I DO NOT OWN THE HUNGER GAMES! Enjoy chapter 10 Okay so Willow's will be in 3rd person, the others in first for their POV. ALSO THANKS FOR ALL THE POSITIVE COMMENTS! I REALLY ENJOY READING THEM!

What Happened? (Katniss)

It has been 3 hours since I last saw Peeta. The Sun went down about an hour ago and I was hoping he would be back soon. Willow constantly asked me about Daddy. "Where is he Mama?" she would ask. "Why has Daddy been gone for so long?" I felt bad lying to her, but I didn't want her to worry more than she already was. I was automatically jumping to conclusions, thinking that he wouldn't come back like before. My mom waited beside me and put Willow to sleep for me. She constantly reminded me that he was coming back.

"Don't worry baby girl," my mom would say. "Peeta's coming back; he'll be here any minute." I try to convince myself that she was right, but I couldn't help but think that he was locked up in the palace, forced to marry some crazy girl. I started to drink some chamomile tea to calm my nerves. I look around the room trying to distract myself. Nothing seems to be helping so I try to narrate what is going on in the room. Haymitch is drinking, as usual, Prim is reading my favorite book, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Mom is knitting a pink scarf for Willow beside me. Annie is humming to some random tune I have never heard of and Finnick is constantly trying to make a move on her, but she won't budge. I start to laugh thinking about the many ways Finnick has been trying to charm Annie. I feel bad for him, Annie is a very tough nut to crack, and I think that I will help Finnick charm her.

I start thinking about Annie's likes and dislikes when someone knocks on the door. I rush over to the door and open it up. I see the same blue eyes, but it's not Peeta. Instead, the limp and blood soaked body the man is holding is my Peeta. My mother and Prim immediately get up and put Peeta on the dining table.

"I'm so sorry Katniss, the guards kept coming and he turned and they got him in the leg," his brother was explaining the whole situation we were thrusted in. I start to cry and hold Peeta's hand as my mom takes care of her patient. She was from an apothecary in the kingdom and left her family to marry my father. My mom is the best nurse you could find. I grab a stool and sit next to Peeta and hold his hand. He is unconscious because of the large amounts of blood he lost on the way here. I look at his brother who is equally worried.

"Sorry I didn't catch your name," I held my hand out to him. "I'm Katniss." His brother looked at me and smiled.

"So this is the famous Katniss," he jokes. "I'm Wheat, my other brother, Barley, took my mother to an asylum on the Capitol." He looks over at Peeta and I. My mother already rid him of the blood-soaked clothes and is attempting to stop the bleeding. Gauze after gauze she applies to the wound ends up filled with blood. After an hour of applying pressure, the bleeding finally stops.

My mother looks at me and smiles, "I met your father as I was treating him," she starts, "he was burned in a fire my parents were treating his more critical friend." I looked at Peeta. I brushed away the unruly curls out of his face and watched him sleep. My mother instructed Prim to make some herb mixtures to help the healing process quicken and I watch her inject Peeta with all these different medications she keeps in the back of the Apothecary closet for important situations. After about an hour of watching Peeta being treated, I get up and offer tea to his brother.

"Wow, Peeta is right," he says. I look at him with confusion.

"What is he right about?" I ask. He starts to laugh.

"You are super beautiful, but I already have an amazing wife and 2 kids," he takes out a picture from his crest and shows me two blonde girls with green eyes. "We were hoping for a healthy baby, but we got 2," he laughed. I admired his girls. They were stunningly beautiful and looked so full of life. "I know you got one too," he smiles at me. "Right when he got through Finnick's door, Peeta here showed us a picture of your girl. She is quite the looker."

"Thanks," I say and give his pictures back. He doesn't leave Peeta who is on the table. My mom is constantly monitoring his health, just in case something happens.

"I remember Peeta wouldn't stop talking about you," he looks at me and ruffles Peeta's hair. "He was a goner at 15 and everyone knew it, including my father." He looks back at Peeta. "He lost everything when you were gone and almost died when Dad died." I have the same feeling. My dad was a miner in the kingdom a while back. He taught me everything: edible and poisonous plants, how to hunt with a bow and arrow, how to sing, and most importantly, how to love someone. He died in mine explosion when I was 11. Then money became tight when I was 12 so Annie and I got the jobs in the palace where I met Peeta and fell in love. Now I'm sitting here with him, but he is injured badly.

Once it gets late, I offer Wheat the bed that Peeta stayed on last night, but he politely refuses. Instead, he sticks out the night with my mother and I. Every few hours my mother changes the gauze on Peeta's wound and I continue to hold onto his and don't let go. When Wheat walks to the bathroom and Mom goes to get more herbs I talk to him. "I am so sorry Peeta," I start to cry, "I wish you didn't you get hurt." I wipe my tears and tell him that I love him so much. Then I feel his hand reach to wipe a stray tear.

"Peeta," I say, I am so surprised that he woke up.

"I would do it over again a million times to keep you and our baby safe in a heartbeat," he says in a scratchy voice. I look at him and kiss him on the lips.

"How is your leg?" I ask. He starts smiling at me. It is so perfectly crooked.

"Honestly, it's not bad. I feel a little numb though," he trails off and starts to touch his legs. I start to laugh. Then he looks at me and asks, "How's the little girl?"

"She's fine but misses Daddy," I say. He looks at me pretty satisfied. "Oh you are so full of it," I say. He starts to giggle then falls asleep, soon after I follow him. I harbor the thought of having Peeta back in my life, I feel pretty satisfied with the way things are now, minus the fact that he was shot to save our daughter's and my life. I was ready to let him back in, he was my knight in shining armor. He was the boy who found me under the willow.