Aftermath (or Be Our Guest)

by Miss Ami-chan

How does Peeta deal with President Snow and his demands? What happens with the Avoxes? How do he and Johanna Mason help each other survive? Memory is malleable, especially when influenced by tracker jacker poison. How is he going to be affected? and how is going to come out? [COMPLETE]

26. Epilogue

I can't keep letting it go like this.

She keeps turning.

She turns and changes and I run. I run and I let her catch me and tear me apart. Why do I do that? Why do I let her get me?

It's too much. It's too much.

I can't breathe.

Why is it me that can't breathe?

I pull at what's choking me. Pull it back. Break it off me. Push.

Push. Push back. I'm strong. It's not her. It's something else.

It's not her.

It's not her.

I can't let her get to me because it's not her.

That's the trick. That's how she gets me. I think it's her but it's a trick. It's always a trick.

Always.

I'm stronger than this.

Claws and doom hiding behind that smile and that laugh.

She has everyone fooled but not me any more.

Not any more.