A/N:
I'm back: ) and I'm not happy with the little reviews I got on the last chapter!
Anyways, See you at the bottom.
Finnick POV:
I just stare at the test and then look at Haymitch.
"S-She's..." I can't even finish the sentence. Haymitch sighs and nods.
"7 and a half weeks, I think." he says.
"Why would she keep something like this from me?" I ask getting over my shocked state.
"She was going to tell you the day you had found them in the basement. But you walked in on her and she had to tell you who she really was and the way you reacted and she just got scared." He explains. I nod understandingly at least she was going to tell me on her own and not leave me in the dark for long.
"I'm not really mad, you know? I'm just shocked. She said she was on birth control." I say trying to make sense of all of this.
"Finnick, you have to understand. Sweetheart told you what the accident did to her. Some of her long-term memories are foggy and you know that, but what you don't know is that she forgets easily. It's hard for her to remember something when something else is on her mind all the time. So don't blame her, it's not her fault." He explains. I nod.
"I understand and I don't blame her. I should have been more careful." I sigh. Haymitch puts his hand on my shoulder.
"I'll be fine. Just let her tell you on her own." He says and walks out. I rub my hand over my face and look at the test again. I just shake my head and put it in my pocket. I grab the bucket of ice and go upstairs to where I find Rose in her bathroom getting the water running. I set the bucket down on the counter in the bathroom. She turns to look at me.
"Hey." She says quietly.
"Hey." I reply back and pull her into a hug, I feel the tension leave her body as she starts to relax and melt into me. I hear her sigh into me chest. I look down at her.
"You ok?" I ask. She shakes her head.
"I'm sorry." She blurts out. I look at her confused.
"Why are you sorry? You have nothing to be sorry for." I tell her. She shakes her head.
"I've hidden something from you Finnick and I'm so sorry I didn't tell you sooner." She starts to cry. I sigh knowing where this is going so I go along with it.
"What is it that your hiding from me? I won't get mad Princess just tell me so you won't have to go through it alone. I promise I will always love you no matter what." I say sincerely meaning every word. She sniffs and looks me in the eyes.
"Finnick, I'm pregnant." She blurts out. It still shocks me when she says it even though I already knew. So I try to find a response in my still shocked mind.
"I know." Is all that comes out. Katniss starts babbling about how she's sorry and that she didn't know, but stops herself short when my words start to sink in.
"Wait, you know?...H-how..when...Haymitch." She finally says sighing. I nod and let her go to get the test out of my pocket, but Katniss thinks something else of it and starts to panic and cry harder.
"You promised you wouldn't leave me. I need you Finnick. I can't do this without you. Please don't leave me." She sobs clinging desperately on to me. I sigh at the scene in front of me because it breaks my heart having her be like this. I pull her tight against me again. I whisper soothing words to her, swaying her until her cries turn into a soft whimper. I pick her up and shut the water off so it wont over flow and set her on the counter. I pick her head up so I can look at her face and it breaks my heart even more. She looks so scared. I put my hands on either side of her face. I kiss and wipe away the remaining tears that have fallen and then kiss her lips softly but with enough force to get my point across.
"I will never leave you again. I'm so sorry I made you think that I will. But know this I love you too much to leave. Your stuck with me forever until you want me to go." I tell her. She nods looking at me.
"I never want you to go." She whispers softly. I smile.
"Good." I say. I let one hand that's holding her waist go and dig into my pocket to get the test to show her. I pull it out and hand it to her. "This was what I was trying to get when I let go of you."
Her lips from in a 'O' and she sniffs. " Haymitch found this?" She ask looking at the test. I nod.
"I should have known." She mutters to herself.
"Come on, let's get you into your ice bath so your fever will go down." I say and set her down on the ground. I pick up the bucket and pour the ice in the already cold water. I put my hand in the freezing cold water to move the ice around. I take my hand out and it's numb. I turn back around to Katniss and find her glaring at the water while pouting slightly. I chuckle quietly. Her head snaps to me and she turns into a full on pout and I can't help but laugh loudly because she looks adorable pouting.
