Hello my wonderful readers! I finished today's chapter last night, so I can update now . Again can't thank you all for the reviews and views! We broke 5,000 views yesterday! Thanks for the amazing support….Haha ,I'll go ahead and shut up so you all can read the chapter. Love you all!
*************************************Peeta's POV**********************************
I wake up and look down at the two people I love most in the world. My beautiful wife and soon to be child. Katniss looks so peaceful I hate to wake her up again like last time she stayed the night. I slide out of bed as silently as possible; luckily about an hour ago I had calmed her down from her last batch of nightmares, so she should be in a deep sleep for now. If anything about our nights together comes back to me easily, it would definitely be her nightmares. She only had them one time last night, the rest of the time she had a smile on her face while she cradled my arm. I look back at her and once I can tell she's truly in a deep sleep I turn the TV back onto our wedding. I can't stop watching the part where Katniss is walking towards me, she always looks beautiful, but something about our wedding day made her seem even more radiant than normal. I always skip through the parts where they taped me, compared to Katniss I am the ugliest thing in the world. I hope we have a little girl who looks just like Katniss. My heart still skips a beat when I think about me and Katniss' baby. In a matter of days Katniss has made me a husband and father all over again. I smile at Katniss who is just beginning to stir from her sleep. I watch her walk down the aisle one last time, she had gotten annoyed last night after watching it for the tenth time, I however never get tired of seeing the most beautiful girl in my life walk towards me down the aisle, and I never will forget about it for the rest of my life….That is a promise I have made myself…and I never will break that promise…
Katniss pulls my head back and kisses the scar on my head from the cut, and makes her way down to my lips. She walks out from behind the couch and half sits on my lap the way she did after our first hunger games, during the interview. I play with her fingers for a minute in silence, "Katniss, I may not remember everything yet…I do remember the list of titles I called you during the war." "Oh yeah. I remember that too." "I hate to tell you this but….I decided to add a couple more titles to the already long list." I bend forward and grab a piece of paper I had been doodling on before she arrived yesterday. I hand it to Katniss with a smile; she seems a little thrown by my decision to relive something in our gloomy past. I widen my eyes a little, she always have seemed to like them…beyond my reasoning, but whatever it takes to make her read it. "Peeta! You know I can't say no to you." She lets out a light laugh and widens her perfect silver eyes, to mock me and then gives me a quick peck on the lips and continues to open the list…..
Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancée. Target. Mutt. Neighbor. Hunter. Tribute. Ally.
Wife. Mother.
"Peeta, I'm not a mother yet." Our gazes direct down to Katniss' stomach, "You will be soon. Besides you were basically a mother to Prim." Katniss' eyes turn glassy and she looks down and scoots away from me. "Katniss. What's wrong?" Her forehead crinkles in sadness and her expression looks like she is about to cry or pass out or maybe both. I hold her hands in mine, "Kat. What's wrong? Please tell me." She's dangerously short of breath, "Prim died….a little while before the war officially ended." I don't give it a second thought when I pull her into my arms and hold her there. "I'm so sorry Katniss. What happened? I hate to be asking you about something that makes you so upset, but this is part of your past. I feel like I should at least understand what happened." "A bomb…she was trying to help the capital children…it looked like a help package. I was so close to saving her, Peeta. She just…slipped through my fingers. No bow and arrow of mine could have saved her." I rub my hand down her hair, "I know you did everything you could Kat. I promise this is my last question, was it Snow's bomb?" Her tears increase, they have already soaked my shirt sleeve, "No. It was… Gale's bomb." Katniss is shaking violently; I knew he wasn't good. I just knew it! If I had killed him all the times I wanted to, Prim would still be here. "It's okay Katniss. I'll get him for what he did to Prim."
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What would I do without you Peeta? I wipe my eyes, "Oh god. I woke up the baby." I try to laugh through my pain, I cling onto Peeta's arm, without him….I probably would have killed myself by now. Peeta rests his hand on my belly and smiles, "Hi sweetie. Everything's okay, you can clam down now. It's okay. You're safe." He kisses our child and holds my hand, "What sex is it Kat.?" I feel disappointed to say that I'm almost thirteen weeks and I haven't even gone for my first checkup. "I'm sorry Kat. I just can't remember some of these small things. Please tell me. I promise I'll never forget it again!" His heart is beating out of his chest. "Peeta. It's okay. I- I- just haven't gone for an ultrasound yet…" Before I can fully grasp what's happening Peeta holding me and carrying me out of the room. "Peeta! What on earth are you doing?" "We're going to see a doctor. Right now!" "Peeta, you need an appointment for these kinds of things." "Are you kidding?" He has stopped running, and is staring at me with a serious look possessing his face.
