For the THGSSFEx 2010.

Secret Santa Recipient: MarchToMyOwnDrum (Gill!)

Hope you like it, dearie!

Peeta Mellark stared up at the sky, hope alight in his minds' eye. Mud swallowed and surrounded his body; pain engulfed and burned his upper left leg in a most torturous way.

He knew that he was going to die, but only one thought burned strongly in his mind. It was a thought that carried him through his aches and pains.

As Peeta's eyes gazed upon the starry sky above him, he dared to whisper:

Katniss is alive.