A/N: I would like to thank all of the people who have read this and reviewed, made it a favorite, and/or added it to an alert. I really and truly appreciate it! Sorry for the longer waits, too much to do in a short amount of time.
**Fair warning- I love Prim, hence why she lived, but now being a teenage girl she will be a little difficult in this chapter and may say some upsetting things to her sister. All will be resolved, but I just figured this would be a realistic scenario given the story and the normal psychological development of almost all teenage girls. I was one once and could behave very similarly when I felt like I was being controlled. Not trying to be offensive or making a blanketed statement about teenage girls, just going off of what I know from experience and what I could see happening realistically in the story. **
Disclaimer: I do not own The Hunger Games series or any of its characters.
Written by: kmac13
Original Post: 5/13/2012
Edited Post: 7/3/2012
Chapter 21
Weeks go by in similar fashion. Days fade into one another and Katniss makes baby steps each day. She sticks to a strict routine, like the doctor's suggested. She has even become more aware of her impending motherhood and it isn't quite as frightening as she originally felt. It still scares her, but she is no longer worried that her child will starve or be reaped.
She hunts every morning with Gale. She spends time before lunch with Finnick learning how to let him in again, have a 'normal' relationship. They eat lunch with their new family. She spends time with Haymitch and Finnick before sitting with Prim and Haymitch after school working on homework, making her a snack and overall dotting on her like a mother and a man learning to be a guardian. Haymitch knows he will never be Prim's father, but he will do everything he can to be the best guardian she and Katniss deserve. Dinner is with their new family all twenty of them continue to gather for meals and then they spend the evenings together, all of them trying to heal and find their bearings after their worlds were turned upside down.
Katniss goes into Prim's room every night to ask her more personal questions like an older sister, a friend would. Then she retreats to her own room with Finnick. It's an easy routine and for the most part she struggles through the weight of guilt and sorrow she carries. There are moments where she starts to feel it lift then something, like finding her reaping dress that had belonged to her mother, sends her into a dark tunnel. Those are the times they find her buried in her closet. Those times become less with each passing week.
She is starting to gain some much needed weight and the matriarchs are all pleased. Katniss's bump is still smaller than normal but a Capitol doctor comes by once a month to make sure both mother and baby are fine, especially given the mother's mental and physical state upon leaving the Capitol. Paylor had insisted on the fuss, even though Sae and Hazelle would have been able to make sure she is fine during her pregnancy.
Finnick leaves their house after breakfast to go talk to his mother, Annie and Johanna. He wants to go back to Four to get the family wedding net and saltwater from the ocean. He wants to ask Katniss to marry, for real this time. He doesn't want their baby born without them being together as a family. He has already spoken to Haymitch and Hazelle about Twelve's wedding rituals and has come up with a plan to join the two ceremonies just like he plans on joining Katniss and himself together for life.
"I can't leave her here…." Finnick trails off, adverting his eyes, afraid he is asking too much of his mother, Annie and Johanna.
"I understand. We can go and get the supplies from Four for you." Arielle says placing a hand on her son's.
"Oh Finny! I am so excited! I can't wait. Do you think she will say yes? Oh who am I kidding of course she will. She loves you!" Annie squeals and squawks in excitement. She is up pacing around the table. Doubt shows in Finnick's eyes as he quickly hides it Johanna throws him a wavering glance. She knows just like Haymitch, Gale and him that this is not a girl who no matter how deep her love will ever be 'over the moon' to get married.
"We will leave tomorrow afternoon. Don't worry about a thing…it's not like she can actually say no at this point." Johanna tells him only being mildly sarcastic, but trying for supportive. He nods his head in silent thanks to her. Arielle continues to pat his hand across the table while Annie goes on about the list of things that needs to be taken care of before the wedding.
Finnick feels comfortable letting these three women go out of hiding on their own. He knows Johanna is there for protection and no one would hold anything against his mother or Annie, especially in Four. Plus enough time has passed for the chaos to die down some. Finnick sits with them and goes over details and plans and writes lists with Annie.
Katniss and Gale come home a little early from their hunting trip this morning as she is feeling tired from the pregnancy and the physical exertion of hunting and hiking through the woods. Gale always walks her back to her front door to make sure she gets in okay, even if he can watch her from his front door, he still is fiercely protective over her. No matter the status of their relationship now, best friends/ more like siblings, he wants to make sure she is safe. After all he has had to watch her survive so many times he is afraid that she will be taken away again at a moments notice.
