Chapter 26

Lucky Strike

Cato POV

Clove was walking around the waiting room, Johanna was bothering a nurse by asking her every 2 minutes if she knew something about Annie or the baby, we were all a little anxious, after all it had been 3 hours already an yet we didn't have any news. Alec had taken Claire and Caden home because they were getting really sleepy; Aiden refused to leave and was curled up sleeping on one of the blue sofas near the nurse station.

-"You look tired love; don't you want me to take you home to get some sleep?"- I placed my hands in Clove's shoulders to turn her towards me; she rolled her eyes and ran her fingers down my cheek lovingly.

-"Of course not and stop worrying Cato, I can´t leave Annie alone in this one, she was always there for me when the twins were little"- She looked pale and tired, I had already noticed that but I assumed that it caused by the anguish of not knowing were Cade was, now I was even more worried because she barely eats something at breakfast.

-"But Clo I think…"- I was disrupted by Finnick dressed in a blue surgical gown, Johanna and Clove immediately jumped off their seats and looked at him expectantly.

-"It's a girl!"- he pulled the mask out of his face to show a gigantic smile on his face, we all let out cheers and sights of relief that woke Aiden up.

He rubs his eyes and then looks up to meet the radiant face of his father who lifts him up gladly.

-"Is my brother here yet?"- Aiden asks in with raspy voice, resting his head on his father shoulder.

-"Yes Aid but you have a sister not a brother"- Finnick answers overflowing with joy and pride and for a moment I feel jealous, jealous of him because he has experienced what is like to be there when your baby is born, don't misunderstand me, of course I was happy when I found out that I have two kids but is not the same as being there the moment that they breath for the first time.

-"You can come and see her now"- we all follow him behind the glass doors, all the way to the hallway till we get to the room 44, a pink ribbon is hanging in the door knob pointing that the baby is a girl.

The room was slightly illuminated by a floor lamp next to a teal sofa, and Annie was lying down in a bed holding a little pink bundle in her arms, her face was a reflection of Finnick's, she was irradiating love and happiness. Aiden carefully walked towards his mother and his sister and crawled up in bed with them.

-"Guys this is Arielle Faith Odair" – Annie said looking lovingly at her daughter, Clove went closer to the bed and let out a gasp when she saw her- "Isn´t she lovely?"

-"Would you like to hold her?"- Clo nodded and Annie handed her the tiny baby, Clove held her with expert moves and then came to show her to me, Arielle was sleeping peacefully she was beautiful, an exact replica of Finn and Ann, bronzed colored hair like her father, rosy skin and round cheeks and then she yawned and slowly opened her eyes.

-"She has your eyes guys"- Clove looked up to them smiling; she had the same sea green eyes of her parents and her brother.

Finnick and I went to the cafeteria to get something to eat for Aiden and ourselves, I was very quiet all the way but Finn was too busy answering his son questions about how did Arielle managed to get inside of his mommy's tummy. I was thinking about the look on Clove's face as she held the baby in her arms, she looked radiant just the way she looks when she is with our kids, I just wish I have had the chance to be with her during the pregnancy, to touch her round belly, to protect her and love her .

Finnick slapped me on the shoulder to get my attention- "Man what are you thinking about huh? We have been asking you what do you want to eat for the last 5 minutes"- both him and Aiden were looking mockingly at me.

-"Sorry I was just thinking about Clove and babies and I'll have a sandwich with fries please"- I said to the woman behind the counter.

-"Are you planning on having another baby? Or there's one on the way already?"- Finn asked while we took a seat in one of the tables of the almost empty cafeteria.

-"No of course not man, at least not for now although I am pretty worried about Clove, she has been a little down lately, she sleeps much, eats little I don't now but I want her to see a doctor"-

-"Do you think she might be..?"-

-"Pregnant? Of course not, you might laugh about this but we've only had sex twice"- I had never told this to anyone and Finn looked at me with wide eyes but he had to wait till he swallowed his sandwich to talk.

