Hijacked

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Thirteen

Katniss's POV

I'm running through the woods getting chased by fireballs. The heat of the fire is burning my back and I see Peeta in front of me.

It feels like we've been running for hours. sweat rolls down my face and Peeta turns and his blond hair shines with sweat in the light of the wild fire.

His deep blue eyes shine with tears and he stops running and just stands there crying with his arms open for me. "Just come here Katniss, please."

I start running towards him but then he gets hit with a fireball and I scream as I see him reduced to ash... And that's when one hits me.

PEETA'S POV

I wake to screaming downstairs. I run down the stairs, almost tripping on my robe tie. I see Daria trying to shake Katniss up but she keeps screaming in agony.

Daria's blond curls are in her face and her blue eyes show fear. "She won't wake up! I think it's about the war!" My heatbeat quickens and I move her away and lift Katniss up, wrapping my arms around her form like I've done it multiple times and I stroke her dark hair that is soaked in sweat and whisper in her ear.

"It's okay. It's just a dream, just wake up and it'll all be over." Her eyes burst open, the grey showing fear. She tries getting out of my grasp and I bring her close to my chest and she shakily wraps her arms around my neck. "Oh my god." She whispers and she nestles her face into my shoulder sobbing.

"Please don't leave, please don't leave." I'm shocked by her words and I nod. "I promise Katniss." Daria watches as I hold her and I stay there for the rest of the night.

--------A FEW WEEKS LATER-

KATNISS'S POV

Daria is helping me get back into my house. When she walks into my study she sees the leather jacket hanging on my chair where I do bills or read. She picks it up and smiles.

"Is this your lovers jacket?" She hums and I take it from her gently. "No it was my fathers... He died in a mining accident years ago." She puts a hand to her mouth. "Oh I'm so sorry Katniss." "It's fine Daria, that was a long time ago." I whisper and she looks into my eyes as she puts her blond hair in a messy bun.

"You okay?" I nod a little. The truth is I'm not, I can't live without Peeta, I'll be dead in a matter of weeks... That's a sad fact. She is moving some of the books around on my shelf as I read some letters from my therapist and then I hear a book fall to the ground.

I look up and see it's Peeta and my book we started on. She opens and goes through the pages with a smile. Then it drops when she sees the pages Peeta wrote about me. Tears roll down her cheeks and looks into my eyes. "You and Peeta were in love?" I nod with tears of relief rolling down my cheeks. "I can't live without him Daria." I whisper and she glares. "Why didn't you tell me?" "You looked so happy, and if I told you Peeta would have bad flashbacks."

She nods and then grabs a pen and paper and sits at my desk, with tears gleaming in her eyes. "You need him... I saw how your nightmares would get and I couldn't calm you down, only he could.

I don't need him, besides I'm needed in District Five for assistance on a plague outbreak, my mother is a doctor and she needs the help." She says as she writes. She moves her blond curls away from he face with a sniffle and folds the paper.

"I'll be gone by tonight, I'm so sorry Katniss." She walks over to me and wraps her arms around my shaky frame. "I'm sorry." Then she walks out with tears in her eyes.

PEETA'S POV

I wake slowly to a note on one of my pillows. I open it slowly and start reading.

Dear Peeta,

I can't live here in Twelve anymore, my mother needs me to help her in Five with a Plague Epidemic. And you don't really love me, I know who you are actually in love with Peeta and this woman needs you... She can't live without you. Hopefully you will find her soon because she needs you. I'm sorry Peeta.

Daria

I re read this multiple times and then get out of bed and walk to the woods where I always go and think. I run my hands through my messy hair as the spring breeze flows through my shirt.

Then I see Katniss sitting on a fallen log, staring off into the distance with her hair around her shoulders with a leather jacket on. I sit next to her. "Daria left me." She sighs, her grey eyes glistening against the gold of the morning sun.

"How unfortunate." She says and I nod. "Well my life has no meaning anymore." She looks up at me with he eyebrows scrunched. "What do you mean?" I give her a sad smile and shake of my head.

"Nobody needs me." She puts her hand over mine. "I do... I need you." Everything around me changes. We are sitting in the wet sand of a beach, we're wearing wetsuits that stick to our bodies with blood, the sea salt air cools hits our faces with a soft smell of salt.

Her hair is down and damp against her shoulders. Then she leans in and kisses me on the lips. She breaks away a little but I close the gap and make the kiss more heated.

Then I remember everything, the games the rebellions, the kisses, the hijackings, everything. When I break away we are back in the woods and I look into her grey eyes that look exhausted and broken, her four head against mine.

I swallow, savoring the kiss. "Katniss?" She nods with a grin. I kiss her lips again and bring her into my lap and let her lay her head on my shoulder as she cries tears of joy.

"Don't ever leave me Peeta, I love you too much to loose you again." I kiss her neck gently and let tears roll down my cheeks, taking in her smell of leather and leaves.

"Never again." Katniss and I need each other, if we loose each other again... We both would have nothing, I don't even remember what happened the last month or so, all I remember is Katniss Everdeen, my hope.

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