Chapter Summary- This chapter contains cute Everlark moments, Sky's first POV (Her story from coming to 12 pretty much) and more Gohanna cuteness! It's one of my favourites! I just love the Katniss, Peeta and Willow moments, they are so adorable, especially Peeta and Willow! ASDFGHJKL CAN'T EVEN! THEY ARE JUST SO BLOODY ADORABLE! Enjoy! xox
Author's note at end.
Chapter 4
Katniss's POV
I wake up, the memory of last night stuck in my mind. That was the first time that we did that in a few weeks and it was absolutely amazing. We haven't been lately because of my raging hormones and Peeta being so tired from working all day at the bakery. Somehow sex when pregnant always seems so much better, no idea why. The times seem more memorable. This morning I feel so much happier. I didn't have to get up to go to the toilet, which was the first time in ages. This baby is making my toilet use more regular. Willow woke up in the middle of the night, like most nights, but Peeta went and changed and fed her, his request. I didn't wake up with a nightmare, which has slowly become less frequent since the funeral. I also wake up with Peeta still sleeping by my side. Every morning he works at the bakery, he is usually gone before I wake up. I can just feel today is going to be perfect, no idea why but today feels perfect.
"Morning beautiful." He says after a while of me sitting here thinking to myself.
"Morning Peeta." I answer, a smile across my face.
"Last night was good." I say.
"It was. We should do that more often." Peeta says with his sarcasm showing.
"We should." I answer, mocking his tone.
"I'm sorry that I've been working too hard and wearing myself out so I just fall asleep at night." Peeta apologizes.
"It's fine Peeta. I know you love your work." I say.
"But I love you more. I shouldn't make work be my highest priority when you and Willow mean the absolute world to me." Peeta states.
"Peeta, listen to me. It's fine." I tell him again.
"You say its fine, but it's not. I should cut my hours back so I am with you two more." Peeta says.
"You do what you want, but it's the three of us." I correct him.
"That settles it, tomorrow I am cutting my hours back so I can spend more time with you three." He concludes.
"Good." I answer, leaning in and kissing him.
Peeta's POV
When Willow wakes up, we all have breakfast and then I keep my promise about painting today and we do that for a few hours. Katniss just watches us as we do this and I can see how happy it makes her feel. When it comes to lunch, we go out to our backyard and have a picnic of sandwiches and juice. With it being summer, the sun comes down onto us and makes the day so nice. Willow is in some pink shorts and a white and pink flowered baggy shirt with a hat so her face doesn't get burnt. Katniss wears a grey sundress that shows off her beautiful baby bump and her curves and a hat to keep her face from the sun. I'm in some shorts and a singlet, nothing too extravagant.
"Daddy!" Willow exclaims, grabbing my finger with her whole hand and walking to the flower garden we have down the back of our reasonably sized backyard.
"What are you showing me princess?" I ask her.
"Pitty flowers!" She exclaims.
"Really? Do you like flowers?" I ask her.
"Yes. They beautiful!" She states.
"They are aren't they. You we're named after a flower." I tell her as we get to the flower garden.
She struggles as she tries to sits down on the little square of pavement next to the flowers. She sits in good reach so she can smell and look at them, but she gets down and grabs a flower in her hand. She is very self-dependent even if she is just a year and a half old. She is going to be ahead of everyone else in school, I can see that. She is already so aware of the world and people around her.
"Really?" She asks.
"Yes, your middle name, Azalea is a flower." I say picking off a flower from bush with hundreds of them.
"Azaya?" She asks holding up the daisy in her hand towards me.
"No Willow that is a daisy." I tell her.
"Can you say daisy?" I ask her.
"Dayie." She tries.
"No, daisy." I correct her.
"Yes, dayie." She says again.
I smile and laugh and walk over to the bush of azaleas and taking off one of the pink flowers.
"This Willow is an azalea." I tell her, passing it too her.
