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The Growing Light in the Darkness	By : SWSWWAD Category: G through L > Hunger Games, The Views: 2343 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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I collapse to the ground as the full weight of the situation hits me, people died because of us just now. All we said was a few words from the script the Capital gave us and Katniss said few words for Rue and Thresh, she said nothing more than a few good things about them and yet people were killed for it. I feel all the warmth drain out my body and into the cold stone floor below, I don't know how we could have made things so bad. One maybe three people are dead and the Peacekeepers, I can hear them from in here shouting at the crowd outside to go. I hope Rue's and Thresh's families are ok, they wouldn't harm them would they? No I don't think so but then again I didn't think that old man would have been shot through the head, I can just hope that they are ok. I feel Katniss kneel down next to me and put an arm around my shoulder, I must be freezing because I feel her shiver and pull me closer to share her warmth. Katniss's warmth seeps into me but it is not enough as I feel it drain from my body almost as soon as it enters, I don't think I will other feel warm again after seeing that execution and knowing that it was mine and Katniss's fault. Those words did cheer up Rue's and Thresh's family but now an old man is dead and they may be endanger because of those words, because of those words they may suffer and die as well as the rest of the District judging by the angry shouts coming from the Peacekeepers. The price of those words is way too high, we should have just stuck to the script and said nothing more. People have died and more will suffer, all I can do is hope that no one else will die because of our words.
I feel Katniss pick me up off of the floor but my body has gone stiff and cold, I am slow and barely feel getting up apart from coldness and the little warmth I can feel from Katniss's. All I feel is coldness, guilt and a numbness that drains all other feels but the cold and guilt from my body. Even with Katniss so close I can't feel her, apart from a little warmth all I can fell is a solid mass as if I am leaning against a stone wall. Katniss and I look at each other and in her eyes I see the same guilt that I am feeling as well as shock, her beautiful grey eyes are wet with tears that she is holding back. She must feel worse than me being the one who said those words but yet she is still holding up better than I am, she should have collapsed and I should be the one holding her up. I always knew Katniss was strong and admired that about her since that day we meet, she holds me up when I should be holding her up and still remains calm hiding her emotions even after what just happened. We both saw that man getting shot in the head and his brain pouring out of his body but only I collapsed onto the ground being weak when I should be strong, Katniss needs me to comfort her more then I need to be comforted by her but I am not as strong as she is and too weak to do so. I still am too weak to do so, I just let Katniss guild me into the main room where our Mentors, Prep Teams and Escorts are waiting. I can't let them see me like this, I can't be weak in front of Johanna as she will never let me forget this day or my father because I don't want him to think that I am a weak helpless little girl. I stop us before we enter and stand by myself, I need to be strong like Katniss I think as we enter. When we do we see everyone string at a blank TV looking confused as two more shoots ring out, yet more people may have died because of us. I just hope no one else will.
"What happened out there the TV shut off and then we heard loud bangs?" Katniss's Escort asks rushing over to us and she is quickly followed by everyone else. "Haymitch said a truck backfired but those bang didn't sound like a truck backfiring"
"Haymitch was right" I tell her, its best they don't know about the fresh blood on our hands. "It was just an old truck backfiring"
"Both of you follow us" Haymitch says as my father and Johanna walk up to us.
We leave the other behind and walk out of the room, the Peacekeepers just watch us walk by not really caring what we are doing but I think that will change if we tried to go outside, we walk up a large beautiful marble staircase up a floor where we walk on a worn carpet until we get to a large thick double door. We go through the door and into a large room where the ceiling is at least twenty feet high, with fruit and flowers carved into its surface and paintings of fat winged children staring down at us from every angle. Who could live like this with all those children watching your every move? Vases of beautiful flowers fill the air with a lovely scent but it makes my eyes itch, looking around I see it's also making everyone else's eyes itch as well. I see the dresses Katniss and I will be wearing tonight on racks along the wall so this room must be set up for our use so we can get ready for tonight but before we can even drop the flowers and trophy Johanna rips of my microphone tearing my clothes slightly in the process and Haymitch rips of Katniss's microphone, before we can ask why they stuff our microphone beneath the cushions of a comfy looking couch and wave us to follow them. I get it now so, they want to speak to us in privet and those microphone may still be on capturing every word we say.
