Katniss's POV

I woke up groggy, but once again in control of my limbs. That was a huge relief. I tested the movement in my hands and feet, loving the sensation of rubbing them back and forth against the sheets. It made me smile and stretch out further. I was lying down on a bed, but felt like I was still moving. The strange mixture was making my heart race a little faster. I felt the need to touch everything around me in order to let my fingertips absorb the beautiful textures. I glanced over and saw Peeta fast asleep beside me. A smile spread across my face as I took in the peaceful look on his face. That's when everything came rushing back. Peeta! I crawled over to him wrapping my arms around his neck. I let my legs straddle him as I kissed his face and caressed his soft skin. It felt wonderful, better then anything to be reunited with him and getting to savor his warmth on this silky bed.

"Hi, love. You're awake." Peeta said giving me a kiss on the mouth. The touch of his lips to mine was so electric that I moaned out loud at the current between us. I kissed him again each time sending another shock through me. As I moved closer to his body, I couldn't help but let out a sigh of pleasure at being so close to him. My eyes began to tear up at the overwhelming relief and joy I felt from being in his arms. Nothing could touch me now. Peeta had saved me and I was safe. My tears turned into hysterics and Peeta pulled back looking into my eyes.

"What's wrong, beautiful?"

"N..Nothing I, I'm ju..just so….o.. haaaaaappyyyyyy and relieeeeeved. And I love you so much, You promised to keep me safe and you did. Here we are together…I love you… make love to meeee...Pleassee" Peeta was looking at me funny, but I didn't care. I just started unbuttoning his tux. The little buttons turned out to be a challenging task for my fingers. I had never realized how distracting the little grooves could be on the edge of the buttons or how exciting it was to release a button from its stay. Then there was Peeta's shirt, so silky smooth and white. I pressed my palms against it ecstatic at being able to feel the subtle beat of Peeta's heart. My Peeta, God I love him so much, so much. I looked him in the eyes again and I said, " I really love you. I'm in love with you. You make me feel so good. I feel so good Peeta. I'm so happy."

I attacked him with my lips, I was obsessed with the taste of his mouth the zing of our lips and our tongues circling each other intimately. I started laughing so happy to just be with him. I couldn't hold it inside. I felt free when I was with him. I craved his naked body intertwined with mine. I could think of nothing else, but Peeta sliding on top of me with no barriers between us. I pulled the translucent toga-like dress off my body taking time to run the fabric through my fingers. The cool air on my naked body bringing chills to my skin, overwhelming me with the invisible caresses. I looked up at Peeta giving him a wide smile only to see him assessing my face instead of my naked body.

"Kat? Love? Did anything happen in the room before I got there? Did my mother, the senators, or Cato make you take anything? Some powder or pills, maybe? Can you remember for me, baby?"

I looked at Peeta and smiled at him. I loved him so much and wanted him to get naked with me. I reached down to undo his belt and whispered to him, "Take your clothes off, Peeta."

He stopped my hands from releasing him and brought them to his lips. He kissed my fingers before saying, "I will, Kat. I promise, but first I need you to answer my question."

Mollified that he would take off his clothes after I answered his question, I thought back to last night the memory making me uncomfortable. I didn't like this feeling. It was making me upset. I didn't want to think about last night. Ugly images ran through my mind as I remembered the smiley face pill. Was it blue? I don't remember. "They gave me a pill I think it was yellow or maybe blue? I don't remember. It had a smiley face on it though. And they told me it would make me want them to do something. It's really hard to remember. I was really scared at the time."

I felt Peeta take in a breath and then let it out slowly. His nostrils flared and his hands tightened on my waist. I thought he looked angry then he looked sad. Finally, he smiled a small encouraging smile up at me and hugged me tightly. I loved his warmth and his clothes rubbing against my bare skin felt really good. It made me want him again. "Will you make love to me now, Peeta?"

"Yes, you've convinced me. Why don't you unbutton my shirt while I just take your pulse quickly, okay?"

