"Av, Avery wake up." Damon whispered, both he and Avery were covered in Avery's blood, the wound on his torso were bleeding at a scary rate. "Avi please wake up."

"Damon?" Avery murmured.

"You're bleeding Av." He answered. "How do you feel?"

"It hurts." Avery mumbled. Damon sighed and carefully lifted him up, he was a little heavy, but that didn't bother him. He went into the bathroom and sat Avery on the edge of the bath.

"Av, can you hold on a minute?" Damon asked, Avery nodded weakly, he was losing a large amount of blood and it worried Damon.

He left the room and quickly stripped the bed, changing the sheets to ones that weren't covered in blood. Then he returned, after finding some bandages.

"Av?" Damon asked as he entered the room, but Avery's eyes were closed. " Avi, Hey!" Avery's eyes opened weakly. " This might hurt okay?" Avery nodded. Damon had never seen him so out of it before.

Gently pulling the bandages off, Damon winced at the angry wound there. Avery was still covered in blood, and once Damon had cleaned him up, he still had to stop the blood. He pressed a hand over the wound, hearing Avery wince.

"I'm sorry Av, it'll stop soon." He whispered. It took a while for the blood to stop, but it did, and then he cleaned up again and bandaged it up again. He then went and got changed, he always kept a few spare outfits at Avery's, and got a change of clothes for the injured boy, before returning and helping Avery get changed.

"I'm sorry." Avery murmured, as Damon held him close, wanting to make sure Avery was okay, before heading back to his room.

"Its not your fault Av, they'll just take time." He whispered back. " How does it feel?"

"It hurts." Avery answered. Damon kissed his head gently.

"I can imagine." He sighed. "Are you alright Av? That was a lot of blood."

"I'm... I'm okay." Avery answered, but he sounded so weak that it scared his boyfriend. Damon was so extatic to be able to call Avery that.

"You think you can walk? Or I can carry you?" Damon asked gently, Avery opted for walking, although didn't get very far, as his leg was still a mess and he couldn't actually put any weight on it, on top of that he was still suffering from the blood he had lost. Damon gently carried him the rest of the way, which wasn't too far.

As he lay down beside Avery, listening to his soft breathing, Damon had to take a minute to remind himself it was all real. Avery had returned from the games, and despite all that brought with it, he was so glad to have him back, not to mention he had finally asked Avery to be his, which he had wanted for so long.

It took Damon a while after Avery had fallen asleep, to fall asleep himself, but he finally did, feeling so happy as he did so.

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The two were woken up by Cammie, who didn't look too impressed.

"Avery, Mila is coming for a few days, and then you have a victory tour again.  She informed them. Avery groaned.

"I don't want to." He complained childishly. Damon didn't blame him, it sounded like he'll.

"You have to, don't forget boy, the capital owns you now." She warned him. Avery sighed.

"Can Damon come with me?" He asked. Damon looked hopeful.

"He can, but he can't talk to the people, he'll have to stay backstage with Mila and Marka." She said. Avery grinned.

"Marka's coming?" He asked.

"You really think he wouldn't?" She laughed. "Of course he's coming. Now get dressed." With that she left, leaving Damon to frown at his boyfriend.

"Who is Marka?"

"My stylist." Avery answered. "You'll love him, he's great."

"You'd better get dressed then," Damon told him, Avery scoffed.

"So should you, I'm not doing this alone."

The two managed to get downstairs, at the same moment Mila entered the house.

"Oh Avery!" She cooed, rushing to him and embracing him in a huge hug. "Oh I missed you my Victor."

"Hey Mila." Avery smiled.

"And who is this? Oh what a charming young man!" Mila hugged Damon too, who looked a little confused.

"This is Damon, my best friend and my boyfriend." Avery told her.

"Oh how precious!" Mila exclaimed, before hugging each of Avery's family members.

Someone coughed from the front doorway, and they all looked to see a tall man stood there. "Marka!" Avery exclaimed, the man laughed and hugged him happily.

"Avery you get more handsome every time. Is this Damon?" Marka introduced himself to Damon, who laughed at a tale he had began telling him. "Oh the pair of you are precious."

They spent a good few hours catching up with the strange capital people who had looked after Avery before and after the games. And then Cammie ran through the Itinerary for the victory tour. They would start at 12 and go through each district, missing out 10. Then end up at the capital, where there would be a ball for them to attend. Avery looked freaked out at this concept, but having attended a few himself, Damon assured him that they would be fine.

Avery was then subjected to a video conference with Ceasar, which was broadcasted to everyone. Knowing Avery hated such things, Damon waited impatiently outside the living room for him, with Avery's siblings.

"You asked him then?" Lil asked, he had mentioned to her about his feelings whilst Avery was in the games, and she had told him that he had to ask him. And he had.

"Yeah." He nodded. "I love him so much Lil."

"Join the club hun, he hates the limelight, this must be killing him." She murmured.

"Thank God he never has to go in the games again." Damon agreed, he hoped that after all this was over, Avery would just have to go to the capital each year to advise new tributes, and then be back in district ten, away from the fame he hated.