Ello chaps! I hope you enjoy this chapter and for the first time in forever I actually proofread.
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX- BellaLovesNutella
Peeta POV
I hurried get ready for today. My whole body is buzzing and I smile knowing today is the day that I marry Katniss Everdeen. This is what I have wanted since I was a tiny little five year old.
I dress in my suit and my best man and my groomsmen follow me to the meadow.
Finnick is my best man, Delly (even though she's a girl) and Rory are my groomsmen.
We make our way to the meadow, and once we set up, I wait patiently for the girl I love to walk down the aisle. Luna, Livi and Willow toddle down tossing petals everywhere, and then the bridesmaids walk down, and scoop up the babies.
After a moment, Katniss arrives with Haymitch holding her arm. All eyes are on her and my heart races. I give her a slight smile, but my knees feel weak.
When she gets to the altar Haymitch says to me, "Take good care of her, boy."
I chuckle softly because he knows how much I love her. How much I have always loved her.
She stands in front of me, smiling as the minister talks.
Her beautiful dress makes her look even more stunning than normal. Her hair is dark like the bark on a tree and her skin gives off a rosy look making her seem like a angel.
I almost miss what the minister is saying.
". . . Take Katniss Everdeen to be your lawfully wedded wife?"
"I do," I say proudly.
"And do you, Katniss Everdeen take Peeta Mellark to be your lawfully wedded husband?"
Please say yes! I think nervously.
Without skipping a beat, and with a genuine smile she says, "I do."
"You may now kiss the bride," the minister say happily.
The only thing that's missing is the rings, but I don't care. I dip Katniss into a kiss and I hear hoots and hollers. I smile against her lips, and she smiles against mine.
Suddenly a little redhead runs down the aisle holding the rings.
Katniss smiles and reassures Finnick Jr. when he apologizes for being late. He hands us the rings and when Katniss gives me mine she explains the word engraved onto it.
"Whenever you feel nervous or doubtful of my love, look down at the ring and you will know that our love is real," she tells me.
I kiss her again as we walk down the aisle holding one baby in our arms. I carry Willow and Katniss carries Luna. We go to cut the cake when suddenly we hear someone coming in from the forest, and then a gunshot.
Katniss POV
I walk back down the aisle and grab the knife to cut the cake whilst holding Luna. Suddenly a gunshot goes off, and the only thing I register is a blood curdling scream coming from the bundle of joy in my arms.
When I look down I notice I am covered in blood. And so is Luna. She screams and screams before everyone registers that she has been shot. Somebody runs to get a peacekeeper, but I clutch my baby tight.
"Luna," I whisper, tears clouding my vision.
She looks up at me, and I feel Peeta holding me close.
The thought registers in my mind. She is going to die.
"Mama. Dada."
Those are the last words she says before my baby passes away in my arms.
"LUNA!" I scream while Peeta envelopes me in a hug. He cries until I hear the shooter say coldly, "Checkmate Catnip."
Gale. . .
I turn to him, my breath ragged.
"You. . ." I say spitefully.
The few people here are frozen.
"Oh hello Catnip," he says kissing me.
"Lovely surprise on your wedding day. Let me just take the other twin from this life and we'll be all good," he says pressing the gun to Willow's head.
"Take me instead, please don't kill her," I plead.
"What happened to the Catnip I used to know? The one who would never get married, let alone to a baker boy. She certainly would have never have kids," Gale says to me, not removing the gun from Willow's dark brown hair.
"I've changed Gale. Just like you."
"I've changed?!" He questions accusingly. "No my dear, dear Catnip. I have always loved you. Always means always. . ."
Right now, everyone has fled for help except for Peeta, Prim and Haymitch.
Peeta clutches Willow tightly, guiding her away from Gale.
"Now look at your dress. Full of blood splatter of your dear departed daughter," Gale says happily.
I tear slides down my cheek, as I clutch her corpse.
"Dieeeeeeeeeeeee," I hiss giving him the finger.
"Tsk tsk tsk," he says disapprovingly. "Let's go," he says pulling me up forcefully, and slapping my dead baby out of my hands. He shoots Peeta in the foot, Haymitch in the foot, and Prim somewhere in the abdomen.
"PRIM!" I yell. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Gale slings me over his shoulder, thankfully leaving Willow alive, and brings me to the forest.
The last thing I see is Peeta's eyes, dark as an abyss. He's having a flashback.
As I kick and scream Gale doesn't listen. He throws me to the ground and takes the gun, and shoots me in the stomach three times. Now I can't run. He slings me over his shoulder and the only thoughts that register in my mind are,
Today is my wedding day
Peeta is having a flashback
My daughter Luna is dead
She died because of my best friend
My only living daughter is in the fate of Peeta while he is having a flashback.
Peeta loves me
Gale loves me
I am going to die because of Gale
I am never going to say 'I love you,' to Peeta or Luna or Prim or Willow ever again.
I. Want. To. Die.
I am going to die
With that, Gale hauls me off to the train station sneakily without drawing the attention of anyone.
Well, goodbye world. . .