"Your so adorable when you pout." I coo kissing her nose. She huffs.
"I don't want to get in there." She whines and glares at the water.
"Well you don't have a choice. Now strip." I command her. She gives me a weak glare, but does as I say. I take her hand when she's done and help her into the water. She puts her foot in first but jumps back.
"No, no way am I getting in there. I will be an ice-cube in a minute." She exclaims.
"Katniss get in the tub." I command. She shakes her head stubbornly.
"No." she defiantly says. I huff annoyed and smack her naked butt hard enough to tell her I'm not playing with her. She yelps in surprise and turns her head to glare at me. I shrug it off and point to the tub.
"Get. In. Now." I sat sternly. She lifts her head high and shakes it. I swear she is the most stubborn person I have her met. I smack her butt again but a bit harder than the last one. She yelps again.
"Ow, okay. I'm going." She gives in. I smile triumphantly and rub her sore butt where it starts to turn red showing my hand print. I help her step in again and she starts to shiver but goes all the way in and sits down so the water is up to her neck.
"See was that so bad?" I ask sweetly. She glares at me while shivering so it really doesn't have that much effect.
"W-w-whatever." She stutters. I smile.
"I'll be back. I'm going to get your clothes and the thermometer." I say and leave. I grab her a sports bra and matching boy shorts. I get he some sweats and a t-shirt with some black socks. I grab the thermometer and walk back into the bathroom. I set her stuff down and sit by Katniss. I let 5 minutes pass and I get up and grab the thermometer.
"Let's hope your temp. went down." I say. She just nods but doesn't say any thing. Honestly I don't think she can because she's too cold to. I run the thing over her head and wait for her temp to pop up.
101.2
It barely went down. I sigh.
"You have to stay in there longer." I tell her. She nods. We sit in silence for 20 minutes. Thinking it's been long enough. I take her temp again.
96.8
I sigh in relieve; it went down.
"You can get out now." I tell her. She gets up slowly still shivering. I grab her towel and dry her off when she's all the way out. I rub some warmth back into her until she isn't shivering that much anymore and is able to talk again.
"Thank you." she says. I smile and kiss her.
"No need to thank me." I say once I pulled back. She nods and lets me take care of her. I rub lotion all over her body and then help her into her underwear and clothes. Once she has that on, I sit her on the counter and start to rub warmth back into her frozen feet with some lotion. After I'm done I pull her socks on and lift her down. I unplug the drain so the water can drain out and I carry her out of the bathroom.
I put her down on the bed and she crawls up the pillows and lays down. I lay down with her and pull her close to me.
"I want to take you to the clinic." I mumble. She nods.
"Why?" She ask.
"To make sure your pregnant." I say.
"OK." She says. I get up and get her, her black running shoes and slip them on her feet. I help her get up and she starts to walk to the door, but winces every step she makes. I grab her and my phone and her wallet with her I.D in it. I shove them in my pockets and hurry to her.
"Does it hurt when you walk?" I ask her and put my hand on the side just below her naval.
"A little. I'm fine." She tries to smile but fails as she keeps walking to the door. I shake my head.
"No, you're not and I'm carrying you." I tell her giving her no room to argue as I pick her up bridal style and open the door. I set her down when we get to my car and open her door for her and she slides in. I close her door and get in the driver's seat and then we are off.
I take her a clinic that isn't far from the house and help her get out of the car. I try and pick her up again but she scolds me.
"Finnick, I can walk by myself." she limps away. I sigh and catch up to her and put my arm around her shoulders to give her something to lean on. We walk in the building slowly and I lead Katniss over to some seats while I go up to the front desk to sign us in. I use Katniss's fake name since that's whats on her I.D. Once I'm done filling everything out I go to where I left Katniss and sit down next to her. She takes hold of my hand and leans her head on my shoulder sighing. We stay like this until a woman in a white trench coat comes out of the doors.
"Rose Deen"
She calls looking from her clip board over to around the room. I stand up first and pull Katniss up with me. I wrap my arm around her and we start walking towards the woman who is now looking at us.
"This way please." She smiles at us and turns to walk back through the doors. We follow her into a room.