As far as I know Haymitch has only been here once, when he was on his own Victor Tour nearly twenty five years ago but he seems to know where he is going, he leads us through the twisting and turning corridors as if he lives he. I don't know how someone who drinks as much as Haymitch does remember so much of a place he has only been once before but he clearly knows where he is going, he leads us through the narrowing corridors which seem to get narrower and narrower with every step and only stops to opens doors which from the sound of their hinges squeaking clearly hasn't been opened for several years likely when a younger Haymitch opened them himself all those years ago. Finally he leads us up a leader and into the dome on top of the Justice Building, this is where they must keep their trash because it's full of broken furniture and everything is covered in dust inches deep. Rusted weapons lay in broken racks and piles of books and paper work fill the gaps between the old busted furniture, we all gather in the room kicking up years of undisturbed dust as we move and when we are all up here Johanna loudly slams the trap door shut creating a massive dust cloud and most likely alerting everyone in the building that we are here. Once out here everyone turns to face Katniss and I gathering close around us to hear every answer to the questions they are going to ask, once they have all gathered around us Johanna is unsurprisingly the first one to speak.
"What happened out there?" Johanna asks staring at us, paying so close attention to us that it is imposable to lie to her without being caught out. "I know what gunshots sound like and I know I heard them then after the TV went blank"
"The Head Peacekeeper shot and old man who whistled" Katniss tells her, she must see there is no point in lying too because she is straight to the point with her answer. "He did a salute that the rest of the crowd copied and they dragged him to the stage… They shot him in front of everyone"
"We don't know what happened after then" I take over seeing Katniss struggling to relive those awful moments when people was killed because of her speech, now it's my time to be strong for her like she was to me. "The Peacekeepers pushed us inside the building before the old man's body hit the floor, I don't know anything about the other shots apart from that they were gunshots"
"We know they were gunshots Brainless" Johanna says.
"Are you sure there isn't anything else we need to know about?" My father asks now sounding concerned.
"President Snow threatened us in person before we left" I say seeing them all stunned into silence at the news, we probably should have told them sooner. "He threatened everyone's if we don't perform well on the Tour and then left"
"Why didn't you tells us sooner?" Haymitch ask and I can see sweat drop down his forehead. "I didn't even see Snow when I caused trouble in the Area"
"You two should have told us sooner" My father adds. "We are all in danger, a lot of danger and need to know everything if we all want to get out of it"
"Why didn't you tells us?" Johanna asks sounding angry at the news and like she is about to slap us, hard.
"Not now Johanna" My father tells her blocking her path towards us. "Now isn't the time you can wait to we are back on the train"
"Fuck that" Johanna curses trying to get past my dad but he blocks her at every turn. "Our lives are in their hands and they keep stuff like that from us, they don't have the right to keep that a secret we fucking deserve to now stuff like that"
"Calm down now isn't the time" My father says to her still stopping her from slapping us. "If you hit them how will you explain the bruises, think about this Johanna they are on camera again in a few hours" Johanna stops struggling to attack us finally starting to see sense but she still looks extremely pissed. "We can't have them going on camera beaten to a pulp and not able to walk, we need them look beautiful or will be in even more trouble trying to explain how they were injured between now and then"
"Fine I won't hurt them" Johanna angrily replies before she walks back to the trapdoor and lets herself out stopping down the ladder, we can still hear her angry stomps for minutes afterwards storming away from us.
