A/N: So, I just went kind of writing crazy because I'm home alone and I'm wearing Harry's jumper and i don't even know, this chapter is kind of rushed but i kind of like it. It shows how vulnerable Katniss is when it comes to Prim.
Chapter eight
"What happened?" I heard Peeta's voice.
"She fainted!" Madge stuttering.
"Not Katniss! Primrose!" Peeta's fear. Peeta's voice was close but Madge's wasn't.
"I don't know! Hurry up! Shall I come and help!" Madge desperately shouting.
"No! I'm getting dressed! Katniss is done!" My eyes opened and I started running. "Baby, wait!" I wasn't waiting for anyone. Prim. I had to get to Prim.
"Where's my little duck!" I screamed at Madge who was running on my left. Peeta on my right.
"Follow me!" She panted.
"You're too slow! Just tell me where she is!" I yelled urgently running in no given direction.
"The lake! She's by the lake!" The second part was already out of ear shot because I was sprinting. The wooden gate was closed to the lake area and I screamed. Peeta sped up next to me and got to the gate first, giving me a leg up. "I'm sorry!" I called to him when I dropped and ran without helping him over. He'd understand.
I saw high vis jackets on the other side of the lake and without thinking I jumped into the lake and started swimming. I could swim but I wasn't brilliant and my desperation to get to Prim made me stupidly think I could swim the huge lake.
"Prim!" I screamed desperately.
"I gotcha!" I spun urgently, Finnick grabbed me under the arms and started powering to the shore. He pulled me to my feet and I pull random people out of the way.
"Prim! No!" I cried out, she was laying down, blinking confused while a stick stuck out of her. "Little duck!"
"Katniss?" She spoke, but barely.
"I'm here. I'm here!" I collapsed next to her. The first aiders started pulling me back and I automatically punched whoever it was. "You can't leave me Prim! You can't!" I sobbed frantically.
"I won't Katniss. I promise." Her voice was so soft. So innocent. I screamed. No words. Just a long scream.
"Katniss, let them help her." Finnick. Finnick spoke.
"I can help her! I can do it!" I pushed the hair out of her eyes.
"Katniss, you're in the way."
"No! No! No!" Finnick lunged for me and I scrambled away. He jumped and caught me, pinning me to the ground.
"Let them help her Katniss! Let them save her!" Finnick spoke urgently. I screamed again. Half way through my voice stopped, but my eyes were still scrunched up and my mouth wide open. "Katniss, you're hurting your throat. Stop it, please. Katniss!" His head was next to mine and I closed my mouth. "Are you calm?"
"How the fuck am I supposed to be calm!" I yelled.
"Are you calm enough for me to get off you?" He asked more specifically.
"Yes!" I yelled in his ear.
"Promise?" He whispered.
"Get off." I huffed and he rolled off, we both sat next to each other. The stick was gone from Prim and they were surrounded her.
"Katniss!" I looked up, Peeta stood panting.
"You! Its your fault! You did this to my little duck!" I yelled, standing up.
"What? No!" Peeta said, confused. He moved towards me.
"I was with you! I should have been with her! Not you!" Finnick stood up.
"Stop Katniss, before you do something you regret." He spoke quietly.
"I already have done something I regret!" I looked pointedly at Peeta, he stepped backwards. "Leave! Go away! I never want to see you again!" He turned and walked. It was too easy. I ran after him, I kicked him in the back of the leg and pushed him to the ground. Finnick was on me again.
"Stop! Stop! Katniss! Stop it!" Peeta stood up, without looking at me, and walked away.
"I hate you! I hate you Peeta! I hate you Peeta Mellark!" I screamed and Finnick held my wrists above my head tighter.
"You're going to lose him! You'll lose him, Katniss!" Finnick said urgently. I looked into his eyes and then turned to watch Peeta leave.
"Gale would never have let this happen!" I screamed at the top of my voice. Finnick's head snapped towards Peeta, and we both watched him stop. He stopped walking. Then carried on.
"You stupid girl, Katniss." Finnick mumbled as he rested his head on the grass next to my head. "You stupid, stupid girl."
"Get off me! Get off! I need to see Prim! Is she okay! Anyone! Get this idiot of me! He's all wet!"
