Title: One Choice
Author: Poly
Category: Peeta & Katniss
Rating: K
Complete: Yes
Summary: Katniss can challenge the Capitol, begin a revolution and even give her life in the name of it. But she can't decide one simple thing.
ONE CHOICE
It was almost impossible for me to measure, to compare... to choose. Peeta. Gale. Two people, so important for me, but at the same time, in such a different way.
Gale was the constant presence. He was the company, the support, the laughs in the middle of the afternoon, the understanding. Gale was always there with me. Separate we were to kids trying to survive, scared to face life. Together we were so much more. We were the ones that brought food home, that feed so many mouths, that got over the most difficult times.
And Peeta... Peeta was Peeta. The lame jokes and the full heart. That guy that you'll always trust no matter what. And even if you shouldn't trust him, he will convince you anyway. He is just that good. But he would never do that in purpose, with bad intentions. Peeta is all that I'll never be. Pure. Honest. Strong. And in really few time, he became a great part of my life. The one for who I could die for. The one who could die for me. I've come to trust him blindly, and he never let me down. I could do anything, everything, to see him happy. Smiling. Having a life, making good memories. Even if I didn't live to see it. And this, coming from a selfish girl as I am, its a big deal. A huge one.
And suddenly, it hits me. Just like it was something physical. The realization hits me, taking out all the air of my lungs in the process. I surely love Gale. And, without a doubt, I love Peeta. But... it's different. Every person that I love, I love in a different way. And there is only one that I love the most, and that's the big realization that I'm having right now.
The love that I have for Gale is innocent. Is the clinging for distant memories, from a time where we were happy. It's the feeling of belonging, the feeling of... family. It's like the love for a brother.
A cousin.
But when I think about Peeta and what he is in my life... What I want him to be and achieve, the way I love him... it's not a brotherly love. And that's not because of all the kissing and making out – some, I can't really decide how much, just an acting for the audience.
Just thinking about him makes my stomach give a loop, like when you do a flip a little bit too quick. If I'm worried with him the feeling is so monstrous and gigantic that it doesn't go away until he is in one piece, safe in my arms, at the reach of my touching...
I sit down, resting my head in my knees. All this time I wanted to come back to Gale when... when there was no coming back. Our time passed. Happy, good times, but passed. I changed, he changed. We will never be the same again, as well as our friendship. All this time, my home was right beside me. At the reach of a touch, a touch that wasn't just for the cameras. It was for me too. For him. For us.
Oh, gosh, that's it. He is the one. He is the one.
What do I do now?
A/n: First time writing with Hunger Games. I wrote this story after reading Catching Fire, but I don`t have a place to put it inside the storyline. Maybe it was just my fan side bringing reasons for her to chose Peeta over Gale.
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