"Is that all you were keeping from us?" Haymitch asks sounding annoyed but not like he is going to hospitalise us like Johanna would have done if my father weren't have stopped her. "If there is anything else you need to tell use now or Johanna really will kill you two"
"No there is nothing else" Katniss answers shaking her head slightly scared, I am too I haven't seen Johanna that mad in a while and last time it didn't end well for the person who pissed her of.
"That meeting with Snow is the only thing we didn't tell you" I add.
"Ok, now we know we really need to tell you to be on your best behaviour and now more speeches just read from the script" Haymitch tells us and I feel Katniss tense up, him saying that is likely making her believe that if she hadn't of said those words to Rue's and Thresh's families that old man would still be alive. "Now let's get back to the Prep Team and dressed for tonight"
Katniss and I retrace our steps back down to that room with the tall ceiling and winged children watching us from every angle, I am again surprised at Haymitch's memory of this place because twice Katniss and I get lost on the way back down. When we do enter the room I am surprised that the Prep Team are so calm considering what has happened but then I remember that they don't know, they think it was some old truck backfiring and not gun shots ending some innocent person's life. They are still happy and talkative as they dress us, fix our hair and paint our faces with all kinds of makeup. By the time they are done I am fed up with hearing them talk about pointless things like what food they think will be at the party and what they hope it will be like, I feel like yelling at them or punching them but I don't knowing I can't do anything that could make our terrible position worse. When I am done I am standing in front of a mirror staring at myself and trying to hold in my frustration, thankfully my feelings don't show on my face. I am wearing a long dress that goes down to my feet and is the colour of wheat, high heel shoes and minimal make up. My hair is left long tucked behind my ears, it has been washed and massaged but left as it normally is. I look across to Katniss who's being prepped by her team on the other side of the room and see she is wearing the same dress as I am only her hair is braided not left flowing as mine is, her face is also clear of makeup like mine is with just the bare minimum needed. Not that Katniss needs any makeup to look beautiful, she always is beautiful.
Once we are dressed we line up with our Mentors, Escorts, Prep Teams and Stylists ready to enter the ballroom and join the party. Even through the thick large wooden doors I can hear music playing and the faint mumbles of people talking loudly, it sounds like the party is already in full swing and everyone in there is having fun. As a new song begins to play we start to step forward, first our Prep Teams enter, then our Escorts and Stylists and finally our Mentors leaving Katniss and myself alone for a short privet amount of time. Katniss grabs my hand and we both turn to each other and smile, we nod saying in that action we are ready before we join the party ourselves. The ballroom has just as high ceiling as the room we were prepped in but this one has a beautiful painting of a field of corn on the ceiling instead of the creepy fat children with their eerie unblinking eyes, this room is wider too with marble columns holding up the ceiling and bright chandeliers hang seem to be floating in above us. We have to descend a stair case to get to the party as we do so hand in hand I scan the room, there is a large punch bowl and tables of food lining the wall to our left, the wall too our right has tables already overflowing with people running its length and the back wall has a stage where a band is currently playing. Finally in the centre of the room is a large dance fall filled with people watching Katniss and myself descending towards them, they clap and cheer us giving us both a warm welcome but I can feel Katniss feeling uneasy beside me. I can feel her hand squeeze mine tighter hunting slightly but I don't show any signs of pain, I can feel the palm of her hand start to fill with sweat and shake as we descend. Katniss is never good in front of a group unless on rare occasions like on stage earlier when her eyes fill with fire and she truly becomes the girl on fire.
"Relax they will only want a few pictures and words from us" I whisper to her as we continue to walk and as if on que a bright flash from a camera blinds me, what is it with these bright flashes on the Capital cameras? It's almost like they are trying to kill me which isn't that fare fetched, after all we are a thorn in President Snows side. "In a few minutes most will be too drunk to even remember we were here" I nod towards Haymitch who with Johanna is already half way through a bottle of something, they are not the only ones drinking ever as nearly everyone has a drink in their hands and by the looks of some of the people swaying it isn't their first. "Just smile and it will be over before you know it"
"Ok" Katniss whispers back as she stops shaking and loosens her grip on my hand, she's still sweating though but it's not really noticeable unless like me you are holding her hand. She puts on a smile and so do I, it's a lot easier since the feeling of blood flowing to the hand Katniss nearly crushed feels amazing but nothing compared to the feeling of holding Katniss's hand.