Katniss bids farewell to Gale at the front door and walks into her seemingly empty house. She gets a funny feeling in her stomach as things are not as they should be. She enters silently and gently places her game bag down by the door and moves through the house, bow at the ready, like a cat stalking it's prey. Once she clears the downstairs she seamlessly moves upstairs. She hears slight panting and moaning sounds, so quiet she has to still her self and calm her beating heart to see where they are coming from. She locks on the sounds as coming from Prim's room.
Her first thought is worry that Prim is in pain, not even registering the sounds as being ones of pleasure. Prim is too young in her mind for those sorts of things. In her mind Prim is still the twelve year old she left when she volunteered for her in the seventy-fourth hunger games, not a newly turned fifteen year old girl who has had to grow up quickly from the war, raging teenage hormones and a boyfriend of the Hawthorne male variety. She pauses before opening the door, trying to remember what day of the week it was. She decides that yesterday nobody, but her, left the house all day, so it most have been Sunday. Which makes today Monday. Prim should be in school.
Very carefully, not to make a noise to disturb her obviously in pain sister, she turns the knob to her room, bow still at the ready just incase there is an intruder. There is one and her arrow misses the middle Hawthorne boy by mere centimeters and imbeds itself into the wall behind them. Katniss was surely not expecting to walk in on her sister lying on her bed rounding second base with Rory. She's too young! She needs a childhood! Katniss screams in her head. She feels like she has failed to shelter her little duck and these are the times she wishes her mother was still around. This sort of thing would never have happened under her watch Katniss falsely believes. Katniss doubts her abilities of caring for and raising Prim and the baby in her womb. Despite Prim telling her time and time again that she has always been her real mother, Katniss can't see how she would be good for her. A whore, a murder, a violent person, someone who would turn into an alcoholic if certain situations hadn't arisen, that is all Katniss sees when she looks at her self.
If looks alone could kill Rory would have burst into flames. He scrambles as the arrow lodged itself in the wall and bolts out of the room, down the stairs and out the door so quickly you would have thought a fire was biting at his ass. Prim's shriek at the sudden attack did nothing but spur him to run, move faster knowing Katniss will never kill Prim, but he is not too sure about himself at the moment. Katniss turns her glare onto Prim. "Why the hell aren't you in school? What the hell is all of that?"
Prim glares back, Katniss has never seen her sister's soft blue orbs ever show anything but love, now they are icy and cold, much like Cato's stare in her games. She is mad at Katniss for embarrassing her in front of her boyfriend. "We didn't go to school because we didn't feel like! Besides you never finished and when you were in school it's not like you went everyday or took it seriously. And that was me and my boyfriend, you should know what that looks like, you've had enough practice. Hell you were only a year older than me and had slept with half the male population left in this district and most of the Capitol! I've been with Rory for a year and a half and have been best friends with him since we were seven. The only person you have slept with that wouldn't make you seem like too much of a slut is Gale! Then again he has a pretty rotten reputation too doesn't he." Prim screams bitingly at Katniss. Katniss stares at her sister in half shock, half acceptance. She knew that her past, the past she sacrificed to save Prim every step of the way, would one day be thrown back in he face.
Katniss's gray eyes became dead again, vacant as she looks at her sister in silent defeat. "You're right. I would do it again too since it meant you are alive, but if you would rather not be the next time I have to sacrifice my life for yours let me know…I could use the break from constant torture. Plus I think one pregnant teenager per family is the maximum quota." Katniss turns on the balls of her feet and walks out of the house before Prim could respond.
Prim watches her sister's retreating form and knows she crossed major lines. She stays in her bed and wraps herself in a ball crying, so mad at herself for throwing all Katniss has sacrificed to save her back in her face.
As Katniss heads out the door to go find Haymitch to beg for a drink to stop the shaking that has taken over her small form, Gale comes running out at her mad as hell. His gray eyes hard stone engulfed in flames. He, just like Katniss, values his siblings lives far more than his own and if it comes between Katniss and Rory well Rory wins, just like for Katniss when she chose Prim's life over a what Gale wanted, a relationship. "Why the hell did you try to kill Rory? Are you that fucked up that you can't tell my kid brother, a boy you helped me care for and an intruder apart?" Gale shouts at her in the middle of the street. He takes a deep breath when he finishes and takes in her shaking form and vacant eyes.
