A/N: Hey guys, long time no see! Sorry I have been super busy what with leaving Missouri for the Smoky Mountains for a week and babysitting. Plus, my brother is home from Mexico and such. So, since you all have been patient I decided to switch things up. This Chapter is Peeta's POV from the beginning. Let me know if you like it or want to stick to Katniss's POV. Thanks to all the reviews, you guys are amazing, for reals! Don't forget to review, it makes me better, trust me.

Peeta's POV:

"Hey boy, she's here. They made it, all alive." I really don't believe the words that are coming out of Haymitch's mouth. I had just returned from shooting a propo and was hanging out with Finnick.

"Is Annie here, is she okay?" I can hear the excitement in Finnick's voice.

"Yes, everyone is alive," but Finnick leaves the second Haymitch says yes.

"She's here, alive," I ask him.

"Yeah."

I take off as fast as I can towards the hospital although I pretty much live there since I'm still an emotional mess. I have no one else to live with and they don't feel comfortable leaving me alone.

I arrive at the hospital. "Where's Katniss Everdeen," I ask one of the doctors. He points to a room and I run in and see her hugging Prim.

"Katniss? Is it really you?" I run up and hug her but instead of returning the hug, she tenses up. When I pull away, I see the confusion on her face.

"What's wrong with you," I ask her.

"Why are you excited to see me? We've never even talked. How do you know Haymitch?"

Why is she saying these things. Never talked? I love her. She's knows that. The Capitol did something to her. Something to make her forget me.

"What? Katniss, it's me, Peeta. We won the 74th Hunger Games together."

"No, I won the 74th Hunger Games with Aaron Wilson but he died in the Quarter Quell."

Aaron Wilson, I remember that name. He was a friend of my brother who died in the 73rd Games. He died in the first five minutes. It was the first time someone I had ever talked to died in the Games.

There is something terribly wrong here. "What? I'm getting the doctors."

I run out and see Dr. Aurelius, the head doctor in District 13. "Doctor, something's wrong with Katniss. She's acting like we've never spoken, just like before the Games. Please hurry, she can't forget me, she's all I have left.

I take Dr. Aurelius to her room but before we enter, Haymitch comes out.

"She thinks her District partner was Aaron Wilson, the tribute from the 73rd Games. I have no idea how they did it but she seems pretty convinced"

I can't believe it. I miss her more than ever, the real Katniss that is. "So, she forgot about me?"

"She didn't; they Capitol made her. I'm sure they can reverse it. Can't you, Doc?"

"I'm not sure; the Capitol has so much advanced technology and medicine, but we will definitely try. Let's go in and start." Aurelius goes in but Haymitch stops me.

"Why don't you sit this one out. We don't know what could happen. There might be something more, something that could make her want to hurt you."

"Haymitch, I can't. I let her go once, I'm never going to let go of her again."

"It's for her own good."

He's right. We don't know how deep down this is. It's lunch time, so I go to the cafeteria but I'm too nervous about Katniss to eat. At about the end of lunch, my best friend, Delly Cartwright sits next to me. "Hello Peeta. I heard Katniss is back, I would've thought you would be with her."

This one sentence makes me realize that I've lost Katniss, whether the doctors know it or not and I just start crying. I can survive two Hunger Games but this is different. I have no one left. Yeah, I have my best friend but my family and all of my other friends are dead, because of me and Katniss and our stunt with the berries. People are watching me now, and I just run to Katniss's room. She's still talking to Dr. Aurelius so I just watch them through the window. Haymitch and Gale leave the room and I can just barely hear Katniss.

"Why is everyone acting like Peeta was in the Games with me and that I love him? It's hard enough for me to get over Aaron's death let alone have everyone pretend like he never existed!" She then tell Aurelius about the Games but it seems the Capitol took her memories of me in the Games and replaced them with Aaron. I can't control my emotions and keep crying. Then, all of a sudden, she turns around and our eyes meet but I look away fast, just as I used to in school so often.

Delly runs up to me. "Peeta, what's wrong."

"It's Katniss. The Capitol made her forget me." I start breathing rapidly and Delly goes to get a doctor. When she comes back with one, he sticks something in my arm and I instantly become unconscious.

I wake up and see Haymitch sitting in the chair next to my hospital bed. "Where's Katniss? How long have I been out?"

