Celine and I are on the floor. I hit and punch her, I don't care. I've never refrained from beating my kids. If they deserve it, then they deserve it. Celine doesn't hit back, she knows better than that but she defends herself. I feel strong hands on me and they rip me off of Celine. I fall back into peeta and he holds me so I don't go after her.

"Celine, stop!" beck shouts holding her back. "Why!" she yells at him, "she's your mother" he says. And with that she starts to cry. I have never seen her angry like that before, ever. She'd always done what she's told, listened, never talked back. Why is that such a problem now? Does this boy really have this kind of effect on her? If that's the case, then she can't be around him.

I love beck, he's a mini Finnick, but I need to protect my children and I won't have Celine affecting the boys. I calm down and peeta lets me go. "You two aren't allowed to see each other anymore" I say. "No please mom! I'm sorry for saying that I was just mad" she says. "I get that but he shouldn't have this kind of effect on you, you have NEVER talked back before, or yelled at me, or put your hands on me and I won't have that" I say.

She turns to beck, "beck tell them what you told me" she pleads. He looks confused and afraid. He knows that if he takes sides with Celine then peeta will have a problem again. "He said that he wanted to have a baby with me" she says for him. All eyes turn to beck, "what" peeta says but doesn't move.

"I did say that. She took the birth control pill and said she couldn't risk getting pregnant, and then I told her I wouldn't mind a baby" I say. "She wanted to wait until we got older" she continues. I look at Celine, "you two are too young. When you're older I won't stop you from marriage and kids but until then you need to break up".

Celine POV

Break up. No I don't want to break up. "Mom please. I said I was sorry", "I don't care what you said, you two need to break up. Now" she says. Beck puts a hand on my shoulder and takes me out back.

"Beck I don't want to break up with you" I say. "We have to, but remember, we just have to wait until we're older. Eighteen. You'll be eighteen after my birthday, and then nine months later I will be too. Then they'll let us be together" he says. That's too long of a wait, "then get me pregnant" I say. "What", "they'll have to let us be together if I'm pregnant". I'm willing to do that for him. "No Celine, I'm not going to get you pregnant", "why!" I beg. "Because I'm scared of your dad!" he says,

My shoulders slump. "Just like we're planning to wait for a baby, let's wait for each other alright" he says and kisses my forehead. I look up at him; "I'll see you" he says and walks out of the yard and through the district.

I walk back inside and grab my suitcase. "Bye grandma, bye Aunt Annie, I'm sorry for causing all of this trouble" I say and walk out of the door. My parents and brothers follow behind me. We go to the train station and surprisingly, mom has us board the train for district 2.

On the train I don't say a thing; I just fiddle with my fingers. I know she wants to yell at gale for telling me all of those things, but the sun is going down, we wont be there for another hour. I don't see why we need to go now.

Gale POV

I open the door to my house and walk in. "babe" I call going into the kitchen and setting down my bag with new groceries. "In here" she calls back from upstairs. I head up the steps and go into our room. Theta is in bed brushing our 4 year old daughter, Petal's hair. She has Theta's green eyes, and my hair. Our daughter Rhema is 9 years old; she has theta's brown hair and my eyes. In a way she reminds me of hunter.

I walk over to her and kiss her cheek, "hey Eta" I say to her and rub her belly that holds our soon to be born baby. She smiles and kisses me. I climb into bed next to her and kiss Petal's head, "hey Pickle" I say to her, "hi, hi daddy". "Where's Rhema" I ask theta. "out back with Tian" she say in her usual soft purr. "oh, and katniss called, she said that she and the kids are coming over. She had something very important to talk to you about", "okay" I say and kiss her head.

I walk out of the room and head downstairs. I haven't talked to katniss in a while, which means the last time I saw hunter he was about seven years old, archer was six and Celine was twelve. I wonder why she wants to talk to me about.

