Hello. We really appreciate your patience. There are going to be a lot of time jumps in this Chapter. For the wedding scene, I took a page out of Prince William and Prince Harry's book and had an empty chair for those missing loved ones. Thank you for the reviews. Thank you to 3vlee for your encouragement, your help, and your friendship.

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Chapter 10:

Katniss POV:

As I watch the hovercraft that carries my sister and friends away, I feel this indescribable pride knowing that my little duck is headed toward greatness. She is already an extremely skilled healer and was appointed to be the head of the hospital that is going to be built in district 4.

I turn to leave the hanger and see that my husband is finally out of quarantine and is holding a wheelchair. He strolls up to me and gestures for me to sit. I am pregnant not an invalid.

"Cato I do not need this chair. I was let off of bed rest three days ago"

"I don't care. You are going to sit here and I am going to take you back to our quarters to discuss a few things."

"Fine."

They reach their quarters, and Cato helps his wife into a rocking chair. He kisses her on the forehead.

"So I just talked to Brutus, and he said that the Capitalists are not happy with the way things are now. I may have to leave to help him with this situation. They are protesting the new government and don't want to leave their homes. I don't want to leave you and the kids again though."

"Cato I have been very understanding when it comes to this shit but I have to say enough. I have been going through this pregnancy up to this point ALONE. I am five months pregnant. The people of the Capitol can kiss my ass. They are the reason we are in this fucking mess. Yes our relationship started as their games. Yes our first set of twins are the product of those games. We have worked very hard to get our relationship, no our marriage to where it is today. Now they want to separate us yet again because they don't like what our chosen government is making them do. Take away everything from them like they did to all of those parents, siblings, and friends who lost someone in the games. They took all of those children's lives for what? Their entertainment? No take everything but their lives from those monsters. Give the children a choice to live with their parents or to go to qualified foster parents from the districts, but put down a law that those children are to be treated and taught the same way they would treat their own children. It is not the children's fault that they were born to a capitalist."

"I will tell Brutus your thoughts. I am sorry but I do have to deliver this in person my love. It will be ok."

"Ok, when the time comes I will be coming with you then. The kids and I are coming with you."

As Katniss says this Haymitch bursts in.

"Like hell you are sweetheart! Cato I need to talk to you now."

Cato fallows him into the hall.

"Look here boy. You will not let her go on that hovercraft until you move to where ever you are going. But that is not what you and I need talk about."

"What did you need to tell me?"

"As you know that there were a lot of tests ran on you that you willingly submitted to the doctors. The test results on your reproductive organs were the only immediate casualties. Your testicles are not working the way that they should, meaning your little guys cannot swim anymore. You cannot shoot the bullseye. No more babies."

"Ok, ok. I get it. My solders cannot march anymore. What if I wanted more kids?"

"Cato take this as a blessing and enjoy the rug rats you have you dumb shit. They are a blessing. I would do anything for my kid to be here with me but dick head Snow took that away from me. Now I love my Effie and I would not trade what I have with her for the world, but I would have loved for my kid to be here too. Who knows we might even adopt a child. And now I have to go tell Sweetheart's cousin that he has to get tested too."

"No I will tell him."

Cato stands there in the hallway and thinks about what has happened. He remembered all of the things that has happened over the last year and a half. How far everything has come. How his reaping went normal to having a second drawing to be paired with Katniss. Learning that she was to forever be tied to him by being forced to have a child. Being in the games and watching Katniss and Clove go throw hell with being pregnant and fighting in the arena. Being rescued and finding out that his mentor is actually his uncle and then realizing that he had actually fell in love and got married to his partner in the games, sharing not one set of twins but two set of twins now and his son Samuel. Yes, he will count his blessings and hopefully live peacefully with his wife and children in district 4.

As he finishes his thoughts he notices that he is now standing outside of Gale's quarters. He peaks in and asked to speak with Gale.

"What did you need to talk to me about Cato?"

"Well they told me that you did do all of the tests that you needed to take to be fully cleared."

"I was told that I was ok and that they didn't need to take any more tests."

"Yeah well they lied. You need to get checked again."

"Ok well let's go."

They go to the hospital wing. The doctor tells him what he has to do and Gale flips out.

"YOU WANT ME TO DO WHAT AND YOU WANT PUT WHAT WHERE?"

"Gale, it doesn't hurt. It is uncomfortable but it does not hurt. Just do the damn tests so that you can piece of mind."

"Fine, do it but if it hurts I'll be having Peeta make you some of his "bread" for you if you get my drift."

The results came back saying that nothing was wrong with his reproductive or any other organs.

Three weeks later…

Cato and Katniss are on the floor playing with Sammy and the girls.

"Katniss honey, I have to go to the capital. Things have not gotten better. There is too much of a hostile environment for you and the kids to be there. I am sorry but I cannot let you go."

"Fine just be careful and come home soon, but don't come here though."

"Katniss are you divorcing me so soon after we have been married?"