"You're the freaking Mockingjay, the girl on fire! We're the star crossed lovers! I think they can make time for us!" He has managed to stop the running and has slowed down to only a walk, "Peeta. I can walk. Just because I'm pregnant doesn't mean I'm handicapped." Peeta just smiles and shakes his head, when we arrive in the ultrasound tech part of this building Peeta finally sets me down, "I'll go get us an appointment…" "Whoa. Hold it right there mister half of the star crossed lovers. I'll go get the appointment. You sit down and try to control your nerves." "But Katn-" "I'm serious Peeta! Sit! I can handle walking two feet over to the front desk!" He hangs his head low. I hate yelling at you Peeta but…the last thing we need is an anxious father-to-be demanding an appointment to an innocent nurse.
"Hi Mockingjay!" "Please, just call me Katniss. I stopped being the "official" Mockingjay a few years ago. I was wondering when your next ultrasound appointment available was." "Well for you Mockingjay…right now. Just fill out a couple forms." That's Katniss Mellark to you! I snatch the clipboard away from the lady's hand, and storm back over to Peeta and plop down on the chair next to his. "Are you okay? I thought I was the only crazy one in this duo." He laughs at his own joke. "I'm tired of being the Mockingjay. Is it too much to ask, to be known as Katniss or Mrs. Mellark?" I fill out the paperwork and send Peeta back to the desk to turn them in; I figure at this point he's the calm one in our relationship. When he comes back and sits next to me I half stand and kiss him for a second, "I'm sorry for being so…hormonal when we first got here." "It's okay, it was fun to see the old Katniss coming through. The way our baby kicked my hand at the touch makes me realize that we're having a baby girl, just as feisty as her mommy. You never told me what sex you want the baby to be." "I don't know…I've had my heart set on baby you…" "A baby me? Me? As in...a baby Peeta?" He almost looks sickened by the word "Of course I mean you, Peeta. I really can't think of anything more perfect then having another you in my life." Peeta shakes his head in disgust, "A baby me…nah I can't even picture that when one of her parent's is you. If she's lucky she'll look exactly like you."
Before I have time to protest Peeta is pulling me towards the door leading to an exam room. "Come on Kat. We can talk about it when we actually find out what gender it is!" While Peeta may not be able to remember all the small details of our marriage, I definitely see the old him as we walk into the room. I lie down on the table and try to make myself comfortable; but I had always been scared to have a baby and now is no exception… Peeta senses my unease and holds my hand. "it's going to be okay Kat. Today will be fun. We get to find out if we're having our baby girl or a baby boy." The doctor walks in and something about her looks familiar….I quickly determine who it is… "Mom?" "Katniss? Hey sweetheart, I wasn't expecting to see you here." "Well…what are you doing here?" "I'm subbing for an ultrasound tech that just had a baby of her own. So let's get started with your exam….Have you had any morning sickness lately?" "Not lately. It stopped after my first trimester." "What did your regular ultrasound tech say last time?" Think of something! You can't let her know you haven't gone. "I-I Umm…" "She hasn't been at all yet, Mrs. Everdeen."
"Peeta!" He stares at me for a moment and then decides to speak exactly what's on his mind, "Katniss! You're not hurting yourself. You're hurting our child. So to answer your next remark…yes it is my business!" His comment takes me by surprise…this suddenly has turned into a serious matter…for Peeta anyway. My mother just sits on her stool laughing, "Oh Katniss, Peeta. Some couples don't come in until their twentieth week. You guys are fine." I silently breathe out a sigh of relief I didn't fully understand what Peeta meant until he decided to go ahead and spit it out. I soundlessly apologize to Peeta, he leans forward and kisses me on the cheek. My mother starts to squeeze the cold, slimy gel onto my belly. Can you feel that? I'm sorry sweetheart. "Your baby is perfectly healthy; you seem to be eating fairly well. That's great for the baby. It's right on track for growth." Peeta grasps my hand harder, "Mrs. Everdeen can you tell what gender the baby is yet?" We stare long and hard at the monitor, and wait for any sign determining the gender… Mother continues to move the device all over my stomach. All of a sudden the picture starts to clear, "Congratulations, you guys are having a baby-
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