A/N Sorry I haven't updated the last few days, Sorry! I had Christmas stuff going on, but It's all okay because I now present chapter 14!
Real or Not Real? By Olivia Isbill
Chapter 14
Peeta POV
I must have dozed off after a while of sitting there with Katniss, because I just woke up, and It's already Saturday. We have to go to the hospital today to check up on the baby.
Katniss is of course still sleeping. I'm surprised both of us were able to fall asleep on this couch. It's not as comfortable as the bed upstairs. I start to shake Katniss a little, and she bolts up into a sitting position.
"Katniss, come on. We have to get ready, you have your check-up today." I say. She rubs her eye's and turns to let her feet dangle off the couch.
"Okay Peeta." She says with a smile. She gets up and trots upstairs, and I'm not far behind.
Katniss POV
I walk upstairs and take a quick shower, I change into some jeans and red long-sleeved shirt, it's gotten really cold outside. I grab my jacket and wait for Peeta. He took a shower after I did, so he still has to get ready.
I walk down the stairs and step into the Kitchen. I walk over to the fridge and grab some cheese buns, Peeta usually keeps extra in the fridge. I put them in the microwave to heat them up. I sit down on the couch and the living room eating the cheese buns. After I finish my second, Peeta trots down the stairs. He smiles at me and I hold up the second cheese bun in my hand, offering it to him. He walks over and grabs it from my hand and kisses me on the cheek. He's happy, I can tell by the way he is today. I mean, I am too. We get to see if our baby is a boy or girl today.
Peeta walks into the kitchen and I follow behind him. He finishes the cheese bun I gave to him, and we both walk out the door, hand in hand.
We reach the hospital in about an hour. We step through the doors and step up to the front desk.
"How can I help you?" The receptionist asks Peeta and I.
"Um, Yes. We are here for an appointment." Peeta says to the woman.
"Name?" the lady asks us.
"Mellark." Peeta says back to her. She looks it up on the computer on her desk and nods her head.
"Have a seat over there; the doctor will be with you shortly." She says gesturing her hand toward the waiting area.
Me and Peeta both walk over and take a seat In two very comfortable chairs. Still holding hands. I glance around the room for a moment, and so does Peeta. Then he says.
"So, Boy or Girl?" he says looking up at my face.
"What?" I ask, I didn't understand what he meant until after I had asked.
"The baby." He says calmly. Oh yes, The baby.
"I'm not sure." I say to him. I would rather have a girl, just because I practically already have already raised one myself, Prim. Prim would have loved to see me having a baby. She would be an aunt. I'm holding back the tears when a nurse walks into the waiting room, and since Peeta and I are the only ones here, I assume she's here for us.
"Katniss." She says looking over at Peeta and I. We stand up and she then says.
"The doctor would like to see you now." She holds a door open for us and she follows behind.
"Third door on the left." She says as we start down a hallway. When we reach the door we step inside. I sit on the bed in the room and Peeta sits in one of the chairs against the wall. The Nurse tells us the doctor will be here soon, and she heads out the door. So this is it. Time to check up on my baby. I thought about all the names I had said I liked Poppy, Aspen, Posy, and Juniper. But only one really stands out to me now.
Poppy.
I don't even know if the baby is a girl or boy yet, but the name just seems to fit. Little Poppy Mellark. Poppy was a flower, I had only seen a few ever in my life, and once I saw a few in the meadow. But, the name just stood out to me, It seemed perfect.
"Peeta, Did I tell you all the baby names I liked?" I ask him, he turns his head from the window he was looking out of and turns to me.
"I think so." He says looking a bit confused.
"I like Poppy." I say to him.
"Poppy." He says repeating me. "I like it." He says giving me a smile.
"Have you decided on any middle names?" I ask him.
"I have thought on a few, but I only like two." He says to me, waiting for me to ask which ones, so I do.
"Which ones?" I ask.
"Hazel and Skye." He says. Poppy Hazel Mellark. I kind of like it. But we are totally ignoring the fact that the baby could be a boy, But I guess we think it's a girl. Then we hear a knock on the door.
"May I come in?" It was the voice none other than Doctor Aurelius. I didn't know he did pregnancies too, but I'm glad it's someone I already know.
"Doctor Aurelius!" Peeta says. He had to spend a lot of time Peeta because of the whole hijacking situation. "I didn't know you helped with pregnancies?"
"I don't, that's not why I'm here." He says. He has a bit of excitement in his tone. I've never heard him with any good news, or something happy before. Except for when he told us Peeta could come back to district twelve after the whole rebellion was over.
"Than what brings you here?" I ask him. He walks over to sit in a chair across the room form both me and Peeta. It had wheels on it, and he rolls over toward Peeta and I. He sets his hand on the edge on the bed and says.
"We think we might have a way to cure Peeta of his hallucination problem." I felt my jaw almost drop to the floor, in shock, and in awe. Peeta could really be saved from these memories.
"What?" Me and Peeta both say in unison.
"We have been testing it for a while, and we aren't sure if it will work, but it will definitely stop Peeta from having those hallucinations. It would be almost as if he never even got hijacked. He might remember few things, but not big enough memories to make him want to attack you again." He says looking up at both of us.
"That's amazing." Is all I can manage to say, It finally sinks in that I could have the boy with bread I met back when we were only sixteen.
"That's Fantastic." Peeta says.
"Yes, but we aren't sure when it will be ready, we will probably have it one of the next few times you come back up for the baby. Oh, and Congratulations. " he says.
"Thank you." I say. "So the next few weeks we might be receiving the cure for it? Would it be like a pill or something?"
"No, we would have to give him the medication we are working on. That is the cure for it. After a couple weeks his hallucinations should be gone for good." He says. "But I can't tell you much more, I must go. Your doctor will be here soon, I will call you both with more of the details soon. Goodbye." He walks out the door and shuts it behind him.
Peeta won't ever try to attack me, or have Capitol memories ever again.
That's just what we need, The old Peeta.