Night Before Games Kiss
Katniss and Peeta sat up on the roof of the Training Center, watching the crowds below. Even after making some tiny progress on the train, the tentative trust they had formed had shattered after Peeta had announced in his interview that he was in love with Katniss. No wonder he had been so quick to kiss her back on the train!
"I just don't want them to turn me into something that I'm not in there," Peeta spoke up.
Katniss peered at him curiously. "How would they change you?"
"I keep thinking of a way to show them that they don't own me. You know, if I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me," Peeta explained grimly.
A rebel at heart. Even though Peeta had grown up a Merchant and had not wanted for anything in Twelve. Moved by his defiant statement, and pitying his hopeless outlook on his survival, Katniss decided to forgive him this once, his admission that he loved her. Pushing herself up on her knees, she leaned across the small space between them. Her eyes fluttered shut just slightly before her lips sealed around Peeta's in another kiss. Peeta's hands gently cupped her face as he kissed her back with slightly more passion than he had shown on the train.
At last, Katniss pulled away. "For luck," she explained.