Excitement over whelms me on the inside. My plan worked. I look at Claudia and she has a smile on her face looking at Gale. “My, my, my. It seems as though we have our first volunteer in the first Capitol Citizen Hunger Games. Sir, come over here and tell us your name,” says Effie. Gale walks over to her.

“Gale Hawthorne,” he says.

“Why did you volunteer?” asks Effie.

“I couldn’t bear watching someone I love die on TV, so if she dies I die to,” he says. “And who is this special girl?” she asks.

“You’ll figure it out,” he says. He walks over where all of the other boys are and shakes hands with all of them. Classic Gale, keeping the audience on the edge of their seats.

“Happy Hunger Games, and may the odds be ever in your favor,” says Effie. She motions Haymitch to go up and do his speech. When Haymitch starts to talk turn he obviously isn’t reading Peeta’s speech but he does something much better. He explains why Peeta is not here and he is. “As you all know I am obviously not Peeta. Peeta has come down with a terrible sickness that hasn’t been diagnosed yet and doctors say he will not be able to mentor so that is why I am here. I promise my tributes that I pick will be the best of the best, I mean I mentored Katniss and Peeta so I had to have done something right. I just wish the best of luck to all of you and a Happy Hunger Games,” he says. We walk off the stage and all of the tributes follow. When I get back there I see Annie, Johanna, and Beetee. I give them all hug. “What are you guys doing here?”

“They needed more mentors so we stepped in,” says Annie. Then we all just stand there in silence and I look at my ring thinking of a way to get Peeta back when they all hug me. I guess they knew what I was thinking when I looked at my wedding ring.

“We know what happened Katniss,” says Johanna.

“Yeah, and we’re here whenever you need us,” says Beetee.

“Thanks, I think I’m going to go to my room,” I say.

“Don’t you want to know who we pick?” asks Johanna.

“You can tell me at breakfast, I really just want to be alone right now,” I say. They all nod their heads and I decide to walk back to the Training Center and take the hovercraft from there to the Control Room. When I get there I see the Peeta’s door is ajar. So I go in and no one is in there, not even Peeta. I start to wonder where he is because if no one is here then where is Peeta? Right before I decide to find Haymitch there was a note on the desk that the lamp is on. It said:

Doctors,

If you’re wondering where Peeta is he is out on a walk with me.

We will be back soon and make sure Katniss isn’t there when I bring him in.

I’ve been talking to him and he is sounding a lot better.

He wants to meet up with Katniss so they can talk but I don’t think he’s ready yet.

Anyways, be back soon!

-H

Peeta wants to see me. This is either the best news I’ve gotten or the worst. What if he wants a divorce? I can’t afford to think like this now. It’s been a long day and I’ll check in on Peeta later but for now I’m just going to eat lunch and stay in my room. I eventually hear Peeta come back but I decide to give him a little while before I can even look at him. It’s right before dinner when I decide to go into his room. I have to knock on the door because it’s always locked now. Haymitch let me in.

“Is he doing better since his walk?” I ask.

“Yeah act-, wait how did you know I took him on a walk?”

“I read the note. Peeta wants to see me, isn’t this good,” I say. Haymitch is just shaking his head.

“Katniss, I don’t know how you are going to take this but when Peeta and I were on the walk he told me why he wanted to talk to you,” he says. My face has sadness written all over it.

“What?”

“He wants to divorce you. He said that the first chance he got to meet with you he was going to pull the ring of your finger. If you look, he took his off on the walk and threw it in an ally by the City Circle. But don’t worry I picked it up for you,” he says reaching out his hand. He drops the ring in my hand and I just look at it.

“Did he say why?” I ask fighting back the tears.

“Yes, actually I asked him and he said it was because he didn’t want to hurt you and that he also hated you. Half of him was trying to protect you while the other half was trying to harm you. This is why I don’t want you guys to meet until we get his mind straight,” he says. I don’t hold back and begin to cry. “Sweetheart, don’t cry. Another person has taken over Peeta. Deep down inside him there is still the Peeta that had a crush on you for thirteen years, and there is still the Peeta you love. You just can’t give up. This won’t be permanent, it wasn’t last time. We have it under control. Next thing you know he’ll be kissing you and telling you that he loves you. You just have to give it time,” he says. I nod my head and go back into my room. I lay down on the bed and decline dinner. I put Peeta’s ring over mine and hold the locket close to my heart and start to cry. This is terrible, and I have to think of this while I’m the Head Gamemaker. I cry myself to sleep. When I wake up it’s about midnight. I can’t sleep any more. I would because I’m exhausted but I can’t risk having nightmares without Peeta here, especially now. I get up and go into Peeta’s room. The door was unlocked because Haymitch was in there and he was probably too drunk to lock it. When I walk in no one was in there. When I get in there I shut the door behind me and lock it so no one can get in or out. I go up to the door that Peeta is behind but there is a keypad there now. I don’t even bother trying and go sit down and look at Peeta. He looks a lot younger when he sleeps. I can’t believe he wants to divorce me, even though it’s not really him saying it. Why couldn’t have this happened to me? I would rather be the one hijacked other than him. There is so many things we haven’t gotten to do yet. We wanted to visit thirteen again, visit eleven again, and visit any other district we want. And most importantly start a family. It’s the only thing other than me that Peeta wanted so badly. Now that he has me and that we both want to start a family but he has to lay down on a table with his limbs locked down and heavily guarded so he doesn’t go on a killing spree. I want to start a family with him. That is the first time that thought has ever ran through my mind. I run my fingers across the glass. I miss him so much. While I’m deep in thought there was a knock at the door.

