prim-let-go:
If you don’t like the hunger games, then how am i supposed to like you?
086. When Haymitch was being taken to the Games, his girlfriend went to talk to him, but she only had a minute and the tears wouldn’t stop pouring out, her sobs speaking for her. When the peacekeepers were literally dragging her away, she said something between her sobs: “Stay alive, Haymitch! Stay alive!” He did what she told him, and he came back alive. But, by the Capitol’s fury, she was attacked by mutts similar to raccoons, who supposedly had climbed the fence. She managed to escape, and ended up at Haymitch’s door in Victor’s Village, where he took her in, shocked, and made her lie in the couch. It was hopeless, no matter how much medicine Haymitch gave her, because the saliva of the raccoons was toxic. So he just held her hand, sobbing like her on the day they were separated, and repeated loud enough for her dying mind to hear, “You stay alive, Abeni! You stay alive like I stayed for you!” She nodded and said “I will, Haymitch.” Contrary to her words, Abeni died with her green eyes glassy and open, the blood from her wounds wet on the couch. But in a way, she was right. She stayed alive inside Haymitch. In his dreams. In his everyday. Her and Maysilee, haunting him, the ones he couldn’t save.
My face breaks into a huge smile and I start walking in Peeta’s direction. Then, as if I can’t stand it another second, I start running. He catches me and spins me around, and then he slips - he still isn’t entirely in command of his artificial leg - and we fall into the snow, me on top of him, and that’s where we have our first kiss in months. It’s full of fur and snowflakes and lipstick, but underneath all that, I can feel the steadiness that Peeta brings to everything. And I know I’m not alone.
-Catching Fire, page 51
With you by my side, I feel as light as the breeze of the wind. I feel free as a bird. All the anger and suffering that exist inside of me disappear. Only you can make me happy again, Madge.