Moving on: an Everlark fanfic

Chapter 6

I'm in an inclosed room. There's no entrance or exit to be found. Where am I? I try to move around but I can't. I feel as though my whole body is being weighed down by something invisible. I can't move at all.

Then I see the back of a head. The person has golden blonde hair in two braids. The tail of the shirt untucked in the back. I would recognize that anywhere. Prim. My little duck. She slowly turns around. She looks happy and runs to me but then something unexpected happens. All of a sudden a hear a bomb go off in the distance. The room shakes and a flame starts in the corner. It slowly gets bigger and bigger until it reaches Prim.

I yell for her to run but she stands still and gets engulfed in the fire. And she's screaming for me to help her. I struggle to move but Im still weighed down. I start screaming for her as well. This is just like in the Capital. When she was turned into a human torch and I couldn't do a thing but stare.

Then the flame disappears. I see a dark skinned little girl coming out of the shadows. Rue. A spear comes out of nowhere and finds a home in her stomach. She lets out a scream laced with pain and crumbles to the floor.

And it goes on and on all night. Reliving all of my loved ones deaths all over again while I can't move to help them. To take their place.

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Peeta's POV

I suddenly wake up to an ear piercing scream. Katniss. Thank god I sleep with the windows open otherwise I wouldn't have heard her. It must be another nightmare. I throw anything on and run over to her house.
I hear another scream. Two more. I barge through the door and bound up the stairs to her room.

"Katniss", I say shaking her lightly to wake her up. "Katniss wake up", I say more firmly. She's still not waking up. This must be a bad one.
She finally stops screaming and opens her tear- filled eyes. When those gorgeous grey eyes land on me, she looks confused for a second but wraps her shaky arms around me and sobs on my chest.
The whole time, I take her into my arms and hold her, slowly rocking her body, sometimes quietly whispering words of comfort to her.

"Shh. It's not real Katniss. It's ok, it was just a nightmare. I've got you", I continue saying to her.
When her sobs die down to sniffles and silent tears, I ask her if she wants to talk about it.

"It was horrible Peeta. I had to relive everyone's death and I couldn't do a thing about it. They were all screaming for help and I couldn't do a thing but stare", she says starting to cry again.

"Shh..it's all over now. I've got you. You couldn't have done anything if you wanted to anyway. You did your best to protect them. Prim, Rue, Finnick, Cinna, your father. They're all in a better place now, looking out for you."
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️Katniss's POV
I wake up screaming to find Peeta right next to me. I'm confused. How did he get here? I don't think much of it though and wrap my arms around him. I'm too terrified right now to think much of anything.

He holds me while I cry and comforts me. Just like old times. After I finally calm down, I tell him about my nightmare and he surprisingly makes me feel a little better. He always had a way with words.

"Are you ok to go back to sleep now?", he asks. I suddenly feel guilty. God knows how long we've been here, me crying and him comforting me. He's probably tired and thinks I'm pathetic. And as much as I want him to not stay up for me any longer, the words find a way out of my mouth.

"I can't. I'm too scared, Peeta. I'll go back to sleep just to be woken by another nightmare."

"You can't stay up forever, you know. And if you do wake up again, then I'll be right here for you. You have nothing to worry about Katniss. I won't leave you", he gently says to me.

I can't get over how sweet he is to be willing to be dealing with me all night. Haymitch's right, I'll never deserve him. But I slowly feel myself starting to slip away to slumber, feeling safe and reassured in Peeta's arms. Only Peeta can make me feel this way and I'm so thankful for it.

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I wake to the sun shining through my room. I move around a bit before bumping into something. I look and find Peeta right next to me. An arm under my head and another draped over my side, protecting me.

I then remember all of last nights events. I didn't have another nightmare after the encounter with Peeta and actually slept peacefully through the rest of the night. He starts to stir a bit and his eyes flutter open and land on me.
He smiles a warm and genuine smile and moves a strand of hair from my face behind my ear.
"Hey ", he says, his voiced still laced with sleep.

"Hey", I reply, returning his smile. We both kinda just lay there in a comfortable silence. I really missed waking up to him. All of those memories from the nights on the train in the Victory Tour come flashing back to me.
"Thank you, Peeta", I say breaking the silence.
"For what?"
"Helping me yesterday. I really appreciate you coming over here in the middle of the night to make me feel better", I reply, because I do.

"Well you don't have to thank me for that. It was an honor helping you, Ms.Everdeen", he says jokingly. So he still has that sense of humor. I'll admit he looks kinda cute, with his morning voice and hair all messed up from sleeping.
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We get out of bed and make breakfast. Well he does. I just sit there and watch him work. After breakfast, we clean up and just hang out. For the first in a while, I actually felt happy. I laughed and smiled.
Wait..am I falling for him? No of course not. I'm just happy I have company. Right? No I can't fall for him. I can't get too attached...

But what if I can't help it?

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AN; okay so I finally updated. I know I know, I'm a horrible person. So I thought I'd make an extra long chapter to make it up. Or I think it long. Idk it looked long while I was writing it on my phone, lol.
Anyway, I'm gonna be traveling for Spring break and I'm gonna be gone for two weeks. And chances are I'm probably not gonna have any wifi so I'm gonna have a good time surviving two weeks without wifi.
Thank you for reading, whoever you are, and don't forget to comment and vote! I really appreciate you guys' feedback.

-gigi❤️