Katniss pov

I walk to the door where Hazelle stands. I thank her before I walk into the room. Gale lays on the bed, many tubes attached to him. He looks so pale and tired. He smiles weakly at me and says,"hey catnip." His voice is so hoarse. I sit in the chair next to the bed and place my hand in his.

"How do you feel?"

"Like I've been shot." He cracks a smile at me and I can't help but smile back at him. He's alive.

"What about you?"he asks.

"What do you mean what about me?"

"Well, how is your pregnancy treating you?"

"It could be easier. But I don't care, as long as my baby is fine."

"You know catnip, you're going to be a great mother. You're so protective of what you love. I used to think it would be my kids you would carry, but I know that my chance is gone...you love him."

"Gale, I'm sorry but you never had a chance. It was always Peeta, maybe in a world without the games we might have ended up together, but just because that's what everyone expected. I never wanted to get married or have kids..."

"Says the pregnant girl."

"I didn't plan for this, you know that."

I see a tear leave his eye, and I wipe it from his cheek, then I lean in and kiss his forehead, but not in the same way that I would kiss Peeta. It's in the way I would kiss Prim.

"I knew you'd do that. You always kiss me when I'm in pain, but that's all."

"I will always love you though, just not in the same way you love me."

"I'm slowly coming to terms with that. It's hard to let that love die. I knew a while ago that I had no chance, when you saw that video of Peeta, you were so heart broken. I've only seen that happen to people in love..."

"I'm sorry, Gale. I know there's someone out there for you. You just need to find her."

"Eventually,I'll let you go, and find her. Maybe I've already met her."

I start to feel kicking from the baby, so I place a hand on my stomach to calm myself.

"Is it kicking?"he asks.

"Yeah,"I say. I can even hear the love in my voice when I talk about the baby.

"Can I feel my niece or nephew?" This makes me smile. He still wants to be close to me, and he's starting to accept how I feel about him.

"Yes."

I place his hand right where the baby is kicking the most. He's breathless when he feels it. It might be due to the fact that he had a collapsed lung. He has a bittersweet look on his face as he feels her kicking. When she's done I say,"it's a girl."

"Really?"

I nod and he asks,"have you thought of any names?"

"Not really."

I notice that he's starting to have a hard time breathing. "Are you okay, Gale? Should I go get someone?"

He shakes his head no, but says,"maybe I should rest some more."

"Okay. I'll tell your family." Before I get up, I squeeze his hand and then leave. When I get to the waiting room, I tell Hazelle that Gale is sleeping. She thanks me and then returns to her seat beside him.

I make my way back to the room, where Peeta is. When I get there, I give him a passionate kiss and take his hand in mine. He leads me to the very top of 13, and then outside. The guards nod as we pass.

"What?"I ask confused.

"I talked to Coin and convinced her to let me take you up here."

"How did you convince her?"

"I told her that with everything going on with Gale, you'll be stressed and we don't want a repeat of last time, so she allowed me to take you up here."

I smile lovingly at him. He leads me to an nice area by a lake. It reminds me of home. Home is gone though. We sit next to each other near the lake. I see a familiar bird in a tree a few feet away and whistle Rue's tune.

The mockingjays start to sing the song over and over. Peeta smiles and says,"mockingjays."

"The capitol put the jabberjays out here hoping they'd die off, but they only mated with the mockingbirds."

"Will you sing?"he asks.

"Okay, I'll sing the hanging tree."

"Are you, are you, coming to the tree.

They strung up a man, they say who murdered three.

Strange things did happen here, what stranger would it be,

If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree..."

i don't even get to finish singing because before I know it, Peeta is kissing me passionately. He leans me back and continues to kiss me until we are completely naked. He takes me right there, and its exactly what I need.

After we lay there, he continues to kiss me and covers me because it is a little cold. Peeta helps me up and leads me back to 13 before it turns dark, but not before we get to see his favorite color plastered across the sky.

"I love that color almost as much as you,"he jokes.

I just smile at him. He locks our fingers as he leads me back to our compartment. He eventually picks me up and brings me there. I'm so exhausted all the time now. It's tiring.

He tucks me into his arms in bed and I fall into a dreamless sleep, the rhythm of Peeta's heart bellow my ear. That lulls me to sleep.

A/N I thought there needed to be a major talk between Katniss and Gale, so I did that here. I hope you liked it as much as I liked writing this chapter. Please give me your feedback.