Chapter 38
Peeta's POV
All of the monitors are going off. "Katniss." I say. "Katniss!" I yell. "Wake up. Gale go get Dr Reeds. Now." I yell at him. I hear the door slam open, knowing that he has just run out. "Katniss. Wake up please baby please." I plead.
I feel tears starting to pour from my eyes. I jump onto the bed and open up her mouth and press mine to hers. I breathe air into her lungs, remembering about how I learnt to in training. I break away and lock my hands together and press her chest, up and down, up and down. I push my mouth to hers and do it again.
My hands push down her chest, I push air into her mouth again and she starts to cough. "Katniss, oh my god." I say. I wipe away the tears from my face.
"Mr Mellark?" I hear behind me. I turn around to see Dr Reeds and Gale standing at the door. I jump off the bed but grab Katniss's hand in mine. "She's awake." I say sniffling. I turn back to her. "Peeta." She says softly.
"It's okay I am here." I say. Dr Reeds is now looking at everything in the room. "Peeta that was good thinking. If you waited any longer then she would have not been able to come back." Dr Reeds explains. The monitors are now slowing down and keeping a better pace. Dr Reeds walks out of the room.
"Peeta, I." Katniss starts to say. I press my finger to her lips. "Katniss, Its okay. It's okay." I say sitting myself back on the edge of the bed, then moving my hand to her hair and brushing my finger through it. "Gale." She says. "I'm here as well Katniss." He says behind me then coming up behind me and placing his hand on my shoulder.
"Well I'm here too." Johanna says. I completely forgot she was still here. "Johanna?" Katniss questions. "Long story." Gale replies with a little chuckle. Katniss laughs a little bit. "I am so happy you are alright Katniss. I think we all are." I say. "Yeah." Johanna and Gale say softly. "Well I'm happy that I am okay." Katniss says with a bit of a laugh.
Katniss's POV
They all laugh. "So Katniss, what actually happened?" Johanna asks. Peeta's hand makes its way from my hair to my hand and he grabs it. "Well." I say. "I took the elevator up to the ground level and I ran out. I ran into the woods and passed some rocks and then." I rack my brain about what happened next, I slightly remember screaming.
"Then, pain was shooting through me. My leg and head." I say pointing to my leg. "I also think I got another false labour incident, because I remember heaps of pain in my stomach." I say rubbing my stomach. "Katniss you could have gone into real labour and you were out in the outskirts of 13. What if we never found you?" Peeta says.
"Peeta, its okay. I think I would know if I was going into real labour. Anyway, I kept screaming. My head was pounding with pain so I pressed my hand to it and that's when I saw the blood. And after that I can't remember anything else."
"What about just before?" Peeta asks. I start to think about that experience. "Pain. I couldn't breathe no matter what I did. That's why I sat up so I could catch my breath but nothing was responding. I guess I then passed out." I continue.
Peeta looks down and then back to me. "Katniss, you didn't pass out. You died. You're heart stopped." He says in the softest tone. "What?" I respond. "You died. Like dead." Johanna said. "I was here the whole time." She continues. "Really?" I ask. They all nod. "I am so happy you are alright Katniss. You and the baby." Peeta says placing his hand on my stomach.
"Johanna let's leave them for a bit." Gale says grabbing Johanna by the arm. "Yes. I don't want to see this." Johanna retorts walking away.
They step outside and Peeta and I are alone in my room. "Katniss. I know that you don't want us to go to the Capitol, but we will be okay." He says. His reference to 'We' meaning Gale and himself.
"I don't want our child to grow up with no father. I pretty much did and it was painful. I knew my father though. If you died in the Capitol, our baby wouldn't even know who you were. I don't want that Peeta. I don't want to live without you." I cry out. He sits closer to me and grabs my head and cradles it with his hands against his chest.
"Katniss, I will never leave you two. Never. You mean way too much to me. If something does happen I will fight. I am going to fight til the end for you. I have said that on multiple occasions Katniss." Peeta explains. I feel more tears pouring out of my eyes.
"I will never let anyone hurt you. You or the baby. If someone does, I will do whatever I can in my power to get back at them. Katniss, I am so in love with you, no one can change that fact." He finishes.
