LOSING CATNIP (Gale)

Gale isn't exactly sure what he feels for Katniss Everdeen.

He's never lacked admirers.

He's never had a shortage of girls to hug and kiss behind the slag heap, to do things with.

Even after it was blatantly obvious that's all he wanted to do with them.

He wasn't ashamed to admit it, either.

But Katniss Everdeen is different.

Gale doesn't think about those things when he's with Katniss.

He thinks about her wry smile, her light laughter, the way her eyes sparkle in the sunlight.

And when she's in the Arena, with that baker's son, he feels jealousy for the first time.

Real jealousy.

Jealousy that makes him moody, violent, vicious.

Katniss is his. Peeta can't-won't- take her away from him.

And when Gale finally loses his Catnip, after the Bombing-

He realizes how right he was.

Peeta didn't take her away from him.

He did.


A/N: Ack, these are so much easier to write than multichapter fics. Broken is still on hiatus, sorry. Review please! :)