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Chapter Fifty Two

Chapter Fifty Two

PEETA'S POV

I watch Katniss sitting in the middle of the training center, staring off into space. They let her in here when she has good behavior to blow off steam but she doesn't do anything while she's in here this time, she's silent and staring.

She's getting a little thin now, she refuses to eat and it hurts seeing her like this. They have to coax her like a child, like I would with Willow when she doesn't want to eat because she's punishing herself over Lily's death. Today will be the first time I talk to her sense last week before she went hunting.

The nurse gives me permission to go in and I walk in with the door sliding open for me. I walk over to her where her back is turned to me. My footsteps echo through the training center and I watch Katniss shift. "Please I just want five minutes to be alone!" She turns and she stops what she was saying. Her grey eyes that were so angry at first soften, looking at me in disbelief.

"Peeta..." I smile. "Hey Katniss." She tries standing up on her bare feet, her hospital gown crumpled but she ends up falling back down with weakness. I lift her up gently. "I got ya." When she is standing she locks her arms around my neck tightly, nestling her face into my chest, taking in shaky breaths. I wrap my arms around her cool body and kiss the top of her dark curls. "I'm right here Katniss, I'm not going anywhere."

She grips my blonde locks and shakily sighs. "Is this real?" I nod quickly. "Yeah it is." "I'm not going to wake up... And find you not there right?" "Right." I answer. She looks up at me, tears rolling down her cheeks. "I should've never let her go, she's dead because of me, I killed her." I shush Katniss quickly. "You didn't do anything, it wasn't your fault Katniss you would've never known that she was going to die."

"I was suppose to save her, I was suppose to protect her-" I Shush her softly, kissing her cheek then proceeding to brushing her tears away with my thumb. "Katniss... You aren't going to be able to save everyone in this world, everything that's living will die, that's inevitable." She nods and I rest my lips gently on her forehead. "What we need to focus on is your mental health, our marriage, and most importantly our baby daughter who needs us."

She nods again and I gently grip her forearms. "Honey, let me help you... If you let me in, let me know what's going on then we can go home alright?" She clears her throat. "Then I guess we have a lot to talk about." She takes my hand and leads me out of the training center.

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We've been talking for a few days now just about everything that has been bothering us, mentally. Katniss sits crisscross on the bed, making knots in a piece of rope. I raise an eyebrow and she looks up then chuckles. "Finnick showed me how to do this, it's a therapeutic thing... Keeps the actual problems in the world at bay for some time because all you do is focus on the knot." I nod slowly and she smiles a little.

"Don't think I'm crazy, it's true." I giggle and she hands me the rope. "You try." I start making a knot in the rope and her grey eyes track my movements. I look at her dark messy curls and smile a little. "Did you take a shower today?" She nods. "Yeah, the nurses made me... I hate them sitting there and waiting for me to be done, it annoys me." I laugh. "Well when we get home it'll just be me and you to worry about showers." She smirks. "What are you insinuating Mr. Mellark?"

I stop making my knot and kiss her lips for the first time in a week and smirk back at her. "I guess you'll find out when we get home." This is the first time that I've actually talk to her like an adult and romantically in a while and it makes me extremely happy on how she reacts. I set aside the rope and lean in, kissing her again, slower, savoring it.

Then I break it off but she closes the space between our lips, locking them once again together in a unbreakable seal. I shove her gently back against her pillows still kissing her soft lips, enjoying every second of it. When we finally break the kiss our chests are raising up and down frantically trying to get the oxygen we lost but we just seem to stay breathless. I wrap my arms around her body and sigh, kissing her nose. "You will never know how much I missed that." She grins.

"You will never know how long I've waited for that." That night I lay nose to nose with Katniss in her bed, my arms wrapped around her waist with her forehead pressed against mine. I'm not suppose to be in here, I could get in trouble for messing with Katniss's sleep, it's important for her mental recovery the doctors have told me but I just didn't have the heart to leave. "I'm not suppose to be in here Katniss... I should go before someone sees me." I kiss her lips softly and go to get up but she holds onto my arm.

"Peeta, don't leave." I look into her grey eyes, filled with fear. "Hey, what's wrong?" I ask, wrapping my arms around her. "I don't want you to leave, I don't want you to be gone too." I kiss her temple. "I'm not going anywhere alright I will always be here." Katniss's eyes fill with tears. "Always is just a word." She mumbles. I brush her tears away from her cheeks and then rest my forehead against hers.

"You're right, but I'm going to make it into a promise." I lay back down with her, bringing her closer to me and she then falls into a deep sleep for the first time in forever and so do I... And I never break that promise.

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