"Like you said 'try'. If I wanted him dead you and I both know he would be right now." She glowers. "He's lucky too, if I ever catch his hands under her shirt and his mouth on her body again he will be dead. Plus shouldn't you be more mad that he skipped school?" She shoots out. She watches his anger shift from her to Rory as logic wins out over heated ignorance. She knows he wouldn't have approved of his brother's actions with Prim at such a young age. Prim is like another sister to him and he is just as protective of her as he is Posy. It doesn't matter that Rory is his blood brother; nobody is to touch Prim like that until she is married.
"Got it. Don't worry, Rory won't be going near Prim for a long time. I'm going to kill him… if my mother doesn't first once I tell her what happened." Gale growls, with an evil smirk forming just thinking about his mother's reaction when she hears the story, before turning and marching back into his own house.
Katniss watches for a moment more until she hears the shouts that start to erupt from the Hawthorne house. She continues onto the house Brutus is staying at with Chaff and Johanna. Once everyone was settled and they took inventory of the amount of houses and who should stay with who they played musical houses for about a week before everyone finally settled into their current living situations. Cinna and Effie left about a week ago to see if they could salvage any semblance of life in the Capitol again or if they should resign to living in Twelve for the time being.
She flies through the door shocking the three men out of their mid morning calm. Haymitch came here some mornings after Prim went to school and before lunch, some mornings he would head back to his house to be alone. He is able to get a drink and the calm he needs before the chaos of the rest of the day unfolds into their laps. Both Finnick and Haymitch always leave her a note if they don't plan on being home when she gets back from hunting in the morning. "Well what was all the shouting outside about Sweetheart? Gale tired of you out shooting him everyday?" Haymitch snips.
She glares at him. "I need a drink." She says in a cold low voice.
"You know you're not supposed to drink in your condition." Brutus says. He like most of the older adults has taken her in as if she were his own child. She glares at him making him shrink back a little before shaking his head and chuckling at her.
"What will one drink do?" Chaff slightly slurs. He earns a smug smile from the girl.
"Nothing…Just one…a small one." Haymitch says sternly. He had already talked to the doctor about different things she should and should not do. One of his first questions was about alcohol and he said once she was out of her first trimester and small glass of red wine every once in a while wouldn't harm the child. Haymitch stands and pours her a glass of red wine. She savors it, loving the way it tastes on her lips. She silently sits in a ball with her knees in her chest, well as much as she can with the protruding womb, sipping the wine that is pushing her demons away slowly.
"Do I have to ask again Sweetheart?" Haymitch inquires.
"Tonight at dinner I am going to ask if Arielle and Annie can let Prim live with them…She needs a real mother and to live with people who…." She looks at him and around at the other two men in the room, "aren't so fucked up." She finishes.
"And this has what to do with Gale?" He pushes.
"Nothing at all." She replies firmly. He can tell she isn't really lying, but there is more to this story than he is going to get out of her at this minute.
"Well if that's what you really want…I'll support you…always will…you always make good decisions when it comes to her so I trust your judgment here." Haymitch tells her looking her over for any sign that will give him a heads up about what happened. She gives nothing away and when she finishes her drink she leaves just as abruptly as she came.
"We're going to have our hands full at dinner tonight." Brutus muses earning him a glare from Haymitch and a laugh from Chaff.
Finnick is leaving the house that his mother and Annie share when he sees Katniss walking past. "Hey Kat wait up!" He shouts as he starts to jog over to her. She turns to face him and waits for him to catch up to her. When he reaches her he pulls her in for a hug and pecks her lips. When he bent in for the kiss he could smell the wine on her. He furrows his brow in concentration as he thinks about the best way to approach the situation with her. He knows if she somehow was able to find alcohol and convince who ever gave it to her she is already not having a very good morning. "Where'd you get the wine?" He asks trying to submerge his anger into a calm veneer.
"Haymitch…at Brutus, Chaff and Johanna's." She says flatly knowing full well that this will be an issue for him. He understand Haymitch is her guardian but he feels like he should be the one making more decisions for their child, not Haymitch, and drinking wine at ten in the morning is one of those decisions he wishes he was brought in on.
"Where does Haymitch get the right to let you drink when you are pregnant with my baby?" Finnick forces out through gritted teeth, still trying to seem calm but losing the battle.
"He said the doctor told him a little red wine once in a while wouldn't harm the baby." Her voice is again flat. "And before we get into the argument once again as to why Haymitch is allowed to talk to the doctor and your not…He. Is. My. Guardian. Obviously, despite the fact that I'm eighteen and pregnant, the country thinks I need a guardian to help acquaint me to living a normal life. And I'm thankful I have one because I wouldn't be able to handle talking to the doctors and all the other people Haymitch deals with to let me live."
