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Chapter 3: The Awakening

Katniss POV

I'm pretty sure I died but I'm not so sure that I'm dead now. Actually if I'm dead right now then I'm hearing things because I hear Peeta's voice and he sounds as if he is right next to me, I think. After mulling this over for a little bit I decide that I will try to concentrate on Peeta's voice and see if I can't make out what he is saying.

"… Why did you do it?" he asks with so much sadness yet he is desperate for an answer he isn't sure he'll ever get.

The sadness and desperation in his voice breaks my heart to hear and I wait to hear more but there is none. Then I notice that I can feel his warm hands holding mine.

When Peeta finally leaves my side I feel the need to open my eyes (then try as I might they won't open) and wanting him to stay. Haymitch comes in after Peeta leaves. He walks up to the side of my bed and then all is silent at least for a little while it is.

"The Doctors say that you'll live Sweetheart." Haymitch states the continues on by saying very sarcastically "Peeta finding you lying there on your bed practically dead was such a nice home welcoming gift you gave him there, Sweetheart."

After that it is silent again which is then broken by Haymitch sighing. Then all is quiet once again.

The sound of the door opening alerts me that someone is coming in the room. Then I hear Peeta's heavy foot tread as he comes into the room and then next to the bed.

"Welcome back, kid." Haymitch says now speaking to Peeta instead of me (at least that is whom I assume he was talking to earlier).

"Are you heading back home, then?" Peeta ask Haymitch as he grabs my hand.

"Yha, There is no point in staying here if all she's going to do is sleep all day. So see you later kid." Haymitch replies.

"Bye, Haymitch." Peeta says sadly.

After Haymitch leaves I fall into a peaceful sleep knowing Peeta is there at my side and that he will stay there until he was to leave.

I believe Haymitch said it's been exactly 1 week since I died, was brought to the hospital here in District 12, and was brought back form certain death. So over this past week as I drift in and out of consciousness, I have learned that my doctor's name is Suzuki, that she is a couple of years older than both me and Peeta, and that she got married a couple of years ago.

When Haymitch comes to visit he really doesn't say more than a few words here and there. Haymitch is really only here when Peeta is gone but as soon as Peeta gets back Haymitch takes his leave.

At one point today, when I was unconscious, I had a wonderful dream that I would never dare to forget for the rest of my life because it isn't one of my usual nightmares:

I was in a meadow and not like the meadow here in District 12 but Bigger. The grass is nice and tall and a beautiful shade of almost an emerald green. A ring of flowers surround the edges of the meadow along with a thick forest of trees on one side of the meadow and a beautiful sapphire blue waterfall that flows into a lake.

I stand there in the center of the meadow looking over at the waterfall and lake. Then I look over to my left to see Peeta standing there next to me and is looking back at me with those beautiful bright blue eyes of his. His ashy blond hair that normally falls over his forehead in waves looks like someone had run their fingers through it.

I turn so that I am fully facing him and then he turn so that he is fully facing me. Peeta then grabs both of my hands in both of his hands and is about to ….

Before I can finish the dream I regain consciousness. My eyes are still too heavy to open but if I concentrate I can hear my doctor, Suzuki talking to Peeta.

"I also have a 1 year old son back in District 9 with my husband." Is the last thing I hear Suzuki say before she leaves the room.

Then a few seconds later I hear Peeta say "Katniss, I'll love you forever and Always."

Hearing him say that sent my heart a soaring and only makes me wish that I could tell him that I love him too.

When I hear his breathing slow I know he is asleep and I soon fallow him into a dreamless sleep.

When I wake up I find that I can finally open my eyes. The first thing I see is Peeta still a sleep in the chair next to my hospital bed and is still holding my hand. I can't help but smile at him.

I try not to move so much so that I won't wake him. I turn slowly onto my side so that I'm facing him. But the little movement I make enough to wake him.

He opens his eyes slowly and then just looks at me for a few minutes as he processes the fact that I am actually a wake.

"Katniss?" he ask almost with the uncertainty of whether or not I'm really awake.

I nod my head and say with a scratchy voice (because of it's under use) "Yes, Peeta?"

He jumps out of his chair almost nocking it over and pulls me into his warm strong arms. He just holds me in his arms for a few minutes before speaking up again.

"I wasn't sure if you were ever going to wake up or even if I would ever see your beautiful gray eyes again." He says as his hold on me tightens ever so slightly. "I was so scared that I would lose you, Katniss."

