Authers note: If you find any mistakes please tell what they are and I'll go back and fix them. Sorry this is so late but I've just been so busy and I just got my laptop set up so I moved all my things off the main computer and on to the labtop. Disclaimers: I don't own the Hunger Games even though I wish I did and I do not own any of the characters execpt for Suzuki and a few other that are soon to come. Okay here is the Fourth chapter and I hope you like it.
Chapter 4: Who are they?
Peeta POV
After I grab Katniss's hand in mine and say "Katniss, I'll love you forever and Always." And drift off to sleep.
When I fall asleep I start to dream and not a nightmare like usual but a nice peaceful dream:
I was in a very large meadow that had tall, emerald green grass and on one side of the meadow was surrounded by a ring of flowers along with a thick forest of trees and the other side of the meadow was a sapphire blue waterfall that flows into a lake.
I am sitting in the center of the meadow while the wind is blowing the grass and rustling the leaves on the trees. The sound of laughing children causes me to look in the direction of the waterfall and what I see are 5 little kids playing the lake.
There are 2 girls and 3 boys. From how far away I am from them I can only tell what their hair looks like.
One of the girls has long, wavy ash blond hair. While the other girl has straight, shoulder length black hair. The oldest of the 3 boys has wavy black hair. The middle oldest of the 3 boys has straight ashy blond hair. The youngest of the 3 boys has wavy dish water blond hair.
I just sit there for a while I am watching the kids as they play together in the water. Then from somewhere behind me I can hear someone coming towards me and I know it's not what one of the kids because all 5 of them are still there playing in the water. So when I look behind me I see Katniss coming towards me from the direction of the forest with a smile on her lips. Seeing Katniss smiling at me made me smile back at her.
She continues walking towards me until reaches where I'm sitting. Then she sits down next to me and leans on my shoulder as I wrap my arm around her waist. We just sit there like this for a while until I make a decision.
I unwrap my arm from around Katniss's waist and stand up. I turn around to face her and hold out my hand to help her up. She grabs my hand and I pull her up and off the ground. With her hand in mine I turn around and walk towards the lake where the kids are still playing.
When both Katniss and I reach the edge of the lake the 5 kids stop playing in the water and look up at us with smiles upon their lips. It is then that I notice what color their eyes are.
The girl with long, wavy ash blond hair has gray eyes. The other girl with straight, shoulder length black hair has bright blue eyes. The oldest of the 3 boys with wavy black hair has bright blue eyes. The middle oldest of the 3 boys with straight ashy blond hair also has bright blue eyes. The youngest of the 3 boys with wavy dish water blond hair has gray eyes.
It takes a little while for me to actual notice that Katniss has let go of me had to be at eye level with the kids that running towards us laughing. They run into Katniss's open arms and she hugs them all. She is smiling and laughing with them. This makes me smile as will but I'm still not sure who these kids are and I'm not sure who they are to me, but Katniss seems to know.
"Are you going to come in the water to play with us?" the girl with long, wavy ash blond hair and gray eyes ask looking from both Katniss and I and vice versa.
"Of cores we are!" Katniss answers.
She shouts as she turns around to run back into the water, "Alright! Are you coming…!"
I wake up due to the fact someone is moving and I slowly open my eyes then I just look at Katniss for a few minutes as I try to process the fact Katniss is actually awake and that I'm not just dreaming.
"Katniss?" I ask almost with uncertainty clear in my voice.
She nod her head and say, "Yes, Peeta?"
I jump out of my chair almost knocking it over and I pull her into my arms. I just hold her in my arms for a few minutes before speaking up again.
"I wasn't sure if you were ever going to wake up or even if I would ever see your beautiful gray eyes again." I say as my hold on her tightens ever so slightly. "I was so scared that I would lose you, Katniss."
"Peeta, I'm so sorry. It's just that I thought that there was no one left that loved me or even cared about what would happen to me. My mother left me, my sister is dead, my best friend and hunting partner I no longer have any connections with, Haymitch is just a drunk, and I just thought that you would probably want nothing to do with me or even love me anymore. I just felt so alone and I didn't think there would be anyone to notice or care if I was gone. And I'm just so sorry, Peeta." she says as she begin to cry. By the time she is finish talking she is sobbing in to my chest.
I hold Katniss tighter as I try to calm her down. When she is no longer sobbing I say "Katniss, I never really stopped loving you and I Always will. Don't you ever forget that and as to you feeling like your alone well I'm here now and I'll Always be here for you." My voice was soft and calming and I could tell it was affecting her, but I never once let my voice rise.
she bring her arms up from her sides and put them around me holding me back as we just sit there on her hospital bed. After a little bit she pulls back a little and look up at me. When she final looks up at me find that I'm looking directly into her beautiful blue eyes. What I see is sadness in her eyes and whatever she sees in my eyes is what makes her final decided something, but what that something is I don't know. It almost seems to be something that she has been thinking for a while.
