Fighting for you: Always

A glance

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Katniss POV

It's now been ten days since Peeta was put into his coma and I still haven't been able to even get a glance at him no matter how much I've begged Haymitch. Annie convinced me to have a shower yesterday but I refused to leave the hospital so I just went to one of the spare hospital rooms.

I feel as if all the happiness and goodness of life has just been sucked out of it leaving me in some kind of empty void. Nothing I try to do to distract myself from the despair and heartbreak actually works, I just feel like a broken human being whatever I do.

I tried reading the magazines spread around but they were all about me and Peeta, guessing what was happening with our romance. I tried focusing on the small TV set up in the corner but it was either all fashion and beauty shows or, again, about me and Peeta.

So I mostly just sit with my head in my hands, crying and thinking about how much I love Peeta, because I do! I love him so much that it hurts! It literally hurts just thinking of how much I love and care for Peeta.

I get up to go and get a glass of water from the drinks machine because over the last ten days I think I've cried out all the water in my body. Suddenly, Haymitch comes behind me and puts a hand on my shoulder, 'I've convinced the doctors to let you see him, but only through a viewing glass, not actually in the room. I'm sorry Sweetheart, but it's the best I can do...'

'Where is the room? What floor? Can I go now?!' I ask desperately, all at once leaving the cup of water forgotten on top of the machine.

'Follow me,' Haymitch replied and I stumble behind him, as we get into the elevator. 'Don't, well, freak out when you see him...'

My brain immediately goes into overdrive about what this could mean: how bad was Peeta? Bad enough that Haymitch thought I would freak out?! I'm hyperventilating, just thinking of how Peeta could look. We step out onto the fourth floor - the intensive care floor - and Haymitch leads me to a massive glass window.

And that's when I get my first look at Peeta, the first look at the person who I love with all my heart in ten days; and it horrifies me.

There are about twenty tubes connecting Peeta to an array of different beeping machines, his skin is pale and clamy, his beautiful blonde hair is brushed across his forehead. There are about seven different doctors standing around, some discussing something while others fiddle with the machines. All this was going on around him but his eyes stay closed, and in that moment, he looks so ill that I'm afraid I may never see those incredible blue eyes again.

Annie POV

I come back from the bathroom just by the waiting room to find that Katniss has disappeared. I'm just starting to worry that she's broken in to see Peeta again when the lift doors slide open revealing Katniss sobbing into her hands, slumped on the floor. I rush over and help her up, leading her back to a chair.

I feel so sorry for her, she hasn't stopped crying for ten days and even when she slips into sleep for a little bit, she's whispering his name, over and over. It's so obvious how much she loves him, anyone can see it, she just can't bear the fact that Peeta might be taken away, out of her grasp, forever.

'I- I saw him!' Katniss said, in between sobs. 'He had all these tubes coming out of him and his skin was all pale and he looked so ill and I-' she cut herself off by bursting into a new set of tears and leaning her head against my shoulder. I put my arm around her shoulders and just stay with her, because I really have no clue what to say.