Title: Peeta not Katniss Chapter 3
A/N: Sorry, but this is another short chapter. The next one will be longer :)
I woke with a yell.
"My nightmares are usually about losing you. But I'm alright once I know that you're here." I whisper to myself, in the darkness of my apartment in District 13. "But you're not here anymore." I sigh, remembering the time when Katniss and I got through the parade of nightmares each night.
I share my apartment with Finnick, but he is still in the hospital. He has gone a bit unstable. Annie Cresta, the woman that Maggs volunteered for, was the love of Finnick's life. But the Capitol has her now, and Finnick is... well, he isn't copping. I get up from my bed and get the pearl, that I gave Katniss in the arena. Whenever I haven't been able to sleep, or have woken up from a nightmare about Katniss, I rub the pearl along my lip.
It's soothing.
I lean over to the table next to my bed and grab the piece of rope Finnick gave me. He told me that making notes was his way of holding on to his sanity. And lately it's taken all my strength not to fall to pieces. Sometimes painting works too. The other night I woke up in a sweat, and I couldn't stop shaking until I had finished drawing. It was a picture of Katniss lying in the sand, on the beach in the arena. She was asleep and her hair was spread out behind her head. She looked so peaceful.
I keep the picture in my draw with the rope and the pearl. I keep thinking about what Coin said about me being able to rally the districts and become the Mockingjay. I don't think I can do it. It was Katniss' job to do it. We have to rescue her! That should be our main priority. To save the real Mockingjay!
But then, Gale said that to save her, I have to become the Mockingjay.
Maybe...
The next morning I went to the hospital to have breakfast with Finnick and Prim. We did this most mornings. Prim helps Finnick quite a bit. She talks with him, like she does for me. Being able to talk to someone about the horror of the Games is amazing. Prim just listens as Finnick and I talk. Sometimes she gets us to tell her about what Katniss did in the arena, what motivated her to do things. Prim had to watch the Hunger Games, but Katniss never gave the audience a show.
Now that I think about it, Katniss only ever did what she thought would keep us alive. She never gave into the Hunger Games. Katniss never became just a piece in their game...
"I'll do it!" I say as I burst through the doors of Command.
All eyes are on me. Coin looks at me blankly, but I can see the greed and power in her eyes. She thinks I'll be easy to control. She thinks I'm just a baker from District 12. Well, she is in for one hell of a surprise.
"Good." Says Coin.
"But, I have some requests." I could see the slight change in her eyes, telling me that she didn't expect I would have demands.
"Fine. What are they?" She says curtly.
"No matter what happens, Katniss is to be returned to her family, alive Even if the Capital forces her to do things during the war that are considered threatening towards us. She is to be pardoned for her crimes, along with Annie Cresta and any other surviving Victors." Talk erupts from the people in Command .But the only faces I look to for approval are Gale, Finnick and Haymitch, who is actually here for once. Gale looks straight at me, and nods his support, Finnick gives an almost normal smile and Haymitch mimes 'Good job, but keep going!'
"ALSO!" I yell to get their attention again.
"We are going to the Capitol to save Katniss, Annie, Johanna, and any other surviving Victors."
This new request is met with uproar.
A/N: Ooooh Badass Peeta being badass! :) remember to review!