chapter and the other chapters and tell me if there is anything you like/dislike or whatever. anyway here's chapter 8!

"Peeta?, w-w-why are you painting that again?"
he turns around finally noticing that i am back in the room, he doesn't look at me - he keeps his eyes focused on the floor "I'm not sure, i just starting to draw - and i drew that, i guess I've just been thinking about it lately"
"oh" there is a long awkward pause so decide to change the subject "well I'm going to take hunter out around the train"
a smirk creeps onto Peeta's face "please don't tell me your going to spy on Iris?"
i laugh "how dare you Peeta!" i say sarcastically "she would notice me - i've got an avox following her" i wink at peeta and slip out the room with Hunter in my arms i see him laughing and shaking his head sarcastically.
i walk down the hall until i reach Haymitch's door i knock, i can here banging inside the room - he's stumbling to the door, he finally opens it "oh hey sweetheart! long-time no see" he slurs sarcastically holding onto the doorframe to stop him from falling flat on his face.
"hey, haymitch. you've been on these trains a lot longer than me, is there anywhere i can take hunter to play? he seems kinda bored in the room"
"this is a train sweetheart not a nursery"
"I'll take that as a no then"
"don't get me wrong sweetheart - they've made the train pretty kid-friendly for your royal heiness's arrival" he laughs, he's talking about Iris
"what; so you think they might have turned one of the rooms into a play room or something?"
"don't think they will have took it to that extreme - even for the mockingjay's kids, but go ask one of the attendants or something they've probably got some toys or something for him. why didn't you bring toys for him anyway?"
"are you kidding me - it would have been a waste of space, at least once they got to the capitol and found out all about the capitols toys they never could of had in twelve"
"point taken sweetheart - anyway; where's Iris?"
I roll my eyes, he would never admit it but It's obvious he has a soft spot for Iris "off exploring the train"
"what and Peeta let her!?" he says shocked
"as a matter of fact, it was me who was worried about it"
"that not like him, he'd wrap them both up in cotton wool and keep them locked in the house if he could"
"he's been a bit... distracted lately - he's started painting... it again" i don't have to tell him anymore - he knows i mean the games
he sighs "guess you just gotta keep his mind off it, what's it this time? Rue? Cato? Bloodbath?"
"all of them - it was like a death painting of all the tributes from our first games"
He looks thoughtful "an honour painting, that's too typical of Peeta - honouring those who tried to kill him"he say sarcastically
"it's not like they had a choice - remember?" I say sharpish
he waves it off "yeah yeah" he sighs "i know that"
"look, I'm going to go and find one of those attendants, we shouldn't be talking about this in front of Hunter anyway"
Hunter looks up at me when he hears his name "mama?"
I laugh "one minute hunter"
"yeah yeah, just one more thing. This "speech" your doing in the capitol, what are you going to say?"
"damn! i forgot about it, i haven't even thought about it yet - i'll do it tonight before dinner" i think aloud.
"mama! toys! toys!" Hunter interrupts the conversation
i sigh "i better go, he's getting really restless"
"bye sweetheart"
"i'll see you at lunch" i spot the bottle of alcohol in his hands "maybe" i say and shut the door, i hear more stumbling and banging on the other side and assume he is trying to get back to his bed - or the bathroom to throw-up.
as I turn around to start walking down the hall, i spot the avox girl I had asked to follow Iris "hey, where's Iris. I thought you were following her for me!?" i say slightly hostile she nods in the direction of the hall way and i look around just in time to see Iris disappear into the next car - the food car "she's going to make herself sick all she has done since she got on this train is eat" i say to myself. The avox girl just smiles, I turn to her "I'm sorry I talked to you like that, I'm just nervous - I don't like the idea of Iris running a mock on the train herself!" i say half joking. The Avox just nods and gives me a sad smile. I wonder if she once had children and a family - before the capitol made her an avox. Probably not, i think - after the rebellion all of the Avox's were given the choice to go home to their family or keep working , obviously many chose to go home but the few who had nobody to return to stayed. Maybe she did have children, maybe the capitol killed them or maybe they died in the rebellion... i gulp, she has already started to walk away and find Iris i shout to her "do you have any children" she turns around and looks at the ground, she nods her head sadly "how many?" she holds up 1 finger to indicate 'one'. "a girl?" she nods her head again - eyes still on the ground. my voice goes quieter "what district are you from?" she shakes her head "the capitol?" i say a little surprised and she nods her head again "why don't you go back?" she pauses thinking for a moment, then shakes her head quickly and walks away to find Iris.
I stand their kind of shocked for a moment and go once again on my hunt to find Hunter some form of entertainment. I see a man standing at the door to the car where, on my way to the Hunger Games Peeta and I had watched the recaps of the reapings "excuse me?" I say to the man, I wait for him to reply - not knowing whether he is an Avox or not, since the capitol fell and Avox's were given the choice to return home, regular people from the capitol have had to take on the jobs Avox's once did. "yes Mrs Ever- i mean Mrs Mellark?" He says in his still-silly Capitol accent - He is not an avox. I smile at him - people often forget I am no longer Everdeen. "sorry" he starts "I have known you all my life as Everdeen or mockingjay, never erm, Mellark" he smiles at little embarrassed. It's strange when someone you have never met in your life. has known you most of theirs - but i guess you get used to it. I look at the man. He looks in his late 20's, probably about 26 he would have been around 16 at the start of my first games - the same age i was. I wonder what it was like, for a boy in the capitol to watch people his own age being murdered on live television - I wonder if he felt sorry for us, or just sat backed and watched the games. Probably the latter, like most people in the capitol he probably didn't see a problem with it, some still don't - That's one of the main reasons i agreed to a final games. To show the capitol what we went through; how wrong it really was, why our parents cried and screamed at reapings, why we cried and screamed on the trains, why we hated the capitol, why we rebelled; why i volunteered.

Yes, told you it was short - but the next part will be up soon! So that was chapter 8, chapter 9 - like i said - will probably be up later on tonight so keep checking back for updates :) also thought now might be a good time to mention that i will be needing tributes for the FIRST AND FINAL CAPITOL HUNGER GAMES! so please send me a tribute form :) please use the one on my other story "Born to Die" or use your own just now until i write up one for this specific story (obviously things like careers and Districts will be different than the normal forms, so i will need to write another form for this story!) as always, favourite, follow, review! and get a shout out in the next chapter :)