"Two days. In her room, having her daily appointment with Dr. Aurelius. That's all she really does now."

"Does she still not remember the Games?"

"Sorry, boy."

"How's everyone else like Johanna and Annie?"

"Johanna has a lot of physical problems. They really messed her up." Of course they did, she knew actual rebel secrets. Poor Johanna. "Annie on the other hand is doing well as long as Finnick is at her side, which he always is. He really loves her."

Finnick and I have grown really close since we've been in 13. We both had the women we loved in the hands of Snow. He's a lot more than a pretty boy with thousands of admirers. He's just a guy in love with a mad girl.

I decide to go to the library and find a book on painting. I could improve my skill some. Painting is my one escape from everything, from Snow, from the nightmares. I find a great book on an ancient painter, Van Gough, and lose myself in the book. Then all of a sudden I see her in front of me.

"Oh hi, Katniss."

"What's your deal," she's very angrily.

"What? What do you mean?"

"I mean everyone keeps telling me that you love me and that I love you but we've never even talked!"

"Katniss," he says as though he's speaking to a 3 year old, "The Capitol did something to your memory."

"Well, all I know is that I'm tired of having to ask everyone for answers and not getting any!"

I just want to take her into my arms and make everything better, but I know I can't.

"Calm down, it's gonna be okay," and I reach out and touch her arm. When I do a look or recognition comes over her face but it's quickly back to confused. "Is there anything you do remember about me?"

"You're family owned the bakery. You saved my life when I was 12."

She remembers. She remembers our moment with the bread. Our only connection before the Games. This is amazing. I just can't believe she remembers. I know my face must light up because she looks deep into my eyes. Even now her eyes are as beautiful as ever. "You remember that?"

"Of course, you don't forget when someone saves you and your family's lives."

"I just thought the Capitol may have taken that memory. We better get you back to the hospital, they'll freak if they thought they lost you." We walk back to her room in an awkward silence. "Here it is."

"Thanks. Peeta, do you love me like everyone says you do?" I can hear a little bit of hope in her voice, that she hopes I say yes.

"No." Her face instantly looks disappointed. "It's so much more." I kiss her cheek and watch her go back in. I decide to sit on the chair outside of her room and wait. What I said was so utterly true. I love her more than words can say. No one will be able to tell her how much I love her, she'll have to see for herself. I'll never stop trying to get her back. Never.

I get lost in my thoughts and Haymitch comes out of the room and addresses me.

"She says she doesn't want to see you anymore. It reminds her too much of Aaron and it hurts."

"Please, no Haymitch. I can't. I waited this long for her; I'm not losing her now!"

"Sorry boy, but it'll get her back to us sooner if we listen. She does love you, or Aaron as she thinks. She lost it today when thinking about him."

"Really?"

"Really, it took me about 10 minutes to get her to be able to talk."

"Wow. Who would've thought." I hear Katniss come out of the room. She must've been able to hear us.

"I am not in love with you and I never want to hear people saying I am ever again!" She reaches out and slaps me across the face, hard, just like my mother used to. I'm never getting her back. The hurt is too deep. I doubt she ever really loved me. The doctors come out and shoot her with a sedative and she starts to fall but on instinct, I catch her.

I can't hide the tears. I put her in bed and run to find Delly. I really need to talk to someone who doesn't remind me of Katniss.

While I'm running to find Delly I trip on someone's foot with my fake leg and hit my head on a chair. Haymitch comes and helps me up. "Look boy, she's not gone forever."

"Yes she is! The real Katniss would never have hit me. She knows my history. She knows my mother used to hit me. She remembers the bread, Haymitch."

He looks at me with hopeful eyes. I know he wants us to end up together, almost as much as I do.

Weeks pass and still, not much progression with Katniss. In fact she is having more problems and more flashbacks. I just want to make everything better for her. I used to pass by her room and look in but I stopped. I was just passing by to check on her but instead of seeing Dr. Aurelius in there with her, I see her and Gale, making out. I know they'll end up together. As long as she's happy, that's all that really matters. I stopped checking up on her. I occasionally see them holding hands and taking a walk but I hide before she sees me. I don't want to cause her any more hurt. In the mean time, I shoot propos and train for battle, yet I never get to move out of the hospital. I still have nightmares that make me try to hurt myself for not helping Katniss more. I just can't stand the thought of hurting her. I love her.

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