Hey guys, sorry I haven't written in a while, I went to Bulgaria, then I had to read a Shakespeare book for school.
Clove POV:
I scream again and again, I can't hold it in anymore. When Snow takes me everyday to torture me, it's agonizing. The only thing that keeps me sane during the torture is thinking of Cato and Stephen. I am dragged back to my cell, bloody and limp, as usual, and am thrown in. When I look up, I only see Johanna.
"Johanna?" I barely whisper, my throat is raw from screaming.
"Yes Clove?" she asks, looking at my wounds. Today it was fire again, so there were no deep cuts.
"When is Annie and Stephen?" I ask, looking at her carefully. I was keeping my expression normal, but inside I was worrying. What if they took Stephen to torture him? What is he's dead?
"Cato and Finnick took them," she says, watching my expressions too.
"Cato and Finnick? They were here?" I ask in disbelief.
"Yes."
"And Cato took Stephen? Are they alright?" I say in a slightly panicked voice.
"They're fine, and yes Cato took Stephen," she says.
"Was he happy?" I ask curiously.
"At first he was shocked because he heard your scream, but he took the baby with no hesitation, and I am pretty sure he was happy," she says. I think about what she says for a minute, but then I have to ask.
"Why didn't you go with them?"
"Because I knew that someone had to help you, and Annie has Finnick, and you were stuck here, and Stephen had to go with Cato. So I decided to stay," she says.
"Thank you," I say sincerely. My body is still in pain, but I can manage to sleep a little. All of a sudden, a door opening wakes me up. I sit up and I'm staring into the eyes of President Snow.
"Where are they?" he growls looking around. Behind him I notice are 2 peacekeepers, armed.
"I don't know what you're talking about," I say. Even though I know that will lead to more torture, I'll take it because that means it will protect Cato, Stephen, Annie and Finnick.
"Annie and the baby," he says, crossing the room slowly until he gets in front of me, "where are they?"
"I don't know," I say defiantly. I look up at him with fire in my eyes, then he slaps me.
"I'm going to ask again, where are they?" he snarls.
"I don't know," I say, still glaring at him. He frowns, then snaps his fingers. All of a sudden the 2 peacekeepers behind him walk towards me and grab my arms and pull me out the door. Right when I'm about to leave, Johanna screams.
"No! Don't take her take me! I saw what happened, not her!" I look at her and I tell her thank you through my expression. She runs up to me, but gets punched my one of the peacekeepers and falls to the ground unconscious. That's all I see when the big door closes. They put a bag on my head so I don't see where we're going. The next thing I see is that we're sitting in a room. I look around, there is a tv, and I faintly hear buzzing. A feel restraints on my hands and feet, keeping me on the chair. I look to see the peacekeepers and the President and I see that they are all dressed in protective gear. Then I look at a peacekeeper bringing over a clear jar of tracker jackers. I finally realize, they were going to hijack me. I try to get out of my chair, but it was no use.
"Release them," I hear the President's voice command. Then I hear buzzing in my ears and I feel enormous pain everywhere. I feel exactly how each tracker jacker who is stinging me, how their stinger pierces my skin and releases the venom. I know not to scream, because if I do, they could go in my mouth. I don't open my eyes or else I could be blind. I just sit there, in agonizing pain, in a tracker jacker swarm. Suddenly all the buzzing is out of my ears and no other stinger penetrates my skin. I open my eyes and when I do my eyes dart around. I see Cato everywhere and he's kissing another girl. Then I hear Snow's voice.
"Watch me," my eyes move towards him. He starts to speak.
"Cato doesn't love you. He never has and he never will. You got pregnant because he raped you in District 2. He used you in the 74th Hunger Games and pretended to love you because then you would love him back and help get him whatever he wants. But he would never help you, and he would never love you. He tried to kill you multiple times, but it never worked because you ran off. And you will kill Cato because he tried to kill you and never loves you," I process all of what he is saying, but it can't be true, can it?
"I know this is confusing, so I made a video to help you remember," I watch the video. In the back of my mind I tried to keep telling myself that it was wrong. But the venom made my brain think whatever he said was right. When the video was over, Cato was a mutt that had to be killed.
Cato POV:
When we arrived back to District 13, Stephen was taken away from me so he could be checked. I followed him and kept a close eye on him to make sure that he was okay. When it was over, they dressed him and handed him to me again. I go back to my room in District 13 I sit on my bed and look at my child. He had freckles like Clove, and he has her lips. However he has blonde hair and the same blue eyes as me. He looked just like me when I was a baby, except for the lips and the freckles. He was a perfect combination of the two of us. But when I hold the baby I start to cry, because I think of Clove. Her scream echoes in my ears again and again. It was like a never ending tape. I finally get up and wipe my eyes. I walk to the Communication Room with Stephen and find Annie, Finnick, Plutarch, Haymitch, and Coin already there. I walk in and everyone stares at me and the baby.
"This is Stephen," I introduce them. Annie walks over to us.
"May I hold him?" he asks. I nod and hand Stephen to Annie. She rocks him and returns to the group with him still in her arms.
"We have to rescue Clove," I say.
"That was your mission before," Coin says.
"Yes, but she was... taken," I say.
"Taken?" Coin repeats.
"Yes, everyday Clove is taken to be tortured for information about District 13. Clove doesn't know, and I think he knows that and just likes to torture her," Annie says.
"And we have to rescue her and Johanna," I add.
"Shouldn't Johanna be with you, been rescued?" Coin asks.
"She decided to stay with Clove for after the torturing," I say, a lump in my throat just thinking about the torture.
"Then we rescue her, tonight," Coin announces.