-"Are you serious? Jesus I did not see that coming I mean you and Clove look like you can't take your hands off each other"- I laughed at his comment because it was true but lately we haven´t had a lot of time for ourselves.

-"Yeah I know, but there you have it, first time and Clove gets pregnant with the twins"-

-"That was really a lucky strike, wouldn't it be odd if she got pregnant again?"- Finn laughed and continued eating his sandwich and turned to help Aiden to open his apple juice.

His words really got me thinking, the night that Clove and I had sex at the party was pretty much a blur but we certainly must had used protection, right?

Clove POV

After an exhausting day we finally went home about midnight, we found Johanna snuggled in Alec's chest watching TV in our living room.

-"Your clones are sleeping soundly in their bedroom, you're welcome now if you excuse us we are going to get some sleep"- Johanna said as she got up the loveseat.

-"You are always welcomed in our guest room Jo"- I said teasingly, knowing that Johanna and Alec were going to spend the night together, I knew it by the way Alec looks at her and the way she blushes when she caught him staring.

-"Jesus Clove stop it! Cato please be a dear and take her upstairs already"- she rolled her eyes and looked at me annoyingly; Alec just stared at us not knowing what we were talking about.

-"Have a good night you two and thanks for watching the twins"- Cato walked them to the door and then came back to me, I leaned towards him to rest my head in his chest.

Suddenly I felt his arms behind my knees he picked me up bridal style and started to walk upstairs; I was so tired that I didn´t even bothered on complaining about it, I just wrapped my arms around his neck and inhaled his warm scent.

-"Come on Clovely go and put on your pajamas"- I moaned and he chuckled, instead of placing me in the floor he left me in the bed, I rolled over and started taking my tights off, then I somehow managed to pull off my dress and throw it to the floor.

I heard him brushing his teeth inside the bathroom, then I heard the door closing and his footsteps approaching the bed, next thing I felt a warm touch around my waist and he pulled me closer to his chest.

-"Come on Clo, are you really going to sleep like this?"- My strength was gone and the only thing that I wanted to do was sleep, it felt like my eyelids weighted a million pounds- "Mhm"

-"You want to torture me or what?"- I turned around to face him, he looked through my body I looked down and saw what he was talking about, after all I was only wearing one of those lovely lacey lingerie sets that Florala had send me.

I giggled once again and lean to the other side of the bed to pick up one of his t-shirts and quickly put it over my underwear, Cato groaned and pulled me inside the covers.

-"Now that's better, get some sleep love I'm sure you need it"- his lips on my forehead was the last thing I remember before falling into a deep sleep.

An intense pain in my stomach woke me up as soon as I opened my eyes I knew I had to run straight to the bathroom, I barely managed to get to the toilet before emptying my stomach, the nauseas come and go so I wait next to the sink for another five minutes before slowly getting up, of course Cato is standing in the door looking worriedly at me.

-"Come here, let me get you to bed"- I stretch my arm to reach his arm but I am forced to turn around to vomit once again.

Once I'm done he lifts me and helps me to brush my teeth and gently places me in bed again, Cato leaves the room only to return a few minutes later with a glass of mineral water and a couple of pills, he takes a seat in the bed and hands me the medicine.

-"You are going to the doctor, today, no excuses Clove"- his look is a mix between concern, anxiety and determination so I assume there is no way I can talk him out of this.

-"Fine I'll call to make an appointment and ask Johanna to come with me okay?"- This seems to make him relax a little bit but the concern is still in his face so I pull his closer to me and start placing little kisses down his jaw line.

-"You know I'll go with you love but I can't miss work today, I have a very important meeting in the training center but I'll take the kids with me so you can rest a little okay?"- Our deal is sealed with a kiss and next we head downstairs to make breakfast for the twins.

My stomach only managed to handle a cup of coffee, nothing else and later while I entered my bathroom to look Claire's pink ribbon I found an unopened box of tampons, suddenly it all started to make sense, with all the events from past weeks I had attributed my lack of appetite, dizziness and nauseas to stress but I had been feeling like that since before Cade went missing and if my calculations are right I should have had my period that week. But I hadn't.

