“Do you ever find that your dreams feel more like…memories? Do you think it’s…possible? Despite how bizarre and impossible they may seem?”
   “sometimes,” he admitted softly. most of the memories came in dreams. there was a lot of death. a lot of pain. he could hear screaming in his head. “i’m not sure if it’s possible, but sometimes things feel too real. when they shouldn’t.”
“You know I could get used to this.” The prince smirked, pulling off the black jacket to lie back in the heat. “You never get this kind of weather in Lucis.”
   “can get pretty hot here, yeah.” sometimes it was nice. other times, well -- not so much. there was a fine line there. “where’s lucis?? can’t say i’ve ever heard it.”
“They say if you talk out loud while you look for something, you find it faster. That’s a load of crap because not only have I not found it but I look stupid now”
   “can’t say i’ve ever heard that one before. i’d start wondering about the people who told you that one. what are you looking for anyhow??”
“— PREACHING TO THE CHOIR,” as always, johanna made a point of playing off any negative feeling that wasn’t anger with biting sarcasm. fingers threaded together, letting the joints pop softly as she applied pressure. “i guess that’s probably because they haven’t realized that some things are WORSE than dying.”
  why did he feel like these words were something that he could really understand?? it didn’t ease the confusion in his mind that was rising up, nor the familiarity of her face. he knew her from somewhere. some place. “no, guess they really don’t. you got some insight most people don’t. i know we’ve never met, but -- you seem so familiar.”
Was that [JOSH HUTCHERSON]? Oh no no, that was just [PEETA MELLLARK], a [CANON CHARACTER] from [THE HUNGER GAMES]. They are [21] years old and [ARE NOT] aware that they are not actually from Washington DC. Too bad they can’t stray from this city for long.
peeta believes he has been in dc for about five years now. he’s been here for a little over a year now himself
he has been pulled from mockingjay but before the end of it. around the time they were setting out to the capitol on their mission
so yes, peeta is still hijacked.his mind is completely warped from tracker jacker venom and the torture that he went through after he was captured in the games. he’s been twisted into a weapon for the capitol and his target is katniss.Â
while he does not have his memories, seeing her will trigger that hijacking even without bringing them back. he won’t have any idea why he reacts like that way
he works at a bakery in dc
in his false memories, peeta’s parents died when he was young and was put into foster care. he bounced around from family to family for a while until finding a good home for him around 12
he moved out when he was 18 and has been working in the bakery ever since
when he was around 15, peeta was in a bad skateboarding accident. he wound up with a concussion and ever since has had memory issues. he sometimes has a difficult time determining things that are real or not real
he’s a friendly guy and always wants to help people. but after his accident he started to distance himself a bit more because of how people would react to his memory issues
peeta has nightmares about what was done to him by the captiol. he remembers the torture and the pain from the venom. he remembers another person’s screams with him and a face
  though he did not know the other, those words rang far too familiar in his mind. something was there -- something that he couldn’t quite reach out to. it was in the back of his mind, unreachable if only for the time being. “yeah,” he responded. “not a lot of people realize any of that. they’re too worried about fearing it.”