*Please, review telling me songs you think fit mockingjay! Mainly how Peeta would feel being hijacked or being away from Katniss! Don't Ask you will learn soon enough! Thanks!*
Helllooo! Yes so this is up! I am happy about that, cause I didn't want to seem like I'll holding them hostage. Its just I'm working on like 2 stories and sometimes I like 'PEETAAA!' and others I'm like 'ZANNEEEE!' (Character in SYOT who I am in love with even though only my Beta knows who he is)
But yes, we have Jo in this chapter! And no less, a learning experience with her! My explanation of what happened to her! (if you want my WHOLE version of what happened, ask and I might make it into a story.)
And I am, er, warning (?) you now, Peeta will be in…uh, not sure how to word this. Almost a 'romance' with Johanna and Annie. I mean really! He gets messed up and he stops loving Kat, but he's locked up with 2 women? Katniss even says he flirts with Annie, so I'm just bringing it up now. Nothing sexual, it just could be counted as a romance to some people soooo…yeah. LATER though, not now. Now he's just being Peeta and comforting her
Oh and I have 2 small stories I'm starting. One is Finnick and Annie Related. The other is sorta an AU of Peeta. There both just one shots soooo, those won't take much time :)
The Link to the Peeta one .net/s/7895371/1/Safe_and_Sound
I'll add the one to Finnick and Annie in the next chapter
"Peeta, for the last time, stop lying!" A large doctor yells in my face. I lean away from him, his hot breath brushing against my face.
"And for the last time, I have no idea what you're talking about," I counter him, yelling at him as well. He falls back into his chair and I cross my arms.
Now, I was a good liar. But I really had no idea about anything they were questioning me. How did District Thirteen survive like this? Why are they helping? What is the plan? Where's Katniss?
I didn't have an answer for any of these questions. And I wished I did. I wanted to know where Katniss was. If she was safe. If Gale was keeping her safe. Was Gale with her? Most likely.
"Ok he won't stop, send her in," The guy says into a box. He stands knocks on the door, and walks from the concrete room. I sit in silence hearing the small tick of a clock. Wiress voice rings in my ears.
Tick, tock. Tick, tock.
"Oh Wiress, I'm so sorry," I mumble. A woman walks in, her muted pink hair pulled from her face. I glance up and think of Effie for a moment. Shaking my head I put that thought out.
"So what are you going to do? Tell me I'm lying and then scream?" I ask her.
"Oh no Peeta, I won't be doing that. I'm sorry what you've been through," Wow that was a first. They were sorry for me.
"Eh, its fine," I mumble a little. "But I still don't get what you want," I say.
"It's ok, Peeta, you don't have to hide anything with me. You see," She leans in and whispers as quiet as a breath into my ear. "I don't like the Capitol. I don't like their power. They should all fall, but I'm forced here. If you tell them what they want to hear, you'll be ok, got it," She pulls back and smiles.
"Liar! And even if you weren't, I still don't know what's going on!" I yell at her. "I know there is something with a new rebellion and District 13 is alive, but that's it! Right there, all of my understanding! So stop trying to get me to say more," I snarl in her face. I wouldn't at like this normally, but right now I was tired and sore and just irritated with everyone. She shrunk away from me and then, ZAP! I tense to the high pulse of electricity. It burns and once it stops I slump against the table.
It wasn't the first time it's happened today. It's happened about 6 times already but that was harsher. I rest my head on my arm and just lay there.
"I think it's time for a break," The woman mumbles. She leaves and I don't move. It hurts the most in my shoulders, where they have put the small metal contraption that is set to shock me.
The door opens and I look up. Food is set on the table in front of me. It's a fruit with clean white flesh and brown skin, which is broken into pieces. A bottle filled with an opaque, yellowish orange liquid in it. I move to eat the fruit; the hard and slightly bitter thing is filled with juices. It has an odd taste that I find pleasant, but it's hard almost frozen and hurts my jaw.
