~.A.N.~

Here's a longer chapter. I had some free time today and decided to update once more. I hope you guys enjoy this.

Katniss

As I sit in the room the nurse had led me into I wonder how Johanna and Haymitch are doing in their endeavors to keep Peeta busy. Peeta thinks I'm in with Paylor talking about old times. There's a swift rap on the door before the doctor enters the room.

"Mrs. Mellark, I'm Dr. Halifax."

"Nice to meet you doctor. Thank you for seeing me on such short notice."

"It's the least I can do for the Mockingjay," he says and smiles at me. I smile back before I remember why I'm here.

"So..." the doctor seams to sense what I'm feeling and continues. "What's seems to be the problem?"

"Well..."

"It says on your chart here you're expecting. Congratulations," he says while looking up from the thick charts holding all my records from the last couple years. Somewhere in there is a page claiming that I am mentally unstable. I shake my head.

"Thank you."

"Would you like to know the sex?"

"Can you do that yet?"

"Yes, amazing technology we have these days," he says and picks up something that resembles a T.V remote.

"It just seems so soon." I can't help but wonder is it a boy or girl? Shouldn't I wait for Peeta? He would want to be here. I decide to go ahead so I can stop calling my baby a it.

"Yes go ahead."

"You don't want to wait for your husband?"

"Uh.. No he couldn't make it today."

"Alright then, lay back and relax. It will only take a few moments to get a reading." I lay back and he places the cool device ageist my bare stomach causing a shiver to run through me. I should have waited for Peeta.

Peeta

Haymitch and Johanna have had ne wondering though the mansion all day morning. I finally stop them before they take me down a hallway of paintings we have already wondered through once today.

"What's going on? Katniss should be done with Paylor by now. I'm going to check on her," I say and start striding towards Paylors office.

"But wait you haven't seen the gardens yet, the roses are just starting to bloom and what about the..." Johanna stops tugging on my arm and I follow her gaze to Paylor walking towards us. Where's Katniss?

"Oh Crud." I hear Johanna mutter.

"Uh..I hear there's an old painting called the Mona Lisa in the east wing. Let's go see it." Johanna tugs my arm in the direction of the east wing but I pull loose and walk towards Paylor.

"President Paylor," I call.

"Peeta please just call me Paylor." I nod my head.

"How was yours and Katniss morning?" Haymitch clears his throat somewhere behind me and I turn to look at him. He's making a slashing motion with his hand against his throat.

"What's going on, where's Katniss?"

"I assumed she was with you?"

"No she's not," I say and turn to glare at Johanna and Haymitch. "Where is she?" I barely get out past my tight throat from my anger. My hands are balled into fists and I can feel a flashback coming on. I fight to push it away. I focus on the things going on around me, Paylor telling the guards to look for my wife, Johanna yelling at Haymitch, Haymitch yelling at Johanna, Paylor yelling for quiet and asking where Katniss is. I focus on memories now. The first time I saw Katniss when we were kids, hearing her sing for the first time in class, watching her walk home every day from school. I avoid any thoughts of the games because they will just pull me deeper into my dark abyss.

"Katniss!," Johanna yells from somewhere around me and I feel the waking nightmare loosening its grip on me. I open my eyes to see Katniss walking towards all of us. The room explodes, Haymitch yelling at Katniss, Johanna yelling at Haymitch for yelling at Katniss, Paylor demanding to know where she had been.

"SHUT UP you idiots you're going to hurt the baby!" Johanna quickly throws her hands over her mouth.

"Baby?" The question slips out of my mouth.

Katniss

"Congratulations you are having a..." I hold my breath and try to look around the doctors hand for the reading on the screen. "A healthy baby girl!"

"A girl? I'm going to have a daughter?"

"Yes, would you like a picture?" I nod my head dazed as I watch a picture print out of the same device he had used to tell me the sex of my child. He hands me the picture. I look at it and I can't believe what I'm seeing. I have a baby growing inside of me!

"Shes beautiful!" I say despite she looks like a little mermaid, I can already tell she is going to be amazing. Then suddenly something hits me.

"Is she healthy?"

"Yes look here," the doctor says and leads me over to a screen on the wall where he proceeds to use his fingers to enlarge the picture he had just handed me. I stare at the screen while he points out all of my baby's just beginning fingers and toes.

"Look here," the doctor says and another page on the screen appears. "These are the baby's stats. See here this means she is growing at a healthy speed. This right here means her heart is healthy and beating at just the right speed for her stage in growth." He points out another place on the screen.

"This means she's going to have blue eyes!" She's going to be beautiful, just like Peeta. After this the doctor gives me some vitamins and explains a few things to me about what to expect in the coming months. He urges me to come back in a month and to call him if I have any problems. I thank the doctor and I walk outside with two guards by my side scanning and looking in every direction for danger. I have the feeling that either one of these men would lay down their life for mine. I wonder what Haymitch told them to get them to let m leave the mansion without Paylor's permission? I climb into the back of the armored vehicle and think about how I'm going to be a mother in a little under 6 months. How should I tell Peeta? I mull over this until the back door of the vehicle opens and the guard alerts me we are back at the mansion. I go onto the house via a side entrance following one guard and followed by the other. When I step into the house I hear yelling so I follow it after I shoo the guards away telling them it was just family matters. I follow the shouting into a hallway.

"Katniss," yells Johanna, sounding relieved. The room is quiet for a split second and then erupts again to the point I feel as if I've stepped into another war. While I'm trying to think of something to smooth everyone's ruffled feathers Johanna yells something she will probably regret for the rest of her life.

"SHUT UP you idiots you're going to hurt the baby!" I can't decide whether I should kill Johanna or if her regret will do it for me.

"Baby?" Peeta looks at me with hurt and question in his eyes. I guess I won't have to think of a way to tell him now.

~Authors Note~

What do you guys think? What would you name Katniss's and Peeta's baby? Review and let me know? My Goal is 100 reviews!