100th Hunger Games

The Training Scores

Peeta's POV

After a few intense hours of waiting for our tributes to come back Katniss and I spent most of it cuddled up together in our bedroom hoping that our son will be able to rank up a good score we can work with and push him through the games for a win. We were just resting quietly until there was an almighty bang and a huge shout. I jump up in fright and put my arms around Katniss to protect her from whatever made that dreadful noise. "PEETA & KATNISS MELLARK, GET IN THIS ROOM NOW!!!" The voice screams from the other room. I stagger out the room with Katniss close behind me. We get into the living room to find Effie in a right state holding our son by the back of his training shirt. I start to clench my fist tight in anger.

"No Effie, please let Finn go, please don't hurt him." Katniss screams before running over and trying to release Finn for the grip of Effie. The other tributes step out the elevator to find the fight and quietly edge out to their room and keep out the way. Some notice me and say "What's going on?", "What's happened to Finn?" or "Why's has Peeta's eyes gone black?" I can't stand it any longer.

"YOU FILTHY STINKING MUTT! IT'S YOUR FAULT FINN IS HERE AND GOING BACK INTO THE GAMES TO DIE! I HATE YOU, YOU UGLY DIRTY MUTT! HOW COULD I EVER HAVE LOVED YOU!?!?" I stand up shouting at the top of my voice and pushing Katniss onto a glass table, smashing it into a million little pieces, leaving Katniss bleeding but conscious.

"It's okay Peeta, it's not real you're okay. None of this is real. Shhhhhhh," She says in a calming voice cuddling into me despite of the state she is in. I instantly calm down to this the bands of sweat running down my forehead stop and my hands unclench. Katniss stares into my eyes to see they are back to their normal sky blue state. I close my eyes for 1 second and open them again to a big mess. I turn and see my loving wife, hands covered in blood from the smashed table and several small cuts in her arms and face.

"Katniss, I'm so sorry I shouldn't have done this to you, anyone but you." I run off to find some bandages, cream, a bowl of warm water and a towel while Effie asks 1 of the avox to clear up the mess from the broken table. When I come back in I wash and bandage Katniss' wound and then give Finn and Katniss a hug because I don't think Finn had ever since me like that before. We decide now is the time Effie needs to tell us what happened and why she needed to see us so badly and strangle our son.

"It was his Training Session Assessment," Effie begins. "He did something so terrible bad that if it gets into the Capitol it could start another Rebellion and it even tops all of you two's stunts pulled together!"

"And?!" Katniss says holding my hand and desperate to know more.

"He made painted on 3 of the dummies. The first had President Snow on it," This made me quiver but Katniss was comforting me so much I could fight off the pain. "The second had Katniss painted on in her mockingjay costume and the third had Peeta painted on. He positioned them like on the day of the shooting then shot President Snow directly in the Heart and put the Bow around your dummy, Katniss. It reminds people of the rebellion and the new game-maker Darius Mrethgath is a President Snow supporter so I guess he will be after Finn pretty bad." Effie explains. Katniss has her head on my chest crying her eyes out and i'm stunned to here what I just have how could Finn do that, how did he know about the Rebellion we didn't tell him. The rest of the night is quiet we all sit down for dinner. No one says a word, Katniss is still crying slightly, Finn is scared and upset, Effie is angry, the other tributes are confused and I can't help but think how horrible my life is. First i'm in 2 Hunger games, then I get hijacked into thinking my wife is a mutt and my family are totally killed off by a bomb. But when my life finally starts to change for the good, my youngest son is put into the Hunger Games 4th Quarter Quell to DIE! After dinner we silent go into the sitting room to watch the training scores. All the glass has been removed and I cuddle up to Katniss and Finn hoping for the best to brighten up my day. Not only for Finn but for the other tributes too I will need to protect them while they are in the games.

The TV screen turns onto a black screen and Caesar Flickerman looking excited as anything as always. This year he is wearing a cream white suit covered in sparkles, white bleached hair and sparkly white shoes. This is normal for Caesar in fact he wears it every year just changes the colour every time. Caesar gives a brief introduction and then starts the scores. Most of Districts 1, 2 and 4 score quite high with scores from 8-11. Lucia who is allied with Kat and Finn scored a 10. He then moves to districts 3 - 11 who were scored an average of 3 - 8. There was one girl in district 11 who scored a 10, her name was Zilflop and anther boy who's name was Gabriel who scored an 11. I have no idea how they did that because Zilflop is only 6! It then came to District 12. "...And finally District, we have seen some great action in district 12 over the last few years but let's see about their scores. Firstly for the 50 - 85 year olds, Madge..."

Katniss' POV

"Firstly for the 50 - 85 year olds, Madge with a score of 7 and Dale with a score of 7," Caesar begins. "Onto the 19 - 49 year olds, Selina with a score of 6 and Harper-Lee with a score of 9. Kat Hawthorne with a great score of 10 and Charlie with a 9 for the 12 - 18 year olds and now for our youngest competitors, our 5 - 11 year olds, Harmony with a score of 5 and finally Finnick Mellark, we all admired his mother and father with their extraordinary ways in their hunger games but will Finnick be able to pull it out the bag too? Finnick Mellark with a score of... Zero!" There are sudden gasps in the room, I can't stand it anymore more. I sprit out the room down the corridor and up onto the roof where myself and Peeta used to spend most of our free time during our 1st Hunger Games. I sit huddled up into a small corner on the roof away anyone else and cry my eyes out until I feel a arm enclose around me.

"Peeta?" I say still in tears, but lifting my head slightly to see who is next to me.

"I'm here Kat, don't worry about Finn's 0, he can show them in the games that he is just like his mom and dad, he can win them Katniss and we'll make sure of it." Peeta replays trying to calm me down and succeeding as always. At this point in the afternoon everyone would have gone off to their prep team and stylists for the preparation of the interviews with Casear Flickerman himself this evening. We had back inside the district 12 penthouse, go to our room, lock the door and lie next to each other cuddled up together until Effie calls us to get ready for after our district's interviews.