Through These Doors (PeetaxCato)

Chapter 15-One Last Time

Peeta

"He did what?" Katniss asked.

"Yes, about two months ago. I am so sorry...I just couldnt tell anyone until it was the right time." I whispered.

"Peeta, its okay. I understand why....I just wish you could have told me."

"I really wanted to, Kat. It was just...too hard to talk about." I said softly.

We said nothing more...and then it came to me...the truth. The truth of everything. I had tried to change, to speak softly and not care what the world thought. I had closed my mouth more and more to what was really going on around me, and had kept up this image of what the world was gonna see out of me. And just now, in this very moment, as Courtney was writhing in horrifying spasms and Katniss was boring holes into my face eith her stare...I suddenly realised ehat the truth was.

"It's time to kill him." I said.

"What? Are you crazy?" Katniss shrieked.

"No...its the only way to be out of our misery." I finished as I trotted downstairs.

Cato met me and hugged me.

"Baby, are you okay?" he asked me.

"I will be....once I taste Finnick's blood."

"Whoa, Peeta....this isn't like you."

"Its because nothing has been me, Cato. It is time to be as real as possible now. The only thing that is real at this moment is the love I have for you." I said as I kissed him and stroked his blond hair.

He pulled away and said with a smile..."Let's go get him..."

Cato

I slid open the window and creeped into the dark room that was his bedroom....and I heard his breathing in and out as he silently slept.
Peeta was lurking in the kitchen downstairs...and Clove had the stairwell. He would be totally surprised upon his waking.

I crept up to his face and looked closely at this face of presumed innocence. I knelt at the bedstead like a priest at the altar, because this was like an altar. A holy place.
I had lost my virginity here, and now what was once love here was now going to be filled with blood....

Song of the Day: Sorry Not Sorry by Demi Lovato