The wrong lover

Chapter 27

- Peeta's PoV -

She spoke to me, she spoke to me. It sounded like her atleast. I hear the door opening and in walks Gale, Prim and Lillian. They all look at her and I stand with a scared and shocked face. I have no idea what happened but I know they won't believe me. 

- Has anything happened Peeta? You look very shocked. Lillian asks me.

- No, nothing happened. I lie to them. 

Perhaps that is what Katniss would have wanted me to do. I mean if I told them the truth they would just be very social. I know Katniss is not the social type, so maybe I did her a favour by lying. What am I thinking, I am just trying to blame my problems on someone else now. Not only on someone, on the love of my life. 

- Are you sure nothing happened? Prim asks me.

- Yeah, I'm sure. I say pulling a chair close to Katniss bed.

I take a seat and look at her closed eyes, I want them open. I want to see her beautiful grey eyes atleast once more. I block all other noice just listening to one, Katniss heartbeat. I love her so much, not only because of her looks. I love everything about her, her personality, her looks, her flaws. What I love most about her is her voice, when I heard it for the first time I fell in love. Everything about her is perfect, I just wish she thought the same about me. I look at her deeply and someone is shaking me trying to get me to pay attention. 

- Peeta? Are you joining us? You have been hard to contact for hours. We will be leaving now. I talked to the doctors and you may stay in here for as long as possible. Unless they tell you that you have to leave. Lillian says to me holding a jacket in one of her hands and Prim in the other.

- I'll stay. Thanks for letting me know. I say, I feel shocked. I have been thinking about her for hours.

I look at Katniss again, she is barely holding onto life. I stare at the clock trying to fall asleep in my chair. The time passes faster than I thought. Just as I am about to fall asleep I hear the heartmonitor making more noice than it did before. I lift my head up and I look at the monitor, her heartbeat seems to be normal. I hear her breathing manually and her eyes open when I turn my head towards her. I take the oxygen mask off her face since she doesn't need it anymore.

- Hey Peeta. How did the surgery go? She asks me.

- It was a success. You just had to wake up from this little coma you were in. It only lasted some hours. Perhaps a maximum of a day. I say to her.

- I don't feel any difference. She says, and it looks like she is trying her best to move herself.

- Well the doctors says your body will begin healing. Before it only got worse, now it's healing. So I think they said you have to rest. I reply.

- I'm not tired. I have slept enough. Well perhaps I haven't slept a lot, but I have been dead for a while. She says making me laugh.

- Katniss, try to sleep. I say with a smile on my face.

- Only if you join me in bed. She says smiling.

I get up from my chair and I take off my shoes and jacket. I put them on the floor and I walk up to her. I manage to get myself in the same spots as I have other nights. I look at her and she looks back at me. I stare into her beautiful grey eyes and it looks like she is staring into my blue ones. I never want this moment to end, I want to stare into her eyes for eternity. I move my head towards her and kiss her on the lips. I love her so much that I will never leave her side, I'm not going to let her doctor let me leave this time. 

- I don't want you to leave before I wake up. She says.

- I will try my best to fight with your doctor if she enters before you wake up. She doesn't really like me I think. I reply.

- I like her but if she doesn't like you I won't like her, I thought about our memories in my coma. I had a lot of time to think about things. Your warm embrace matched up with the good memories, it was never as warm in the bad memories. I have realized something Peeta. Katniss begins.

- What? I ask her.

- You're my other half, my missing piece. What I need to guide myself, to improve myself. I love you so much. I don't care about the pain I had to endure in the Capitol. Because if it wasn't me it would have been you. That's how much I love you. She says to me.

- I wish it would have been me. I say to her quietly.

- I know you wanted it to be you, but to be honest... I don't know if you would have survived that. I'm the fighter out the two of us and I barely made it out alive. She says and I giggle a bit hearing how she doesn't believe in me.

- You are probably right. I say to her.

- I hope we can move back to district 12 when I'm healed. Start at new, with no Snow. Katniss says to me.

- Well Snow is still alive, Coin has been really patient. She has been waiting for you to heal. So you can join us when it is Snow's execution. It might be soon now that she knows your alive. I say to her.

- Thank you for making her wait. Who is executing him? She asks me.

- How do you know it was me doing it? I ask her suprised.

- Because nobody else would have the nerve to yell at the president for that, or ask them. I mean she has had to wait for almost a year. You must have yelled plenty. Katniss says with a big smile on her face.

- You know me to well. Also to answer your second question I will be doing the execution. Because of all the pain Snow has caused me, and you. I will be doing it for us. I tell her.

- I love you Peeta, I feel my eyes closing on their own. I have to keep them open right now. I will see you tomorrow. Just remember to stay with me. She says closing her eyes.

- I love you too, and I will stay with you, always. I say feeling my eyes close aswell. 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Suzanne Collins owns the novels and characters, I do not.