Peeta
The first thing I noticed when I woke up was that I was no longer in unbearable pain. I looked at my leg and it seemed to have healed over night and I knew what that meant. Katniss went out and risked her life for me.
„Katniss…," I looked over to my right and saw her lying beside me with a bleeding gash on her forehead.
„What did you do?"
I slowly brushed her hair out of her face and examined the cut. Luckily, it didn't look very deep. I started checking her for other injuries, but other than the wounds from before she seemed fine and was breathing regularly. I took some of the burn medicine we had left over and carefully applied it to her forehead.
I couldn't believe she would do that for me, risk her life. I could have never lived with myself if she had died, not that she was out of the woods yet, but at least she was breathing, I just wished she would finally wake up.
I took her hand and realised she was cold as ice. Just as I started inching out of the sleeping bag, which was a lot easier now that my leg was finally healing , I felt Katniss stir.
„Peeta," she murmured, „are you okay?"
Typical of her to care about me first.
„Yes, I'm okay, thanks to you, I wish you hadn't risked your life for me, I could have never lived with myself if something had happened…,"
„But nothing did, I'm okay," she says and the corners of her mouth turn up.
„Okay? You have a bleeding gash on your forehead."
„I don't even feel it anymore," she says while bringing her knees to her chest.
I take her hand, it's ice cold.
„Katniss, you're freezing. Take the sleeping bag," I tell her and get completely out of it.
She looks at me almost hesitantly. „But then you'll be cold."
„I'll be fine."
Katniss
After about an hour alone in the sleeping bag I still couldn't stop shivering.
„I should just tell Peeta to join me," I think to myself, but I didn't really know how to tell him, without it sounding strange. But the colder I got, the less I cared.
„Peeta?" He looks at me.
„What's up? Are you still cold?"
„Yes, I just can't stop shivering.. Could you join me, maybe?"
„Of course."
He got up from his place at the cave entrance and slowly climbed into the sleeping bag with me. Because the space was so small, we were immediately cuddled up together.
He took my hands and started rubbing them with his own.
„Katniss, you're so cold," he said with a worried expression.
I wasn't even able to answer over the shattering of my teeth, so I just leaned my head against his chest and put my legs between his. Realising that I should have probably asked first. I get out a: „Is this okay?"
„Of course, it is," he answers again.
I move my leg up a little and see him flinch, that's when I remembered that I didn't even ask how his leg was. So I look up, to ask, but all of the sudden our faces are so impossibly close. He looks at me with a questioning glance and I nod.
He slowly leans down and his lips press gently against mine, he is so warm, it feels wonderful and before I can stop myself, a sigh escapes my lips. I almost started to get flustered, but it seemed to only have fuelled him more and I can feel his tongue against my lip asking for entrance. I open my mouth and the kiss turns into something different entirely and I feel a new kind of heat growing inside me. It feels so good. While his hands move to my waist, mine move in his hair pulling him closer to me. His hands move under my shirt and I feel like I'm on fire.
I start deepening the kiss more and move on top of him, so that I'm straddling his hips. I can feel him hardening against my center. He breaks our kiss.
„Sorry, I can't really help it…,"
As an answer I hesitantly start grinding against him and now he can't help the sigh escaping his lips.
In one swift move he flips us around so that he is now lying between my legs.
„What were you doing?" He grins at me.
„What I felt like," I answer leaning up and capturing his lips in another kiss.
„Did you like it?" I ask, breaking our kiss for a moment.
„Did I like it? Katniss, you're literally fulfilling all my teenage fantasies right now," he answers breathlessly.
„All of them?" I ask back while slowly moving my hands toward the seam of his pants.
He cocks an eyebrow at me, clearly waiting to see what I would do. I had no idea where this sudden burst of confidence came from, but right now I didn't care. For all I knew I could be dead tomorrow, hell, we could both be dead in the next hour if the game makers wanted it. And for one moment I just wanted to be a girl kissing a boy, doing what felt good.
I didn't want to be the caretaker of my family. I didn't want to be a hunter. And I sure as hell didn't want to be a tribute. I just wanted to enjoy this moment and neither the impending death nor the cameras that were surely on us could stop me.
Watching his face I slowly open the buttons of his pants. When I finally grip his length his eyes flutter shut and it looks like he's restraining himself from making a noise. I try to put to use what I have overheard other girls at school say and start moving my hand up and down. He feels impossibly smooth and yet at the same time still hard as rock.
I lean up and kiss him again. All of the sudden he takes my hands and before I could ask if I did something wrong he asks me, if he could try something.
„Yes," I whisper back.
„If you want me to stop at anytime, just say so, okay?"
I nod and he starts opening my pants and I'm glad that the confines of the sleeping bag shield us from the view of potential cameras, that are for sure pointing at us right now.
My thoughts come to an abrupt halt, when I feel Peeta hands cup me over my underwear, he slowly starts moving his fingers up and down and I kiss him again. After a while I feel him pull my underwear to the side and when his fingers start circling a certain spot, I feel a kind of pleasure I've never felt before and I let out a whimper.
„Does this feel good?" He whispers in my ear and overwhelmed by the feeling I can only nod.
When he started increasing the speed all I could think about were his fingers and how incredibly good they felt, I started feeling a building sensation, like a wave that was about to crash and when it did, I truly couldn't hold back the noises escaping my throat.
„Wow," is all I can say, while Peeta just looks at me in wonder.
He starts moving off of me.
„No, I want to feel you," I say.
„Katniss, are you sure about this, you know we're still in the arena right? I don't want you to do something you'll regret."
„I won't regret it"- I look into his eyes-„I want this. I want you."
This seemed to be all that he needed to hear, because he starts kissing me again.
We start undressing each other, he takes his shirt off, but I leave mine, because the sleeping bag doesn't fully cover my upper body.
I can feel him at my entrance, he looks at me asking for permission and I nod.
He slowly starts pushing into me and suddenly I feel very full, he stops to give me a minute to get used to the new feeling, when I feel my body relaxing, I give him the go ahead to continue and soon after that we start to find our rhythm.
I never thought I would feel this good, we fit together perfectly and I feel complete.
When I feel him tensing, he starts rubbing his fingers over the spot from earlier and I feel the still new feeling of the wave building again.
He looks at me. „You're so beautiful, Katniss."
Then he brings his mouth to mine and kisses me and we let the wave crash over both of us.
„How are you feeling," he asks me.
„Happier than I thought possible," I say without thinking about it.
He smiles back at me, give me a short gentle kiss and pulls me to his chest and I fall asleep listening to his heartbeat.