Eventually I got tired of screaming and Finnick got off me. An air ambulance took Prim away and Finnick walked me back to the main cabin. He broke in and we were sat on the kitchen counters with cups of coffee. Neither of us drinking it.
"You should get to bed, Katniss. Get some sleep." Finnick hopped off the counter.
"I can't." I whispered, my voice practially gone. He pulled me off the counter and washed up our mugs. "Will you stay with me, Finnick?" He looks at me and nods.
"Come on, let's go." Finnick put his arm round my shoulders and led me out. I could hear talking, a fast but whispered conversation. It stopped suddenly.
"Catnip." I whimpered and ran to the voice. Gale stepped out of the shadows and spun me round.
"I've missed you so much, Gale!" I exclaim.
"I know, Catnip. How're you doing?" He holds my face and I'm fighting tears.
"Peet, come on." Finnick says and footsteps leave the shadows. When they're a distance away I see Finnick squeeze Peeta's shoulder and Peeta brush it off.
"She's going to be okay." I whisper.
"I know, that's why I asked how you were?" I don't answer him and he takes my hand. "Come on, bed time." We walk silently back to my room. "So, what did I miss?" He asks as he slips his shoes off.
"Nothing, how did you get in?" I ask, realising I had no shoes on.
"Peeta called the block of flats, they told me, Cinna's letting me stay for tonight only." He explains, I turn round and he's pulling his t-shirt over his head.
"Oh, your leaving tomorrow?" I pull off my shorts and my vest and climb into bed.
"Yeah, I got a job down south." He undoes his jeans and kicks them off.
"Yeah?" I say vaguely.
"Yeah, labour job." He pulls back the covers and climbs into bed next to me. "Roofing. Cool eh?"
"Yeah." He turns off the lamp on his side and then lays across me to turn off mine. He doesn't fully get off me. He has his arm on my torso just below my bra and his head on the pillow, his chin on my shoulder. His body pressed against mine. "I've missed this. You asleep?" He tightens his grip on me.
His hands are rough on my arm and the hair on his arm, chest and legs irritates me. I don't like how I can hear his every breath and how tight he is holding me. This is how we had slept for years.
I used to cuddle into Peeta. His left hand linking fingers with my right hand his right hand's fingertips running up and down, round in circles, sometimes in letters, on my back. The hair on his body was soft and blonde so you couldn't see it. Instead of hearing his breath, I felt it lightly on my head and listened to his steady heartbeat as his chest rose and fell. We'd slept like that three times and yet, I felt like I'd always been there - in his arms.
"So I'll see you in four weeks?" I ask as we are stood at the gate to the camp.
"Yeah, I'll come and get you and Prim. Send her my love when she gets back today, okay? Don't tell but I'm gonna paint her room for her." He smiles broadly, stuffing his jacket into his bag and slinging it onto his back.
"Of course. She'll be upset she missed you." He tugs his shorts down slightly.
"She's tough." He says, he pulls his t-shirt up and puts the bottom in his mouth so he can see the drawstring on his shorts. And I can see his body. "Sorry about that, haha." It feel awkward since I prised myself away from him last night.
"You better go, I'll be in trouble if any one sees you." He wraps his arms around my waist and wrap my arms around his neck and he spins my round. "Stop it you soppy idiot." He laughs and then his lips are against mine. His tongue rams into my mouth and I nearly yelp. He puts me down and grins before trekking off.
I walk through the field slowly. When Peeta and I tongued, he had slipped his tongue across my bottom lip until I opened my mouth. Then he had softly entered and I had responded. Gale nearly choked me. They're so different it rather frightens me.
I'm halfway across the field when I see that everyone from my acticvity group is stood in a group together. Madge sees me and waves me over so I head towards them. As I slide in beside her my eyes lock onto the back of Peeta's head, he's a few metres away from me and Finnick is behind him whispering in his ear. Peeta shakes his head to whatever Finnick said with a smile on his face. Peeta nudges the girl next to him who is none other than Delly and she inclines her head toward Peeta. He whispers something to her she nods. Peeta turns to look at Finnick.
"Tonight. Happy?" Peeta asks, I read his lips and as he turns back his eyes lock on mine. He swallows and turns back to Cinna. I try to focus.
"So, everyone understand?" Cinna asks and I panic as everyone nods.