"Peeta, I love you too and I always will." Katniss says as she looks up and into my eyes.
At this I was a little surprised at first but then I smile at her. I lean down and press my lips against her forehead. Then I look out the window and say "It's still too early in the morning for anyone to be up. We should try and get some more sleep while we can."
Then I begin to claim of the hospital bed when she grabs my arm and says "Peeta…"
But before she can finish her sentence I say "Move over."
She moves over so that there is enough room on the bed for me to slide in next to her. After she moves over I slides in next to her and we both lie down. She curls up into me while I wraps my arms around her.
"Awh! How sweet is that?" Doctor Suzuki says a little too loudly causing both Katniss and me to wake up.
We both look over at her and see her standing at the end of the bed. Doctor Suzuki looks over at the door that is still propped open the walks over to it and closes it. As I get up and I am about to get off the bed, Doctor Suzuki say "You can stay where you are Peeta. Oh and I talked to Dr. Aurelius last night to tell him that since I'm here in District 12 and that I am highly qualified as Doctor that he could sent both of your file over here so that I could official take over as both of yours Doctor. He said yes and will be sending over your file. I'll be getting them sometime tomorrow." Then she looks directly at Katniss as I resituates myself on the bed and says "It's nice to see that you're finally awake, Miss Everdeen. May I call you Katniss?"
"Sure." Katniss says.
"Well if everything checks out ok you can leave the hospital as early as tomorrow morning. Oh and you can just call me Suzuki." She says as she walks over and takes Katniss's wrist to check he pulse. Suzuki does a few other things and then says "Alright everything checks out. I'll be right back."
As Suzuki walks out the door Katniss turns to look at me and sees that I am looking back at her.
"Good morning, Katniss." I say smiling at her.
"Good morning, Peeta." Katniss says as smile back at me.
She wraps her arms around me as I wrap his around her small frame and we stay like this until Suzuki walks into the room with a full tray of food in one hand and a plate with two drinks on it. She brings it over to both Katniss and me and set the full tray of food in front of us. She then set the drinks down on the table next to the bed.
"Normally a nurse would have brought you the food but since I made all these food this morning and I brought it in for the all the doctors and nurses to eat. There was still so much of it left that I decided to bring some for you two to eat for breakfast. I hope you like it." Suzuki says smiling.
Then a nurse comes into the room and says "Doctor Suzuki your husband is on the phone. Would you like me to tell him you're busy with a patient and can't come to the phone right now or that you'll just be a minuet?"
"No tell him I'll be right there." Suzuki says as the nurse leaves.
Suzuki turns to face us then bows her head and says "Sorry but I've got to take this. I hope you like you food and I'll be back in a few to collect the dishes. I'm sorry again." She then is out of the room before either Katniss or I can say anything.
Katniss and I eat the food that Suzuki brought in for us in silence. When we finished eating I speak up "I wonder what was up with her. I mean she seemed pretty happy earlier but when the nurse said her husband called she seemed to be a little worried that something bad had happened."
"We could always ask her when she comes back." Katniss suggest as she wraps her arms around me.
When Suzuki does come back she says, "Sorry about that but my husband never calls me while I'm at work unless there is something wrong."
Suzuki sighs as she picks up the tray of empty plates. Then she looks at both Katniss and I and ask, "So how did you like the food I made?"
Katniss just nods and I say, "It was very good Suzuki and thank you."
"That's good." Suzuki says with a sad smile as she looks out the window.
"Is something wrong?" I ask.
"Oh!" Suzuki says looking from the window back at us before saying, "I'm just worried about my son. He's been sick all week and hasn't gotten any better. I'm just not sure and I can't go home when I've got work here I need to get done. My husband can't bring him out here because our son is just too sick to travel here."
"I'm just not sure what to do." Suzuki says as she shakes her head."
"Well I better get this dishes cleaned. I'll be back here tomorrow morning so that way we can get you out of this hospital as quick as possible. Oh and Katniss would you like me to see if I can't get a hold of Haymitch and tell him that you are awake." Suzuki says with faked happiness.
"Sure", is all Katniss manages to say before Suzuki leaves the room again.
"Well, what are we going to do for the rest of the day?" I ask Katniss.
"Hmm, I'm not sure." Katniss says.
Then we just sit there in silence until a slightly drunk Haymitch comes stumbling into the room. He stumbles into the chair that was next to the bed that both Katniss and I are still sitting on.
