Prisoner of the Capitol

Chapter 3

PEETA'S POV:

I hear a thud in the room next door so I quickly get Willow off the kitchen table and run in to see what happened.

When I get there I see a blonde lady crouching next to Katniss who is lying on the floor, unconscious. I race to Katniss, pick her up and lay her down on the couch. Then I turn towards the blonde lady,

"What happened? What did you do to her?" I yell.

She takes a step back and says

"Nothing, I didn't do anything. I don't know what happened, one minute we were talking then as soon as I told her my name she collapsed!"

"Oh yeah? And what's your name?" I ask.

"My name is Claudia Snow" she whispers.

"WHAT? YOU TELL HER THAT YOUR LAST NAME IS SNOW AND YOU DONT KNOW WHY SHE FAINTED? ARE YOU AN IDIOT? PRESIDENT SNOW RUINED HER LIFE. NEARLY EVERYTHING BAD THAT HAPPENED TO HER WAS BECAUSE OF HIM! ALL OF HER NIGHTMARES ARE HIS FAULT!" I can't help myself from yelling and it obviously scares her because she looks like she just saw a ghost and she takes quite a few steps away from me.

Then I remember that Willow is here so I turn around and say

"Sweetie can you please go upstairs while daddy talks to this lady?"

"Okay daddy!" She says looking a bit shocked herself, I've never gotten angry in front of her before.

As soon as Willow is out of the room, Claudia takes a step forward and says

"Look I'm sorry for everything that my grandfather did back then and trust me I would've tried to stop him but I was only 12 at the time so there wasn't much I could do!"

I really hope that Katniss can't hear this conversation because this lady is a lot like her sister. She has blonde hair like Prim, she's the same age that Prim would be if she were here and she wears her hair in a braid just like Katniss and Prim both used to do. Now Katniss will only have her hair in a side braid if she's going into the woods otherwise she will have it loose or in a high ponytail.

"Get out," I tell Claudia "You can't be here when she wakes up."

"Fine," she says "But you have to promise that you'll give her this."

She reaches into her handbag and produces a package with Katniss's name on it, then she holds it toward me and I take it.

"I'll think about it,''I say.

"Just give it to her, it's important" she tells me and then she walks out the door and leaves, and the whole time she's walking I can only think about how I hope we never have to see her again!