chapter one
I woke to see the light filtering though my brown bedroom curtains. I could feel the sticky sweat tinkle down my neck. I repeated the old treatment given to me by Dr . Aurelius in the capitol after Jonna knocked me out with beetee's wire.
my name is katness mullark
I am 27 years old
I was in both hunger game
I have two children
snows dead.
I say my breath heavy, I heard the sheets shift behind me on peeta's side and I can feel peeta's hand on my back rubbing it gently.
"another nightmare" he said quietly.
"yeah but know they include the kids" I say shaking like a leaf.
"oh katness the kids are fine, I'll go make some coffee okay" he said swinging his metal leg out of the bed first and then heading down stairs.
I lean back on the bed that me and peeta have shared for 15 years now. I still think about gale but not in the way that confused 17 year old did. I think about him when I walk past the fence at the edge of 12 or walk past the hob but not romantically not after what he may or may not have done to prim. I have peeta and the kids know there great my eldest a girl with long black hair and bright blue eyes and our youngest a boy with lose blond curls and grey steam eyes.
peeta comes back upstairs holding to cups of coffee, he passes one to me as he slides back in between the soft cotton covers, there a wedding present from my mother who couldn't be at our wedding as she is still helping at the hospital in 2.
I take a slip and feel the hot sweet liquid slide down my troth and warm my tummy. I put my cup down and slide over slightly to give peeta a kiss.
"wow that's normally my move what's that for" asked a very surprised peeta.
peeta puts his cup down and leans over my side and kisses me. running his hands down my back laying me down.
"the kids will be up soon" I say with a grin
"better hurry up then" peeta said in a low tone.
peeta pulled the sheets over our heads and I giggle.
our door opens and there standing the door way is our 7 year old daughter stand with her arm crossed in her pig onsie.
"what's going on in there I heard mommy giggling" she asks in a sweet tone with a slight lisp.
"your mommy and me were just having a cuddle and then he started tickling me didn't you mommy" said peeta. peeta was always the better liar out of the two of us and his ability to think on his feet is one of my favourite things about him.
" yeah it's my fault why don't you come and help me tickle your daddy" I offer my little girl.
" okay I'll help" she said running up and jumping on our bed. she started tickling peeta who laughed like the good sport he is.
that woke her little brother, I love my baby to pieces but I still argue that his wail could be made into a weapon of mas destruction. I get out of bed slipping my slippers on and walk along the carpeted hall to my babies room.
I walk into the room to find my baby standing facing the door and peeing all over his cot.
"peeta I need some nappies and some new sheets please oh and a little wetter's sheet to" I say trying to be heard over my babies wail.
peeta comes in his arm full of sheets and nappies. he dumps them on the changing table and then I bring my son over to the changing table to put on a dry nappy.
peeta comes up behind me, puts his hands around my waist and plants small kisses just under my jaw.
"peeta I'm trying to change his nappy" I say trying to shake him off jokingly.
"this will only take a minute son" peeta said turning me around to face him and kissing me gently. the kiss takes me back to the arena when peeta was on his deathbed and I kissed him, just because I wanted to, not because some told me to. the only thing that brings me back from my dream land is my son's pee hitting my leg.
peeta relaxes and lets me go I turn and put a nappy on our son and hand him to peeta. peeta carries him out the room down stairs and I start sorting out the mess the baby left me.
I put the nappy in the bed and then I put the little wetter's sheet on it aborted the pee in seconds I put that in the bin two and then I make his bed. placing is little wool trident in his bed, a gift from Annie she said that finnick would of wanted our son to have it.
next I go to my daughters room she has dresses and shoes all over her pale purple carpet. I pick her shoes up and put them in her shoe rank I then hang her dresses on hangers and put them in her wardrobe. I go make her bed and draw her curtains I am straitening her cover when my eye catches the pictures on her nightstand.
one of them is me and peeta, me in my black mockingjay wedding dress and peeta in his black suit with a white collar and gloves. the other is of the whole family last Christmas me and peeta standing behind the kids hand in hand smiling watching the kid's rip into there presents.
