The Fire Still Flickers - The Hunger games

Chapter 7

I hope everyone's enjoying the story! please dont comment on paragraphs, spelling or anything else, I am very aware that it isnt right. BUT I AM NOT A PROFESSIONAL AUTHOR. IM 14 YEARS OLD IN ONE OF THE LOWEST SETS IN ENGLISH OKAY????

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'I will never have my Peeta back?' I whisper.

'I'm sorry sweetheart' Haymitch says whilst rocking me back and forth in his arms, calming me down. His words were soothing when they reached my ears. Once I had calmed down, Haymitch told me that he had similar experiences to me. Snow. The evil man that used to run Panem.

"When I came out of the games, even though it was a long time ago, Snow was still an evil old man. He kidnapped my fiancé, Emma. She was 8 months pregnant with my baby at the time. They beat her until she lost the baby and then wiped her memory and sent her back here. When I got back from the Capitol, I went straight to her house but she didn't recognise me, she didn't have her baby bump and she wouldn't talk to me. I tried so hard to get he to realise who I was, and how she was carrying my baby, but she had no recognition. It broke my heart, and it still does when I think about it." She chokes out the last sentence before kissing my forehead and walking out of my room.

I sit there silently, trying to process the story in my head. I knew who Haymitch's fiancé was. My Aunt Emma. I had met her a few times, but she didn't know who I was, because of Snow wiping her memory, but my mum always told Prim and I stories about their childhood until she got taken away. Emma was the artistic one, the singer, the dancer, the painter. Mum was the smart, logical one. The one that always had her head in a book. But together they were supreme. Emma died a few years ago, when she was seeing Cray. Our head Peacekeeper. She was the only woman that he ever actually had a relationship with, but we all knew he was using her for sex. She was walking back to her house after spending the night with him when she tripped and fell onto broken glass what cut her head open. She bled to death. Haymitch must've known, even though he wasn't at her funeral.

The next morning, I get changed and go to the dining cart. I realised it was very early morning when no one was there and I could hear Luke snoring. I giggled at him snoring as I poured myself a hot chocolate. An Avox starts to lay out the food on the long mahogany table I'm the middle of the room.

"That is Mahogany!" I whisper and chuckle to myself as she walks away from the table.

I sit myself down in my spot and start to load my plate up with chicken in a creamy sauce and plum stew.

I finish and sit at the table with another hot chocolate and look out of the window I front of me. I must have been sitting there a good 2 hours before Peeta walks in.

'Peeta?' I choke. No reply. My throat feels lumpy and my stomach starts to do loops. I stand up and make my way to the bathroom but it's too late. I throw up all over the ground before me. I feel faint and end up sitting in my own sick. All I can see is a blurry face in front of mine, and muscular arms holding me upright, before lifting me into a bedroom where they undress me and shower me off then lay me in bed.

I wake up staring at the bland white ceiling. As I sit up, my head pounds making my actions slower to reduce the pain. I shuffle and stumble around the sun shielded room before I bump into something that makes me fall onto the floor. Someone's hand reaches out to mine and I take theirs. They slowly pull me up until I'm in their arms, face in their shoulder. I hear their soothing tone whisper in my ear. The only tone that can calm me down. The only person that can calm me down. Peeta. He picks me up slowly and puts me into bed in his arms. He kisses my cheek and squeezes me a little tighter.

I feel faint again, all I hear is Peeta whisper in my ear 'I'm so stupid, I love you my dear Katniss'

'I love you too Peeta. Don't ever leave me. Please.' I whisper as a tear escapes from my eye.

He kisses me on the lips then reaches over and grabs some tablets and a glass of water. He takes a large purple one and hands me 2 small red ones, he eases them into my mouth and pours a little water in after. I swallow, almost instantly I feel a lot better, but still weak. So we spend the rest of the day in bed. In each others arms, saying nothing.

'Peeta?'

' Yes?'

' that note you left, did you mean what you said? About us having a break?'

He goes silent, as if he was thinking the scene over in his head.

' no, because I love you, but yes, because I'm scared for you to be around me'

' Peeta I didn't mean what I said, I mean, you do hurt me, but you hurt me even more when your not talking to me.' I choke.

' I love you so much' he whispers before he kisses me on the lips after a while we end up messing around underneath the covers.

For the rest of the night, I lay in bed with Peeta and occasionally go into the bathroom to throw up. The doctor on the train said I had food poisoning.

' you know, Katniss, I always think about the Quarter Quell, when I had to tell the whole country you were pregnant. I remember how much I wanted it to be true. But then again, I'm glad it's not true because I don't think I could handle our baby seeing me like this' he admits.

'I didn't know you thought about that a lot'

'Yeah well, you wouldn't' his voice turns a little angry now, what scares me in case he has a flashback. I go to get up but his grip tightens around me.

' Peeta I think I'm going to be sick again' his arms loosen around my waist and hastily make my way to the bathroom.

As I sit on the bathroom floor throwing up, I hear Peeta talking to himself. Who knows if he wanted me to hear it or not. But I did.

'I'm so stupid. Why did I tell her? She's going to think your mad and won't marry you. Or ever have kids with you.' He mumbles as I hear a thump on the wall what makes me scream.

'KATNISS? ARE YOU OKAY?' He screams.

I unlock the door, greeted by his arms that are quickly put around my waist and held me tight.

' you made me jump, that's all. Peeta, I will marry you. Don't ever think I won't.' I whisper into his ear before I kiss him on the lips, he kisses back with such force that I end up leaning against the wall, with Peeta still holding onto my waist. He lifts me up so my legs are wrapped round his waist.

He's so strong and sexy, it's unbelievable that he chose me over everyone back in 12. This goes through my head constantly until he starts to take off his top, followed by mine. He carries me to the large velvet sofa and lays me down whilst climbing on top of me. We take the rest of each others clothes off. The rest was an amazing blur.

The next morning, I wake up next to Peeta, my arms clinging round his neck and his around my waist. His blue eyes flutter open when I stir slightly. We lay in bed for a few hours talking about the days yet to come. Haymitch walks in and sits on the end of the bed.

'We'll be in the Capitol in 2 more days alright?' He informs us then walks out.

There's another knock on the door, I jump up and wrap a small dressing gown around me and open the door, Jack stands there.

'Hey Katniss'

'Katniss? Who is it?' Peeta questions.

I collapse on the floor as my heart thuds in my chest and my eyes foggy. Crap.