I smell the liquid and it gives a slightly similar smell to the fruit. Tropical, almost thick smelling, like I know it will coat my mouth entirely. I look at the label and see it's filled with vitamins. Great they want to keep me healthy in this hell hole. I drink it though, and as I guessed, covers my mouth and the taste sticks there. I push the food away. Someone comes in to take it. I rest my head back on the table. No one enters.
"What letting me cool off or something? Look I'm sorry," I say, though the lie is plain in my voice. Still no one enters. I rest my head back on the table; eyes closed and try to relax. It's hard, but I manage to fall asleep. Or maybe I pass out.
I woke and saw I was back in Victors Village. It was all a horrible nightmare, I realize with a smile. I move from the bed and run down the steps, looking for Katniss. She wasn't in the kitchen or living room. I rush out the door into Haymitch's house, but he's gone too. As I run, it all seems normal. People walk through town with smile and laughter. I see Prim and one of the other Hawthorne's, Rory I think his name is. They stare at the cakes in the Bakery window and when they see me wave. I wave back, but I'm still looking for Katniss so I run to Gale's house.
He was on the porch with Madge smiling for once. They see me and Gale give me a small nod while Madge gets up and hugs me.
A loud shriek is what makes me turn around. I see its Prim, Rory pulling her hand to make her run. And once there a few yards away, a bomb hits right where they were standing. Hits the Bakery's front display window. Everyone is in a full blown panic and I see my family is running to see what happened.
We all run to the meadow, away from the bombs that were falling. I look for Prim throw the crowd. She had twisted her ankle as she was running and Rory and the other Hawthorne, Vick I think pull her up. But right as they do, a bomb falls next to them, blowing them all into pieces.
I wake up with a sharp cry of pain. I jerk up, tears in my eyes. Still no one was in the small concrete room with me. I laid my head back on my arm, my arm pressed over my eyes, absorbing the tears that fell.
I had been alone for a week. The first human contact was with a burly man that never spoke and frightened me. The next a woman who only asked questions and was short with her temper. More came in; I had been here for hours. It was making me spread thin.
It was the first food I had, had as well. They thought starving me, putting me in solitary confinement, and letting me hear others screams were what would brake me.
"Please, I just want to sleep. I'm answering as best I can, I really am. Please stop pressuring me to lie for you," I call forward. No reply. "I'll do whatever you want," I call thinking it will interest them. And as I guessed, Snow walks right in.
"Good to see you wish to cooperate. I don't think I ever got to tell you about this, but you aren't alone," A deadly smirk rises to his puffy lips.
"Not alone?" I hadn't seen Portia in a while, was she even still alive? I almost hoped they killed her.
"We saved Johanna Mason and Enobaria Lockwood as well at the end of the Games. Choose one that you wish to have contact with," It wasn't really a choice. Both want me dead, or Katniss dead. I think back, and see how large Enobaria was. She could kill me in a moment.
"Johanna," I say. He nods, expecting my choice. And he then leaves me again. I sigh and more tears fall into my arm. He does reappear soon after though. And with his is a familiar figure. I bolt up and rap my arms around Johanna Mason who hugs me back without a second thought.
"Johanna! You're safe," I whisper in her ear.
"As safe as I can be," She whispers back. I shush her gently, not wanting the President to hear her. I pull back, but keep an arm protectively on her back.
"You and Johanna will be in shared ce-uh, rooms," I horrible grin forms on his face. Maybe picking Johanna was a bad idea.
"Are we free to leave?" Johanna asks. He nods and to guards come up to us, yanking me away from her. I feel tiny pulses of electricity as I walk, and I wonder if there doing it or if it's beginning to malfunction. I remembered when they put it on; I saw it looked old and rusted. They throw us into a room, and as I just lay there, waiting for the pulses to stop. Johanna said nothing, not even when I went to sit against the wall with her.