"Miss Everdeen, Miss Littleton can I ask you a few questions?" A man holding the camera asks stepping forward rising a device closer to us, I don't know what it is called but I have seen them before and know that it is used to record voices. "I am a reporter from the Capital National Newspaper and our readers want to know more about you two"
I see Katniss nod so I know she agrees to do this, so do I hoping that this could improve our terrible situation right now. So hoping that we will be safe if the people of the Capital likes us I give our reply as politely as I can, it won't do us any good if they call me rude in all the papers around Panem so I have to be extra polite to this man. "Yes we would love to answer your questions"
"Great first off what is it like living together?" The man asks clicking on the device.
I don't know how to answer that. Living with Katniss is so good you could write a whole book and still not cover how good it is, how could I answer this? Its nice waking up next to Katniss seeing her beautiful sleeping face on those rare days I am awake before her leaving me breathless at the sight before me, feeling the warmth of her body lying next to mine is so incredible and feeling her breath against my skin making it tingle and my body shiver is unlike anything else in the world. But how can I tell him that? How can I tell him that sleeping in the same bed as Katniss is so fantastic without him twisting those words into some embarrassing story for his reader to loss themselves in. I could tell him that spending every day with Katniss has made my time before dull and depressing and makes me see a bright happy future, but that could back fire too if he asks me what we get up too. How can I possible say that illegally punching in the woods surround District Twelve is a good thing? Saying that will get us into more trouble than we can possible imagen, saying that will lead to the deaths of all those we love. So what can I say that can't be twisted or used against us? I got it, I can talk about Katniss's wonderful family. That could work very well, Johanna already told me everyone loves Katniss's sister Prim so I can't go wrong by talking about her.
"It's working out better than I thought" I tell him with a smile. "I thought it would be awkward with Katniss's family but they accepted me like I was already part of the family and made me feel at home with them in District Twelve"
"Ok" Her replies turning to Katniss, I just answered his question so why does Katniss have to answer it too? "How is it for you Miss Everdeen?"
"Um well I was nervous at first about it" Katniss answers doing her best to hide her nervousness that I feel in her hand. "Like Lisa I was nervous about how my family would react but they were fine with it, after that we grew closer together and I showed Lisa around the District. Since then we have been happy together, so it's all going well with us living together under one roof"
"Ok next question" The man says looking at a plastic note I can just about see taped to his wrist. "How of your lives changed since the Hunger Games ended?"
"They are the same as before" I tell him, I can't mention the nightmares seeing how that could be a bad thing to say. "We live in a bigger house but we go about our lives as if nothing happened, we are happy though since now we have each other"
"Like Lisa said" Katniss adds as the man looks to her for an answer, again I don't see why my answer isn't enough. "We are happier but live a normal happy life in District Twelve"
"Last question" The man says again looking to that note tapped to his wrist. "How is your relationship going?"
"It's going great" I quickly tell him not liking that he would doubt Katniss and my love for each other like it isn't true. "We are happy together, we do argue but so does every couple and we always make up within an hour"
"Like she said" Katniss answers. "We argue from time to time but are happy together and always make up"
"Thankyou" The reporter replies with a slight nod of his head. "Enjoy the rest of you evening and í wish you two have a long happy life together"
"If only you knew how our lives could end at any second" I think as I watch him leave.