Finnick breathes out. He knows this is true. "Okay, okay Little Flower. I'm sorry. I just wish that when it came to our baby, we could make decisions and well I could be allowed to talk to the doctors about you and the baby." He wraps his arm around her shoulders and leans down to kiss the top of her head. She sighs as he has dropped it. She really doesn't need to be in a fight with him, Prim, Gale and Rory today. She knows dinner is going to be difficult.
"So what caused the need to drink?" Finnick asks.
"Prim. And Rory." Katniss says.
"Aren't they at school? Did something happen? Why didn't you come get me I would have gone to the school with you?" He asks worriedly.
"They skipped school. I came home early…they weren't expecting me." She says harshly as she remembers watching that boy defile her sister. She then shudders as she remembers the true things her sister said to her. "Do you think your mother and Annie will let Prim live with them for a while?"
"I'm sure it will be fine, but they, with Johanna, are going on a trip to Four tomorrow for a couple of days. They should be back by Friday." He says. He can't tell her why they are going and she doesn't ask.
"Can she go with them…I think it will do Prim good to get away from here for a few days?" Katniss asks shyly afraid she is over stepping her bounds.
"I don't think that will be a problem at all. He smiles at her. Let me go tell them of the plans. I'll meet you back at home." He kisses her cheek before running back to his mother house. He isn't too sure about all that happened this morning with Prim and Rory but he has a good enough idea.
He walks back into his mother's house shouting, "Hey Ma. I need to talk to you and Annie!" Both Annie and Arielle come into the front room where Finnick is waiting.
"What is it?" His mother asks concerned. He just left not even ten minutes ago, what could have happened in that short time.
"Can Prim go with you guys to Four and then live with you guys back here for a while? Something happened this morning and Katniss just asked if it would be okay. I think she wants Prim to stay away from Rory and to have someone more motherly looking out for her." He flashes his famous Finnick Odair smile that always gets him a yes.
"Of course that is no problem. I just hope those two work out whatever is going on. Katniss doesn't need the added stress in her life of a conflict with her sister." Arielle tells him, looking at him with care and compassion. Annie nods her head yes in excitement. She loves Prim like a sister and likes the bubbly blonde's company.
"Thanks Ma. Love you guys…gotta go." He hugs both of them at the same time and the runs back out the door leaving both women laughing at his sometimes childish ways.
When Katniss walks back into the house she heads straight for Prim's room. She takes out a suitcase and starts packing some of Prim's belongings into it silently. Prim watches her sister as tears continue to fall down her face. Katniss packs things she knows will be comfortable for Prim in Four and even her bathing suit, maybe Annie will take her to the beach. She goes into the bathroom off Prim's room and packs her toiletries too. When she closes the suitcase and sits it by Prim's door she glances back at her sister. Tears spilling over her own eyes looking at the girl she risked everything for. Finally before Katniss leaves her room Prim squeaks causing Katniss to turn and look at her again. "Are you kicking me out?" Prim chokes out.
"You are going on a short vacation to Four with Mrs. Odair, Annie and Johanna. When you come back you will be staying with them for a while." Katniss whispers. She is having a hard time letting go but in the back of her mind and in her heart she knows this may be the best thing for her sister. A chance to live with two women who are not as damaged as she and the two men who live with her and a more motherly figure for Prim to look up to.
Prim doesn't asks why she knows why, because Katniss blames herself for Prim's actions and words today and Katniss is only doing what she thinks is best for Prim. She nods her head in understanding and lets the tears fall. As soon as Katniss is out the door Prim whispers "I'm sorry." Katniss picks it up but just barely. Space will be the best thing for the two girls now.
Finnick comes in and Katniss showers and meets him out on the patio in the back yard. "They said it would be fine." He tells her once she sits down on his lap. She nods her thanks and lets out a long pint up sigh. "Are you going to tell me what happened?" He asks.
"I came home early from hunting because I was feeling too tired and when I got home I knew something wasn't right. So I checked down stairs and then upstairs and as I got closer to Prim's room I heard soft panting and moans….I don't know why I didn't pick up on what they really meant I thought she was in trouble. I had my bow at the ready and when I saw Rory on top of her laying in her bed and his hand up her shirt and his lips traveling down her neck….well, I lost it and shot the arrow at him, missing of course, but to scare the crap out of him. When he left I flipped out and asked her what the hell she was doing and why she wasn't at school….that's when she let me know what a good role model I am." She looks at him tears starting to form in her eyes.