"Did you know?" I ask in a breath. It's almost silent, but I see Johanna look at the ceiling, then to the floor, and then back to the opposing wall. I guessed she was nodding, and I stayed silent.
"DO you think there safe? Where ever they are?" Johanna must know where, but she needs to seem like she knows nothing.
"I think they went to 13, start a new rebellion. I hope there ok, I mean, all of them. Not just Katniss, though I hope she's ok more than the others. Finnick, Beetee, anyone else they got," I smirk a little thinking of it.
"They have Haymitch too, I heard them saying that. And Katniss's prep team. They got some weird ones," She tells me. I nod.
"I wonder what they'll do to us here. Not like we know anything," These rooms are bugged I can feel it, but still mock them openly about it. She glances up at me and then smiles. I yawn and she leans against me.
"Night Jo," I say as I rest my head against the wall. She murmurs something, but then I hear her quiet snoring.
I can say I pretended it was Katniss leaning on my shoulder, but that would be a lie. I was thinking of how lost Johanna seemed to be. She was huddled next to me, and I wonder what they did to her. I then don't want to know. She was curled inwardly, trying to hide herself. Her cheeks were pale, her hair greasy, and she smelled horrid.
I leaned my head to the wall, closed my eyes, and hoped I would actually sleep.
The nightmares weren't what woke me. Chasing Katniss through the first arena did not wake me with a bolt of fear. Johanna's screaming did though. She was curled around her stomach even tighter, tears streaming down her face.
"Jo, jo, its ok," I whisper near her.
"Mom!" She bolted upright. She looked around and the normal frown became present on her face.
"You ok?" I asked her.
"Uh, yeah, fine," She leaned on my arm again. I sit there, unable to sleep again. She doesn't either.
"Jo," I ask slowly. "What happened to your family?"
"Capitol killed them," She whispered. "Mom and Dad died when I was 6, lumber accident. That really was an accident. My 10 year old sister took care of me, and we never went to a community home. Then when she was 18, she was reaped. Killed on the 3rd day, at 8:26, due to strange mutts that ran her into an abyss filled with sharp rocks on the wall. 4 years I lived alone. Then I was reaped. You know the rest," She murmured.
"I'm sorry," I told her.
"Don't be. I have no one that can be hurt from my stupidity," She informs me. I have to agree, because it's true. "What was your life like, besides being in love with Katniss?"
"Normal, really," I say. I want to end it at that, but Johanna looks at me expectantly. I didn't want to remember home. "I was a merchant, so I lived in the better part of 12. The part they show everyone in Victory tour. Raised with my 2 brothers, Mom, and Dad. Mom was harsh. She hit me. But I got used to it. When I was 10 I got to start working in the bakery. Mostly just mixing batter, but soon I was frosting and baking everything. I think I baked for you when you came to 12. And Annie, I remember a lot of girls kept coming in and buying tons of heart cookies and sugared breads to give to Finnick," I smirk. Johanna smiles a little too. "Annie came into the bakery while there, looking for Finnick during it. She talked to me for a minute, and I gave her fresh sour apple tart. She probably doesn't even remember, and Finnick never said anything, so I doubt he knows."
"Annie is sweet. I felt bad for her, because before her Games, Finn would be running from District to District, to and from the Capitol. But every time he came to Seven or I saw in mentoring, he would never shut up about her. He never spoke badly of her, and was very good, never pressing her. And after the Games, he was a wreck. In the Victory tour, he would keep her talking, never moving from her side, even though she was totally fine," I saw a real smile flash.
"I wonder where she is," I mutter.
"I don't," Jo whispers. I instantly regret our talk of Annie, she is now in danger. I let out a sigh and close my eyes so I can try to sleep.
I am again not woken by my dream, but of a sharp ZAP! That pulses over me. I yelp and see Johanna had moved to the other side of the room. I collapsed completely when the shocking stopped. They walked in. Peacekeepers. They said something that frightened me, and I couldn't help but shutter.
"Conversion starts today."
