Always and Forever

Chapter 7

I recognize all of the men that are inside my house. Haymitch Abernathy, Plutarch Heavensbee, and the one and only Peeta Mellark. Lots of confusion and nerves well up inside of me. I don't know what they are doing here and I do not know why they have brought Peeta here. How could they come with him and not warn me first? I'm not sure who to point my arrow at first. I react quickly from experience of my last encounters with him, and point it at Peeta. I do not plan to shoot it at him but they need to know that I am the one in charge. I expect Peeta to jump out of their embrace and come running at me, prepared to rip my head off. But he stands still. I decide to speak up. "I do not know what the hell you are doing here, but I need you to leave this house immediately, and I mean IMMEDIATELY. GO! LEAVE!" I yell with my bow ready to go straight through Peeta's skull. No response. They stand there, Peeta with a look of shock and hurt on his face, Haymitch and Plutarch with dull expressions. Haymitch says, Hello to you too sweethea-" Don't you DARE call me sweetheart. I need you to get out of my house now or he dies!" I say. I pull the bow back further. Haymitch says, "Oh you would never, we aren't here to play tricks, w-" "Then GO." I cut him off. I take the arrow off of the somewhat surprisingly quiet Peeta's forehead, and lock it on Haymitch's. "I have no problem killing you." I say. Woah, woah slow down sweetheart we just came to clear things up! Do you want lover boy back or not?" He says cruelly." "What are you talking about." I say. Plutarch speaks up, "We thought you would like to know that Mr. Mellark here, is cleared from the tracker jacket venom. We had our doctors in Thirteen work to clear him for weeks." I stood speechless. I look to Peeta. He looks much better than the last I saw him. He has recovered from what the beast referred to as Snow has done to him. I can see the look in his now bright blue eyes. Just like they used to be. The welcoming eyes that made my heart melt. Peeta says, "Katniss, was it that bad?" It is a blessing to hear his old voice again. "It doesn't matter." I lower the bow and drop it on the ground. I start to run to him to give him a hug and he runs to me. As he lifts his arms for what I have learned to believe will be to strangle me, he raps them around my body. We cry together. I do not care that they are watching. All I care is that my boy with the bread has come back to me. And that is all I need.