"Do you want to dance?" I ask Katniss nodding towards the dance floor, Katniss looks unsure whether or not to accept so I lean in close and whisper. "It will get us away from these people"
"Ok" Katniss replies with a small nod of her head and a small blush on her cheeks, I lead Katniss over to the dance floor where we start to dance a dance taught to us by our Escorts. This dance is slow one where you hold your partner close and move in beat of the music, we practiced on the train with Johanna constantly mocking us but that feels like nothing compared to the stares we are receiving from the crowd around us that stare at us dancing like they have never seen dancing before. "I don't think dancing to escape attention is working"
"But it's not as bad this way" I tell her as I spin her on the dance floor. "At least this way we get to have some fun and are distracted from their stares"
"I guess so" Katniss says with her small smile growing bigger.
"Now let's just have some fun and forget about everyone who's watching" I tell her as we continue to dance. "They are just jealous that I am the one dancing with you and they aren't"
With that we enjoy the rest of the party dancing together, eating some fantastic food that must have come from the Capital and have a great time together. By the end of the party my feet hurt and I am exhausted, but Katniss and I still have a big job to do. We have to get Haymitch and Johanna who by the end of the night are passed out drunk, we have to drag them back to the train with little help from the others who are a little drunk themselves and they are barely able to stumble back to the train themselves. But somehow we make it back to the train on time and as soon as we are on board the train departs from the station, we all head straight to bed since it already is two in the morning and we are all exhausted. Katniss and I don't even bother getting undressed we just take of our shoes and dive into bed falling asleep as soon as our bodies hit the pillows, too much has happened today.
When I open my eyes again but I am no longer in mine and Katniss's bed on the train or next to Katniss, I am laying on the floor of some cave in the middle of a forest. This cave looks familiar, the forest outside also looks familiar too, I have been her before but I don't know when. I step out of the cave and into the woods I know I have been here before everything looks so familiar, the sky is blue with no clouds in the sky and the sun is just about to set. I can already see the stars start to appear in the sky and a big full moon, it's too big and bright to be real though and something else seems off with the moon. Everything seems off with this place, the leaves on the trees are too green, the smell of the forest too strong and even the sun doesn't seem right. Everything about this place seems so wrong but so familiar, where am I? I continue to walk through the trees as the sun gets lower and the forest gets darker, a cold wind start to gentle blow through the forest and in this hay coloured dress I am wearing it cuts right through me making me shiver. Where am I and how did I get here? I need to know what is happening, the last thing I remember is falling asleep next to… Katniss, where is Katniss? Is she somewhere in the forest too? I have to find her, I need to know if she is ok.
"Katniss!" I start to run forward calling out Katniss's name, I run, stumble and make my way through the forests as fast as I can needed to know Katniss is ok. It's only when I get to a small clear that I stop, right when I am in the middle of the clearing some feeling of dread makes me stop. "Katniss!" I call out again, I know it's no pointless that the feeling that made me stop couldn't have been from her but I have. I have to, she may be nearby and hear my voice. It's now that I hear a loud sound of a tree trunk being snapped. I turn around in time to see a massive tree collapse in the woods where I came from just seconds ago, what did that? What could have the power to snap a tree as if it is a twig? I look around me but see nothing but trees and leaf's around me, no birds or any other animals are in sight like something scared them off. But something is out there I can hear it moving around snapping branches as it goes, it's getting closer but I can't see it. What is out their? "Who's out there?" I yell out demanding whatever is heading my way to speak up, it already know I am here so there is no point in trying to hide so I stay here demanding as loudly as I can for whatever is heading my way to identify itself. "Who is out there?"
"Forgotten us already" A snake like voice comes from the forest as another tree is toppled, who have I forgotten? I know no one who has a snake like voice like that but whatever is coming my way clearly knows me, but what knows me? "After what you took from me I thought you would remember me"
"Well I don't" I tell whoever it is, I won't fear whatever it is or run from it. It may be bigger and it may be stronger then I am to be able to knock those trees over but I won't fear it, I will face it and not back down. "So tell me who you are right now!"