She accepts it and starts to examine it. Turning it and spinning it in her hand and smelling it.
"Pitty." She says.
"Exactly. Pretty just like you." I tell her, sitting down next to her.
She smiles and then puts it down with the daisy and turns around and grabbing more flowers, making me smile. She is so adorable. She goes on trying to talk the best she can about the flowers and showing them to me, either giving me them and putting them in my hair. I look up to Katniss every now and then and she is sitting on the picnic rug watching us, her face masking the sun from the wide brimmed hat on her head, but I can see clearly the wide smile on her face.
I often get caught looking at Katniss too long and Willow gets my attention and continues to talk about the flowers. I love Willow so much, but Katniss's beauty is often distracting. The way she smiles as Willow and I do things together, the way she rubs her stomach when she does smiles and look at us, just everything. Katniss is the most beautiful woman in the whole world and Willow is the most beautiful girl in the world. They are both all that I care about. I care about them more than I care about myself. I love them both so much.
"Daddy, you listening?" Willow asks.
"Yes princess, of course I am." I say.
"Keep talking. It's cute." I tell her.
"Okay, this one pitty…"
My eyes drift up to Katniss again and this time, I see her not as I have been every other time today, happy, smiling, continuously rubbing her stomach. This time she is staring into the distance, eyes widened, mouth wide open, both hands holding onto her stomach. I'm about to get up, but she shakes her head and a big smile appears on her face as she looks back to me. She jumps up and runs down to us.
"What is it Katniss?" I ask, worry still in my mind and in my speech.
"It's the baby!" She exclaims coming closer to us.
At this stage, Willow has stopped talking and is now looking up to Katniss who is rapidly approaching us.
"What about the baby?" I ask as she gets closer.
"The baby's kicking!" She exclaims, getting down to us and sitting down by us.
I immediately put my hand on her stomach and I can feel it. Something I haven't felt for so long, Katniss's and my baby kicking underneath my hand. I let out a gasp and I put my other hand on her stomach.
"That's the first time with this one isn't it?" I ask her.
"Yes." She says.
"It's so beautiful." I say.
"Wot's beautiful?" Willow asks.
"This." I say, gesturing to Katniss's stomach.
"Willow do you want to feel your younger brother or sister kicking?" Katniss asks.
"Yes!" She says excitedly.
She comes closer and I take my hands off of Katniss's stomach and I pick up Willow and place her in my lap, coming closer to Katniss. Willow holds out her hands to Katniss and Katniss grabs her hands and places them on her stomach. I also place my hand on her stomach and I feel a kick under my hand. Willow let's out a happy screech as she feels her baby brother or sister for the first time.
"Feels funny, Mummy!" Willow says.
"It does, doesn't it?" Katniss tells her.
"Does it hurt you, Mummy?" Willow asks.
Katniss lets out a little laugh.
"No sweetie." Katniss answers.
Everytime the baby kicks under our hands, Willow lets out a little squeal and laughs and I just look at Katniss with my smile growing bigger everytime. When the baby's having its last kicking for today, Willow laughs and I lean over and kiss Katniss, like I have been wanting too for the whole time it's been happening.
"Thank you, for giving me both of them." I whisper to her.
"Thank you for changing my mind about them." Katniss whispers back.
After that, we head back up to the house with Willow's flowers and mine and we lay on the picnic rug, the house now shadowing our faces and we just sit and relax. Willow drifts off and Katniss does too. So I sit here holding onto the people I love with all my heart.
Sky's POV
The bell goes for the end of the day and I get up from my seat and I head out the classroom. I start to walk through the corridors and the outside. At school I have no friends, I have no courage to talk to anyone. Everyone thinks I'm weird and they just pay me out. I don't like that they do it, but I can't form words to stop them. The boys in my class push me around and makes fun of the fact that my parents are Haymitch and Effie. They mostly call me 'the old drunk and escort's kid'. I don't take offence to what they say, it just annoys me. They don't know anything about my life, so they shouldn't even bother talking to me.
