Katniss awoke to the feeling of someone moving around beside her, she turned around to see Peeta thrashing about beside her with a pained expression on his face. He was having a nightmare. This had happened before it was always about the hunger games, it had been 2 years since they had passed but they hadn't truly left them yet… not really.
Katniss decided to wake him up and calm him down before he hurts himself. She reached out and lightly shook his shoulder, hoping that this would raise him from his slumber. It didn't. She tried again harder this time but he still would not wake up. "Peeta", she said loudly, "Come on Peeta it's only a dream, wake up", she carried on shaking his shoulder. He had now started screaming for her.
She straddled him, grabbed both his shoulders and shook them hard. "Peeta, PEETA", she shouted. His eyes flew open and he sat up, Katniss still straddling him. She pulled him into a hug and he started sobbing. "Shhhh", she soothed, "it was only a dream", it took around an hour until he was finally coherent enough to talk. He was sniffling and hiccupping into katniss's neck and she rubbed his back in circles to try and calm him down.
"Sorry", he croaked, "that was a bad one, the worst I've had in a while". Katniss pulled away and looked into his puffy red eyes, "Peeta"; she said softly, "What have I said about apologising about your dreams, you can't help it". She pulled him back into her and he rested his head onto her shoulder. "I know", he said his voice muffled by her t-shirt, "but I always feel bad for waking you up".
"Well don't", she protested, "I always manage to wake you when I have a bad dream and mine are always much worse than yours". Peeta smiled at her and nodded in agreement. She climbed off of Peeta and laid down on her side of the bed. Peeta got up and made his way to the kitchen and made himself a cup of tea, something he always did after a nightmare.
When he returned he found Katniss had already fallen asleep and he carefully got back into bed, trying not to wake her up with his movements. He managed to wake her up anyway. She rolled over to him and rested her head on his chest and snuggled into his neck, in return Peeta put his arm around her waist and pulled the cover over both of them. He switched off the light and closed his eyes hoping desperately that that was the last nightmare for the both of them…