I head out back and see my daughter running around with her best friend catching the fireflies that light up our back yard in the summer. Our pit bull, Rebel, is running around with them. "Hey cookie" I say. She sees me, "Daddy!" she says running to me. I pick her up and throw her into the air. I hug her tight and kiss her head. I put her down, "me and tia caught a bunch of lightning bugs" she says and runs over to pick up a jar filled with them. "woah" I say pretending to be really excited. "Hi Mr. Hawthorne" Tian says, "hey there Tian" I say.

Tian has blonde hair that greatly reminds me of prim, but her eyes are brown. "cookie, do you remember when I told you about katniss and peeta" I asks her lowering my voice. She nods, "well they're coming over and you'll get to see hunter again" I say. "how old is he now" she asks. "he should be about twelve now." I say and ruffle her hair.

I say, "They'll be here soon, okay", she nods then skips away. I head inside and begin to put the groceries away. I start on dinner, beef stew, the girls love it. Petal comes skipping into the room, "daddy" she says tugging on my jeans. I look down, "back up pickle the stove is hot" I say and pick her up. I set her on the counter, "who's hunter" she asks, her voice is so high pitched and muffled I sometimes cant understand her but now I can. "hunter is your older brother" I say. "I don't have a brother" she says. "yeah you never met him, but you'll get to meet him soon okay" I say, "cause mommy said that he's coming", "yes baby he is coming" I say and kiss her head. "also you have a big sister, "I put my hand up, "she's older that Rhema" I say. "she's a grown up like you daddy" she asks, "not yet" I reply. "whats her name" she asks. "Celine". "Celine" she repeats. I nod my head. "and you have another brother who has yellow hair just like Tian". "are his eyes brown" she asks, "no, his eyes are like mine" I reply.

I hear the pot boiling and say, "alright Pickle go ahead outside and play with the fireflies I need to make dinner" I say taking her off of the counter and putting her on the floor. "okie dokie" she says and hops off, her sandals blinking when she walks.

I tend to the food and turn the stove off when it's done. By then the doorbell rings and dog comes running in. he goes over to the door and barks. "down Rebel" I order and he walks away from the door. I unlock the door and see katniss peeta and the kids. Celine is tall and looking very upset. "hey!" I say letting them in. I shake hands and hug peeta, then I hug katniss, she's upset as well. The boys walk in, "dad!" hunter says throwing his arms around me. "hey kiddo, I missed you" I say hugging him. I put my arm around archer and pull him into a hug, "I missed you too" he says. "and how are you little man" I say bending over a little to see Archer. He looks so much like peeta it's scary.

"good" he says. They see rebel and go over to pet him. I see Celine is leaning against the wall, her eyes wet. "hey, you okay" I ask. She shakes her head and swallows. "you want to talk about it" I ask. She shakes her head again, "leave her" katniss says. "are you okay" I ask turning around. She doesn't reply yet, "Gale I need to talk to you and Celine in private" I say. "alright" I say.

Just then I hear footsteps on the stairs and go over to help Theta down the steps. "hey!" she says when she sees everyone. "hey, It's been so long, how are you" katniss says lightening her mood a bit to talk to my wife. "I'm great, the last time I saw you it was before petal was born" she says. "and I see you've got another on the way" katniss says and rubs theta's large stomach. "mhmm, the doctor said it's a boy" she says and claps. "so, are you staying, I see you have bags" she says looking at the luggage I hadn't noticed.

"oh no we just came back from 4" she says. "okay well you're welcome to stay anytime you like", "thanks". "is it okay if I talk to gale in private" katniss says her smile fading. "of course, go on upstairs it's fine" she says and waddles off to the kitchen. "boys you can go ahead outback" I say pointing to the backyard. They run out and the dog runs with them.

"I'll go ahead out to watch the boys, make sure they don't break anything" Peeta says glumly and walks out.

I lead the girls upstairs and we go into Theta and my room. I shut the door and sit on my bed, "so, what are we talking about" I ask.

