100 words of everlark. For Caesar's Palace Ship Week, day 4. sorry for the crap quality but

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Peeta has always been the words of the relationship, before the cameras and at home.

Lately he's said nothing, and it's making Katniss nervous that she might be losing him already.

He even dreams silently, but Katniss wakes early and knows what eyes pasted shut mean. She hates that he won't wake her up so they can cry together and that she can't bring herself to tell him.

He's wiping the rust from his eyelids, and the sun's rising behind him to form a blonde halo, and suddenly – "I love you."

He smiles, and she knows that he's still here.