A/N: Hello! I'm new to The Hunger Games section of fanfiction but not new to The Hunger Games. Ask my 14 page essay about it and it will tell you that The Hunger Games and I are old friends:) One of the questions in the essay was to describe love and I was looking up web definitions. I thought it would be kind of fun to try my hand at writing something like this because I have done this kind of thing before. Please enjoy and let me know if you like it.
Disclaimer: If I really owned it, do you think I would be writing all this for free? No! I'd be charging you and making millions. But alas, I don't own The Hunger Games so I will have to find some other way to finance my plans for world domination. Dang it!
Defining Love: 10 Ways Peeta and Katniss Love Each Other
A strong positive emotion of regard and affection
Love was the first word that came to his mind when he saw her. He wasn't sure what it meant, his parents obviously weren't prime examples, but he thought it fit her. Peeta thought the word love described her quite well.
Any object of warm affection or devotion
Peeta wasn't the first man she loved. That right was reserved for her father. But even though he was gone, Katniss still believed he would have liked the boy who took the second spot on her list.
Have a great affection or liking for
Peeta Mellark didn't use the word 'love' very lightly. It was reserved for very special things like cakes, painting, the smell of warm bread, and the girl he was always too shy to approach.
Beloved: a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
When she couldn't stop screaming the only thing that could calm her down was his reassurances. "It's alright love, I'm here."
Beloved: a beloved person
What she said to him at the train tracks made him feel like he ran into a brick wall. The love of his life was slipping away from him and he didn't know how to get her back.
A deep feeling of attraction
She wasn't sure what to classify it as. It couldn't be defined as a crush, that seemed too simple, too naive, too mundane. What they had was so much more but she couldn't find the words to describe how she felt when her lips tingled after making contact with his.
Be enamored or in love with
To be cliché, he was head over heals. He would go to the moon and back if she wanted him to. When he met her he thought to himself "I would die for that girl." He didn't know how close he would come to doing just that.
Strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties
They could never be thought of as separate after this. She knew that after going what they had gone through in the arena, her name would forever be linked with Peeta Mellark's.
Unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another
He knew it was had to end. He wanted to keep hanging on but that would only hurt her more. And he couldn't bear the thought of adding another scar on her heart.
An amorous episode: a love affair
She didn't belong to anybody. Katniss prided herself in being independent and not having to rely on a man. She should have been able to choose who she wanted to spend time with. But if theat was the case then why did she feel guilty when she was with Gale and it was all she could do not to picture the look of hurt in Peeta's eyes?
Please let me know what you think!