I start to walk through the town and when I get to the markets, I buy an apple like I usually do on my way home and I then bite into it and look through the markets. After I have looked through the markets, I walk back to the Victors' Village. I'm almost there when I get stopped by someone calling my name, well, my nickname.
"Look at the old drunk and escorts kid." One says.
"Where are you going?" Another asks.
As usual, I don't answer, I just concentrate on getting back home.
"She's ignoring us isn't she?" The last one says.
"Yes she is." The first one says.
I feel someone grab my arm, causing my books I was holding to go toppling to the ground. I take my arm back and I get onto the ground and I start to collect my books. They start calling me more names and asking me things, but I just ignore them. When I pick up my book and they are all together, I get up and start to walk towards the Victors' Village at a faster pace.
They start following me, running towards me, still calling me things. The gates are a few hundred meters ahead of me and then one of them pushes me to the ground. I let out a gasp as my elbows, knees and chin come into contact with the ground. They all start laughing. I pick up my head from the ground and I see all of my books everywhere again and the pages coming out. I sigh and then push myself back up to then be punched in the face. I can feel blood coming from my nose and I can taste of blood in my mouth. They then kick me in the stomach and I go crashing to the ground again. There is no use trying to get up again, it's just going to result in getting punched or kicked again, so I just lie on the ground and think someone will eventually come.
"Knock it off!" I hear someone yell from a distance.
I lift my head to see a boy coming in my direction from the woods.
"Fine! She's a lost cause anyway." One says.
That was easier than I thought. I would have thought that it would have resulted in a fight and everything, but the boys just gave up and left. I still lay on the ground, my books and pages going everywhere.
"Are you okay?" The boy asks as he approaches.
"I suppose." I answer.
"Here, I'll help you." He answers, now in front of me, crouching and helping me from the ground.
When I am standing, his face comes into view. Dark brown hair, blue eyes and a pale complexion. I recognise him from my class. Broad shoulders, stocky build and a few inches taller than me.
"I heard them from all the way in the woods, so I just had to come and see what was happening." He explains.
I nod my head.
"Well, thank you." I answer.
He helps me pick up my books and papers and the gives them back to me.
"I'm Harrison, by the way." He says.
"Sky." I say.
"So are you going to be okay from here? You got a few cuts and things." Harrison asks.
"I should be fine. I'm just down there." I say pointing to the Victors' Village.
"Okay."
"Okay."
"So, I guess I will see you tomorrow. In class that is." He says.
"Yeah. Okay. Thanks again." I say, walking backwards, towards the gate of the Victors' Village.
"Anytime." He answers.
"I don't mean that I will help you getting beaten up all the time. I mean…" He stutters at his words and takes a deep breath and starts again.
"I will help you whenever you need it." He answers.
"Well, thanks." I answer.
"You're welcome." He answers with a smile.
I smile back and then turn back around and start walking back to the Victors' Village. I can't help but turn back every few steps to look back at Harrison as he walks back into the woods. Sometimes when I look back, I find him already looking and it makes me smile.
I get deep into the Victors' Village and my body starts to ache. I would go back home, but I don't want Haymitch to see me like his, I don't know what he could do. I am just in need of a friend, so I walk up to Gale and Johanna's house and I knock on the door and await for an answer. When the door opens, I see Johanna standing there with a smile on her face at first but it then disappears when she sees the state I must be in.
"Sky, what the hell happened?" She asks.
"I was… I…" I stutter at my words and then I end up crying as the pain and the thought of what happened comes back to mind.
"Oh honey." She says, bringing me into a hug.
"Come in and we'll get you cleaned up." She says, bringing me in and closing the door.
"Is Gale here?" I ask when she helps clean my wounds in her bathroom.
"No, he's been out all day. He should be back in an hour or so. I only just got back from your parents." She answers.