"No, our home is not here anymore. Finnick found us a house and the renovations are being finished as we speak. Our new home is now five minutes away from the newly renovated hospital. Peeta and Clove's house is right next door. Clove just got back from getting both houses in basic order. She is going to help me with the kids while Peeta is painting murals in each of the kid's rooms. You dear husband will have to assemble all four cribs and no sex for a while because you are not letting me go to the Capital with you."

"So I am in the doghouse again? Why am I always in the damn doghouse? Brutus owes me big time now."

"Oh I have talked to our dear Auntie and you and wonderful uncle are sharing that house for a while."

Two days later…..

Cato is in the Capitol with Brutus and Enobaria trying to get to the bottom of things. The Capitalists are still resisting the new order of things. They still believe that they are entitled to everything they had before the fall of Snow and his reign. They want the updates on all of the arena babies and the tributes. They believe that they were robbed of THEIR games and everything that comes after.

Cato tells Brutus that he is so glad that Katniss and Clove are not seeing this. They were the two young ladies that were actually pregnant in the games.

All of the sudden a live broadcast comes on the screen where Clove and Katniss are sitting there:

"YOUR BABIES! YOUR BABIES! AFTER YOU HAD THREE TO FIVE PREGNANT GIRLS IN THE ARENA! ONE WHO WAS CARRYING... OF ALL THE..."
Peeta pulls Clove away from the camera before she goes through there and knock some heads. Yet it didn't stop his step-sister from taking over as Katniss gets on.

"YOUR BABIES! YOU SURE IN THE HELL DIDN'T THINK ABOUT ALL THOSE BABIES WHEN "WE" WERE IN THE ARENA! YOU didn't think about those babies who were REAPED FOR "YOUR" entertainment for the last SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS while you sat and bet on them gambling on their lives! DID YOU EVER THINK OF ALL THOSE PARENTS WHO HAVE TO LIVE ON BECAUSE THEIR CHILDREN ARE DEAD?! DID YOU?! OH NOOOOOO that would be just too considerate of you as you bet and gambled on the lives of "district's" children for YOUR ENTERTAINMENT HUH! RIGHHHTTT! LOOK AT ME WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU! AND LET ME TELL YOU ANOTHER THING..."

In the capitol both Cato and Brutus watch Katniss sound off. Cato glances over to Brutus.

"I'm sooo glad I'm not on the receiving end of this one."

Brutus whose eye never left the screen to see the reaction of capitalists as they bow their heads in shame.

"You're not the only one boy. By the way we found out why your suit malfunctioned in twelve..."

As Katniss yells that them to look at her when she's talking to them.

"Oooh, That's gonna leave a bitter pill for them to swallow... Thought we got rid of the tampered suits when we caught Marcellus. This time we got rid of all of them since Marcellus tampered with the lower half. However I can tell you we are not sure if the damage to your reproductive system will be permanent. Like your wife said there's always hope."

Cato's eye get big as Clove tags in and take over.

"Yet you think it was a great idea for babies to have babies to PUT THREE TO FIVE PREGNANT GIRLS ALL WHO WERE FIFTEEN TO SIXTEEN YEARS OLD, ONE OF THEM CARRYING TWINS WITH MEDICAL PROBLEMS IN THE ARENA?! AND YOU HONESTLY THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO OUR CHILDREN?!"

They both say at the same time.

"I DON'T THINK SO"

Later after Clove and Katniss had finished going hormonal on the capitalists

Hazel goes to her godchild to get some pointers. Marcus was concerned but Hazel looked at him.

"Marcus, I know my wild child. She would never say anything or mouth off to me. Trust me in this. You go to Cato. It'll help you bond more with him. I'll go Katniss. Believe me dear, this will calm her down."

Marcus nods in agreement as he heads to communications to make a call to his nephew.

Hazel goes to Katniss about her wedding.

"My wild child. I've got a favor to ask you."

Katniss smiles at her aunt as she replied.

"Sure Aunt Hazel."
Hazel smiled.

"Both Marcus and I noticed how you and Cato able to blend the districts traditions for your wedding so easily. WE want to do the same but with our own spin to make it our own."
Katniss smiles at her godmother she replied.

"Sure. What did you have in mind?"

A MONTH LATER…

Katniss and the others arrive in District 7 for her aunt's wedding. The first thing she sees is all of the trees and immediately misses home. All of the trees around the ceremony site had a rope around them with the name of every child, and solder's (men and women) name either on the tree or attached to the rope. There were many chairs but two would remain empty throughout the ceremony, one for Gale's dad and one for Katniss's dad.

There was no traditional arch which both Marcus and Hazel did not want. There was a fire pit and the chairs were surrounding it. There were two small tables by the pit, one of which had Hazel's tiara sitting on it. This was the one detail that hazel kept from Katniss when planning the wedding.

Then Katniss looks closer to the hovercraft and sees her handsome husband holding seven red roses and says:

"Hey baby. Going my way?"