Finnick's eyes have become murky with anger making his normally glimmering sea green eyes look like a stormy sea. "What did she say?" He pushes. He doesn't care if it is Prim or anyone else, no one and he means no one is allowed to make Katniss feel bad for what she did. They don't realize it but Haymitch, Hazelle and Gale have been standing at the back door listening. They are the first to arrive for lunch, but once they heard Finnick and Katniss in the back talking they silenced themselves to eavesdrop just because Hazelle and Gale had filled Haymitch in on what they know, he wants to know why she wanted a drink though.
"She just said the truth." Katniss says, but Finnick isn't having it he glares at her with a forcefulness that lets her know she is going to tell him. "She said; 'We didn't go to school because we didn't feel like! Besides you never finished and when you were in school it's not like you went everyday or took it seriously. And that was me and my boyfriend, you should know what that looks like, you've had enough practice. Hell you were only a year older than me and had slept with half the male population left in this district and most of the Capitol! I've been with Rory for a year and a half and have been best friends with him since we were seven. The only person you have slept with that wouldn't make you seem like too much of a slut is Gale! Then again he has a pretty rotten reputation too doesn't he.'…like I said the truth."
Gale standing there is red with anger but also with shame as he was called out too. Hazelle who is already livid at both children just got even more angry and Haymitch is besides himself furious. None of them ever thought they would be able to be this mad at the nice and cheerful Everdeen. At once they move back towards the kitchen to start to busy themselves before they are noticed. Each one angered and each one trying so hard to calm down.
Finnick removes Katniss from his lap and sits her back in the lounge chair as he gets up, a turbulent sea in his eyes, and walks to the back of the property. Katniss can see he is trying his best to stay away, control his rage. It's a problem most of the victors, and well Gale, have. After years of being used after being forced to kill other kids and live with the haunting nights and day, being owned and suppressed, rage is a familiar emotion and one that flairs easily. Finnick doesn't pass the property line, unlike Katniss he won't go past the property into the woods. So he paces spewing every curse word in every order under his breath. Katniss isn't too sure what to do and doesn't want anyone being upset with Prim. She slowly and carefully stands and walks toward him, his pacing has slowed some and she is able to reach him with out too much exertion. She places her hand on his arm to make him look at her. His eyes still murky and his brow furrowed under his bangs.
"Don't be mad at her. Please." Katniss begs him barely above a whisper letting her gray eyes glisten with pleading tears. He doesn't respond just pulls her into his arms in a tight embrace. Her protruding belly making this more difficult lately. As she is flush up against him he feels the baby kick and soon all thoughts of ungrateful, insolent teenage girls are out of his mind for the time being and he is in daddy rapture.
She pulls him into the house and as they enter she can feel the angry tension in the air, thick and steamy, almost choking her. "I guess you all heard what I said then?" She asks the three people in her kitchen whose eyes give away their not so pleasant thoughts towards a little blonde girl.
"Next time Katniss you have my permission to kill him." Hazelle tells her offering her a reassuring smile. Katniss smiles back. "I know I almost did when Gale came back in the house this morning."
"Yep Catnip you have my permission to kill him too." Gale adds just to let her know neither of them will blame her if it happens again. She smirks at him and his lip upturns in a half smile.
"I'm surprised you stopped at the small glass. I would have figured you would have taken the whole bottle." Haymitch says trying to lighten the mood but failing miserably when he notices Momma Hawthorne and Gale swivel on their feet and glare at him.
"You let her drink!" They shout in unison.
"The doctor said a little now and again won't harm the baby. I just had a small cup." Katniss jumps in to rescue Haymitch from the attack. They both grumble something about 'dumbass Capitol doctors' and 'useless drunken victors'. Causing the three victors in the house to chuckle and earning them glares.
Soon all the other adults are there for their normal lunch and they eat lunch, clean up and head their separate ways. Katniss and Haymitch drag Prim to school to collect her assignments for the week as she will be going to Four. Her teacher is very accommodating but it's rare to find someone who isn't bending over backwards for Katniss since the war. When they get home Haymitch orders Prim to her room to work on her work and not to come down until dinner.
