Prisoner of the Capitol

Chapter 9

PEETA'S POV:

I can't believe it, she knew what I was planning to do so she got here first and took Gale away with her.

I see a peacekeeper walk up to a man and then he starts talking to him. In a few minutes, they are both yelling at each other. I go up to them and say,

"What's wrong?"

"This man just let my sister leave the district with her husband, son and two ladies!" The peacekeeper tells me.

"Wait, Lara is your sister?," I ask.

"Yeah, do you know her?"

"No but I do know her husband Gale and they just left with my wife!" I tell him.

"Why is your wife with them?" He asks.

I sigh, "My wife is Katniss Everdeen," I tell him "you might've heard of her, the girl on fire? Yeah well about 11 years ago, her stylist Cinna was taken away and he was presumed to be dead until yesterday when Claudia Snow found a book that said that Cinna was sent overseas forever, and now Katniss wants to go and save him. I tried to stop her and she knew that the next thing I would do is get Gale to help me convince her to stop so she got here first and got Gale to go with her and then they took Lara and their son with them."

The peacekeeper is looking at me funny at first and then with recognition,

"You're Peeta Mellark, the bakers boy." He says, "I'm Dram Carter, Lara's brother."

"Do you have an airship?" I ask Dram.

"No," he says. "That's why I'm arguing with Mr O'toole, I need him to lend me one like he just lent one to Lara, but he won't let me!"

I turn around and see Mr O'Toole walking away from the airfield, so I turn back to Dram and say,

"Okay, I overheard him telling Lara that the keys were in the airship so if we just choose an airship, the keys should be in it."

Dram looks reluctant to steal a plane and I feel the same way but we both want to stop a loved one from doing something stupid, so we race to a small plane that can seat three people, it isn't the best quality but when I look around the airfield, I see that this is the best plane after the one that Katniss just flew off in. We climb in, Dram sits in the pilots seat and starts looking for the keys.

"Where are they?" He says sliding his hands through all the nooks and crannies of the dashboard.

"Try under the seat," I say, and sure enough when he slips his hand under the seat,he brings it back up holding a keyring with three keys on it, the first one he tries fits and soon enough we are on the runway and then in a matter of seconds we take off and leave District 2 far behind us...