I nod and wince as Johanna applies some medicine to my wounds and cuts.
"So, are you going to tell me what happened?" She asks.
"Yes. But, could we keep it between us?" I ask her, not wanting everyone to feel sorry for me.
"Yes. Of course honey." She answers.
I tell her everything about what happened. From the names to the beatings to Harrison saving me. She listens contently the whole time as she helps with my wounds.
"I'm so sorry this is happening to you. They shouldn't do that. That is just…" Johanna growls.
"It's been going on since I started. The names, not the beatings. That started today." I explain.
"Well, it's not going to happen again. I should just go and throw an axe in every one of their faces." Johanna says.
I smile and laugh.
"No, please don't do anything." I say, more seriously.
"Why? They are bullying you. You shouldn't have to deal with that." She exclaims.
"Yeah, but if you or anyone gets involved, it's just going to get worse. It will give them the idea that I am weak because I don't do anything myself." I tell her.
"You are not weak. You should stand up for yourself. You shouldn't have to deal with this crap!" Johanna states.
"I know." I say quietly.
"Sky, you have to tell your parent's or at least let me." Johanna says.
"No. Please don't. Haymitch will go berserk. Can you just keep this between us? I don't want it to go everywhere. I am asking you as my friend. Please don't tell anyone." I beg.
She takes a deep breath and passes me a cold cloth and nods.
"Okay Sky. Your secrets safe with me." She answers.
"Thank you." I breathe and hold the cloth to my face to get rid of the drying blood.
"Oh man. Sky, what time did you finish school?" Johanna asks me.
"3:30." I answer.
Johanna curses under her breath.
"You have got to go. Haymitch and Effie are going to be worried sick!" Johanna exclaims.
"Why? What's the time?" I ask
"It's 6:30!" Johanna states.
I am the one to then curse under my breath.
"Okay. I'll go. I'll come by tomorrow. With them knowing of course." I tell her, getting up grabbing my books and running to the door.
"Okay, bye." She calls out.
"Bye!" I yell back as I exit the house and run towards my house.
My eyes drift to the woods and I smile and think of Harrison and how he saved me. I get to the door and open it and walk in, breathing heavily. They are both going to kill me if I don't have a good enough story.
"Sky? Is that you?" I hear Mum yell coming from in the lounge.
"Yeah." I answer.
I walk to the lounge and I see my mum and dad getting up from the couch. Mum has a worried expression on her face and Haymitch's face is worried but angry.
"Where were you? We were worried sick!" Mum exclaims coming over to me and hugging me tightly.
"I'm sorry, I didn't realise how late it was. I lost track of time." I answer, true there.
"We know that you finished school at 3:30 and you walk around town for a little bit every day and to expect you at 4:00, so we have been worried for the last two and a half hours!" Haymitch exclaims.
"Yeah, I know and I am really sorry. I was caught up talking to my teacher about one of my assignments that is due and that took a little while and then I went into town and I must have been walking slower or taking a more detailed look today. I was in the Victors' Village after that, I went and saw Johanna. We learnt something today that I knew would interest her." I explain.
Some of that is true. I did talk to my teacher about my assignment, but it was at the start of the lesson. I did take a more detailed look at things, but I wasn't taking too much time and I did tell Johanna about something that happened in school today. We learnt about some of District 7's history and I thought that it was interesting and I had to ask Johanna about it.
"What did you tell her?" Haymitch asks.
"Haymitch, we don't need to interrogate her. I believe her. Go upstairs and have a shower sweetie, dinner will be ready soon." Mum tells me.
"Okay. Thank you Mum." I say to her.
I head upstairs and put my books on my desk and go through them. The pages are ripped, covered with dirt, they are not in the good condition they were before. I close them up and then go and take a shower. I do need one to get all the dirt from my hair and my wounds. Well today has been filled with crazy things and I can only think of the more things that could happen between now and when I wake up tomorrow.