-"Mommy did you found it? Daddy says we´re leaving now!"- My daughter's voice resounded in the room and I went to finish her hair and place the pink ribbon in her pony tail.

I kissed them all goodbye and waited till they were out of sight to call Johanna and Annie, Jo said she was coming over to go with me to the hospital and Annie, which of course was in her house with the baby, said that I should call her as soon as I knew something.

On our way to the appointment I was thinking about the night of the party, I was pretty much drunk so I don't remember a lot, just the happiness that I felt for having Cato so close to me but I definitely don't remember if we used protection.

-"So do you think you might be pregnant Clo?"- Johanna talked for the first time as we were almost arriving to the medical center of district four.

-"I think so Jo, I'm late and the dates pretty much match, I should have had my period about two weeks after Cato and I did it"- A wide smile spread in her face as she heard me say that.

-"Well if it's true you and Cato are the most fertile couple in the world"- she laughed and I slapped her playfully- "What? I mean it´s true you've have only had sex two times and now you might have three kids".

-"I'll guess we will know it soon"- We waited for about 10 minutes until one of the nurses called my name and led me to a room where she took some blood samples and then she handed me a little plastic cup for the urine tests.

I went back to the waiting room with Johanna and the nurse told me that the doctor will look at the results and then he will come and talk to me, again we waited for another 10 minutes while we talked about Alec, they were seriously thinking about starting on a real relationship and I couldn't be happier for them.

-"Clove Fuhrman"- A middle aged man called, he was tall with black hair and brown eyes- I'm Dr. Aurelius you can come into my office"- he said kindly.

-"Well Clove I have looked at your results and congratulations you are about 6 weeks pregnant"- Johanna squealed happily and pulled me on a hug.

-"Would you like to see you baby"- I nodded trying to hold back the tears, he gestured to follow him to an examination table, I pulled my grey blouse up and he put on a cold gel in my stomach.

Suddenly we heard a quick beat, tum tum tum tum, my baby appeared on the monitor screen and I couldn't hold the tears any more.

-"This is you baby Clove, his or her heart is beating about 100 to 160 times a minute almost twice as fast as yours and blood is beginning to course through the body, Right now, your baby is a quarter of an inch long, about the size of a lentil."

He printed a few pictures of the ultrasound, gave me vitamins and folic acid and asked me to come back in a few weeks to the eight weeks check up. Jo and I headed back home and we were talking about the baby all the way, when we arrived she hugged me tight again and said she would be back later.

I changed into a pair of sweat pants and watched a movie to wait for Cade. Claire and Cato to come home, I tried to pay attention to the movie but I couldn't stop looking at the picture of my baby, it wasn't till I heard little footsteps that I realized that Cade and Claire were standing behind me.

-"Daddy why is mommy looking at a picture of a bean?"- Claire yelled as she turned around to get an answer from her father who had his head inside the fridge looking for something to eat.

-"A picture of a bean? Clo why are you…?"- His mouth dropped when he turned around to look at me and saw the picture that I was holding in my hands along with a huge grin on my face.

It took him a moment to assimilate things but as soon as his brain connected the facts he lifted me in the air and started spinning me around in the middle of the room, he placed a gentle kiss on my lips and then in my cheeks, when Cato finally put me down the twins were looking expectantly at us.

-"So what's up with the bean mommy?"- Cade asked and we couldn't help it but to bust in laughs, I kneeled between them to show them the picture.

-"This is not a bean honey; this is your new sister or brother who is growing inside of mommy's tummy"- Cato explained to them still with the big grin on his face.

-"A new baby?"- Claire asked frowning but then hugged us and started to bounce all around the room- "I hope it's a girl so she can play to the princess with me".

-"Of course not Claire, it´s gonna be a boy and he will play football with me"- Cato and I laughed as we watched our kids argue about who will play with the baby first.

He placed an arm around my shoulders and placed the other hand on my stomach.

-"Well I guess this is our lucky strike"- he said before pulling me in for another kiss,

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