A/N Sorry! I'm so sorry! Peeta will be saying that soon... Anyway, I am currently staying at my sisters apartment with my other sister and I've been kind of busy, so this chapter is kind of a filler, or the start of something that I've been putting off. We get to see an old... friend in this one.

Peeta

When we get back to the 'suite', I go straight to Katniss's and my room. It's still pretty bright outside, and I don't feel too well. I can't stop worrying, and I just want to curl up in a blanket and snuggle my way to death.

Katniss walks in and sighs. She crosses her arms and sits on the side of the bed, next to me wrapped in my blanket.

"Peeta," Katniss says softly, while tucking a piece of my hair behind my ear. "You need to stop worrying. You'll look like Haymitch before you're twenty."

I laugh softly I realized that only one thing will make me feel better.

"Come here," I say while unwrapping the blanket from around me, and when Katniss climbs in I wrap the blanket around us. She snuggles up to my chest and sighs.

"This feels nice."

"Nothing better that cuddling with my favorite person."

"That's me right?"

"No one else."

We both smile at each other and close our eyes.

The next time I wake up, Johanna is jumping up and down on our bed.

"Johanna," I whine.

"Get up."

"No"

"Okay then," She says with a smirk on her face.

She starts to jump up and down faster, and closer to us. Katniss wakes up and sees Johanna turning our bed into a bouncy house.

"Johanna!" She rolls her eyes Johanna sticks out her tongue at her.

Katniss scowls and then gets this mischievous look on her face. Then she grabs Johanna leg, pulling it towards her body.

Johanna screams and falls down on the bed on her back. Katniss laughs and I crack a smile.

"Bitch!" Johanna screams at Katniss.

I start to laugh really hard, while unwrapping the blanket from around Katniss and me. Katniss and I are laughing our heads off, and Johanna finally smiles and starts laughing too. If anyone walked in on us, they'd probably think we were drunk.

"Get...Up...Dinner," Johanna says as she struggles to regain her composure.

All three of us get up breathing hard and trying to keep our laughter down.

When we walk into the dining room, Effie is glaring at us and Haymitch is wearing a 'Where the hell were you' look on his face. Johanna, Katniss, a I look at each other and lose whatever calm nature we had. Johanna grabs the back of a chair wheezing and Katniss sinks to the ground. I just look at Haymitch with hand over my mouth while Effie, for lack of any other way to say this, shits a ring around herself.

I grab Katniss's hand and lift her off the floor and sit her down in a seat, while pulling out a chair for Johanna and sitting down myself. We all shut our mouths and focus on the food in front of us.

After a quiet dinner, Haymitch looks us over. "Whatever the hell that was, needs to be left here. You have speeches to write, and ideas to come up with." With that, he staggers off somewhere, probably to get alcohol and drink himself into oblivion.

"Yes, what he said, but please keep in mind that this will be your first appearance in a long time, well maybe not so long, but please try to make this a good appearance. This will reflect on how you are doing and how things are at home. I think we all know that the kind of government President Paylor is running is the kind we would not have gotten if the other... um, woman was still in charge." She walks off dabbing a napkin to her eye.

I sigh a Katniss slips her hand into mine, and we walk towards our room, but I stop her.

"No, let's go to the roof. Maybe it'll help us think better," I suggest. She nods and we go up to the roof. It looks different, and there are a bunch of chairs and tables for people to sit on. They re- did the garden and added new, colorful flowers. I walk her over to the roof edge and we stand there looking over the edge.

"I wonder if the force field is still there." She asks. I pick up a pillow and throw it over the edge. It bounces back up. When I see it hit the force field, I feel a rushing sensation in my veins. And I immediately know what's about to happen.

Katniss must to feel it too because she looks at my face. "Peeta? Are you-"

"Run Katniss! I yell at her and grip the stone edge so hard I'm surprised the stone doesn't break. I look at her one last time and know it's too late. I know I'm gone.

I can see a bunch of images running and flying through my mind, and all of them have to do with her destroying me.

