Hurt

An Unexpected Turn of Events…

Peeta Mellark's

P.O.V.

District 11

One Month Later

Well, a month has passed since we agreed to visit District 12 and today's the day we go there. As I was packing for the two weeks visit, well not really a visit, more of a vacation. These past weeks have been fun and I asked Shannon to a date just two weeks ago and she accepted. I think she's going to take my mind off Katniss for a long, long time.

Our date was amazing, I took her to a meadow and had a picnic prepared, with tarts and cookies for our little desert. After that night we kind of called ourselves boyfriend and girlfriend. I learned more about Shannon and she has mother and father, one sister, Sun and two brothers, Joshua and Johnny. Her mother and father worked in a power plant and soon her oldest brother, Joshua would too.

After I was done packing I looked at the clock and saw that it was only 11:00 a.m. that means two more hours 'till we go to the train station for our trip. I headed out of my tiny apartment and bumped into Shannon once I was outside.

"What are you doing here?" I asked her.

"Just was coming to see you," she told me.

I nod, "Do you want to go have lunch with me?"

"Sure, but where?

"We can go to the café across the street," I suggested.

She gives me a smile and I take it as a yes. We head to the café having a little more chit-chat about our families. Although mine was gone because of that mutt, Katniss! No! She's not a mutt, she didn't mean for that to happen. I fight with myself until I noticed Shannon had stopped talking. She already knows about the hallucinations so she's just rubbing my arm trying to calm me down.

When I finally gain control again we proceed to the café. I see through the glass windows and see Johanna eating lunch. I look at Shannon and she's already headed to the door to sit with Johanna (or JoJo as I call her now). I sigh; I wanted some alone time with Shannon, but that's not turning out well.

"Hey, JoJo," I hear Shannon say.

What JoJo said was muffled because she had food in her mouth, but I made out some words, "Hey… 1:00… train… right?"

Shannon seems to have understood everything she said and nods, "Yeah, that's right,"

I approach the table and wave at JoJo, "Hey,"

She swallows her food and says, "Hi,"

"We have to be at the train station by 12:30 so we can get our things in the train, find our cabins and just wait 'till it leaves at 1," suggest Shannon.

"And we can meet at the square at 12:15 because it's about 15 minutes of a walk, and we can get our stuff at 12," I add.

JoJo just simply nods and returns to eating. Shannon and I order food for ourselves and dig in like JoJo did (and still doing). After we finish our food we just sit there and talk until we had to go. We go our separate ways and get ready to leave.

I arrive at my apartment and have the trouble putting in the key to open the door. This took a while, until I finally got it open. I grabbed my suitcase and paused for a moment to check my mental checklist of what to bring. I have everything, so I'm set to go.

I'm the first one at the square and a few minutes later Johanna arrived. Now all we had to was wait for Shannon for a while.

"So… How's it going with Shannon?" JoJo asks me.

I smile, "Very good,"

She shakes her head, "I don't think you've moved on from Everdeen,"

"What makes you say that?" I ask, anger evident in my voice.

She smiles mischievously, "I just know,"

Right then Shannon arrives, I'm so grateful she didn't come 5 seconds earlier, she doesn't know about my pretty Katniss. No! She is not pretty! I fight with myself one again until JoJo snaps me out of it. We head to the train station and talked about what we were going to do in District 12. We finally arrive and we give our tickets to the ticket collector. He gives us our room numbers and we head to the directions he gave us.

Our rooms were right next to each other, that's pretty convenient. I settle in to my room and just rest until the train starts moving.

Katniss Everdeen's

P.O.V.

District 2

Same Date

Gale had agreed visiting District 12 for a few weeks. The scheduled time we had to go was 11:00 a.m. and right now it's only 10:30. We didn't have to rush because the train station was like only five minutes away. We ate our breakfast and we already packed our stuff the night before, so that was taken care of.

"I'm so excited!" squealed Madge.

I nod, I admit, I'm pretty excited to see District 12. Madge and I still have been talking about my dreams and nightmares, but I haven't gotten a dream since last month. All of them were nightmares. One of them was Peeta having his fazes and successfully kills me. My boy with the bread had tried to kill me!

I get all the bad thoughts out of my mind and focus on our little trip. It's going to be so exciting! We didn't really do anything in the remaining time, just sit on the couch and talk, sometime later Gale had joined the conversation. We were talking about the times before the reaping.

"Your dad loved strawberries so much!" I laugh.

Madge nods and laughs along, "He was the mayor and he still bought illegal strawberries, that's what I call love,"

That reminds me of Peeta and me, we broke the rules so we could both live. We loved each other or maybe only me now. He probably moved on already.