I lift my head up and press my lips against his. His face is wet from the tears that have come across his face in the last few minutes. I assume mine does as well from all of the crying I am doing today. What is happening to me?
Peeta's POV
Katniss breaks away from the kiss and leans her head on my shoulder. "Will you help me back down?" She asks me. "Always." I reply. I take her stitched gentle head into my arm and place her carefully back onto the pillow. "Thank you." She says as she closes her eyes.
"It's okay Katniss." I say. I kiss her fore head and sit back. I stroke my hand through her hair, softly and carefully. Johanna and Gale walk back in. "So you all done." Johanna interjects. "Yes Johanna." I reply. "Good." She retorts. "Hey Johanna." Katniss says.
"Well, look who finally realised I was here." Johanna says. "Johanna take it easy." I say. Katniss grabs my arm and holds onto it. "It's okay Peeta." She rubs her thumb on my arm. "I did know you were there, but I was too caught up telling you what I remember." Katniss answers with an angry tone in her voice.
"Okay calm down. This is getting boring. I'm going back to my room. See ya brainless 1 and brainless 2." Johanna says. I smile and watch her walk out. "I'll see you later good looking." She says hitting Gale in the behind. Johanna exits and we hear her laughing her way out of the hospital.
"What was that all about Gale?" Katniss asks. "She likes me. Nothing out of the ordinary." Gale explains. "You should go out. If Johanna likes you that a compliment. Believe me, I know Johanna very well." Katniss tell him.
"Yeah Gale, you two would look really cute together." I say with only a little bit of sarcasm in that sentence. "Oh shut up Mellark." He says smiling. "I will think about it." He finishes.
Dr Reeds comes walking in. "Now Katniss, do you think you can tell me every detail about the events leading up to your injury and the events after?" He asks her. "Sure." Katniss tell Dr Reeds about everything. Dr Reeds writes down what she said and thanks her for her help. Gale leaves and goes back to his family, but he said he would be back in the morning.
I thank him for all of the help this afternoon. He goes away presumably happy. Katniss is already asleep. Dr Reeds said that sleeping will be a good option at the moment, so Katniss took that advice and used it. She looks so much more peaceful when she is sleeping naturally, not knocked out. Well she actually does, but it's more distressing because I don't know if she is alright or if she isn't.
She spends quite a lot of time in the hospital, mainly because of the baby and all of the things that she gets caught up in. I hope that all of this injuring herself will stop when the baby is here, because it is just ridiculous, but if not then I will help her through it.
Katniss's POV
Peeta places his hand on my stomach. I am half asleep, but awake so I can hear this. "Hey my little man, or little girl. You are so lucky to have Katniss as you're mother. She is the most caring person in the whole world. She already loves you, so do I. She never wanted kids, but with you on the way her whole perspective about her not wanting kids changed.
You are going to be the most loved child in the whole of Panem, most definitely more loved than I was because your mother will always love you." I hear a little catch in this throat.
"I don't care if you are a boy or a girl, all I care about is that you are mine. Mine and Katniss's. Our first anything together. You and Katniss are the only things that I care about. And if I do die in the Capitol getting revenge for what Snow has done to us, I want you to be there for her. I hope so much that it doesn't come to that though. I want to be there for your first looks into this world, your first steps, your first day of school, your first everything. I will do whatever I can to make that happen."
Tears are struggling to get out from under my eyelids. I can hear in his voice that he is crying. I press my eyes down and tears roll out. I feel the baby kick right under where Peeta's hand is resting. He chuckles. I figure I couldn't possibly still be asleep after that kick so I move my hand down to Peeta's and grab it.
I open my eyes and see that he has tears all over his face. "Hello beautiful." He say with a catch in his voice. I couldn't possible say anything at the moment. I pick up his hand in mine and pull his towards me. He slowly and carefully move closer to me until our heads are touching. I press my lips to his. His face is covered with tears.
I place one hand on his cheek and wipe them off. He breaks away and gets into the bed with me. I lean my head on his chest and just listen to his steady heart beat until I fall back asleep.
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