“Hello? Is anyone in there.” I just ignore it. Eventually the person out there starts to pound on the door.

“Katniss if you’re in there don’t go near Peeta.” I won’t go near Peeta I just want to spend time with him. I guess the pounding on the door woke him up because I see him lift his head up.

“Hello? Is someone here?” Peeta asks. I just stay silent but the person on the other side of the door keeps on pounding on the door.

“Who’s there,” he asks. The man outside the door starts to talk again. “Is Peeta awake? Katniss if that is you in there get out of there now. We don’t know how Peeta will react to you yet.”

“I just want to tell him I love him. I miss him, all of you people don’t know what I’m going through. Someone I love is behind a glass window and I can’t see him. I haven’t told him I love him for almost a week. He is the best thing that has ever happened to me. How would you feel if the person that you love and have spent four years with, seeing him every day, and loving him every day, and then him just getting taken away from you because his mind isn’t straight because of what a monster did? And now you can’t even tell him that you love him. It’s sick,” I say.

“I know it’s hard but you have to get through it.”

“You don’t know what you’re talking about, Peeta and I had something special and it’s not just anything you can get through, this is something that hurts. I love that man in there and he doesn’t feel the same way. No one has experienced the love that him and I had and I’m determined to stay in here until he gets better.”

“But the Games-,” I cut him off.

“That is really the last thing on my mind right now. I’ll still do them but I’m not coming out of this room unless they absolutely need me. He is the love of my live and I’m not going to let anything separate us, especially glass windows,” I say picking up a chair.

“Katniss don’t break that glass.”

“Then tell me the code to get in or else that glass will get broken.” I’m going to break it. It’s the only way I can get to him. If I have to break a window, I will break a window.

“Katniss don’t break the glass.” The person who said that wasn’t from behind the door I turn my head and I see Peeta’s head turned looking at me straight in the eyes even though he can’t see me. Can he?

“Peeta?” I ask suspiciously.

“Yeah, trust me I don’t want to be here either,” he says. I about cry. We are having our first real conversation in almost a week or less. I can’t keep track of time anymore. But then I realized that he just heard everything I just said, I didn’t know if the glass was sound proof but I guess it wasn’t. “Katniss I’ve been meaning to talk to you, but don’t break the glass. It will only make it worse for both of us,” he says. I put down the chair.

“I don’t want to divorce you Peeta, I still love you.”

“I don’t want to divorce you either, but it’s the only way I won’t hurt you. I can only tell you this now because I don’t know if how long it will be until I can control myself and talk to you.” He clenches his fists fighting a flashback.

“But you didn’t hurt me for two years,” I say.

“Really? I thought I was just hijacked last year,” he says. Memory loss. That’s something new. Great, that’s just another thing I need.

“If you didn’t know that then how did you know we were married?”

“That’s something I will never forget,” he says. I’m crying now. He couldn’t have been worse than last time because he remembered that we were married and no one had to tell him.

“Katniss, I’ll let you in if you want to meet with him,” he says. It’s probably just a scam to get me to let him in.

“Won’t Haymitch get mad?” I ask.

“I don’t think he’ll mind.” So I unlock the door in behind it is Haymitch. I give him a hug.

“Thank you,” I say crying in his shoulder. He doesn’t say a word and walks over to the door that Peeta is behind and opens it.

“Your husband awaits,” he says. I walk over there and freeze in the door way. Haymitch gives me a little push so I’m in and he leaves. I’m so happy I get to meet him again. There is a chair right by the table he’s laying on and I scoot it closer to the bed and sit in it.

“Hey,” he says.

“Hey.” Then we are just in silence for a few seconds until I decide to speak up. “Why are you doing this to me?” I ask. He just looks at me with his light blue eyes that make my heart pound every time I see them. He reaches out his hand as far as he can and I grab it with both hands and hold it close to my heart.

“To protect you, I can’t risk hurting more people like I did last time.”

“But that was last time when you didn’t have as much control over it like you do now,” I say. He pulls my hand up to his mouth and kisses it.

“Katniss I…..I still…….I still love you,” he says. He squeezes my hand really hard trying to fight flash backs. Then I remember the one thing that would always help him is when I would rub his back or stroke his hair. It would always soothe him and bring him back to reality. So I take my free hand and start to stroke his hair. Within seconds he’s fine again. “Thank you,” he says. I decide that it’s time for me to go, that there is no reason why I should stay longer if he doesn’t want me anymore. I let go of his hand and start to walk out the door when he stops me.

“Katniss,” he says. I turn around so I can see him.

“K+P=forever, don’t forget that,” he says. I cover my hand with my mouth and run out of the room and straight into mine. He still loves me but he’s too violent to be around. These odds will probably not be in my favor.

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