"Well it's nice to see that your final awake, Sweetheart." Haymitch say once he has finally settled into the chair. "I'm not going to ask you why you did it, Sweetheart but I am going to say that that was really stupid of you to do."
"Haymitch that isn't very nice to say to her." I say.
"No, it's alright Peeta. I know and I'm so very sorry, Haymitch." Katniss says.
"Well it doesn't matter now because what is done is done and it can't be changed now anyway." says Haymitch.
Then we all just fall silent for a while and when no one says anything I just decided to look out the window.
After what seems like forever Haymitch speaks up, "So how has your day been so far since you've woken up, Sweetheart? And what exactly was going on here before I come in here?"
I look at Katniss and see that she is blushing just as much as I am but neither of us answers him. Haymitch begins to tap his foot on the ground as he waits for one of us to answer his questions. When we still don't answer his questions he says a little irritated with us, "Are either of you going to answer me?"
Katniss is the first to speak up, "My day has been just fine so far and how has your week been, Haymitch?" as she tries to keep Haymitch off of his second question.
"Oh it's been just fine, Sweetheart." Haymitch sarcastically says as he takes a drink out of a bottle of liquor that I didn't even notice he had in his hand when he first came into the room.
We all just sit there and talk until a nurse brings in dinner for both Katniss and me which is when Haymitch decides its time for him to leave us. After Katniss and I finish eating we lay down in the hospital bed and as she curls up in to me I wrap my arms around her.
"Goodnight, Katniss and sweet dreams." I say.
"Goodnight, Peeta." She says as she closes her, "and I love you."
"I love you too, Katniss."
"You'll stay with me?" she asks.
"Always, Katniss, Always." I say as I drift off and into a peaceful sleep.
In my dream I was:
I was standing in a kitchen and the kitchen is almost like the kitchen in the Victors Village's houses but is bigger. I walk out of the kitchen and into the living room where I see Katniss sitting on a couch that is in front of the fire place. I look out the window and see that it is snowing outside. Then I walk over to Katniss and sit down on the couch next to her.
When she feels the couch move next to her she looks up and says with a smile upon her lips, "Hi, Peeta!"
"Hi, Katniss!" I say as I smile back at her and wrap my arm around her waist.
Just as Katniss has curled up next to me the front door opens and 5 kids walk in.
"Iiiittt'sss sssooo coolldd oouutt tthheereee!" The girl with long, wavy ash blond hair has gray eyes says as she takes off her coat and puts it in the closet by the front door.
"Of cores its cold its winter its saposta be!" The oldest of the 3 boys with wavy black hair has bright blue eyes exclaims after he puts his coat up in the closer then throws his arm up in the air.
"SO WHAT?" yells the girl with long, wavy ash blond hair has gray eyes.
"SO WHAT? SO WHAT? WHAT DO YOU MEAN SO WHAT?" The boy yells back.
"Would you two stop it?" The other 3 kids yell.
After they are all done arguing and have hung up all their coats the girl with straight, shoulder length black hair have bright blue eyes come into the living room and sits down in front of Katniss. The other girl walks up the stairs along with the oldest boy in complete silence and the other two boys sit on the floor in front of the of the fire place. Katniss readjust herself the she starts to braid the little girl's straight black hair. As Katniss braids the little girl's hair they both hum the tune to "Deep in the Meadow".
I wake up to finding that Katniss is still asleep and that the sun is just about to rise. I unwind myself from Katniss so that I can get off the bed then I walk over to the window to watch the sunrise. When I hear movement from behind me I turn around to see that Katniss is sitting up in the bed and is looking at me with a smile.
"Good morning, Katniss. How did you sleep?" I say as I walk over to her and pull her into my arms.
"Good morning, Peeta. I slept well and how did you sleep?" Katniss said as she put her arm me.
"I slept just fine. So are you ready to get out of the hospital and back home?" I ask.
"Well yes, but Peeta my home is where ever you are. I have never felt like I was home when I was in my house I the Victors Village especially now when I don't have Prim or my mother there. Is just empty and I feel so at home when I'm with you." She says.
Hearing this just makes me smile even more than I was before. So I kiss her in response and she kisses me back. We continue to kiss until someone walks into the room and clears their throat.
I probably won't be able to get the next chapter up until the end of the week but I'll try and get it up before then. Tell me what you think about Doctor Suzuki and if you all really like her and want to know more about her. Let me know and I can give her more of a background in one of the next chapters. Oh and who do you think those kids are? Also if any of you have any names for those kid let me know and I'll pick the names I like. Don't forget to Review and tell me what you think because I'd really like to hear what you think.