"What are we doing?" I asked Madge frantically as everyone starts to head to the shed in the corner of the field.
"Archery." She responds.
"Yes!" A few people glance at me and Madge raises her eyebrows at me. "I like archery." I explain. We getto the shed and form a line.
"Anyone done this before?" Cinna asks as he unlocks the shed.
"Katniss, put your hand up." I shake my head. "Oh go on!" I shake my head again. "Katniss has! Katniss likes archery!" Madge calls out and Cinna waves me over.
"You talk everyone through it and I'll set the boards up, okay?" He asks, already walking away wheeling a buggy of boards. Everyone's face me, watching intently.
"Um right." I take a deep breath. So everyone get an arm guard and put it on, you don't have to, really, but you can." No one moves. "So you get the bow, clip an arrow in, aim and shoot." I say hurriedly. Peeta whispers something to Delly as he looks at the ground and she burst out laughing. I blush.
"Show us, Katniss." Finnick offers, and nods at me. So I pick up the bow nearest me and clip an arrow in. "Shoot the board Cinna just did!" Finnick says and everyone looks uncertain, Cinna's stood a metre or so away.
"Katniss..." I hear Peeta say as I study the board. "What if you miss?" He asks. I raise the bow, pull and release. I don't look at where it shot because I know.
"Fucking hell!" Finnick shouts. "Fucking bullseye!" He laughs and everyone claps. As I put the bow back on the stand I look at Peeta. He's smiling slightly but I keep my face cold and hard.
"I don't miss." I speak loudly so he hears and his smile drops. Everyone goes quiet. Peeta stares at me for a second before I see Delly descretely tug his arm. He looks at her and smiles. I could shoot her in the eye.
"Well thanks, Katniss. I love having heart attacks!" Cinna laughs as he jogs over, I smile. "So groups of three, there are seven boards, go for it!" Madge grabs me and smiles.
"Let's do this, girls!" Finnick shouts as he wraps his arms around Madge and I.
"Finnick." We all turn to Peeta who is stood awkwardly, holding a bow as Delly picks a leaf out of his hair. "You coming?" He asks, looking straight at Finnick.
"Oh, right. Um, sure." Finnick lifts his arms off us and steps away, scratching the back of his neck. "Sorry girls. I already said I'd go with these two kids." They walk off.
"Hey! You're a loser!" Madge shouts, with a smile. Finnick doesn't look back but salutes. My eyes flick to Peeta's hand that isn't holding the bow. That's the second time Delly's brushed her hand on his. Bitch.
"So, I'm with you. Don't talk to me. I won't talk to you." Some guy with short blonde hair charges past us. Me and Madge look at each other and roll our eyes before following him.
Just my luck that the most annoying guy in the camp would choose the board next to Peeta.
"I'm Madge, this is Katniss." Madge says nicely as he clips his arrow into his bow.
"What ever." He says roughly. Then glances at me. "I'm Cato." He says gruffly and realeases his arrow. It comes short on the target by at least four feet. "Damn things."
"You're not pulling hard enough." I tell him and he glares at me. I roll my eyes and stond in front of him. "Okay pull." He hesitates and then does it. "Further." It moves back a centimetre. "Further."
"It doesn't go back any further!" He growls and shoves the bow at me. As I'm aiming he puts his hands on my waist. "What are you doing."
"Watching how you do it." He whispers in my ear. "Further, Katniss." I pull the bow back, doing anything to get him off me without causing a scene. Just as I realease the arrow he starts to kiss my neck. I jump away. "Oh come on! You'll do the baker but not me!" I go bright red and glance to Peeta he hasn't heard. But he looks at my arrow that has hit the board but outside the target. He turns to me.
"I thought Katniss never misses." His words burn me.
"I-I was distracted." I stutter, Madge uncomfortably sends a thumbs up to Cinna who is loading a machine that will shoot out things for someone to shoot.
"God damn yeah, you were." Cato says crudely and smacks my behind.
"Get off! Get your hands off me!" I explode at Cato and he smirks.
"Don't be like that baby!" Cato smacks me again and Peeta coughs so we look at him.
"I wouldn't do that again." He tells Cato. Cato laughs at him.
"What are you gonna do about it, bread boy!" Cato snarls at him.
