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Chapter 4:

A faint recognition crosses his eyes. That's not right. He should know me instantly. I'm too frozen to do anything and he is the one to make the first move. Haymitch grumbles, "I guess we can have a love reunion now." I reach my hand out and say softly, "Peeta." Peeta, still in the peacekeeper's uniform jumps away from my hand when I reach out for him. He reaches for my face, to caress it I think. Instead, he holds me in a choke hold.

I gasp for air as Gale hits Peeta. Gale holds Peeta into the chair as Haymitch calls for the guards. Then, Gale leads me back to my quarters. I try to catch my breath as Gale gently rubs the back of my neck, trying to calm me down. This would feel good, if I were in any position other than this. Why did Peeta try to choke me? These questions buzz through my mind as I try to make sense of it. Gale whispers softly, "It's got to be the Capitol." What does he mean? Before I have the chance to ask, we run into Prim and my mother. My mother has a familiar look on her face. Prim says quietly, "We weren't able to save a dying patient." My mother suddenly snaps up at the sound of Prim's voice. "Oh, hello Katniss. Did you have lunch yet?" I shake my head. Gale says, "That's a good idea. Let's go to lunch Katniss and discuss… what Haymitch brought up today during our meeting at the Control Room." Gale easily hints that we will be talking about my encounter with Peeta.

At lunch, I sit with Gale, Prim, Mother, Hazelle, Rory, Vick, Posy, Madge, and Finnick. Finnick is distracted, probably because he overheard us talking about meeting Peeta. My mother and Hazelle are talking. Rory is trying to talk to a girl his age that keeps walking away from him but it's easy to tell she likes it. It's even more obvious when she blushes when he tells her that she has shiny hair. I look at Gale who isn't eating. Gale asks suggestively, "Do you want to pay Haymitch a visit after lunch?" I nod and say with my mouth full, "I think that's a good idea." After I've finished my lunch and Gale's managed to eat half of his, we walk down to Haymitch's room. Gale stops me before I go in. He says gently, "Don't be too commanding and stubborn. Also, don't be too disappointed if something is wrong. Remember, before this we thought he was dead." I nod and Gale gives me a gentle kiss on the cheek and then tells me to go inside. I ask, "You're not going in?" He shakes his head. "I think you should go in alone. Like with the letter to Peeta. It was supposed to be more private." He was right about the letter but I need Gale there to comfort me if something happened to Peeta. I needed him by my side. I wanted his hand in mine. I take his hand and say, "I want you to be there with me." Gale looks me in the eye, trying to see if I'm just saying that. When he finds that what I said was genuine, he nods and says "Ok." We walk in and find that Haymitch is asleep with a bottle of wine in his hand.

Haymitch wakes up as soon as Gale says in his ear, imitating Haymitch's growl, "Wake up! Or else we'll have to slice your tongue!" He wakes up, startled and looks around with a worried look. He drops his wine and it breaks with a thud on the ground. Then he growls and says, "Oh it's you lovebirds." I speak up, not too demandingly, "Haymitch, I wanted to know-" Haymitch cuts me off and says in his usual tone, "I know I know Sweetheart. You want me to tell you all I know about the boy. Well how about this? Right now I know nothing. The doctors refused to tell me before they run some tests on him." What? Tests? I say, alarmed, "What? Tests? No! They might hurt him!" Haymitch scowls and says, "Don't get yourself all worked up. They're not pouring poison in him. They're just seeing how he reacts to certain things and maybe a small blood sample." Gale looks at me and says, "Katniss, let's go then." I nod and before we leave, Gale says to Haymitch, "Remember to tell us anything about Peeta as soon as you receive the information." Haymitch picks up another bottle and wine that is next to around ten other bottles and says, before sipping it, "Whatever you wish."

After I go into my own room, I lie down and fall asleep instantly. When I wake up, it's long past dinner. It's not like I could tell anyways with us being underground but we have clocks. I get up and see that everyone is asleep and it's 23:12 pm. I know we aren't supposed to wander around after 21:00 pm but it was never a written or spoken rule so I could pretend I didn't know if I were caught. It would be easy to forget a rule anyways if it were written down. There were thousands of them, mainly for safety purposes. I slip out of my room and head for the Control Room.

When I'm inside, I look for the room where they keep people for questioning. I see that they keep the people for questioning that stay there overnight near the medical room. I head over and I pause before I enter the large room.

Inside the room, there are 3 smaller glass rooms. 2 of them are vacant but 1 contains one figure on a bed. I walk over to the one with a person inside it. I peer in and see Peeta's unmistakable figure his bed with his hands and ankles strapped down. I can tell he isn't sleeping because he is trying to get out of the chains that are holding him down. I know that the glass is tinted so I can see him but he can't see me. I reach for the doorknob and am about to turn it when I hear Peeta talking. I pause so I can hear what he has to say and because the door is locked from the inside but for some reason is unlocked on the outside. "No. She is the enemy! She has gone against Panem! Her little rebellion could ruin thousands of lives! Katniss Everdeen must be captured and destroyed!" Peeta yells angrily. Who is he yelling at? There's no one else in there, is there?

Then I hear a second voice, "No. That's not true. Katniss is trying to save hundreds of thousands of people! It's the Capitol that has killed 23 children every year, not Katniss." I freeze. How did Gale get in there? That explains the door being unlocked from the outside. Then Peeta yells, "No! Don't let her fool you! She's going to use you! We have to stop her before she kills all of our loved ones! The Capitol is merely punishing us for doing something we knew was against the law!" Gale said softly, the way he did while he told me that District 12 was destroyed, "No. Peeta… all of your loved ones are already… gone. The Capitol bombed District 12 and your family didn't make it out. It was the Capitol's fault, not Katniss'." Peeta doesn't speak for a moment and then he says, his voice full of anger and pain, "No… it was Katniss' fault! Don't let her kill your loved ones either! She is a horrible… mutt!" I see Gale come out of the shadows and walk towards the door. Then he opens it. His eyes widen when he sees me. "How much of it did you hear?" he whispered. I shake my head and run back to my room. This was worse than I thought. Not only did Peeta kill me but he thinks I'm a mutt! This has to be the work of the Capitol. Isn't it? Now I understand what Gale meant when we were walking down the hallway after Peeta tried to choke me. "It has to be the Capitol." He had said. Why didn't I see it before? I just can't believe it…

I hear the door open behind me. I spin around to see Gale. He comes over and says quietly, "The Capitol somehow used tracker jacker venom to convince him that he was a peacekeeper from District 12 and that he hates you. That's how much I got out of him. I asked him who he was and he said he was named Peeta Mellark and that he was a peacekeeper assigned to District 12. He said he was originally from District 12 and that his soul purpose, ever since the 75th Hunger Games were destroyed, is to capture Katniss Everdeen. The Capitol has used tracker jacker venom to change his opinions on certain things. I saw that the doctors did tests on him too and I saw on a computer that there's something called a hijacker method where they play clips of you and him and use tracker jacker venom to confuse him into thinking he hates you." Then he paused and looked at me. My mouth was open and I couldn't believe that the Capitol had managed to make Peeta hate me so much. I knew it was tracker jacker venom but it still hurt. Then Gale muttered something like "But I can't believe it was possible. I would've loved you no matter what." Then Gale looks up and embraces me, not romantically but more like the way we did when we were a lot younger. He whispers in my ear, "Don't worry. We'll get him back to normal soon. I promise." I bury my face in Gale's shoulders and breathe in.

I trusted Gale more than anyone in the world so I believed him.

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