AN: Hi everyone! I just wanted to say thanks from the bottom of my heart to everyone who has read, favorited, followed, and reviewed this story! (It occurred to me I hadn't said thank you yet, and it's been a couple chapters) It makes my day when I get an email saying someone else has reviewed/followed. Also, this chapter is kind of short, I've had to work a lot this week and I haven't had as much time as I would have like to write it. Anyways, if anyone has any suggestions for the story, please leave them in the reviews, or PM me :) Thanks!

That night, after we all eat dinner, Peeta, Effie, Haymitch and I go back to the car that will drive us to the hotel Plutarch and Paylor have us staying in. When we get there, Peeta and Effie go up to the desk to get the room keys. Haymitch and I take a seat in the chairs along the wall to wait for them/

"Quite a display you put on today. With that whole speech about the hungry and 12"

"Thanks" I say. "Why do we not have to be on the jury all of a sudden?" I ask him.

"Effie and I talked to Paylor. Told her it wouldn't be a good idea to have two mentally unstable teenagers, along with everyone else on a jury for a man who was working with Snow. I told Paylor it could be part of the new government. That everyone should be tried fairly in court. Even if Thread was working for Snow."

"Thanks Haymitch" I tell him.

"Now, about the boy" he says "Katniss, why all of sudden are you cozying up to him again? After months of nothing. Because if you're pretending again, I swear"

"Haymitch, obviously I'm not doing that. I love Peeta, I missed him. I was just afraid I guess. Afraid that he would hurt me again, and I know he won't. You know how hard it is for me to trust people"

"Yeah I know. Just be careful, alright. Don't...don't take things too fast. He still could have some issues to work through that he isn't telling anyone about. You know him, he doesn't want to upset any of us."

I'm about to respond, when Effie and Peeta walk up with the room keys.

"Alright then. Haymitch, you will be in room 190, on the second floor, and Katniss and Peeta will be in room 115 on the third floor. We will meet here for breakfast in the morning, now go get some sleep. God knows what tomorrow will bring" she sighs and walks away.

Haymitch looks at both of us. "I need to talk to you guys"

We both nod and follow him down a hallway into an elevator. Once the doors close, Peeta says "What do you want to talk to us about Haymitch?"

"It's about the two of you. Your...relationship if you will. Everyone, okay mainly Plutarch, has been asking all day if you two are together or not. I kept telling everyone I didn't know, because honestly, I don't know. I know you two love each other, that's apparent, but are you two back together again? I know you both had a hard time when Peeta came back, and you hadn't talked in months, so I didn't want to tell people no, but I didn't want to tell them yes either. Think either of you might be able to clarify that for me?"

"Um, I guess we're together again. We haven't really discussed it..." Peeta reaches his hand out to me, and I take it.

"We're together Haymitch. We aren't what we used to be before the games, but I think this is almost better. There aren't any threats to our relationship this time. No President Snow to force us into pretending to be in love, no pressure to get married, or to be in the perfect relationship just to prevent the entire country from having a rebellion. There's just us." He smiles and hugs me.

The doors to the elevator ding open, and Haymich says "Take it easy with the silolqouy boy. This is my floor. Goodnight. Don't get yourselves into too much trouble"

After the door close, Peeta wraps his arms around me. "I missed you so much" he whispers into my ear.

"I missed you too" I whisper back. We press the number 3 button and wait for the doors to open on our floor.

They open, and we walk down the hallway trying to find our door. "115. Here it is." Peeta says as he puts the card in the little slot. I pull the handle and the door swings open. Inside the room, there's a little kitchen area with a table and two chairs to the right. On the table, there's a giftbasket, with a note. It says, "Welcome to the Capitol. Hope you enjoy your stay. Best regards, Plutarch".

"Well that was nice of him" Peeta says. "We'll have to remember to thank him for it tomorrow" I nod and flip on the rest of the lights. In the middle of the room is a couch, with a TV across from it. There's a balcony, and another door leading to the bedroom.

"Shall we?" Peeta says as he takes my hand and leads me into the bedroom. In it, we find what is quite possibly the biggest bed I've ever seen. It's decorated with a thick comforter, and about 100 pillows. I resist the urge to throw myself face first into the pillows because I'm so wiped out, but I just stand there with Peeta.

"I think I'm going to take a shower" he says, and grabs some clean clothes and heads to the bathroom.

While he's showering, I busy myself unwrapping the gift basket and splaying its contents out onto the table. Inside there's an assortment of fruit, chocolate, candies, and bread. I'm making plates for Peeta and I when he emerges from the bathroom.

We take our plates to the couch and turn on a movie. It's some romance movie, I'm not really interested in it but Peeta's staring intently at the screen. The movie ends, and he looks at me.

"What?" I ask

"We used to do that didn't we. Kiss like that"

I can feel the memory of the last kiss Peeta and I shared, where he was handcuffed to the wall, and everyone else had left, and Peeta wanted me to leave him there, and I wouldn't leave him there, and he just kept telling me he couldn't hang on, so, in a moment of panic, I kissed him, and told him to stay with me, and once his eyes returned to normal, I told him always. Because that's what Peeta and I do. We protect each other.

"We did Peeta. We used to kiss like that a lot. We kissed like that for the cameras sometimes, but other times it was just us." I tell him

"You kissed me like that in the Quell. Real or not real?"

I take his hand in mine. "Real."

We go to bed soon after, and I don't have any nightmares, not tonight, knowing Peeta's sleeping right beside me.