Chapter 11 – KPOV:

A/N: Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry, guys! I totally wanted to update last night but my dad needed the laptop… For what, I don't know, but I have it now and I think that all of you are going to love this chapter! :-)

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I swear, Mrs. Mellark is going to be your favorite character after you read this chapter.

Mrs. Mellark is in a shocked state. I would wonder what has made her change, but the pain coursing through my arm snaps me back to reality.

"You get the hell off of her!" she shrieks, rushing over to me and attempting to pry Gale off of me. She finally gets my arm back to me in one piece, and screams, "Peeta!"

Peeta comes out of the bakery, oblivious to what had just happened, and runs over to me. He crouches down next to me and says, "What happened?" He notices me holding my arm and he gently lifts my fingers up from it. He sees the purple marks all over my arm from Gale. He quickly snaps his head in Gale's direction, then back to me.

I'm starting to black out, so I just whisper, "Get him back…" Then I slip into unconsciousness.

PPOV:

"Katniss…" I say softly, gently shaking her shoulder, but she doesn't wake up. "Katniss…" I press in a louder voice. "Katniss!" I almost yell.

I storm over to Gale. "Do you see what you did!" I yell.

"Peeta," Mom says.

"Not now, Mom!" I say.

"Peeta," she presses.

I turn around and snap at her, "What?"

She points to Katniss, who looks like she's already waking up. How does that work?

I walk back over to Katniss. "Could you take care of him?" I ask quietly as I walk past her. She nods and makes her way to Gale, then starts screaming at him.

"Katniss," I whisper, sitting down next her. "Who…Who are you?" she asks. I freeze. She doesn't remember who I am. "And who are they?" she asks, pointing to Mom and Gale.

"Mom! Gale! Come here!" I call. Mom stops screaming to look at me, and then walks up to me, Gale trailing close behind.

"She doesn't remember any of us," I say.

Gale sits down on the other side of her and grabs her hand. "I'm Gale, your boyfriend?" he says.

"Oh, shut the hell up!" I say, removing his hand from hers. "Katniss, love, look at me. Who am I?" I say, staring straight through her eyes. She blinks a few times, and then says, "You're…the baker's son, aren't you?" I nod.

"What's my name?" I ask softly. She looks as if she's contemplating something in her mind. "Peeta?" she asks weakly. "Yes," I say softly, gently wrapping my arm around her. She flinches. "What are you doing?" she asks.

Oh, God… Now I have to explain everything…

"Okay, Katniss, I hope you have a lot of time because this is going to take some explaining," I say, and she nods, "But I have to ask you something. What is the last thing you remember?"

"I remember someone dragging me to the forest…" she replies. I glare at Gale. "That would be him," I reply, pointing at Gale. She looks at me, then to him.

What she does next is so surprising I almost laugh out loud.

She pounces on him, punching him and screaming, "What the hell is wrong with you?"

I pull her back to me. "We can do that another day, okay?" I say. She nods, then glares at Gale.

"I'm Peeta, that's Gale," I say. She wrinkles her nose in disgust. "Gale? Isn't that a girls' name?" she asks. "Moving on," I say, trying to suppress a laugh.

"That's my mom. Now let me explain. We're going to start with the basics. Your name is Katniss Everdeen. You are seventeen years old. Your dad died in a mining accident six years ago. Do you remember all of that?" I say.

She nods and I continue.

"Now about all of us. Gale Hawthorne is your best friend and hunting partner, but nothing else. But I can see that you don't particularly favor him at the moment," I say. She shakes her head, agreeing with me.

"Can I ask something?" she asks quietly. I nod. "Which one of you is my boyfriend?"

"I am," I say. She nods happily. "I could never date him," she says.

"Okay, wait," Mom says, "She fell which caused her to lose a lot of her memory. So what if she fell again? Wouldn't that bring her memory back?"

I think about this for a moment.

"And how do you plan to do this?" I ask.

She turns to Katniss. "Honey, I don't want to do this. But after I do, I bet you'll be good as new," she says. Katniss looks scared and she moves closer to me. "Don't be scared. She's right," I whisper and kiss her forehead. She looks up at me. "Okay…" she whispers.

Mom hits Katniss on the head, and Katniss sits there for a moment as if she was unaffected. But then she lays her head in my lap and becomes unconscious.

I lean down, kiss her cheek, and then lightly stroke her hair. "And exactly how long will she be out?" Gale asks, irritated. Mom shrugs. "I don't know. Until she wakes up?" she says sarcastically.

"This is your fault!" Gale says, standing up. "How is this my fault?" I say. "You let her knock her out! That could've killed her!" he says. "Well, I'm so sorry that she didn't wake up within the first thirty seconds of unconsciousness," I say, "What did you expect?"

"For God's sake, Mellark!" he yells. "What?" I say. "Everything! You! Her!" he yells.

I smirk. "I see a little green monster," I say. "I couldn't find a tissue, okay?" he yells. "Not that!" I snap, "Jealousy!"

"Think what you want, lover-boy, but I'm not jealous," he says. "You and I both know that's not true," I say knowingly, then turn my attention back to Katniss, who has just started to wake up.

"Katniss?" I ask softly. She yawns. "Hey, Peeta," she says softly, settling back down next to me. I wrap my arm around her. "What happened?" she asks. "What do you remember?" I ask.

"I remember Gale grabbing my arm, then you and Mrs. Mellark coming out to help me, and nothing else after that…" she says.

"You're good as new," I whisper in her ear. "What do you mean?" she asks. "Mom had to knock you out again after you didn't remember anything," I explain. She nods. "Oh…" she says.

"Come with me," I whisper.

KPOV:

"Come with me," he whispers. I nod.

He takes me inside the bakery, and leads me up the small winding staircase leading up to the second floor of the building where Peeta and his family lives. He takes me into his bedroom. There is a tall stack of thin books in the corner.

Peeta kisses my cheek. "I'm going to take a quick shower, okay?" he asks. I nod. He walks into the small hallway, and I approach the stack of books. I pick one up from the top and open it. Inside, there are sketches after sketches of…

…me…

A/N: Well, isn't that sweet? Since I know you don't hear from Gale again in this chapter since he and Peeta were arguing, just pretend that he fell off the face of the earth, okay? There, that makes life a heck of a lot easier…

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