Here's the next chapter! Enjoy! I do not own Mockingjay, any direct quotes will be in italics.
Ch. 5
I knew I wasn't stable. I knew I had come to my breaking point. Why then, did I trust myself to speak? The week had been hard and they had told me over and over again that I got one more chance. I had tried hard to say the right things, but I could only hear the Capitol workers in the back of my head the whole time.
"Yeah, they're sending bombs out there for real." One had said. I knew I wasn't supposed to be hearing this, but I listened anyway.
"Think it will kill 'em?" The other had said. It was like the talk was normal. Killing was an everyday thing in the Capitol. I realized that they talked about District Thirteen.
"That's what we hope." And then I moved onto the front of the camera. I knew I had to tell them in some way. I knew it, but I also knew it could mean my death. So when it came to desperate measures I just spit it out.
"And you…In Thirteen…Dead by morning!" That's when my normal life had ended. Not that it had been normal for a while, just I knew, way deep down in my bones I would never, could never, be the same Peeta I was before.
The night had begun with them killing the two Avoxes that took care of us in the training room. I knew one, Darius, and the girl who they said was Lavania Katniss had known some how though I can't quite remember how. They had made me watch them die. Strapped to the table with my eyes kept open with a weird contraption, I watched the people that did nothing wrong die.
To be honest, I didn't have normal emotions. Maybe if I were completely sane, well-fed, and showered I would have reacted as a normal human being. With tears and cries of emotional pain and maybe just a bit of remorse, but after that night I lost the ability to feel.
They started off with a shot. The needle was long and inside was a yellow thick serum. It wasn't anything they had ever put in me before.
Here I am now. With a new serum in my blood and my palms sweaty I'm sitting in front of a large screen. I know once they turn it on it will be as if I am experiencing whatever they show me on the screen, for it surrounded me on all sides. Something makes me fearful.
Then I see her, but I see her in a different light. She's standing in District Twelve and her face looks fearful, but she doesn't look human. If she were human she'd be an ugly one. It isn't until I hear Effie's voice in the background that I realize it's the reaping. The girl that isn't human looks back towards something, not to me, just towards someone else. Part of me feels like she is going to harm me though. I don't feel safe. I want to get up and run, but I know I am strapped to the seat.
"I volunteer!" The camera angle changes she's running towards me, attacking me. The Peacekeepers try to stop her, but it doesn't help. The scene changes, but the girl keeps running. She has a bow and arrow and just as I notice this she shoots. I close my eyes and I wait for death since surely her arrow will kill me, but it doesn't come. When I open them again, I am back in a room.
"Peeta, are you okay?" A man runs towards me, he has a white rose in his front pocket and his smell isn't pleasant, but he's here to help me. I'll take whatever help I can get, though I'm not sure how he knows my name.
"That monster tried to kill me!" I scream pointing towards the black empty screen. The man's eyes brighten for a second, but I don't know why. The girl could be back any second and this time we could be dead.
"Oh no! It's one of the Capitol mutts again!" He screams. The mutts are out to get me. This one was probably made specifically to kill me.
"Just stay right here. I'll be back." Then he left me alone, scared to death. I wasn't sure what was coming.
A person came in with a needle and though I probably should have I didn't react when they injected something yellow into my bloodstream. The room went dark again.
The same girl that didn't seem human is outside and I see her put something into some kind of mix. Something clicks in my brain as I realize it's poison and it isn't until she's walking towards me with a spoon that I realize she's trying to kill me again. This time more subtly.
She's urging me to put the spoon in my mouth, but I won't listen to her tricks anymore. "No! I know what you're doing, you mutt! You mutt!"
Katniss? Was that Katniss? I turn my head. Why would they be showing me footage from my first Games. To make sure that even my memories are a bad place to go? But they aren't Katniss is in them.
"Katniss?" I say. The screen goes black, a guard rushes in, another needle in my arm. Then I have fear rushing through my body. The room is dark again and the monster is trying to kill me still. Her mouth moves, but I don't hear what she says.
"No! I'm smarter than you, you Capitol creation. You can't kill me!" The scene changes and the monster is nowhere to be seen. Then all of a sudden she is. She has the bow and arrow again.
"I'm going to get you!" She says, though her mouth doesn't seem to move, but that's easily explainable, all mutts had weird things about them. I try to run, but I'm stuck to the chair. It seems my worst nightmares have come true and I am about to die. She pulls an arrow from her back, sets it in her bow easily and shoots. And I knew, right then, I was gone.
Dead.
I hope you liked it! So, tell me what you think of how I did the hi-jacking. I think this might be the most I do with it, next chapter will probably me showing what he's become with it and then him waking up in Thirteen. If you want me to do more hi-jacking then tell me! Your opinion matters! But ultimately what I think is best for my story will happen. But please, tell me what you thought! Don't forget to REVIEW on the way out! Thanks! ~boywithbreadlover
P.S. I can't wait for District Thirteen! I've got some great plans!