"Why do you want to take my pulse?"

"I just want to make sure your body is feeling okay. Sometimes after taking ecstasy, your body has a bad reaction to the chemicals in the drug. I just want to make sure that's not happening to you. Is that all right with you love?" He was talking to me softly almost trying to comfort me.

"I guess so…What's ecstasy? Is it going to hurt me?"

Peeta had two fingers pressed up against the side of my neck and I watched him count silently to himself as he stared at his watch. After a minute or so he moved his hands to cup my face and said, "No baby. It shouldn't hurt you, but I'll look after you just in case okay?"

I nodded my head and continued unbuttoning his shirt. The process was going really slowly because I kept getting distracted. I finally managed to free all the buttons despite Peeta's hands caressing my back. His touch felt like magic. He lifted me up off his lap and laid me on the bed next to him. I began to protest our bodies' separation when I saw him get up. He moved to pull an opaque glass wall divider out of a small slit in the wall. I wasn't expecting it and wondered for a second if I was hallucinating. I dismissed the thought as easily as it came. My mind and body might be acting differently, but I was pretty sure I hadn't gone as far as hallucinating. Peeta paused in closing the wall panel when I was no longer able to see the rest of the room. I mean car. I mean room. It's still unclear to me. Maybe I was hallucinating.

"Sorry for waking you Rue. Katniss is up and it seems the senators drugged her right before I got her. She's on E and flying as high as a kite. I think she'll be okay though. I'm going to um...close this so I can um…take care of her and let you get some more sleep."

I didn't know who Peeta was talking to or what he was saying, but I was definitely surprised to hear a female voice laughing and speak back to him in American.

"Well, enjoy 'taking care of her' Peeta. You deserve it." The voice giggled.

When Peeta finished pulling the opaque panel fully closed, it was like we were now in our own room. Perfect. When he turned around, I noticed his face was bright red. Someone had definitely embarrassed him and I wanted to know who and why. It didn't even occur to me that someone else would be in the car. I was exceedingly curious. When he smiled at me and came back to sit on the bed, I asked, "Who was that? And what did they say to you that your face turned so red?"

He chuckled and said, "That was Rue. She was asleep in the other bed in the alcove and she heard us talking. I just told her I would close the divider so she could go back to sleep."

"What did she say to you that you got so red?"

"Nothing of any importance, sweetheart."

I was outraged. Why wouldn't he tell me what she said! I felt so left out! "That's not fair! I'm at a disadvantage because I don't speak American! Where as you can talk to everybody! It's not.." He muffled my protests with a kiss, and then another. My mind focusing solely on the electric kisses he was giving my lips. I wanted more. I needed more. Right now, I needed all of him. I deepened the kiss and moved my body so it connected with Peeta's body in as many places as possible.

"All she said was that she was happy for us," he told me with a smile. Resuming our kisses, he brought our upper bodies flush against each other. I pushed his shirt off of his chest finally exposing his beautiful, naked flesh beneath. It felt so good to finally be skin to skin with him again. I let out a moan of appreciation at once again being back in his arms.

Peeta snickered a little, "Shh, baby. These walls aren't actually sound proof. It just gives us a nice physical separation. Let's try to be a little quieter so we don't wake Rue okay?" I nodded at him in understanding and he started kissing me again with an intense force. He paused and gazed at me with a serious expression. "I was so scared Kat. I can't tell you how I felt when I thought I'd lost you. After seeing you with those pigs, I wanted to rip their eyes out, every last one of them."

"Peeta, it doesn't matter now. We're together again, right?"

"But Kat, it does. How could you forgive me for how I treated you in that room? I'm sick over it. I humiliated you and I hurt you. I feel like that's all I ever do is hurt you."

"Actually, all you ever do is save me. I'm not mad about what happened in the room. You saved my life, and I understood that you did what you had to do to fit in so they wouldn't suspect anything of you. Thanks for the warning by the way. At first I didn't know what you were doing and I was definitely miserable. I thought you didn't care about me anymore."

