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-Mrs. Anonym0us
Peeta's Perspective
That night at dinner we had rice and some chicken that was in the freezer. After wards we fed Buttercup the scraps. Nobody questions where he came from because he seems happy now. We have heard anything from Haymitch all day. It doesn't matter if fire is catching he is still devastated about everything. He was smiling before she got picked not after. I see Katniss come over to me.
"Go into Haymitch house and take all his alcohol. He can't go back to drinking." Katniss says.
"Why can't you do it? He gets along with you better." I say.
It was the truth and she knew it. But it didn't look like she was giving in.
"Just go." Katniss says.
I go to the door and walk out onto the porch. It looks different here at night. In the far distance you see a glow from the capitol. There are no stars. Just the moon and that glow. I walk next door and knock.
"Come in!" I hear him yell.
I walk in and he is laying face first on the couch. Not drunk just sad. He doesn't even care I'm here.
"Why are you here?" He asks looking up.
"Katniss sent me." I say walking to the kitchen.
He grumbles at me. I start searching his cupboards. I find one bottle in the top one. Luckily its never been opened. I put it under my arm. I look through every other place it could be. I find on last bottle under the sink thats unopened. I take it and walk out the door. When I come inside Katniss walks to me again.
"Is that all of it?" She asks.
"All I could find." I say.
Katniss takes the bottles from me and goes to the sink. She opens the cap and pores it down the drain. She does the same with the next one. She pulls out a few more bottles. She must have found them here. She empties all of them out. She picks up the last one and leaves the room. I go to the open foyer and see her disappear at the last second. I dismiss it and go back into the living room. Aaron's in a pop-up crib by the chair Sage is sitting in. He starts crying and she looks over him. She makes funny faces and the crying stops. She laughs.
I start seeing two of her. What? Her laughing is almost creepy. My vision blurs. I grab the doorway losing my balance. I collapse on the floor and black out.
Katniss' Perspective (Five Minutes before Peeta collapses)
I know he saw me grab it. Grab that bottle and race up the stairs. At first I figured he's probably laughing. But not really. He pretending to laugh because he feels insecure. But aren't I the one who should feel like that? He may be mostly like himself before he was hijacked, but is he ever going to be the same? Like 100%? When I pull out my bow he backs up and leaves. Like he still fears that I'm going to hurt him. I never would. Ever. Even if he beat me and scarred me I wouldn't leave him. I wouldn't hurt him. Never.
He never hurt me after that time he almost killed me. I remember the people ripping him off of me. Me coughing for air. Gale looking at me. I glared right back at him. Still, never.
I lay down on the bed looking through the photo album I saved. I popped of the cap of my bottle. Reach it all the way up. I'm doing such a Haymitch thing, and I'm not proud. But life sucks and I have reasons. I see Aaron's baby picture. Cutie.
Bottle half empty I hear Sage scream. I jump in a jolt and run to the stairs. I almost slip on my way down. I race into the room. Peeta's on the floor.
"What happened?" I ask her.
"He just collapsed!" She yells.
"Wh-wh-what?" I say feeling faint.
"Mom!" She yells as I start losing my balance.
My vision blurs. This couldn't be the alcohol. I slide to the ground. Sage runs to me. Two of her run to me. Wait...two? My vision gets in a blur and I pass out.