Feeling her tug against his grip, Peeta relaxed releasing her. The slowness in her gesture told him that she wasn't about to try running. Even if she did, after what she had just said he didn't have it in him to stop her.
Looking at Gale in the bed and back at her, he leaned against the doorframe. This was yet another thing scarring her. Hadn't they all been through enough? When were they going to be able to stop, to achieve some sort of normalcy? Were they always going to be burdened by things that had happened?
Sighing, he nodded. He had no family left and even before they were gone, he had never felt the same amount of closeness to them as Katniss did to Prim. He couldn't imagine what the loss of her sister had done to her. More than enough.
"What?" Part of him wanted to know so that there would be an end to the things that she was keeping from him. The rest of him had no desire to know. For every one thing that he learned, there seemed to be another waiting in the wings to make all others look small by comparison. He was just tired of it all.
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Looking at Gale in the bed and back at her, he leaned against the doorframe. This was yet another thing scarring her. Hadn't they all been through enough? When were they going to be able to stop, to achieve some sort of normalcy? Were they always going to be burdened by things that had happened?
Sighing, he nodded. He had no family left and even before they were gone, he had never felt the same amount of closeness to them as Katniss did to Prim. He couldn't imagine what the loss of her sister had done to her. More than enough.
"What?" Part of him wanted to know so that there would be an end to the things that she was keeping from him. The rest of him had no desire to know. For every one thing that he learned, there seemed to be another waiting in the wings to make all others look small by comparison. He was just tired of it all.