Peeta Mellark in Catching Fire
My heart’s crippled by the vein that I keep on closing
Now imagine that I ask you to remember something - either with a verbal suggestion or by making you watch a tape of the event - and while that experience is refreshed, I give you a dose of tracker jacker venom.
Not enough to induce a three-day blackout. Just enough to infuse the memory with fear and doubt.

The Capitol proudly announces the victors of the 74th annual Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen & Peeta Mellark, as they embark on this year’s Victory Tour!
two strangers, fading into dust.

“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”

Where are you? I demand an answer from myself and slowly the world comes into focus. Blue water. Pink sky. White-hot sun beating down… Between the spokes, all is water. Water and a pair of tributes.

“To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.” - Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games