Gale then interrupts my thoughts, "Your father was mad about them, especially ours,"

I laugh like nothing just happened. We continue talking until we looked at the clock and realized we only had 10 more minutes! "Hurry!" I screamed, "We'll be late!"

We grabbed our luggage tripping over them at times, and ran out of the house with Gale locking the door. We ran to the train station in time, once we got there the train was only a few meters away. Phew!

"That was close," Madge told me.

I nodded, Gale finally caught up to us, and "You could've waited for me!"

Madge and I simultaneously laughed, "Why should we?" Madge asked.

"Because I'm paying for this trip!"

"Oh, right," Madge and I couldn't keep in the snickers in.

As the train came to a halt the doors opened, we entered and sat at the seats nearest the door. I soon fell asleep and had another nightmare.

Nightmare

I was on the same white, plush couch from my wonderful dream, but instead of Peeta being with me the room started to turn black and die. Everything was falling and wilting like a rose. I ran out the door to be in a graveyard. The tombstones had Peeta's name and Prim's and everyone I love. I sank to my knees crying and laying on the ground. I let the darkness engulf me in its evil hands and it was killing me slowly inside.

The next thing I know, a figure appeared before me. They had blond hair and piercing blue eyes. "You killed me! You mutt! You don't deserve to live,"

Another figure came, but they were taller and older, "You didn't save me, instead you saved yourself,"

"Everyone hates you," another voice rang, this time it was a little girl.

Another tear fell, "Why are you doing this to me?"

I can make out the other figure to be my father and he was glaring at me, his eyes full of hate, "YOU DON'T DESERVE TO LIVE!"

I cried more and more not gaining any sympathy from my beloved friends and family. I was being tortured, not physically, but emotionally. I can feel pain inside, but they are doing nothing, but glaring daggers. THAT'S IT! They are glaring daggers and it's ripping up my soul. How could they do this to me?

Something was happening and the figures were running away like I was some type of monster. A mirror appeared beside me and Peeta's thought came true, I became a mutt.

"AHHHHHHH!" something was shaking me and my eyes opened.

End of Nightmare

I wake up to everyone staring at me; there were tears in my eyes and down my cheeks. My eyes were open like a wild animal knowing there was a hunter. I feel so vulnerable right now. The girl on fire lost her flame and is no longer the strong, will powered mockingjay. I've lost it all.

"Are you okay?" I jumped at the voice and noticed it was only Gale.

I swallowed the lump in my throat, "…Yeah… I'm fine…"

Madge shook her head, "You don't seem fine,"

I shook my head, "No, I'm fine, it's okay,"

Madge and Gale nodded their heads, but I know that they didn't believe me one bit. Especially because I was in tears and I might've been screaming. That would explain why people were staring at me like I'm mental, (well, I kind of am). Only one person could help me in my situation and that would be my dear Peeta. I feel no hope for him anymore because he has probably moved on and I guess I have to also.

The train came to a halt and the wheels screeched against the rails. As passengers filed out of the room, Madge, Gale and I waited until most of them were out so we didn't get squished.

"Why were you screaming Catnip?"

"And crying," Madge added.

"Nightmare," I explained.

Madge and Gale looked at me knowingly, "Peeta?"

I shook my head no, "It wasn't just him this time. It was all of them,"

"Who?" Gale asked.

I started to tear up, "Prim, my Dad, Finnick and everyone!"

"Attention passengers, this train will leave in about 10 minutes to District 11," A voice from the speakers told. That was a sign to get out and over to Haymitch's house.

Peeta Mellark's

P.O.V.

District 12

Haymitch's House

As we left the train station in District 12 I could see a lot of things changed in my small hometown. The Hob now looked different and so did the Town Square. Almost everything was changed, except for few things like the Victor's Village. I led the girls to Haymitch's house and knocked.

I was greeted by a familiar face, "Peeta come on in!" He seemed… sober…

"Hello Haymitch!" I greeted the sober Haymitch, "This is my girlfriend, Shannon and you know JoJo,"

Haymitch turns around, "Girlfriend?" He laughs nervously and smiles. He enters the kitchen to get things to eat for us and lay them on the coffee table.

"Yeah, girlfriend," I smile and kiss Shannon's cheek.

"Okay," Haymitch still says in a nervous voice, what is wrong with him?

Just then someone knocked on the door, "I'll get it," Haymitch announced.

He opens the door and I hear him whispering furiously to the person at the door. I can barely make out what he's saying. Something about me and a girlfriend, probably Shannon, but why is he talking about that to the person at the door?

I stride to Haymitch to see what the commotion was about and see the person I didn't want to see right now: Katniss…