KILL FOR YOUR LOVE ― the hunger games

(062) the sins of the father

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KILL FOR YOUR LOVE.

act three.

(chapter sixty-two, the sins of the father)

the cells, 75 ADD.

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PEETA MELLARK WAS DEAD. 

That was something, the next morning, that Juniper Hale and Johanna Mason had both agreed on with Annie Cresta nodding absentmindedly. Peeta Mellark had to be dead because he had not come back, his cell empty. About twenty-four-hours had passed and yet, he was still gone. 

Therefore, he was pronounced dead by the three other Victors'. 

Juniper didn't want to believe it, however. She didn't want Peeta Mellark to be dead. She needed him to be alive. She needed him to come back to his cell in a good state so she could mumble her apologies to him. And it looked as if Johanna didn't want to believe it either as she continued to stare at the metal doors, waiting for them to open and for two soldiers' to carry in his limp body.

But they never did. 

"Well... what should we do?" Johanna huffed to Juniper. "Do a memorial? Say a few words?" 

"He's probably not actually dead." Juniper rolled her eyes as she got up onto her feet, clutching her ribs gently. The pain was numbing.

"Firstly, it's been twenty-four-hours," Johanna began to point out. "And secondly, we've pronounced him dead so he's dead. Even Cresta agrees." 

The Hale woman looked over at Annie to see her nodding her head rapidly before saying, "She probably doesn't even know what you're saying. She'll nod her head at anything you say." 

"Probably," Johanna agreed. "But baker's boy is dead, I'm calling it... or, they're slowly moving us." 

"What?" 

"They're slowly moving us," Johanna said. "They've probably taken Peeta this week, then it'll be Annie the next, then you, then me." 

"And why would this happen?" 

"Because that's how they moved us into here," the woman explained. "It was me alone for the first week, then Peeta came, then Annie, and then you. It's only logical." 

"If you think so..." 

There were multiple things that could have happened to Peeta Mellark. He could be dead. He could have moved cells. He could be anywhere in any state. He could be with Clampitt. But Juniper sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. She didn't want Peeta Mellark to be dead. She had spent the past year begging for his murder, but now when she didn't want him to be dead, he possibly could be. Why did nothing ever go her way? 

Still standing, Juniper looked over at Annie. It was true in that she would have no idea what any one of them were saying. She would just nod and nod if you spoke something and aimed it in her direction. Johanna could have been spitting insults at her in a kind voice and she would still nod absentmindedly. She was in her own world and would continue to be unless she and Finnick were reunited.