"My name is Dr. Philips." She begins smiling. "I would like Rose to lay down on the chair so we can get started." She finishes. Katniss nods and gets up on the cushion chair that lays back. I sit in a sit chair beside her and hold her hand.
"Now I'm just going to lift up your shirt to uncover your stomach and put some gel on it. Sorry if it's a little cold." She says lifting Katniss's shirt and grabs a tub what I guess is gel and squirt some on her stomach. Katniss shivers.
"Sorry." the doctor says. Turning on a monitor. "OK, now if you turn your attention to the screen here we will find out if your pregnant or not." She smiles and grabs a wand and puts it on Katniss's stomach and moves it around. The doctor makes a humming sound after a minute.
"What's wrong." I ask finally after a minute. The doctor turns to look at me smiling sympathetically now.
"I'm sorry, but she isn't pregnant." She says. I sit there shocked not knowing what to say.
"How...I-I took a pregnancy test and it was positive." Katniss sniffs. The doctor sighs.
"Most of those test are defective. If you bought the expensive ones they don't work that well." She says.
"She hasn't been on birth control for the past two months." I exclaim finally able to talk.
"She might have been under a lot of stress to make it to where she couldn't conceive a child in that time period." The doctor explains calmly.
"But I started throwing up before I even knew I was pregnant and I haven't had my period yet. I don't understand." Katniss sniffs holding back tears.
"I'm sorry, but like I said it could be due to stress on the body." She says while moving the wand over her stomach and going below her naval hitting a spot that makes Katniss wince and hiss and the doctor stops keeping her eyes on the monitor.
"She's not pregnant, but she needs to go to the hospital now." The doctor says urgently. picking up a phone and calling somebody. I look at Katniss in panic. What could be wrong with her?
I don't have time to ask as people come through the door with a stretcher. I feel Katniss tighten her grip on me and her breathing starts to pick up.
"Finnick, what's happening?" She ask looking at me wide-eyed as people lift her on the stretcher while I'm still holding her hand and walking with them out the door.
"I don't know." I say. We make our way to the back of the clinic and out the back doors and onto an ambulance. I stubbornly not let go of her hand as they lift her onto it. I climb in behind her and sit next to her while people come in and start to check her and the doors close. We drive off to the hospital and I ask questions that no one seems to want to answer.
I'm sitting in the waiting room with Haymitch, Effie, Prim, Rory, Gale, Peeta, Cato, Rue, Clove, Madge,Foxface, Thresh and Johanna tapping my foot impatiently. Katniss and I had gotten to the hospital and she was pulled away from me and they sent me straight to the waiting room. I tried to fight them but they told me that they would have to sedate me if I didn't calm down. So I obeyed and walked to the waiting room. I had called everybody and they came in a hurry.
I feel someone put their hand on my knee to stop them from jumping. I snap my head up and see Prim. She gives me a small sad smile.
"Everything going to be ok." She says. I nod and don't say anything because I'm too worried about my Katniss. I can't lose her. We just got back on good terms and this had to happened. My head snaps to my other side that Peeta is sitting on. He's grabbing my shoulder forcefully.
"Hey, stop thinking like that. She's not going anywhere so stop it and have faith in her." He says. I nod slowly and stare at the ground with my head in my hands while Prim rubs my back up and down. I just stare blankly until I can't keep still anymore so I get up and pace the room running my hands through my already messed up hair. I don't know how long I pace but I notice it's dark outside when a doctor finally comes in.
"Haymitch Snow?" The doctor calls. Haymitch stands up immediately and walks over to the doctor. They talk for about 5 minutes and then the doctor leaves. I rush to Haymitch first before anyone can. He just directs me to sit back down so I do.
"What did he say?" I ask frantically. Haymitch just looks calm so I take that as a good sign and start to calm down a little, but not all the way. I can't calm down all the way until I know if she is okay and that I can see her face.
"The doctor said that they had to take out her appendix. He said she was lucky it didn't burst yet because they would have had to drain out the pus and fluids and then later take out her appendix which would have taken much longer than it already did." He explains. I look at him confused. Her appendix is that what was hurting her?