"Celine told me, that you told her what happened…with us". Damn she found out. "what do you mean" I say acting like I don't know. Katniss's voice is very soft when she says,"you told her about what happened in the log cabin on Sundays. You told her that you impregnated me five times, and when I was pregnant with her that I didn't even know who her father was. You told her that you sold me to almost every man in the district…and how I didn't know about hunter until I had him." I swallow and a tear slides down her cheek.

"why would you tell her that stuff" I ask. "she asked me, so I told her" I say. "why!" she yells. I shrug, "I don't know I'm sorry" I say. "you had no right to tell her that! Then she went and said it to my face infront of Haymitch, Annie, and Beck. they didn't have to know that stuff!". "Katniss, I'm sorry okay it was four years ago" i say. "so was the things you did to me before you beat me" she says letting another tear escape.

"woah you don't need to bring any of that back up", "yeah well you've already done that gale. Four years ago, that means she was twelve! You don't tell that stuff to a twelve year old would you like for me to go to Hunter and tell him he was born out of rape. You wouldn't like that would you!", "katniss stop yelling" I say getting up.

"tell me what happened, what she asked that was so important you had to just tell her everything". I take an impatient breath. "Celine asked me why Hunter was my son and not Peeta's" I say and fold my arms.

"why would you ask that" she yells turning to Celine. She shrugs, "get out just go wait downstairs" she says. Celine walks out of the room and shuts the door behind her. "what exactly did you say when she asked you that". Why wont she just drop it already! "I told her that I raped you. I was mad remember" he says. "yeah you were mad, but that doesn't give you the right to just blurt it out. You could have just said to not ask that question. She wouldn't have brought it back up". "alright I get it! Okay I shouldn't have said it! Now isn't really a good time to yell at me because I need to feed my kids. You can stay for the night if you like" I say and walk out of the room.

Peeta POV

I sit on the stairs watching the children run around laughing. The dog is next to me with its head in my lap allowing me to pet it. I can't believe my little girl did that. I knew she would one day get married and have kids but I would have never predicted she'd do it now.

I really liked Finnick and I want to get along with Beck but it's just so hard knowing he likes to touch and kiss my daughter. I always feared for her because I thought she was so innocent, and not interested in those things. I guess I thought wrong.

And what happened today was just, unreal. Celine talked back and yelled at katniss as if she was older. She brought up the unmentionable and said it in front of everyone. It was none of their business to know what happened with Gale and Katniss FIFTEEN years ago. It was such a long time ago I had stopped thinking about it. Then she actually fought with katniss, and after she had hit her once I saw that she'd regretted it, but not all the way.

When I was told that Celine and beck had been having sex….I just couldn't process that right away. Then when I saw the boy who had taken my daughters virginity, I couldn't think of anything other than how I hated him, and how I wanted to strangle him until his neck cracked.

I agree with katniss about making them wait until they're older to see if they want to marry or not because once she's an adult I cant control her life and what she does. I can just tell her the right thing to do and hope she does it. I wont keep her from someone she loves, but I can while she lives with katniss and i. when she moves out then she can live by her own rules but until then she needs to follow the ones katniss and I enforce.

The back door opens and gale walks out, "girls it time for dinner" he says. "peeta would you like to stay for the night, I made beef stew" he says. "yeah, thanks" I say. he nods and widens the door for the kids, "boys go ahead inside" I say and they all run in. the dog goes in after them. I get up and walk inside.

A little girl with blonde hair says goodbye and leaves the house. "Where's Katniss" I ask Gale. "She's upstairs putting your bags in the guest rooms. I go upstairs and find katniss setting the kids bags up against the wall in a guest room. she wipes her eyes and I rush over, "are you okay" I ask. She shakes her head, "no, I'm not" she cries and hides her face into my shirt. I rub the back of her head, "c'mon baby don't cry. I know today has been rough and I know your tired, but lets go ahead downstairs and eat". "I don't want to go, I cant look at Celine or Gale" she says. "you're going to have to eventually, they're our family" I say. "I've blocked out family before" she says, sounding deadly serious.

