"Why did they take him?" I ask.
"I'm not sure." Says Finnick.
"I-" Haymitch is cut off by a male scream, and my vision starts to go blurry.
"I know that scream...
It's Peeta's."
Now:
I must be falling over because I feel a male hand grasping my arm. I take a hand, I'm not sure who it belongs too but I grasp it for life. My vision slowly returns and I see everyone standing around me. Mom, Prim, Finnick, Haymitch, Gale, Annie and Madge.
"Gale?" I choke. "Madge?" I feel someone squeeze my hand.
"Hey Kat." He whispers. "How are you?" I scowl at him.
"How does it look? I mean, A bomb blew children to bits, I got burned by fire, again, then you leave to go to District 2! I thought you were dead! Now the first day I've talked to anyone since the bombing, I see Finnick and Annie, get amazing news from them. See Prim, get news from her, cry with her, comfort her. See Peeta, cry to him, get comforted by him, watch him get dragged out for some unknown reason and hear him scream! Now you've come back from District 2, Madge is out of hiding and I'm just utterly confused!" I ramble.
"Well it's good to hear your doing great!" Gale says sarcastically. I laugh.
"Yeah. Great. I've broken down how many times today?" I shake my hand out of his grasp.
"Katniss! Come on! I didn't mean mean what I said about that ting." Says Gale. "Well, I did" he mumbles. "But not literally!" he says louder. "Forget it Gale." I say. He leaves a note on my nightstand and leaves. "Hey Katniss." Whispers Madge.
"Hey Madge. Where's your family? I saw that your house got bombed." "Dad got mama and I out, but he didn't make it. After that Gale got us out of the District and over to District 13 and mama and I were so upset and 'out-of-it' we both got braclets like you did." "I'm so sorry Madge. What are you guys going to do now?" "I don't know. Maybe stay here in the capitol, or in 13, or go back to 12. It's being re-built you know." She smiles.
"Really?" Madge nods. "I didn't think they would."
"Yeah, every District destroyedis being re-built." She looks over and I follow her gaze. Standing beside me with a teary smile is Prim.
"How are you lil duck?" I ask taking her hand.
"I, I'm okay." She says gripping my hand. I look behind her and see Mom. Haymitch in a chair by the door, Finnick standing beside the chair Annie is currently sitting in and Madge now sitting beside my head. I sit up quickly.
"Peeta." I say quickly whipping my head around frantically looking over the room two, three times. "I remember hearing him scream." Mom places her hand on my shoulder to calm me down but it doesn't work. The real thing right now that would calm me is seeing Peeta no capitol flashbacks, no screaming, just Peeta, my boy with the bread.
"Katniss, it's okay." I hear Prim say. "Peeta's fine." she adds.
"But, but he screamed! What happened?" I ask panicking.
"Well, I'm actually not sure mom checked on him after you started to freak out." Prim rubs her thumb over my knuckles. I fall back onto the bed and just as dark starts to overcome my sight I say.
"Oh, I freaked out? Thats not good." I look up at Mom now and she looks farther away. She looks away and I can see streams of tears on her cheeks. "Mom! What happened to him!" I yell. Mom looks back at me.
"His "gaurds" weren't actually his gaurds Katniss. They were Snows peacekeepers. The guys who tourtured Peeta when they took him out of the arena." She says. "They hooked up wires on him and electricity shot through his body. That's when he screamed. Kat, He didn't make it." Says a cruel formiliar voice. Not my mother's voice, no, one that makes me shudder. Even though he is not standing in front of me I can still smell his stench of blood and white roses. It is Presidant Snows voice echoing through my mother's body.