Chapter 14

Peeta's POVI try to figure out where her voice came from.

"KATNISS!" I yell again. No response. Of course. This kind of shit would happen. I am about to have my mind all in place, and then this shit happens.

I can feel the mutt inside of me, screaming, wanting to come out. I put down the butcherknife, and pinch myself hard. I have to focus. Going mutt right now isn't going to do any good. I feel something behind me, and I turn around to grab the knife, but it's gone. Fuck.

I start to search around for a new one, but it was the biggest one. I find one that's almost as big, though.

"Peeeeeeetaaaaa? Where are youuuuuuuuuu? Come out and plaaaaaaaaay!"

What. The. Fuck.

The voice sounds raspy and broken. Like it hasn't been used in years, and the only sound that has come out, is screaming, crying, pain.

"Comee ooon.. Let yourself loose a little.. Come out and play, you stinking mutt!"

Oh, the stinking mutt will come out.

I can feel the blood pumping through my veins. I have to find this person. This thing has Katniss and a butcherknife.

I am shaking, trying to follow the insane voice.

"Mutt, mutt, mutt, mutt, mutt, mutt, ahahahahahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA."

Memories flashes in my mind, and I can feel the rage build up.She is a mutt. A stinking-

No!

I am the mutt. Not Katniss.

I think that I may have said that part out loud, because I hear the raspy voice again: "Yes, she is a mutt, Peeta. It's her fault that you live alone now. Completely alone. All alone. Alone forever! Alone, always!"

No, no, no. I feel my mind being replaced with the one the Capitol gave me.

This voice has to stop. It hurts. It hurts so bad. Is it working with Katniss? Those stinking mutts!

I slap myself. Hard.

"We may be in the bedroom, Peeta," the voice laughs insanely.

GET THEM! KILL THEM BOTH!

No, it could be a trap.

Find them! Kill them!

NO!

Kill the mutts!

You're the mutt!

She killed our family!

You're not a part of my family!

I am a part of you!

No, you're not!

Kill them. Now. KILL THEM!

The mutt wins. As usual. I run to the bedrooms. I walk into the first one. Nothing.Then the next one. Nothing.

Then the last one.

My hand is shaking, as I reach for the doorknob.

"Open the door, Peeta!"It comes from inside of the bedroom. I tightnen the grip around my knife, before bursting in.

A net falls down upon me, making me unable to move.

"Plwida!" A weird sound comes from the other side of the room.It's Katniss. She has tape over mouth, that's why she sounded weird when she called for, my name, I am guessing. Her hands and feet have been tied together, and a shadow is sitting next to her, laughing in that weird, raspy tone, butcherknife in hand.

I glimpse over at Katniss. It's hadrd to tell, since it's completely dark in here, but I think that she's crying.

'Save me' her eyes scream.

I can't control myself anymore.

I start to fight like I've never fought before. I have to get out of this net.

The knife!

Maybe my mutt-self isn't as horrible after all.

I burst out of the net, using my knife to cut it. Then, I throw myself at the shadow.

I pin the body down, avoiding the butcherknife. I make a weird jump, making my feet hold down the person's wrists.

I press the blade form my knife, into the person's throat, and my mutt voice hisses: "What do you want?"

The only feature I can see of the face, is the mouth. The rest of the face is covered by a black hood. The mouth drags into something, I think is supposed to be a smile. It reveals a set of sharp fangs, just like the Victor, Enobaria.

Shortly after, I feel an indescribable pain in my right ankle. I look down to see the butcherknife inside of my ankle.

"Plwida!" Katniss yells through the tape.

I move away fromt the person, getting ready to attack, but the person jumps out of the window. I try to reach him/her, but I'm too slow with my ankle. The person lands on the grass, heading towards the town, maybe even the woods. If that's the case, I can't let Katniss hunt alone anymore.Katniss!

I quickly get to her, an with my knife, I cut up the thick rope. After that, I carefully remove the tape over her mouth.

As soon as I am done, she throws herself into my arms. I pull her as close into me, as possible, embracing her.

"I'm sorry I didn't show up earlier," I whisper.

"It's not your fault, she whispers back, placing a kiss on my cheek, making me shiver.

"Sorry, I had to," she whispers.

---

We're sitting on the floor, our bodies intertwined.

"Peeta, how's your ankle?" Katniss looks at me with a concerned look.

"Um, it just got cut open with a butcherknife," looking down at it. It's bleeding.

"Oh shit, Peeta! We have to get that cleaned up," She gets on her feet, dragging me up as well.

I hold onto her on our way down the staircase. She helps me jump up on the same counter Gale once were on.

"Let me see," she says. She pulls off my socks, and inspect my wound. Normally, any girl would scream, but we've both seen so many horrible wounds, that she doesn't even think about it.

"It's pretty deep," she says.

"Yeah, and it hurts like hell," I say, squinting my eyes in pain.

She walks over to the sink, and grabs a clean towel. She soaks it, and then twists it, to remove excess water.She walks back to me, dabbing the wet towel onto my wound.

"Arrgh," I cry out.

"Crybaby," she jokes, not looking up.

"It feels like when Cato stabbed my leg," I mumble.

Her smile fade quickly, and she looks up at me with a concerned look.

"Are you serious?"

"Well, it almost hurts as much," I confess.

"All clean. It needs stitches though, and the hospital is too far."

"You are not sewing me together," I send her a serious look.

"Don't worry, I've seen my mother do it plenty of times before."

"Can you at least call her, so that she can walk you through the steps?"

"I've done it before," she argues.

"I don't care."

"It's like two in the morning."

"That didn't stop you from calling me."

"Ugh, fine," she groans.

After about three rings, her mother picks up the phone.Katniss lies about what happend, and tells her that earlier today, we were hanging pictures up, and that I was sleep walking, and I fell over some screws, and cut my ankle open.

It hurts like hell, but I manage to get through it. Katniss puts a bandage over it.

"Now you're all done. My mother said that you shouldn't stand on it for a while, and that we have to go see a doctor, first thing in the morning.

I nod in reply.

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"Who wants to kill us?" I ask. We are laying on her bed. Well, she's more on top of me, and the bed. Her head and her upper body is resting on my chest. I have my right arm around her, and resting my head on my left arm.

"Snow, Coin, Peacekeepers, tributes, mutts, Victors."

"Yeah, but I was thinking about people who were alive."

"Gale wants to kill you," she shrugs, acting like it's some sort of joke.

"Yeah, but not you," I say. "And Gale doesn't have teeth like Enobaria, right?" I ask.

"No, of course not! Why would you ask me that?" She squints at me.

"Well, I've never seen him smile, nor kissed him," I a'say calmly.

She lifts herself up on her elbow, raising an eyebrow at me. " You did not just pull that card on me!"

"I'm just saying," I shrug.

"Well, it wasn't very nice," she huffs.

"Okay, okay," I groan, pulling her down to me again.

"Could it be Snows granddaughter?" She asks.

"First of all, she looked up to you. It was pretty obvious. I saw it, while I was in the Captiol. Her hair has always braided like yours, and when no one was around, you could hear her singing your songs. Second of all, she's pretty young."

"Yeah, well, that was before I killed Snow."

"She's still too young. Besides, you didn't kill Snow. You killed Coin." I freeze, realizing something."Coin didn't have a family, right?"