Thanks anon, random-is-awesome, june and forgiven95 for your reviews! And since some of you suggested Peeta's P.O.V... Here it is. And It's longer.
Disclaimer: I don't own the hunger games. (Sorry didn't have anything creative this time.)
Peeta's P.O.V
"Honey, please calm down." I said, trying to stop Katniss from ripping off the president's face.
"Peeta, I really need to kill this guy if he thinks I'm going to any of that!" She said yelling at him and almost getting out of my grip. Almost.
"I can't help it, we need to make sure these people stay in our control," The president said, still looking calm as if he wasn't alone in a room with two people who had lived through too many hunger games than they cared.
Before Katniss could do anything, I hugged her closer and whispered a few words in her ear. It took her two seconds to calm down after that. "Where are they anyway?" She said sighing.
"I'll take you to them," I said smiling at her. After she walked out of the room, I gave a slight nod to the president, and headed out.
"Hey mom," Iris, our seventeen year old daughter, said in surprise, as Katniss caught her in a hug. I smiled, just seeing Katniss like this made me feel better, every single time.
"Dad, what's wrong with mom?" Finnick, our fourteen year old son, said raising his eyebrows. We'd named him after a friend we'd lost in the battle, it just seemed necessary.
"Nothing, she's just angry with the president, again." I said grimacing at how she'd almost killed him. Last time hadn't been too pretty.
Flashback
"Victors of the capitol, Welcome!" I said. I masked all my feelings perfectly. The president was sitting on a podium very close to the stage. Looking at him made my lip twitch slightly.
I surveyed the 'cage'. The people of the capitol reminded me of how we looked back in district 12, before the rebellion. Starving, overworked and empty of any hope of a light at the end of the tunnel.
Katniss must have seen that too because the fire intensified. The president cleared his throat when my silence became a bit uncomfortable. My mind went blank for a moment then I regained my composure.
"This, as you all know is the Decade Quell Ball and to start off I would like to call our honoured president to the stage for a small speech." I said and stepped away from the main stage.
The president took the stage and started off with a customary speech of how the capitol had misruled the districts and how the districts had suffered. And then he went on about the revolution and how he believed in a fair rule and that Panem was in better hands now.
"Look around you; do you think you are any better now, than you were with Snow?" I wanted to scream, but I clenched my fists into a ball kept my mouth shut. That hypocrite.
I heard Katniss next to me trying to control her anger. I gripped her hand so she wouldn't do anything stupid. The scene in front of us must really be reminding her of the past.
I don't know how, but we sat through the whole programme. On several occasions either Katniss or I came within inches of killing the president for the way he was acting with the victors.
I was so relieved when the ball ended and we were sent backstage. The president was waiting for us, to congratulate us maybe. But he never got a chance
"How can you do this to them" Katniss screamed.
"Mrs. Mellark I beilive they treated us in a worse manner than the way we are treating them."
"And so, you must treat them the same way?" Katniss yelled, furious. I tried to pull her back but she suddenly lashed out of my hold and hit the president, hard.
"Katniss, C'mon," I said and quickly called one of the security guards to take the president to the hospital while I carried a yelling Katniss out of the room.
"Peeta, how can you let that swine get away with what he just did?" She yelled as soon as I locked the room behind me.
"One day Katniss," I said sighing, "One day we can probably hope for a place with no games at all," My blue eyes met her grey ones, which showed just a bit of grief as I went on, "But that one day will take a longer time to come, we can only hope for that time to be there for when our kids grow up."
"Oh Peeta," she said sighing into my newly pressed shirt, "I wish you weren't this good with words."
I chuckled at that and moved my hand through her hair, trying to comfort her as much as I could, hoping one day that free world would be ours.
Flashback over.
Katniss was really happy that day, and hopeful at the same time; I guess she was dreaming about the Free world as well.
Iris was looking out at the on lookers, starting at the cage. "Something got your attention?" I asked, surprised to a get a blush out of her by just that sentence.
"No, just looking, you know," She said hurriedly and sat back down.
"She's just staring at the guy over there; she was going on about how cute he was." Finnick said making a disgusted noise. If it was even possible, Iris' face got redder.
"Shut up Finnick," She said and walked out of the room.
"Which guy?" I asked Finnick. Katniss shushed me and said, "Let her mind her own business, you don't need to be the over-protective father," and rolled her eyes.
"But Katniss, what if he's not a good guy, what if he's a bad influence on her, what if-"
"She was just staring at him Peeta, chill out." Katniss said and patted my hand.
Just then someone knocked on our door. "You are ready to go," a guard said. Sighing, I got up.
Page break
The stage was lit up as soon as we entered. The capitol people had been put into a cage like area, but were able to watch and hear us. They had been forced into too much misery and had to suffer too much of loss. The fact that the capitol people were being treated in the same manner we'd been treated before The Battle, made me wish I hadn't stopped Katniss before.
I met her eyes and could see the fire surging through them, and I knew she would gladly carry it out right then, but I wanted to humiliate this egotistical man in a worse way, and in my way, so I just shook my head and smirked.
She smirked back, knowing I'd be able to stun the audience as soon as I had a mike in my hand.
I looked around, looking for the guy who Iris seemed to think was cute, but Katniss nudged me on towards the mike.
"Hello everyone," I started, surveying the crowd and knowing that this was the perfect time to revolt against the districts. "My name is Peeta Mellark, and this is the lovely mocking jay Katniss Everdeen!" I said pointing at probably the most beautiful woman in the world.
A/N : Sorry again it took so long... I was having a major writers block, and some school stuff going on. ( Who doesn't hates homework?)
So thank you again for the reviews! And I hope this one stood out.