"Peeta, I'm so sorry. It's just that I thought that there was no one left that loved me or even cared about what would happen to me. My mother left me, my sister is dead, my best friend and hunting partner I no longer have any connections with, Haymitch is just a drunk, and I just thought that you would probably want nothing to do with me or even love me anymore. I just felt so alone and I didn't think there would be anyone to notice or care if I was gone. And I'm just so sorry, Peeta." I say as I begin to cry. By the time I finish talking I'm sobbing in to his chest.

I cry because I had hurt Peeta again even if it wasn't intentional I still hurt him and I cry because I can't take it back.

Peeta holds me tighter and tries to calm me down. When I am no longer sobbing he says "Katniss, I never really stopped loving you and I Always will. Don't you ever forget that and as to you feeling like your alone well I'm here now and I'll Always be here for you." His voice was soft and calming for me. He never once let his voice rise.

I bring my arms up from my sides and put them around him to hold him close to me as we just sit here on my hospital bed. After a little bit I pull back a little and look up at him. When I look up I find that I'm looking directly into his bright blue eyes. Seeing the sadness in his eyes is what makes me final decided what I was going to tell him and it's what I've wanted to say since I heard him say he still loved me.

"Peeta, I love you too and I always will." I say as I look up and into his eyes.

Peeta was a little surprised at first but then he smiled at me. He leans down and presses his lips against my forehead. Then he looks out the window and says "It's still too early in the morning for anyone to be up. We should try and get some more sleep while we can."

He then begins to claim of my hospital bed when I grab his arm and I say "Peeta…"

But before I can finish he says "Move over."

I move over so that there is enough room on the bed for him to slide in next to me. After I move over he slides in next to me and we both lie down. I curl up into him while he wraps his arms around me.

"Awh! How sweet is that!" Doctor Suzuki says a little too loudly causing both me and Peeta to wake up.

We both look over at her and see her standing at the end of the bed. Doctor Suzuki looks over at the door that is still propped open the walks over to it and closes it. As Peeta gets up and is about to get off the bed, Doctor Suzuki say "You can stay where you are Peeta. Oh and I talked to Dr. Aurelius last night to tell him that since I'm here in District 12 and that I am highly qualified as Doctor that he could sent both of your file over here so that I could official take over as both of yours Doctor. He said yes and will be sending over your file. I'll be getting them sometime tomorrow." Then she looks directly at me as Peeta resituates himself on the bed and says "It's nice to see that you're finally awake, Miss Everdeen. May I call you Katniss?"

"Sure." I say.

"Well if everything checks out ok you can leave the hospital as early as tomorrow morning. Oh and you can just call me Suzuki." She says as she walks over and takes my wrist to check my pulse. She does a few other things and then says "Alright everything checks out. I'll be right back."

As she walks out the door in turn to look at Peeta and see that he is looking back at me.

"Good morning, Katniss." Peeta says smiling at me.

"Good morning, Peeta." I say as I can't help but smile back at him.

I wrap my arms around him as he wraps his strong, warm arms around me and we stay like this until Suzuki walks into the room with a full tray of food in one hand and a plate with two drinks on it. She brings it over to both me and Peeta and set the full tray of food in fount of us. She then set the drinks down on the table next to my bed.

"Normally a nurse would have brought you the food but since I made all these food this morning and I brought it in for the all the doctors and nurses to eat. There was still so much of it left that I decided to bring some for you two to eat for breakfast. I hope you like it." Suzuki says smiling.

Then a nurse comes into the room and says "Doctor Suzuki your husband is on the phone. Would you like me to tell him you're busy with a patient and can't come to the phone right now or that you'll just be a minuet?"

"No tell him I'll be right there." Suzuki says as the nurse leaves.

Suzuki turns to face us then bows her head and say "Sorry but I've got to take this. I hope you like you food and I'll be back in a few to collect the dishes. I'm sorry again." She then is out of the room before either Peeta or I can say anything.

Peeta and I eat the food that Suzuki brought in for us in silence. When we finished eating Peeta speaks up "I wonder what was up with her. I mean she seemed pretty happy earlier but when the nurse said her husband called she seemed to be a little worried that something bad had happened."

"We could always ask her when she comes back." I suggest as I wrap my arms around him.


I probably woun't be able to get the next chapter up untill monday but I'll try and get it up before me what you think about Doctor Suzuki and if you all really like her and want to know more about her. Let me know and I can give her more of a background in one of the next chapters. Oh and what do you think was going to happen in Katniss's dream? Let me know if you have any guesses as to what was going to happen in her dream. Don't forget to Review and tell me what you think because I'd realy like to hear what you think.