Previously on This Dandelion Needs Her Fire:
I am announced as Victor, but I don't care because my soul has died. My Katniss is gone and so am I.
Peeta's POV
I limp into the cornucopia and see the most horrible scene. Katniss and Cato have body parts missing and they are both bloody, but I head over to Katniss. I kiss her forehead and begin to sob, my hands move to her mockingjay pin and I remove it, I fasten it on my jacket and I kiss Katniss' forehead one more time before I leave the cornucopia. A Hovercraft arrives and I step onto the ladder, a current of air folds me securely onto the ladder, but I let go and sob harder and louder. Capitol attendants raise the ladder and pull me up, as soon as I am in the Hovercraft I black out.
Peeta's Dream
Katniss visits me in my my dream, she is so beautiful in a white dress that flows to her knees.
"Peeta," her beautiful melodic voice calls.
"Katniss...I'm so sorry."
"Peeta, it's not your fault I'm...gone, I'm fine, better than ever."
"I love you Katniss, you're my all, and your the most beautiful person in the world. Nine years I've spent loving you from afar, but I got the chance to Love and Protect you in The Hunger Games. But I blew my chance to protect you and you got killed. I will never ever forgive myself for that."
Katniss has tears streaming down her face as she gracefully strides to me.
"I love you Peeta," she says as she caresses my face.
"I love you too Katniss, more than you know," I say back.
She wraps her arms around my chest and squeezes me tight, then I hug her back wrapping my arms around her waist.
"I miss you so much," I say sobbing.
She pulls away from my chest looking worried, she wipes away my tears with her fingers.
"Don't cry Peeta. You'll make me cry again."
"Don't worry Love, I'm just grieving."
"Grieving who," she asks puzzled.
"You, the silly, beautiful one."
"I'm right here."
"In my dream, not actually in my arms."
"But you will join me someday right," she asks jokingly.
"Of course," I say.
"You have to wake up soon Peeta."
"Why?"
"Haymitch and Effie are waiting," she says instructively.
"Okay. Promise me you'll visit me again tomorrow night?"
"Every night that you wish," she says as she walks away. _
I awake immediately, I am in a blank white room on a bed, but I am strapped in. A panel in the wall slides open, and the band around my waist unlatches. I get up slowly and take small steps out of the white room, and see Haymitch, Portia, Cinna, my prep team, Katniss' prep team, and Effie waiting.
"Peeta, congratulations on winning," says Portia as she steps toward me.
"Thank you, but I didn't win," I say shakily.
"Of course you did Peeta," says Effie.
"No, the Capitol won. Their goal was to break the Tributes by making them kill each other, and they have reached their goal. I am broken with out her," I say sobbing.
"Peeta it's okay, come along with me," says Cinna as he puts his arm on my shoulders.
Cinna leads me down a dark hall and into a elevator, he pushes the button with a white 12 on it, and we shoot upwards. I sink to the floor and put my head on my hands, sobbing with more force. The doors slide open and Cinna says, "Peeta come along, just a little longer."
I get up and follow him through our quarters from before the games, but he doesn't open my door he opens Katniss' door instead.
"I thought you would like to dine in here instead of your room," Cinna says kindly.
"Thank you Cinna, you don't have to stay if you don't want to," I say walking over to a red velvet chair and sitting down.
"I will, for Katniss."
"Katniss, the girl who was on fire, my girl on fire," I say.
"Katniss was always yours Peeta."
"She once said something in her sleep about me. She said 'Peeta, my dandelion. My dandelion is Peeta.' What do you think she meant?"
"I think she was calling you a dandelion Peeta."
"Oh, well this dandelion needs her fire," I say looking up as if I was talking to her.