Well I'm FINALLY updating. I'll try to make this more frequent since I have five days to write, but I won't promise anything just yet. Enjoy!
Peeta POV
"I got Setis back."
I can't find anything to say so I simply stare at her.
"Aren't you happy?" She asks me after a moment. "Are you going to say something or just stand there?"
"I- I don't know what to say. Katniss this is just-"
"Baby there's nothing to say anyway, we got him back." She says standing and hugging me. I embrace her, but I know that we're doing this for different reasons. I'm only doing this to comfort myself, as well as make it seem as though I'm playing along with it, while she's most likely thinking that we're all one big happy family again.
"Now I'm going to go call Delly and Johanna to tell her the happy news, okay?" I tell her pulling away.
"Okay I didn't even think about that, that's why I married you, that and because you're so charming." She gives me a kiss on the cheek before sitting down on the couch and cooing at the child, who's whimpering.
"Dr. I don't know what to do." I sigh pulling at the roots of my hair, pacing the floor of the dining car where I got the phone. "She took someone's baby, and and she's saying that she got our son back. I don't know what to do, I told he I was calling our friends about the happy news, but I just don't know what to do.I just know that something happened in her head when she got that fever and I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Tell me what to do, please she's gone crazy and I don't know how to help." I ramble earning a few pitying looks from the other occupants of the car.
"Peeta you need to calm down. It's going to be fine. Now you need to listen carefully, try to make her see reason, find out where she found this child, and I'll talk to some people who I know who can help you two, is that okay with you?" He says calmly trying to relax me.
"She's not going to go to jail for kidnapping or anything like that right? I mean she doesn't even this she's kidnapping, she thinks that she's just getting her-out son back. I don't think that would do her any good, you need to see her and listen to her talk, she really believes all this stuff. I don't know what to do, don't know what's going to happen, what are they going to do to her? She can't be held responsable for her actions. Please, just tell me what's going to happen. I'm scared. I'm scared for her, for Demer, most especially for the baby, because we can't take care of him, we don't have anything for him."
"Peeta, I'm going to ask you to calm down one last time, this amount of stress you seem to be feeling may trigger an attack and we can't let that happen with you on that train. No one can handle you properly, sit down and listen." He pauses for a moment before continuing, "Now I need you to try to convince her of what's really going on okay? Once you get home, I'll have a few people on the next train to assess the situation, as well as myself. You'll obviously have to care for the child for the time being, the workers on the train should be able to get you whatever you need for the baby. We've been on the phone too long, you'll need to call me again once she's asleep, okay?"
I nod my head, forgetting that he's not able to see me, "Yes, I think so. I'll be sure to talk to you later." He agrees and shortly after we both hang up.
"Honey, we gotta talk." I whisper as I walk towards her, Demer, and the child we don't know the name of.
"What do we have to talk about?" She looks up at me and I almost lose my resolve to tell her what I know I have to.
"The baby, we have to talk about him." I take the seat next to her and silence her before she begins to tell me how wonderful it is. "Katniss you have to know that I love you more than anything, so me telling you this hurts me more than you could possibly imagine." She looks into my eyes and the fear and the pity is almost too much for me to handle so I have to look away from her.
"Peeta, what's wrong?"
"I don't know what I can say to you really, but... Setis, or at least the baby you have, isn't ours."
"What do you mean he isn't ours? I would think I'd know my own son!" She shouts angry with me. "I don't know about you but I know one of my children when I see one. Maybe you're not nearly as smart as I thought you were! I can't believe you would even suggest that!"
"Katniss, I don't know how you forgot," tears spring in my eyes and I run a frustrated hand through my hair,"you- you lost him. You had a miscarriage a few months ago. Please baby you have to remember." I beg taking her hands in my own. "Please, this isn't the Katniss I know, I don't know what happened to you but I'll make it right, I'll do whatever it takes for you to just remember." Hot tears slide down my face as I look into her own teary eyes and fold her into my arms.
