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I squeezed my eyes shut as they hook Johanna up to the machine, she didn't like it when I looked, the first time they did it she was screaming at me to look away. Annie was the opposite, I had to watch her and constantly remind her it was going to be okay, she didn't scream as much when I did. They gave us five minutes before they began torturing them to talk, I never understood why until Johanna told me this morning.

'I can't believe they'd actually think we'd be that stupid.'
'What do you mean?'
'Isn't it obvious? They think that we're going to discuss the rebellion when they're not looking. That we actually think they aren't listening.'
'Well maybe they think we're more likely to slip up when we're talking to each other, make us feel more at ease.'


I could hear her screams pounding in my ears, it was the one thing I could never get rid of, the chains prevented me from moving so I had to just sit there and listen. After a while Boreas takes me back to my cell and sets me down next to Peeta. He's the one person I don't witness getting tortured, because I see the aftermath. I see his mind leave him a little bit every day. He was curled up in a ball muttering to himself, sweat pouring down his face.

'Peeta, are you okay?' He lifted his head and stared at me, his eyes so full of hate.
'She's going to kill us, she's coming. They showed me, they showed me what she did.'
'Peeta, please. It isn't real. She helped you, she helped Finnick.' He shook his head and scrunched his eyes shut tears rolling down his face.
'Tell me something happy.' I sighed; he requested it every day, it helped with the pain. Replacing the bad with the good, sometimes I tried to talk about Katniss but it made him mad and he'd go crazy. It was getting harder to find a happy memory, everything felt like it had happened in another life. I closed my eyes and said the first thing I could think of.

'Seriously, hurry up. You're so damn slow.' I rolled my eyes and ran up behind my brother and pushed him to the side, he tripped over and landed on his ass laughing. He got to his feet and started chasing me up the hill, I sprinted as fast as I could but he was too fast. He caught up to me and tossed me over his shoulder and I screamed for him to put me down. Annie who was helping Mags up the hill was laughing at the top her lungs, a smile played across Mags' lips as Finnick carried me to the top and dropped me on the ground. He pulled the bag from his back and tossed it on top of me; I pushed it off and tackled him around the ankles sending him rolling back down the side of the hill. Mags made a sound and we stopped fighting and Annie helped Finnick to his feet. He pulled the picnic blanket from the bag and spread it out, Mags slowly sat down and the rest of us plopped down next to her. Finnick started pulling food from the bag and we filled our stomachs to the brim.

I lay on the blanket looking out at the ocean whilst Annie lay next to me, her head in Finnick's lap as he played with her hair. Mags was curled up asleep next to us, she was covered in Finnick's jacket since he didn't want her to get cold. I began weaving a basket from red, gold and purple ribbons Mags had brought along. The wind blew through the trees behind us and the setting sun made the water glitter. It was the perfect day.


'Do you think you'll ever go back?' I sighed and shook my head as Peeta pulled me out of my memory.
'I'm not sure, if we ever get out of here maybe. But even then I can't know what's going to happen; I think I'm not that person anymore, that lazy day person with nothing to do and no worries in the world. If that happened now I might rip my hair out from boredom or always be suspicious that something was going to happen. Moments like that don't last.' He nodded and stared at the ground, he looked calmer though and I was glad. 'Do you have a happy memory?' His face scrunched up again and I could tell he was trying to fight the sadness they put in his head.
'No.' He said after a while and I nodded sadly.

Boreas stormed through the door and grabbed me by the hair.
'It's the girl's turn now, come and watch.'

Kinda short I know but I wanted a chapter to show their friendship more I guess. Umm... I might be slow posting over the next few weeks as I have my mock exams EW! I will try but I do have to study. I also have another story in the Harry Potter section if you guys want to check it but you don't have to. It's called The Pheonix. Review, Follow and Favourite, it means alot thanks.