Disclaimer: I don't The Hunger Games or Harry Potter.
Hogwarts 2 AU: Madge and Gale (after the second task where Madge almost died)
"She's too cold."
Gale murmured and she nodded.
"Climb in." She ordered him and Gale nodded as he removed his clothes, and she worked at removing Madge's. When he looked up she was in a bra and a pair of shorts. He slid into bed and wrapped his arms around Madge and rubbed his hands up and down her arms, trying to warm her up.
It was mid-February and it was snowing outside. She had been wearing a simple cloak and her uniform, hardly proper clothes for the cold. There was no telling how long she had been outside.
"Please Princess."
He kissed her hair and tucked her underneath him and pulled the blankest over them.
He fell asleep to the smell strawberries.
Madge woke up to the sound of a drum and the smell of fire and woods and something comforting. She was warm and snuggled into her blankets more, but the bed was hard and she realized that it wasn't her bed in the Slytherin dorms.
She opened her eyes and then closed them quickly because her head began to pound. She opened her eyes little by little and saw that it was dark. She began a mental catalog of her body before she realized that she was pressed tightly against someone.
The drum she heard was actually a heartbeat. She could feel an arm around her waist and the hand was grabbing her arse. The other arm was around her in her hair. She felt herself blush as she realizes she was half naked.
Oh, Snow! Please don't tell me I had a one night stand, she couldn't help but think.
She opened her eyes and saw the black beaded necklace that she knew belonged to Gale. His little sister Posy had made it for him and he was almost never without it.
So she now knew her bed mate but what had happened? She tried to remember the past few hours but all she remembered was the cold and snow. Snow.
Then her eyes widen and she gasped, as it all came rushing back.
The tournament, the cold, dementors, hearing her mother's screams. Snow's face as he placed her under the spell. The coldness in his eyes.
She became to tremble and she felt her body began to shake, whether it was fear or coldness, she didn't know.
"Madge?"
She looked up at Gale who was studying her, worried. Her trembling had woken him up. He looked at her with some concern and brushed her face with his fingers, she realized that she was silently crying and bit her lip to stop.
He then held her tightly as she cried. Once she was done, she buried her face in his shoulder refusing to look at him, feeling embarrassed.
He brushed a curl out of her face and made her look at him.
Blue eyes met brown.
"Are you alright?"
He whispered not wanting to wake anyone up.
"I remembered."
He pulled her closer and nuzzles his nose into her hair.
"You were so cold. So pale. It scared me. I can't remember the last time I was that scared."
Madge pressed herself closer to him.
Hearing him made her remember.
She could still feel the cold in her bones and she trembled, but she remembered the coldness on Snow's voice when she and the other voiced their concern over being unconscious.
She remembers him flicking his wand silencing them and then she remembers drinking tea and thinking about Gale and how she was sure Gale would save her.
Gale saved her.
Then she began to sob again and Gale pulled her closer muffling her cries as she let it out.
After the sobs subsided, Gale cupped her face.
"I'm sorry." He shook his head and pressed their foreheads together.
"Don't apologize."
Blue eyes met brown and Gale saw how bright her eyes were and Madge saw the amber flecks in eyes and that he was looking at her in a different way than he usually did. Suddenly the two enemies turned partners turned fake lovers saw whatever everyone else around them saw.
"Madge."
He breathed an then she moved even closer and pressed her lips against his. Her hands on his chest and he had one hand tangled in her hair and other pulled her closer to him. She threw a leg over wouldn't have been able to guess that one of them almost died that day as they were kissing like they were the only people in the room, in the school, in the world.
Neither of them thought about how they were making out in a hospital bed, in the school's infirmary, they didn't think of the other people in the room.
Gale and Madge kissed furiously, years of pent-up frustration and today's fear exploding into this.
There was a clearing of a throat and they found Nurse Ivy Everdeen looking at them with an amused look on her face. Gale groaned and flushed red, burying his head in Madge's hair.
"Gale, I think you should go to your own bed."
"Ivy!"
He whined and gave her puppy eyes. However, years of dealing with kids had made her immune.
"I can and will call your mother right now."
Madge giggled as the seventeen-year-old boy whithered under her stern tone.
Then Ivy Everdeen cast an eye on Madge, examining her.
"I trust I can leave you alone. Do you need any more medicine? Blankets?"
"Some more blankets sounds good." Without Gale, the temperature had dropped.
She nodded and a few more blankets flew onto the bed.
Ivy left after some more fussing and then Madge felt Gale crawling back into her bed.
"What if she catches you?"
He looked into her blue eyes.
"I almost lost you, Madge. I'm not leaving your side. Seeing you all pale and not seeing your baby blue eyes, it scared me more than anything else in the world. You aren't just my partner in the tournament or my fake lover, you are my friend. "
Madge felt her heart clench.
Friends. Friends with Lord Gale Hawthorne and all it took was seven years and her almost dying.
Gale kissed her forehead and she smiled up at him.
She falls asleep facing him, hands intertwined. He falls asleep with his nose in her hair, breathing in strawberries.
When Ivy finds them the next morning, she shakes her head and chuckles.
"Looks like I won the betting pool."
So the second part is done! Let me know what you think!
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-Queen