Katniss Everdeen | the girl on fire (foragirlonfire) wrote in madisonvalley, @ 2013-11-26 00:32:00 |
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Entry tags: | !closed, !log, ~2013 november, ~25 points, ~~katniss everdeen (foragirlonfire), ~~peeta mellark (die_as_myself) |
Who: Katniss & Peeta
What: Talking
Where: Their apartment
When: 11/26, before dawn
Warnings | Status: Death, murder, etc. | in progress
Katniss stopped pretending she was sleeping. She knew it would be a rough night in her dreams and fought off the pull of sleep in favor of thinking. Because that helps so much, she thought. Better than waking each other with their nightmares. Better than waking Peeta with her nightmares, because he didn't thrash around or scream like Katniss did, though he moved much more than he used to. A result of the torture the Capitol subjected him to. Katniss opened her eyes and stared at him. Wrapped in the safety of Peeta's arms it was easy to feel... well it felt safe enough. File it away for later, she didn't need to think about it right now. This wasn't the time or place to process those thoughts and emotions.
"Peeta," she said quietly. He looked peaceful and strangely vulnerable in sleep. How did anyone ever feel or look so relaxed after everything? How did he trust whole heartedly that he was safe? "Peeta," she said, a little more loudly this time. She touched his face.
She shouldn't wake him up. Not while he had a decent chance to sleep and needed to get up in a few hours anyway. She was always taking him for granted, his patience, his faith in her. Katniss pressed closer, rested her head on his chest and closed her eyes. She didn't sleep. But she could pretend to until she really fell into a doze.