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Chapter 17

(Katniss POV)

We tiptoe back down the stairs and Peeta lies down in his sleeping bag and extends his arms out to me. I smile. And slip into the sleeping bag with him.

"What about the others? Won't they see us in the morning." I mumble against his chest.

He leans close to my ear his breath tickling my neck. My stomach does somersaults when his lips lightly brush my ear. "Let them see. Let them see that your mine." He whispers and kisses my cheek. I turn and attach my lips to his. The kiss is full of love and passion. His tongue strokes across my bottom lip and I part my lips granting him access. Our tongues move together around our locked lips in an intimate dance. I broke the kiss needing air. He smiles down at me and i feel his chest vibrate slightly in laughter. I smile up at him.

"What's so funny?" I ask.

"Nothing is funny. Everything is perfect. I just realised something." he says a playful grin on his face.

"What?" I ask suddenly very curious.

"I realised that I really like kissing you." He says. I look down and pink shade taking over my cheeks and a small smile playing on my lips. I look up again and capture his lips with mine. It was only a short kiss. My lips lingered on his for a moment.

"I like kissing you too." I mumbled against his lips before pulling away and burying my head into his firm, muscular chest. His arms wrapped around me holding me close. He strokes my hair calming me even more. I take a big breath in inhaling his scent. My eyelids flutter shut, tiredness taking over.

"Go to sleep Kat I'll protect you and keep the nightmares away." He whispers into my hair but I'm too far gone to reply and I allow the darkness to take over and the dreams to flood my closed eyelids.

*** Morning ***

I awake to a high pitched, annoying yet excited, squeal. I jump out of my skin at the seven faces towering over me. Everyone's there except Gloss, who I presume is still sleeping.

"Jesus Christ! Guys you gave me a heart attack!" I practically shout. Peeta unexpectedly sits bolt upright. He was still asleep and my shouting woke him up. His head smacks straight into Finn's.

"ugh shit man. What the fuck." Finnick says falling backwards clutching his nose. I see blood trickle down from Finnick's nose.

"Oh crap! Someone get some tissue. Jo go get something frozen from the freezer." I scramble out of the sleeping bag and make my way over to Finnick. I tell Finnick to pinch his nose. Someone hands me a roll of toilet roll and I quickly unravel a bunch of it and hold it under Finnick's nose. Johanna passes me a bag of frozen peas. I throw the bloodied tissue in the bin and get some fresh tissue. I dab at his trying to make it as least painful as possible. He winced every time I touched the tissue to his nose. I apologised profusely for hurting him but he just waved off the apology and turned to Peeta

"How the hell is your head that hard bro!?" Finnick says to Peeta.

"That's what she said." Peeta replies and everyone bursts out laughing. "but seriously bro I'm sorry, didn't mean to."

"Not a problem mate. I think it's stopped bleeding." Finn said. I turned my attention back to him and removed the tissue.

"This may hurt a bit sorry but I have to see if it's broken." I told Finn and he clenched his jaw and nodded. I took a deep breath and we careful steady fingers. I slowly felt where his nose was checking where all the bones where. He let out a small grown of pain. I carried on and finally assessed that it wasn't broken.

"Not broken just a nose bleed and a small cut." I said sitting back onto my heels. I hand him the bag of peas and tell him to put them on his nose and that it would help with the pain. Cashmere gave him some pain killers.

I walked off and sat on the steps with my head in my hands. How did I just do that? I wasn't the medical one in the family that was Prim and my mom. But somehow I had done that. I had helped Finn. My mom was a healer but whenever someone came I had always left the house, escaped to the woods. Why hadn't I done that this time?

I came to a conclusion. It was because it was Finn. He was my best. friend; He was like my big brother.

"Hey kitty." Finnick said putting his arm around my shoulders. I lean into his side. "Thanks for saving my beautiful face. You were amazing..."

"That's the problem though Finn. I'm not usually like that. My Mom is a healer but I've always left the room whenever she gets a patient. My Mom and Prim are the healers not me and I have no idea how I did that."

"Well it doesn't matter how you did. You are amazing." He said and his arm around me tightened as he hugged me harder and kissed my temple. "Anyway I wanted to talk to you about something else actually. So... erm... are you and Peeta like...you know... a thing" i laughed as he stumbled over his words. "What I mean to say is, is Peeta your boyfriend?" I looked up to him and saw him looking down at me. I smiled and nodded. "Okay so you know you're like my little sister right?" I nodded again and he continued "If he ever hurts you in anyway, it doesn't matter that he's been my friend for ages, I won't be afraid to punch him. I know he's a good guy and he wouldn't intentionally hurt you, He really likes you- you can see it in the way he looks at you. Katniss I need you to promise me that if he does anything to upset you in any way, if he hurts you at all, that you will tell me. You need to promise that you will tell me." He looks into my eyes seriously.

"I will I promise. Thank you Finn." I say. He stood up and so did I and he hugged me tight. He loosened his grip a bit. And that's when I thought about it. I should tell him. "Finnick I...I... I need to talk to you about something. It's sort of important..." my voice trailed off.

Finnick took both my hands in his and gave them an encouraging squeeze. "Go on." He prompted.

"I can't tell you here. I'm not ready for everyone to find out yet. It's about why I was away for those few days." He nodded understanding.

"Come to my house at 6:30 we can order pizza, watch movies and talk okay?"

"Okay." He hugged me again and I smiled. It was nice knowing I had someone who had my back.

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