"C'mon Katnip" he said, pushing past my mother. He touched my hand; I pulled back "don't call me Katnip" I said shakily "I haven't spoken to him in so long…" I said to myself, trailing off. "Katniss?" he said, holding my hand tightly, I looked at him and he gave me a watery smile. It was so hard to stay mad at him "yes?" I breathed, unsure of what he was going to say "when's our baby due?" I looked at him coldly "you know that's not what I meant to say, of course I was fighting for you, I wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for you" he said getting down on his knees so he could see my facial expressions. He brushed my hair out of my face "you really want to know when it's due?" I asked, focusing on the floor, out of the corner of my eye I saw him nod. I sighed "our child is due in thirty days, the doctor thinks more than that, but she also thinks it was conceived a month or so before the games, but it was two" I said, letting my shoulders drop. He stood up and smiled, hugged me tightly and asked "can we go back to our room now?" I nodded reluctantly and followed him out of the room.
When we got back I got into bed, resting my head on Peeta's chest and he had his hand on our baby. And that's how I woke up.
Peeta.
Thirty days. I was going to be a father in thirty days. Katniss and I were having a baby. That was all I'd ever wanted, but now that it was so close to becoming reality I wasn't so sure that was my dream. I started to imagine a little girl, my blonde hair, but hers had ringlets, and my blue eyes. Her amazing smile dazzling me, I could hear her voice; feel her tiny body against mine. She giggled as I tickled her, her ringlets bouncing with her shaking head. She got down and looked at me, her eyes turning cold. She turned her back on me as I saw Katniss walk over a hill that had appeared. The sky had gone grey and the blossoming tree we had been sitting under lost all of its leaves and fell down. I looked back over at Katniss, our baby still standing just in front of me.
Then Gale came over the hill.
The girl had changed, she now had black, straight hair and their grey eyes "daddy!" squealed the girl. I looked down at her, expecting her to run toward me, she ran to Gale. His eyes grew warm as he saw her; he picked her up, looking more natural with a child than anyone could possibly hope to be. She reached for Katniss and he handed the child to her, she laughed as the little girl stared playing with her hair. Gale looked into her eyes and kissed her, when the girl pouted he kissed her on the forehead too. They all smiled and looked like a perfect family, and then I heard Gale say "see, there was nothing to be worried about, kids are great. Even better when they are ours."
Then I woke up.
I immediately woke Katniss up, she was furious, saying she hadn't slept properly in weeks. I shut her up with a kiss and said "are you sure that's my baby?" she looked at me like I told her I hated her "what are you trying to say? I sleep around?" she said with an un-nerving stare "I had a dream" I explained "it was about that baby," I said pointing to her swelling stomach "but it wasn't mine. It was Gales." I said, begging that my voice wouldn't crack. She smiled warmly- that took me by surprise- then kissed me, again; surprised. "of course it's yours, you're the only one that I've been with" she said softly. I felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders and I hugged her, she was reluctant at first but then put her arms around me, that's how we fell asleep.