"Kat, of course, I care about you. I mean what I said before. I'm in love with you. I know its fast, but I am. I'm here. Whatever you need, I'll always be here to help you."

"I need you to erase the pain from before and replace it with only good things. Can you do that for me?"

"Kat, I wish I could erase the past. But I can't. I can only try to give you better, happier memories from now on. I will die trying to give you a happier memories then those you've had so far." Before I had time to grasp the magnitude of his words we were kissing fiercely, my hands shaky as I tried to undo his belt buckle.

"Here let me help you." He undid his buckle followed by his button and fly. I felt like Peeta managed to get naked in record time and I was happy when he laid back down next to me and took me in his arms. While Peeta in a tux was breathtaking, I still preferred him like this, completely bared to me. My eyes getting to feast on 100% Peeta. I stopped to run my hands and tongue up his chest salivating at the delicious taste of his skin. The tingles I felt through out my body at having my tongue run along his smooth skin was tantalizing. He flipped me over so I was face down on the bed. My head gently pressed to the side of a pillow. He ran his hands over my body. His touch sending ripples of pleasure through me. To say the feeling was intense would be an understatement. When I felt his mouth latch onto the back of my neck, I whimpered in bliss. I couldn't get enough of him and I was sure I never would. Everything was so defined about our movements. Each stroke created a different sensation leaving me lacking the proper words to express my euphoria. I wondered if Peeta felt this change as well. For me it was as though the world had shifted and solidified the bond between us.

I felt him lie his body on top of me, matching his front to my back. His chest pressed against my back made me feel secure, loved, and protected. It took everything I had not to combust as he sucked on my neck and entered me from behind in one fluid movement. I cried out so loudly in pleasure at our connection I'm sure I woke Rue again. I was too buried in pleasure to care. I couldn't have curbed my sounds if I had wanted to. The pleasure so intense and the sounds so frequent I felt as though I was singing. I used the pillow to muffle my intense cries of pleasure.

Peeta pushed into my body over and over again each time hitting that special spot inside me. The overload of pleasure his shaft was sending to my entire body was mind blowing. He let his weight rest on top of me. The added weight burying us further into the mattress. The added pressure of 180 pounds of pure male muscle on top of me brought me to a new level of heaven. He had been holding himself up until that point. He kissed me forcefully from the side, sealing off our connection in a circle of pleasure. With our bodies connected and our lips sealed, every thrust added to the incredible pleasure.

I felt tears spring to my eyes at how much I was in love with this man connected to me. I was overwhelmed by the levels of pleasure he was feeding my body. He let go of my mouth and began licking and sucking under my jaw, my ear and then the back of my neck. All the while he remained inside me. The sensations were so intense that I was glad his body was on top of mine to lessen the impact of my jolting body.

As my body moved beneath him, I could feel the mattress begin to stimulate my nipples. Having so many sensitive spots played with at once was creating the most intense joy I had ever felt. I began to cry out even harder. Tears of jubilation sliding unchecked down my cheeks. I felt Peeta's hand go under my hip and move to touch my clit. When he caressed the bud, I screamed at the top of my lungs the pleasure impossibly high now. The pillow was not nearly a good enough sound muffler for how intensely Peeta was riding my body.

His thrusts got faster and I went from my already impossible pleasure high to heaven. The climb upwards towards my peak was so intense I thought the pleasure would rip my body in half. When I reached my climax, I stopped breathing out of pleasure. I felt my toes curl and my skin break out in chills. My body ejaculating female cum around Peeta's cock and onto his base. I felt my body shaking in the aftermath of my orgasm. I was thankful Peeta remained on top of me to allow me to come down slowly from the impossible high. I felt him still hard inside me continuing to love me by caressing my skin and kissing my forehead.

Slowly, he lifted off of me. As I felt him withdraw from my center, I felt empty and I was again incomplete. I needed to have him back inside me. He sat up next to me and traced soothing circles along my back. I felt him place a kiss in my hair. I had never felt this way before: so complete and sated yet I still wanted more. I turned on my side to look at him and was happy to see how hard he was. I knew he had held himself back to make sure I received my pleasure first. I just didn't know why he didn't continue to take his.

