Fight til the End

Chapter 49

Some sad new in this. Some happy news in this. Some funny things and then just... everlark!! 

Chapter 49

Katniss's POV

Peeta, Annie, Finnick and I are all in Peeta and my room settling down. "So when do you want to get started?" Finnick asks Peeta. "Well it would be nice to start when Gale gets here which shouldn't be that far away." "Okay." Finnick answers. "Annie do you want to see some of the things we got the yesterday?" I ask Annie. "Oh yes." She says. I start to show Annie some of the things that we got yesterday. The toys, some equipment and I show Annie a picture of the finished crib.

I hear a knock on the door. "I've got it." I say. I turn the knob and see Gale standing on the other side of the door. "Hey Gale." I say. "Hey Catnip." He says. "Come in." I greet him in. "Thanks Catnip." He says as he steps into our room. "Hey Gale." Everyone says. "Hey guys." He answers. Gale goes over and stands with the boys and Annie and I stand near the counter away from them. "He isn't that such a bad looking guy." Annie starts off saying. "No he isn't, but he isn't for me. I have Peeta and he seems more like a brother to me than a lover." I answer. "Oh." She says. I see her gazing into the air and her eyes become more concentrated but the fantasy world around her. "Johanna wants him." I say hoping to get her attention. Her head shakes and she stares at me. "What?" She says. I nod. "Yep, Johanna wants him. Gale told me, and he wouldn't lie about such a thing. Johanna generally wants Gale." Her eyes are wide open, shocked with what I am saying. "Wow. Johanna Mason in love with a coal miner." She says. I turn to look at the boys.

"Yeah." I say more sadly than I anticipated. I don't even know why I would be upset. "Katniss cheer up. There is nothing to be sad about. You have a beautiful baby on the way and a beautiful fiancée, there is nothing for you to be sad about." She says. "Thank you Annie. You always know what to say." I open my arms and Annie hugs me. I hug her back and then let go. I make her a cup of tea and we settle down in the seat booth.

Peeta's POV

"We should probably get a move on if we want to get this done today." Gale says. "Okay." I say. "Mellark where are the tools?" Gale asks me. I walk over to one of the boxes and pull out the small box that I found last night that contains the tools. "Here." I say holding the up.
"Good." He says. "Now let's get started." Finnick says. I walk over to the box that contains the crib pieces and lift it to where we have made a good sized work pace. I place it carefully on the ground and open up the box. I pull out the instructions and hand them to Gale. "This looks easy. We can get this together with us three quickly." Gale says flipping through the instructions.

It has been about half an hour and we don't know what we are doing at all. We may be 3 men who have been through 3 different Hunger Games and worked in the grounds of 12, but this is way too complicated for us. "What if this connected to this?" Finnick says holding up two different parts trying to fit them together. "No because this goes with that." I say pointing to one of the pieces he holds in his hands. "No it doesn't. These go together." Gale says taking the other piece Finnick was holding and the one I hold. "But." I say looking to the instructions. "This is way too complicated." I say chucking the instructions at the box. "No Peeta you are just a baby." He says picking the instructions back up. "Thanks for the secondly reminder." I say rolling my eyes.

"What if we got someone else to help us?" Finnick asks. "Like who?" I ask. "I don't know Haymitch." He answers. I look straight back to Katniss who seems deep in conversation with Annie. "No." I say. "Why?" They both say. "Katniss found out a few weeks ago that Haymitch is her Uncle and she hasn't seen him since. She will see him soon, but until she is ready to see him then he is not coming here to help. So please don't say anything to Katniss about Haymitch being her Uncle." I finish saying quietly so Katniss doesn't hear. "Haymitch is Katniss's Uncle?" Gale says. I nod my head. "Wow, I didn't see that coming." He says. "Me neither." Finnick says. "Well, it was a shock to both of us." I say.

"What was a shock to both of us?" I hear Katniss repeating what I said. Quick Peeta think about something that will be along those lines. "Umm. We we're both shocked at how helpful the people were yesterday. Right?" I say looking back to her. "Oh yeah they were lovely." She says. I smile at her and turn back around to face the boys. I take a deep breath. "That was close." I whisper. They both nod vigorously. "So how far away are you from having this done? Because it is getting late and you still seem to be doing the same thing you were doing the last time I looked over so long ago." She says. "This just needs more brain power than I imagined." Gale answers. "Yep." Finnick says. "Well that doesn't surprise me. Does it surprise you Annie?" She asks Annie looking over to her. She shakes her head. "No. Not at all." She smiles and turns back to Katniss. "What is that supposed to mean?" Gale says. "Yeah?" Finnick and I say at the same time. "Never mind." They say with a giggle. "Anyway didn't you have somewhere you had to be Gale?" She says. "What's the time?" He asks. I look to the clock. "6 o'clock." I answer. "Damn, I'm late." He says getting up off the floor. "For what?" I call out. "A date with Johanna." He says opening the door. "Oohh." We all say. "Oh shut up." He says. "I'll catch you tomorrow and we will finish it." He says again. "Okay Gale." Katniss says. "Bye." He yells out from down the hall. "Well look who has finally let down her bar?" Katniss says smirking.

I hear a knock at the door. "Probably Gale again." I say walking up to the door. I open it and see someone who is most definitely not Gale. "Hello Hannah." I greet the Detective. "Hello Peeta. Can I come in I have something I need to tell you about Fisher?" She asks. I look back to see Katniss and Annie cracking a joke with Finnick. "Yeah sure." I say stepping out of the way. "Oh hello Hannah." Katniss says walking from behind the counter. "Oh I am sorry. I didn't know you had company." She starts to apologise. "No it's okay. Please come in. Finnick, Annie this is Detective Hannah Beat, she is talented detective that got Prim's attacker." Katniss says. "Hello Detective." They both say. "Please call me Hannah." She says. I shut the door and offer her a seat. "I think that you two should get a seat more than me." She says. "What is going on?" I ask standing next to Katniss. "We will stand over here." Finnick says directing Annie over the other side of the room.

"The man who did this terrible thing to your sister killed himself while being in our custody." She says. "What?" Katniss and I say together. "He cut one of the main arteries and he bled out. I am so sorry. I wanted this guy to suffer as much as he could for doing this to your sister, but I can't do anything now. I am so sorry." She apologises. "What? How? Oh my god, I knew something like this was going to happen." Katniss says. "Katniss, you have no idea how sorry I am. I did everything I could to have him locked up for life. I wanted him out of the Districts for good." She says. Katniss plants herself on the chair in front of her. I place my hand on her back and rub it.

"He was lucky that I didn't kill him when I saw him. He got a few more weeks in." I say. "Peeta." Katniss says with a catch in her voice. "Well Peeta just think about it. If you did kill him then you would be the one in jail and not him." She says. "It's a good thing you didn't do it." She continues. "I suppose." I say. "Just think about it like this, he is gone and he won't come back. So he won't hurt anyone else like he did to Prim." She says. "You are right." I say. "I have to go. I have some other people I need to question. If you need anything." She starts off saying handing me a card. "Don't hesitate to call me." She finishes.

I nod. "Okay. Thank you so much for all you have done." I say. "It's my job. I have nothing else I want to do more than to catch an attacker or killer of another person." She finishes off saying with a smile. She turns around and says goodbye to Finnick and Annie and then lets herself out. Finnick and Annie then come back to us. "What was that about?" Finnick asks. I then tell them the story and they stay for the next few hours.