I'm sweating my socks off in a baby shop in the capitol, I'm almost eight months pregnant because Effie wanted to wait until we all knew the sex of our babies before going baby shopping and, because she and Johanna were only three months, at the time we'd been discussing it, it meant that we had to wait at least three more before Effie booked us on the train to go shopping.

I was weighed down with bags of stuff Effie told me 'I just had to have'.

I was tired from all of the walking.

I was hungry (though I'm always hungry nowadays).

I needed to pee.

I was grouchy because I needed to pee, because I was hungry and tired and hot and I knew that I was going to explode soon.

Annie was the one who came to my rescue. I was glad that Effie had invited her, she was the only sane one in the group which, considering, pretty much spelt out how Effie and Johanna make me feel when we're around each other for too long. "Can I take a few of your bags, Katniss?" She asks, letting Effie and Johanna ahead of us.

"Thanks" I say, handing a few of them over.

"It's ok" she smiles at me "anyway, this is the last shop; there's no more along the strip. We've been in all of them."

"Feels like we've been in all of them twice" I grunt, looking around before spotting an almost empty display stand. I quickly swipe the lurid pink dress onto the floor before sitting down on it with a loud groan. My feet felt as though they'd doubled in size.

Annie sits down next to me and watches Effie and Johanna giggle over something. Pending motherhood had really changed Johanna, it had made her softer and much more tolerable. Not Effie though, if anything she now seemed ten times more annoying than she had been before but then that's probably just me. "Are you sad that you're having another boy?" Annie asks me.

I look at her, frowning. "Why would I be sad?" I ask

"Just that you already have Reed, wouldn't you have liked a girl this time?"

I smile as I say "I hadn't really thought about it. As long as he's happy and healthy I don't mind. I think that Peeta would have liked a girl" I nod. Johanna and Effie were both expecting girls and though both Haymitch and Gale complained a little we all knew that they were secretly please to have little girls to spoil.

"Do you have a name for him yet?"

"Yes" I laugh "Mo, well Mozart."

"Still going for the music theme then?" She smiles

I nod "yes; Mozart was actually the first boys name we looked at this time around and we both fell in love with it. We couldn't imagine calling him anything else so Mo has just stuck."

"Well I can see why you like it" Annie replies "it's a nice name."

"Hey, Katniss!" Johanna comes back over with Effie close on her heel "we've ordered you a pram; it'll come on the next train. Next week we think."

"But I already have a pram" I tell them.

"Katniss, Effie's paying for it" she whispers.

"Oh, ok, thanks" I frown "can we go now? My feet are sore."

The train that Effie booked is the same one that took Peeta and I to the Capitol for the games. I thought that I might feel awkward being on it but there was something homely about it, something comforting. "I wonder if the boys have finished the nurseries yet." Annie wonders out loud as we settle down at the table where a late lunch was waiting for us.

We'd been gone for almost two days and it would be almost two more before we get back but it had taken Haymitch, Gale and Peeta a week to finish Reed's room. They had three nurseries to do and, even with the addition of Cinna and Finnick's talented hands, I don't think that they'd have even nearly finished one. I tell them this and Johanna nods "I think they're doing them in sections. Designing, painting and then the furniture."

"They did such a good job on Reed's and Dylan's rooms" Effie sighed happily "I really don't mind how long it'll take them so long as it's done to the same standard."

After lunch, I left them talking baby names to go for a nap. I already knew what Johanna and Effie had decided on. Haymitch and Effie had gone with Aria-Rose (of course it's hyphenated) which, considering some of the Capitol names I've heard, is actually really nice and Gale and Johanna have gone with Jade.

I smile to myself as I settle down in my bed. Haymitch had actually rolled his eyes at the hyphenation when Effie had been harping on about it but even he had to admit that the name had grown on him the more it was used.

When I open my eyes again I'm surprised to see that Johanna is standing over me, watching me sleep. "Don't worry" she says, moving to sit on the bed "I don't get some perverted satisfaction by watching you sleep."

"Could have fooled me" I yawn, propping myself up in a sitting position "what's up, Jo?"

She shrugs, picking at her nails. "I suppose the commitment is starting to terrify me" she finally admits. "I've spent so long avoiding finding someone because of the Capitol that I'm having a hard time reminding myself that it's ok now. I keep having nightmares about Gale being tortured just because he's with me and others about our daughter coming into a word that's even worse than the one we grew up in."

I frowned, wondering why she'd come to me with this. I'm not exactly the best person to be giving advice. "Why are you talking to me about it?" I ask

"Because I've discussed it with Gale and he just goes all soppy, telling me that it's going to be ok" she rolls her eyes. "I guess" she sighs "you've always been the more negative, besides me, out of all of us. You volunteered for your sister to keep her safe and you managed to bring Peeta back home with you…twice. How did you convince yourself that the people you love are safe?"

I couldn't help but smirk a little as I shake my head. "I had the absolute pleasure of killing Coin" I tell her "remember? Look, Snow's dead, the Capitol isn't being run by a dictator anymore, the games no longer exist and the arenas have been torn down; that's about as safe as we're going to get right now but" I sigh "it's not something I think about a lot; Peeta and I do talk about it sometimes but, you have to remember, Reed wasn't planned. Before the Quarter Quell, Peeta and I just decided to do things our own way to spite Snow; Reed was just one of the better repercussions of our choices. I think, if we just concentrate on make our children and our loved ones happy then the rest will come and, eventually, those worries will go away."

She nods, looking thoughtful, before getting up off the bed and telling me that dinner is ready before stopping briefly at the door and saying "I have no idea how you managed this in the arena, Jade is being a little bitch today."