"The two you blinded!" I angrily hiss as it bursts into the clearing, now I remember it and where I am. I am back in the Hunger Games Arena, I shack in fear at the thought of being back in this piece of hell. But more frightening is the thing before me, it's an evil creature that nearly killed Katniss and myself during the Games. I look up and see that giant two heading snake staring back at me only this time all four of its eyes are pouring blood out of their sockets with a knife still in one of them, it stares back at me with its blood filled stare hissing loudly in anger. Everything about this creature staring at me is evil, its look, its smell and its purpose. Evil, there's no other world to call a monster that was made to kill children. "You took us eyes" One of the heads hiss a hiss filled with rage. "You made us suffer" The other head hiss but his hiss is full of pain. "No its time to repay you for what you did, it's time for us to get our justice"
"You tried to kill me!" I yell at the monster shaking in fear but not backing down, I beat this thing once before and I can beat it again. "You tried to kill Katniss!"
"Oh yes your girl" The pain filled head hissed.
"She was a taste snack" The rage filled head continues opening his mouth to reveal that its teeth are blood stained… And a braid of… Hair… Katniss's hair. "But you look tastier"
"What did you do to Katniss?" I demanded to know. If that's her blood. If that's her braid. If that's Katniss in its teeth then I will make this monster suffer.
"Like we said" The rage filled head hissed leaning in close enough for me to smell the sickly smell of blood on its teeth. "She was a tasty snack"
"And now we will taste your flesh" The pain filled head tells me leaning back reading its attack.
"Not if I kill you first!" I scream at this monster full of rage that this thing eat my Katniss. "And if you have thought you suffered before you haven't felt anything yet"
"Not on my watch" A cruel cold voice says from behind me but before I can turn around to look I feel a sharp burning pain in my left knee. Fall to the ground screaming in pain and look down at my knee to see a massive gaping hole where my knee should be. "Have fun dying and I'll be seeing you in hell"
"Now then how would you make us suffer?" The two headed monster hiss's mocking me. "We will enjoy devouring your flesh and crunching on your bone" Both of the snake head slowly descends towards me with their mouths open wide, I can't escape or fight back. I can't do anything but die in this monsters stomach. I close my eyes and try not to think of it, I wait for death to take me. "I wonder what you are going to taste like"
I wake up breathing heavily and covered in sweat, my heart is ponding in my chest like there is no tomorrow so hard that I fear it may break my ribs. It was just a dream, another horrible dream that keeps me trapped in the Arena even after Katniss and I won our freedom from that hellhole. Katniss and I are no strangers to these terrify dreams, we've had them for most of the nights since we left the Arena six months ago. I guess what Johanna mentioned at one point was true, you never really escape from the Arena. Something suddenly touches me shoulder, I flinch out of the way and turn to face Katniss. Her eyes are looking at me with the same worried look I've gotten used to waking up to when I have one of those dreams, it's the same one I give her when she wakes up screaming. The Arena fucked us both up, we both have nightmares, flashbacks and are both startled by loud noises. We will never be the same girls that entered that Arena six months ago, now we are two girls who can't sleep some nights and only find comfort in each other's arms. I start to take deep breaths as I try and calm myself down, I move back to Katniss who quickly wraps her arms around me embracing me with her warmth. I wrap my hand around her and rest my head on her shoulder, this is how we always calm down after one of those horrible dreams, we hug until we stop stacking and our hearts are beating as they normally do. We hold each other until we both fall asleep in each other's arms hopping to find sleep again, sometimes we never do and just stroke each other's bodies until we see the sun raising on the horizon. But tonight we both fall back to sleep, wrapped in each other's warmth we once again drift off into a hopefully peaceful slumber.
