I try and imagine a world without Gale and Peeta but my heart can't come to even think like that. Peeta is the love of my life and I know that, I know my feelings about Gale and how they are purely friendship feelings but he still has done so much for me, he took care of Prim when I was in the games both times and even though we have had our differences lately I don't want to loose him, not this way. Haymitch brings me out of the trance I am in "Do you want me to ask them to sedate you until it's over and they are back?" I must look confused and scared because he adds "Don't worry, it won't hurt the baby if that's what your worried about"
"No I don't want they to sedate me, I want to go to the Capitol, I want to help"
"I'm sorry sweetheart but they already left" I start to sit up again and try to get out of bed
"Then I can try and catch up with them, how long ago did they leave?" He must realize by now that I am serious about this
"Katniss you can't, your too valuable and too vulnerable right now"
"Please Haymitch, just let me do something, anything I can to help" I am begging him now, it reminds me of not to long ago when I came to Haymitch begging to save Peeta's life, now I am begging him to risk my own so that I can try and yet again save Peeta.
"I will go talk to Heavensbee and see if there is anything you can do okay? Just stay here" he leaves and I glance across the hall, I look out and see Finnick laying there on his back just looking up at the ceiling, he looks so lost and hopeless, I know that I promised Haymitch that I would stay here but I can't help it, Finnick needs me right now just as much as I need him. I stand up out of the bed and feel a little dizzy, I take a sip of water and hope that I can keep it down, my morning sickness has really been sneaking up on me this past week and I never know when I could puke up the little amount of food I eat. I balance myself and walk over to Finnick's room, I sit down on his bed and he moves over so I can lay down next to him
"How are you doing Finnick?"
"Today decides it, if they come back to us or if they die" his voice cracks when he talks about Annie and Peeta being killed
"Gale went with them, he was the first to volunteer"
"I know"
"I might loose my oldest friend and the love of my life today"
"I know he has been a real dick to you lately but I think he really loves you Katniss"
"Not enough to let me go"
"Does he have to let you go entirely?"
"No, but he needs to let go on the idea of us being together"
"I think he is jealous of me" I laugh at the idea of Gale being jealous of yet another guy in my life
"There is no way he is jealous, I don't have feeling for you like that, Gale knows that Peeta is the only one for me"
"He's not jealous about that, he is jealous of our relationship, that you are so open and attached to me like you never were with him" I really think about what he just said, he is right, our whole relationship has been so different and more dependent on each other than I have ever had with anyone. Is it because we both know what it's like to be in the games? Is it because the games changed both of us? Or is it because the games changed me?
"Me and Gale just have a different type of relationship than normal, one that was built on survival"
"So was ours" he's right, and that scares me, things are different between me and Finnick, more different than they have ever been and I think I know why, Finnick was never fighting for my heart. "Katniss I'm scared, I might loose her, I can't loose Annie"
"I'm scared too" I reach over and grab his hand, we are supporting each other at this point so that we won't fall apart. Haymitch walks in with Heavensbee following behind him
"We have a job for you two, if you can handle it" he lets go of my hand and sits up
"Yes, anything"
"We still need footage for district's 13 post bombing" Heavensbee pipes in
"Beetee thinks that if we can get this footage in the next few hours then he will be able to play it during the rescue to get the Capitol's attention else where" Finnick is standing now when he speaks
"Yes, a distraction" when he says this I am not sure if he means a distraction for him or for the Capitol.
"We need something that will be so interesting that not even Snow will be able to keep his eyes off the screen" everyone is quite as they take in the information that Heavensbee just gave us, then it hits me. What Snow wants to see is me.
"Me" it comes out as a mumble and I have to repeat myself so everyone can hear. Snow thinks that showing Peeta beaten bloody and dropping all those roses is something that will break me, he is going to be eager to see if it worked or not. I spend the next hour getting ready and eating a light breakfast and only keeping about half of it down, I'm not sure if it's from the nervousness I have for the interview that I am about to film or the morning sickness. We decide to film outside where we were originally supposed to film when I passed out, Cressida stands behind the camera, we already agreed on what we would talk about, Peeta.
"Katniss, tell me about the first time you met Peeta" I think back to the first time I saw Peeta and I pour out my heart, when I am done I am smiling and I can't help but add
"But actually the first time I actually talked to Peeta was on the train during our first games"
"But Peeta was already in love with you" she says it as a statement and it makes my heart soar.
"Yeah, I guess he was"
"How are you doing with the separation?" I am a little disappointed that she doesn't ask me when I first knew I was in love with him, but I go ahead and answer her question
"Things have been really hard since we have been separated, I miss him a lot and it's killing me that I don't know whats going on and that they are probably hurting him now, it was a real big risk for him to give us any information and since he warned us about he bombings they could be doing anything to him right now" I try and contain myself from crying right now, this is about showing how strong I am, I will not let Snow win, not when it comes to Peeta.
"What has kept you strong during all of this?"
"One thing has kept me strong, and has given me the strength to keep fighting. It's my baby, mine and Peeta's baby" Cressida yells cut and Heavensbee walks over to me
"Katniss that was great but we need a message for the Capitol, something like you did back in district 8, do you think you are up to that?" I look around at everyone who is watching me and feel very self conscious, they are all counting on me and I don't think I can come up with some uplifting speech right now. I am about to answer when Finnick stands up and comes over in front of me, he is pulled aside by Heavensbee and they have a quick conversation, at the end of it he is looking pale but determined, he walks over to where I am standing in front of the camera and whispers to me that he is going to talk
"Finnick you don't have to do this"
"Katniss is right, you don't have too" Haymitch must see how affected Finnick has been by all of this, Haymitch knows what he has gone through, we have all survived the games.