"katniss please, don't do this to our daughter, I'm upset too, okay but I still love her, and I still care for gale. You have to learn to forgive people when they make mistakes" I say. "you say that like you don't care about what Celine did anymore", she says. "no I do, but im not going to block her out because of it", "Gale told her what happened just because he was mad, that no excuse" she says. "I know it's not but baby please. Talk to them, don't argue and yell. Talk to them about what happened" I say and wrap my arm around her.

We walk downstairs and I have her sit down. "Katniss sweeties are you alright" theta asks. "Uh, yeah" she says wiping her tears. "What's wrong mommy" archer asks. "She's fine" I say. we all eat quietly. After dinner the kids change into their pajamas and brush their teeth. Our kids are sleeping in one guest room and katniss and I sleep in the other.

Celine gets her own bed and the boys have to share one. Katniss and I change, and kiss our kids goodnight. When the boys and katniss are asleep I go to Celine and sure enough she's still awake. I walk over to her and she looks up at me. "come downstairs, I want to talk to you" I whisper and leave out. I head down the stairs and she follows behind me quietly.

I sit on the couch and have her sit down. "Celine why…what." I have to take a breath. "why did you do that with him" I ask. She shrugs, "I don't know dad, when he couldn't come for my birthday I just thought that I should try to make up for missed time when I saw him again. And he'd asked me before if he could…" she seems uncomfortable, probably since I'm a guy. "..see my..chest… but I told him no and I kind of regretted that because I really did want to show him" she says. "really" I ask. "well not at the time but, I realized that I did later". It's so much easier to talk to her when you're calm.

"What about him starting it, you didn't care" I ask. "No, I wasn't exactly expecting him to touch me but when he did, it felt….good. So I told him to do it again. He took me to his bedroom and then…", "you don't have to finish the sentence" I say.

"Then you took the pills" I ask. She nods, "yeah, he asked me what I was doing and I told him that I didn't want to get pregnant.", "and then he said he wouldn't mind a baby" I cut in and she nods. "Do you hate him" she asks me. I shrug and shake my head, "no, I'm just mad at him" I say.

"I asked him to get me pregnant today" she says. "Why" I ask. "Because I thought that if he got me pregnant then you'd let us stay together" she says. I sigh, "it just woke go away" I say. "what won't" she asks. "Disappointment" I say. she's about to cry again, "I know, dad I'm sorry" she cries and puts her head in her knees. "I'm a horrible daughter. I always make you and mom mad and now she hates me. *sniffle*". Her voice is high pitched again.

I pull her into my arms and she cries. "No baby, she doesn't hate you. Nobody hates you, and you are one of the best daughters out there I promise you." I say. "I messed up so bad, daddy" she says and sniffles hard. "baby we all mess up. There are girls out there who've done much worse than you. At least you were smart enough to take birth control. Some don't even let it cross their minds and they end up pregnant and with kids. Those are mistakes that people made".

She looks up, "was I a mistake" she asks. Her big blue eyes, exactly like mine pleading. I chuckle, "no you were an accident, but the second Katniss came home and told me about you I was so happy, and excited, and I loved you so much". "I thought you didn't know who my father was" she asks. "well we didn't but I loved you anyways, and I was willing to take care of you even if you weren't mine" I say.

"is it true that I was born in the arena" she asks. I nod, "Finnick helped deliver you" I say. "what was he like" she asks. "just imagine beck with bronze hair" I say and laugh. She smiles a bit.

"beck wants to get married when we turn eighteen" she says quietly. "I'm not saying you can't. But just make sure you have a job and a place to live before you start making babies". "Eww dad why'd you say it like that" she complains jokingly and I chuckle.

"In the morning I want you to apologize your mother, what you said was unacceptable, and if I every hear you say anything like that, you will be in serious trouble, do I make myself clear" I say strictly. I don't want her to think that just because we shared a few laughs that she's off the hook. "yeah, but I wont ever say it again. I promise" she says and hugs me. I hug her back, "I love you too baby" I say, and we press our foreheads together.