I sat up and faced him completely letting my love for him shine in my eyes. I didn't think I could speak if I tried. Wordlessly I crawled into his lap, placing myself on top of his huge erection, savoring the sensations as I slowly sunk down further onto it.

He put his hand over my heart and kissed my head. I was wondering why he wasn't moving when I realized he was letting me set the pace, trying to make sure my body calmed down enough before taking him again. I didn't want to calm down though. I wanted to stay up and bring him to the same level of pleasure he brought me. I put my arms around him and caressed his back and kissed his neck. The little shocks of sensation I received where I ran my hands along his skin helped me to identify specific things about my 'high.' I was much more sensitive to touch and taste. He let out a little moan himself, being much quieter then I was.

"Peeta, I want you to let go too. I'm ready for you again. I want to feel you take your pleasure inside me." I whispered close to his ear. I stuck my tongue in his ear as a final little point and felt goose bumps breakout on his skin. Whatever I said definitely did the trick, I felt his hands squeeze tight on my ass has he pushed me farther down onto him. He took my breast into his mouth and licked it with his mouth open. The pleasure was coming back twice as fast as the last time. As he drew me up and down on him a spasm rocked me so hard that it broke our connection.

"Was that too much? Too hard?"

"It'll never be to much, Peeta. I can't get enough of you. Please, harder." I blushed furiously at my bold words not meaning to say them out loud. Before I could apologize for being so blunt, I was on my back. I registered Peeta's lips on mine and that he had placed my knees over his shoulders. He pushed into me hard. My entrance was extremely sensitive to our new position. He drove into me fast and hard, hitting my favorite spots with intense force. His body was leaning over mine putting him in the perfect position.

Each time he thrust into me, I thought I saw fireworks. The tears of euphoria started coming back to my eyes and I began calling out his name. I felt his hands go around my ass lifting me closer to him. Each small rub sent jolts of pleasure through me. I was so stimulated I began to shake uncontrollably. I was screaming and Peeta covered his mouth with mine to soothe me. He continued to drive into me. The pleasure was to great for me to hold on any longer. I began to contract again around him. My wet sex milked his swollen thickness.

I felt him slam into me repeatedly knocking my body farther into the mattress. He was dominating me, taking me, ensuring that I never forgot how amazing things were between us. He thrust into me again and I felt his climax hit him as well. He shook along with me. He was biting my shoulder hard, but it felt glorious. On a final thrust, I felt his warm load shoot inside my core. We continued to grasp each other like a lifeline, both breathing hard with sweat and tears marking our skin. I felt myself falling into another place. Sleep. I didn't want to go. I didn't want to waste a moment of the transformational experience we had just shared. I managed to move my legs from his shoulders to his waist. Locking my feet around him I allowed myself to finally drift off knowing I was secured to him.

Peeta's POV

I was still panting hard from my orgasm a few minutes later. I realized Katniss was asleep. What we had just done I didn't have words for. It wasn't sex, or fucking, and it wasn't even making love. It was a physical connection that I had never shared with anyone but Katniss. I had never felt this way before. I had never been so emotionally dependent on someone the way I now was on Katniss. I don't know what I would do if once we were safe she wanted to go back to Panem. After tonight I don't think I could ever be separated from her again. I looked down at her face relaxed in sleep and had to smile. This poor girl had been through so much but still managed to give me everything. She was a gift. She was mine. She couldn't ever go back to Panem because we were meant to be together. Its why we had such a strong instant connection that has only grown stronger since we've been together. I knew she was going to be my forever. Now I just needed to figure out the best way to tell her that.

Thanks to my Beta for all her help. I just finished writing the next couple of chapters and I think you guys are going to want to stick around for what happens next! What did you guys think about the chapter? Anyone want to take a guess at what happens in the next couple of chapters? Review and let me know!