AUTHERS NOTE- Heyy!!! yeah well... this is sort of my first book so i am a little uncertin how it will go but whatever and i am so scared of showing my story on here so if you do comment, please be nice ok! :) Btw well this is based off the first book so as long as you have seen the movie or read the book you'll be ok. OK... here we go.
KATNISS POV
I am freezing. I don't know why. Then I realize that I am in a cold sweat. That's why I am so cold. I was watching Hell as Cato, from my first Hunger Games, rips me to shreds with his teeth and then I woke up screaming and in this cold sweat. I am glad though to have the strength and steadiness of Peeta right beside me. He calms me down. I still have an awful nightmare every once in a while but they have come less frequently, Peeta understands why I having a nightmare today: they will be anounceing the Quarter Quell reading today and that can means danger to anyone. Even our childern aren't safe. Being a victor does not give your childern immunity. Our childern are 23 and 16. Annabell is 23. She has won the 90th Hunger Games with the help of a bow-and-arrows. Annabell has inherited almost all of my qualitys: Long flowing burnet hair and deep gray eyes. She also has my build: Short light-weight but strong. I know I was strong when I was Anneabells' age but I think she gets alot of strength from her father, Peeta. I am almost certin that is the only trait that she got from her father. Bliss (17) on the other hand is an exact combination of Prim and Peeta. She has the long flowing blonde hair and the azure blue eyes that sparkle with every blink. She is so vivacious brilliant that every time you look at her you just take a step back and have to take a second look. Prim was like that. Bliss has the healing hands of an angel and doesn't even have to try at that. She has the cooking ability of her father too. Even his good wits too.
I take one last look at Peeta give him a hug and ask Peeta to make something delectable for breakfast so that it might... take our minds off of what will happen in the near future. I head out to the kids bedroom. I am almost certin that Bliss climbed in with Annabell because today, for our family, is the worst day that we will ever have. I decide the best chance at finding them would to go to Annabells' room. Sure enough they are curled up together. Bliss' head rests on Annabells shoulder. They look cute. As if an old joke to our family, I ring out "It's the start of a big, big day," in some ridiculous over exagerated capital voice. They don't wake up so I resort to the bucket. I fill up two buckets: one with freesing cold water and the other with close to boiling water. I yell out to them "The bucket is coming" The girls just moan so I go over to their side and first I dump the freezing water on them, which, makes them yell. Then I dump the insanely hot water on them. Their! That woke them up. They just laugh because that happens to them almost every day and ot doesn't really phase them any more. I tell them to be down for breakfast in a half hour and then leave.
Annabell and Bliss arive for breakfast together. They are really trying to foreget about the Quarter Quell annoucement. They are just acting regular so I try my best to act like nothing is wrong when, infact, I am scared for my childerns lives. But, the fact is, their is no worse feeling than to think that you can lose your child, it really tears you apart. Just the not knowing, you think that your childern will be safe because they have you to protect them but, their is no telling what the future will hold. I have always thought that I have been in control but, this is the one thing that is out of my hands.
I dart out and leave the room not being able to bear all of this terrable time that we call the present. I close Peeta and I's bedroom door but then I hear Peeta come after me and I lock the door. I wish I could just block him out but, when he knocks on the door I can tell he will not leave until I open the door so I let him in. He asks me whats wrong. I reply "WHATS WRONG!? Our kids could be dead in a few months because of this and you don't know WHATS WRONG?." In return Peeta just gives me a kiss as light as a feather on the top of my head and wispered in my ear "I know that your upset but you don't even know what the card will say when President Snow pulls it out of the box, and for our kids sake, please calm down I do not want them to get worked up about this, ok," I understand his logic give him a serious stare and reply "Ok".
We then finish our delectable breakfast in silence. So much for trying to make it like a normal day, I think.
I try to pass time by going out to the woods to hunt with Annabell. I have taught her all that I know and I have to say, she is a phenomenal shot. She hits every single animal with ease, and directly in the eye too. When I was her age, I was lucky to take down a deer, she can hit every deer and hit it directly in the eye. I am amazed by how much she looks like me and has all my abilitys and then some. She has taken down 2 deer, 3 squirles, and 1 rabbit all in one hour. That's when we both see it. The hint of red flicker in the distance. Three red-haired people have purple faces, like they have been running non-stop. It takes me back to 27 years ago when Gale, my long lost lover, and I were in the woods and we saw two people running as if their life depended on it. A hovercraft picked up the two people and left not seeing Gale or I and now I want to get to these people before the capital does. I do this without thinking, I start running torwards them and yelling out to them they try and dart the other direction but I get to them before they get too far. They start yelling foul words at me and thats when it materilizes. The hovercraft from above shoots down a claw, like they would in the Hunger Games, and tries to pick up the one man among them. He shifts his body away from it and dodges it so percisley that he aviods getting cought. I tell them to follow me and they follow obediently, no questions asked. I get them to run as fast as their phyicaly unstable bodies will let them.
I'm sure they recall who I am. First of all I am outside of District 12 and second of all I have a bow and arrows so if they have a brain they can probably put the puzzle pieces together. As we are running to safety I grab Annabell by the hair and pretty much start dragging her because she won't get off her lazy butt and move. She is quite heavey since, she has the thousand animals hanging from her belt, and of course, that slows me down. We have finally reached the fence that surrounds the outside of District 12 and are about to go under when I catch it. The faint hum in the air. I know it is the sign that the fence is on. I jerk back insantantaneously and think I get whip-lash but, I must move on. Annabell is on her feet by now and is on the move. I know the perfect thing to do. Climb a tree.
I scour the nearby trees in search of the perfect one. Then I spot it. Right above me is a easy enough tree for my new "friends" to climb. I show them how to climp and, to my surprise, they are easy learners and can climb fast and swiftly.
After hours of waiting up in the tree with our overly exaggerated "friends" from the capital I am certin that the hover craft has moved on and not in our pursuit. The people say thanks, wish us luck, and head their own seperate ways.
Annabell and I get home just in time for the reading of the card for the annual Quarter Quell.
We all gather around the T.V. hand in hand and listen intently so we don't miss a word of the reading. This year President Snow has on a satiny blue tux and has white as snow hair. He has the little boy with the navy tux and only looks like a day over seven comes up and opens up the box. In it holds years prepared of Quarter Quell readings. Snow picks up the envelope marked with the number 100 and unseals it and he reads "On this 100th Quarter Quell as a message to the rebels that not even the strongest can over come the rebels, Two siblings will be drawn out the exsisting pool of victors childern, but, their is a twist and I'm not allowed to tell you until the reaping happens. Good Luck! Andy hapy Hunger Games!" My jaw drops wide open and Bliss lets out a squeal and drops her head into Peeta's lap. Annabell ha sno clue how to react: She was a child of the parents who won the 74th Hunger Games. She was reaped for the 90th Hunger Games. She now is going to be in the Hunger Games again.
Annabell darts out of the room before anyone can stop her. I know exactly where she was heading out to: The Woods. For both of us that is the only place that we have sanity. I sprint after her. I catch up with her and she is making these crying choking noises and all I do ia cuddle with her and make soothing noises. She can't bear any more nightmares happening in real life. I just try to comfort her as best I can. After a half hour of this Bliss and Peeta show up. Peeta is flushed and I throw my arms around him and he says he has to tell me something. "Cinna called after you left and word is out in the capital that as that little twist that president snow said well the twist is that the parents of the siblings are going into the arena and Hamitch will be our mentor," his words come gushing out and I can't believe what he has said. I am going back into the arena and I am going back into the place of nightmares.