"So that must explain the vomiting after she would eat anything and her limping." Prim states out loud. Haymitch nods.
"And the fever, the pain in her side. The doctor said she had an infection in her body or something like that. Just know that she is okay now and is in recovery. They stitched her back up and said it would take 2 weeks for it to heal fully." He finishes..
"Is she awake?" I ask after everything started to sink in. He shakes his head.
"No, but she will be in a few minutes and I think you should be the first thing she sees. If she ask you when she can go home tell her that they want to keep her over night to keep watch over her and she can go home tomorrow." He says. I nod and he tells me which room she is in. I go to room 12 and walk in. I notice it's large and has a TV and a bed where my Princess lays up against the wall in the middle. I walk over to her and take hold of her face in my hands. I look at her beautiful face and sigh.
"Thank God your okay." I whisper even though she can't hear me and then kiss her head. I let go of her and pull up a chair right by her bed. I take her hand in mine and let the silent beeps fill the air letting me know her heart still works. I put my head down on her hand and close my eyes for a minute and then I feel her hand tighten around mine and my head pops up.
Katniss POV:
I'm walking in a meadow the one that my mom used to take us to, to play.
"Mom." I call out not really knowing why. I sit down and look out into the distance.
"I"m right here honey." a woman's voice says. I look to my right and see she still looks the same.
"I've missed you." I say leaning my head onto her shoulder. She wraps her arms around me.
"I know. I see everything, but know I'm always with you." She says. I nod.
"I'm not pregnant." I blurt out for some reason.
"I know and it's not your time to be. You have things that you need to handle with your father before you settle down with Finnick. Your going to be rewarded for the good things you do just wait and everything will fall into place." She says. I nod again.
"Do you like Finnick?" I ask her. She smiles at me and nods.
"He is perfect for you. Just like Rory is to Prim. But you will run him away if you keep everything to yourself and not letting him in. All he wants to do is protect you and love you and you push him away growing distance. Don't push away the people you love and who love you back. Keep them as close as possible. You need Finnick in your life more than you know he just might save you one day." She says.
"OK." I say.
"Tell your father to go for his dream and not settle and tell Prim that she will be doctor one day." She says.
"OK. What about me?" I ask her.
"You, you will be someone powerful and strong. You'll make a difference with your voice. People will look up to you because you will make a difference in the world." She says. I smile.
"Thanks." I say. Then it starts to fad away. I panic.
"Mom...mom." I call out looking around for her. " Don't leave me."
"I have never left you. I will always be with you remember that. Always in your heart and watching over you. Whenever you stumble a pound a dandelion know it's from me and tell everyone I love them." Her voice fades away and I'm surrounded by blackness.
I start to wake up and feel something in my hand and start to squeeze it. I feel the hand let go of my hand and move to my face.
"Katniss, Princess?" The voice asks. I know that voice. It's Finnick's! I slowly open my eyes and I'm met with a pair of sea green ones filled with relieve.
"Your awake." He exclaims smiling big.
"Finnick, where am I?" I ask.
"You're in the hospital. You had your appendix removed and they stitched you back up and now your fine." He explains. I nod as everything starts to come back to me. Me not being pregnant, rushed to the hospital, ambulance ride, then everything else is a blur.
"I remember now." I say and his expression turns somber.
"Are you ok with not being..." He tails off worried that I'll have a break down. I nod.
"I'm fine. I wasn't at first but while I was asleep I had a dream and my mom was in it telling me to wait and that bigger things are coming and that I'll be rewarded after they are done." I tell her. He nods.
"Did anything else happen?" He ask. I nod and think back.
"She told me to not be so closed in all the time and to let you in and stop pushing you away when all you want to do is love and protect me, but I'm stopping you from doing that." I say. He nods.
"She's right. That's all I want." He says and strokes my hair. I nod.
"I know now. I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong idea." I say. He shakes his head.
"Don't worry about." he breathes and kisses my head.
"Where is everybody else?" I ask after a minute.
