A/N: Yay! Peeta's quit! Thank you so much to ILikePie99 for all of your lovely reviews! I love it when people review consistently! It makes me feel like I haven't lost the beginning excitement in the later chapters. Reviews make me feel really good and it makes me happy to think that someone really enjoys my story!

Chapter 9

I wake up from yet another nightmare. Peeta's smiling in his sleep, though, so I suck it up and continue holding him. I'm worried about him. He was so addicted to morphling and stopping so abruptly can't be healthy. I think that I need to take him to a doctor, but I know that ever since the Games, he hates hospitals. If he's forced into an environment that he's scared of and nervous in, he might turn to the drugs even more! But if he gets sick for quitting so quickly, he could die! Still, I don't want him to get hooked even more! God, this is so confusing!

Sensing me, Peeta wakes up.

"Sorry! I exclaim. I didn't mean to wake up Peeta!

"It's fine. What's wrong?" he asks.

"The morphling thing. I'm worried. You just stopped. That's unhealthy. I would take you to the doctor, but you hate hospitals," I notice Peeta grimace when I mention hospitals. I continue, "I don't know what to do…"

"I want to quit. I'm tired of depending on it. I've seen those Victors from 6. I don't want to become like them. But, Katniss, it hurts. Every night, I see the tributes that I killed. I didn't mean to kill Foxface and I was putting the girl from 8 out of her misery, but it still haunts me. I can't make it go away. I wish I could, but I can't. It hurts," Peeta cries.

"I know. I killed people, too. You're not alone. I'm just glad that you're safe. If you died in the Games, I would die, too. We saved each other. You don't need the morphling. I have you. You have me. Everything will be fine," I say. He nods and we both try to go back to sleep.

"Katniss, let's go," Prim sighs.

"Alright," I say. I'm taking her to the Hawthornes so that she can see Rory and then I'm going to hunt. Prim seems a bit off and I'm worried. Hopefully, her being with Rory will make things better.

I'm in the woods. I pull back my bow and am about to shoot when Rory comes crashing through the forest.

"Katniss! It's your mother! She collapsed!" Rory yells.

A/N: Gasp! What will happen now? You'll have to wait and see! Review, follow, and favorite!