Everlark- Sacrifice

They turn to leave but then Katniss has her arms around him, her face buried in his neck, stone turned soft once more.“It’s not your fault,” she whispers. “It’s not your fault.”

She says it over and over, her breath warm in his ear, and he can remember how her laughter sounds. It is faint in his head, a memory from a hundred years ago. She kisses him fiercely, an echo of their kiss the night before.

It is perfect and awful, but it is something he can keep. He tangles his hand in her hair, and kisses her back, trying to convey how sorry he is for what he’s done, but there is no more time.

There was never going to be enough time. “She’s my sister,” Katniss says after she pulls away.

She doesn’t ask outright for Peeta to die, but he knows what her words mean. What the kiss means.

She’s saying goodbye.

~ Scene from andthisisthewonder/ellembee’s Sacrifice