the world was on fire and no one could save me but you ➴ gale

[burnwithus]

Katniss wakes up screaming, sweat-drenched and shaking, eyes wide and staring up at the ceiling yet the only thing she can feel is the sticky blood on her skin and the feeling of being grabbed and dragged by dozens of hands. It takes her a moment to realize that she's still in the hut, in the same place where she went to sleep and that her hands are clean and the pain is gone.

It takes a long time for the adrenalin to stop pumping through her veins, triggering the fight reflex in her and her heart is pounding so fast and hard in her chest that she just wants to run away. It hurts to see District 12 and know that she's escaped her fate for now, but for how long? People disappear from the island all the time.

Gale didn't shoot her.

She can't forgive him for that. Even if Katniss knows that she had failed him similarly before, she can't.

Comments

[worldisburning.livejournal.com]

She's screaming and he's already moving, barely away that he's awake before he's crambling on all fours towards the bedroom. His fingers still almost feel like he's holding a bow. His stomach has that same raw, hollowed out feeling that came from shooting and watching men fall with his arrows standing proud.

"Katniss," he says, in the doorway. "It's okay."
The words it was a dream are on his lips, but he knows that's not true.