They can tell Prim is ashamed of her actions and words today so they don't lecture her, but most of the adult in the know aren't too fond of looking at her right now. She knows she is not their favorite person right now, hell if she could get away from herself right now she would. She hates that she was so mean to Katniss.
At dinner that night, the usual jovial atmosphere is gone and neither Prim nor Rory dare glance up or look at each other. Katniss clears her throat half way through dinner and looks at Arielle. "Thank you, for being able to take Prim with you to Four on such short notice and letting her stay with you for a while when you get back. I really think it is for the best right now. She needs a female mother figure she can look up to and obviously I am not fit for that, especially given our living situation…it's not the best for an impressionable young girl to live with three ex-whores and killers. She needs a more stable role model." When she finishes her monologue of thanks and explanation she looks back down at her food and silently eats.
Prim is crying at the table but for the first time looks up and at Katniss. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean it and shouldn't have said it! I will never touch Rory or any other boy again and I will go to school on Saturdays too! You are the best role model there is….Not for the things you were forced to do to…to save me, but that fact that you did them with out a care for your self! I am so so sorry. Please look at me, forgive me." Prim sobs. At the mention of his name Rory blushes feverishly and bows his head even lower in embarrassment.
Katniss sighs looking Prim in the eyes the same way she has always looked at her with love and devotion. "Prim you spoke the truth and I have been delusional to think you would be able to live with us and not be affected. I am not saying this move is permanent just something that may be beneficial for you…all I have ever done is think of you first and that is all I am doing now. I am not mad at you. I just want what's best for you. So please trust me when I say that I think for a short while this will be the best for you."
"Okay. I…Love…you. I will do whatever you think is best for me." Prim says in between sobs.
"Good. Now stop crying and making your food soggy and eat it. Hazelle, Greasy Sae and Arielle worked very hard on it and Gale and I worked very hard to make sure we all get to eat fresh meat and greens. Peeta and his dad made wonderful rolls that I am sure won't taste as good all wet and if you eat all your food they even made a chocolate cake for desert. Be thankful and eat my little duck." Katniss tells her in a very motherly way.
For most of the people at the table this side of Katniss is new. They did not see this side much in the past months or since they met the girls. Katniss was too withdrawn trying to claw her way back to reality. But for the Hawthornes this is like the old days, the days before the dreadful seventy-fourth hunger games. They all realize then and there that there will be no better mother than Katniss for both Prim and the baby. Prim realizes she has always had the best mother in the world, she just came in the form of a very overprotective big sister.
In the morning, Katniss and Finnick walk Arielle, Annie, Prim and Johanna to the train station. They all hug one another and say their goodbyes. Katniss grabs hold of Prim in a super tight embrace. "Be good little duck. Mind your manners and listen to them, do as they say. I love you." She kisses her sister on her forehead having to stand on her toes to reach up. Finnick and Katniss watch from the platform as the train departs waving at the four on their journey to Four.
When Katniss and Finnick get home they find a note from Haymitch.
Hey Kids,
Gone to my place for a few days. If you need anything holler. Sae will be coming by each day to make you food so you better eat Sweetheart, but other than that the house is all yours for the next three days. I've warned everyone else to stay the hell off your property and if I see them especially Rory come near I will be waiting on my porch with a shot gun and a bottle of Ripper's best. Use the time wisely…May I suggest actually setting up the nursery? The demon spawn will be coming soon and if it's anything like it's mother it will be stubborn and demanding. And don't worry Fish Boy you can't knock her up again while she is already pregnant.
-Hay
Finnick looks over at Katniss with a questioning smile asking 'do you wanna?' She inhales deeply and looks him up and down drinking in his beautiful features before licking her lips and nodding her head. They spend the rest of the day in worship of each other. Finnick treats her body like a holy temple and lavishes her with pleasure taking his time to savor every last inch of her, the soon to be mother of his child. He treats her like the goddess he sees her to be. His hands leading the trail up and down her body as his lips follow. His touch causing her skin to goose in a hot fever as he skillfully and purposely hits her most sensitive places. Between the pregnancy hormones and the normal teenage hormones she has she is begging him for release over and over again. They spend the majority of the day naked and in each other's arms.
As the day is coming to a close and they are lying in bed together with his hand over her belly and her hand over his heart he whispers, "Will you marry?" This time she knows he is serious. She knows this is what he wants. Before she can second guess herself, doubt herself, think about all of her reasons throughout the years of why this would be a horrible idea she whispers "Yes" back. Both falling asleep happy and hopeful for the future.
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