Hello, again I am really sorry, I haven't been in a very creative mood recently but that is no excuse, again I am sorry and I hope you enjoy this chapter :)
Discliamer: I do not own The Hunger Games.
Chapter 11 Peeta's P.O.V.
I should have run after her, but when Katniss is like this nothing I say could do anything to make her see sense. I'll just stay here for a while and then go home; I'll talk to her there when she has calmed down. To pass the time I bake some cheese buns, Katniss' favourite. 2 hours pass and I decide that it will be safe to go back home. The evenings are becoming a bit lighter but it is still bitterly cold. When I arrive back in the Victors Village I am surprised to find that there are no lights on in our house. I walk up our porch and try to open the door, but I find that's it's locked, this is a bad sign. I get my keys out of my pocket and I open the door. I call out as I enter to let Katniss know I'm home but there is no reply. I check all the rooms in the house, twice, but Katniss is nowhere to be found. I head over to Haymitch's to see if he has seen her. I explain what happened to him, how Katniss freaked and ran off. But he hasn't seen her either. I'm starting to get really worried now. We head over to Effie's to ask her if she has seen Katniss. Joanna is there and so is Oliver and none of them have seen Katniss. We all start to really worry. We all go over to Greasy Sae's and ask her if she has seen Katniss and again she hasn't seen her. I start to panic, where is she? We all sit in my front room wondering who to call or what to do next.
"If only we had told her as soon as she got back, chances are she wouldn't have overreacted like this and everything would be okay." Haymitch grumbles.
"We have to go out and look for her!" I say forcefully. Everyone agrees we split up into 3 groups, me and Haymitch, Effie and Oliver, and Joanna and Greasy Sae.
Haymitch and I head towards where the Seam used to be. Joanna and Greasy Sae head into the town to look and Effie and Oliver stay around the Victors Village in case she comes back there.
"Don't worry Kid, we'll find her." Haymitch says reassuringly. I can only hope that we do find her before she does something stupid or something bad happens to her. We walk the rest of the way in silence, I'm in no mood to talk and Haymitch knows better than to try and strike up a conversation with me when I'm like this. I'm horrible in situations like this, everyone always tells you to think positively, but I can never do that. My mind always goes to the worst case scenario. What if… What if… What if. Eventually we arrive at the place where the Seam used to be, of course the new school structure stands there now. Haymitch walks past the school and heads towards the meadow but I stop, I have never really been a spiritual/superstitious person but it's almost as if I can sense that Katniss is nearer the School than the meadow.
"Come on boy!" Haymitch calls to me "Why are you just standing there!" But then we both hear it, a whimper. I run into the structure of the school and search through the rooms, I begin to give up. There is only one room left. I walk in not expecting to find anything, but there she is, huddled on the floor. I call out to Haymitch to let him know I've found her. I scoop her up into my arms, she stirs and clings tightly onto my shirt, but then she falls back into unconsciousness. Haymitch catches up to me and offers to help carry Katniss back to the Victors Village, but I can't help feeling responsible for what happened to her so I decline his offer of help. We continue the walk back in silence, around halfway Haymitch leaves me to go and find Greasy Sae and Joanna to tell them to stop searching. My gaze falls to Katniss' face, so beautiful. I love her so much; I'm not going to let anything bad happen to her again.
Katniss' P.O.V.
My eye lids flutter open. I am no longer on the floor of the school I am in Peeta's arms. It's so bitterly cold outside; I can't feel my fingers or toes.
"I'm sorry." I croak, he just shakes his head,
"No, I'm the one who should be sorry!" He replies, but now it's my turn to shake my head,
"I'm the one who overreacted, I understand now that you were only trying to protect me." I say as I cling on tighter to his shirt.
