"Peeta. Of course I will." I said and he pulled me into a kiss.

"I know Snow wouldn't believe you if you told him that you up and got engaged in a week. Haymitch said it will be best to make a big scene on the victory tour." He said and I smiled.

"Ok. I'll be back a week before the Victory tour. I'll see you then." I said kissing him and climbed on to the train. I waved as it pulled away and leaned against the window and hissed at the pain in my cheek. "Oh no." I whispered. I forgot to warn Snow about my face. Well this is going to end well. I closed my eyes and when I opened them, we were pulling into the train station in the capital. I got my bag and went straight to my room in President Snows' house. I unpacked and heard a knock on the door. "Come in." I called from my closet.

"Welcome back, Ms. Everdeen." I heard Snow say from the main room.

"Thank you sir." I said walking out with my head down.

"Ah... Ms. Everdeen. Chin up." he said and I took a deep breath. I looked up and Snow frowned. He grabbed my chin and forced my face up and he looked at my cheek. "What happened?" he hissed.

"The new peacekeeper. He was whipping Gale and I- AH!" I shouted when Snow brought his hand down on my cheek and I fell to the floor. Snow leaned down closer to me as tears started falling.

"Don't do anything stupid ever again. Now get up and go to the doctors. You have ten minutes to be downstairs third door on the left. If you not... well the next person off the whipping post won't have you around to save them." he said walking past me. I stood up and ran down the hall as fast as I could. The doctor took the stitches out and put on a salve for faster healing time and so I wouldn't scar. I crawled into the bed and cried. Two months. I can do this. I know I can. And just like i thought I did make it. I put up with requests in the middle of the night. Anything that I was told to do I did. It was finally time for me to go back home the week before the Victory Tour. When the train stopped I ran off and into Peetas' arms. He spun me around and a few people cooed at us. I gave him a quick kiss before we walked back to my house. He kept pulling me into his arms a whispering that he missed me and that he loved me. I didn't hesitate to say it back.

"Want any help unpacking?" he asked as I unlocked the door.

"If you want." I said and he smiled following me in. He laid on my bed as I unpacked. After I was done I laid next to him and he wrapped his arms around me.

"You tired?" he whispered in my ear and I nodded. "Then go to sleep." he said kissing the top of my head.

"Let me go!" I screamed. I cringed at the sound of the mutts' nails scrapping against the metal. "Peeta!" I screamed as he fell off the cornucopia while Foxface, Marvel, Glimmer, and everyone in the games watched at he was attacked. "Let go!" I screamed again. Cato turned towards me and grabbed his knife.

"Looks like it's time for the Girl on fire to be put out." he said bringing the knife across my throat.

I sat up gasping. I looked over next to me and Peeta was sitting up rubbing his eyes.

"Are you okay?" he asked sleepily. I shook my head no and he wrapped his arms around me. I laid my head on his chest and started sobbing. "It's okay." he said stroking my back. After about an hour, I was all cried out he asked what was wrong.

"I had nightmare that we didn't make it out of the games. Everyone watched as Cato killed you then me."

"It was just a dream. Your safe." he said pressing his lips to the top of my head. I closed my eyes and drifted off back to sleep. I woke up to my mom saying Peeta should leave.

"Mom. Please?" I said sleepily, tightening my grip around his waist.

"It's fine Katniss. I should get home anyway. I have to be up for work." he said standing up. I walked him to the door and told him I would see him tomorrow. Over the next week every were we went people took pictures and shouted questions. The night before the Victory Tours Cinna and Portia had arrived and were staying at our houses. Every time we kissed or held hands, our prep teams would squeal and say we were perfect for each other. The night before we were going to leave for our tour, me and Peeta were in my room as I tired to sleep.

"I can't do it." I said burying my face in his chest.

"You'll do fine." he said pulling me closer to him.

"How? I couldn't save Rue. What if they blame me?" I said fighting back tears.

"They won't. You couldn't of done anything."

"I know." I whispered closing my eyes.

"Katniss. Katniss wake up." Cinna said and I groaned.

"No. Need more sleep." I said and I heard my prep team coming.

"You gave to start getting ready." he said pulling my blanket off and I shivered.

"Where's Peeta?" I asked standing up.

"His house getting ready. Haymitch thought a cute reunion would be nice." he said rolling his eyes, pushing me to my bathroom. Three hours later I was dressed to the nines in winter wear. I stood there smiling by the door waiting for Haymitch to open the door and let me see Peeta.

"Can I go now?" I asked bouncing on my toes.

"Fine. Go ahead." he said opening the door and I rushed out. I turned towards Peeta's house and saw him walk out. I pushed past the people with cameras and ran to Peeta. I jumped into his arms and he swung me around. He stumbled and we landed in the snow. I brushed the snow off of his face and gave him a kiss. "Alright! That's enough of that!" Haymitch yelled from my front door and they camera crews laughed. I helped Peeta up and we walked hand in hand to the train station with the people following us but we didn't care. We acted as if no one was there but us and that's how we liked it. Once we got on the train we sat down and Effie went on and on about our schedule but I wasn't listening. Peeta kept drawing little things on my hand with his finger and I was trying to figure out what they were.

"Are you listening?" Effie asked.

"Nope." I said looking up from our hands and she frowned.

"If you aren't going to listen then I'm not going to talk." she said sitting down and I smiled.

"About time." Haymitch said and we laughed.

"Fine but just remember we will be in district 11 by noon tomorrow." she said and me and Peeta walked to my room. I changed out of my outdoor clothing for a t-shirt and a pair of pajama bottoms. I walked out of the bathroom and saw Peeta pulling on his shirt. I bit my lip and walked up to him and kissed his cheek.

"What was that for?" he asked.

"Nothing. Everything. Just for being with me." I said and he smiled.

"I love you." he said wrapping his arms around my waist and pulled me against him.

"I love you too." I said kissing him.


Sorry that this chapter is late! I had an English project due and I had to get that done. So how did you like it?