Katniss completely dissolves against me, and it's this moment that I love and dread all at once. There is nothing better than believing I alone am all she needs to feel safe and secure. Her complete trust is inevitably what I will eventually betray...

Gale's love for Katniss doesn't come right away.

It's Katniss's sixteenth birthday, and she's spending it with Gale, mostly in the woods. He rants about the Capitol and reveals something that made him hate it even more. A fairly short story.