Authors note: Sorry, I was a bit busy randomly singing to the songs of 'Wicked the musical'. Such fun! JoshHutchersonFan4Ever (*.*)
Disclaimer: I own nothing D:

My eyes slowly ease themselves open. They are red and puffy. I kept waking up last night, from nightmares of losing Katniss, or my family. For once i just want a night filled with no dreams. A dreamless sleep, but i know that, that would be getting off easy. Its just starting to get light outside. The faint whistling of birds reaching my eyes. The autumn oranges dancing along the window pane. I hear heavy breathing in my left ear. Rory is there. Poor thing probably had to put up with all of my moving and girating all the way through the night. I respect my brother, I respect my family. The things they put up with for me, i'll never understand how they do it. As soon as i realise i have enough strenth to get up, I hear the door be rattled from outside. I shoot up, the look of bravery and confusion crushed together on my face. I tiptoe into the passageway, the door is being pushed and the door handle rattling like crazy.

Is someone trying to break in? What would they steal? We have nothing. I feel my arm wondering over and picking up an old clay vase my mother used to hold the flowers i had collected from the meadow. The fact that its empty reminds me of the fact that i hadn't collected any for a while. I feel angry with myself for forgetting. I lunge towards the door. Turning the key and roughly opening it holding the vase in hand. I let out a huge sigh of relief. And then i stand straight again, a little confused. Why the hell was Peeta Mellark trying to break into my house?
"What the hell are you doing Mellark?"I say bluntly

Peeta stammers hard whilst looking at the floor. "I was j-j-j-just ... ugh...I just thought..." Peeta lets out a huge sigh before continuing. "I thought that Katniss was here with you, Sleeping with you i mean" I roll my eyes. "Well, Isn't Katniss at home?" I say whilst rubbing my eyes. "N-no, Me, Effie and Haymitch are all out looking for her. The rest of her family is still asleep. And Madge, well Madge isn't really the search type." Peeta says calmly. "I can help you look for her if you like?"I say sharply. "N-no its fi-" "I wasn't asking Mellark." I interrupt.
I pull on my boots which were by the door and my old hunting jacket, They may be old and filled with holes, But if it weren't for these I'd be dead by now for sure. I roughly grab Peeta on the shoulder whilst standing in the doorway. "We'll find her Peeta." I reassure him. He just nods. I shut the door and we start making our way to the meadow. "We're going to the woods?" Peeta asks gingerly. I turn around and laugh a little. "What? So you can follow me into the woods and get me caught by peacekeepers, You can survive a fight to the death with 23 other kids your age and live with the wicked witch of bread which just so happens to be your mother. But you cant cut through a fence to find the woman you love with all your heart?" I ask mockingly. Peeta just blushes, Looking at the ground again. "I don't love her, I mean...Of course i love her. But how can i love someone who doesn't love me back?" Peeta gasps as soon as he says this. Realizing what he has said. "Peeta, Its ok. I knew that she never loved you from day one." I say with a smirk. "Wow thanks, And thats suppost to make me think that no body else is gonna spot it?" Peeta says, Worry in his voice. "Peeta, I'v known Katniss forever. And you and I have lived in the same place for our entire lives! Believe me, everyone else has fallen for your act."

I gracefully slide between the fence. Looking at Peeta through it, watching him slide his leg through. He was fully through now. As soon as he had both his feet beside me i started walking. We walked for about half an hour screaming Katniss name. Not to loud so that peacekeepers can here, But loud enough so that people within a 30m radius could hear us. Suddenly i stopped dead in my tracks. Wolves. I could hear wolves. Why on earth would wolves be out at this time of day, this close to district 12. By the looks of it Peeta has heard them too, Because he just stood there jabbering on to himself about there being mutts. About how glimmer had came back to get him.

I gripped his arm tightly. "Peeta, we have to run. Peeta come on!" I tugged onto his arm, Snapping him out of his haze. Pulling him along through the trees, until we reached some sort of rock face. I saw a small cave like hole further up. "Come on Peeta! Get up!" Peeta was panicking, gripping onto the rocks trying to haul himself up. I couldn't help but feel bad for him. He must feel like he's back in the games. Climbing up the cornucopia, trying to get away from those mutts. Before i could stop myself i turn and gripped onto Peeta's thighs, Pushing him further up the wall. I couldn't tell if he flinched because of all the shaking he was doing.

It was no good, the further i pushed him the more he slipped. I finally just went for it and gripped onto his ass. Pushing it up. This time i could feel Peeta flinch. I didn't think anything of touching Peeta's butt. But the odd thing is that it work, Peeta just had his feet hanging out, but within a few seconds they were in to. He held down his hand. I gripped onto it, holding more of his wrist then his hand. Now i can really hear the wolves. They were close, really close. I kept slipping, My hand going lower down Peeta's wrist until finally our hands were perfectly locked together, I could see the sweat dripping down Peeta face now. I found my foot standing on a rock and pushed myself up. I finally started to get somewhere.
Peeta had about half of me in the cave now. And i could hear the wolves below me now, Scraping at the rocks with there claws. I was now fully in the cave, laid on the hard rock floor panting, whilst Peeat lay on his back breathing heavily. "You don't think they got Katniss do you?" Peeta asked gingerly. "No, Katniss wouldn't be that stupid." I said in between panting. "You mean as stupid as us?" sighed Peeta. "We weren't stupid Peeta, they just caught us off guard. And you were having those weird flashbacks, right?" Peeta looked at me wide eyed. Before allowing himself to nod slowly. "I think we might have to spend the night here Mellark, They don't look like they're going anywhere."I said casually, I've often had to spend nights out in the woods, but I'm guessing Peeta never has. Well, until the games that is.
And i guess that's what this is going to be for him.

The Hunger Games