Gale's POV
I get home just after 6:30 today. I've been hunting, trading and buying things today. I left early around seven this morning and went into the woods and hunted for a few hours and with the game that I collected, I went and traded some for money. With the money I got from my game, I spent it on something nice for Johanna that I know she will love that I will give to her on her birthday in two weeks. When I get in she is cleaning up the table, putting away some things.
"Hey, I was just about to start on dinner." She says.
"I've got dinner." I say, walking up to her and giving her a kiss.
"Oh good, because I was actually lying." Johanna states.
"Really? How did I know?" I ask her.
"So, what did you get?" She asks.
"I got good game today, so I traded some for money and then asked Greasy to cook up some of her amazing stew and then give us some. So we're having stew." I answer, pulling out the stew from my game bag.
"Really? Awesome." Johanna says.
I put away my things and clean myself up from the long day I have had. When I come downstairs all cleaned up, I find Johanna sitting at the table waiting for me.
"You could have started." I tell her as I sit down.
"I was going too, but I thought, I can wait until my handsome husband comes back." Johanna says.
I smile and then we eat together and talk about what we did, myself not talking about what I got her. When we finish, I clean up and then we sit in the lounge area
"We should tell Annie about our little boy." Johanna suggests.
"Now?" I ask.
"Yeah, why not? We have nothing else to do and we have to tell her eventually." She explains.
"Yeah, okay." I answer, walking over and getting the phone.
I dial her number and put it on speaker and listen to the rings before she picks up.
"Hello?" Annie answers.
"Annie, hello." Johanna says.
"Oh Johanna, how are you? I was going to call the other day, but I lost track of time and…" Annie drifts off.
"It's okay Annie. Look, Gale is here too. We have something we want to tell you." Johanna says.
"Hey Gale." She says.
"Hey Annie." I say back.
"So, what's this news? Is it about the baby?" She asks, excitement filling her voice.
"Yes! Gale you tell her." Johanna directs me.
I place my hand on her stomach, rubbing it and thinking back to the first time I saw him.
"We're having a boy!" I say to her, smoothly, but edgy with the excitement.
I hear her let out a little laugh and cry and an 'awe', somehow all is possible at the same time.
"Oh gosh, congratulations!" She exclaims.
"Thanks." Johanna and I both say.
We end up talking to Annie for a long time, well Annie and Johanna talk and I just listen, but not take anything in because I am too consumed by how beautiful Johanna is and how the baby we wanted so badly is finally on its way and how we saw it yesterday, heard it's heartbeat and found out it's a boy. It's been such an amazing few days. When she hangs up, we sit in comfortable silence whilst my hand rubs it, awaiting for him to start kicking again.
I hear a knock at the door and it interrupts my wait for him to kick, so I get up, wonder filling in my imagination as to who could be here at this time of night. It might be Katniss or someone like that. But to my surprise, when I open the door, I come face to face with my mother, Vick and Posy.
"Mum!" I exclaim, pulling my mother into an embrace.
"Oh Gale." She says softly, as she wraps her arms around me.
"I didn't know you were coming. You should have said something to us!" I exclaim, pulling away and hugging Vick.
"Oh, surprises are so much better Gale. You know that." She states.
"Hey Posy." I say, picking her up and resting her on my side.
"Hey Gale!" She exclaims.
"Gale, who is it?" I hear Johanna shout from the lounge room.
"Oh, come in. Please. Johanna will be thrilled to see you!" I say, moving to the side and allowing my mother and brother to come in.
They stand in the doorway as I shut the door and put down Posy. I walk in first and Johanna is sitting up more now, her hand on her stomach.
"We have some special guests." I tell her.
"All our guests are special." She says.
My family pops around from the corner and Johanna lets out a sequel. She gets up with much trouble because of her stomach and then walks swiftly over to my mother and embraces her in a hug. They seemed to be best friends as soon as they met in 13 all that time ago.
