Watching the Mockingjay Fall

chapter fifteen.

Peeta POV

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Finnick comes running into my room at 5:30 in the morning.

" we've got her. She's here." Finnick tells me. I get up straight away and go down to the hospital. Prim is already there. Her mother is working. Fixing the wounded after the bombing. Prim slowly gos to the door and opens the door. She runs into the room.

" Katniss!" She screams. She is crying . I slowly creep closer to the crack in the door. I see Katniss lying in the bed. She looks exhausted. She has blisters covering her and scars." Peetas here." Prim whispers. Katniss looks at the door and sees me. Her face brightens. She gets out of the bed. She runs over to me. She puts her arms around my neck." Peeta. I don't have long until what the capital gave me works, but I want you to know that I don't think any of its true. When I tell you to get out, I want you to take Prim. You have to leave. Always... Peeta...Always.

Get ..... out.... now." The look on Katniss's face is fear. I take prim and get her outside. But I stay. Katniss comes towards me. " you hurt me! You are a mutt!"

" Katniss. Stop. Its okay. Its not real. Its not real. Your name is Katniss Everdeen. You are from district 12. Your favorite color is green. Mine is orange." I keep talking to her until the glossyness leaves her eyes. Her arms immediately wrap around me again.

" Katniss. Please. You have to eat something." I beg her.

" They wouldn't let me see you, so I wouldn't eat or sleep or take my medicine." She says.

" well I'm here now. Look. Will you eat the soup?" I ask." And take your medicine. And sleep" I add.

" fine. But you have to help me." She sighs. I smile.

" But you have to promise that you will leave when I tell you to. I don't want to hurt you like they hurt me." She adds. It brings tone of sadness to her voice.

" I'm not promising you anything. I can help you Katniss. You just need to trust me. If you aren't going to do anything in front of them, then you'll need to do that stuff for me." I sit her back down.

" you should do up the straps. It would stop me from hurting you." She says.

" You don't need them Katniss. " I say to her. She does not need them. She needs to see that. I see all the scars on her arms. It makes me sad. Katniss doesn't deserve this. Any of it. None at all. She's only 19.

I feed Katniss the soup. She insists that she have the straps put on her. But I keep telling her that she doesn't need them. She has a couple of flashbacks while I put the medicine on her wounds. But I calm her down the way I did the first time. She holds my hand while she sleeps. She wakes up screaming. I calm her down. It was just a dream. I rub her hair as she falls asleep again. Haymitch walks in. When he sees me he gives me a look that says get out. I bring my finger to my lips.