I gasp in a deep breath of air as Gale rushes around the room grabbing our hospital necessities like a madman. He doesn't try to talk to me, just mutters how sorry he is over and over.

"Gale" I finally shriek annoying with the long wait.

He stops moving immediately and looks me in the eyes wildly. Within the second he is at my side, swooping me out of the bed in his strong toned arms, running out the door.

Outside, the rain is pouring down and lightning strikes around us lighting up the whole world. For an instant, a flashback threatens my sanity. The last time I was out in the rain like this was the arena. Gale makes sure to block out the storms nowadays with vacations, or going to sleep early when he knows they are going to come. He tries so hard to protect me all the time. I swear sometimes he just wishes he could lock me in a padded room where nothing can ever hurt me.

Another strong contraction courses through my body. It starts low in my stomach and courses its way through the rest of my legs and lower back.

I intake air rapidly and Gale seems to snap back to reality in that moment. "Does it hurt?" he asks wincing when he looks down at my contorted face.

"Not at all" I growl sarcastically.

"Oaklan" he starts but then thinks better of it and shuts his mouth.

One time my mother told me a story of when I was born. She was so angry with my father that she could barely see straight. As it turns out, he woman had no reason to. She was just a hormonal crazy pregnant woman.

I don't know how long Gale has been running now, but I am completely soaked to the bone from the dark rain that hangs over the large, eerie night streets of district two. I can only pray that it isn't a sign, with the baby coming and all.

Light suddenly invades my line of vision. We have reached the hospital, the place I never wanted to go back to after my experiences in district thirteen and the capitol.

Gale senses my discomfort and rearranges his arms around me whispering gently in my ear that it won't be like last time.

As I take in my surroundings I can almost feel the fear I felt when I was in the capitol hospital. It wasn't much of a hospital, more of a torture chambers. The buried memories come hurtling out of my mind at twenty thousand miles an hour.

I try to block them out but they get the best of me. With fear gripping my mind, I remember those dark seventy two hours.

"Oh brave little Oaklan. Do you know he's watching this now?" Snow's voice hisses in my ear as another shock hits my body like a train.

"No" I whisper back putting on a brave face.

"Oh do you really think I would lie about that my dear?" snow laughs as he pushes a piece of hair out of my face.

"Given the circumstances, yes" I growl as he signals the electrocutioner to shock me again.

This time the voltage has been turned way up and I scream at the top of my lung. Pain radiates off of my entire being and I feel myself being sucked into death.

That's when the worst of it happens.

I wake up just as Gale's screams start to fill the tiny cell.

"Hey beautiful, it's ok" Gale whispers tightening his grip on me. I can see the hospital staff is already taking good care of us because the bed is double the size of a regular one. Plenty of room for Gale and me to share.

"What was it this time?" he asks slowly holding onto my stomach as I grimace with a contraction.

"nothing' I respond sharply. Gale doesn't need to know the terribly horrifying things that happened to me behind the heavy metal doors of the capitol, let alone Gale. He would go insane with rage and hatred ad would be a threat to him and others.

This starts the nine hour period of silence. Gale gives me my space, knowing I want to be quiet for a while.

For nine hours I endure the sharp pains of contractions. Doctors check in every once and a while to see how dilated I am.

By the time she deems me ready I am bawling from the pain of the contractions.

"Breath oak" Gale commands from my side as the doctors position themselves for birth.

As the first little life begins to make its way out of me I scream in pain. Sometimes I want to give up but I can see the hope in gale's eyes. He has waited forever for this; he has wanted a big family for so long. I can't take it away from him now.

Suddenly a shrill scream fills the room; this one did not come from me. My heart stops beating for myself right then and there. The center of the universe shifts from Gale and I to this brand new little life screaming in the doctor's arms.

"One more Mrs. Hawethorn" the doctor informs me as she repositions herself near where the second baby will come.

"Is it a boy? "I whisper to Gale. My voice comes in raspy blurbs from the painful screaming of the first child.

Gale doesn't hear me. He is staring at the little human wrapped in a big blue blanket with love in his eyes.

"Boy" I whisper to myself upon seeing the blue blanket.

The next baby is much smaller and easier but still the pain comes. I feel like I am being ripped in two with no one there to save me.

As I look at the new baby girl in a pink blanket, gale hands the boy to a nurse and leans over the bed.

Tears stream down his face as he whispers softly in my ear and kisses my forehead 'We did it Oaklan. Thank you. You just made me the happiest man alive".

Silently the nurses hand the babies to me, one in each arm and I look down at the tiny little beings.

I don't even know them and I am already in love.

"So" Gale whispers casually when I finally look up with tears of pain and work, n=but also tears of joy, drip down my face "this is it" he murmurs "what are the names?"

I smile slightly. You better bet I have the best names in the world for my little bundles of joy.

WOW, this chapter SUCKED with a capitol S U C K E D….

I am so tired and I apologize.

Yes this follows the book closely and that was my original plan.

Thanks for all your support it is much appreciated.

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