Fight til the End

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Peeta's POV

It has been two months since I was lifted from that arena. I have not seen Katniss since that dreadful night in the arena, when I lost her.

I should have never agreed to Beetee's plan. I never liked the idea in the first place. I just wanted to keep Katniss safe and away from the others.

Gale has come up to me once in those two months. He said I was the reason Katniss was in the Capitol probably being tortured. Though I wasn't, they took me and not Katniss. Why would they do that? Katniss should be here in 13 with me, safe. I really miss her, I needed to see her.

I am always thinking about the night before the Quarter Quell, when I said to the whole of Panem that Katniss was pregnant.

I think back to this one night on the train on the way to the Capitol for the Quarter Quell, when Katniss and I made love. I cannot remember using protection, so what if she was actually pregnant?

What if the people who might be torturing her didn't believe my speech at the interviews? I stop myself. Don't think about it Peeta. Don't think about it. Katniss is fine. She's not here, but she's fine. She's not pregnant, you would be safer than that. Her being pregnant was only for the cameras and for keeping her alive, nothing more.

Though, Katniss being pregnant with my child is just something I would only dream of. I know how she feels about children, they are not something she wants.

I decide to go for a walk to see Finnick. That might take my mind of Katniss. I find him in Special Defence throwing his trident around. Finnick doesn't see me, I assume anyway and throws the trident almost directly at me.

"Hey Finnick, watch out!" He looks like he is kind of in a trance when he threw the trident at me, but he snaps out of it.

"Sorry Peeta, I didn't see you there." He sounds in pain, probably from not seeing Annie. The same as I am in pain from not seeing Katniss.

"I knew that, so how are you going?" I ask him. "Upset. I haven't seen Annie in forever." I know how exactly he feels. "So am I, I haven't seen Katniss in two months. I'm starting to get worried about her." I start to feel worse than before.

"Peeta, did you love Katniss when you saw her in the rain outside your Bakery?" Finnick asks me. He is trying to make me try and feel better about myself. I think anyway.

"Yes, well kind of. When I started school I kept seeing her around the yard. Pondering around the different plants on the grounds. She was different to the others. She wasn't interested in what the other girls were. That's when I realised, I liked her. Because she was different. I always like the oddest things and Katniss was one of them. So when I saw her outside the Bakery, all weak and in the rain. That's when I knew. So I burnt the edge of a fruit and nut bread, and I threw it out into the rain, in her direction and walked back inside. Knowing that she would thank me someday. And she did eventually."

I started to think about that bread soaking in the rain. Knowing that I did something that saved her life. Come to think about it, I have saved her a number of times, but not the same amount as she has saved me.

"Ha, wow, Peeta. I never knew you as such a soft hearted man, who loved the oddest people." Finnick responds.

"Yeah, I know. I'm not what people expect." Just as I finish that sentence Haymitch comes running into Special Defence, out of breath from what I presume was running.

"They are planning a rescue mission to save Katniss, Annie and Johanna." Finnick and I look at each other.

"When?" Finnick asks. "I don't know. The only thing I know is that they will be saving them at the earliest opportunity." I give a sigh of relief.

She will be coming back. To be with me. Katniss will be coming back. Katniss will be coming back. My beautiful Katniss, back with me and safe! Katniss.