Maybe, Always? (Everlark Fanfic)

Come Back to Me: Chapter 4

//Peeta's POV//

I begin walking my head down, I am focused on getting away from that house, away from Katniss.  I can feel it beginning to happen, I'm losing control slowly.  I started when I looked at Katniss as she was eating, the image was glossy but, I blinked it away.   I knew I had to get out of there, and then she wanted to start cleaning up the mess and I knew that would trigger me. Even though the trigger is going to be pulled anyway.  I make my way out of Victors Village and into the streets, I hear the people whisper insults towards me. I just have to keep moving. I snapped out of my thought when I hear a scream behind me.

"Peeta!" I hear Katniss yell.

I keep walking scared of what might happen if I turn around. Out of the corner of my eye I see Haymitch and Effie with suitcases and grins on there faces. They must have just gotten off the train from there honey moon.  I'm so wrapped in my thought that I trip and crash to the ground. Just enough time for Katniss to catch up to me. She leans down to help me, but the darkness has already taken over. All I can hear are her screams.

//Katniss' POV//

I chased after Peeta, he was walking like he was on a mission. I watched as he tripped after glancing quickly to look at Haymitch and Effie returning from there honeymoon. I quickly run to his side, I watch as he puts his face in his hands.

"Peeta." I say quietly.

He doesn't respond but he wraps his hand around my neck forcing me to scream.  I look into his cloudy blue eyes hoping to find Peeta somewhere in there. I look around me for someone to help me but they are standing there in shock.

"Finally I can kill you, you mutt!" Peeta yells with a smile on his face.

"Come back to me." I whisper looking into his cold eyes.

The last thing I see before the world went dark is Haymitch hitting Peeta to get him off of me and Effie taking me into her arms.  And then I was out.

***

I woke up frantically, I searched for Peeta beside me but I couldn't find him.

"Peeta!" I yell.

"Good your awake." I hear someone say. The room to dark for me to really see anything. The lights flip on and I take in my surroundings. I'm in a hospital, I have a brace around my neck and I look up to see Haymitch looking down at me.

"How are you feeling sweetheart?" Haymitch asks sweetly patting my head.

"I want Peeta." I say putting my lips into a pout.

"And I want Effie but I'm stuck here with you." He says with a smile.

"Where is she anyway?" I ask.

"With Peeta." He says.

"They have him in a room too." He starts I can tell he's debating on whether or not to tell me the rest.  "There giving him new meds and they say you shouldn't see him for a little while." He says quickly.

My heart sinks at his word and I feel the tears begin to fall.

"Sweetheart please don't cry." Haymitch says pulling me into a hug.

"I have lost everyone and everything, I lose everyone I love." I say sobbing into Haymitch's chest.

"Well you aren't getting rid of me." He says with a smile.

I was discharged from the hospital two days later.  I didn't have the strength to be in my house by myself so Haymitch and Effie took me in. 

"Come here darling I'll help you to your room." Effie says in her Capital accent and linking her arm in mine.
We walk through Haymitch's house and up the stairs to the guest bedroom. Effie helps me get settled in bed and Haymitch walks into the room.

"Do you need anything sweetheart." He says as he puts his arm around Effie's waist.

"I'm good, I don't want to be a burden." I say playing with my thumbs.

"You will never be a burden, we love you Katniss." Effie says with a smile.

They both kiss my forehead and proceed to leave.

"Gets some sleep." Haymitch says before walking out the door.

I have never felt so special then I just did at that moment. They were like my adoptive parents trying to give me the love I've only once received from Prim and my dad,  my mom was never really a parent to me anyway.  When I returned from the war I was alone for a few weeks, one day my mother stopped in.
/flashback/

"Mom!" I yelled with excitement as I opened the door.
"Hi Katniss." she said not looking up and pushing past me and into the house.
I watched as she grabbed things and put them in a bag.  Some of her herbs, some of Prims clothes, the picture of my father.  She didn't speak a word to me as she did this.
"I'm leaving Katniss and I won't be returning ever. You will never see me again." She said as she shut the door behind her.

I was so happy to know that they're always going to be there to take care of me but, it brought up cold memories of my deceased family. I pushed that thought away and held on to the one of Effie and Haymitch watching over me.  I toke that thought and try to fall asleep with it but my mind wanders to Peeta.  He must be so scared, I know hospitals scare him after his hijacking.  I'm scared he's going to come back worse. 

"Come back to me Peeta." I whisper as a single tear roles down my cheek.