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D3 Male POV

Edward

Katniss collapses on the way to the Training Center.

I see it in slow motion; her knees give out, her eyes roll back, she slowly falls to the ground. I'm standing right next to her and I catch her as she falls.

"Katniss," I whisper urgently. "Katniss. You can't show weakness. Get up." I shake her gently. Her pupils slowly come back to the center of her eyes.

"What... what happened?" she says weakly.

"You collapsed. I don't know why." By this time Tristy and Seb are about 10 yards in front of us. Tristy is still blabbering on, not realising that we're not behind them. I don't know if I should call them back to us or not. "Will you be able to walk?" She tries to get up, but her legs start to shake when she puts all her weight onto them. I slide my arm under hers and she is half carried, half walked to the hotel. When we look back at Seb and Tristy, they are just about on the elevator, so I scoop up Katniss and run to them so that they don't realize we were gone. I carefully put her down and try to act normal. She almost falls until she grabs onto my arm.

"You did a little thinking, didn't you? Are you going to be a couple in the arena?" Seb questions.

"We haven't really talked about it, but I think we might." I say slowly, looking at Katniss to make sure it's ok. She barely nods.

Katniss and I walk into the elevator, and Tristy daintily presses the '4' button. "The C means Cafeteria, and the TC means Training Center," she explains to Katniss. She nods again and loosens her left arm to let me know that I can let her stand on her own again. I slowly remove my arm, playing it off as making sure she's okay. But in reality I like it better when we're not apart.

I hear something in my head, and quickly tune into it. "Katniss and Edward, the diamonds. They will be strong together if they ally in the arena." They already have a nickname for us? I like it. Strong as diamonds and inseparable.

"Edward? Are you alright?" I see Tristy snapping her fingers in front of my distracted eyes. We've arrived at our room and she's been telling us something, but for the life of me - or should I say second life - I don't know what it was. I quickly read Katniss' mind before answering.

"Yes, I'm fine, thank you, I was just looking around at all the splendor. It really is fabulous."

"It is, isn't it? Now, as I was saying, tomorrow will be a very busy day. They've had to push training back a day for us, so that means the Games themselves are also moved back a day. So the schedule is still normal, but it's just later. Katniss, your room is on the left, and Edward, yours is one door down from hers." This is a dismissal, so I lead Katniss to her room before entering mine. There's a door adjoining the two rooms so we can talk if we'd like. I open mine and see that Katniss already opened hers, too. She's sitting on the couch in her room.

"Knock, knock," I say gently. She nods and I go to sit next to her.

"I'm so scared," she whispers. "I don't want to mess up during training. I don't want to collapse again. And I definitely don't want to die. I just want to go home and see my sister again." She's on the brink of tears. I quickly grab her hand on instinct. She almost pulls away because of the coldness of my skin but eventually finds it oddly comforting. She leans on me and places her head next to my neck, on top of my shoulder. At first she's shivering at all the contact but she starts to get used to it. "No blood means no body heat." I mention. She laughs quickly and quietly. "I love it when you laugh. It makes your worries and stress go away, and makes you look even more beautiful than usual."

"There's not much to laugh about right now," she states simply.

From then on until dinner, I tell as many stupid jokes as I can just so I can see her smile more.

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