"Out in the waiting room. Haymitch, Effie, Peeta, Rory, Gale, Johanna, Cato, Clove, Foxface, Thresh, Rue, Prim, Madge and Hunter. I called everybody and they all came because we all care for you deeply." He says. I smile.
"Can you go get them?" I ask him. He nods and gives me a kiss and starts to walk over to the door and then out of it.
I talk to everybody and I'm glad they all came. Johanna hugged me to death and I winced because of my stitches. I had told Prim what mom had said when we were alone and she started to cry happy tears. After that Haymitch and Effie came in and talked to me a bit and then left. Finnick came in after them and stayed as everybody went home. He sits down in a chair beside me holding my hand.
"You know you can lay down with me. " I say. He shakes his head.
"No, I don't want to hurt you." he says. I sigh.
"Your hurting me by not laying down with me." I pout. He rolls his eyes but gets up so he can get in the hospital bed with me. I smile and scoot over slowly to make enough room for him. He gets in and I lay my head on her chest and sigh.
"Thank you." I say feeling sleepy.
"For what?" He ask confused while rubbing my back softly.
"For putting up with me and staying with me." I mumble. I hear him chuckle.
"Go to sleep Princess." He says and the last thing I register are his lips on mine before I go to sleep.
Mr. Everdeen's POV:
I've been tied up to a chair locked in a room for 2 weeks and they have only giving me water and bread. I sigh as I think about my twin girls. Please let them be ok, I think to myself. I get pulled out of my thoughts by a commotion going on outside.
"You idiots where the hell have you been?" Seneca shouts.
"It's not our faults. It was that Katniss girl you sent us after. We went to go get her friend like you said and her friend was on the phone when we found her and then we had tied her up ready to bring her to you when she showed up." the man says.
"Really? You guys couldn't take down two 17-year-old girls? This is fucking ridiculous." Seneca exclaims. They found my daughters, I think and then listen more intently.
"You don't understand. They aren't normal 17-year-old girls. They're vicious. She pinned me up against a wall with a knife to my throat and said for me to tell you she had a message of her own for you." The man says. What could have Katniss said? Dear lord I know it isn't good if she is anything like me.
There's a pause.
"What was the message." Seneca asks.
"She said to tell you that if you want her then you're going to have to come and get her because she isn't going to hand nothing over to you. Your going to have to find her if you want it." The man explains.
Another pause.
Katniss what are you thinking?
Then a hear a smash and yelling.
"I'll kill that bitch. I swear. Is there anything else she said?" Seneca ask.
"I told her that you'll kill her and her father and she just laughed and she said ' Wanna bet' and that she'll find you and her father. Sir she's determined. You should have seen the look she had in her eye." The man explains.
"I'll get her if it's the last thing I do." Seneca says and starts walking toward my door and opening it and shuts it.
"Well Joseph. Looks like your daughter is just like you. She doesn't listen and needs to be taught a lesson." He says and punches me in the face. My face jerks to the right from the blow.
"She'll find you if she's anything like me." I tell him.
"If she's anything like you then she'll be dead with you." He says and hits me again and walks out. I growl at his back and try to get out of the straps but it's no use so I stop struggling and start thinking.
I know Seneca has something up his sleeve to come because he isn't going to let this slide past him.
I just hope my girls will keep their guards up and fight.
A/N:
Hey. I am so sorry this chapter is late. It's just that I didn't start on it until yesterday night and I'm just finishing it because I had a lot going on with school and stuff. I'm sorry if it's not that long or good like my other chapters but I was in a rush to upload so I wouldn't leave you guys hanging. I hoped you like this chapter even though it was sucky. I promise next chapter will be better. And the later chapters will have lots of action in them hopefully.
So I have been thinking that I want to start another story but this time make it a Cato and Katniss story since there aren't too many of those and plus I love them together just like Finnick and Katniss. So expect some news on to when I start that story and I'll give you a summary of it when I think of what I want it to be about.
Anyways, next chapter will be up on Friday or Saturday night hopefully. Please give me more reviews because you guys are what keeps me going when I loose inspiration on this story. And I don't care if it's just a simple word or a whole paragraph but please at least write something.
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