The next time I wake up the sun has already risen and is shining through the window of our bedroom on the train, we only have a day of traveling so no one has come to wake us up since judging by the position of the sun its nearly midday. I blink myself awake to the beautiful morning or midday or whatever it is that is soon replace by a more beautiful sight, I see Katniss still fast asleep lying next to me. There is nothing more beautiful than her, Katniss is the definition of beauty itself. I could spend the rest of my life just lying next to Katniss watching her sleep and want nothing else, seeing her sleeping face makes me feel all warm inside and I just want to kiss her cute sleeping face all over. But I don't, I know if I do that then I'll want to do other things. Those other things Katniss will definitely not want to do and I don't want to force her to do those things, Katniss is pure innocent and clueless in those matters. She doesn't get Johanna's jokes and blushes when we kiss in public, maybe in time we will do those things but not right now. Get now I am tempted to do those things, I feel my face redden with the thought and a heat start to burn within me. It just so happens that Katniss choices now to wake up and see that I have red with the thought of do those things to her, she looks at me with confusion and worry as she sits up.
"Lisa what's wrong?" Katniss asks look closely at me, why does she have to be so close when I have thoughts like this circling through my mind. She so close that I can smell her scent and feel her breath hitting my lips, I wish she would back up she's only going to make those thoughts in my head stronger. "You face is red, you're not sick are you?"
"No… I'm fine… Perfectly fine" I quickly answer hoping she would leave it at that but she won't, I can see that the worry and confusion in her eyes are still there and growing stronger. "I'm perfectly fine"
"Are you sure?" Katniss asks putting her hand on my forehead. "You don't have a fever"
"Like I said I am fine" I tell her already knowing what is causing this, but Katniss doesn't and its best that she doesn't find out. She would kill me if she found out what I was thinking of doing to her, I don't want that. "It must have happened in my sleep"
"Are you sure?" Katniss asks removing her hand from my forehead. "You can tell me if anything is wrong, I'll still love you and will help you as best as I can"
"Nothing's wrong" I tell her, she can't know what I am thinking of.
"Ok but we should probably get up and get some breakfast" Katniss says sliding her feet off over the edge of the bed, she doesn't know what time it is.
"I think you mean lunch" I say causing to look back at me as if I really am sick but she quickly realises that I am right. "It's nearly midday"
"Oh… then let's get ready and go get some lunch" Katniss says with a small smile. "I can't remember the last time I slept in this late, I'll use the shower first if that's ok"
"Yeah sure" I reply laying back down. "If I fall back to sleep wake me up when you are done"
With that I watch Katniss walk into the bathroom attached to our bedroom, as I watch her I am wounding how she never slept in before. That's one thing Katniss and I don't have in common, I sleep in whenever I can or whenever I can't be bother to go to school while as Katniss always wakes up before the sun has even risen over the horizon. I just don't get how and why she does that, I can sort of understand waking up after a bad nightmare but not by choice. I close my eyes and listen to the shower turn on and Katniss start to hum a tune, she has a beautiful voice but only sings in the shower and rarely anywhere else. I love hearing her singing voice and wish to hear more of it but Katniss to too shy to sing in front of people so I only get to hear her right now because she thinks I am going back to sleep, I hate eavesdropping on her but it's the only way to hear her beautiful singing voice. So I lay here with my eyes closed losing myself in her wonderful voice, I am almost disappointed when I hear her stop and the shower turn off. I keep my eyes close as I hear the bathroom door open and Katniss walk in, I'm tempted to look as I didn't see her bring any clothes in there with her so right now she should be only wrapped in her towel but I don't, I don't want to look at her like that with these thoughts still in my head. But once I get in there and have a cold shower I sure I will be back to normal. I open my eyes when I feel Katniss gentle shake my shoulder, I was right all she is wearing is her towel and she is staring down at me with her hair still damp and a warm smile on her face. But the way she's leaned down to shake me awake is causing me more problems than just waking me up, I can see down her towel onto the top of her breasts. Yeah I really am going to need a cold shower, a really freezing cold one.
"The showers free now" Katniss tells me completely clueless of the effect she's having on me right now.
"Ok" I reply turning away from her as quickly as I can without making it look like I don't want to see her.
