Thanks for the great reviews! Here's chapter 2!
I board the train to District 4 thinking about the decision I made last night. Am I actually ready? I know it's been 15 years, and Peeta wants them so badly. Children? Didn't I say I would never have kids? I know that was before the rebellion, but I will never forget what the Capitol did to all the children of Panem. It's too late to change my mind now. I turn towards Peeta. He is already asleep. I admit we didn't get much sleep last night, but we just boarded. Across the compartment is Finnick, reading a book.
"What are you reading?" He takes a minute to realize I was speaking to him.
"Oh, just some book I wrote a few years back." I didn't know he was a writer. I feel my eyelids starting to droop, so I lay my head on Peeta's shoulder. After a while, I fall asleep. In my dreams are children. Children that look like Prim, children that look like Peeta. Even children that look like me. When I wake up, Peeta and Finnick are staring at me.
"What?" They both smile.
"Katniss, you were talking in your sleep," Peeta tells me. I don't remember anyone telling me I've spoken in my sleep before. Before I can say another word, Peeta's lips are on mine. His hands gently stroke my face, and slowly move down my neck. This is one of those kisses that rarely occur. One of the ones where Peeta and I are truly connected. I'm completely unaware of Finnick leaving the compartment. Peeta lifts me up and opens the bench into a bed. He lays me down and continues to kiss me. We lay together in silence for a while. Peeta is the one to break the silence.
"I love you, Katniss." Instead of speaking, I just lean over and kiss him again. An attendant knocks on the door of the compartment, interrupting us.
"Dinner is being served," she says through the door.
"We should go," Peeta says. I simply nod in agreement.
After eating a simple meal in the dining car, Peeta and I head back to our compartment, while Finnick goes to get a drink in the bar car.
"How were the cheese buns?" Peeta asks with a smirk on his face.
"Definitely better than yours," I tease him. When we get to the compartment, we sit down on the still-open bed. He turns to look at me.
"What?"
He smiles at me and says, "When you were talking in your sleep earlier, you said some things that told me that this is what you really want. I didn't think you were ready, but you are." He leans in and gently kisses me. I slowly run my hands through his hair. I break away to yawn widely. Peeta lays me down and pulls a blanket over me.
"Get some sleep, Katniss," he says as he leaves to join Finnick in the bar car. I close my eyes and slowly drift off to sleep. I'm awoken by my own scream. Peeta runs into the compartment.
"Katniss! What happened?" I don't answer his question because I honestly don't know the answer. Tears quickly drop from my eyes onto the hand caressing my face. Peeta's attempts at comforting me fail. I try to remember the cause of my scream. Nothing comes to mind. Suddenly the room is filled with another scream. It comes from me.
"Katniss!" Peeta screams as he runs to find a doctor. This time, I know what caused the scream. It was an agonizing pain in my head. Almost like someone was inside, cutting through my skull with a knife. Peeta runs back in with a man with dark hair following behind him. The man comes over to me and looks into my eyes.
"Katniss, what is bothering you?" The man asks me. I try to speak but all that escapes is a small squeak. Everything that happens next is a blur.
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