"YOU!" I yell at her and turn. Her. It's her that destroyed everything I ever cared about. She ruined my life and everything tried so hard to create. She must be eliminated before she can do something else to hurt me.

"P... Peeta, no it's not real whatever you seeing it's not real!"

Somewhere inside of me knows what she is saying is true, but it's quickly over ruled by the venom in my veins.

I walk closer to her and she steps back until her back hits a wall. The whole time she shouting 'It's not real' at me.

"Please Peeta," She says with tears in her eyes. "It's... not... real!" She's just faking. She knows what she's done and she doesn't care. I'll make her regret everything she's ever done.

Just as my hands wrap around her neck, someone grabs my shoulder and pushes me back.

Katniss

I know I've failed Peeta and myself when I feel his finger wrap around my throat. I see something move behind him and see a shadow behind him. The shadow grabs Peeta's shoulder and pushes him back. I gasp for breath and look up to see Gale staring right at me.

I don't know how to feel. On one hand, he just saved my life. On the other hand, he's done so many unforgivable things and I should be angry. I almost died, so I decide to think about this later.

"Are you oka-" Gale gets cut off by Peeta ripping him away from me and charging towards me again. I know he won't reach me, but I still cringe.

Gale grabs him and they start to wrestle on the ground. I can't see who's winning, but I know Peeta is. From all the time in the arena and how much he's wrestled plus military training, I know he could overpower Gale in a second. And the tracker jacker venom going through him, I know Gale won't stand a chance. I know I should help, but I can't seem to move my legs. They seem to be rooted to my spot on the ground and nothing can move them, not matter how hard I try.

I see Gale punch Peeta and snap out of whatever shock I'm in.

"STOP! Stop it!" I yell at them, but they either don't hear me, or they don't care. I rush over to them and start to pull Gale back.

"Stop it, you'll kill him!"

Gale looks at me. "But he tried to-"

"I KNOW! I know. But it isn't him right now!"

"How do you-"

"ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID?" I cut him off again. Peeta is obviously have a flashback. He would never, ever hurt me when he's not himself. "He is not himself. He is having a flashback so either shut up or help me with him." Peeta is coming towards us again, and I think I know how to help him. It's a long shot, but it's not like we really have many choices.

When he almost reached us, I open my mouth and start to do something I haven't done since I was in a darker time awhile ago; Sing.

"Deep in the meadow,

Under the willow.

A bed of grass,

A soft green pillow."

Peeta stops and starts to look at me, but I keep going.

"Lay down your head,

And close you sleepy eyes.

And when you awaken the sun will rise.

Here it's safe, here it's warm.

Here the daisies guard you from every harm.

Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true.

Here is the place where I love you."

There are more verses, but what I already sang was all Peeta needed. He looks at me and I know he's back. Then he looks at Gale and I guess he puts two and two together because he falls to the ground and starts to cry. I shoot a look at Gale and sit next to Peeta.

"Im..I'm so s... sorry," He tells me between his tears.

"Shh, no. Don't apologize. It's not your fault."

"Yeah, but I was the one who-"

"Injected the venom in you?"

"What?"

"Are you the one who put the venom in you?"

"No, but-"

"Would you have done it if you didn't have any venom in you? Would you have done it on your own?"

"No, no! Of course not!"

"Then it's not your fault."

"Okay..." He says, still not sure.

I grab him and hug him, hoping to reassure him. We sit there for a while, Peeta just cry and me holding him. The whole time, Gale just leans against one of the tables looking at us.

Peeta picks himself off the ground and somehow knows that Gale and I need to talk. I really don't want to, but I know I need to.

I'll see you later, sorry," He says and kisses my cheek, and before I can argue, he's gone.

I look over to Gale, and know I owe him an explanation, and nothing else. I hope. There's a lot of things I need to tell him, and I have to stop avoiding him. Maybe we might start to be friends. But I know I don't want that. Things were good before Gale was here and I hope they will continue to be .We were fine before right? Right?

Wrong.