I couldn't wait. It's what I do. I write more than one chapter and can't resist updating them all within a couple of days of one another. Here you go though. Chapter 4
I awoke that morning cold. Stretching out I realised that Peeta was no longer behind me so I sat up slowly and looked around the room. I found Peeta sat in a corner of the room, in a chair with his legs tucked underneath him, reading a book.
"Where'd you find the book?" I asked as I swung my legs out over the side of the bed and stood, making my way over to him.
"There's a bookshelf over there." He looked up from the book he was reading to point across the room where, true to his word, stood an oak bookshelf, full of books. I had apparently, not noticed it when we arrived the evening before. Peeta made a noise that revealed that his legs had gone numb from the position he had been reading in, and pushed his legs out in front of him, stretching them. I heard both of his knees crack as he stood up and walked across the room to put the book away before making his way to the door. "Shall we?" he held his hand out to me, which I took.
We made our way through the corridors we had followed Kili through the night before and soon found ourselves in the main hall again. Jed was sitting casually on the steps in front of the throne talking to Haymitch who had placed himself on the same step further along. Jed was holding some sort of map but quickly put it away as he heard Katniss and Peeta enter the room. "Ah. You're here. Your friend here has been awake for some time. It is currently mid morning." he smirked at us and I could see the smirk building on Haymitch's face aswell.
"You wanted us here in the morning. It is the morning and here we are." I said grouchily as I was not known for being polite in the mornings.
Jed merely laughed. "Yes you are. Walk with me." he did not wait for our response but turned and walked through a side door near the throne. Following him, we found ourselves in a courtyard full of colourful flowers. It reminded me a little of Prim. Jed carried on walking and walked to the middle of the courtyard to sit on one of the benches. He gestured to the one opposite him for us to sit in, to which, we obliged and sat in the order we were used to. Haymitch, me, Peeta. "Now. I do not know why you are here, or how you got here. I have my suspicions but aside from what Kili told me, I am blind. But from the sound of it, you were not expecting to be here. Correct?" Jed leaned forward to rest his forearms on his thighs.
"Yes. That is correct." I nodded at him. He nodded back as putting pieces together in his mind.
"From what Kili told me, you 'crash landed', as he put it, into the grass, where he found you. Yes?" He looked up at me expectantly.
"Yes." I replied, suspicious of what he was thinking of us in that moment. "Why does this matter?"
Jed seemed to hesitate to answer for a moment before overcoming it. "It matters because we want to know all we can. In truth. We know nothing of any of you and you arrived here quite unexpectantly."
"It was very unexpected to us too, I can tell you." Peeta said. Jed chuckled at Peeta's response and changed the subject.
"So, I heard that you two shared a room last night. Does that mean we won't be needing the other spare room?" Jed glanced at me, eyebrow raised, as though he knew more than he was saying.
"Yes."I ducked my head, not content to talk much more about this topic with someone I barely knew. "But that's not really any of your business is it?" I mumbled under my breath. I felt more than heard the chuckle that came from Peeta as we were sat very close to one another.
"Sorry. Did you say something?" Jed tried to look me in the face, but failed as I ducked my head further.
"No." I said before lifting my head high. "Are we finished here?" I looked him straight in the face as I said it. "We need to find a way home after all."
"Of course. You are welcome to stay in these halls as long as you like." He kindly said as we all stood and myself, Peeta and Haymitch made our way back through the door we had come out of and back into the main hall. When we found ourselves in the wide space of stone, I turned around in the huge room to find it was even bigger than I had thought previously.
"Peeta." I turned my head a little and Peeta strode quickly to my side. "How long are we staying here for?"
"As long as it takes to find a way home, Katniss, as long as it takes." I felt him wrap his arms around my waist and drop his chin on my shoulder as he spoke. We stayed that way for what felt like hours, not realising Haymitch had left us or the night had descended until Jed walked through the hall, shouting over his shoulder.
"Goodnight you two!" he shouted and we started at the noise. We both sighed simultaneously and walked back to the room we shared and slept the night through.
Well there we have it. Chapter 4 Hope you liked it. Let me know what you thought. Am working on the next couple of chapters at the moment so they should be up for you soon. :)
A.x