The next day, I find myself walking down the hospital corridors. I take a quick peek through the glass at Peeta, but nothing's changed. I was ultimately hoping everything was all a nightmare, and that Peeta would be back to normal, but he's not. He's still restrained to the bed, thrashing and screaming. I'm immediately reminded of the neck brace and start to panic, so I quickly turn on my heel and rush out of the room. I walk around a bit, amazed at the largeness of the hospital in District 13. I've stumbled down random corridors in hopes that I don't bump into anyone since I'm not exactly following my schedule right now. I make my way to room 257. Johanna's room.

I knock the door, "Johanna, it's me. It's Katniss. Can I come in?".

"Yeah, sure. Why not?" She replies

I swing open the door and walk over to her, she moves her feet and pats the bed just like she did yesterday.

"Have you seen Annie?" She asks

"I've seen her, but I haven't really gotten the chance to speak to her. Why?"

"I was just wondering how she is. Prim came in last night and told me she was out of the hospital."

"Are you jealous?" I ask raising my eyebrow

"A little, yeah" she admits "I hate this goddamn hospital." Johanna lifts her arm to show me why. She's hooked up to a couple of machines and a morphling IV.

"You'll miss the morphling when it's gone." I whisper

"Maybe, I don't know. What's that on your arm?"

I follow her gaze to my left forearm. "Oh this?" I say referring to the sickly purple ink on my arm. "It's the bane of my life, also known as my schedule. I'm supposed to follow it"

Johanna grabs my left arm in both of hers and reads it. Her thumb strokes lazily over my pulse and I swear for some reason I feel my pulse accelerate rapidly. I hope she doesn't notice it, and to be sure I cough to try and cover it up. "It looks like you're not supposed to be here right now" Johanna observes. I glance down, I'm supposed to be in command. "I don't pay much attention to it anyway"

Johanna chuckles slightly "looks like the mockingjay has finally found her wings. Shame you're defying the wrong president though"

"Hey, rebelliousness doesn't come easy to all of us!" I exclaim

"Yeah" she mutters. "I suppose I do have a natural gift"

"You do" I agree "Have you seen your lovely head doctor today?"

"Unfortunately. You think that stupid schedule thing's bad, you should try listening to that asshole 3 times a day"

I laugh "well, I can think of things that I've been through that are worse than listening to him"

"Oh yeah? Like what?"

"I guess it's story time then. Once upon a time I was in an elevator with my pretend boyfriend and a middle aged alcoholic, then out of nowhere a crazy psychopath with an axe to grind walked in. The crazy psychopath brought misery to myself and the people in the small elevator, and then... things got even worse. The crazy psychopath proceeded to take all of her clothes off leaving the people of the elevator in shock and she sashayed out the doors on floor 7"

She genuinely laughs at this. "You must have lived an amazing life for the hottest girl in the world stripping for you to be considered a bad thing. But dint worry, I've got an even scarier story. Once upon a time, I was trying to make friends-" I laugh loudly at this. Johanna scowls at me. "Haha, very funny. As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, I was trying to make friends with some other victors and it was going well so I decided to flirt a bit to break the ice, so I flirted in the easiest way possible; by taking my clothes off. Bit then the girl I was trying to flirt with got all pissy and it didn't go the way I expected. The end."

"That's what you get fo- wait, did you say the girl you were trying to flirt with, as in me?"

"No,the other girl on the elevator" she answers sarcastically. "Of course I was flirting with you."

I see what she's trying to do now. She's trying to see if I'm gullible as well as brainless. Well I'm not. "You were clearly flirting with Peeta I state

Even saying his names like a punch in the face. I hope Johanna doesn't pick up on it, and fortunately she doesn't.

"I wasn't trying to flirt with Peeta. I was certainly doing him a favor though"

"How were you doing him a favor?" I ask

"Aw, come on. My boobs were the first boobs that that kid has ever seen"

"How do you know that?"

"Because you said he was your, and I quote, 'pretend boyfriend' and we all know nakedness scares you anyway"

"Nakedness doesn't scare me. It intimidates me slightly, but it doesn't scare me."

Johanna groans. "I'd love to take my clothes off right now and ask you if I was intimidating you. But I don't have the energy, I'm just too tired"

"Finally, a bit of good luck" I joke. "But seriously, you should sleep if you're tired"

She yawns. "Yeah, but if I sleep you'll leave, and even though you irritate me 95% of the time, it's really boring in here and you're not bad company"

"You should still sleep, I can come back when you wake up"

"You say that, but you can't, someone will find you and bitch about you not following that arm thingy, and they'll make you follow it."

"Good point" I say "scoot over"

"What?" She asks a crease forming between her eyebrows.

"Move over, I'm getting in." I say, "and yet somehow I'm the brainless one"

"What the fuck is going on?" Johanna mutters

"You're tired, and I could do with a nap, so we'll sleep" I don't mention it's because I was up all night with nightmares and thankfully she doesn't ask.

"Come on, Katniss. Have some control, I mean I know I'm attractive, but we barely know each other and now you're trying to get into my bed"

"Oh shut up" I mumble

"Fine, here" she says, lifting the covers up for me as an invitation. I clamber in beside her.

Her bed is cold considering she's been in it all day. I figure she must be cold so I cuddle close into her left side just like Prim would do when I was cold.

"What the fuck are you doing?" Johanna grumbles.

"Keeping you warm" I reply

She seems to accept this and she relaxes beside me before returning to staring up at the ceiling.

I wake up about an hour later feeling rested. I slept the entire hour and didn't wake up screaming so I consider it an improvement. I glance up and realize that Johanna's still sleeping.

Johanna does look different when she sleeps. She looks younger, much less fierce and innocent. I remember the last time I saw her asleep, when I caught the glimpse of her being wheeled into District 13's hospital, she looked like she was in so much pain then despite the fact she was unconscious, some of her wounds have healed since and she looks to be in slightly less pain, she also looks slightly happier, or at least a little bit more content. I move so that I'm on my back and I listen to her steady breathing. She stirs slightly and rolls onto her left side so that she's facing me before rolling onto her stomach whilst simultaneously throwing her right arm over my torso and burying her head into the side of my chest. She mumbles something incoherent before settling down into a deeper sleep again.

It's about an hour after that when she finally starts to wake up. She yawns loudly and stretches before sitting up.

"Morning already?" She asks in a cute sleepy voice.

"Nope, it's almost dinner time, I'll have to be heading down to the cafeteria soon"

"I thought the whole idea of you getting into my bed was to sleep and not just to creep on me, and wait, how did I end up on top of you?"

"You moved in your sleep, and anyway you're cuter and less frightening in your sleep so I thought I'd let you continue."

"Creep" she mutters

I laugh lightly at that. "You're one to talk"

"Says the one who practically begged to get into my bed. I mean, I can't blame you because I'm stunning but you kind of showed your desperation there, Brainless"

I decide to be just as much of a tease as she is and I kiss her lightly on the nose. "Thanks" I whisper directly into her ear. "Let's do it again sometime" and with that I get out of the bed and leave swaying my hips just as much as she did exiting the elevator.

I hear her yell after me "That's my thing, Brainless. Don't you dare steal that on me or I swear to fuck I'll smash my axe in your goddamn head!"

I laugh gently to myself and head on up to the canteen.