Hello! Since we finally got +1,000 views I will reward you with a long chapter full of adventure, special thanks to blondmomma09 for giving me some ideas, and I know some of you have other great ideas I´ll like to hear. Again this chapter will be from Peeta´s POV.
Chapter 7: Decisions
I woke up extremely late that day, maybe I was just tired. I got dressed up and went to the kitchen, to my surprise Katniss was there, already making breakfast, "Um, hi Katniss, I´m glad you can finally walk by your own" I said, "I´m glad too, thanks for taking care of me all these days, Peeta right?" she said, "Yes, yes, I´m Peeta" I said, quite sadly. I bet Katniss was very thankful with my help, she even made me breakfast, even if I told her not to worry. We sat on the couch and ate together, when we finished I started talking to her about her past, her family, and everything she lived, she just remained silent. The conversation got deeper, until we were silent again, I finally broke the silence when I said, "Katniss, I had loved you since I was 5, I went with you on the Hunger Games twice, I saved your life many times and you saved mine too, we were in love, please tell me you didn´t forget, tell me you didn´t forget who we used to be!" I was about to cry, I had never been strong enough, physically I was quite strong but emotionally never, I cried many times in the arena, while Katniss slept, but this time I couldn´t hold it in, so I started crying. "P-Peeta, I´m sorry I don´t remember who you are, I´m sorry I forgot everything, I´m sorry, I really am!" said Katniss, I noticed she was crying too; after all this affected her more that it hurt me. "It´s ok, Katniss" I said, I smiled, with tears still on my eyes; I kissed her forehead and left the room.
That afternoon I received an unexpected visit, from an old friend. Katniss and I were having dinner when somebody knocked the door, it was quite strange since the only people living in district 12 where us. I opened the door and saw somebody I didn´t expected, he hugged me and I hugged him, "I thought you were at district 2, serving the new president" I said, "I was, but they wanted to do some cruel things I didn´t wanted to be part of, besides I needed to remain sober" he said. "Well, come in Haymitch, my house your house, and tell me, what brought you here?" I said, with a big smile on my face, I missed the drunken old mentor. "First things first young man, do you have any liquor I could borrow" he said, "Haymitch, you´ll have your liquor after you tell me what brought you here" I said. To my surprise Haymitch´s face went pale as he started talking, "Well, the truth is that I didn´t left my job, Paylor, the new president fired me, she said she wants Katniss back", She can´t go back, they´ll destroy whatever is left of her, she must not go. Haymitch continued "They will call you today, so think about it and tell Katniss, I know what happened to her, Mrs. Everdeen told me when she returned to district 2". Without saying anything more, he left the house.
Haymitch was right; they called me that afternoon…
"Good afternoon, may I talk to Katniss Everdeen?" said the voice on the other line; I supposed the voice belonged to commandant Paylor
"Um, she is busy… this is Peeta" I said
"Then I´ll talk with you, Peeta, here´s the thing, the capitol requires Katniss´s services"
"Katniss is not on conditions of returning to the rebellion"
"She needs to come!" she said, almost shouting
"I-I´m sorry, but she won´t approve this, I said no!" I shouted at her
"Alright, you don´t know who you are messing with!" she shouted before ending the call.
And indeed I didn´t knew who I was messing with…
Later that afternoon I was reading a newspaper and drinking some coffee, when I noticed something strange, my cup was moving and my table was shaking, my cup fell to the ground and coffee was all over the carpet, I remembered how many times that happened to me at the capitol, every time hovercrafts where coming… wait a second! Every time a hovercraft was coming! That only meant one thing, no! I looked through my window and saw a huge war hovercraft getting closer to Victor´s Village, I was scared with only one thought on my mind… they are coming for her.
