Mocking Jay TRAPPED

Prolouge

Snip. The sound of something being cut. Wire dancing around feet. My senses are on overdrive as I try to make sense of the mayhem around me.

I look around and see Beetee, a glinting knife in his grip. He makes eye contact with me and nods, like this was something I was supposed to understand. Well, I don't. I don't understand. All I understand is that Beetee cut the wire and that Katniss isn't back.

"Beetee!" I call out to him. "Where are the g-" a hand clamps over my mouth, cutting off the flow of words.

I instantly think that the careers have gotten me. I look over at Beetee once more, but he doesn't seem very alarmed.

I look up, and find myself starting into Finnicks sea green eyes. "Peeta." He says softly into my ear. "You have to be quiet. I'm going to go look for the girls, but I can't have the careers chasing after me."

I nod. I understand what he's saying. I wish he'd just take his hand away. When he finally does I say "Finnick, I'm coming with you. I need to make sure Katniss is okay."

Finnick looks down at me and begins to say "no" when I cut him off. "No Finnick, I'm coming."

He doesn't complain anymore. We grab our weapons, make sure Beetee is concealed behind the foliage, and make our way into the jungle. We move swiftly, Finnick taking the lead. While he has a nice, quiet tread, it sounds as if I'm crunching every leaf and snapping every twig. I'm sure Finnick has noticed to, though he doesn't say anything. As long as we're moving fast.

BOOM. A cannon fires. I stop in my tracks. "Katniss! Katniss!" I'm screaming at the top of my lungs now.

"Peet-" I hear Katniss start to say my name, but her voice is cut off in a scream.

"Katniss!" I start running towards the direction in which her voice came, screaming her name. I don't care who hears me, I just need to reach her.

I hear Finnick following, though I am many feet in front of him. After about ten minutes of solid sprinting, I emerge into this clearing like place with shelfs of rock.

Finnick and I search everywhere, but find nothing but blood. I must seem so desperate, searching under every bush.

I can tell Finnick is getting frustrated. He snaps many twigs while searching.

"Peeta," he says to me. "At least we know she's okay. There hasn't been a can-" BOOM.

Finnick looks at me with horror on his face.

"May-maybe she went to the lightning tree?" I ask in such a desperate, hopeful voice.

Finnick shrugs and we start sprinting back to the lightning tree. We arrive there in no time.

We see Beetee stand from his concealed hide out. He waves us over.

"Find her?" He asks. I shake my head. Beetee sighs. "She'll be okay."

Hopefully, I mutter. I sit down on a log, thinking. Why couldn't I have gone with her instead of Johanna? Better question: why didn't we leave earlier, like Katniss said?

I'm beating myself up so bad, I barely notice a loud booming sound, louder than the canons that announce the deaths of tributes.

But I finally notice it when Finnick is shaking my arm.

"Peeta! Peeta look!" He screams at me.

I look, and I can't really see, there's so much smoke. After I adjust to this smoke, I can see(and hear)fires, metal clunking to the ground, and a giant hovercraft landing.

A person who I can't really make out sticks his head out the side of the hovercraft.

"Peeta, Beetee, Finnick! Let's go, no time!" Beetee points at the person. "It's Plutarch." He says. Finnick nods and calmly walks towards the hovercraft, Beetee and myself in tow.

"Wait, what about Katniss?!" I yell. Plutarch shakes his head sadly. "No time come on!" Plutarch yells at me.

I stubbornly stand where I am. "I'm not leaving without her."

Finnick looks at me and walks to the hovercraft. I see Plutarch press something into Finnick's hand. Finnick walks back to me, grabs my arm, plunges something into it, and before I register what's going on, my world goes black.

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I wake up on a cold metal floor. I painfully sit up. I see a doorway in front of me, with light wafting through.

I rub my head, where a huge headache is forming. I don't know where I am. I barely remember what happened.

I focus my attention to that doorway, where I begin to hear voices.

"-Nothing we can do.

-Have to get her soon Haymitch."

Haymitch!? What? I stand up, slowly and painfully, and walk to the door.

Inside I see Finnick and Haymitch talking. Haymitch notices me right away.

"Peeta, come here for a moment." Haymitch says.

I walk slowly over to him, and sit in the chair he pulls out for me.

"Haymitch, what's going on? I don't really remember...." I ask Haymitch in a slow voice.

"Peeta. You got out. You're not in the arena. Finnick and Beetee are here, too." Haymitch notices I'm about to ask a question, so he speaks quickly.

"Johanna and...and Katniss were....were.."

I get impatient. "Were what Haymitch?!" I yell.

He looks at me sadly. "They were taken by the Capitol."