"Yes but, I should have been more understanding." He says softly,
"We were both wrong and now we are both sorry, shall we leave it at that?" I ask, he looks down at me and smiles,
"Yes, okay," He pauses before saying, "I love you." I smile and reply,
"I love you too." We spend the rest of the trip back in silence; I just snuggle deeper into his chest, and listen to his steady heartbeat. I wonder how he can carry me all this way, he makes it seem effortless. When we get home he carries me straight upstairs. I take a hot shower to help regain the feeling in my limbs while Peeta goes over to Effie's to tell them all I'm okay. I brush my teeth and brush my hair, I change into my pyjamas and I slide underneath the covers. I usually need Peeta with me to drift off but, after my little adventure today I fall asleep almost immediately. I fall into such a deep sleep that I don't dream, I just get a better nights rest than I have in weeks.
In the morning I snuggle with Peeta for a while before I decide it's time to get up and go see everyone to thank them in person for worrying about me and trying to find me. I go to Greasy Sae's first, she smiles when she sees me walking up her path, she hugs me and tells me she's glad I'm okay. We sit at her kitchen table and talk for a while. When I eventually hug her goodbye she hands me a dish covered in foil,
"It's a lamb stew. I thought you might not feel up to cooking." I smile and gratefully accept the dish,
"Thank you Sae, I really appreciate this." I smile and give her another hug before I leave and start to head over to Effie's. She also hugs me tightly. Joanna is at Effie's and when Effie finally lets go of me Joanna squeezes in a quick hug too. We chat for a few minutes, there are a few awkward silences, truth be told I still feel a bit embarrassed about the way I acted. I don't spend long with Effie and Joanna, because I really want to see Haymitch. After about 20 minutes I leave I really need to talk to Haymitch.
I leave Effie's and see Haymitch sitting on his front porch,
"Hey Kiddo." Haymitch says as I join him on the porch.
"Hi," I clear my throat "Um Haymitch I just wanted to say thank you for helping to find me yesterday."
"Don't worry about it, I understand why you reacted the way you did." He says putting a comforting arm around my shoulder
"Haymitch I also had something else I wanted to talk to you about." I say feeling a tad nervous now,
"Ask away Kiddo."
"Well I was wondering, because over the past year we have become closer, and you are like family to me now and so really what I wanted to ask you was, if you would give me away?" I ask, Haymitch's eyes become misty,
"Katniss, you really want me to give you away?" he asks, I nod and then he pulls me into hug. I haven't seen Haymitch this happy in forever. Our embrace is interrupted by the honking of Haymitch's geese. We both laugh and he gets up to feed the honking Geese, then we hear Effie's trill shriek,
"Haymitch Abernathy, I warned you about those geese, this is your second strike, one more and you will be eating those geese for dinner!" Haymitch and I just laugh because we both know that Effie couldn't really kill the geese, she isn't that cruel. I help Haymitch feed the geese and then I return home. Peeta is there in the kitchen baking as per usual. I grab one of the freshly baked cheese buns of the side, he pretends to smack my hand away, I grab another one and he just laughs, I sit on the counter and watch him bake, he asks me to taste stuff from time to time. Then he asks me to help him make cookies, but I think we end up getting more of the ingredients on ourselves rather than in the bowl. Peeta puts the cookies on the oven, and I go upstairs to wash the flour out of my hair. By the time I get downstairs the Cookies have cooled and Peeta has iced them, he hands me one that has a love heart iced on it, in the heart are the initials P M + K E,
"It's almost too nice to eat!" I laugh as I take a bite out of it, Peeta laughs too,
"I thought you said it was too nice to eat." He says as he picks up another cookie, I giggle,
"I said almost." I say, he rolls his eyes and I start to giggle again. It's hard to believe this time yesterday I was all freaked out about the wedding and reporters. This moment right here, with Peeta and me, seems perfect and I can't even remember why the pictures bothered me that much in the first place. I do know one thing though; I have to learn how to control my temper, my overreaction could have had serious consequences. I could have got seriously sick if Peeta hadn't of found me that soon. On the other hand I hope there are no more occasions where I could lose my temper.
I hope you enjoyed that, It took me longer to write than anticipated, I'm sorry about that, again i hope you liked it and please review :)