"You're telling me!" I laugh "Mo has been dancing on my bladder, I've wet myself twice already." Admitting my lack of bladder control to Johanna wasn't much of an issue considering the fact that, the other day in my kitchen, she'd sneezed and urinated all over the floor.

"Feels amazing, doesn't it?"

"So good" I roll my eyes and follow her from my compartment.

The train finally arrives back in District Twelve, late afternoon, the next day but only my mother and Prim are there to greet us. "Where's Peeta?" I ask, allowing my little sister to hold onto my arm as we walk.

"They've been working nonstop on those bedrooms" my mother tells me "I think they're just putting the finishing touches on Effie's. They wanted them to be ready by the time you got back."

"Did they not sleep at all?"

"Barely" Prim replies.

When we arrive in Victor's Village, Peeta, Cinna, Finnick, Gale and Haymitch are standing by the fountain, waiting for us. They looked knackered and dirty but they were smiling. We split off to investigate our own rooms. Cinna takes Reed so that Peeta can show me Mo's room.

It was painted soft green and brown in colour. Peeta had drawn animals on the wall, copied from books. It was more or less the same as Reed's, regarding the furniture, but it was still amazing. "It was nice to get away from the pink" he tells me as we look around the room, appreciating it together.

"Is Aria's room very pink then?"

"Pink and white; it's not a horrible pink but you should see how many frilly pink dresses she already has stored in there."

I laugh "oh dear, the poor child."

"I think Haymitch has hidden them" Peeta grins "he says he doesn't want his daughter to look like a meringue."

I kiss my husband "I love it, Peeta; it's wonderful."

"I hope that our boys are as close as you are with Prim." He tells me, probably thinking about his family and regretting their relationship.

"There's no reason they won't be" I say. "What colour is Jade's room?"

"Yellow; hers is Elephant themed."

"So Mo got monkeys and Lions and Jade got elephants; what did Aria get?"

"Butterflies" he nods "it's actually really tasteful."

"Of course it is, you helped!" I stop and think for a moment before saying "if we have a girl, I'd like it to be bird themed. Not like detailed or anything, just the outlines of birds in flight."

Peeta smiles and nods before offering out his hand to me. "Come on, love; I bet you're tired. How about you settle in bed and I'll make us so food and we can eat it in bed. How does that sound?"

"It sounds amazing" I say "but what about Reed?"

"Cinna's going to bring him back soon and then it's his bed time."

Peeta spoiled me with my favourite lamb stew before giving me a foot rub to help my swollen feet.

"How was the shopping trip then?" Peeta asks as he sits behind me and starts rubbing my aching back and shoulders.

"Hell" I mutter, leaning into and resting my head on his shoulder.

"It looks like you got plenty of stuff" he states, moving his hands so that they were now resting on my stomach.

"Yeah, Effie got us a new pushchair, but, by the second shop, I'd peed five times and my feet were hurting. I was really uncomfortable."

"Why did she get us a new pushchair? We already have one."

"That's what I said" I sigh, really wanting him to move his hands higher. I start kissing his neck but Peeta sighs. "What?" I ask, feeling a little offended when he pulls away.

"Not tonight, Katniss" he says wearily.

It's very rare that Peeta turns me down and I knew that he was probably just really tired but my damn pregnancy hormones decided to kick in, making me feel completely disgusting. I was bigger than I had been with Reed but Peeta made me feel beautiful even when I felt like a beast. The tears started before I could stop them and I moved out from between his legs and went to the bathroom, locking myself inside.

I knew that I was being ridiculous and irrational, I knew that he hadn't turned me down because he didn't want me but, of course, demon hormones were telling me otherwise.

With Reed, my libido had been up and down but, with this pregnancy, I was constantly wanting more. Sleeping and eating could wait; Peeta had done well to keep up with me but it gets tiring being this wired all the damn time. Of course there would come a time where Peeta had to turn me down, I just never really expected it.

"Katniss?" He knocks softly on the door and then, when I didn't answer, he tries the handle. "Katniss, why is the door locked?"

I start running the bath to try and drown him out; I could do with a bath actually and I'm already up to my neck in warm water by the time Peeta has found the spare key and let himself in.

"Why are you crying?" He asks in surprise as he sits on the edge of the bath.

I answer in that pathetic voice I have when I'm upset. "You don't want me." I whisper feeling stupid and embarrassed.

"What? Katniss, I turned you down because I feel dead on my feet; I don't want to fall asleep. I like being awake when we have sex. Of course I want you! How could I not?"

"Because I look like a beached whale!" I sob

"Katniss!" He exclaims in exasperation "I love your body when you're pregnant! Trust me, you do not look like a beached whale. Seriously" he's staring at me with wide eyes "it takes all of the strength I can muster not to ravage you every time I see you and it's killing me to say no but I would feel bad if I couldn't stay awake." When I don't reply he repeats my name. "Katniss" and it sounds so wounded that it makes me cry even more because I now feel bad that I've made him feel this way. "Come on, do you want me to wash your back?"

I nod and let him wash me before he pulls me out of the tub, wrapping me in a towel and leading me back to bed.

"What am I going to do with you?" He sighs, rubbing my arms. "You're beautiful, Katniss, and you will always be beautiful."

"I'm sorry" I whisper, grabbing my nightgown.

"Don't" he states, taking the gown from me and pulling me into him.

We kiss for a while before the kiss deepens and I know that, if we carry on, I won't be able to stop. "Peeta" I gasp "please stop."

"Why?"

"You said you were tired."

He chuckles against my lips "I'm not anymore."