I ran to Katniss´s room and told her "Katniss, they are coming for you, grab my hand", "What? Who is coming for me? I-I don´t understand" she said, confused. "I´ll explain later, run!" We went downstairs, it was too late the hovercraft was already over the house, I had the door locked that day, damn it! I searched for them in my backpack, then one bomb fell on the house, destroying the kitchen, it almost killed us, but we needed to worry about other things, like the smoke, we started to suffocate, when I found them! I found the keys and opened the door, the second we were outside another bomb fell, destroying the whole house. Now that we were outside I didn´t knew what to do or where to go, the only possible safe place I knew was the forest, so I headed there. We ran and ran and when we finally crossed the fence they were still following us, they fired one last bomb that almost got us, however the explosion sent us literally flying, to my bad luck I hit a tree, and almost died. I couldn´t see Katniss anywhere, I tried to move, I couldn´t, maybe the impact broke some of my bones, from the corner of my eye I saw how the hovercraft left, I bet they thought we were dead, but just to make sure they launched another bomb, that collapsed near me. A few moments later I collapsed too.
Just to avoid future confusion the rest of this chapter will be written from Katniss´s point of view
I fell hard on the ground, I couldn´t feel my body, I couldn´t move either, who came for me and why? I thought, I didn´t know much about myself either, I continued thinking when a second bomb collapsed near me, it sent me flying further, this time my head practically smashed to the ground and I lost consciousness.
When I woke up I could miraculously move, I thought I had a broken bone or something but I was fine. I had a couple of bruises of course but no mayor wounds, this went better than expected, I only need to find… A figure interrupted my thoughts, I got closer until I saw him clearly, "Peeta!" I shouted, and then I ran towards him. He was unconscious, his head was bleeding, and I think he smashed into a rock. I didn´t know if he was still alive so I got close to his chest and listened to his heartbeats, thank God! He is alive! I thought. I needed to cure his head, I may have forgotten everything but I learned some more, in Peeta´s house was a first aid book, I read it, and I knew perfectly how to cure Peeta´s wound. There was a purple plant near me, Carssiria I thought, and I remember the book said Carssirias disinfected wounds. I grabbed a couple of them and placed them on Peeta´s forehead, to cover the wound from any future infections I grabbed the scarf I was wearing and wrapped it around his head.
The rest of that day I just stayed near Peeta and waited for him to wake up, he probably wasn't going to wake up ´till tomorrow, so I just waited. I tried to picture everything Peeta has told me these last weeks about my life. But no matter how hard I try I can´t remember anything more, just what he has told me. However I knew that I knew Peeta, in some way, his face was familiar to me since the beginning. I practically owed my life to him, he saved me the day I lost my memory, and he saved me right now. I knew the poor boy was more destroyed than I was, in some way he missed my memory more than I did. I knew he loved me, and I think I liked him too, but there was something that made me uncomfortable about being with him, I felt sad around him, I didn´t know why.
I didn´t wanted to be creepy or anything but I just couldn´t take my eyes off him. He had his eyes closed and his face covered in scars and blood, but still, he was attractive, the sad part is he´s known me forever and I can just remember some weeks, sometimes I wish I had my memory back, just to see him happy, he was sad and it made me sad too. I couldn´t help it, I cried again, I got closer to him and brushed some hair away from his eyes, to my surprise he opened his eyes wide. I got away from him, this was awkward. He got up and I said "Oh thank God you are alive, that explosion almost got us" he just nodded; I wonder what was he thinking in that moment, I saw he was blushing and smiling. "It´s too late, we need to wait until tomorrow to continue, we´ll find a hiding place, but we must recover, go to sleep Katniss, I´ll take guard" he said. I nodded and went to sleep. There was just something about that boy that made me feel really happy. Maybe if there is place for happiness there is place for love too.
Chapter 7 is up! Thanks guys for letting me get +1000 views, you are the reason I can´t sleep at night because I feel the need to update, right know It´s 10 pm. I´m supposed to be sleeping but I´m not! Because I felt the need to update. Also I started a new story called "When Nightmares Get Real" it´s about what if Katniss hadn´t volunteered, it will be romantic and full of adventures, and who knows? If it has success I might even write another story, and you´ll choose the theme. Also don´t forget to check Nevermore by TheJesusFreak777, he is a great writer and maybe you´ll enjoy his story as much as I do!
