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I'm not sure how long it was, but Peeta and I just sat there, staring at each other in shock, while Annie continued to sob. It was the last thing I expected to hear.

"Annie… I-I don't know what to say," I finally broke the silence. "Are you okay?" It was the only thing I could think off.

She didn't reply straight away but shook her head before burring herself into Peeta's shoulder. "I… I don't know," she cried harder so Peeta just held her as the two of us comforted her the best we could.

"How long have you known?" Peeta asked her, after a long silence.

"Since before you all left… I-I was going to tell him before but I couldn't… I knew he'd stay and try to protect me but I also knew how much it meant for him to go… and now his gone and I don't know what to do."

"Annie…" I started; I couldn't help but feel sorry for her. "You… you meant everything to him." She didn't reply… "I mean it. No matter what happened to him, you were always the first person he'd want to check on, make sure you were okay,"

"But I'm not okay," she cut me off. "I haven't been okay for a long, long time. You both know that… Finnick knew it most off all."

"But that's not true," Peeta started. "Don't listen to what other people say about you and most off all, don't listen to the Capitol."

"He loved you for you Annie… he never considered you 'crazy.'"

"You have no idea how many times he used to remind me off that…" Annie gave a soft, barley audible laugh.

"Because he knew it was true… when you were with him, we got to see the real Annie, the one we'd give anything to see again." Peeta said and I gave him a smile, knowing how good he was with advice and comfort.

There was a pause before she sighed and said, "Maybe someday…"

Stopping outside the hospital, I saw Annie's hand drop from Peeta's grip. "I don't want to…" she said simply. "I can't. What if something's wrong, it would be my fault because I haven't taken good enough care of it."

"Annie…" Peeta sighed. "I promise, everything's going to be okay."

"We'll be there the whole time," I added. Peeta took her hand once again, and without another word, she allowed him to lead her into the hospital where we were once again meet by my mother.

I greeted her with a half-hearted smile as Peeta did all the talking. She led the three of us to a room where Annie was immediately hooked up to a strange machine I had never seen before. I wondered who had taught my mother how to use it all but she seemed to know what she was doing.

"I'm just going to do a quick ultrasound to check on the baby. I promise it won't hurt," my mother said, before asking Annie to lift up her shirt slightly, which she did hesitantly, after a while.

She moved part of the machine over Annie's bump which was a lot more noticeable than I thought it would be, she further along than we thought. Annie remained expressionless until my mother found the heartbeat. Her face lit up, like it used to when Finnick was alive, even more so when she was the image of the baby on the screen.

"Everything seems perfectly fine." My mother said. "You're far enough to find out the gender, would you like to know?"

There was a pause where Annie continued to look at the screen but she eventually shook her head. "No… I want to wait."

"I had a dream last night…" Annie said, the next day when Peeta and I came to visit her.

"Yeah, what was it about?" he asked with a smile.

"It wasn't much," she replied. "Just Finnick, kissing my cheek… and then I woke up."

"Sounds like a better dream than any of the ones we've been having," I gave a soft laugh, as did she and Peeta.

"I wish it was longer though. It was nice… seeing him. I wish he could be here to see the baby be born… to kiss me and hold me like he used to." She paused. "But I guess I'm just all out off wishing… and hoping."

Peeta and I gave sympathetic smiles and she gave us one in return. "Thank you…" she whispered after a while.

"For what?" I asked, already knowing the answer.

"Everything…"

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