Chapter 8 The cave

"You here to finish me off, sweetheart?" I say, my voice is low. I am hurt and don't feel well. Might have some fever too. "Peeta?" Katniss says. She is worried, and can't see me. "Where are you?" She doesn't believe in her ears, and says "Peeta" once again. She will step at me if she step one more step, so I say "Well, don't step at me" She jumps back. I open my eyes and she gasps. I smile at her. She came to save me. I love her so much, she is wonderful. And now she is here, with me. "Close your eyes again" she orders. And I do. I feel that she kneel beside me. "I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off" she says. I smile at her. I miss decorating cakes, I miss home. And now, I could come home if Katniss protect us. But I think that my life is like ended already. I just hope that Katniss is a good healer, because otherwise, I probably will die. But I want her to make it back home. "Yes, frosting. The final defence of the dying" I say. And she answer me "You're not going to die" But I will, if she doesn't get me out of here. "Says who?" I replay to her, and she replies "Says me. We are on the same team now, you know" I did now that. And I am grateful that they changed the rules. I think that she would try to find me anyway. I love her. I feel warm inside when she looks at me. "So I heard. Nice of you to fin what's left of me" I say. Because it's true, after Cato cut up my leg, it's not much of me left. She pulls a battle and gives me water. I am thirsty, and drink much of her water. "Did Cato cut you?" she asks me and I answer "Left leg. Up high"Let's get you in the steam, wash you off so I can see what kind of wounds you got" she says. I just want to kiss her. I love you Katniss, I think for myself. "Lean down a minute first" I say. "Need to tell you something" She put a ear to my mouth and I whisper " Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me any time you feel like it" I want her to kiss me, like now. But she doesn't. "Thanks, I'll keep it in my mind" and laughs. When she starts to help me to the steam, I start to scream of the pain.

I am out of the puddle of mud and Katniss try to wash my body off. It isn't the easiest thing to do. I feel sleepy and I just want to sleep. After she has done my leg clean from pus and blood, she let me sleep. She wakes me up, and she tells me that we have to go. "Go? Where?" I am confused. What? Where are we? I can't stand at the wounded leg without too fell I will pass out. But I do it for some minutes. She place me muddy bank. I feel a little better after a while and she half carry, half lead me in to a cave. She puts me in a sleeping bag, and go away to do something to the opening of the cave.

"Katniss" I say. She goes over to me and brushes my hair back from my eyes. I love her so much. And now, I will have her with me till I die. My wish is fulfilled, but now when I have her here, I want to survive. I want to live every day of the rest of my life with her. And I want it to be more than a week, or less. "Thanks for finding me" I say. "You would have found me if you could" she answers, and she is right. I would try to find her, even if the consequences would be my death. "Yes. Look, if I don't make it back…" I start. But she cuts me of. "Don't talk like that. I didn't drain all that pus for nothing" She says. She smiles at me and I smile back. "I know, but just in case I don't..." I try again. "No Peeta, I don't even want to discuss it" she says and puts a finger to my mouth to quiet me. "But I…." I try again. Then she leans forward against me and our lips meets. She gives me one kiss and says "You're not going to die. I forbid it. All right?" she asks. And I whisper to her, still chocked over that she kissed me "All right". Does she love me? She kissed me like it, and I felt something in my chest, something real, for the first time that I kiss a girl and feel something. I know that she is the girl in my life, and I hope that she finds me like the boy in her life.

I wake up, Katniss kisses me again. It startles me a bit, but I also feel like the happiest person in the world. I would be happy to just lie here and gazing at her. She says "Peeta, look what Haymitch sent you".

Its soup, and I try to eat it, but I am scared to puke it up again. Katniss prays and she kisses me again. She just wants me to eat the damn soup. I try; I will eat every drop of this soup for her sake. I want to do her happy. I want to do her to the happiest girl in the world. And to succeed, I have to be alive.

I sleep, dream about Katniss and me, winning the hunger games, to come back to a district full of life and happiness. After a time I feel that someone slide in to the sleeping bag, in my dreams, it is Katniss.

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"And right when your song ended, I knew, just like your mother, I was goner" Peeta Mellark, Hunger games.

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