"Yeah I do have too, if it will help her" I am not sure if he meant me or Annie but I feel like he meant both. I mouth the words 'thank you' to him and he starts talking, I listen intently as he goes on about what the Capitol made him do and I feel sick, sick for what they made him do, sick for him having to go through it, and sick knowing that if this uprising didn't begin than I might have been the next victor sold, President Snow probably would have gotten a good price for the girl on fire. The next thought makes me feel a little better, Peeta might have been the only reason I would have been safe from being sold, the only thing people from the Capitol want more than sex is our love story. Finnick talks on and off for over an hour while tieing knots, he even talks about Annie a little and it makes us both smile. The last thing he speaks about is Snow's secrets, he spills every little thing that he ever heard about Snow and its chilling, when he is done everyone is silent, all dumbstruck from what we just heard and I know it will be perfect, Snow thought it would be me who is breaking apart but after his secrets get out it will be him who breaks. Haymitch takes us both to another room to wait while they try and get the footage to go through and also while we wait for Peeta and Annie.
"I thought you did a really good job earlier"
"Thanks, you did good too"
"When did love Annie, was it right away?"
"No, not at first" he laughs, having his moment with the private memory him and Annie share
"What happened then?"
"She just crept up on me" That is the only conversation we have while waiting, we spend the next hours just tieing knots, I even eat something and am able to keep it down. It must be midnight, it has to be when Haymitch comes through the door
"They're back, you two are wanted in the hospital" Finnick looks up from where he is sitting and looks stunned, as if he can't really believe its happening, he is moments away from being reunited with Annie and he can't even move. I take his hand and have to lead him out of the room like a small child, I could run but I don't think Finnick is up for it so we just walk. When we get to the hospital we both look around, Finnick is frantically searching for Annie but isn't making any sudden movements, I can see Johanna, she has a shaved head and bruises all over her body, she knew rebel secrets, my secrets and she paid for it. I move on to the next room with Finnick's hand still in mine and I can see Gale, he doesn't look badly injured but I can see doctors wrapping something on his body, I feel relief knowing he is okay but he isn't my main priority right now, I will think him later but I need to find Peeta. I am still looking for him when I see a girl with wild and tangled red hair and sea green eyes running around frantically screaming for Finnick, I have only seen her once but I recognize her instantly as Annie Cresta. Finnick lets go of my hands and runs to her, he is screaming her name back and when they find each other its pure bliss on both of their faces, she jumps into his arms and he kisses her all over her face, my heart swells at the sight of them and I know they will both be okay, I remember Johanna telling me about Annie being a little off already and I know that they couldn't have done anything to her because the games already ruined her, Finnick was her only light of hope and that's why they took her away from him, Snow knew they were the only hope for each other and he took advantage of that, but now that they are back together they are stronger than ever. Haymitch finds me and smiles at the sight of Annie and Finnick together again before he talks
"The mission was successful, everyone got back okay with minor injury's and the rescued victors are being checked on right now, they sedated him for the trip back here but he should be waking up soon and you should be there when he wakes up" I am in awe at how close Peeta really is
"What?" that's all I can manage and I feel a little stupid, Haymitch points to a room where all I can see is doctors constantly working around someone
"Hes right in there sweetheart" I can see blood hair that is surrounded by all the doctors and its as if everyone and everything stops, time is frozen and it's only me standing there watching Peeta, my boy with the bread is back. I hug Haymitch and he holds me back tightly "Go get him sweetheart" I walk into the room and everyone clears out, a couple of doctors stand near by in case anything happens to him or his health. I see him standing there in front of me, a patch of yellow and purple bruises cover his face and it breaks my heart, I step closer and hesitate my next move, I can't read his face so I don't know if I should reach out and touch him, but god do I want to so bad. He makes the first move, reaching out to play with my braid and a smile spreads across both our faces and I know that he is back, my boy with the bread is finally back to me.
"Peeta I have to tell you something" suddenly he jerks his hand back and its like a flip is flipped, he is extending his hands out as if he's going to hug me but instead they got to my neck, his expression is painful almost, as if he is forced to be doing this. His hands go around my neck like they are magnets and he can't fight the pull, next thing I know I am on the ground and I can't breathe, I am fighting for breath and he keeps pushing down harder, somehow I end up on the floor and he's on top of me, in what could possibly be my dying breaths I am begging him to stop, my lips are barley foming his name when he looks as if he is going to say something. I never get to know thought because before darkness surrounds me I see Peeta being hit over his head and falling to the floor beside me, before I pass out my head is screaming his name.
Authors note- Hey guys! Sorry to end at a cliffhanger like that but it had to be done, so as you guys can see I have decided to make Peeta hijacked like in the original story but I added my twist on it, Peeta actually reached out to her before he attacked her so be prepared for twists and turns that I am going to make to really make this story my own, you guys will not be disappointed at what I have in store for Peeta and Katniss but trust me this will be good, this is the turning point in my story where I feel like it will really begin and where I can really make it my own, I hope you enjoyed this chapter I know that it was one of my favorites to write and I love the way it turned out and I hope you did too, leave me a review if you did and until next time-Izzy