Chapter 3 (Part 1) Peetas POV continued
Her lips were cold and dry when they touched mine, but they sent a warm thirst through my veins. I wanted more. It had been so long since I had felt this spark between us. Our candle had never gone out like they planned. It just dimmed, but now it's regained its light and its heat. Katniss pulls away from me, breaking the kiss. "I'm sorry," she whispers softly, looking me straight in the eyes. I can see the ache in her heart just by looking at the broken sadness her eyes reveal. I don't know what she is saying sorry for, I just know that I'm not going to argue with her or force anything. "Katniss, you have nothing to be sorry for," but before I've even finished my sentence her breathing has grown heavy and she's looking around the room. She grabs my hand and squeezes it, staring at the floor with a mortified expression. "Katniss?" I say, trying to take back her attention, but I realize something more is wrong because her nose begins to bleed. I let go of her hand and rush to the phone, calling for a medic. When I hang up the phone, she starts to cry out my name. "Katniss I'm right here!" I say as calmly as I can. But she continues to cry for me until I hold her hand again and when I look into her eyes they are glossed over. I place my hand on her cheek trying to calm her down so I can figure out what's going on in her head "Don't let them take me away Peeta, please," she cries out. I wonder what she's seeing and why she's so afraid of someone taking her away; I would sacrifice myself before I ever let that happen. I make sure she knows that I will do everything in my power to never let that happen and she crawls into my arms. I don't reject her, I never could. The medics finally arrive and walk right into the house with their kits full of scopes and medications. I whisper to her that the medics are here to help her and it takes her a few minutes, but she finds the courage to free herself from my embrace. They check Katniss' pulse, blood pressure, eyes, and ears; they give her a normal checkup. I watch from the doorway of her bedroom and it pains me slightly that our kiss made her have a panic attack, but a meaningless child-like sticker gesture from a medic makes her smile.
A psychological doctor who showed up a few minutes after the medics pulls me out into the hallway and shuts the bedroom door. It makes me a little nervous leaving Katniss alone with the medics. It's not that I don't trust the medics, I don't trust Katniss. The state of mind she is in could make her do anything. The doctor looked a lot similar to Caesar Flickermann except his hair was brown instead of blue, and he wasn't questioning me about the star crossed lovers from district 12. Although, I have to admit that I liked Caesar better than this guy, at least he had the courtesy of looking me in the eyes when speaking to me. "Mr. Mellark, Katniss seems to have developed some problems while in she was in her coma that we couldn't see until now," he says to me, writing in his notepad. Just by the tone of his voice I could tell that Katniss' problems were far from small. "Like what?" I say angrily, and for a moment I feel bad, but then I realize I don't care because he's grinning and rolling his eyes. He found Katniss' pain funny. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if he had something against her and now I just want him to tell me what's wrong with her, and get out. "She developed vertigo while she was in a coma and because she has never had vertigo before, she gets scared. I'm assuming this is her first time experiencing it because she only woke up a little while ago. By the way, you should have called us immediately so we could evaluate her. Anyway, when she gets scared she hyperventilates," after he's done talking I think back on the situation, "So why was her nose bleeding?" I question. This guy doesn't know what he's talking about. How is it possible that Katniss has been through two arenas and a war, but when she has one experience with vertigo her nose bleeds? "Well Mr. Mellark, sometimes stress can make a person's nose bleed and we're assuming that's why. She was probably very confused and had an extreme headache," before I can interrogate him even further, he has picked up his stuff and left. The other medics then exit the room and tell me I can go back in, not like they could stop me. After I've let out the medics and thanked them for their services, I head back up to Katniss' room and sit on the bed next to her. "Is it true?" she asks me with a slight quiver in her voice, but she continues "You stayed by me this whole time?" All I do is nod my head and she leans up to kiss my cheek. It's different, her way of saying thank you, but I like it.