I make my way into the bathroom and switch the shower on making the water come out as cold as it possible can, I can't believe how much of an effect Katniss has on me. I jump into the shower shivering as its cold water covers my body like a blanket of ice, this is what I need right now and I can almost feel those thoughts wash out of my body and drain out of the shower with the freezing water. Eventually I have to turn the shower up so the warm water stops me from becoming an icicle but before I do I make show all those thoughts are gone from my head, with the now warm water I scrub my body until it sparkles. I use what the Capital provided for us to wash with and find that they are full of lies, what I used claims that it will make me smell like a summer's day but it only smells like one of those strong perfumes that over powers you senses. Whoever made this stuff is ever a big liar or doesn't have the sense of smell because this smell is way off from that off any summer's day that I have smelt. Once I am done making my skin shine and sting I get out and dry myself off, like Katniss I didn't bring in my clothes with me so I too walk out and see the room a mess. Katniss is nowhere to be seen so she must have already left to go get something to eat but she's not a messy person, no Katniss is neat and tired and would never leave the room like this. What if somethings happened to her? No she's fine no one would hurt her she is need on this tour, the Capital need her to be on this tour so they won't harm her. They will wait until the tour is over before trying something like that, she's fine Katniss is just fine. I know she is, she is fine right? Johanna enters the room seconds later her eyes widening at the mess and her lips turning into a smirk, Katniss must be alright if Johanna is like this.
"Seems you two had a fun night, it makes sense why you two missed breakfast now" Johanna says with a whistle as she looks around mine and Katniss's room examining the mess. "Now get Katniss and come on lunch will be served soon and you two need to eat something"
"I think Katniss already left, she had her shower before me and wasn't here when I got out" I tell her as I start to dress myself.
"Well she isn't there" Johanna tells me as the smirk leaves her face. "How long where you in the shower?"
"A few minutes why?" I ask her as it hits me, Johanna would have come from the dining cart, she didn't see Katniss and the rooms a mess. Something must have happened to Katniss! This mess looks like a struggle and Katniss is gone. Where is she? "Where is Katniss?"
"I don't know but we need to tell the others" Johanna says as I quickly rush to finish dress, I have to find her. "The train is stopping for fuel in two hours, we have until then to find her because after then they could easily leave the train and we'll lose her trail"
"We have to find her" I tell her as I go to leave but she stops me by grabbing my arm, I look at her as I try to break free but Johanna has always been stronger than me. "Let me go!" I yell at her, I need to find Katniss. "I'll start looking while you tell the others"
"No" Johanna firmly replies as I give up on freeing my arms, her voice is enough to tell me that it's pointless to even attempt to escape. "Listen Brainless whoever took your girl may be after you too so we are going to tell the others together and then you are not leaving my sights, got it?"
"Yes" I say knowing in my mind that it's the right thing to do but my body is screaming that it's the wrong thing to do, all I can think about is Katniss in danger at the mercy of someone while I am here doing nothing to find her.
"Ok stay close" Johanna tells me as she pulls me out of the room and down the corridor, her grip never losses and her pace never slows down but thankfully her ace is a quick one meaning that soon we can begin the search for Katniss. Don't worry Katniss soon we will find you, Haymitch, Johanna, my father and I will find you and I swear I will make whoever took you suffer for it. Come to think of it Johanna has come to this conclusion too fast, I thought she would never believe this to be true but she came to this conclusion without me even saying it.
"Johanna what's going on?" I ask her as we walk, she knows more than me that much is clear. "You seem to know more about this then I do"
"Something I hoped would never come up" Johanna answers looking down at the floor but not slowing her pace. "An old friend of mine said that a group of people wanted both you and Katniss dead, I trust him enough to know that it's true what he says but I never thought they would make a move"
"I can't believe you!" I scream at her, after she stormed off yesterday saying we have no right to hide things from her I can't believe she would hide something from me. "You tried to hit me yesterday and know you are doing the same and Katniss is gone!"
"I guess we are even" Johanna comments. "Now let's hurry up and tell the other, the sooner they know the sooner we can find Katniss"
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