Haymitch sighed to himself, watching his son and daughter sleeping, sitting in the rocking chair in their room. He had treated Effie to a spa day to get away from the house for a while-they loved their children undoubtably, but two year old twins could be a handful. Harley rolled over in his day bed. Sometimes it was a little startling how much be acted and looked like Haymitch. His blonde hair Effie insisted on having cut into the classic little boy's style- to which Harley protested infinitestimally- he wanted to be like daddy, dammit. His eyes-wide with excitement 99.9% of the time, were exactly the light blue of Haymitch's. Lenah, their daughter was an individual of her own, for sure. She had the shade of blonde hair to match Effie's which was now a little past her shoulders- Effie had wanted her to keep it short, which resulted in a great amount of dispute from both Haymitch and Lenah. She had the deeper shade of blue to match her mother's eyes, and the attitude as well.
Haymitch had just about dozed off when he felt a tiny hand tug on his blue robe and a tiny foot slip on his sweatpants. "Dayee." Harley demanded, pulling on the belt of his robe.
Haymitch picked up up, pulling him into his lap. He whispered, "Hey, buddy."
"Where mommy?"
"Mommy went out into town this morning, buddy. She'll be back tonight."
"Oh." He clambered to stand on Haymitch's thigh, wrapping his little arms around his neck and snuggling into his shoulder. "Love you, dayee."
He smiled softly, kissing his head. "Love you too, buddy." Just as Harley settled, he felt another small tug on his robe from the other side. Lenah stared up at him, pleadingly. He chuckled and leaned over to pick her up. "Hi baby."
"Dadeee." She nuzzled his neck, settling with her arms wrapped around his neck as well.
He smiled to himself, unbelievably thankful for those two dead weights in his arms, now sound asleep again. When they woke up, he fixed them breakfast, almost forgetting to eat himself. After he cleaned up the kitchen a bit, he sat beside them. "Guys, it's really nice out. Wanna go outside and play?"
Harley leaped up right away, smiling. "Yeah! Where mah 'neaks, dayee?"
Lenah followed suit. "Right thew, Har-ey!"
As they tottered outside, he couldn't help but laugh at just how adorable they were. And as he watched them playing outside, and held his wife in his arms when she came home, he wondered how in the hell it had all come together to give him the life he'd always wanted.