I am soo sorry for the wait up! I was busy Friday and today with the basketball tournament (yay we did well!) And I switched to my new laptop, so I had to send all my stuff to myself and open it into my other laptop, so thanks for being patient. I really need a usb, I'll get one soon though, enjoy!

Katniss' POV

As I wake up, I stretch out all the kinks in my back and the sores all over my body. Looking to my side, I find a sleeping Gale, dozing peacefully. Not wanting him to wake up, I crept over to take a shower. Today, my prep team will want me squeaky clean as they work on me for the trip to the Capitol.

Don't ask me how Gale ended up sleeping by my side instead of Peeta. After Peeta left, we continued to weep in each others arms. He leaded me to my bed where we cried for another half an hour or so. Gale's hand were comforting as they crested me gently. I didn't to go to bed alone, so I invited him to join which he accepted gratefully. Once we got to bed, the rest was mostly a blur. But somewhere in there, I remember a long, passionate kiss.

Once I am done taking a shower, and dressing in a robe, I head over to Gale.

"Gale" , I whisper to him. No response. "Gale?", I say a bit louder. Still, he doesn't wake up. "Gale!". I yell, probably waking up Madge. He jumps in response, looking at me in bewilderment.

He stretches and rubs his eyes. "Where's Peeta, shouldn't he have kicked me out in the middle of the night?", he asks. I completely forgot about him. Once I got here, I wondered why Peeta didn't come back. Probably sleeping somewhere else, possibly Haymitch'es room. I laugh out loud at the thought. Gale rises an eyebrow at me and I shut up.

"I don't know, maybe in Haymitch'es room", I say. We laugh together loud. Imagining Haymitch and Peeta bunking together. Gale starts to clam down after but then starts chuckling again.

"If he hasn't passed out from the stench yet", Gale adds. This makes us guffaw even louder. After were done laughing out our guts, I order Gale to shower.

"How come?", he asks me.

"Because you will be sharing Peeta's prep team. You and Madge need to be interviewed at the Capitol, remember?". He nods and sighs, thinking about being surrounded by all those Capitols that he deeply hates.

"Alright", he says. He goes into the bathroom and shuts the door.

Thinking about Peeta makes me feel a bit guilty. He loves me so much, yet I can't give even a quarter of it back to him. He deserves someone who will love him back as much as he loves me. But when I imagine Peeta with another woman, I shudder in jealousy. Am I really that greedy, wanting to boys, while I can only have one. I can't win here.

Trying to clear my head of boys, I go to visit Madge, she'll brighten my mood. Just stepping over to the side, I am at Madge's room. I knock on the door and Madge answers the door. Her face visibly brightens.

"Hello, Katniss!", she greets. She opens the door wide, and I come in. I sit on her neat bed and so does she. She looks around a bit akwardly.

"Have you seen Gale? I was worried about him, since he didn't retrieve to our room", she says embarrassed. When she says 'our room' I shudder. But then I quickly dismiss that ridiculous feeling of jealousy and answer her.

"Oh, he was bunking in my room. He just wanted to talk to me about stuff", I say casually. Her back slumps a bit then she looks down.

"Alright", she says.

"Did you shower this morning for the prep team?", I ask.

"No, not yet. I will now, meet you at breakfast in half an hour?", she asks.

"Sure, see you", I answer as I walk out the door.
Just as I am walking through the hallway, my body shudders. My eye brows shoot up as I back up to the room. A cool breeze in escaping from the slightly-opened room, so I walk in. I look around and immediately know it is a storage room for beverages. No wonder there was a breeze.

I see cases and cases of beer, enough to keep Haymitch busy for a year, which means a lot, trust me. I chuckle, surprised that Haymitch didn't steal all the alcohol and storage it into his room. Nothing special here. So, I start to walk out. Once my eyes find the door again, I trip over something.

My eyes slowly open and I see that I tripped over a tired-looking Peeta.

My body is on top of his, my face inches from his, so close I could kiss him. He smiles dryly, his blue eyes dull.

"Hey Sweetheart. Care for a drink?", his words slurred, with the smell of alcohol on his breath.

Peeta's POV

"What are you doing here, Peeta!", she asks loudly. Everything is a blur from when I left Katniss and Gale. All I remember is that I walked back to my freezing area that I had the talk with Haymitche. Then, I drank the same strong alcohol to erase all the pain.

"In pain, wanted to come here", I say. She narrows her eyes at me and swipes the now empty bottle of alcohol by my side.

"Since when did you become a Haymitch?", she hisses at me. I begin to chuckle, then start to loudly guffaw, not aware of my actions.

"That time you told me to scram from your room, I came here with ol' Haymitch", I tell her slurred.

"We need to talk, Peeta! Don't become like Haymitch, and don't let him talk you into this! Now, our prep team will be expecting us to be ready! Get showered off, the Capitol trip is today!", she informs me.

She looks down and I look down too, she's in a bath robe.

Katniss' POV

He smirks at me and starts to approach me. "Peeta...what are you doing", I ask. He just smiles even bigger and I am feared of what he will do next to me.

"Gale!" , I scream at the top of my lungs. Peeta is holding me by the waist, pushing our bodies together. Our faces close. Instantly, Gale burst into the room. His hair is dripping, muscled frame glistening with drops, and only in his towel around his waist. He looks at the horrid seen.

Alcohol spilled. Peeta trying to kiss me. Me trying to claw at him. Three of us in a freezing storage room. Peeta drunk. Me in a robe.

Quickly, he body checks Peeta in the crates and he flies into them. Peeta lands on the floor.

"Catnip, are you alright?", he asks. I nod but tears are starting to flow out of my eyes. Did I make Peeta into this? He came to Haymitch in his time of need because of my actions. What have I made him become?

"This is all my fault, Gale. It's because I was rude to him!", I say while crying.

He shakes his head. "Let's go see Haymitch.", he says. I nod. He slumps the form of Peeta over his shoulder and go to the main hangout area. We see him drinking alcohol, as usual. Gale let's Peeta fly into the couch.

Haymitch looks at us like we just killed him, maybe he thinks we did.

"What happened to him?", he demands. He's not too drunk, actually pretty sober.

I look at him with an eyebrow raised. "Weren't you the one who influenced him to drink in the first place?".

His face looks hurt, not from the comment but a memory. "Look, I didn't make him drink. I found him laying on the ground with a little pool of alcohol around him. It wasn't me. We were talking when he woke up, he said he did it for a reason. It was about you. You hurt him", he says harshly. I look away and can't help but feel guilty.

"Is the prep team here yet?", I ask. Also trying to change the subject.

"Yes now Gale, go back to your room with your... towel", I look at his towel and grin at him. "And Katniss, you and Madge will be in your room, I'll take Loverboy here", he says.

We all obey and I head to my room. All I can think about on my way back, is how I broke him. Drinking was his last hope, to get away from all the pain I caused him. But the on question lingers in my mind, un- answered.

How can he still love me, after all he's been through?

Sorry for Peeta being completely OOC, but seriously, he's drunk so... sorry this isn't my best chapter. I wrote this a few days before, and it needed to be tweeked. Hope you liked it. I promise the next chapters will be much better! The next one is hopefully about the interviews. We are closer to the end, I can feel it! (:
The whole idea of this chapter was like when Haymitch was in depression, pain etc and he drank it away. And now Peeta is doing the same because he didn't have much other choice. Any sugestions please? Please review, I promise I'll to better!