I open my eyes to the sound of Katniss' voice singing to our daughter Prim, and son Thresh. I step out side, stopping her beautiful voice and letting the kids roam freely in the field. I snuggle in with her under the blankets she put on the grass. I give her a kiss starting on the forehead, leading to her nose, all the way down to her soft, warm lips where we just treasure the few seconds we have for this moment. Right when we finish she leans up and whispers in my ear, "The kids, they're running away"
I start laughing and then realize she's right, they are far away. I finally get up, sad that we have to leave this time capsule that we had, but then realize that what we are running after are one of the two things keeping us going in this world.
"Come here you two", I say in my scariest monster voice while they scream and run even faster to get away. Finally Katniss settles them down enough and we all sit in front of the fire in our living room and talk about our day.
"So Thresh what was the best thing that you did today?" I ask.
He answers to quick for me to think. "When you chased us, you acted like a monster Daddy." He says with non-stop laughter coming out of his mouth. I laugh with him, giving him a noogie.
"Am I really that scary?" I say, making the goofiest face I can. I'm pretty sure it was ridiculous because even Katniss could not stop laughing at me. "So" I continue "Prim what was the best thing that happened to you today?" I try to sound like Caesar Flickerman, even though it brings back awful memories.
"Well daddy I think my favorite thing that happened today was when mommy sang to us." Prim says acting way beyond her age.
"Was it? It was mine too." I say giving her a smile that she always pays back in return with a bigger one.
"It's almost past your bedtime" I say, "How about you guys brush your teeth and then we can all read a story?"
"Daddy we don't need a story we are big kids now" says Thresh trying so hard to act old.
"Are you sure?" I ask him. He nods in return, making Prim nod with him. I almost feel glad that there is no story time tonight because now Katniss and I will be able to have some alone time together.
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I take off my clothes from today putting warm cotton pajamas on. Katniss does the same, putting almost the exact same pajamas on as me. I jump on the bed motioning her in my direction. She flings herself into the air and lands almost perfectly into my arms. Together we created a game we do every night where we each whisper something in each others ears, telling each other the memory that haunted them the most today, and after we get all of our worried feeling out we just sit there while I stroke Katniss' hair and she rubs the sore muscles in my back, we make sure that we feel as safe as we can, then finally we engulf in each others arms, kissing one another until we drift off into a peaceful sleep.
"I love you" I say to her, whispering so quietly I'm not even sure if she heard.
"I love you more" she replies right before kissing me on the lips. We hold it for as long as our lungs can take, but right when we come up for air she whispers in my ear something that I am not prepared for, something that I never even thought of until right now, "I'm pregnant again Peeta".