She found him that morning. Thankful that she had been the first one, she gently shook his shoulder, waiting for his eyes to open. "Haymitch, wake up...What happened last night?"
He groaned, sitting up slowly. "Effie...?" He rubbed his eyes, bloodying his face. His hands were cut open over and over, from throwing glass bottles that were already broken and punching walls in a drunken rage. He had a cut on his eyebrow from god knows what, and he was working on a black eye.
"Yeah...come on, let's get up."
"No...headache..." He groaned again, still not opening his eyes.
"Come on. I'll help you out." She helped him to his feet, half dragging him to the bathroom. She sat him on the edge of the bathtub, sighing as he slumped against the wall of the tub. "Haymitch...What happened?" She inquired as she wet a washcloth under warm water.
"Got into a bar fight...I didn't start it, though...just got tugged into it..." He sighed. "I must've drank something i usually don't last night..."
"Well, you shouldn't get this drunk, period." She gently stroked the washcloth over his face, ignoring his hands trying to bat her away. "let me help..." She gently washed his face, then took his hands in her own, gently washing out the cuts and knicks on his hands. "Hold still." She dug around in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom. Weilding antibiotic salve, bandages and butterfly sutures, she set to work. Dousing his hands in the salve and wrapping them, taping his cut. He simply sighed and let her to it, knowing that any protests would be ignored. "There..." She stroked his hair gently and kissed his forehead. "Now try to stay out of trouble, please?"
She giggled as he pulled her to him, straddling him and wrapping her arms around his neck. "Thank you, princess." He lightly kissed her.
She cupped her hands on his face, stroking the scruff that she loved so on his face. "What would you do without me?"
He chuckled a little. "Live a very boring, even lonlier life where no-one takes care of me." He kissed her lightly again. "What would YOU do without ME?"
"Live a very boring life...without the person I love most in the entire world." He chuckled lightly, kissing her forehead.
"I love you, too. More than you'll ever know."