"Oh, Hazelle. It's so good to see you!" Johanna exclaims.
"The same for you. And can I just ask my son…" My mother pulls away from her embrace to then grab onto her shoulders and turn to me.
"What have you forgotten to tell your own mother?" She asks, firmly, but with excitement in her tone.
"Oh, yeah. Sorry about that." I say softly looking down to my shoes.
"Gale and I are having a little boy." Johanna fills her in.
Her face lights up and pulls Johanna back into another embrace. She starts muttering things to her and then she pulls away and then walks to me.
"Oh, I am so proud of my boy!" She whispers in my ear.
I just smile and take in the fact that my mother and siblings are here.
"Hey Posy. Hey Vick." I hear Johanna say, I open my eyes and see her going over to them and giving them hugs and talking softly to them.
Who would have guessed that ruthless killing machine Johanna Mason would be married and expecting a child? I don't think anyone saw that coming. Maybe I was the one to crack her? I don't know, but if I was. I have cracked open someone so loving and motherly in the inside and ruthless on the outside. I am so happy to have her as my wife!
We set up for my family to stay for the night before they leave tomorrow to get settled into their newly rebuilt house that Rory helped the construction of when he returned a few months back. Posy and Vick go to bed and then we all stay up talking about everything that has happened in the period from our wedding to now. We talk for hours and it seemed so normal. Just as we say that we should go to bed, the baby starts to kick.
"Hazelle, come feel your grandchild kick!" Johanna exclaims, holding her stomach with such happiness.
My mother goes over and puts both of her hands on her stomach and smiles and chuckles when he kicks.
"I bet he kicks all the time. Just like Gale did." My mother states.
"No, this is the second time. The first was yesterday." Johanna explains.
"Really? Wow. When I was three months pregnant with Gale, he was kicking so much that I would be preoccupied for hours." My mother says.
"Geez Gale. You really wanted out didn't you!" Johanna says looking to me and smiling.
"He definitely did. He wanted to get into those woods and start hunting." My mother jokes.
"Yeah, I bet!" Jo says.
"Well, just get ready for a whole lot more kicking." She exclaims.
"Oh, I am. I love it already!" Jo states.
"Gale, are you going to come and feel your child?" My mother asks.
"I have plenty of time. You can have this round." I say to her.
"Thanks." She says.
Shortly after that when the baby stops kicking, we decide to go to bed. So we part ways at the staircase and head into our different rooms. My mother, Posy and Vick all sleep in the large guest bedroom that we have another two identical too. When Johanna and I get into our room, she presses her lips to mine in a short sweet kiss.
"I wanted to do that for a while now." Johanna states.
"Why didn't you just kiss me? It's only my mother, well your mother too Jo." I say with a grin.
"It's just… I'm still trying to make a good expression. I don't want to seem the needy and grabby type that I actually am." Johanna says.
"Jo. Don't worry about it. My mother already loves you. And besides that, we are young and in love, she understands." I assure her.
"Are you sure?" She asks.
"Positive." I tell her.
"Okay." She says softly, before leaning in and giving me another short kiss.
"Okay. I'm tired. Baby makes me tired, so I'm getting changed and going to bed. We are not doing anything tonight, especially with your family here." Johanna says walking to the wardrobe.
"They are your family too now Jo." I remind her.
"And that makes having sex with them in the house so much better doesn't it?" She says coming out, slipping a shirt over her head.
"No way." I answer.
"Exactly. So get changed, come into bed and shut up and go to sleep." She explains, wriggling under the covers.
"Okay madam." I answer with a smile.
I get changed and hit out the lights and slide into bed with her, my arms wrapping around her, hand resting on her baby bump like I have been since I found out he exists and nestling my head into the crook of her neck.
"Night Gale." She says weakly.
"Night Jo." I answer.
And with that, a few minutes later we are both asleep.
Author's Note-
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