You can't catch me (Peeta Mellark x Reader)

Chapter 19: Allies or Mutts

Word Count: 1603

Katniss had left to go to District 2. I stayed behind and tried to help Peeta get better. Though I never saw him face to face since the incident, I helped in the background. Once Katniss arrived back, she had into go into the hospital again as she had been shot at. Meanwhile, they wanted me to see Peeta again, and so I did.

I walked into the room in which he was strapped down to a bed of sorts. "I killed you." He said to me as I walked in. I shook my head. "You missed." I told him quietly.

"When I saw you, choaking on your blood. It reminded me of something." Peeta said. "You drown a lot. In the games, in your sleep." I nodded. "Why did you tell me that?"

"I trusted you." I answered quietly.

"You don't talk much, or loud for that matter." Peeta said. "Why?"

"My ears." I answered.

"President Snow said that anything that comes out of your mouth is a lie." Peeta told me, in a stern tone. "But the only thing coming out of your mouth should be water." I stared at him for a moment.

"You don't mean that." I told him, still very quiet.

"I shouldn't have missed." He stated as I walked out.

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After Finnick's wedding, Katniss and I snuck out of District 13 to go fight. I was dressed in all black, just like her, but in my bag was the dress. Once we arrived, me and Katniss walked out of the air craft and tried to stay low. Soon, everyone noticed us and raised their 3 fingers. Then Gale and Paylor came over ad got us.

We watched Payor's speech and she told us about Pods, they are essentially like traps. She went over a few things then ended by saying we were heading to the Capitol at dawn. We were all getting ready to leave when Gale, Katniss and I were asked to me our new unit.

"I'm Lieutenant Jackson, and I wanna introduce you to your squad." A women told us. "This is Second Lieutenant Mitchell, best sharpshooter in Panem. These are the Leeg sisters. First Combat Division, and this is Corporal Homes."

We also saw Finnick walking over, followed by Boggs.

"Squad 451, you're my unit." He said. " Lieutenant Jackson is my 2nd in command. Each one of you is elite in some form of combat. But we are a non combat unit. So we'll be following days behind the front-line troops."

"You're to be the onscreen faces of the invasion. 'The Star Squad'" Cressida said. "It's been decided that you're most effective when seen by the masses."

Boggs told us more about the pods and it sounded like we were entering the 76th Hunger Games. Maybe that was President Snows intention.

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I had debated on wearing the dress. I asked Boggs and showed him the note Tigeris had given me. "Can you defend yourself and run?" He asked me and I nodded. "Then I see no problem, you'll just need to be more careful of what you do and how you do it."

So, there I was, with the rest of the unit. Walking through the ruins of a warzone, in a dress and no weapon but my hands. We all got ready to shoot a small propo of Katniss shooting through two building to set off the pods. Once done, we kept moving.

As we rested, we noticed a truck coming in from the south. Turns out they were people on our side, and they were here to deliver....Peeta. He walked over, head down and Lieutenant Jackson cuffed him. Apparently, they wanted us to add him to the propo to show he was on our side. Katniss was truly against Peeta now. He had seen her too, he said terrible things to her while he was recovering and tried to kill her too. But I had faith that Peeta would one day be Peeta again. I just had to keep my distance and wait.