What if Katniss was captured by the Capitol (Discontinued For now)

Getting to know Jeff

Recap: Once they leave me outside the room I fall to my knees and continue to sob. Katniss, my girl on fire, my Mockingjay, my first and last true love, is dead. I start to shake and I feel a needle pierce the skin of my neck and feel some cold liquid run trough my veins. And before I can react I fall unconscious into a never ending dream full of angles and clouds and, the best of them all, Katniss.

But that's when I wake up screaming.

----Peeta's pov----

I wake up screaming and panting. After a while I realise that it was just a dream and she isn't dead. But she is in the Capitol. And I can't do anything to save her. Tears start to roll down my cheeks as I realise that she might actually be dead.

Then someone knocks at the door to my apartment. I quickly wipe the tears away, fix my wrinkly grey jumpsuit that I sleep in and then I get up to answer the door. When I see who it is I'm shocked. It's Katniss' father, Jeff.

"I heard you scream from across the hallway." Oh right, he and the rest of the Everdeens (apart from Katniss) lives across the hallway from me. The leaders thought it would be a good idea since they thought I would hurt myself. "I went to see if you were alright." He says.

"I'm fine. It was just a nightmare. I've had them ever since the first Games. I shouldn't be affected by them but somehow they find new ways to scare me. I can't go back to sleep after I've had my nightmares." I tell him and he nods.

He looks at the door to his apartment, then back to me. "May I come in? I can't sleep either. And I think it's time for you and I to get to know each other. After all, you're the father of my grand child." He says with a weak smile.

"Sure, why not." I say and open the door wider and let him in and then close it as soon as he's inside. He walks torward the small living-room but stops as soon as he sees the canvas and paint. He looks shocked and impressed. 

"You paint?" He asks me and I nod. "These are amazing! They look so real. You've really made it look like Katniss." He continues and sits down on one of the armchairs. That's all I paint, Katniss.

I sit down across from him. "Thanks. Everything I see in my nightmares is her dying over and over again. Painting her helps me calm down." I tell him.

Then it goes silent for a while before he asks:"How did you realise you loved Katniss?"

I think for a little. "I don't really know. I guess everytime I heard her voice or just saw her I felt happy inside. But I was to shy too talk to her. And in a way I was lucky to get reaped together with her."

"What is your biggest fear?" He asks.

I answer without hesitation. "To loose Katniss. Like I said, my nightmares are about her dying. Before you came over, I dreamed that Katniss was rescued but she was too badly hurt. They did a surgery on her and got the baby out from her stomach. The baby was stillborn and Katniss lost too much blood and died."  I tell him and feel a shill run down my back when I remember my nightmare.

"That's horrible. Ever since I came to thirteen I've been scared that Prim, Lily and Katniss would die when I was away. And for five years I didn't know if they were dead or alive, and Katniss goes into the Hunger Games. I had mixed feelings, I were happy that she and Prim was alive but in the same time sad that my daughter had to go into the Hunger Games." Jeff tells me. "Anyway. Are you happy that you're going to be a father?"

I smile a little. "If it was different circumstances I would be over the moon, if she was here. But she is in the Capitol and Snow can kill her whenever he wants and if he kills Katniss, he'll kill the baby too. I've already lost my parents and brothers and I don't want to loose my baby and... fiancé, I guess." I say and shrug my shoulders a little. "I don't really know what's going on between us. I just wish she could come here to thirteen and she would finally be safe."