[001. Video]

[frostingdefense]

Finally got this thing to work. I'm usually good at this but never ended up with wings before.

Where am I?

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[frostingdefense]

Trees. Lots of trees.

[stillplaying]

[That doesn't help. That doesn't help at all. She needs a landmark, something different. Something she can use to find him. Because even though she's learning these woods as well as she knew her own, it doesn't help. He should know that, she thinks. Even when she never wanted it, he always gave her something to work with. Something that helps her.

And she knows he can't climb a tree, not like she and Rue can. So her options are limited.]

I need a landmark. Do you see water? Or buildings? Come on, Peeta!

[frostingdefense]

[He's a bit out of sorts being here, finding out she's here. And Rue. He takes a good look around.]

I can hear water nearby.

[And what Haymitch said comes back to him.]

I can go find the water source.

[stillplaying]

Follow it to the lake.

[That'd be good. She knows where both lakes are. Her own and the other one, in the east.

Who'd have known Haymtich's advice could still be useful? And that, for once, she'd actually listen to it.]

[frostingdefense]

I'll be there Katniss.

[There's a soft tone to his voice, a fondness for her he could never hide now. Not after everything they have been through.

It's clear by the way things move and the way the screen bounces that Peeta is now on the move. Haymitch would be proud or at least look smug that they were following his advice even here. It doesn't take him too terribly long to find the source of water, to watch how it flows, to follow it to the lake. Once there he looks around then the thought hits him and he moves the device around. Letting the video of where he is show right up on her screen so she'd know. He was at the Eastern Lake. Then his voice sounds for her.]

Does that help?

[stillplaying]

[But he's not. He's not there, not at her lake. And it makes her want to scream, curse again at the Gamemakers for doing this. They put Buttercup right in front of her path, dammit! Why did they have to have Peeta so far away?]

Yes. No. [Because it does help. Because all she hears is his voice through the journal. There's nothing echoed in the forest trees. Nothing at all. He's too far away.] I can't hear you.

[And she remembers Jack's muttations. The honey badgers and the shift hunters. There's so much out there and he's in a part of the forest she doesn't know nearly as well.]

Stay there. By the lake. I'll be right there. Promise me you'll stay there.